1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



563 



Dr. Millek's slang— just see how he go«s 

 for the editor, in Straws I and then obs-rve 

 how he sins himself in the same way, in the 

 next few Straws! 



Perhaps it is a little early, but not very 

 much honey, even from basswood, is being re- 

 ported. We have had a fairly good flow, and 

 hope others have fared as well as we. 



You will see by Straws that Dr. Miller thinks 

 the hive discussion should be continued as long 

 as it brings out valuable facts as it now seems 

 to be doing. I really do not wish to continue 

 the suhjoct if there is not a call for it, and sim- 

 ply ask. Do others feel about it as Dr. Miller 

 does? Gleanings is yours, and ready, I hope, 

 to dish up for you whatever you like best, pro- 

 viding it is good and wholesome. 



Shall the Bee-keepers' Union be consolidat- 

 ed with the North American? is a question 

 that is now and should be thoroughly di.s^cussed 

 preparatory to the next meeting of the latter at 

 Toronto. It is being advocated by the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal and the Bee-keepers' Review, 

 So far as I can at present see. Gleanings is 

 also in favor of the scheme. Bro. York thinks 

 it would give us a membership of .500 or 1000. 

 and a fund from both treasuries of 8800; and 

 then, as he pertinently remarks, " we could pe- 

 tition Congress or State legislatures, in such a 

 way that they would hear and — grant." You are 

 quite right, Bro. York. Of course, the consoli- 

 dation would not affect the workings of the 

 Union. 



Wff; have printed some 53,000 copies of the A 

 B C book heretofore, without a scrap of adver- 

 tising. In the present edition, or the one about 

 to be launched forth, we propose to break over 

 our rule and allow a certain amount of select 

 advertising from queen-breeders, supply-deal- 

 ers, honey-merchants, and, in fact, anybody 

 reliable, desiring space at the end of the 

 book. The ABC goes to a very desirable class 

 of customers — beginners— who would see the 

 advertising cards on its pages when they might 

 not see them elsewhere. The space will be 

 charged for at the same rate as for one inser- 

 tion in Gleanings. Copy must be sent in 

 before August 1, when the forms will be closed. 

 The next edition comprises 10,000 copies. A 

 few copies have been sent out to supply press- 

 ing and immediate orders. 



the bees of this queen subsequently developed 

 bee-paralysis. In the mean lime he had raised 

 nine queens from this mother, and the bees of 

 all these nine queens showed the same disease. 

 This, I firmly believe, is only one of many 

 cases, and goes to show that the disease is in- 

 herited from the queen. How careful, then, all 

 queen-breeders should be that bee-paralysis is 

 entirely exterminated from their yards! Some 

 of the friends thought that my calling for a 

 "show of hands" of all queen-breeders who 

 would destroy every case of paralysis in their 

 yards, as soon as discoveied, was a measure 

 both extreme and unnecessary. It may be in 

 the case of those who do not sell queens; but it 

 certainly is not for the breeder. 



bee-paralysis inherited from the queen; 

 duty of queen-breeders, again. 

 A CORRESPONDENT writes that he purchased 

 a queen last year of a queen-breeder, and that 



THE HOME OF THE HONEY-BEES ENLARGED 

 AGAIN. 



Once more the Home of the Honey-bees is to 

 receive a substantial enlargement in order to 

 enable it to turn out more goods. Another 

 story is being added to our wood-working 

 building, and new machinery is being put in, 

 so we hope to nearly double our present capaci- 

 ty for turning out hives and sections. We have 

 already ordered another large engine, which 

 all told will give us a total horsepower of about 

 200. New and larger exhaust dust-fans and 

 dust-separators have been found necessary in 

 order to keep pace with the unprecedented de- 

 mand for our new polished and sanded sections. 

 Later on we will show you how we look with 

 the recent additions. 



DEATH OF A PROMINENT SUPPLY-MAN. 



I REGRET to chronicle the death of Chas. E. 

 Parks, which took place at his home in Water- 

 town, Wis., on the morning of July 1. He was 

 a member of the firm of the G. B. Lewis Co., of 

 that place. He was intelligent, progressive, 

 and, with his other accomplishments of push 

 and business sagacity, an inventor. He was, I 

 believe, the largest stockholder in the company, 

 and the man who invented the machinery now 

 in use by that firm, for making sections, and 

 also for what is known as the Parks basket- 

 crate — a sort of shipping-basket or box that is 

 used largely for a great variety of purposes. 

 It was he also who demonstrated, if I am cor- 

 rect, the possibility of making the present one- 

 piece sections in quantities. Although not the 

 original inventor, he brought the section before 

 the public. Mr. Parks was personally known 

 to the writer, who has had several pleasant 

 talks with him at conventions and elsewhere. 

 When I last saw him he looked the very pic- 

 ture of health and strength; and it was a great 

 surprise to me when I learned a few months 

 ago that he was lying dangerously ill in Florida 

 —notice of which I gave at the time in these 

 pages. He leaves a wife (daughter of G. B. 

 Lewis) and three children. 



The affairs of the G. B. Lewis Co. will be con- 



