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GLEAXLS'GS LN* BEE CULTURE. 



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troubl? at all in the w.iy I h iv^ directed, in j 



f isteniau the fdn. so it' will never com? off. j 

 Eaimeled cloth would l>e pretty sur^^ to 



bulge or s iz in such a way as to sive your j 



cornb hone^ an uneven surf-ace. Tue beauty j 



of a tilled s-ecri ">n depends oa :b.e eveness i 



and smx^thiiess of the co:nb. \ 



GLHA^I.^IG3 m BEE CULTUaH. i 



I. -ROOT, 

 EDITOa AJTD nrBLISHES. 

 MEDINA. OHIO. 



#1.00 PER YEAR. POST-PAID. 



1, ISTS. 



TEHTIS; 



CUlun'o me. anl I ■^v-ill aas-^er th-?e, and shew ; 

 theegre^r aul mirttj" things, waicb tiija fcao west ! 

 not-^er. 3S: 3. : 



A'S oar circuHrl r; n "'^ ex>?-?'i5 SiJ), our price per t 

 line for sdverOsiris wiit oe s;c We n iw print, e loli j 

 m^ath. ->rO) C5piesr Al! eonrracts made for a <Dec> ; 

 S?d ttme will- of courfe. 1>? at the old rate, until ex- j 

 piration of the cintraet. 



E=iH A.TA- il>n page 1-iT for size of emery wheel for ' 

 p-imtnin? sas-?, read ^-i inches, instead of SV*. 

 The size is rather Lirser thin we use. on acor^unt of 

 the daas^r of breaking' s<? laree and thin a wheel. 

 Oars are S^ii-'-S- 



Oth f rie'>'i Nellis enmes out with a catalogue of 

 ±1 pig-es, and as it is almost a treatise on bee cul- 

 ru-e.~in some respects, it may be worth your while . 

 t"> seni for i:. even if yoa do not purchase. As i 

 hive-, sectioa boxes, etc., of ahn^st everv m^.-*k'=' are ; 

 d ered. tb=' tendency is rather to c infuse the be- 

 ginner, a- it migbt. m fact, even an old head, as to 

 what is best. 



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At present writing. April Sth. I hardly know 

 what is g-oing t"> become of us here, my friends, if 

 you keep sending' money as you have. Almost 

 every dep-irtment is running night and day. all the 

 «p«re rooms in the vicinitv are occupied with han'is. 

 and we are just now putting up a she>i oat of dc>ors, 

 to nail up and paint hives in. Forty-seven hands 

 are at work, and m ire -ire being added aim ist daily. 

 What shall I d-> with all this m ^nev and busine^s'- 

 Wait d > yiiu wish me to do with it? Of one thing I 

 am -luite =ure. and that is I should give you better 

 w ir\. We are itnpn^vinsr dailv, and we have al- 

 rendv selecte-i I* acres. ri?ht cl->se to our depot, 

 where a brick f ;ictory. l>X)iij fe^t, i~ to be ouilt just 

 a- s-x^n as our rush is over: and when wo get there, 

 with plentv of roo-o. 1 hive vis: ^ns r f beautiful 

 wirk. plane-i on all sides ave. and perhaps painted 

 too' and made to fit accu-Tate steel gauges so eiact- 

 Ir. that '=-ren a variation of a thickness of tissue 

 paper will be notic-ed. On this 1^ iiCT*»s. which has a 

 stream of water on it, and a grove of forest trees, 

 are to b^ oarg-irdens for experimental honey plants 

 and seeds: and when yoa com=' to pav me a visit. I 

 h^pe to b? able tt have s 'ine pleasant individual to 

 =h 'W you irrini. and to let vou see whether or no 

 I h;-ive been faithfuL with the few things God has. 

 throueh v.->u. given me. May be. when I get old 

 and ?-ev hei ted. if God spares me so long. I shall 

 not have mv brtiin nlwavs teeming- s^ busily with 

 new sciKmes and invention*. 



TCajfrPS P'JB BEES. 



O.x pa@^ -?2 of oar Be-:-. Xo„ I spoke of the «even 

 top turnip, th- ^-^.e-! :f ^hich was given me by A. 

 W. Kavti. ^ , - The tiiniips are n'lw a 



sea of V. - -, i I have never seen so 



manv b--- - ■ .itch of blossom's of anv 



kin '. as is - :r :.:. i^ i^.ea from davligfat till dark, 

 on ■•'h'^se turnips. They seem very hardy, and the 

 folia re !s mo-* luxuriant, mneh more so than either 

 the rap3 or Chinese mustard, which latter plant it 

 much resem'jles. onlv ha'vins' laraer blossoms. As 



our patch ■was so'wn after the first of Oct.. and the 

 crop could easily be cleared from our land by the 

 middle of June, a crv>p >-f honey could be secured 

 without interfering with the use of the land for 

 other purposes. Friend K. recommended the plant 

 particularly for jyiUen. but besides this. I am in- 

 clined to think it ■will give more honey to the acre 

 than anything that has heretofore come under my 

 notice. We have much trv^uble here, in raising rape 

 and mustard, with the small turnip beetle or flea, 

 but this turnip patch has never been touched; 

 whether it is on account of so^wing so late in the 

 fall or because the flea does not fancy it. I am una- 

 ble to sav; but this I do know, that if I cmld get a 

 10 acre "lot coverd with such bloom during the 

 month of August, I should not hesitate an instant 

 to hand over the money for the necessary expenses. 

 Of course I will save every particle of seed, and 

 friend Kaye will do all he can, and if that is not 

 enough to supply the demand, we ■will call on Land- 

 reth. who can probably furnish more seed of the 

 same kind of "seven top turnip." If we cannot 

 get the b;^ss»^ms in August, we can certainly have 

 an abundant supply between fruit bloom and cl-jver. 

 Who ■will tell us more about itl- Our own was sowed 

 in drills about a foot aoart. and Master Ernest. I 

 presume, sot tired, for I told him to sow all the seed, 

 and in order to get done, he put them less than an 

 inch apart, but for all that, it is now the prettiest 

 ■•posy bed." I believe. I ever saw in my life; and the 

 music of the bees, humming over and among^ the 

 branches is just "entrancing'," to one ■wtio has an 

 ear for such music. 



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THE S25.00 CHAFF HIVE. 



.^■J IXCE our List. I cannot begin to tell you how 

 ^1 many sketches, samples, and models have 

 '^^ teen sent, of a frame whose supp-irting arms 

 were hintred. or made to spring' out and back, or 

 some such device. The most promising thing of the 

 kind, whijh we aive bel' 'W. was sent some month? 

 ago, by fri-^nd Martin, of Hartford, X. T. The ob- 

 jection I should make to it will apply to all or neajv 

 ly all of them. This has the merit of extreme 

 cheapness and simplicity, and it is extremely ingen- 

 ious, if you ■will allow me to judge. 



XARTTS 



WIKE 



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SUPPORTTSG ARM FOB BEE HIVE 

 FKAJCES. 



The frame is made in the ordinary ■way. except 

 that the top bar is nut prolonged: " from rather 

 hea^vy ■wire, he then bends a fixture, like ABC: a 

 single hole i« now drilled or bradded tbr^ugh the 

 upper part of the end bar, and the part B is spr'ing- 

 to one side, and pushed through, as shown. Now 

 you ■will notice that all that holds the loop A from 

 slipping hack against the comer of the frame, is thn^ 

 projecting endof the ■wire C. an I that this tud 

 makes a kind of a torsion spring. The lo<'>p make* 

 a good secure rest for the frame, and at the s^me 

 time, it can easily be sprung track out of the wav. 

 whenever the frame is to pass the upi>er rabbet. 

 The attachment can be made by machinery, so as t.> 

 c-i^st but little, and it can be very quickly added t<> 

 any kind of a frame, by sa'wing off the projecting 

 en>is of the top bar. The objections land the same 

 will apply to almost all of the similir devie»-s that 

 have been sent in> are prop^'^lis, which in very strong 

 st<:"Cks, will soon cover the whole surface of the 

 wire, and rabbet too: killing bees, when the end of 

 the wire l'X>p fmches the hive or rabbet, for they 

 w:il almost always mar.age to get some where. 

 where th«^y ■will get pinched or bumped : and lastly 

 the jarrine that results from having any part of thf» 

 frame toi:ch cr scraoe any part of the hive. If we 

 ■wish to lift a frame so quietly that the queen does 

 not even stop laying, no portion of it should even 

 STazea-y part of the hive. This arrana-^ment un- 

 like the metal cimers. fidds nothing to th'"' strength 

 ""•f the frame, but for all th-it, it is most remarkably 

 insenious. and will, very likely pr<: ve very useful 

 with many of you. as it does wtth friend Mnrtin. or 

 "Scientific." as many of yon have learned to knew 

 htm through the journals. 



