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SUPPLEMENT TO GLEANINGS IN EEE CULTirEB, 



Avist" 



Burnt sugar or candy, is poison Jo th« bees, M' fcO! 

 in cold weather. 



Sheets of fdn. are only to be fastened to tbe top 

 bar, and should never touch side or bottom bar. 



IT is Just fun to make eolonies, rear queens or bnild 

 combseven during a drouth, if you ean afford the 

 sugar. ^________ 



We- consider rubber gloves, or any other for hand- 

 ling bees, worse than useless; has any one found dit- 

 ferently ? ^__ 



You can work nearly twice as fast in' mitrtrjij up 

 stuft' for brvef^ ami frames, if yo;; have a child tu-aasfat, 

 by handing the pieces and taking them away. 



A Beautiful Expekoient.— &ive a Ratnr.il swarm 

 a'hive lull of empty combs, and extract the hont-v as 

 often as the combs are ijlled. The nice part of it \^. 

 tliat they freqiuently give yow I^IO w»)nh of hancy 'm 

 iwo weeks after hiving. 



Wb find no difficulty with oiw machines in extracf - 

 ing from new combs partly b-ail^ ev.en/ U they are »i^ 

 tach«d only So- th* toip- bar. 



These are' madb purposely for both shippfn^ and mtro- 

 ducifig. The queen- and bees- are tO'be put into the centraL' 

 Jipartment, and the ftxxj at both ends. Having two placef* 

 for the food' that they may be in no danger of starvation., 

 even if they are as nkichas two weeks on the vraj. Per- 

 haps the safest way to frire them- fcwd fs to soak bks of.' 

 sponge in- hone .V ; the wire-cIOth pfilTtitK>n^^7il^hol'd thesiT 

 secvireliy. arrl iwever.-t their dnuWng the been. The wh(j!V- 

 top of the cape siiilps off, so that we i7iv*y qwsrkiy reswnt- 

 the queen, shoudd the- beea- prove hostilp. There is n«i-- 

 need of haviTig a- (^leen kilted, 14 you are rend'v with » 

 Q-irinby smoker to give them a put? tire minute thf>,\-' 

 attack her, Th-e cnees are madte entirely of tin am.^ 

 tinned wire>ciOth,- Jts thev f?o not riwt rea'iilyrth'iy nr;i\'- 

 be ke(>t for years. Wa cowld not afford to- ninke them at 

 the Ib-flr price of 1ft;., wore 'A not thnt tift«y are- made o? 

 sf-rrpa thiit would be alm'ist r.«efess otherwise m oisr 

 worh-sho|>, and the haTsd^ worki at them d'uring odd sp«lls<- 



WMm Mdm'ww.Mmm Mi^©^ 



The Lawn Hive has the npper story fastened on 

 permanently, and that the lower Iramea may be re- 

 moved, the u!)()er story contains 14 placed at right 

 angle to the lower ones, which are but 10 in number. 

 The whole hive ts made of thin lumber, the walls be- 

 ing double, and tiie space between and under the bot- 

 tom board being filled with chaff. The preparation 

 for winter being simply to remove the iipper frames, 

 and replace them with a thick cushion of chaff. 

 These hives have not been as yet luUy tested for sum- 

 mer use, although they answer the purpose intended 

 for wintering, most beautifnlly. For farther particu- 

 lars, see November and December Nos., Vol. IV. 



Sevekal encpiire if we would advise them to trans- 

 fer bees in the months of June, July, Aug., etc. We 

 really do not see how we can answer such a question, 

 not knowing the persons. Among our neighbors, 

 there are those who would work 80 carefully that they 



would be almost snre to strcceed; and, again there urv 

 others who would be almost sui-e to fa'il. We arc iiv- 

 cllned to think that those who make those enquiries- 

 would be (fulte apt to fail, lor the careful ones would 

 go to work and do it nt any season if tbey were suW;- 

 ciently ansions to have it done. 



My friends ; 1 am clear down to the ?iisrt corner of thr 

 last piige of my little "tract," and 1 do hops 1 have suc- 

 ceeded in telling you something yoii an; gl-ul to know, for 

 I like to help ptro'ple even if 1 do not alw»ys get pay for it. 

 If I have helped you, you can retin-n the favor by helpiuc 

 some neighbor, and he some other one, and so on. Mjiy 

 the Kind Father above bles.s you all, ami may you succeed 

 with the bnes, and all other iiniocent p:iitimos and ploti"; 

 urcs that surround your homes. Be kitxl and a;ontlo, nof 

 only with the bees, but with ail aboMt von. and may yrns 

 all bear in mind who it was th;it said, "In ^i> much as yiu 

 have done it unto the least of one of these, you have done 

 it unto me." 



