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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 



frame ? [Yes.] If a bad odor arises from a hive In 

 buckwheat time, is it caused by buckwheat ho»ey 

 or foul brood ? [BucJctoheat.l If you should get time 

 between now and 6])ring to answer this letter will 

 you please put in a few bee b;ilm seed if you have 

 them ? But ilon't put yourself out of the way for 

 me. With much l^ve to— 1 gues? I will have to call 

 you our Teacher in the Bee Scliool— I close. One 

 more question I didn't tliink of last night. Will 

 Italian queens mix with black drones if they are 

 a halt mile apart ? [Yes, or even three milea or 

 more. Be sure and tell us more about that swarm 

 fou got for logging and its increase.] O. F. BOAVEX. 

 Randolph, N. Y. Jan. 1st, 1877. 



How would virgin queens from an imported mother at 

 25c. each, take, in place of larvaj ? I think I have got "the 

 feeder." Take any tin cup or dish, cut a small hole 

 throujch the bottom and solder a ring like a very short 

 bottle neck, on around the hole ; stretch a cloth over this, 

 tie by winding a string round the neck and bore a hole 

 through the honey board to admit the neck. You can 

 feed summer or winter will equal facility ; you need not 

 open the hive at all. No waste, no robbing and no daub- 

 ing. H. P. Sayles, Hartford, Wis. Jan. 17th, 1877- 



FEEDEKS,ANI> SELLING VIRGIN QUEENS. 



[Vii:i;in queens can be raised for 2oc. each, with the 

 lamp nursery without any trouble at all, but before they 

 could reach the purchaser, they would be so old as to be 

 almost useless, unless some method of introduction can 

 be invented, better than any now known. To be c:mdid, 

 we have little faith that a virgin queen a week old can be 

 introduced by any process. Your feeder is old, but good ; 

 the objections are that you have to cut a hole through your 

 quilt or honey board right over the cluster, aKd that 

 thick and thin syrup, do not work equally well.] 



I have sent to Dadant & Son for an imported colony. I 

 have 80 colonies and nearly all are pure Italians. ' The 

 imported stock makes me 81 good strong stocks to begin 

 \v\t\\ in the spring. They are all in frames 12x12 and 

 17x12. I have '.Wi gltiss boxes (5x(j tilled with comb honey. 

 I will want tOOO frames and sections. 



Hakiiin Haines, Vermont, 111., Jan. 1877. 



Is not ours the banner county for honey ? One citizen 

 (J. S. Harbison) has sent 13 car loads of ten tons each, to 

 the ea.'>tern states this season. E. W. Morse. 



San Diego, Cal. Jan. 9th, 1877. 



I am wintering 130 colonies ; 89 in bee house with 20 

 inch walls tilled in with sawdust. The remaining 11 are 

 on their summer stands, packed around and aliove with 

 fine haj wiiich I consider equal to anything I have ever 

 tried for packing. Jacob Uleet. 



Northampton, O., Dec. 21st, 1820. 



My bees are doing better in cellar this winter than ever 

 before. I have one of Karnes' Circular saws, and for 

 making bee hives it is hard to beat. A. F. SxArFFEE. 



Sterling, 111. Jan. 17th, 1877. 



We should always be provided with empty worker 

 comb to replace any we remove Iroin the centre ot tlie 

 hive ; there is certainly no need of getting drone 

 comb unless we wish. 



We should bo glad to continue to send Gleanings and 

 A. li. J. for S2.25, but friend Newm:iu and ourselves .agree 

 that we might run short of bread and butter unless we 

 have about 82.50 ; that will therefore be the priee hero- 

 iifter. 



(^'an send you a foot power buzz saw on trial and if 

 it does not suit, you can return ic with no other ex- 

 jiense than the transportation. For particulars, send 

 for our new lu-ice list of saws, etc., describing the new 

 •nttachraerit for dovetailing section boxes. 



PouNBATiON made of common yellow wax, can be 

 shipped during the culdest we:ii her in winter, while all 

 iittenip-t a' shiii|;iiig the wliito during zero we.'ither have 

 r( suited i'l its licing nil broken in hits. Antjther tin. thing 

 in favor of the yelluw. is that it bleaches itself by b;-ing 

 kept; some that was made almost a year ago, was fuund 

 to have cliauired to a bull', or cream color, even lliou.rh it 

 had been kept all the lime ia a clo.so.l box. Now CDm-s 



the question, is this homemade white wax, brittle, like 

 that made at the factories ? Candidly, it is not, and it 

 seems but little if any different from the yellow, yet it is 

 not perfectly white, like the other. We are perfectly 

 satisfied that the yellow is all that is required for comb 

 honey, but are not at present prepared to decide whether 

 it is best to use tdn. with side walls for comb honey or 

 not ; both answer nicely, but that with walls, is worked 

 most rapidly, while the other is considerably the cheap- 

 est, per square foot. 



■^^►^»#»-- Cw 



ANNUAL, MEETING. 



The Seventh Annual meeting of the North-eastern 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will be held at the Tem- 

 PEKANCE Hotel in the city of Syracuse, N. Y., on 

 the 7th 8th and 9th of February, 1877. First session at 

 1 o'clock r. M. of the 7th. Interesting papers are ex- 

 pected from eminent apiarians from abroad. Efforts 

 are being made to sustain the popularity and useful- 

 nfSi of the Association. Several members are expect- 

 ed to read essays or deliver addresses. 



Come prepared to report accurately, the season's 

 operations. W^e wish to know the number of stocks 

 kept, spring and fall, condition, kind of hive, amount 

 of honey produced, box and extracted, wax made, re- 

 marks on the value of the honey teason, etc. The 

 statistical table prepared by this Association is orig- 

 inal and will again be arranged. 



R. IJacon, Pres. J. II. Nellis, Sec'y. 



VXhUhU BEES. 



Imported and home bred queens ; full colonies and 

 nucleus colonies; bee keeper's supplies of all kinds. 

 Queens bred early in the season. Send for catalogue. 



„ . ,,„„ for catalogue. 



DR. J. P. II. BROWN, 



Augusta, Ga. 



I shall imjiort pure Italian queens for my own use 

 next June, and will import for iiarties wishing them, 

 and ordering before Ajiril 1st, at a cost of §6,00 each. 

 Purchasers must lake all risks after the queens leave 

 New York. For particulars address, 

 1 R. FERRIS, Belleville, Essex Co., N. J. 



Bee-keepers and all others who desire to purchase teeds 

 for the farm, apiary, nursery, flower or vesetable garden ; 

 agricultural or apiarian implements, supplies, &c., should 

 send for our new descriptive catalogue. Price list tree. 

 Address, carefully, 

 C. F. LANE'S N-W. Apiary and Seed Warehouse. 

 1 Koshk onong, Wis. 



ITALIAH QUEEKS FOR 1877. 



Queens bred from Imiiortcd or home bred stock. 

 Safe arrival guaranteed. >Vill send j'ou every time 

 just what you order. 



Uuwarrantcd queen Si 00 



" " jier doz 1150 



Warranted " 150 



" " per hall doz 8 00 



" " per doz... 14 00 



Tested " before July 1st 3 50 



after " " 2 60 



" " " " "4 for 9 00 



" " " " "per doz.. 20 00 



2 frame nucleus (frame 11x12) and tested (lueen 



after July 1st 5 00 



5 same 2(i (0 



Same aud unwarranted queen 4 00 



5 " " 17 00 



2tr J. O ATM AN & CO., Dundee, Ills. 



Qy IN BY S^i^OK E R. 



liox mateiial for as desirable a box 

 as can be made. General bee-keeping 

 supjjlies. 



Send for illustrated descriptive cir- 

 cular. E. C. i;OOT. 

 2ifd Mohawk, Herkimer Co., N. Y. 



