'• No'ViCbV QLtSANIftsiS lit ft EK OUM'lltti!. 
the portico, filling with honey as they went 
along right out into tl,c "cold world." 
After nil the old hives, boxes, aud hollow 
lot's wore Tilled, I drove down four stakes, 
nailed on n couple ol strips and hung on 
some frames ; then I put 3 or 4 swarms 
that wont together on the frames ; in the 
tall we had u barrel of hone}' and comb. 
About tho middle of September the bees 
quit business, but I expect theyaro getting 
ready to try the thing over again. The 
plant is called here cockle, and grew six 
feet high in some places and covering the 
entire swamp, tho bees worked on it all 
day. My bees bad about 7000 lbs. of 
honey in their hives and not more than 300 
in boxes. J. L. Davis, Delhi, Mich. 
P. S. We got considerable slung honey 
but kept no account of it. 
Wo don’t know how much Mr. Davis’ 
"hay and grain” were worth, but it strikes 
os we should have let it ‘‘slid,” “cause we 
hadn t time to ’tend it.” but we should 
have taken care ’of the honey and then 
bought the "hav and grain of some one 
that didn’t know nny better than to waste 
their time raising it. Two years ’ago we 
received over $1000 cash for our honey 
and a neighbor who had an equal number 
iif stocks and an extractor too, received 
less than §100. When asked why he had 
no more he replied his farm kept him so 
busy that he could not take care of hits 
bees ; and yet his whole product of the 
(arm for the year was worth less than half 
the value if the honey he allowed to waste, 
and such cases are common. 
No. 30. — How do you prevent a queen 
from laying too many drone eggt, and is 
there such a thing as" a good iumigator. 
1. .1. Kennedy, (nsl a I in Springs, Tenn. 
Put out all drone comb and fit it in a 
frame by itself for use in the upper story: j 
now to prevent more drone comb from 
lining built, fill the vacancy with worker ‘ 
comb and keep none but worker combs in 
tho brood apartment. Wo jja.e tried 
fit mi gators, tobacco, pans of sawdust, rolls 
ot rags, etc., etc., hut we find a chunk of 
hard, rotten wood and a coal of fire from 
tho kitchen stove more effectual and less 
trouble than anything else. Provide a 
sheet iron box in some convenient place, 
to keep it in: this will shelter it from 
rain, and it you arc careless in nett putting 
all the fire out no damage will be done. 
No. ol.— Please hang crape on the I 
knob ol your bee house door in respect to 
■ swarms of your correspondents bees 
which hnve/'gone up,” 'gin out" or “friz." 
Also toll your photographer to get ready 
to take a picture of the longest faced bee 
keeper, or rather bee looser iu Medina 
county, (them’s me). It is not strange 
that they died os the thermometer varied 
44° in 24 hours ; going as low ns 19° lie- 
low zero. O, for a bee house. 
Skth Lucas, Remson Corners, O. 
Hat triend L. bee houses don't always 
save them either, though we think them a 
very important item in tho business. Wo 
shall he very happy to include you, as we 
want “all sides to the picture” when wo 
have our apiary photographed next June. 
No. 32. — Dear Novice:— As you have 
about quit making blunders, I didn’t know 
but you might pay a premium on a few 
first class ones, so 1 send you one of 
mine, for I am quite ingenious in that 
direction. Last summer I had quite a 
number of empty combs and as I wa 3 
obliged to leave home the last of July for 
n long time, I thought I would leave them 
where the bees would protect them from 
the bee moth. So I put a second story 
on all my hives and filled up with empty 
combs. When I examined them in the 
fall those which were strong had stored 
some surplus, but those which were weak, 
some of them being the latest swarms 
made, had the second story a solid mass 
of cocoons and webs. Two or three 
hives full of empty comb, that had no 
protection, hut stood iu the sun with the 
entrance open to the moth, were not dis- 
turbed at all. Moral. — To destroy 
combs, protect them weakly by bees. In 
one of the above enses I placed a second 
story on a hive, with an inch board hav- 
ing a two inch anger hole through it be- 
tween the two stories. In the fall I found 
the lower story filled with honey and the 
brood nest and bees in the upper; whieff 
hardly goes to show that the queen pre-* 
lers to keep the brood below in all cases. 
C. Mii.j.er, Marengo, 111. 
We are really afraid friend M. wasted 
his time worse than Mr. Davis did in tak- 
ing care of his hay and grain. 
No. 33.— \\ e are all very much pleased 
with your "Gleanings,” and feel that ther 
are to "turn over a new leal” in bee cul- 
ture: by which the business will be sim- 
plified, popularized and made interesting, 
fashionable and profitable: besides being 
much sweeter than ever. I hope you 
mav lie able to interest the ladies general- 
ly iu the pursuit: in order to call them 
more out of doors, and make them more 
interesting and healthy. It would do 
very much in the way of abolishing Iona 
doctor bills. J. II. Salisbury", M. D., 
Cleveland. O. 
As the above comes from one of the 
first physicians ot the present age, we 
feel considerably encouraged thereby, 
Resides being able to contribute to tbo work 
ot opening up a new branch of industry, 
the fact that we can nlso aid in elevating 
the standard health of our American 
