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gleani:ngs in bee culture. 



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top of the frame instead of wkerc- I g-ot lipr; the 

 5tirst l>ec that ^ot to her stiuifr her. I know I didnot 

 hurt her while I bail her in my hand. The det\d 

 tliieen toad .iiist commenced hiyiiig'. 



From one of your iarval qvieens, I took this morn- 

 sng-, 48 1 {h. seetion boxes well tilled. I hajd pre- 

 viously taken 2-t from the same, and presume tbere 

 sire 10 in the lower story; 88 boxes full from a young 

 ■queen in chaff hiye will do. 



I >ret 16«.T cts per lb. for bo.\ Jiouoy. I am glad it is 

 I'heap; more can use it f reeiy. I would like to see 

 it 10 cts., and think 1 could make it pay at that, 



Pewee Valley. Ky., July 11th, 1878. A. W. Kaye. 



I would not tuke a quven in my hands to 

 "Clip her whigs ; too many cases jtist like tlw 

 one yon have given have been reporte<il. I 

 shall" have to explain that the term, 'iarval 

 <Hieen,' used by our friend, means a- (lueen 

 aaised fnnn larvae veceived by mail. 



I, tv)o, rejoice to see honey so chea]), al- 

 tliough I must confess to a momentary feel- 

 ing of regret, when I found that the receipts 

 •of otir a])iary were going to be so much less 

 than we iiad expected. We rejoice when we 

 learn that thing's we have to buy are lower ; 

 ■why not, when things that others have to 

 Iniy are lower? 



I hived a swaiin on Monday, the 24th of June, and 

 <on the second SatuMay after, opened it and found 

 all the frames capped over, and seetion boxes partly 

 billed; it may not he sti-ange to you, but looks like 

 hii.sincss to me, lioin^ a novi-ce in liec culture. A 

 number of bee men examined the hive and appui^ 

 tenances, it being the first artificial eomb ever seen 

 here. Mrs. Oeo. F. Cailey. 



West Liberty, 0-, Juiv 9th, 1878. 



1 am a rather new scholar in the bee busin'es;s, 

 although I had a few bees yeai-s afro, i wish to 

 learn what I can in the business, etc. Now, if I 

 come to see you, to Jnol; at iimi and .your manner of 

 doing business, is the ^'Intch !<tri)i(i in. ar (lutf It 

 tvill cost me something to come, and 1 want to know 

 af you ''entertain strangers;" uat that 1 want i/im. to 

 Ijoard and lodge me, but can or will j-ou show me 

 what you have and make in the her hu^finrxH. 



Springville, N. Y., July eth, 1878. P. Cr. Eaton. 



To be sure the ''latch string" is always 

 out ; and you are iierfectly welcome to go 

 any where, examine every thing, and ask 

 all the questions you like. I cannot always 

 ■wait on you imlividually,, and I may, "at 

 times, find it necessary "to refer you to the 

 ABC book or to the hands ; but, if you 

 will excuse me for keeping right on with'my 

 ^vork when it is pressing, you are most 

 lieartily welcome, at all times and sea.son,s. 



VIEWS OF apiaries, 



1 send you a stereoscopic view of my apiavy, taken 

 'in flrviit l)!ossom time. You will notice my hives 

 vary in outside appearance, but the frames are all 

 interchangeable. On the left is the bee house; at 

 the right, just discernable, is my dwelling. I would 

 fikc to cxeiiange with other bee keepers. 



H. K. Boardman. 



East Townsend, O., July 16th, 1878. 



Thanks. Many very pretty views are .sent 

 us, and I would be very glad to have them 

 engraved, but, to tell the truth, but few of 

 them display tiie order and system that I 

 feel we nught to aspire to. In nearly all 

 your apiaries, my friends, your liives are of 

 rail sorts and sizes, and placed in ail sorts of 

 positions. Some are close togetJier, and 

 some are far apart ; some new, and some 

 old; some painted, and some not painted. 

 A great many of you will persist in arrang- 

 ing them in long rows; this is neither well 

 for the bees, iior pretty to the siglit. I do 

 not expect you will all have theiii arranged 



hexagonally, but you can choose other regu- 

 lar and ])retty forms. I am sure some ol' 

 you cab devis'e some neat and tasty forms, 

 especially for small apiaries ; soiuething 

 like the one given last month. Send them 

 in. and I will take pleasure in having them 

 engraved. 



Mraars. Thurhcr d- Co.— I have several of A. I, 

 Root's hives; out of one I took, this m >rninar, fifty' 

 1 lb. section boxes well filled. 



W. H. H(>Pi>>)CK. 



Summer\-ille, N. J., July 4th, 1S78. 



clover; why bees will not, at TI.MES, WOKIv 

 ON IT. 



We have an abundance of white clover, and I have 

 traveled over acres of it, but have not seen a single 

 bee on it. At what time do bees get honey from 

 clover, if they do not get it when in bloom? 



Empire, Wis., .July 8th, 1878. .Ta.mes Laffertv. 



Honey is gathered from white clover with 

 comparative slowness, and at the time when 

 you wrote, they were probably at work on 

 basswood ; or they may have been at work in 

 some other locality, on clover that furnislied 

 more honey. They will often jniss right 

 over a tield white with bloom, for some one 

 more distant, tliat, we jyrc^umr, furnishes 

 iiiore honev. 



RESERVE QUEENS, 



Please tell me how you manage to raise and keep 

 , queens, so a person can have them on hand when he 

 wants them. Would it not do to divide bees yet 

 this summer, if a person had tiueensV 



Maxvill, O., July 11th, 1878. B. N. Kudesill. 



Raise queens as advised in the A 15 (\ 

 under artificial swarming, and keep thein in 

 the nuclei. You can keep them in a one 

 comb nucleus, but they are so apt to swarm 

 out, or get robbed, that I should hardly ad- 

 vise less than 2 frames, and 3 are safer if 

 you wisli to keep the queens until very late 

 in the fall. You can keep (jueens safely a 

 couple of weeks, in our caiuiy queen cages. 

 Put in 15 or 20 bees, and see that they iiave 

 plenty of candy, made of honey and ' sugar. 

 The cages mus"t be kept in a warm place, or 

 they will die in a very few days. If put 

 over a strong colony of bees, they may be 

 kept a couple of montlis in the summer 

 season. With reserve (lueens on hand, you 

 can divide a colony at any time, in winter 

 or summer, providing oiily that there are 

 bees enough for two colonies ; if they lack 

 stores, of course you must feed. 



I would like to learn through Gleaninos, if bees 

 can be made to work or not. I have got 7 stands 

 that r kept over winter, and they don't appear to 

 want to do much. Whether it is tliey ha\e nothing 

 to do or whether the.v are too lazy, I don't know. I 

 have got the Langstroth hive, with honey board on 

 top f)f frames, from Vt inch to 1 inch thick. Is that 

 too heavy to put honey bo.xes on'/ 



S. M. Peachey. 



Allcnsville, Pa., July 8th, 1878. 



I have never seen any bees that I could 

 not make "work." If they have not got a 

 good laying (|ueen, give them one, then give 

 them room in the hive, and get them to 

 comb building.' You certainly have not 

 been so careless as to allow them to get 

 their hive so full that they can not workV 

 Honey lioards are now pretty generally dis- 

 carded, because they prevent the sections 

 f)'(nn coming close to the bees where we 

 want them. A lot of liives recentlv came 



