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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 



side measure, and the latter is most especially 

 important or our frames will not have just the 

 right amount of play and not pinch. There- 

 fore we will have on our nailing bench, two 

 very stout uprights just 20)4 inches apart, and 

 place the end boards between these to nail. 

 Use long slim nails, and cross nail. 



A Vt'ord about the frame of flections; 7 of 

 these juat fill one story, and they All it rather 

 too full for conveniently getting out the first 

 one. At present I know no better way than 

 putting in only, and one metal cornered 

 frame to fill out the space. This will lift out 

 nicely, and then all the rest will come out 

 nicely too. If this is not sections enough, just 

 put two frames of them in the lower story, "one 

 at each side, and the brood in the middle, and 

 we have the nicest and most convenient side 

 storing hive, with G4 sections. Now about 

 using the tin separators ; I really do not know 

 whether it is best or not, aud therefore, we 

 shall send one frame with the tin strips, with 

 each hive. Use the very thinnest and cheap- 

 est kind of tin that can possibly be procured, 

 ;tnd cut it into pieces Si^ wide, by 17^y. Tack 

 these to the frame that holds the sections, two 

 strips to each frame. The tins are tacked to 

 the uprights, so as to leave a space of ^4 of an 

 inch between them just over the centre of the 

 frame, where the upper aud lower tiers of sec- 

 tions meet. 



Pertaining to Bee Ciiltiii' 



i^W'ixi'dl^e'S 



[We respectfully solicit the aid of our friends in 

 conducting this department, aud would consider it 

 ;i favor to have them send us all circulars that have 

 a deceptive apiiearance. The greatest care will be at 

 all times maintained to prevent injustice being done 

 any^qne.] 



ri^f/fE are sorry to say we find the Norris 



'JjXJj spoken of on page 304, Dec. No., oue of 

 the worst kind of swindlers. We hope the 

 barrel of honey he obtained of friend Gardner 

 may be his last operation in this direction. Be 

 very careful about sending honey to uuknov/n 

 parties. The fact that they have advertise- 

 ments in many of our periodicals is no evi- 

 dence at all— we are sorry to say — that they 

 are to be trusted. If you are in doubt, drop 

 us a postal and we will always answer such 

 Inquiries promptly. The following we clip 

 from the Springfield, O., Chimpion City: 



JOHN T. NORllIS. THE CHAMPION CONFIDENCE MAN. 



The above gentleman (?) is an institution of which 

 .Springlield is not proud, and all its efforts of publication 

 at homo and abroad, as well as the efforts of the Ohio 

 Ijopislature to frame laws that would meet his case, and 

 save the country from his inlnmous swindles, have been 

 I if little avail. We had iioped that his short term in tlie 

 I'eiiiicntiary would have been a lesson, but John is at his 

 (lid tricks jignin, and invoices of floods and maiuifactured 

 .irtidos, merchandi/e, wines, lumber, etc., etc., are con- 

 stantly arriving- and fall into his chitches before the ship- 

 per can be apprized of his true character. We ask every 

 reader of this nolifse to pass him round. 



I see in your last No. tliat a bee-keeper in Michigan 

 has shipped a barrel ol" lioney to John T. Norris, of 

 Springfield, O. John T. Norris is an out and out 

 swindler; in fact I do not Imow that ho follows any 

 i.ther Dusiness. Jacob ITj.ickv. 



Northampton, Ohio, l^cc. -Isi, ih7G, 



Please write if Mr. John Long has quit selling comb 

 foundation, or is he dead? I sent him .$10 Feu. 2ist; 

 he received it for I have tlie receipt ; I have written 

 two letters since. (J. P. Kaufbman. 



St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 16, 1876. 



When we first accepted Mr. Long's adver- 

 tisement he was doing business squarely, and 

 we have for some time hoped he would "come 

 to life" and make matters straight. This is 

 the third complaint of the kind we have had 

 against him. If he is going to make "ceresin" 

 fdn. this season, we suggest that he commence 

 by becoming honest. 



NUCt,EI, HOtV TO WINTER. 



YjfjN Nov. Gleanings you ask how I prepared those 

 J?|| nuclei to winter thus, and how they were kept. 

 — ' As they had no preparation save that of simply 

 removing; the roofs and covering the little hives, each 

 with an additional quilt, I attribute my success to 

 tlie nature of the place in which they were kept. En- 

 tirely for the sake of experimenting on this question 

 of wintering, several years ago, in one corner of my 

 cellar, I erected a frame work of "two by four" studs, 

 ujion which t tightly ceiled with matched lumber, so 

 as to enclose a space exactly six feet square. I also 

 "sheeteil" upon the outside of tlie studs, with lumber. 

 I then filled the enclosed 4 inch siiace on all sides 

 with dry eanh, covered the to)) with the same to the 

 depth of four inches, and caused the door to be fitted 

 very tiglitly. In short. I constructed a small cellar 

 within a cellar. By taking advantage of the heat of 

 the stoves above, I have secured (lood vetitilalion tor 

 it. I have a thermometer so inserted in the door that 

 I can watch the inside temperature without admitting 

 a ray of light. All tlie nuclei and small swarms, how- 

 ever small, that I have ever ))laced there, liave come 

 through the winter all right. All the ttrong swarms 

 I have tried liave been uneasy from the first, and if 

 long retained have become diseased (dysentery), and 

 had to be removed. 



I fully believe that 1 <'oulil winter a pint of oees on 

 three small combs suspended from the ceiling in the 

 place. I say three combs, so that they could aid them- 

 selves in avoiding or seeking the slight draft of venti- 

 lation, by clustering on the middle comb or otherwise. 



I have spent much time in watching temperatures 

 in connection with this subject of wintering, but I 

 liave not the time now, at my command, to give a his- 

 tory of it. I will simply state that my "experimenta- 

 tion" has tended to confirm Mr. Quinbj's theory of 

 wintering. G. E. Cokkin, M. D. 



St. Johns, Mich., Nov. 17, 187G. 



On page 276, ^ ol. IV, you ask friend G'orbin to tell 

 you how he prepared his bees to winter on 4 lull sized 

 Gallup traiiies. I do not know how li.c, does it but will 

 tell you my way. I have o queen raising hives which 

 1 divide into compartments ; giving t frames 12x12 in 

 each end comi)artment and 3 frames, each 12x12, in th3 

 four interior comi)artmcnls. All the change for win- 

 tering is to remove the honey board and substitute a 

 box with cloth bottom, fitted with loose cotton as an 

 absorbent o; moisture. I winter these ." hives in my 

 collar, setting them out for a fiight if the weather is 

 favorable, perhaps 3 times from 1st of Dei\ to 1st of 

 March. In this way I liave IS surplus tested queens 

 ready to make gojd any losses that I may have in my 

 full stocks, and have no more trouble about safely 

 wintering these on 3 Irames than in the full sized 

 liive. Of course it i.s jiccessary to liave plenty of bees 

 in each one, and honey. S. 



