1876 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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the top with blue I'ibbons. This certainly 

 makes a very neat package, but the expense is 

 such, it would have to be sold at a good price. 

 The section, which is very light and neat is 

 made thus: A and B are the ui^rights about 



'4 of an inch thick, and 3iy wide. The top 

 bar which is about as thick as a common light 

 of glass, slips in the saw cuts, shown, and is 

 probably held with glue; it is about l^o wide. 

 Now if we put a sheet of glass on each side 

 next the comb after filling, we should have 

 four spaces of ^4 inch each left open, and these 

 the Capt. closes by four narrow slips of glass 

 the length of top and bottom bar. A and B 

 •are ral) beted in each edge to let the light of 

 glass drop in, close to the honey. Our object- 

 ions to this box, would be so many pieces of 

 glass, six to each box. The large glasses seem 

 to be held in place with glue. The wood work 

 is very light, and the glass all seemed to be 

 made very thin for the purpose. This package 

 is perhaps the neatest in the market, but oth- 

 ers, such as Doolittle's, are much less expense. 

 On Capt. Hetherington's table too, we no- 

 ticed a box of what we took to be our fdn. 

 It is unfortunate that no printed explanation 

 was left with it, for visitors evidently were 

 much puzzled to know what it was, and for 

 what used. 



— Four very pleasant days have been passed 

 viewing the products of the labor of our 

 brothers and sisters, all over this vast globe 

 of oui's ; and the feelings awakened have been 

 almost uniformly those of pleasure, through 

 the many different departments and buildings. 

 The fine art gallery was visited last, and even 

 at the risk of being called old fashioned, of 

 lacking appreciation, and of imagining evil 

 where none exists, I feel like protesting. In all 

 the other departments I met cleanliness and 

 order ; pleasant and wholesome looking gen- 

 tlemen and gentlewomen, and I saw no trace 

 of either intemperance or other kindred vices 

 on the whole grounds until I went into the 

 fine art galleries. With the statuary of the 

 little ones just as they get out of their cribs 

 in the morning, I was delighted, as almost any 

 one would be, but when I began to study full 

 grown nudity, and at the same time the faces 

 of the swarms of humanity that were crowd- 

 ing and jostling each other in a way they did 

 no where else on the grounds, I could but 

 pray that we might have humanity, even in 

 statuary, depicted "clothed and in their right 

 minds." This work — carved with a skill that 

 is wonderful to be sure — is much of it from 

 nations that are not celebrated for their puri- 

 iy of moi'als, and when one seeks for the pur- 

 pose of the work, notes the way in which 

 the figures are poised, the expression of 

 the whole piece, it does not seem they ai*e 

 hardly fitting for the gaze of a people who are 

 active in the work taught in our Sabbath 

 schools and churches. 



for, at least us two, of any other on the wide 

 earth. God bless our homes, and keep them 

 sacred and pure. 



DEPARTMENT 

 FOR BOX HIVE BEE-KEEPERS. 



I have kept bees for 10 years, but have never made 

 it pay. Have now 25 hives, all except 3 without 

 frames. Of course they swarm naturally ; never had 

 a swarm go to the woods. I want to get Italian bees, 

 mine are all black; I never saw an Italian. Hail I not 

 better sell my entire stock of black bees ? Will take 

 a fair price for them. Don't put me in column of 

 "Blasted Hopes" for I never expected much. 



A. F. CoNAWAY, Mannington, W. Va. Nov. 14th, '7<! 



[Your report, it seems to us, comes under this de- 

 partment. We know it is not very flattering but it is 

 all we have received, and unless we use such, we fear 

 box hives and common bees will die a natural death. 

 Do not sell your bees, but transfer and Italianize, a>. 

 we have so often advised.] 



$€l^s and §ii^rk§ 



^ HAVE 18 colonies in Am. hives and have Itaiian- 

 j°|[ ized 4 of them. Which is the best way for me to 

 — ' Italianize the rest ? 



[So many circumstances are to be considered, shall 

 have to tell you to read up the subject in back v A- 

 lunes. Mr. Doolittle, who is just at hand, says "buy 

 dollar queens." If you have more time than money, 

 perhaps you can make nuclei and raise the queens for 

 the remaining 14.] 



Are the nails used to keep the frames from swinging 

 together in Am. hives, in the way for using the ex- 

 tractor ? 



[The frames can be used in the extractor very well 

 without removing the nails, but they have been votea 

 too much of a nuisance to be tolerated in other res- 

 pects.] 



Have I made a good selection in the kind of hives I 



use ? I have never had anj- other hive in use. Have 



been advised by a seemingly intelligent bee-keeper to 



make kindling wood of said hives and use Langstroth. 



J. J. SiLZiE, Fertigs, Pa. 



[Your intelligent uee-keeper was probably not far 

 out of the way. Nearly all of the hives now in use, 

 American with the rest, use plain S(iuave frames, 

 hanging in plain square boxes.] 



In our own home again ; and with a feeling 

 that after all, it is the best and happiest place 



To say I am delighted with the microscope is to speak 

 very moderately indeed. How can you send so elegant 

 an instrument for only eight names ? Yes I have tised 

 some of Perrine's fdn. and like it, only it is a little too 

 thin ; bees break it down in very warm weather. Bought 

 it before you started your new lot. Make your fdn. live 

 cells to the inch (like Perrine's,) and as heavy as you 

 now make and it is jws^ </ie ihimj. Don't like the large 

 so well, except for outside combs to extract from. As it 

 seems to be the fashion to send you views of bee yards 

 (Oh I I forgot, apiaries), I will send you a sterescoijic 

 veiw of our bee yard in a few days. You can see for your- 

 self we are crowded for room. Will. M. Kellogu. 



Oneida, 111. Nov. 17th, 1S76. 



(ilad to take a peep into your yard friend K., and we 

 are also pleased to see that none of you seem afraid of the 

 bees. There is not a veil or even rubber glove to be seen 

 any where, ;ind yet there are bees, for we see them clus- 

 tered o^-er the entrances. The lady who stands by the 



