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“ NOVICE'S " GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 
manufacture for individual use or apiary 
will be sent securely sealed by mail, post 
paid Cor $2.00.” 
“The recipe is coprighted and 'secured 
according to law. Parties receiving it 
are therefore cautioned not to self the 
same or in any way make it known to 
others. It is warranted as represented or 
the money will be refunded.” 
Now if we haven’t a. fondness for good 
things, we don't know who has, and this 
“ambrosial” — Well, we have sent a two 
dollar greenback, and really we can hard- 
ly wait until the mails shall bring us the 
“wonderful” paper, If it wasn’t for the 
taw and copyright we would give the 
whole to our readers in place of a $2 00 
chromo, etc. On second thought we will 
give the whole thing in our next number 
to all our subscribers and take the conse- 
quences ; and, furthermore, send us all 
the valuable receipts you can and we’ll 
send the money to Mr. H. Herman Flick, 
Lavansville, Pa., or to anyone else ; for 
“Gleanings” must contain all that is of j 
value about bees or honey, no matter J 
what it costs, nor how many suits at law. 
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HEADS OF (JBAIS FROM DIFFEK- 
EST FIELDS. 
til.— 1 never had but one Italian queen (or 
purported to be), and kept her three years. 
She was uncommonly prolific, but I never re- 
alized but one threo pound box from the colo- 
ny. .They raised a queen last fall to supply 
her placo, and although there nro quantities 
of bees thore is no honey but a little extract- 
ed, while I have throe black colonies that will 
average over a hundred apieco (only six colo- 
nies in all, one new one) mostly box honey, 
they are all running over with beos, some 
two stories, with boxes piled round sides and 
(op. 1 never have any trouble in getting it 
put in boxes if any is to be gathered. Side 
boxes are a humbug. No honey, in my expe- 
rience, will ever bo stored in them, unless a 
comb of brood is next the boxes, and then you 
will have brood in the boxes, especially if 
(here is drone comb in them. It is aluiostab- 
solutcly necessary to stick pieces of comb in 
boxes in any position. The most of it is 
stored in small boxes, about three pounds box 
and all, and brings gross weight, white clo- 
ver, golden rod, Ac., in new comb, right 
through, doc. wholesale. Evon in a long hive, 
with empty frames on sides or ends, with a 
powerful colony they will store it on top in 
preference. One hive with fifteen frames of 
brood and six empty ones on eaoh end put 
over fifty pounds on top of tile brood frames, 
and the ends are not moro Uian half full, I 
have no doubt but what ITould get larger 
quantities by extracting, but only take what 
is absolutely necessary, as last year 1 sold the 
most I extracted for 10c. Tho quality this 
• v ear is the finest I evor knew, and I retail it 
atzno, 200 lbs. would glut the market at any 
price, while comb honey can bo sold by the 
•on. E. C. Nnwel.l,, Brooksfiold, N. II. 
We believe we never saw a strong colo- 
ny ot Italians that iliil not store honey 
when olliers did, but we have reserved 
vome very prolific nearly black queens 
ontil this season that, did just that, i. e., 
clustered all over the hive in idleness 
while the Italians filled their combs, or at 
■least slowly added to their stores. These i 
black stocks required feeding to prevent 
starvation, and so we pinched the heads 
of two very prolific queens. There is so 
much diversity of opinion in regard to 
“side storing’ that we opine that the 
progeny of some queens incline to work 
out sideways more than others. (See 
“Can Our Bees be Improved?” in May 
No.) 
Wa think our friend, with many others, 
will find that ta fine qualtity of extract- 
ed honey begins to sell almost as readily 
as comb honey, and prices begin to come 
up very close. 
92.— I lost last winter 21 out of 3G stands of 
beos on account of extremely cold weather : 
temperature was for two weeks from 30 to to 
degrees below zero. I winter on summer 
stand. Have increased my stock from S to la 
by natural swarming. Have tried your plan 
of double story for extractor on one hive ; 
gave empty comb from hives I lost; extract- 
ed 23th of June 30 lbs. nioe honey from upper 
story with Gray and Winder’s extractor. I 
have not disturbed the lower part of the hive. 
From my other seven hives I have taken four 
boxes of box honey, about 45 lbs. in all, throe 
hives not yielding anything. If pasture 
should bo bettor in September, I may receive 
four boxes yet, which are partly filled now 
(about 40 tbs.) Next year, if wo are spared, 
I shall try the extractor, provided pasturage 
is favorable. My bees are all natives. Have 
tried to Italianize them, but lost them iu 
winter. C- A. IIigold, Arcadia. 111. 
If our friend would get the full benefit 
of the extractor, he should “go below,” 
too, and when begets the Italians, he, and 
not the bees, should manage the swarm- 
ing. 
No. 93,— My bees havo done very well. I 
have taken about 900 lbs. from my 25 stands. 
During the last of June my scale hive 
showed a gain of from 4 to 6 pounds daily ; 
this month has so far been rainy, cloudy ami 
cool, the gain has only been about 1 lb. daily. 
Mrs. Tuppers notion that it injures the brood 
to extract the honey from the brood combs is 
an unmitigated humbug. I havo extracted 
the honey from brood combs every season for 
five years and never injured any brood un- 
loss I turned too fast and threw it out. 
This year I am extracting the honey from ail 
frames more closely than ever as I find it for 
the mutual advantage of both beos and my 
pocket. W. J. Ronald, Fairview, Iowa. 
No. 91.— I havo made another hive, tho mate 
to yours only not so rough. I’ll say no moro 
now. Stephen Young, Mechanicaville, Iowa. 
Thank you, Mr. V., we hope you and 
all others will say just what they think of 
our wares. We have no doubt many of 
our readers can do better work Ilian we 
did, but we gave you the idea which was 
our greatest object. “P. G.” scolded so 
much about the “knotty hives” that we 
finally did purchase better lumber. 
No. 95.— Doar Novice;— I told you some 
time ago that I could not uso a thin knife, 
but, I havo found since that I did not know 
how to use it, as I can now uncap very nice- 
ly and without hot water. 
Ohas. E. Widener, Cumbeland, Maryland. 
We are quite glad to hear that others, 
as well as “P. G.,” are learning what 
skill can be acquired with a thin knife. 
If made very thin and used on nothing 
but wax they can be kept very sharp, as 
they should be. It seems to us that, hot 
water or any machinery would be much 
more trouble and after all not as rapid, 
