Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-10

Storing of Surplus Honey.

BY MRS. ELLEN s. TUPPER, OF IOWA.
From the last of July, bees rear less
brood, and their instincts prompt them to
stare honey for their winter needs. The.
question is often asked, SHow shall IL make
my bees worksih boxes ?'' as if bees need
coaxipg to store honey. If boxes or supers
are put;on hives and the bees do. not take
possession of them. You may be sure that
their hiveis not full below, or honey is not
abundant, or else that they cannot readily
reach the boxes. .ss5f ss,s h s-.sf r.. 20
:: A strong Tcelony, when there is honey,
will eagerly take possession of any room
TO which they have free. access. Idleness
is not one Of their faults, and they need no
ceaxfng to gather honey all the day and
every day. Uncommon box hives and
gums, have seen a half-inch hole bored
and large box put on, and, wonder -ex-
pressed that they didsnot occupy it. When
by our RECOMMENDATION sixlor eight such
holes were made, or better still, piece cut
out-of- the hiHe-the bees at once COM
menced work on IT, Bygiyipgtree egress
to the boxes, bees even in common hives
well stored will work freely in boxes.
InrmOst 1orms of movable comb hives
good surplus accommodation is given
Boxes on all such, hives should be put on
early and changed as fast as they are filled,
1t is not best to wait when glass boxes are
used, until all the honey is sealed over in
the cells near the glass; the longer boxes
remain on, the darker will be the honey
Neither is it best to take off too many box
es atronee, it more than one are filled take
one off, and wait three or four days before
removing the Others. .ss-r.. i.,ls ~ 3
We have encouragement on all ourhives,
of whatever form, by which we can raise q
box when nearly full, and put an empty
one under it, with holes in top and bottom.
The bees in their eagerness to connect the
honey in the upper box with the main hive,
work very fast in the box below while
few are busted in sealing the honey above.
Before the upper box is ready to remove,
the under one is partially filled with comb.
We are convinced that much is lost by bee
keepers in not giving good colonies ample
room during the height of the honey har-
vest. -i7-Tl r 1el -acns
Fneold adage respecting sHarms of bees
in July, does not hold good anywhere that
buck wheat is raised. We haveseen swarms
in July, that not only filled their hives
well but stored a number of boxes of hon.
ey, and -swarnfs- I'm August often, and in
September sometimes, fill up well for win
ter. OF course, there IS an uncertainty
attending such swarins and as the hives
from Which they come will not store honey
as they would have done had their popula-
tom remained, the owner must decide
which is most valuable to him, the new
colony, If he can saue it, or the honey in the
boxes. If he prefers the honey, the swarm
can be given to some other weak colony,
OF EN969Fi tHIec Cali DC nulI0u.
The Italians are prone to throw off what
are OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES swarms." To avoid
thisi we know of no better way than to-
remove dtheirz queens about the time Of
bhekwheat blossoming. We never make
new colonies after July, preferring rather
10 take from very strong ones, brood and
store to siren gthen and build up all weak
colonies edrtH not waiting until all bee for
doe IL c,6nes agoio sb .sonf'sfrt iu s39oas OF
tits becoming very common to say that
buckwheat cannot be depended on as bee
pasturaSe. This is not our experienced.
Here it has never failad but once since we
have Kept bees, to bea great aid to them.
'Sown as late as the last of July, if it does
not, ripen it will be worth much more than
it costs, in the honey that even a few
swarms will gather from it, s5f2E-
This promises to be the best season for
bees since 1868. Since the first of JuRe
bees have had uninterrupted pasturage
here and very little bad weather. White
clover blossomed early, and the linden is
coming into bloom at least two weeks later
than usual, and will not fail, we judge, un-
til the early sown buckwheat blooms. Bee
keepers will, we hope, be repaid for the
disappointments of the two past Seasons.a
--Iotcd Homestead. .g-7sfr 3, 5,..... Pa =.
hPRUNISG EVERGREEN HEDGEs.-Of all
the different kinds of evergreen hedges
and screens, and we have never seen any
thing, equal to- those made of the Norway
Spruce, on the nursery grounds of Ell
wanger g. Barry, of Rochester, and T. C..
Maxwell & Bros, of Geneva, N. Y. Dur
ing,a recentvisit to the last named nur-
series, they informed us that they cut back
these hedges with knife, instead of shear
ing them, thus .imparting to them richer
and more natufaD appearances and avoid
ing the numerous short stumps which
would result from the use of the shears.
A little practice anfblan accurate eye, en-
ables the operator to do theowork with
rapidity.n This work is done early in sum-
mer, when the trees are growing, which
tends to check their yig0r. and give them o
more dwarfish and dge-like' habit Nor
WaV Spruce, unlike the rArbor yii@ and
Some other evergrse ems. will PROV well in
the shade, and hence the Interior of the
hedge is found densely covered with foli-
ape. instead Of the bare shoots so freQtent-
w seen in, the interior of other hedges.
The Hemlock possesses the same charac-
teris6fc. Bv cutting back with knife, the
foiia6e Of the interior is more perfectly
pTeserVed than by shearing Q smooth sur
iaee) Ike q wall, which makes the 'sufface
only extremely dense, and tends to exclude
light from the einteriors--R Rural Neto HoFkef9
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-lTHR centre Of the United states has been
fixed at Columbus, Nebraska, ninety-six
miles west of Omaha. WeU8TgrGicb-J-I