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“ NOVICE’S ” GLEANINGS IN EEE CULTURE. 
iny nitre that each colony had prolific 
queens last fall. ’I lie stock lost In June 
was this way: Their queen Tailed in 
April or May, and to keep them up one 
from another weak colony was given them 
that failed also. Hatching brood, of 
course, would have saved them, but it 
would have been too much like dividing 
stocks under the circumstances, so we 
gave them a queen cell and they held out 
until not more than a dozen Italians were 
left, and these few guarded their ain/i/e 
stores uf sealed syrup until none were 
left but' the sentinels who stood guard at 
their domicile until the last. May we 
not learn from them a lesson ol perse- 
verance? 
No. So.— Judging from present behavior, my 
b6es will only take advantage of basswood to 
raise more brood, begin more queen cells, 
and keep me continually anxious and contin- 
ually at work trying to circumvent them. Ii 
between “plenty of pollen” and plenty of 
brood there lie the relation of cause and effect, 
it is clear enough why they thus behave— lor 
all the season through (thus far) there has 
been a superabundance of pollen stored. 1 
I bad a comb in one frame that as to contents 
was literally nothing but pollen at one time. 
I wonder if they don’t make mistakes in this 
direction sometimes 1 I am sure my bees 
will never use all the pollen they store. 
Lucy A. Wilkin. Far wen, Mich. 
We hope our friend ere this meets her 
eye will have had ample proof that such 
a thing as too much brood is impossible, 
i. e. if there he honey to gather, and we 
have sometimes thought a powerful colo- 
ny of Italians would almost store honey 
when there was none. If a colony should 
contain an unusual number of bees after 
the season of surplus we should make 
t hern raise queens and divide them in the 
fall into two or even three stocks. We 
should prefer that each stock contained 
plenty of bees however. (See prepara- 
tions for winter in next number.) 
No. 86.— I went to Kentucky three weeks 
since and brought homo 8.7 hives of bees, I am 
now in a few duys going to risk shipping 100 
or more hives of bees to Gallup’s neighbor- 
hood for the fall pasturo. Will I loso the 
whole thing? The “G leaning’s system” is my 
hobby now, R. Wilkin, Cadiz, 0. 
May all manner of success attend friend 
W., although we have great fears that his 
project may end no better than ours did 
several years ago, viz: Wo carried a doz- 
en stocks and set them in a buckwheat 
Hold where they made the air resound with 
their busy hum, but while they came near 
starvation, their companions at home 
had gathered nearly enough for winter. 
No. sf.— I lost all of my boos last winter. 
Now I know of a swarm in an old box hive 
that I am going to get to-night and bring 
homo. Shull I transfer them this late? 1 
think it will do. but my wife tries to discour- 
age me. What says Novice? 
E. HUNTER. Manchester. Mich. 
J uly 3d, 1873. 
Transferring can he done at almost any 
season, hut a hot day in July and the hive 
lull of honey would be almost sure to re- 
sult in a general sticky muss. Don’t do 
it unless your wife agrees, and further 
more agrees to help. It is almost, wo- 
man’s work, and if you and she both can 
save all the comb containing brood, and 
get them into frames without breaking the 
heavy combs of honey and having it run 
all about we shall think you both quite 
skillful. Save out the heaviest combs of 
honey for yourself unless honey should 
fail when you will be obliged to feed it 
back. Please report your success. 
No. 88.— Your notion of making at least ten 
stands contribute to the making of ono new 
ono coincides exactly with my opinion. Hon- 
ey and swarms don’t go together. Ypu prac- 
tice on Bonaparte’s rule— of having an over- 
whelming foyer at the right time and place. 
Yours, Ac., J. B. TOWN LEY, 
Red Hill, Mo. 
Thank you Mr. T. for the illustration. 
Could we have had “an overwhelming 
force” June 1st. in all our hives, we 
should have had more than only one toil 
of honey from fifty-six colonics; however 
should there be no fall pasturage, we feel 
impatient, to see if we cannot do better 
through another winter. Twenty-five col 
onies with extra queens and plenty ol 
pollen we feel sure would have done far 
better than the fifty-six. 
No, 80. — Some time since 1 wrote you how 
I tliouiilit handles or recesses were cut in 
boards for the lingers, by the circular saw. 1 
have just seen the arrangement, which is a 
saw about six inches in diameter with a wab- 
bling motion : this is got. by slitting a. one 
inch pine wheel at. an angle and placed inside 
collars. R. 11. DIXON, Canadaigua, N. Y. 
Thanks, friend 1>. We have never made 
any such cuts in our hives, because wo 
have found them quite easy to handle by 
taking hold under the lower edge, (we nev - 
er carry the bottom boards with them.) 
It has been said they would Sting the fin- 
gers, hut such has not been our experi- 
ence. 
Photo, of our Apiary (8x10 size) is now 
ready to mail and will be sent on receipt 
of :40c. Or to any subscriber sending us 
one new name besides his own. Ol course 
same names cannot lie counted twice. 
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