“noviceV gleanings in bee culture. 75 
Since the cool weather they arc very : 
tardy indeed in beginning to lay, but ; 
should they not become fertilized this fall, ' 
we cun,, at least, give the matter of hatch- 
ing queens by artificial heat a good test 
and be ready to commence early next 
season. 
The combs are covered with a quilt, of 
course, to prevent too much escape of the 
heat, and it is essential that a stove be 
used with a pipe to cary off the products 
of combustion, for even a lamp burning 
continually would render the air impure. 
The expense of oil is from one to two 
cents per day and our bee house is kept 
comfortably warm by it even during 
frosty nights. We have no doubt but that 
the apparatus could be used for hatching 
eggs and may be brooding the chicks 
afterward, also for a miniature conserva- 
tory for plants, if a glass case lie put over 
it ; but we leave the subject for others ns 
our province is only bee culture. In ease 
of a weak colony suffering from dysen- 
tery, they could be quickly warmed up 
and fed wholesome food and then, combs, 
bees and all returned to their own hives. 
The expense of the whole need not ex- 
ceed four dollars, for any tall stove will 
answer; but we presume the expense of j 
oil necessary to give the required temper- 
ature, would depend very much on the 
room in which the whole is located ; our 
lice house retaining heat a long time 
when once warmed up. We have no 
trouble at all, as yet, in introducing 
queens just hatched, and as a proof that 
the bees do not recognize such as queens, 
we will mention that on giving brood to a 
colony when the queen (given them the 
day before) was called missing, they 
started cells and produced two large fine 
ones. On cutting these out on the tenth 
day to give them another queen just hatch- 
ed, a live queen, appearing at least a week 
old, was found endeavoring to destroy 
them, but was prevented by the bees. We 
explain this by supposing they had not 
noticed her being in the hive until the 
cells were sealed and then they prevented 
her destroying them. These two cells 
produced two fine queens which were 
found crawling about in our conservatory 
next morning. 
Should any one ridicule rearing queens 
by artificial heat, bid them ask experi- 
enced Florist or Market (hardeners if plants 
thus reared are notequal to those produc- 
ed in the open air. 
We should add that Mr. F. It. Shaw 
first gave us the idea of using a lamp but 
lie used warm air instead of water. 
Mu. 15. C. Bi.akesi.ee and Willis A. 
Phelps, of this place, add their names to 
t he list given last month of those offering 
queeus for #1. With the aid of the im- 
provement mentioned in this No., we 
hope to be able to furnish them at the 
same rates during the whole of next sea- 
son. j| 
OUR 1'AI.I, mi.EHJIA. 
(gflNGI? ’tis the fashion, we too have 
eSc been moving our bees “where thy 
flowers bloom,’’ and Novice was dispatch- 
ed yesterday with forty colonies and takes 
sixteen more to-day (Sept. 20) to a swamp 
twelve miles distant, where hundreds of 
acres of yellow “posies” are “wasting 
their sweets on the desert” or rnlho.r 
swampy “air.” 
Thirty-one colonies of two story Lungs- 
troth hives, with nuclei in the upper 
stories, were carried safely on a hay rack 
placed on a common lumber wagon. 
Strips were sawed just right to slip be- 
tween the frames at each end and wire 
cloth was then nailed over the portico. 
As the covers to the upper stories would 
not fit over the lower ones, we were 
obliged to cary the whole bulky apparatus 
even if the upper story was empty. 
Never before did the Simplicity hives 
show their advantage more plainly; 
for they only required wire cloth over 
the bottom and they were ready, no mat- 
ter how strong the colony, and as they 
could be packed close up, almost as many 
stocks could bo carried in a light spring 
wagon as on the aforesaid hay rack. The 
advantage of handling a light, plain, 
smooth box compared with the others 
(and yet their inside capacity is precisely 
the same) has decided us to offer our 
whole lot of two story. Langstroth hives, 
minus frames, for fifty cents each, if they 
don't sell for that, we propose breaking 
them up in the spring. 
The first thing to-day will be to hang a 
colony on the spring scales, and we will 
report progress before going to press. 
There has been a reason besides the. 
aforesaid (lowers, for this sudden migra- 
tion, and that is a neighboring cider mill. 
We were invited to call and see the “cider 
works” a few days ago and beheld per- 
haps more Italians in a body than we 
ever did before. They covered the 
pomace, had ranged themselves along the 
channels where the cider coursed, or 
generally coursed, and seemed all ready 
for the moment when the screws wen- 
turned ; and indeed so well had they fol- 
lowed the business that almost cver\ 
drop was sucked up as fast as expressed, 
and “nary” left for the “cider man. Wi- 
told our neighbor, who seemed very fair 
and friendly when he found that we were 
so disposed, that we would take the bees 
out of his way at once ; and as some of 
our subscribers tell us that, the “swamp” 
never fails to furnish fall honey, cannot 
we “kill two birds, etc.,” by moving our 
bees every fall- Had our neighbor not 
hesitated to tell us the true state of af- 
fairs sooner, wo should have bad them 
removed a month ago. Of course even 
drop ot cider and swamp honey will be 
removed by the middle of October, and 
we shall have to (rust to “tea-kettles” and 
“Novices skill,” to put our colonies all 
in winter trim so much later than we 
have recommended. 
