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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 



storing boxes, that was new, at least to us. 

 He says they are an advantage, only during 

 extreme wainii weather, and that tlie bees of a 

 heavy colony will crowd into the side boxes 

 because they are cooler ; if such is the case, 

 side boxes are especially desirable for hives 

 standing in the sun, and for our warmer cli- 

 mates. As it is very inconvenient to handle 

 side boxes unless we can take the sides of the 

 hive entirely away, it will be quite desirable 

 to keep the hives cool at such extremely warm 

 periods. Can this be done by chaff or saw- 

 dust packing that the heat of the sun may not 

 penetrate ? 



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^Tnjj LEASE tell how you put up or fix your bees to be 

 rp^ sent off on the cars. A. .T. Cook. 



^^ Lansing, Mi %. Oct. lOlh, 187(i. 



[Be sure the colony has olu, strong cdinbp. not too heavy 

 with honey ; the great bulk of stores should bo near the 

 top bars. If the coaihs are all right without breaking 

 the fastenings made by the bees, all the better, and you 

 h-ive then only to make the frames secure as they are. 

 We prefer pushing sticks, sawed to the right length and 

 thickness, between the end bars of the frames; this 

 makes all solid and secure, and yet the sticks can be 

 pulled out without removing the combs. Lay another 

 piece across the frames at each end, and fasten it with 

 screws, and the hive will be safe, even if it should be 

 thrown uiiside down. If tlie liive has a portico, cover it 

 with wire cloth and let the bees get out in it if they wish ; 

 if it has none, cover the frames with wire cloth, and fast- 

 en the cover a little open. If the weather is warm, and 

 the colon.v very strong, it will be safer to allow them to 

 leave their combs and cluster in an upper story, but or- 

 dinary colonies in cool weather, may be simply confined 

 with wire cloth. The surface of wire cloth must be large 

 enough so they cannot pack densely over it, or they will 

 be ruined. We have many times seen them when re- 

 leased, crawl out of their hives in every direction in the 

 dirt, completely demoralized ; this from insufficient ven- 

 tilation.] 



Whose paint do you use for hives ? If 16 pounds of 

 honey be assumed as enough to winter on, how many 

 pounds of coft'ee A. sugar will it take ? I suppose the 

 same number; but perhaps a less number of jjounds 

 of sugar made into syrup will do. What is cofl'ee A. 

 sugar worth per barrel where you are ? Where do 

 you buy ? E. D. Sanfokd, Deoherd Tenn., Oct. 10 '70. 



[We use the paint advertised on jtage iG-i. 



Ten i)Ounds of sugar will go as far as 14 pounds of 

 honey on an average ; but 10 pounds of honey properly 

 ripened and sealed up in the combs, are worth nearly 

 as much as 14 pounds of liquid honcj', to feed. Cir- 

 cumstances may vary this, but it will be found to av- 

 erage about right. With honey at 10 or 12 cents, it will 

 hardly pay to extract it to feed, but when feeding is to 

 be done, and we have no sealed combs laid away for 

 the ])urposc, we would use the sugar by all means. 

 Given in the form of candy, it is sal'er and more eco- 

 nomical, and we think 8 pounds of candy would go as 

 far as 10 pounds of sugar made into syrup. There is 

 no waste with the candy, and it neither starts brood 

 rearing or comb building out of season. Coflee A 

 sugar is worth 11 cents by the barrel, at W. P. South- 

 worth's, 116 Ontario St., Cleveland, O. 



FOfNDATION NOTES. 



We are quite anxious t> hoar reports from those who 

 had the first we sent out last spring— made on the Per- 

 rine machine, 5 cells to the inch. If this has all worked 

 satisfactory, we shall pi-oceed to make another machine 

 exclusively for brood combs— for the greater number of 

 young bees in a given space will be quite an item. We 

 sent to Mr. Perrine for a sample of his very light fdn., 

 and behold it had no side walls, but was simply an indent- 

 ed sheet of wax. If such will answer as well, we can 

 make them as thin as this pai)er, with great ease. We al- 

 so remitte;! for a sample to the parties who have been ad- 

 vertising in the i)/«rya2 jwe, and were told that they had 

 quit making it for the season, and had not even a sample 

 on hand. If any has been made hi N. Y. this past season 

 we should like to see a samjjle of it ; we have sent con- 

 siderable of our own to the Ma/ja.rinc folks. 



Of the complaints mentioned last month, Mr. Perry 

 generously returns the money we sent him, saying he 



could not feel it light to take anything for damages, if we 

 took back the fdn. It is now in our possession and we 

 sh'\ll try and find out where the trouble was. He writes : 

 "Mr. Sausman likes the yellow fdn. he got of you, and 

 thinks he will want 50 or 75 pounds in the spring— and I 

 am in hopes to need as much." Mr. Becktell s&ys, after 

 putting in the sticks as mentirned last month : ''I get 

 the fdns, built as straight as a board, and I think the bees 

 build them two or three limes rs fast as natural ones.'' 

 He has written us since that they bulged even when built 

 between full combs without sticks. As this is so contrary 

 to our experience, we have des-ired bim to return us some 

 of it. Mr. Eurch in a letter of date Oct. 7th, says he found 

 ") sheets in his package that gave 8 square feet to the tb. 

 He writes, "these were given to a new colony, building 

 comb at the time, and were not only prnmptly accepted, 

 and lengthened out, but were also occupied by thequeen." 

 These light sheets were of course some that were dipped 

 so thin as to have no side walls. In our aniary, the b(es 

 have worked such much slosver, and as thej' were com- 

 plained of, we directed the girls to use none but those 

 thick enough to fill the rolls. We have sold over a ton of 

 the yellow, and perhaps a lialf ton of the white, and 

 have, as yet. had no other complaint of either the bees or 

 queen refusing to use the thick sheets. We suggested t"j 

 Mr. B. that his trouble might have been in the wax that 

 he furnished, or in his manipulation, but he insists the 

 trouble was all in the thickness. By the way, would it 

 not be a grand thing for the extractor, to have some dione 

 comb that the queen would not use ? 



TABff.E OF PKEMirMS. 



NoDies of Premium Articles. 



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Any of them sent post-paid on rcc'pt of price. 

 1 — Lithofiraph of Apiary, Impilements, etc. 25 



2 — I'hotor/raph of House Apiary 25 



3 — '■'That Present,'''' Novice and Blue Eyes 25 

 5 — Emerson's Binder for Gleanings, 



will hold i Volumes 5( 



6— " " better (juality 60 



7 — Pocket Mar/nifyiuf/ Glass 60 



S—Eirst or second T'(*?(u)((' o/ Gleanings.. 75 

 9 — Best quality Emerson's Binder for 



Gleanings 75 



lO^Double Lens Mar/iiifer,oH 3 brass feet 1,00 

 11— Photo Medley , Bee-Keepcrs of Americal,00 

 li— First and second Vol. (^Gleanings.. 1,50 

 VS— Centennial Cabinet Clock; a pretty and 

 accurate time piece, that icill run even 



when carried aboHi, for only .?2 00 



14 — A real Compound Microscope, beauti- 

 ftdly finished, and packed ivith Imple- 

 ments in a Nahogany Bo.v 3,15 



Number 

 of Sub- 

 scribers 

 required 

 at or 

 at 

 75c. 1.00 



PURE BEES WAX. 



Cut to any size desired. 



PACKED IX XEAT WOODEN lit )XES— PAPER BE- 

 TWEEN EVEiiY T\\ ( ) sii i:ets. at Sl.OO PER 

 POl'ND FOR THE WHITE, OR 73 CENTS 

 PER POUXH FOR THE YELLOW. 



IF WANTED BY MAIL, ADD 25 CENTS PER POUND TOE 

 PACKING BOXES AND POSTAGE. 



If taken in our regular packing boxes, sheets 12x18 

 inches, 10 per cent, off from above ]jrires on 10 pounds or 

 over. 



Wax will be worked up to order, and cut into sheets of 

 any size desired, for 40 cents per pound. 



We will pay 2S cents per pound cash for bright yellow 

 wax, or sell it for 31. 



One ijound of wax makes from 4 to 8 square feet of sur- 

 face. The thinnest will be used by the bees, but is not 

 made into comb as quickly as the heavier, which has a 

 greater depth of cell. 



Sheets just rifjht for L. frame?, both white and yellow, 

 kept constantly in stock ready for shipment ; also square 

 sheets for section boxes. About 6 of the former or 30 of 

 the latter {enough for 1 Universal case) weigh 1 pound. 



At above prices we can pay no freight or express charges 

 either way. 



The only wholesale rates we can give is 10 ])er cent, off 

 from above rates on or.'^ers for 50 jiounds ov over, or 20 

 l)ev cent, on 100 pounds or over. A. I. ROOT. 



^lediiia, Ohio. 



