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GLEAXIXGS IX BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 



way the pine w.^.^d will preserve its bright 

 clean app?arance for a lona: time. If you 

 see any on the market thit have become "old 

 and diii^y. possibly fly specked, take them 

 home, or cut the honey out and sell it in 

 bulk, rather than have any poor looking 

 g.'>'>ds with your labels on them, before the 

 people. ' 



FRASIE VERSrS BOX HIVES. 



I hHve in all 4) swarms, one halt in the L. hive. I 

 h-id 2J last year, oalv-i of which were L. hives. I put 

 all mv incr?a»e in the JL. hives and got from every 

 oae of thBin 51 lb?, of haney all in slats; from the 

 remainder in oki l>ox hives I did nit a-et one lb. of 

 suplus hoaev. I am ^■.•>in? to t^ansfe^ them in the 

 sprin? as th?y are •"no a-j:)d" but to swarm. I put 

 my second swarms in with the first, ?.:> I have very 

 strong ^warrn? to winter. I winter in cellar and they 

 all com? out strong and bright in the sprinar. I cover 

 them with carpets a? I like them best, s.3 far. 



L. A. Foster. Sidaev Plains. X. T.. Dec. 16th. '77. 



summer but have never be?n able to cut S feet a 

 minute: no. nor i feet a minute, I think it a very 

 good machine for men weighina- 200 lbs. avoirdup:>is. 

 I welsh but about 140, but still I like it first rate. 



F. J. Fark. 



P. S.— Tell Mr, Salisbury to e">me d:>wn to Tndepen- 

 deac?. aad he miv se? an aoia^v that looks as well 

 as Hayhiirsts. I refer to L. W. B ildwins 300 hives 

 all in straight rows, n^t purest whit?, but several 

 (x^lors. F. J. F-VRR. 



Independence, Mo.. Dec. 17th, ISTT. 



Our bees have ea-ried in pollen every day since the 

 eth, of D?e. The weather has been very fine and 

 bees are in fine coadiiioa, all wintering on their 

 summer stands, none with even a honey board oa 

 the hive. I examined several and found brood in 

 two diflferent combs. Xo bees hive died in the hives 

 up to this time Dec. 14th. 1877. 



A. F. Moox, Rome, Ga. 



I c >mmenced the season of ' . 4 . with 7 srvarms in ! 

 box hives, which I transf ered to movable comb hive*, | 

 and inererased t,"> 19 good strong colonies. I extracted j 

 525 lbs. of hon?y. and italianized them all. Xow. j 

 would it not be better to change queens once in ; 

 awhile to prevent their b-ecoming t«x) closely related? j 

 WiU they "run out" the same as hogs or "sheep? I i 

 never l>?ked into a bee hive until la^t sprine. The j 

 season wa* verv noor. W. L. Dxxlels. ! 



Hubbardtoa. Mich., D«-. SOth. 1S77. 



Italianizing will be all the chansre needed 



I have 17 colonies all in chaff hives— guess they are 

 all O. K. Many people here laugh at the idea of go- 

 ing to so much exi>ense for the little "fellows," but 

 I like h'lney: besides that, my principal expense was 

 getting the first chaST hiv: from you. I made all the 

 rest myself, so they did not cost so much after all. 

 W. B. Shoemaker. 



NewviUe, Pa., Jan. 3d, 1878. 



1 am sorry you said that I said your things were 

 "humbugs;" I said it, true, but only used this word 

 as friend B?tsinger hal just used it. It sounded 

 harsh and mean? more than I do. or did. I have used 

 long hives five years, and like them. I have sold 

 colonies every year, bat never these hives; I like . 

 them for extracting htney, and for sections too. Ij 

 had b?tter success with sections, such as you use, i 

 this ye^r. in "Xew Idea" hi\^es than In any other. No ] 

 bnxKl nor pollen. A. J. Cook. , 



Lansing. Mich., Jan. 7th, ISTS. 



I b?^ pardon, friend C. for the liberty I j 

 took ; I know that things in print often ■ 

 s-^und differently from what they would if 

 we could hear and see the speaker. So many 

 have written strongly in favor of the chaff 

 hives, I wished to give the other side, with 

 equal faithfulness." 



, I am very glad to get your favorable re- 

 port from section boxes in long hives. Those 

 who have them on hand, can perhaps use 

 them rather than throw them away. Has 

 any one else, succeeded with them for comb 

 hohev ':• 



I am a new beginner in bee culture, having com- 

 menced 2 years ago. I started with three stands of 

 black bees, and have increased to 41 stands, three of 

 which are Italians: the rest are hybrids. Have them 

 packed in chaff on their summer stands. 



Charles Shatfeh. 



Potsdam, O.. Dec. 12th, 1S77. 



Last spring was so backward and rainy that bees 

 did n ithing until about the I'Jth of June. ' White clo- 

 ver was never bener than this season, but the bass- 

 wood, our main depend?ace. was an entire failure. 

 It blossomed all right but yielded no honey. I put 

 41 stands in my cellar last 'winter. They came out 

 aU right except some which were rather short of 

 honey, and 10 which were rather weak : one of the 

 latter swarmed out and left me with iO from which I 

 ha\-e taken 25» lbs. of honey; 110i3 box and 14O0 ex- 

 tracted, mostly white clover, the balance Spanish 

 needle. I have now 72 stands ready for winter. I 

 have used 10 or 12 lbs. of yellow fdn." mostly in boxes 

 and like it so well that t shall get me a 9 inch ma- 

 chine aad make fdn. to supolv mvself and neighbors. 

 The S >x of hmer that t:)ok'the premium at the H. C. 

 exposition was one that I had built from yeUow 

 fdn. the fuU size of the box. and I will say that I 

 never saw b ix hon°y that looked whiter or nicer. 

 Th r--- r;'- in this little t.own 470 stands of bees, owned 

 Mr. L. W. Baldwin, has 3u0. and took 

 ; -ney mostlv box this sea«<jn. from 10? in 

 >f- I. r». Meadows, has 2iO and took 

 a* •■;• .^•' " me number in the spring, as 



Mr. B. Tl. --enc? in the amount of hoaev 



taken wa- .id>w'snot moving hi? bees. 



and partly fr •rn n .t giving them the proper care. I 

 have a Barnes' foot power saw. and have had it all 



WABBLTNG SAWS, &C. 



I have bought a Barnes' saw and would like a little 

 instruction in regard to 3etting the saw wabbling. I 

 have sawed about 120 frames with it and like it very 

 well. You got a little ahea i of me on nailed frames: 



1 had just been trying to think of some way to mike 

 a dovetailed joint, and put a small brad in. I shall 

 use strips of tin to haa.2- the f r.imes on. This has 

 been the warmest and wettest Dec. I ever saw. Bee 

 folks who had put their t>ees in cellars and house? 

 had to get them out for a few day?. I kept mine in 

 tiU the temperature got up to 06^ before they made 

 any fuss, then I sec them out f)r a few day's. It is 

 some colder now, the thermometer has been standing 

 at 40' and 42- for the last week, in the cellar. I have 



2 rip saws, and for catting grooves in the ends of 

 frames. I put on both saws with a paper collar be- 

 tween, and it is just right. I made a pattern with a 

 tongue that w.iuld run through the grooves easily 

 and set it -3 inch from the saw, I run the grooves over 

 that and it e':>e~ tiptop. 



V. W. Keeset, Shirland, Ills., Jan. 4th, '75. 



Although it is a very simple mitter, in- 

 deed, to make a wabbling saw, it seems 

 many of our friends do not get the idea. It' 

 you lay two shingles together so that th? 

 thick end of one is against the thin end of 

 the other, and then cut a pair of washers 

 out of b^th. you will have something like 

 the cut here given. They are in re- 

 ality a couple of thin wooden 

 wheels, thick at one edge, and thin 

 at the other. Now if you slip them 

 on the saw mandrel, with the saw 

 between them on the line A B, and 

 then screw the whole up between the coUais. 

 your saw will of course wabble. The 

 amount of wabble, will depend on the 

 amount of wedge shape you give the wash- 

 ers. A very slight wabble will make a 

 broad saw cut. while a broader one. will an- 

 swer for the hand holes in the Simplicity 

 hives, or for grooving out the -oc. feeders. 

 For a broad wabble, an extra table top will 

 be needed, unless you have Barnes" improved 

 saw which has the halves of the table uAde 

 to be moved apart. 



