1882 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



467 



I WILL pay 10c for extra nice clover or basswood 

 honey, delivered here, until further notice. 



As we go to press, more reports come of the bees 

 booming, and the woods roaring with honey-dew. 

 How wonderful are tby works, O Lord! 



The clerk who opens the letters says, please don't 

 send any more bees and cueens in letters. When 

 they reach us, they are a nasty, mashcd-up mess. 



Almost every letter tells of bees a booming, and 

 we are sending out sections, fdn., and extractors, 

 almost as we do in June, only we send them by next 

 train usually. 



Mrs. Harrison sends the following, just as we go 

 to press: — 



Our bees are booming; they have stored 1000 lbs. 

 of comb honey during the past ten days, and still it 

 comes. It is the best continuous flow 1 ever saw in 

 August. Mrs. L. Harhison. 



Peoria, 111., Aug. 25, 1883. 



By one of my blunders, the price of Harmony of 

 the Gospels was put 2.jc, when it should have been 

 35. Will the friends who have sent 35, please send 

 the other 10 cents the first tim3 they order again, 

 that I may not lose on the little books which, I think 

 you will all agree, arc very cheap indeed at 35 cents? 



Frienh Carroll writes us it was a "mistake in 

 the printing" that gave the impression that the 

 queen that produced so much honey was a grand- 

 daughter of the Hay hurst C3'prian queen; and, in 

 fact, the matter is stated plainly, when we come to 

 look at it, that she was a daughter of a dollar queen 

 we sold him in August, 1880. See page 376, Aug. No. 



There is a great deal more carelessness, in this 

 world, than downright dishonesty, but the two run 

 so closely together, it seems, many times, hard to 

 tell where one commences and the other ceases. 

 One who hungers and thirsts after righteousness, 

 can not very well be careless with the money or 

 property of others, when entrusted to his care. 



Friend Kingsley, of Greene ville, Tenn., sent us 

 some of the largest and handsomest worker bees we 

 ever saw, which he calls " Kingsley's improved Holy- 

 Land bees." They look a gocd deal like our bees 

 from the "honey queen," but are, if any thing, a 

 little ahead. I am inclined to think a cross between 

 the Italians and Holy-Lands is, in many respects, 

 ahead of either races, pure. 



I haat; paid the three unsettled claims mentioned 

 last month, and one other, so that I have now paid 

 out altogether in settling Mr. Burch's debts as fol- 

 lows : 



Byron Walker, $115.50. 



W. E. Griggs, 10.50. 



A. F. Stautter, 132.50. 



K. H. Gager, ------ 6.76. 



W. N. Ramsey. 25.00. 



R. Johnson, ------ 40.00. 



W. Uickerson, UM. 



H. J. Alvis, - - 6.65. 



Total 



- 8^50.91. 



Two kind friends have sent me money to help pay 

 what I have lost in the Burch business, with a sug- 

 gestion that my friends may be allowed to make it 

 up to me. While I thank you, and thank God for 

 this new evidence of his kind, loving care, if these 

 same friends will excuse me, I would rather place 

 It to their credit until they need something from us. 

 He will send me all the means I need to do His will. 



By buying 100,003 in one lot, we have been enabled 

 to furnish the good strong envelopes, such as we use 

 in our correspondence, for only 5 e. per bunch of 35; 



10 bunches for 45 c., or 100 bunches for $1.00. Your 

 business card will be neatly printed on them for 30 c. 

 per hundred; $1.00 per thousand, or $3.00 for 10,000, 

 additional. As they are a pretty heavy envelope, 

 the postage on them is 4 c. a package of 25. 



We are glad to announce to the juveniles, that the 

 " wheelbarrow " has been replenished with 3000 nice 

 new 5 c Sunday-school books; 500 each of "Sheer 

 Off," "Silver Keys," "Rescued from Egypt," and 

 "Pilgrim's Progress." We have also got a lot of 

 "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room," byT. S.Arthur, which 

 we sell at three cents each. Any of the abave will bs 

 mailed on receipt of the price, and two cents more 

 for postage and packing. 



ANOTHER DRONE-TR.\P. 



It seems to have become quite the fashion to de- 

 stroy the drones from all hives, where they are not 

 wanted, and doubtless it is a good move in the right 

 direction, in the way of getting improved stock. 

 The Jones bee-guard is for the purpose of fastening 

 the drones either out or in the hive; but somebody 

 suggests, if you fasten them out, all they have to do 

 is to lly to some other hive and go in there. To pre- 

 vent this, our friend J. D. BlacK, Brandon, Iowa, 

 boxes them up so they can't get off to do mischief 

 elsewhere. The entrance tu the hive is closed so as 

 to just let the workers pass, and then a tin tube con- 

 ducts the drones into a box covered with a strip of 

 glass. At each side of the glass strips are spaces to 

 allow workers to get out should they by mistake 

 take the tube: but the drones can not follow them, 

 neither can they go back into the hive by the tube, 

 for the end of the tube projects into the box a little 

 way. No doubt but the device will work, but it 

 seems to me a little complicated. If I am correct, 

 the idea is quite an old one. 



HONEY-DEW. 



A FEW days ago, a neighbor came over to inform 

 me that they had had a honey shower, and that he 

 saw the honey fall from the air, and his bees were 

 just making the woods roar in getting it off from 

 the leaves. I went over, and, sure enough, there 

 were traces of it on the leaves of all kinds, but it 

 had dried up so the bees were not working on it. He 

 said, at the time it fell he heard it on his hat, and 

 felt it on his hands; but when asked it he had tasted 

 it on his hat or hands, said he did not. This was about 

 five miles north. Neighbor Rice, who lives about 

 nine miles south, came up about the same time, and 

 said his bees were also getting honey-dew, and that 

 it was around them everywhere. In going from 

 home a mile or two, he found it just the same, but 

 that it was chiefly on the maple-trees. Although our 

 bees are working more than usual for August, and 

 do not trouble us at all in the way of robbing, or 

 coming into the factory, I can not find they arc work- 

 ing on the trees at all. The honey seems to me 

 about like that from red clover. Please go out in- 

 to the woods, about seven in the morning, friends, 

 and see if your bees are working on the maple 

 leaves. If they are, please investigate. If honey 

 really docs rain down from the clouds like the man- 

 na of old, we should really like to know it. 



THE NEW .JONES PAILS AND UOXES, AND LABELS FOR 

 HONEY. 



Friend Jones has sent U3 samples of his improve- 

 ment in honey-pails. The cover goes on exactly like 

 the cover on the ordinary quart tin fruit-can. This 

 enables us, by the us3 of cement, wa.x, or a mixture 



