“novice’s” gleanings in bee culture. 
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top of your hive, and pack strips of wool- I! 
en around the sides to make it bee tight, 
put in your cells, and it. seems to us that 
any bee keeiier could rear “queens for a , 
dollar.” Those who rear the best and fin- 
est ones will of course get the most or- |j 
ders. There’s room for all who will aid 
us. Wo will insert their card free. 
Of course we may expect such attacks 
on "dollar” queens ns we have had on 
"dollar ’ hives, but "by our works shall 
we be known." To aid in the matter we 
will furnish filly-four cage nurseries for 
Langstroth hive, ready to put together, 
for fifty cents; this includes wire cloth, 
and the whole can be sent by mail for ten 
cents. 
IIEL'APITUI.ATIOS. 
Queen rearing may be reduced to the 
following simple operations, with the im- 
plements we have mentioned, supposing 
your hives are all divided and each part li 
has learned to protect itself from robbers, ' 
gather pollen, etc., etc. : 
Suppose your nursery stocked with 
cells, we will give the first queen hatched 
to the first queenless hive, and the next 
to the next, and so on. On examination 
next, day, if the queen is all right, the 
hive containing her may be omitted in 
our daily examinations until she is a 
week or ten days old. When found lay- 
ing she maybe shipped to fill orders or 
used as required. All queens missing in 
our daily examinations should have their 
hive supplied with a strip of eggs or very 
small larvae from our choicest queen 
mother, for if the queen is really in l!.< 
hive and has only been overlooked, tlii> : 
will do no harm, and if she is lost, cells of j| 
value will be started and thus we will 
keep our nursery supplied. We should 
never or seldom lisk introducing our 
young queen until we are assured they 
aie queenless by their having started 
queen cells. 
Thus we rear cells, and when these are ! 
sealed cut them out and give them a I 
a young queen ; after the young queen 
lays we rear cells again, and so on, pre- 
suming the queens will be better received 
after cell rearing and that better cells will 
he built after they have had a queen. 
With the queen index and a fifty-four 
cage nursery, the work of the apiarist is 
very simple and well defined ; providing 
lie is prompt, neat, careful and diligent. 
I’. S. — We need hardly state that cells 
should be reared only in colonies that can 
do it welt , and that their own brood 
should always be replaced by that from a 
carefully lusted queen. With our nur- 
sery all cells may be saved, no matter 
how closely they are built, for il wo wait * 
until the queens are fully formed they I 
jipen equally well, so far as we know, il 
kept warm, whether out of the cells or 
sealed up. 
Jn consequence of the very sudden and 
unexpected death of our Artist Photo's j 
J.Vive been delayed. 
HONEY COLUMN. 
~.f HAVE got off 1600 ths. box honey, 
s=s which 1 have sold for 25 ets. per 
pound. Extracted sold for 1 4c. I have 
also worked another small apiary for 
half of the honey (box honey), from 
which I have taken 1)00 lbs. I have also 
worked a 150 acre farm with the help of 
one man, and to tell the truth I am near- 
ly worked out. G. M. Doolittle, 
Borodino, N. Y. 
1 am having considerable of my honey 
sold in our town at 25c. Commission 10 
per cent. R. Wilkin, Cadiz, O. 
I shall extract all my honey next sea- 
son and hereafter, for I have no trouble in 
selling all 1 can produce at 20c. 
John A. Buchanan - , Winlersville, (). 
We have 1200 lbs. nice basswood honey 
for which we want 12Ie. per pound, and 
pay for kegs. Kegs hold 150 lbs. Have 
some in barrels. G. M. Dale, 
Border Plains, Iowa. 
1 began on a small scale, as you tell 
about, and try to learn as I go along. 1 
began this spring with three swarms; now 
I have ten, and Id lbs. of nice box honey, 
which I have sold at 10c. per lb. ; HO lbs. 
extracted honey sold at doc. How is 
that for a new beginner, and in the cen- 
ter of the city at that? 
II. A. Hoi.comu, New Bedford, Mass. 
Have taken 800 lbs. honey from eight 
swarms, and increased three new swarms. 
I have one barrel containing 500 lbs. 
which I wish to sell for 15c. per lb., bar- 
rel not to be returned. S. Rowei.l, 
Faribault, Minn. 
Fhiend Novice: — I have three thou- 
sand pounds of nice extracted honey, for 
which 1 want 11c. per pound, the barrels 
thrown in. I have HO swarms of bees in 
good condition. They are gathering 
honey very fast, and I have all that I can 
do to keep up with them. I have all 
Italian bees; am the only person in the 
county that uses the extractor that I am 
aware of; have been reasonably suctess- 
ful, and don’t think of giving it up; but 
can't get 500 pounds from one stand yet. 
Geo. Parratt, Winimac, Ind. 
E. C. Blakeslee of this place has 1000 
lbs. extra white clover honey. 
G. W. Dean, of River Styx, Medina Co., 
O , has about 1500 lbs., and we have 
about 1000 lbs. of our own remaining. 
In view of th“ scarcity of honey in this 
locality, and the extra quality of the Me- 
dina Co. clover honey, our prices will be 
for the present 18c. 
In regard to the honey market we give 
prices as follows : 
(For tho "(i leanings. ”J 
Aug. 21st, 1875. 
We have made arrangements for the 
sale of large quantities of honey. Ex- 
tracted honey is made a specialty. We 
do not handle honey on commission, but 
pay cash on delivery. 
