‘NO VlCK’s" (JLKANINOS IN MEE ClJI/i'UKE. ill 
Tiikhr seems lo be quite an error pre- 
valent in regard lo tin; ' dollar’ hive, ft 
i- tbi' plan of making the rose to hold I hr 
Ironies, only, wherein it differs from 
other hives, and the .same idea will 
answer for a ease to hold frames for 
Ameriean hive, Gallup hive, Quinby 
hive or anv other hive so far as we know, 
and one story, or rather a ease suflieieiit 
to hold the number of (tombs repaired for j' 
the brood and for wintering, can be made ! 
for £1,00; no matter what size or forhi of / 
frame la; used, and two of I hem will he 
needed for surplus. If Ironies lie pre- 
ferred spread out horizontally make hine 
of double width (see dan. No., page .">,) 
and if the Quill by or Hn/.eu form be de- 
sired use hro stories of double width : 
these will oost three dollars instead of 
two, and can at any time be used for 
i rallies in-toad of boxes, and with III 
frames (common kind) at -!> cents each, 
the total expense of a mammoth hive 
equal to the wants of any colons, under 
any circumstances, i- only *1.00. lie- 
moving a part or all of the sides of a 
hive tc got out the frames, or using close 
fitting frames of any description, would 
make it perfectly imposible for ns to open 
and elose hives with anything like the 
rapidity we do at present. We do not 
kill our bees iii removing combs and sel- 
dom use smoke. The dollar hive is not 
our hive but can bo made easily at the 
price, by any liivo manufacturer. 
‘On, papa! Can t we make a grape- 
vine grow up each post, and then meet 
the next one Overhead, so we can walk un- 
der it ?” 
" Novice, with hammer ill one band and 
-aw in the other, staring in open-mouthed 
astonishment lirst at liis '‘precocious oil- 
spring, " and then at the grapevine trellis- 
es, replies ; 
‘Ves, my son, your idea is most excelent 
and opportune : for onr three-foot trclli-- 
e- will prove rather small lor a vigorous 
Concord without an amount of pinching 
hack that would he irksome. A piece of 
hoop timber can easily be nailed against 
the first trellis, the other end extending 
up in the air and down again to the po.-t 
of the next trellis, making an arch or how 
of such heighth as lo admit walking under 
it easily. 
The effect of these 'arches of foliage, 
and later, when they arc covered with 
gracefully drooping pendant- of 'pur- 
ple' ' 
"Tie ’em up with blue ribbons," inter- 
rupts "I*. at. which Novice break- 
down. 
1 J . S. — Novice, Jr., think- il lie is but 
ten years old, his plan should be patented, 
tut bis papa tells him he thinks pat- 
ent; "Supper is ready," announces 
Airs X , and Novice forgets both poetry 
and patents, at least for the preseut. 
HEADS or (.HAIV t'ROH UIFf'JbK- 
i:\ r fields. 
No. — Dr a a Novjck: — Do \ OU know 
why bees sometimes leave the hive during 
the winter, if there is a day warm enough 
for them to fly ? During this last week 
the -weather has been pretty warm and 
several stocks have left their hives and 
joined themselves to others. If they 
keep on at this rate I will only have one 
large stock next season. If the bees 
would only settle together, 1 could put 
i hem hack, but they separate among the 
hives and force themselves in to them. I 
cannot understand why they do this, for 
all have plenty of honey ; there is no sign 
of dysentery among them and they even 
leave brood in the combs. 
Oiias. E. Wiukner. Cumberland. 
Makc-h 8tli. 1S7M. 
The above is some tiling decidedly be- 
yond our com prehension, and we would 
enquire, if this happens with bees wintered 
on their summer -lands, as a general 
l lung. \\ o have noticed solitary instances 
ol the kind but never, we supposed, with 
strong, healthy colonies, ('aging all the 
queens would be considerable trouble and 
would even then only prevent losing them, 
for they at such times do not hesitate to 
desert their queens, and a contracted en- 
trance would be but little better, (live us 
all t lie facts we can have in the matter, 
and we will lind a remedy we think. Mr. 
\Y. adds further : 
1st. Do you allow your bees to -warm? 
-<1. How do you give meal to bees? I 
have tried everything but they will not 
have anything to do with it. ltd. Is 
maple sugar lit for bees to eat ? 4th. Do 
you use the same quantity of sugar to a 
gallon of water, when making feed to 
stimulate the bees in spring? Nth. In 
an apiary of your kind, don’t your young 
queens sometimes get "muddled?” 
1st, Never if we can help it : though 
sometimes they -warm without being "al- 
lowed;'’ we think the proper use of tin- 
extractor will rarely fail to lie a perfect 
preventive; we know of none other, 
lid. We used to coax them near it with 
honey, but of late years they "go for it ’ 
very soon of their own accord, lid. In 
the -pring and perhaps if eery pore for 
winter use also. I th. t or spring feeding 
we observe no rule and don’t think it mat- 
ter-. If too thick they can fetch water, 
and if the reverse evaporate it. .’iih. 
Never. 
No. ."Hi. — Where l live is rather a poor 
place lo keep bees after the middle of Ju- 
ly, and about t hirty miles north west from 
here it is tirst-rate after that date on the 
Monarda Punctata, which yields till frost 
plenty of honey, and the best kind, even 
better than basswood, There is nobody 
up there who lias used a machine that J 
know of. Only box honey, of which I 
bought a box for a treat to my friends, al- 
