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“ novice’s” gleanings in bee ctjltukk 
HONEY COLUMN. 
If any one thinks they would like one 
nt the revolving-can machines as well, 
we have only to ask them to try both. 
One such machine as we have described, 
will satisfy any neighborhood as to which 
form is most practical. 
P. S, Besides the coarse strainer over 
the “gate” or tube inside to keep bees 
from running through and crawling over 
things daubed with honey, we use a little 
sack of cheese cloth hung in the bung of 
the barrel and kept in place by a wire 
ring a little larger than the bung-hole. 
National Bee Journal for Dec. attempts 
to excuse “ the selfishness, grasping and 
monopoly ” of a certain individual by 
making, it appear that others are dis- 
satisfied bocause they can’t do the same 
Now we have an old-fashioned idea 
that our best people do not want a copper 
ot any one’s money unless they have 
rendered a fair equivalent. 
There may be some who envy the 
success of the few successful “ Patent 
right Sharpers,” but we trust their num- j 
her is daily growing less. 
Dear Novice Many thanks for your 
little pamphlet sent occasionally to my 
address. I trust I may profit from your 
sage wisdom and advice, especially lrom 
that in your last Journal, wherein you 
say that 50 lbs should be the average 
from every good hive in the worst season. 
Honied words to such a blunderer as 
your correspondent, who could not with 
all the “ Galloping and Novitiating” he 
was master of get his “ full-blooded Ital- 
ians” to gather nectar from flowers 
which secreted naught but fragrance 
wasted on the desert air of this arid, 
rainless district during the just very 
“ worst season ” it was my lot to ever 
encounter, and with all due deference to 
“ Novice, s” wisdom and vast practical 
experience in Ohio I must still be al- 
lowed to have the benefit of the doubt if 
even he with his hives and apple paring 
extractor, and “ Giantesses ” as queen’s 
regnant could have obtained such won- . 
drous results in barbarous (speaking 
apistieally) Canada. 
Your bee-hive at $1.00, is what I 
long felt might to bo the general price, 
and I cannot see why, with persons who 
are at all competent to manage bees, that 
it cannot bo made to answerevery purpose 
that the most expensive patent hive does 
or can. 
Trusting that you may keep on plan- 
ning and improving lor such ignora- 
muses as your correspondent, believe me 
mo to remain 
Yours very obligatory, 
P. II. GIBBS. 
The 31.00 hive is not ours, only the one 
wo advise. To Langstroth belongs the 
movable frame; Gallup, the sloping 
joints for cover; Bickford, the quilt; 
common-sense, entrance, etc.; and to 
Novice, if anything, the credit of severe 
criticisms on all useleis appendages. 
Every bee^ keeper should be able to make 
them for less than $1.00. We only furnish 
a sample and they are poor workmanship 
too, we notiTy you, but will give you the 
idea. 
Orchard, Mitchell Co., Iowa', 1 
December 21st, 1872. J 
Editor Gleanings in Bee Culture: 
You can tell the readers of your large 
journal that Gallup has 1,000 pounds nice 
extracted bass wood honey, all candied 
and securely put up in 150-pound casks 
at 15c. per pound, casks thrown in. 
Hurrah for Gallup again, “old hats 
and new!” His oiler is the lowest wo 
have yet received and we have always 
felt sure he could produce honey cheaply if 
any one could. We paid 18c. for a half bar- 
rel a few days ago, and sold it for ten per 
cent advance ; we didn't have the cask 
thrown in either. That is business-like, 
and if we can’t And customers for all 
“ Gallup,” “ Hosmer,” and the other vet- 
erans can produce at that rate, we shall 
consider our great big journal a failure in 
one direction any way. 
Dr. Hamlin says be has 3,000 extracted 
and 2,000 comb honey, b it don’t give 
the price. 
Tell us what you ask, brother bee- 
keepers, and we w r ill advertise all your 
honey for nothing. 
Our old “ American Bee Journal ” 
made its appearance January 14, but as 
it contains nothing but transactions of 
the American Bee-Keepers’ Society, we 
have no opportunity to form an opinion 
of what it will be under the management 
of W. F. Clark. We find a strange mis- 
take in a statement from Mrs. Tupper 
that should be cerrected at once, viz : 
that when honey is extracted from brood 
combs the brood is killed- W as there no 
one at the convention that could provent 
such an error from going out before the 
world? We cant’ help saying that the 
matter looks anything but flattering for 
tho convention of America. Large num- 
bers of bee-keepers make a regular prac- 
tice of extracting tho honey from all 
the combs, and their brood don’t 
die either. Mr. Kingmav have kept still 
because the use of the extractor don’t 
help tho sale of closed top frames, but 
how about the rest ? No one need waste 
breath in arguing the matter, for the ex- 
periment can be made at once. Revolve 
your brood as fast as you please and' 
mark tho comb and see if the brood dies. 
Unsealed brood, it is true, may lie 
thrown out if turned too fast, but this is 
never necessary. 
Several articles alluded to in this num- 
ber were crowded out, (problems too), by 
the extractor, and by the way we notice 
that Fig. 1st, gives the impression that 
more than one piece of tin is used for the 
case to hold the combs. Imagine the 
letters A. C. D. and F. clear up in the 
corners and the marks surrounding them 
a continuous line, except the dotted lines, 
and we think you can make no mistake. 
G. B. II. and E. of course, should meet, 
so that when soldered only a square hole 
is left in the center for the shalt. 
We hopo our friends will be patient it 
we do not find a place fer their favors at 
once. Send along the items. 
