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“novice’s” gleanings in bee culture. 
PROBLEMS. 
M O. 12. Can bees raise brood without 
pollen if all other requisites be sup- 
plied, viz: Honey or sugar syrup, sum- 
mer temperature, eggs, etc ? Our recent 
experiments seem to indicate they cannot; 
for instance, we placed several weak col- 
onies in our bee house during the late 
cold storms and warmed it with a stove to 
the proper temperature. Eggs were laid 
in abundance, but none of them were 
hatched into larvae until a warm day oc- 
curred, enablingthem to gather natural 
pollen, this was quickly gone and unseal- 
ed brood was found ; there came more 
bad weather and when the pollen was 
gone we had the same thing over again. 
Even strong colonies destitute of pollen, 
during the bad weather, had only eggs and 
sealed brood, although fresh eggs were 
found daily, none seemed to hatch until 
pollen was secured. 
No. 13. “Novice” has so far "gone wild” 
on pollen that he insists on our offering a 
reward of $5.00 to the bee keeper who will 
give us a substitute at an expense of not 
exceeding 6c. per lb., that bees will use 
from an empty comb during bad weather 
and thus cause brood to be reared when 
desired. He reasons that one pound of 
pollen would produce more brood than ten 
lbs. of honey or syrup fed daily in small 
quantities, and the latter is certainly la- 
borious compared with giving them a like 
quantity all at once. 
We have tried the unbolted meal that 
they work on freely when they can fly out, 
but have never been able to induce them 
to use anything of the kind in the hive; 
but “Novice says, a comb of old pollen 
even will insure a comb of unsealed lar- 
vae immediately, and so his “last hobby” 
is FORE SUGAR SYItOP FOB WINTER DIET, and 
then in March or April, or whenever brood 
is deemed desirable, combs filled with 
pollen are only to be inserted to secure 
brood rearing up to any limit short of the 
number of eggs the queen can furnish, 
and observation shows that very few in- 
deed of the eggs laid are allowed to hatch 
during the months mentioned. We do 
not think much brood rearing desirable 
before March, and cannot find it any pos- 
itive advantage to have much brood rear- 
ed very late in the fall. Who will get the 
$5.00 ? 
ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS. 
P ROBLEM 9. We have had two pie- 
ces of comb from Mr. McGaw, neither 
of which produced any larvae, owing to 
the frosty weather during the time they 
were on the way we suppose. Mr. McG. 
writes May 19th, thus: 
Your comb goes by way of Chicago, 
and it is several degrees colder there than 
here. In June, if you want a virgin 
queen, let me know and I will send you 
one, I mean free. I sell them at one dol- 
lar each,' and guarantee safe arrival. 
In answer to Problem No. 10, I use a 
hinge constructed as follows: Take four 
common screw picture rings with ij inch 
screw and about.’ inch ring; screw two 
into the upper edge of the hinge at proper 
distance apart, and two into lower edge 
of corner, so they will set close inside the 
lower rings and the rings opposite. Pass 
a round strait hard wood stick through 
the rings and you have a hinge that costs 
but a trifle and can be taken apart in a 
second. Will (his do until you find some- 
thing better? Yours, &c., 
Scientific. 
Thanks friend Scientific, your device is 
very cheap, (rings can be purchased for 
40c. per gross,) and we think will an- 
swer every purpose. We would suggest 
smaller rings and a galvanized wire put 
through with the ends bent enough to keep 
them in place. These would be less in 
the way and we think will prove all that 
could be desired. One-eighth inch rings 
would do, and we shall think it a favor if 
any one can find a sample of such in the 
market and lowest wholesale rates. 
Our bees will persist in rearing hosts of 
drones. It is true “Novice” slices their 
heads off; (“P. G.” refuses, as she says, 
"Tain’tiu her department,") but is it not 
a great waste to get up drones for decapi- 
tation? We can, with considerable trouble, 
get comb enough all worker for a few 
hives, but the best will have some drone 
comb intermixed. Can we not have arti- 
ficial Comb all worker? Will not some 
one put them in the market? 
ABVEItTISEJIBNTS. 
Advertisements will be received at 30 cents 
per lino each insertion, cash in advance; 
and we rciiuiro that every Advertiser satisfies 
us of his responsibility and intention to do 
all that ho agrees, and that his goods are 
really worth the price asked for them. 
P URE ITALIAN HELEN BEEN.— Solid 
for circular and price list. Address .1 . 
SIIAW & SON, Chatham Contor, or I. E. 
DANIELS, Medina Co., 0. 
H 
ONEY JARS.— One lb. per gross, $5.75; 
corks, 60 cts. Two lbs. per gross, $8.75; 
corks, 70 cts. One-quart Fruit Jars with Tin 
Caps, per gross, $9.50. Other styles furnished 
if desired. Address 
NUNN BROS., Oberlin. O. 
W ANTED.— 300 hives of bees to be used 
as nurses in roaring Italian Queens. 
Address, R. WILKIN, 
Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio. 
TTAMAN BEES.— Wo offer for sale about 
1 200 colonics of Italian Bees in the Ameri- 
can Movable-Comb Hive. Also Queens 
throughout the season, l’urity and safe ar- 
rival guaranteed. For further particulars, 
prices, &c., send for circular* 
BALDWIN BROS., 
2-9 Sandusky, N. Y. 
