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GLEANINCxS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1. 



Extra pages and extra editions as usual. It 

 is a good lime to advertise and to send in new 

 names. Yes, indeed, the new names are coming 

 in fast now, so our subscription clerks reports. 



Bright sunsliine, the merry hum of the bees, 

 good bicycle roads, piles of orders, lots of work, 

 and a good spring all around, are making us 

 here ^t the Home of the Honey-bees happy. 

 Our buildings were never tilled with so many 

 employees as now. 



W. O. Victor, of Wharton, Texas, one of the 

 prominent and leading bee-keepers of that 

 State, sent us a couple of twigs from the rattan 

 vine. It yields considerable honey in that 

 State. He says it usually yields first-class hon- 

 ey anywhere from ten to twenty days. 



In our occasional department, headed " Ques- 

 tion-Box," I hav6 concluded not to state the 

 question, because it is usually implied in the 

 answer. I do this in order to save space. The 

 answers that are published are a few selected 

 from our daily correspondence, that I think a^e 

 of general interest to A B C scholars. 



It is a pleasure to announce that our friend 

 and co-worker, Mr. R. F. Holtermann, of the 

 Ccmadian Bee Journal, hsiS received from the 

 Ontario government the appointment of Lec- 

 turer on Apiculture at the Ontario Agricultur- 

 al College. He is also in charge of the experi- 

 ment apiary connected with the college. He is 

 a good man for the place, and we shall look for 

 some good work. 



We have received but one call for Given 

 foundation made on rolls. Either it is or is not 

 a good thing; and I am anxious to see it tried 

 by different bee-keepers, not so much for the 

 paltry profit there may be in fussing with a 

 small quantity, but to determine whether it 

 has real merit in the hands of others. We are 

 ready to put in one, two, or half a dozen sheets 

 with your regular foundation, when so re- 

 quested. 



From the last American Bee Journal it ap- 

 pears that the usual^SOO appropriation for the 

 benefit of the lllinoi.s State Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will not be granted this year. "The 

 dairymen fared the same as the bee-keepers, 

 and the horticulturists are not sure of getting 

 any thing much better," writes Secretary Stone. 

 The cause is attributed to the condition of the 

 State treasury. 



We have now obtained some lysol, that new 

 drug for curing foul brood, mentioned by C. J. 



H. Gravenhorst as giving very satisfactory re- 

 sults in Germany. See his article on page 308, 

 last issue. We will, till the supply is exhausted, 

 send out a small vial of the liquid, a sufficient 

 quantity for curing several colonics (lOcts.), to 

 those who may have foul brood in their apia- 

 ries, and who care to make a trial test and re- 

 port. It will be folly for American bee-keepers 

 to shut their eyes against all drug remedies, 

 and claim that there is no cure but extermina- 

 tion and the foundation plan. 



Whatever legal or moral claims Mr. Hed- 

 don may really have over the Danzenbaker 

 hive, it is but just to Mr. Danzenbaker to say 

 that, so far as I know him, he would not appro- 

 priate any thing that properly belongs to an- 

 other, not even an idea. He thoroughly be- 

 lieves, and I think he is honest in that belief, 

 that his hive is not an infringement, and that 

 Mr. Heddon does not have either moral or legal 

 claim over any feature of the Danzenbaker hive. 



HOW father i-angstroth is appreciated 



BY A BEE- keeper IN COSTA RICA. 



A prominent bee-keeper, who does not wish 

 to have his name printed, but living in Costa 

 Rica, the most southerly of tlie small republics 

 constituting Central America, seeing the article 

 on page 170, March 1st Gleanings, soliciting 

 funds for Mr. Langstroth, very generously sent 

 a contribution of ^10.00, asking us to forward 

 the same to Mr L., whom he considered a real 

 benefactor to him also. The amount was for- 

 warded, and has been acknowledged with 

 thanks by Mr. Langstroth's daughter. 



I am sure our American bee-keepers appreci- 

 ate this, not because of the largeness of the 

 gift, but because of the spirit which prompted 

 it. I can only regret that many of our Amer- 

 ican bee-keepers, using the Langstroth system, 

 have forgotten to send in their annuity fund 

 even when they agreed voluntarily to send it 

 each year as long as Mr. Langstroth lived. I 

 am informed that our venerable and much- 

 respected friend is in very feeble health, and 

 he does not seem to improve with the charm- 

 ing spring weather. Any funds that may be 

 sent in will be received by ourselves, or by Geo. 

 W. York, 5G Fifth Ave., Chicago. 



DEATH OF CHRISTOPHER GRIMM. 



As we go to press, a notice reaches us tliat 

 Christopher Grimm is no more. Most of our 

 readers knew him as the brother of Adam 

 Grimm, and one who has for many years made 

 it almost a religious duty to be present at the 

 meetings of the North American Bee-keepers' 

 Association. In fact, we weil remember his 

 genial smile and hearty handshake at our last 

 meeting at St. Joseph. Christopher Grimm was 

 known all over the United States as the suc- 

 cessful and intelligent bee-keeper, his number 

 of colonies reaching at one time 1000 or more. 



