1874 
GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 
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Questions not too lengthy, may bo answered through 
tills department oven If not received until within two 
days, Of the first of the month ; and In two days more, 
nothing preventing, you may have your paper contain- 
ing the reply. Ilom* frlenciB would ubo u Bemirnte 
piece oi paper for this, ami in fact for each of the de- 
partments. and write on one side only t’would he quite 
a favor, hut If It's too much trouble, don't do It, for we 
want to hear tVom you any way. 
J -A.JSTTT-A.Tl'V’ J39TDH:, 1878. 
It’s Just 11 o'clock & wo’ve a llue wind for the “Print” 
Where’s Adair’s Annals for December? 
Mrs. Tamm's Journal reached us Jan. 23rd, and 
as usual, contains much of value. 
J. L. Wolfomlen, Adams, Wls. writ™ : “Tell that 
man he can take the propolis off Ills quilts by pound- 
lug and nibbing them briskly In the open air on a 
cold day, I can clonn one, so that It is just ubout as 
good as new In ten minutes.” 
King s Magazine for Feb. made Its appearance on 
the 27th. Wonder If thoy dou’t get up lioforo day- 
light? We are Informed they have engaged the ser- 
vices of Mr. Qulnby for this year, who will doubt- 
less add much to the value of tholr Journal. 
“Why don’t ‘Novice’ attach a ‘Governor’ to his 
‘windmill’ power for his ‘Print’ and make her run 
kind of sober and steady ? It can ho done surely,” 
writes a pleasant Mend from Pa. As to whether 
“she” lias become any more “steady” in her habits 
our Mend can Judge by the appcnrancc of the pres- 
ent No. 
Fee World for Jan. made Its appearance on the 
27th, It numbers among Its contributors somo of our 
best Apiarists, and as Mr. Moon promises to make It 
the exponent of our Southern Bee-keepers, wo would 
kindly suggest to him tlio propriety of being more 
carotid of punctuation, spelling and “dictionary;” 
they nmy feel Unit they are not thlrly represented 
before, or In, the World. Monthly, 82 . 00 , Itomo, Ga. 
Mr. Moon's attempts at Journalism have 
heretofore been so short lived, Unit wo must for tho 
present decline adding tho World to our list of Boo 
Culture Periodicals. 
A. li.j. for Jan. made Its appearance on tho 10th, 
la a bcnutlflil new dress and with a clear blight ty- 
pography that we novices in the “art preservative,” 
could only resolve to try to equal. 
Although most of tho matter Is as usual, valuable, 
we cannot help remonstrating against the publication 
of such articles as the foreign one entitled “Italian 
Bees,— Tholr Worthlessness,” 
Where one man stubbornly sots himself up In oppo- 
sition to the testimony of hundreds, we might almost 
«ny thousands, wo have found It generally the case, 
that lie Joes so with a view of gaining popularity 
thereby, or attracting attention by his eccentricity. 
They only do mischief by lending astray beginners 
«ml outsiders, for those of any practical experience 
with the Italians regard such nn article, as thoy 
would one recommending us to discard horses and 
use ox teams Instead. Both sides to a question Is all 
' erj well, hut ’twould ho folly now to go over ground 
80 well established years ago. 
We know of hut one man now on this side of tho 
Atlantic Who would be likely to take that side of tho 
su tjec.t, and he has too much good sense to persist In 
It long if ho he let alone. 
It there Is a probability of agreeing on a standard 
frame, can we not have also a standard hive ? 
Wo have just tilled an order for ono as follows; 
From a board Mg Inches wide, cut pieces 45 Inch- 
es long, two for each hlvo; straiten one edge of each 
and then cut them square lu two so as to make a 
side and end from oaoli respectively 15 3-8, and 30 in- 
ches. Rabbet the ends of sldo pieces 3-8 by and 
then cut off on a I level from both sides and ends, 
strips 1J,' wide, those are to go around tho cover. 
Also bevel tho lowor odgos of tho body plooes at tho 
same time they are trimmed to nn equal width, and 
then rabbet the upper edge of all sldo pieces 1 by 3-8 
for a place to hold tho frames, and tho body Is ready 
to nail. For a cover, cut from a board IB 3-8 Inches 
wide, pieces just length of side-pieces viz: 30 Inches; 
rabbet H by 3-8 clear around and nail In aforemen- 
tioned strips. See “Hives, to make,” Vol. I. for more 
explicit directions. Hinge tho cover as you like, and 
make n bottom-hoard in tho same way or nail on a 
permanent ono, for ns this hive holds 20 Adair frames 
It will probably nover he used two-story. Tho prin- 
cipal objection to It Is, being obliged to carry the 
whole Into winter quarters; but If only Just as much 
honey can be secured with It, wo don’t see but wo 
had heat make broader shelves and got some one to 
help “lug ’em lu,” for thoy will be so much handler 
tor extracting, and our surplus comb cun always he 
kept right at hand. What do our people say to try- 
ing to see how near we can all agree on a standard 
III vk and FRAME. As Gallup has given us his opin- 
ion on a name, will he he so kind as to Buy as 
much fora hlvo for It? 
Directions for making Buzz-saws to bo run by 
foot power, with diagram of top of tabic will be giv- 
en next month. 
!#! .001 Qu <>110, 
W%,!D your queens hatched by artlflcal heat become 
HI 111) fertilized ? If so aud ll-om mothers of undoubted 
purity 1 should think thoy would he very desi- 
rable, as of courso there was much less probability of 
their meeting bluck drones than those hatched uutu- 
rally. In one of your recont articles you speak of a 
dfty lour cage queen nursery. Are they ot different 
sizes ? the only ono I remember seeing advertised Is 
Mr. Davis’s lor85.00. How early do you think queens 
could he safely sent from your apiary ? Our heos here 
commence swarming ho early that It would ho almost 
Impossible to get them here by that time. 
Anna Saunders, 
Woodvllle, Miss. Doc. 12th, 1873. 
All Queens (except sonic lost of course) 
hutched by artificial heat became fertilized ex- 
cept three or four that were hutched too late 
to enable them to fly out. By keeping Italian 
drones lu qucenless stocks, or by causing them 
to lie reared late by excessive feeding, we can 
most assuredly secure greater probabilities of 
having them purely fertilized. We may re- 
mark here that ’tis quite a difficult matter to 
induce drone rearing out of season ; we have 
only succeeded once in so doing and that was 
in Oct. 1872, when we gave one colony a whole 
barrel of syrup at ouce, arranged on the plan 
of tlie “tea-kettle feeder,” giving the combs to 
other colonies ns fast ns they were tilled and 
sealed. A host of drones were reared and their 
queen which was an old one, was superseded ; 
the young oue becoming fertilized and proving 
herself one of our best this season. 
In regard to nurseries,: We used oue of Jewel 
Davis’s patented ones, side by side with one of 
our own make the past season, the latter pro- 
ving much the lightest, and most economical 
