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GLEAKINGS IK BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 



machine, you can make light packing? boxes 

 with this machine with wonderful facility. 

 Tne one figured above cuts a length of 22 

 inches, and we have obtained a special rate 

 from the makers, so we can furnish them to 

 bee-keepers for an even §1U.00. 



ClEAMfflO S m BEE OUlTtlRE* 



EBITOK AND FUELISHEH, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.C0 PEK YEAK, POST-I»AI». 



FOR CLUBBTNG RATES, SEE FIRST PAGE 

 OF READING MATTER. 



3VEE333I2M"--a., ^^SSIO. 1, XOOS. 



And the Lord shall grnide thee continually, and sat- 

 isfy thy soul.— Isaiah 58: 11. 



We have recently sent friend Abbott, of the Brit- 

 ish Bee Journal, sixty thousand one-piece sections. 



Ox page 37, January number, last line of friend 

 Morris' letter, read "nuisance" instead of "new 

 ones." 



Will friend D. A. McCord ask Mr. Langstroth his 

 experience in regard to pollen being necessary for 

 brood-rearing? 



We don't want lona articles from anybody. Bear 

 in mind, there aic a great many we want to hear 

 something from every month. 



The time of holding the meeting of the Bee-keep- 

 ers' Convention at Jamestown, Pa., has been post- 

 poned one week, and will take place Feb. 8 and 9. 



Reports from working bees are always in order; 

 but, dear friends, I do not believe it is profitable to 

 have so much theory as we have been having lately. 



Friend Abbott has just us another large order, 

 and in it is one item of 100 of our 50-ccnt cold-blast 

 smokers, which seems to imply they find favor 

 across the water. 



It has been said that those who constantly dwell 

 on the faults of others, are invariably smarting un- 

 der guilty consciences. One who is trying to do right 

 is generally pretty busy at home. 



If there are any better oranges in the world than 

 the Rusty Floridas that friend Froscher, of Pilatka, 

 Fla., is supplying our lunch room with, it has never 

 been our fortune to find them. Wc have just opened 

 two barrels of luscious ones. 



We have about two dozen of the old-style Water- 

 bury watches on hand, that we will sell for 50 cents 

 less than the new solid nickel ones. They are regu- 

 lated by carrying, like the rest, but the cases are 

 only nickel plated. Who will take them? 



The Apiary Register, from the A. B. J. office, is 

 very neatly gottenup, and strongly boundin leather; 

 but I fear our friends will think fl.50 pretty high for 

 a small book with the "reading" all the same on 

 each paare, and the pages unnumbered. 



We have just added quite a quantity of new type 

 to our job-work department in printing, and our 

 friend "M." is anxious that I should let you know 

 about it. Labels, circulars, price lists, etc., printed 

 on short notice. Estimates furnished on application. 



Friend Hayhurst says, ia his postal-card circu- 

 lar, "Bon' t send any affidavit, nor return any dead 

 bees; but simply Sfly they are dead, and briefly give 

 circumstances." To which I would add, "Don't ev- 

 er, at any time, be in haste to think you have been 

 cheated." 



We have made a very decided improvement in our 

 rubber-plate machines, by using a hard quality of 

 rubber. The fdn. often drops from these plates of 

 itself. We are now about to test dipping plates for 

 plain sheets made of rubber. The quality of rubber 

 required, to stand heat, is worth about $1.00 per lb. 



Dr. Kellogg's doctor book, men tioned last month, 

 is called "■Home Hand-Book of Health," and the other 

 is "■Plain Facts for Old and Young," instead of as I 

 had it. The books are much more expensive than I 

 supposed when I wrote; and it seems to me the lat- 

 ter one especially should be published in a cheaper 

 form, for the benefit of the masses. Address Dr. 

 Kellogg, Battle Creek, Mich., for prices. 



the one-piece sections. 

 Before us is a copy of a patent granted in 1874, 

 to H. W. Hutchins, East Livermore, Maine, for a 

 plan of making boxes of one piece of wood, precisely 

 like the Forncrook sections, even to the V-shaped 

 groove, dovetailing in the ends, and all. The draw- 

 ing makes it so plain, it is difficult to conceive that 

 Forncrook's was not copied from it. 



jDSTas we go to press, "John" is all excited over 

 some pic-plant roots that Mr. Merrybanks has per- 

 mitted him to set in his greenhouse. He set the 

 roots in tubs made by cutting old barrels in two, 

 filling in with the best manure and woods dirt he 

 could fliid, and the enormous growth they are mak- 

 iog— whew! If the men over at the now sawmill 

 don't get supplied with nice flve-cent pies, sweet- 

 ened with maple 8.:gar, won't it be funny? You 

 can just see the chimney of the new sawmill in the 

 telephone picture. 



To-day is the 28th of January, and we have 3639 

 subscribers, and about 200 swarms of bees. The 

 bees are in good order. I know that, because they 

 had a little fly yesterday, and we overhauled a few 

 of the weaker ones. Hill's device seems to an- 

 swer excellently for lotting the bees pass from one 

 comb to another, to get at their stores. I presume 

 the 3030 subscribers are all in good order too, for 

 they seem to be quite lively, from the amount of 

 business they are sending us from every part of the 

 civilized world. 



destitute colonies in FEBRUARY. 



Small cikes of candy, laid right on the frames, 

 over the cluster, seems to be the simplest way of 

 feeding any colonies that may be in danger of starv- 

 ation. If broken into pieces about the size of wal- 

 nuts, they will warm them up more readily. I would 

 not feed candy containing flour for at least another 

 monih yet. So long as there is danger of more se- 

 vere weather, I would not start brood-rearing. Of 

 course, this is for Northern localities. Where bees 

 can fly a little nearly every day, you can crowd 

 brood by feeding aU you choose. 



