1878. 



GLEAXrS'GS IX BEE CULTURE. 



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Pertaining to I5ec Culture. 



[We respectfully solicit the aid of our friends in 

 conducting- this department, and would consider it a 

 favor to have them send us all circulars that have a 

 deceptive appearance. The greatest care will be at 

 all times maintained to prevent injustice being done 

 any one.] 



pT^ HE patent bee hive men seem to have 

 A,^ pretty much left the tield. if we except 

 — JSlitciiell. and letters of inquiry in re- 

 gaid to him and his business are much less 

 in uumljer than during former months. 

 Those wlio have read his advertisements in 

 regard to queen rearing on Keller's Island, 

 may be interested in the following. He has 

 advertised for several months that he was 

 aheady located there. 



Mr. Mitchell was here several weeks ago and saw 

 my bees, which he pronounced very line. I told 

 him thei-e were none on the island except mine and 

 two or three swarms in the woods, which had es- 

 <.-aped from me. Then he was anxious to secure a 

 place to bring his queens to be fertilized. A place 

 was got which pleased him very much. The next I 

 learned of him was that he was taking queens from 

 Sandusky to Jc>hn?Mn's Island in Sandusky Bay. 

 That island is about a half mile from the peninsula 

 on which, in many places are black bees in abun- 

 dance. I have been told that he is opposed to bring- 

 ing queens here, because theie are v, ild bees in the 

 woods. Chas. Carpester. 



Kelley's Island, O., July 2Cth, 1S7?. 



and pulley in the center. The mandrel is 

 about iO inches long. The result is quite 

 satisfactory: our sections now go together 

 so tight that they liave to be driven slightly, 

 and they are always just alike. The girls 

 were inthe habit "of driving them with a 

 light hammer, but our engineer, who is also 

 something of a genius, amused himself while 

 caring for the engine, by turning some very 

 pretty little mallets for the puii^ose. These 

 are much better because they do not mar 

 the pine, and their faces are "broad enough 

 to close the whole piece down at one blow. 

 Well, they were soon putting up sections 

 that were strong, and doing it rapidly, too. 

 Ijut I had just begun to observe that it took 

 too much time to lay down the mallet and 

 pick up the knife, when the following letter 

 came to hand: 



SUGGESTION. 



To bro. Lunderers "lap-board"" for putting tr- 

 gether sections (June Xo.. page 1..'. I suggest the 

 addition of a false bcttom. to play up and down l>c- 

 tween the two stops. Fasten one end with a hinge, 

 and let the ether project beyond the board, so as to 

 be easily grasped by the left hand, and thus raise 

 out the box without the pocket knife. This has the 

 advantage over the knife, in the foct of its being al- 

 ways ready and in place. K. G. Warxer. 



Columbus. O., June '26. IST?^. 



I at once sent our friend .?-5.C0 for his idea, 

 and now we have a board made thus : 



Friend Koot: I had a call from one of X. C. 

 ilitchell"s ^^c•tims. He wanted to know if Mitchell 

 was a swindler. He said he sent Mitchell §1-1.00 for 

 queens, and ^O.W for an extractor, and has never 

 heard from him since. I showed him several letters 

 about Mitchell in GLEAXtscs. He said he wou!d 

 ■write to you. J. E. Axberson. 



Washington, Ky., July 19, l.S7>. 



Would you be so kind as to let us know in Au- 

 jgust Xo. of the Gleanings, whether Mitchell of San- 

 dusky has a patent upon the division board. We 

 have received pamphlets from him. and he threatens 

 vengeance upon til who i:se ihcm. If he hes none 

 on the di\ision board, upon what has he a patent? 

 Please explain fully. Can we use the Simplicity 

 hive with division board with impunity? 



Many Bee-Keepers. 



Rogersville, Ohio, July 22nd, 1S7S. 



July Xo.. page 231. answere all your ques- 

 tions. Pay no attention whatever to his 

 foolish threats. 



I'EAKING SE'':'FION EOXE--. .VXB FITriXG 

 TKEJI TOGETHER. 



The board is the samt- as the one in June 

 X'o.. except that it has a block, C. as well a.-> 

 the two side ones, and these 3 blocks aierall 

 screwed do-wn so securely, that we drive 

 against C without any danger of driving it 

 oil". The box is put together as usual, ex- 

 cept that the mallet is used to drive against 

 C. as well as down toward ihe lap board. 

 When the box is done, a slight tap on ll;e 

 button, A. throws up the little square block. 

 B. in the centre, and the box Lops cut of its 

 place quicker than you corld say -scat'." of 

 coui"se. A is pi;rt of a strong lever on the 

 underside, pivoted somewhere between A 

 and D. To make it spring back in place, an 

 elastic tape is tacked across the underside 

 near A. We use a Simplicity cover for the 

 lap board, as vou "will see. To" work i"^pidly. 

 you should keep the little mallet in your 

 hand all the time. 



<ei OMEBODY said in the Growlery. or at 

 ^ least somebody ought to have said, that 

 - our sections were so loose they would 

 sometimes almost fall apart. Well, the mis- 

 chief, when himted up. seemed to be that 

 -the gang of grooving saws had a way of get- ^ 

 ting slightly loose in their bearings: andow- ; 

 ing to the great amount of work tliey had to 

 do. it seemed almost impossible to keep them 

 perfectly true and close. The mandrel they 

 were run on v."as one of Disston's make, 

 with tiie bearings in the middle, the saws 

 on one end. and the driving pulley on the 

 other. Well, to get over the tixvable. we 

 made a steel mandrel, with both the saws 

 and the driving pully between the bearings; 

 that is. the bearings were both at the ex- 

 treme enrls of the mamU'el. and the saws 



A^de^ and (luevie^. 



/p^J OOD moraing, bro. Boot : I will come in witfc- 



H~if out knocking: have been there so often of late 

 ^1 and have become so well ac-quaintf d. that it is 

 of r.o use to knock. I come with more subscribers. 

 I will tell ycu a little of my business. I have a port- 

 able sawmill and moved into this part of ihe cx)un- 

 try last winter, with two stands of bees in the Amer- 

 ic-an hive. I made myself 12 Langstroth or Simplic- 

 ity hives, titinsf erred my two stocks, rnd found two 

 more in the woods, which I served in the same way. 

 I have them all Italianized, and have nine good 

 stron? clonics. The neighlKirs. noticing my suc- 

 cess, have gone wild after bees; that is the reason 

 thatlcrnieto see yru so often. I have a job rf 

 transferring everv few davs. Jas. P.4k;hall. 



rnicn V:>Jlev. Mo.. Julv 9. It'S. 



