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GLEAKINGS m BEE CULTFIiE. 



JXK. 



I experimented with 10 1 )s of ftln. ;. except for start- 

 ers I shall' lor the future wait antl oee those of more 

 knowleil^c and skSli pro^^t bj them. Mr. Hoge, c4ia:i 

 liong, tolfi' me a few ilaya since hv should be in the 

 market with a vegetable woix foirndation a* 30 or .^.6c. 

 per pouTnl thwt woald surpass anything yet mar>e. 



Have yoiT noticed' that the fdn. with the arch of the 

 eell at the top, does not bulge as it does whea a l?at 

 side of the cell is uppermost. 



Can yoiT not get Capt. Hetberington tO' tell itb how 

 he gets his con^bs \ya'M so trne in his glass boxes ? 



Above all other boxes I have, and I hajve a lof, too, 

 so far, I prefer the <7. T. Wheeler. Shall nse Isham's 

 largely this sfiason. Extracted honey vrill take ihe 

 lead; it is not known, is the reaijon why there is not a 

 jfreater demaml for it. Why uot put isp in t-m pack- 

 ages of one and two pounds? Glass is so high? fhc 

 price tells; and everybody tells the price. 



C. J. QuiNKY, White Plains, N. Y., Dtec. 9, '76. 



If you use the fcln. lor starters, jou will 

 probably use it for all purposes, for scarcely 

 aoyone disputes its value for getting all work- 

 er comb. 



FDN., AND BULGING ; UOKS 'ITIE POSITION OF 

 THE CEI,I.,S AFFECT IT ? 



We never before thought of the idea of the 

 position of the cells making a difference, but 

 since you mention it, we find that in all our 

 experiments the cells have been in the poHition 

 you recommend. In fact, we cannot make full 

 sheets for the L. frame to go in otherwise. If 

 Mr. Long can succeed with Ceresin, or some 

 composition of it, we shall rejoice with him ; 

 but in our correspondence with the dealers in 

 Ceresin, they have mentioned making it hard- 

 er, to prevent bulging. Now this will not an- 

 swer, for if harder than wax the bees will not 

 be able to work it rapidly, and we shall lose 

 more time than we gain by the whole fdn. 



WAX, PORE : NO St/BSTITUTE. 



We think it will be very difficult to find a 

 substance that will soften by heat, and yet re- 

 tain its tenacity, as does the real wax made by 

 the bees. The fdn. we make, and that we have 

 found so successfal, is made of pure wax, and 

 our patrons may rest assured that no sort of 

 experimenting shall be made on any that is 

 sent out to thtm. We presume Capt. II. used 

 the tin separators, for th<' sections that were 

 to be glassed. 



EXTHACTEi> IIONKV IN TIN CANS. 



Extracted honey is already offered for sale 

 in 1 lb. tins ; but the trouble is that the buyer 

 cannot )<ee the honey, and the tin cans are as 

 expensive as cheap glass. The tin has the ad- 

 vantage of never becoming leaky. 



Send "Gleanings" another year; my bettor half 

 thinks we cannot do without it, and of course your 

 humble servant entertains the same op-nion ; the only 

 claim we flic against it is, that it does not come olten 

 enough. It ought to be a weekly ; -but human nature 

 is never Balislled, hence we must be content. Now I 

 will tell you some of the things that I have been guii- 

 ly of this season. In the fhst jilace, I worked about 

 10 hivert for honey alone, and took out about S)0« lbs., 

 all extracted, which nearly all sold for 20c. per pound. 

 I worked a good many bees on shares, raised quite 

 a number of queens, and bought three warranted 



fjueens iTom J. Oatman & Co., and two from H. Alley.. 

 all of whic-h give satisfaction. Septein'ber found ni! • 

 witli 2? colonies, I sold 20 of aheiTE; takiitg all togetli- 

 er I have cleared about S800, Rev. W. H. IvEKii 

 Wayne?own, Ind . Dec, 11, 1876. 



TlM3t>c»? thing I have found for stings wlven. they 

 arc liftbJe to- swell, (aniS tbait ia very seldom^ with n>o), 

 is to take si very sbari> pointed pocket kn/ife andlanc;- 

 the skin in tlie exact place vfhenj the s-ctng eutereU 

 : fully as deeii or even deeper ; this will allow the jwis- 

 ~ on to run oui! InsJead of going ic, so'tbat the swellin-" 

 will woJ ;>mount to much. 



Fro)K>li6 taken from the hive while warn?, or mtv\< 

 soft by the fire, Ss a splendid thing to heal up sorer 

 of anj kind. It wfll aave you from' buying prepa- 

 tions ol ^he t^ruggist or l>octoir, siicb as sailve. sticking;' 

 jjlaster, and the lik*?. 



I have been working a IftSle for yoi? aa wdl s^f' 

 myriClf ; I have got three O'f m-y friendb tO' swbsci'ibi" 

 for <Jlkanin&s; two of which have beea, and om- 

 wishes to read it for pastime, M. Wtki€k. 



$7aseade, I>ubuqiTe, Co.jlowje. 



PBOI'OLIS Tf?. STICKING FLASTEK. 



I But we fear we had rather take the pafn of 

 the sting, friend W., than to hisve our hamfK 

 I thus gouged up ; perhaps that propolis salve 

 i might make it all right, for we cau abundantly 

 j certify in regard to its "stickative" proper- 

 ties — although we know nothing- of its medical 

 virtues. 



That is a rare compliment you pay us — that 

 Gleanings is read for "pastime" by one who 

 is not a bee-keeper. 



I have ;i house apiaiy too, the walls are only one iuclt 

 thick, of pine lumber jointed and gi-05ved. My Iouj: 

 Standaid hires are ninged on each side, with 5 inches tif 

 chaff beneath thein. Tliey are back from tiro 

 walls 5 inches, \vith a 5 inch boarJ placed so as to conii 

 within two inches of the alighting boards of the bivos. 

 Small pieces of l>oanls ,5 inches wide standing on ornl. 

 supjwrt this beard and se!>;irate the entrances. Then -2 

 inch holrs arc bored through the wall for an entrance i > 

 each hive level with the alighting boards. I have ixickcd 

 cliafT on all sides, ends, and on the top a foot thick. Now 

 what do you think of the plan? It is the same principl ■ 

 as chatf i>,'U'king in boxes, and I think much handier luid 

 better, and not so expensive. Twenty inches space aiv, 

 allowed for each hive, and my house will hold 36 hive-,, 

 with two tiers one above the other, on each side faciuur 

 ea.st and west. If this is a success I shall build a larger 

 hou.se nest year on the same principle. I tlon't see wliy 

 it shor.ld 1)0 frost proof, with the hives packed in chatT. 

 especially when bees will winter out doors splendidly. 

 packt!<l Mi!h chifT in boxes. A frost proof house is quitu 

 expcii>i\e, but a house like this will not cost as much a< 

 to make Ixi.xes for all the hives, or even the "hives for on! 

 door vviiitcriiig" that you have described in Gi.E.iNiSfiS. 



Anson Minor, Low Banks, Out. Can. Dec. (1th, 1876. 



Very likely you are right, friend M., but it, 

 is a matter on which we need experiment. We 

 have for some time thought the hives migh' 

 be arranged as in a house apiary, entirely with- 

 out anj'^ house — or at least with a very open 

 one, securing all the advantages of having tin.' 

 apiary in small compass, and facilitating tin 

 chafl' packing. Unless a free current of air 

 can be secured, especially in the spring, we are 

 inclined to think the bees worse off in tlie 

 house than out doors. 



