1874 
GLEANINGS IN BEE CTJLTCTItE. 
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S i HAVE 200 llis. of comb honey, also 1GOO lbs. of 
dark extracted, for which I ask '20c. per lb., all 
I through. All my honey so far sold— at retail— has 
brought me * not of 28 to :10c. per 11 k. 
James iikdixkn, 
Uowaglac, Mich. 
I have 400 or 500 lbs. of extracted and 250 lbs. of 
comb. I raised 1500 lbs of the latter and 800 of the 
former. Price for comb in frames 20c. per lb., for 
extracted from 10 to 12c. per lb., delivered hero. 
J. L. Davis, Holt, Mich. 
Since above was set up we learn Mr. D. lias 
sold all his extracted honey ; and all the honey 
in our neighborhood has been sold for 20c. per 
lb., by the barrel. 
REPORTS 
APIAKUM REPORT. 
of Stocks in the .spring 26, of which 3 
Ilf* were queenless. No. of stocks at date, 40. No. 
of lbs. of surplus honey stored this season— 
mostly in 5 lb. boxes, 1541. 
„ D. P. LANE. 
lvoshkonong, Wis., Nov. 1st, 1873. 
Had 3 hives last spring, increased to 8, and 60 lbs. of 
honey, llespectftilly, Yours, 
C. C. Millek, Chicago, Ills. 
Bees have not usually done very well around here, 
especially where comb honey was relied on, have 
seen but one box of comb honey in this town this 
year ; but by the use of the extractor and plenty of 
empty comb, 1 got from 8 swarms— some of them quite 
weak in the spring— three new swarms— natural— and 
10*26 lbs. ex tractecl honey, and have more honey not 
extracted, than they will need for winter. Have sold 
all my honey for 15c. per lb., wholesale. Honey is 
now scarce. 
I think you are hardly fair in proposing to publish 
“the names of your subscribers who have lost money 
an bee-keeping during the last five years they are 
aiot the class of bee-keepers that subscribe for GLEAN- 
INGS. S, HOWELL, 
Fairibaidt,JVIinn. 
I made an extractor from a suggestion in your paper. 
1 live in a dairy region, so I took one of my cans— we 
send our milk to the cheese factory— put In a cross 
piece far enough lVom the bottom to have the top of 
the frame come to the top of the can, put in some 
wooden pins on the under side of the cross-piece, to 
rest on the bottom of the can, put in my gearing made 
irom an old broken paring machine, and it worked 
very nicely. I could take out about 75 lbs., when I 
would have to empty, by pouring out of the top. I 
took out 600 lbs., and «)n con lideut that I should not 
have got 50 lbs. of box honey. 
Subscriber. 
All the stocks that we have now— over 40— are winter- 
ing In our cellar on their own stores, and appear In a 
jalr condition. Alter selling some in the spring we 
had 30 left. 1 should say we commenced with 50 hives. 
o have sold bees, honey and wax to the amount of 
*4‘2t).]3 and we can spare Sioo worth more, mostly 
comb honey ; tills Is nothing great, but will do, consid- 
ering the amount of farm work 1 have done, all of 
Which is respcctlhlly submitted, notwithstanding the 
Blasted Hopes.” j. JL. Davis & Co, 
ihe Co. means my daughter, who will act as “P. G.” 
I have 81 swarms of bees, and have made over 5ooo 
ms. ol honey the past season. I cannot well do with- 
unt the Gleanings, so here is your 75 cents. 1 have 
sold my honey for 15 and *25c. per lb., and doutfecl like 
Riving it up. 
George Parrott. 
YVinamne, Ind. 
FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS. 
*]jV7?OY'ICE, wliat do you mean by telling us to see our 
Jtl<l bees often In the winter? You do not mean for 
■ 1 us to ever hatui/c them when they are in winter 
quarters, do you 2 
D. A. Brockway, 
Mautcuo, Ilk 
Just this: That yon go in the house after 
dark once or twice a week, and examine them 
by raising a corner of the quilt, or if bottoms 
are movable, raise the hive gently and see how 
many dead bees have fallen down, etc. It will 
be very convenient to have a lamp and matches 
kept ready for use. 
Whenever your visits seem to arouse or dis- 
turb them, we shall say that you are careless, 
and we should not open the doors much during 
extremely warm, or cold weather. 
Mr. Quinhy’s plan of warming up the room 
by a stove, we fear, would make too much dis- 
turbance, unless great care be used. 
A neighbor of mine, and a Bee-Iveeper, was travel- 
ing ill the south part of our State last spring, and 
stopped at a farm-house to dine. He saw a large num- 
ber of bee-hives in the yard, and a greater part of 
them were the old-fasldoncd straw hives, lie en- 
quired of the farmer how his bees wintered, and was 
told that all the bees died In the Yankee hives, "but 
all mine Dutch hives made mit straw, not von die 
and every one of them was strong and vigorous. 
Now, Friend Novice, this report brought home by 
mv neighbor, set me to thinking whether something 
might not lie invented in the proper shape to hold our 
frames and liees, and answer the same purpose as the 
straw hive for out-door wintering, for all bee-keepers 
have not winter houses or cellars. 
J. Butler, 
Jackson, Mich. 
Thauks for the item. We are well aware of 
the advantages of straw hives for wintering, 
sec Quiuby’s Bee Keeping, page 73, but we 
really fear they would have little effect toward 
preventing the real Bee Disease. Can Mr. 
Quinby afford us any additional light on straw 
hives since his book was published? We have 
seen no mention of them-in his recent articles 
on wintering. Mr B. mentions an experiment 
he is making with doable walled hives made 
of pine lath, with the space filled with dry 
wheat chaff. Now our friends should bear in 
mind that the beneficial results from straw 
hives are as much dependent on the facility 
with which straw dries out as its property of 
absorbing moisture; and in order to dry out 
quickly it must not exceed say an inch and a 
half or two inches in thickness- Mr Muth of 
Cincinnati has just sent us a straw mat that 
is nicer, more tidy and compact than any thing 
we supposed could lie made, and which will 
we think lie excellent. It is stiff enough to 
make a whole simplicity hive In fact, and" were 
we not afraid exposure to summer weather 
would induce decay too soon we should seri- 
ously consider them for hives the year round. 
They would have one very valuable quality, viz: 
lightness, and when we ascertain the cost of 
the article we will considerstraw hives. Evcu 
for indoor wintering they would he quite desi- 
rable under circumstances as follows : 
Several quite cold days reduced the temper- 
ature in our I, ■) i ■ to about 32 degrees, a 
