GLiiANINGS IN BEfi CULTURE. 



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^.Jir' AST ,ve:)r I sowed two biisliols of buckwheat on two 

 f\i_/] \ acres and {jot SO bushels. L:ist spring I sent money 

 '' to Gregory for four lbs., thinking his kind nii^ht be 

 nicer thaii mine, but it Was a little darker than my kind, 

 i sowed fotir lbs. of each kind July lOtli. It was so dry 

 for about four weeks that it did not sprout at all and a 

 frost caught it before it was all ripe j from the foul' lbs. 

 from Gfregoi^, I got 2J4 bushels and from my 4 lbs. I got 

 3J-2 bushels. 



[From Gregory's seed catalogue. 1 



SiLfEK-HuLi. BtcK-sTHEAT. A uew/variety olTeved as 

 :m improvement on the common Buckwheat. The grairi 

 is of a grcA- color, while the corners are much le5.s promi- 

 nent and the husk is thinner, thus saving fifteen percent, 

 of warrte hi the" ptotess of manufacturing. Messrs. Piatt 

 A Barnes, proprietors of Buckwheat Mills, certify, "We 

 Regard the Silver- Ilulled Buckwheat as the best we have 

 rvur seen, and should judge it will make from three to 

 rive Hi's, mor'e of liour and of Ijetter quality per mcasufed 

 bu.shel than the ordinary buckwheat." 



Friend Iv, semis the following ^'!ippecl fraffl 

 ;i newspaper, 



BtrcKWiTEAT.— The Im^k wheat crop throughout this 

 r'ounty was last week hoftsed, and' \^e learn that in the 

 •(■ipper townships it \7as a verf good oife. Th'on'gh some- 

 .Vhat scant fn Strav? in some plaCs, it wai' n'ev^'rtheless 

 lurge iii yfeld— never better. There aYe two kiVids of 

 I'luck Wheat t&at are now being cultivated— the oiVe kn6\^'n' 

 .is the common bro'^n shell variol.y, old as tfe'e ii'atibn its- 

 :^elf, a'nd tfje other an ^mpfoieS kJnd AaH'ed the "silver 

 hiiii,'' teCanSB of th'e ioM' oi hs c-xtcrht ^ieti %fh'ert filiy 

 ■Hpe'. 'f'lirs hiitet i's an extiraordi'nairil'y largi' yi'etder; g'oocf 

 sized and hefty in the grain, and from eight to ten days 

 ( arlier than the old kind. Our valued friend C. H. Fos- 

 ter, of Lynn, we learn has this year realized 55 bushels 

 of the "Silver Hull" variety from a very small tract of 

 I'lild plmted with it. 



He adds : 



Mr. Foster got a half bushel from me last spring' and 

 ijot from it 55 bushels. D. N. Kern. 



Shitnevsville, Lehigh Co., Pa. Oct. :i.3d. 187G. 



WI5.0 BEKCiAMOT, KORCiitlUM MIff.LS, 



IjOts of money, etc. 



OSjjS^ELL. friend Novice, I was taken sick with fever 

 wW on 5th of September and have been unable to 

 oijen i! hive since. 'Tis only during the past 

 week that 1 have really begun to feel like being able to do 

 Komething. I got friends Cramer and Kellogg of Oneida, 

 111. to go to the river (in September) ;ind take ofi my box 

 lioncy and extract. They extracted 790 lbs. Taking 

 the season througli it was a good one for honey, though a 

 little too wet during white clover bloom for a heavy 

 yield. I had -ii; stocks to begin with in tho spring; 20 of 

 them I calculated would be able to work iu boxes, the 

 balance I thought would be able to get themselves in 

 shape by fall. 



Last fall a Sorghum factory thinned them out rapidly, 

 (hough I did not know the cause till in the winter, when 

 a man said to me, that he felt "mighty sorry" for me as 

 llioy killed my bees by the thousand as thoy flew into the 

 liot stea-iu. This fall not a dozen bees could be seen 

 there. At the river I had 02 hives on shares, ]^\\l( in good 

 condition, the balance medium. They increased to ]."iO, 

 Hiving 88 increase saved, besides 20 probably, that left for 

 fowa or the Islands. They gave box honey []r>()d, of ex- 

 tntctcd 790. This honey was ail gathered from Wild 

 liovgaroot wiufh blooms from July iOtli to September, 

 ! Mfot the half of tlio above nt ui.\' home .npiary. I had Ui 

 U(}W swarms, and about 25(io Uy^. of box honey (1 Ind 



no time to extract) so you can see my summer's work paid 

 me very well. Ovbr 1000 lbs. of honey, average pried 

 20c. ji800 ; 88 new swarms .510. each, §880. Total 8IG8O. 



]Mr. N. Jarvis *»ho has an apiary a few hundred yard^ 

 from Ours at the river, had 38 stocks in good conditioil 

 last spring ; increased to 108 and tool; about SOdO. lbs. of 

 box honey. Which he sold af the low price of IGc. per lb. 

 In 'Hi he had but 5 stocks. In the meant'me lie has sold 

 about .$200. in bees besides Icjts of lidrie'y, and now has 

 over 100 sto'cka for next spring's work* Who .?ajs bees 

 Won't pay in a good locality ? He has his bee.i stowed 

 away in a cafe in ihe sand. I suppose Hollingsworth'st 

 and mirie livd being put in to-day— 200 in one cave dug out 

 of the sand. 



L)uring the summer I Had iSG stocks to Handle. I did 

 ail the work, ciceot In m'y absence other parties Kiyeu 

 the Swairma. Tfie apiaries are over 2^ miles apart.' YoU 

 Can rest assured that I had f-iairteJy a mdmerit's rest al< 

 summer. C. O. Perrinc Atas here a few days ago on hi^ 

 \tay Sonth, he intends sowing 400 lbs. of sweet clover as 

 an experiment hi the Sonth. I believe the aecttons are 

 going to take better than boxc£ 1 notice the demand iri 

 ChJciigo is for "h'oriey in small pacTva^"en of t and 2 lbs. 

 I?o demand' for largo packages."' T. O. McGaw. 



Monm'outh. Ills. Nov. £J)th. IsVh'. 



Where soVghuiri mills a!re visited by th'e 

 bees a's in the case mentioned, ■we would, 

 advise the bee-keeper's going to the expense or 

 making a cheap cloth coVering, as we do for 

 oti^ cider itfill. The bees very ;ioon' get ove/ 

 the habit, a'ud' give up trying to get to the 

 rfancferoii's, sweats. Tliis vhld bergaraot is cer 

 tain'l.t rty item worthy of consideration, u'ntl if 

 frieftxi JVt:. will Efcnd vrr. a .Tam'plc of it, we 'vyili 

 tell you ail ju'grt wh'a't it fe li'ke, with all fhe 

 pleasure in the world. 



SUKrLUS IIOKEY IN FULL SIZED FKAM/iS. 



You say friend M. 3-ou had no time 

 to extract; suppose you had lifted out 

 full combs, and put empty ones iu their 

 places, providing each hive with an upper sto- 

 ry, how much more labor would it have re- 

 quired than boxes 'r Not tjs much labor or 

 expense, as the cheapest kind of boxes, and 

 then when the season was over yon could have 

 extracted at your leisure, or could have sold it 

 in the comb, whichex-er would have paid 

 best. We have tried thia latter plan, and are 

 inclined to think there is no easier way in the 

 world of getting honey out of the hive;s, and 

 away from the bees. The great troui>le is that 

 these 6 or 8 lb, frames are I00 large to retail to 

 good advantage. Now why can we not put 

 sections inside them, as does friend Rice, and 

 go on our way rejoicing V Who will tell ? 



VARIOUS SUBJECTS. 



fp|^ KAU NOVICE:— I have been conning over this 

 JJU/j year's No's of Glkaninos and was struck by 

 — ' the amount of space given to the wintering and 

 springing ol' bees; this is my apology for this com- 

 munication. 



now TO WINTEK. 



In the outset, let mc say that I have never loatja 

 stock in wintering or springing. AVhether it is owing 

 to the management, care, or way of preparing for 

 winter, I will leave it for your readers to judge. 



[ Ijreparc my hives for wintering early— don't wait 

 until cold weather comes. Most of them arc made to 

 use side boxes as well as top, ami of course v>hcn the 

 boxes arc removed and contr.vcting boanJs in i^hicc. It 

 gives a chance to sl\Ul' the sides and top with lino cut 



