PEVOTEP TO BEEH ATSP UOIVEY, ATSTP HOJME INTEXIESTS. 



A. I. ROOT, ^ 



Publislier and Proprietor, 



Published montlily. 



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; X:stal>lislied in 1873 



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Vol. V. 



FEBRUARY 1, 1877. 



No. 2 



FROin ACROSS THE OCEAW. 



fHAVE the pleasure to enclose you a £10 Bank of 

 Ergland note with which credit me and send at jour 

 earliest convenience, goods as follows ; * * * * 

 Thanks for the samjjlo of wax foundation, it far sur- 

 passes anything we have of English man ufacture, and I 

 hope to give it a fair trial next summer. It may interest 

 you to know that the extractor which took first prize at 

 our British Bee-keeper's show in September last was fitted 

 with 2/o?«>*fl'<'« )•«■«(/, one of the sets I had fr3m you— the 

 faucet also was yours. The other parts of the machine 

 were essentially the same as the prize extractor of 1875, 

 that of Mr. Cowan, a description of which I sent you last 

 year. I see you have noticed an article in the B. B. J. 

 September last on foul brood, a cure for which is recom- 

 mended in salicylic acid, the receipt says "Put 50 gramms 

 of the best salicylic acid etc." This in editorial brackets 

 is explained to be H. lb. I make it not quite \% oz. 

 Rather a serious mistake to make in the way of pre- 

 scribing. I fear the school master Pere is not abroad, 

 but at home. Had he have learned his French weights 

 and measures he could not have made this blunder, nor 

 have told us a few months back, August 1875, that the 

 price of honey in France was 130 francs the Kilometre ! 

 nearly 110,000 yards ! Fancy selling honey by the mile! 

 This will beat your E-Dcky mountain story. I may add 

 that the sprinkling process described in the September 

 article as a cure for foul brood is perfectly useless ; from 

 experience I know it. I am sorry to learn your Centen- 

 nial Bee cultural Exhibition was a failure. We do not 

 find any dilficulty in getting together a good exhibition 

 yearly ; our trouble is in getting funds to support it, the 

 cost being about £150. John Hunter. 



No.5 Eaton Rise. Ealing, England, Dec. 17th. 1876. 



We are very glad indeed, friend Hunter, to 

 have earned your good opinion on the fdn., as 

 well as to hear our extractor gearing has been 

 of use as a pattern in England ; and still more 

 obliged are we to you for having pointed out 

 our errors. It would seem editors are all too 

 much in the habit of taking things for grant- 

 ed, instead of subjecting them to close scruti- 

 ny, and the result is that \vc often see gross 

 blunders going the rounds of exchanges. 

 JSTothing does us so much good as to have our 

 mistakes plainly pointed out in the kindly 

 way in whicli you have done it, and we really 

 have no excuse to offer, for a verification of 

 your statement is found in our "big diction- 

 ary," right at our elbow. As you remark, 

 getting up a good honey show, is quite an ex- 

 ptinsive operation, and we mus-t confess to be- 

 ing a little in doubt as to the expediency of 



attempting very many such. At our county 

 fair, we made a very pretty show of founda- 

 tion, comb honey, etc., but to get everything 

 properly in place, and to get it back home 

 safely, was such a task that we half resolved 

 never to undertake it again. 



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SniAJLL, REGINHriBTOS. 



fi STARTED last May with 5 colonies, 2 in movable 

 frames ; 3 I transferred, commencing May Ist, '75. 

 — ' Dr. 



To 5 colonies bees , $37 0(1 



"11 new hives and boxes 38 00 



" 1 observatory glass hive 10 00 



" 1 extractor 9 00 



"Tools 4 OQ 



" 4 Vol's Gleanings 3 50 



§101 50 



Ok. 



By 14 colonies and hives $117 (10 



" Glass observatory hive extra 6 OO 



"Extractor 9 (jt> 



" Tools 4 00 



" 4 Vol's Gleanings 3 .M> 



" 195 lbs. honey 42 00 



181 50 

 101 Gl» 



Xet profit on 5 stands bees except labor 880 



Yield per hive, 39 lbs. honey, mostly comb; 16 dol- 

 lars each, would be about 200 per cent. 



Of my 14 stands in Gallup hives, I put 6 in the cellar 

 and have 8 packed with fine hay iu boxes on summer 

 stands. They appear to be doing well, so far as i 

 know. My cellar is dry gravel, temperature about 

 40=^ ; they appear to be contented and do not incline 

 to get out of the hive, but keep up a low hum. Ought 

 they to be perfectly still ? Will it do to handle bees 

 in the cellar? I wish to know their condition; if] 

 smoke them it takes a long time to clear out the smoke 

 and makes the air bad. I have 3 weak swarms which 

 I wish to examine. I have but little ventilation ex- 

 cept the stairway. It is my first experience with 

 frame hives. X. A. Pkuuden. 



Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 1st, 1877. 



We have chosen to give a great many of 

 these reports of small beginnings, because 

 all that is reiiuired, is to do the same thing 

 on a larger scale when we get up to hun- 

 dreds. As we have abundant evidence that 

 overstocking is not the trouble, shall we not 

 have to conclude that the same care, is all 

 that is required V 



