e26 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Dec. 



We are now prepared to furnish the artist's ram- 

 era, described by friend Hutchinson in the Nov. No., 

 for an even dollar. If wanted by mail, add 20c. for 

 postajre. The buzz-saw table in this No. was 

 sketched by means of one of these cheap instru- 

 ments. 



Among the list of vice-presidents for the coming 

 year, mentioned in our convention report last 

 month, puge 55S, the name of our old friend Wm 

 MuthRasmussen should have appeared in place of 

 W. R. Musser, as vice-president for California. The 

 error was "secretarial," and not typographical. 



COMMITTEE ON STATISTICS. 



At the Convention at Cincinnati, a committee was 

 appointed to furnish some more accurate statistics, 

 in regard to our honey crop. This committee was to 

 be composed of T. G. Newman, Dr. C. C. Miller, and 

 A. I. Root; but this latter personage was so very 

 careless as to have missed getting it in the reports 

 at all. If the friends will forgive me, I will try to 

 do better next time. 



In the article from friend WUtse, he states that 

 the bees reared btood before they had gathered a 

 cell of pollen, the experiment seeming to indicate 

 that pollen was not absolutely necessary, It has oc- 

 curred to me since, that the new honey they brought 

 in during this time must have contained quite a little 

 pi Hen, for all honey is found to contain pollen that 

 can be seen under the microscope; and by means 

 of this pollen, it Is possible to tell what flowers the 

 honey came from. 



BAD ADDRESSES, AGAIN. 



Write your addresses plainly. We have to-day an 

 order inclo.sing about $17.00, but the address was so 

 bad we could not any of us tell where the goods 

 were to go. He gave no county, and the names he 

 mentioned were not to be found on any of the postal 

 or railway guides. We lioxed up his goods, and 

 waited two weeks for better shipping directions, and 

 now comes the same thing written on a postal card. 

 It is so badly scrawled that none of the clerks here, 

 nor any over at the railroad and express office, can 

 make it agree with any thing we can find anywhere. 

 Back his goods must go to the warehouse, while we 

 wait two weeks more. But this time we have asked 

 him to be kind enough to get some friend who is a 

 plain writer to write it for him. Why will you not 

 write plainly your town, county, and State? We can 

 do nothing in the world with the names of railroad 

 companies, because they are not located anywhere 

 particularly. The name of your county is most im- 

 portant of all: for with \this we can hunt you up. 

 Please, friends, do not clog business and bother us 

 thus. Give us your abiding-place once, and after 

 that w^i will try to hoM on to It for ever. 



GALVANIZED IRON t^OR HONEY. 



I have several times explained to the friends, that 

 galvanized iron, though it keeps l^"ight and clean, 

 apparently. Is dangerous and poi.sonous for articles 

 containing food. It keeps clean, very much as a 

 piece of Ice keeps clean; the surface is all the lime 

 wasting away, and therefore nothing can wpII ad- 

 here to it. Honey-gates can easily be coated with 

 zinc; but no process Is yet known, if I am correct, 

 of coating cast-iroij with tin in the same way. They 

 can be tinned in a slow war by rubbing them with a 

 soldering iron, but in no other wny; consequentlv. 

 we can not very well have a honey-gate tinned out- 

 side and in, no matter how desirable this would be. 



Some of the friends may have noticed that we have 

 advertised a gate tinned outside and in. We did 

 this on the strength of a promise from the manu- 

 fiicturer; but finding they meant galvanized when 

 they said tinned, we are obliged to fall back on the 

 old kind of japanned gates. We can fiirnish the 

 largest size, that we call "whoppers," neatly japan- 

 ned, for 35c. each; or in lots of ten, for $3.00. If 

 wanted by mail, 35c. each extra. These are the same 

 we u?ed to sell f(jr 75c. each. We got this great re- 

 duction by purchasing several gross at one time. 

 The inside diameter of the bore is liJ inches. We 

 can tin them, for soldering into a can, for 10c. each 

 extra. 



'eni^nUeni. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



TIME AND PLACE OP MEETING. 



1882. 



Dec. 2.— Boone County Bee-Keepers' Association, at 

 Lebanon, Boone Co., Ind. 



1883. 



Jan. 9.— Cortland Uninn Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 at Cortland, N. Y. 



Jan. 19, 20. -Mahoning Valley Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion at Berlin Center, Mahoning Co., O. 



NEBRASKA STATE CONVENTION. 



The Nebraska State Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 hold its annual session in Wahoo, Saunders Co., 

 Neb., commencing Thursday, Jan 11. 1883. Arrange- 

 ments have l)een made with the R. K. Go's to secure 

 l>4fare for the round trip. The Saunders County 

 Bt-e-Keepers' Association will furnish entertainment 

 free to all visiting apiarists. 



T. S. VoNDORN, Pres., Omaha. 

 Geo. M. Hawley, Sec, Lincoln. 



OHIO STATE BEE-KEEPERS* CONVENTION. 



The Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Association will meet 

 in Columbus, in the rooms of the Ohio State Journal, 

 on Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 9th and 10th, 1883. 

 A full attendance of members, and all interested in 

 bee culture, is requested, as matters of interest and 

 importance will be discussed. 



Dr. H. Besse, P7CS.. Delaware, O. 

 Daniel Spear, .Sec, Cardington, O. 



The time of next meeting of the N. E. B. K. Asso- 

 ciation i.s changed from Jan. 16, 17, 18, to Jan. 9, 10, 

 11. one week earlier. Of course, you know that Syr- 

 acuse is the place of next meeting. 



Gko. W. House, Sec. 



Fayetteville, N. Y., Nov. 25. 1882. 



VANDERVORT . 



COMB FOUWDATIOIT MILLS. 



Send for samples and reduced price list. 

 ll-3d J NO VANDERVORT, Laceyville, Pa. 



BEESWAX WAHTED.^ 



I will pay 28c per lb., in cash for pure, bright-yel- 

 low beeswax, delivered here. Addr* ss 



W. D. WRIGHT, Knowersville, Albany Co., N. Y. 



A GOOD HONEY-PLANT. 



BUCKTHORN TREES by mail, postpaid, 

 fl.OO. Address 

 CHAS. KINGSLEY, Greeneville, Tenn. 



100 



12d 



JO TO 150 COIiONIES OF 



PURE ITALIAN BEES, 



In new, superior, well - painted. mo'-Rtile - frame 

 hives (frames 1214x121/2 in.), for sale "t $6.00 p^^rc- lo- 

 nv, delivered at rleprit or express ofHce at L'-xing- 

 ton, I-HFayette Co., Mo. DR. G. W. YOUNG. 



12-2d 



