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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



I have saifl nothing' about it before, becansc I 

 wishefl to g-i\e it a season's working test. This I 

 have now done, and am well pleased with it; also all 

 who have visited me have expressed favorable opin- 

 ions of it, and if bee men, an intention of getting' 

 mo to build them a sample to work from. 



D. C, U>'DEHH1LL. 



Seneca, 111., Nov. 11, 1878. 



jNIy friend, you have been working upon 

 the Very idea I have been "walking on." 

 You see, it is going to cost nie a great deal 

 to start my apiary of .500 or 1,000 hives for 

 queen rearing next spring, and in studying 

 upon out door hi\es and house apiaries (I 

 am now satisfied that the house apiary gives 

 more honey than any out door hives), I have 

 • thought seriously of something somewhere 

 between tlie two. The objection to a house 

 apiary for 6 or 12 hives is that we should 

 have to go to the expense of making it so 

 that one could get inside to work with thein, 

 and this is a serious objection, on seA'eral ac- 

 counts, besides the expense. It is true, we 

 could make a long hive, on the plan of friend 

 Pierce of Dayton. O., but I should fear that 

 queens would be lost from hives in one 

 straight row, and I have found it very incon- 

 venient working with hives, where you are 

 obliged to stand only in front of them. AVith 

 only four under one roof, it can be so ar- 

 ranged as to answer very well. The idea 

 can scarcely be called new, for our neighbor 

 Shaw, of Chatham, has used such hives for 

 the past half dozen years, only that he did 

 not use them as a chaff hive. If we have 

 the cover or roof all in one piece, it will re- 

 quire at least two men to take it off, and 

 this would be a great objection. It cannot 

 be hinged on one side, for it would be thus 

 greatly in the way. If the four covers came 

 off or were opened separately, it would make 

 complication and expense. Quadruide hives 

 have been started a great many times, but 

 30 far as I can learn, all have been dropped 

 sooner or later, and Mr. Hliaw's, if I am cor- 

 rect, now lie stacked up in his monument of 

 discarded inventions. 



Many tlianks for your kind offer, friend 

 U., bnt I think a pencil sketch of your Ten- 

 ement hive will do just as well, and will save 

 us both expense. We may be able to over- 

 come the objections. 



^adie4* §(>ll(n>hiienf. 



S' 



J'i5all bee-keepers, and the wives and daughters of 

 '— ^j those engaged in apiculture, I wish to suggest 

 that Gleanings receive the finishing touch; i. e., 

 have a portion set aside especially for the ladies; 

 in short, a household department, in which matters 

 dear to the feminine heart maj' be discussed ac- 

 cording to her own sweet will. I write this request, 

 believing that I express the wish of many. 



Ida F. Noyes. 

 Detroit, Mich., Oct. 26th, 1878. 



Now Ida. I will consent to anything in the 

 world to please the ladies, and to further bee 

 culture, out there is one thing I fear you 

 liave overlooked. You ladies bring Heads 

 of Grain, Botany and Entomology (think of 

 our friend MoUie, and the spider plant), the 

 Smilery, and I suppose some of you will ap- 

 ply, after awhile, for space in Blasted Hopes, 

 althoitgli I bplievf* nohfe have ddiio ao .-is yet. 



Mrs. Cotton has almost monopolized Hum- 

 bugs and Swindles, and you certainly would 

 not want her in your com]);uiy, and the con- 

 sequence would be that I siiould have to 

 have a double set of departnunits all througii, 

 one for the ladies and another for the gen- 

 tlemen. Ill our best schools, this matter has 

 been canvassed, and I believe the decision is 

 generally, that both parties are beilelitted by 

 being educated together. What shall 1 doV 

 Have a separate department for the ladies, 

 or shall I let them ramble at their own 

 "sweet will,'' through the Heads of Grain, 

 Botany, Smilery, Blasted Hopes, and 

 Growfery, tooV None Inue ventured into 

 the Growlery as yet. but I am exi)ecting 

 them every day, and I have been wondering 

 whether I had better dodge when you come, 

 or throw myself on your mercy, and hand 

 over all the money you liave ever sent me 

 rather than take the risk of incurring your 

 displeasure. Friend Ida, there is another 

 view of the case. We need all the help we 

 can get, from good, sober, sensible, Christ- 

 ian women, not only in bee culture, but ev- 

 erywhere else, to set good examples, to teach 

 us Christian charity for each other, to raise 

 the weak, encourage the fallen, to chide and 

 reprove us all when we need it, and to do the 

 work God has entrusted to you, and to you 

 alone. Ye Avives, mothers, sisters, and 

 daughters, can not the oft erring and stumb- 

 ling brother who edits this paper, have your 

 help, aye and your prayers, too? 



HOMK MADE, FOOT PO^VEK, BUZZ 



SAAVS, AND HOraE ITIADE HOR!!)Ii: 



POWERS. 



WN acccu'dance with several requests, I 

 J[ have been looking the matter up, in re- 

 '~^ gard to horse powers, and from quite a 

 number of different devices, I have selected 

 the one our engraver shows you below. As 

 nothing is said in the circular in regard to a 

 patent, anyone can make the machine, who 

 can do so cheaper than to buy one. The 

 wheel can be made much in the same way as 

 the one described last mouth, for a foot i)"ow- 

 er saw. We give the following from their 

 circular. 



THE ADAMS HOKSE POAVEH, 



Which the cut is designed to represent, is just the 

 power every farmer needs, who has feed to cut, 

 feed to grind, wood to saw, corn to shell, grain to 

 clean, water to pump, apples to grind for cider, or 

 anything in fact, where a 1, ~ or 3 horse po»er is de- 

 sirable. It is simple, durable and low-priced. It 

 can be set up, and used, on a barn-tloor 1'2 feet wide, 

 and a lad 15 years old, can set it up and get it to work, 

 alone, as qviick as he can harness a horse and hitch 

 it to a buggy, and when not in use, it can be as 

 quickly taken down, and set to one side, where it 

 will not occupy any useful room or space. It requires 

 no mechanical skill to run it. and farmers need not 

 fear their boy or hired man may injure a horse in 

 running this power. A farmer can cut feed, &c., &c., 

 on stormy days, in his barn, when he would not like 

 to work his horses out of doors. A boy can cut feed 

 enough in half a day, to last 20 head of stock all the 

 next week, and most farmers understand that it 

 pays to cut feed for stock; whether hay or corn 

 stalks, either will go one-third farther, and do the 

 stock more good than when fed without cutting, be- 

 sides, what is not eaten up by the stock is in good 

 condition for the manure heap, which is no small 

 item. The saving in feed alone will more than pay 

 for the power in one season, to say nothing of the 

 other uses to which the power may be applied. This 

 powcf is peculintl.V adapted to small shops, Avhen a 



