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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aprii. 



mv efforts, had uot the unlucky boots been 

 already going at a rate of speed that threat- 

 ened to demolish sidewalks, fences, shade 

 trees and everv thing else. Pretty soon I 

 caught sight of my wife whirling the cistern 

 pump like a buzz saw, and all tlie neighbors 

 caiTving water like mad. and then I went 

 slower, lor I knew that all was being done 

 that could be. I do not know where the new 

 babv was just then, but I think she must 

 have been helping to put out the tire some- 

 where. I grasped a wash basin and tried to 

 throw water on the roof just where the 

 flames were bursting forth through the shin- 

 gles, but I only threw water all over myself 

 and down into" those same boots, and "never 

 a bit," could I get on the fire, which seemed 

 only to bum the brighter for my frantic ef- 

 forts. 



The wind was blowing strong, right to- 

 wards the house apiary, and kind friends 

 and neighbors plead to be allowed to move 

 the bees. Although I felt for a few minutes 

 that mv whole 90 hives were hardly worth 

 oe eacli. I thought it best to keep the bees 

 undisturbed, for if they got out among the 

 crowd, nothing but the tire engine which 

 was alreadv near by. could do a thing for 

 them. At "the critical moment, the hook 

 and ladder bovs came on to the ground, and 

 with some little hand engines they threw the 

 jets of water just where it was needed, and 

 soon extinguished the fire, scarcely injuring 

 a hive or a thmg in the house. The fire had 

 originated fi-om a stovepipe, and biurned in- 

 to the sawdust over head, where it had slow- 

 ly smouldered nearly 24 hours before break- 

 ing out. The morning before, the stove had 

 been used for making bee-candy. 



Now about the hand engines, or fountain 

 pumps : vou may be sure, after my unhappy 

 efforts with the wash basin, I concluded to 

 have a fountain pump, or rather several of 

 them, and this brings me to the moral of the 

 ,storv. Had such an implement been in our 

 household, we could have subdued the tire 

 at once, without alarming the fire compa- 

 nies, or anybody else. 



dow. and the jet can be changed from a sin- 

 1 gle stream to a spray for watering plants. 

 I almost in an instant." The inventor has the 

 i rare good sense to have all the pieces at- 

 j tached to the implement, so that none can 

 I get lost. 



I Now the principal point, after all, is that 

 I the machine is the very best thing in the 

 world to make bees "come down,"* when 

 they are swarming. '\\'ith the spray diffu- 

 ser, we can wet their wings, so that they 

 must come down whether or no, and — just 

 listen to what some of oiu: friends say. 



As a remedr to prevent bees going to the woods we 

 hftve never founi anvthing- half as useful as the 

 Whitmau Fountaia Pump. Have a barrel of water 

 in your bee yard, and a couple of pails handy. Put 

 the spraying attachment on the pump, and as soon 

 as the bees are in the air, you can throw a heavy 

 fine spray among -hem, which will force them to 

 come down very quickly. 



If, by any means, you should be unfortunate in 

 dislodging the bees, or making them angry while hiv- 

 ing, and they should desire to leave, you can quickly 

 become master bv using the pump.— Bee Keeper'-^ 

 Maoazinc, Feb. 18TT. 



Last summer I used the Fountain Pump. I can 

 conscientiously say that to me it was worth, in one 

 season, more thanit C3St, for controlling swarms of 

 bees while in the air. J. H. Nellis. 



Canajoharie, X. Y., Jan. 29th, 1877. 



Mr. Nellis said while here, that he liked 

 them still better, after using them three 

 seasons. You can buy the m of him, the 

 Magazine folks, or of us, as you choose. 



DiRECTioxs.— Tie the hose round your 

 arm. letting the end drop in a pail of water 

 hanging on the same arm. and "go for" 

 your swarm. If you can get -v^ithin 2 or 3 

 rods of them, you have "got "em." 



Set^s and (ki^rhh 



A 



GXTS this season I experience trouble with 

 the two frame nuclei, while the three and four 

 ii=i f mmes work well. Therefore, if it is no troub- 

 le, please change the word two, by inserting thref 

 frame nucleus, &c., in my advertisement, as I have 



I just taken all my two framed ones apart and made 



, them into three "and four. Paul L. Viallon. 



I Bayou Goula, La., March 16th, '78. 



i [I have no doubt of it friend V., and I think the 

 reason is, that it makes too "thin" a cluster, for the 

 bees to keep vip the needed animal heat to advantage 

 on two combs. While 1 think of it, I would say to 

 our readers, that Mr. Viallon is one of our most 

 prompt and reliable Southern bee-keepei-s, and that 

 he fears we can not take all the dollar queens he can 

 raise. Let us show him that America is a "big coun- 

 try," and that it will take a "heap" to keep us aV 

 supplied.] 



FOUL BROOD. 



Mv loss from foul brood has been over 100 splendid 

 stocks; but 1 have learned to manage it so that I am 

 not troubled with it anv more. Sidxey Drake. 



Birmingham. Mich., March 18th, '78. 



Eightv-one colonics out of 90 are defunct. 1 am 

 onlv" waiting to see if the remaining 9 expire, and 

 then I will give vou a report for Gleanings. 



S. J. SA.WY-ER, Fort Atkinson, Wis., Mar.. 6th, '78. 



SHIPPING BEES. 



One of the Whitman fountain pumps is ] - 



now bv my side : the workmanship i it is all . /v s bees must go by express, we ^^ ant the 

 of brassl is beautiful, and the price— I can I JA, package as light as possible and with 

 furnish them to vou for SS..50-I consider! — - no projecting angles or corners to get 

 verv reasonable, indeed, for so prettv and | bumped and knocked ofl: m transit, ine 

 effective an implement. A child can throw , Simplicity hive, one storv. seems to be just 

 a stream of watn- up to a third stow win- 1 about the thing ; font is light, strong, cheap 



