1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTQRE. 



953 



that in this, as in all other pursuits, success 

 comes only to those who make some sacrifices 

 to attain the desired end. 



Sixteen pages extra this time, and 50()0 extra 

 copies, making 15,000 in all. 



Owing to the space taken by the Langstroth 

 memorial in this number we are obliged to leave 

 out much of our regular matter. 



As will be seen by the honey column else- 

 where, honey is selling very low. The trouble 

 is, bee-keepers are rushing their honey too 

 much to the cities, meeting sharp competition. 



Keport of the bee- keepers' Congress at At- 

 lanta will be found in the department of Travels 

 by A. I. R. He reports a good meeting, and 

 believes he has brought home from that con- 

 vention a good deal of value. 



Mr. Baldensperger, on page 95i , gives an 

 interesting table of the daily average of egg- 

 laying by queens in Palestine. The smallest 

 number was 100 per diem, and the largest 2600. 

 While a queen can lay 3000 eggs in a day, she 

 doesn't often do it. 



Mr. James Heddon, of Dowagiac, Mich., re- 

 quests me to say that, owing to a bronchial 

 trouble, caused largely by the '"breathing in of 

 the odor of the bees, and their poi»on." he has 

 been obliged to suspend the publication of his 

 paper, the Bee-keepers" Quarterly. 



In this issue there is, perhaps, the most com- 

 plete history of the movable frame in its various 

 stages of development, up to the perfected 

 frame of Langstroth, that was ever published 

 in any one journal or book either. It is a sig- 

 nificant fact that leading apiarians in Europe 

 as well as America agree as to the great superi- 

 ority of the frame given us by the father of 

 American bee keeping over others that pre- 

 ceded. 



Four, and perhaps five, bee-journals (I can't 

 quite keep track of the number) have died in 

 America alone during the year just closing. 

 The new year will help to fill up the gap by the 

 arrival, on Jan. 1, of what will be known as 

 The Pacific Slope Bee Journal. It is to be pub- 

 lished by the Bennett Bee-hive Co., Los An- 

 geles, Cal. Price is to be .fl.OO per year. We 

 wish the new (ar)rival success and a happy 

 new year. It seems to me there ought to be a 

 good field for a bee-journal in the greatest 

 honey section in the world; at all events, the 



announcement says the new journal will "be 

 here to stay." 



Our readers will notice by the last paragraph 

 of the Ramble in this issue, that the series of 

 Rambler articles is to be discontinued. I know 

 that these articles have been appreciated, by 

 the many expressions of approval that have 

 come in from time to time. If still desired, 

 perhaps some arrangement may be made where- 

 by they may be again started, or something 

 else in their place from the pen of the Rambler 

 be substituted. I should be glad to receive ex- 

 pressions from our readers. 



WHY BEES spring -DWINDLE 



more in the cellar than outdoors (and I think 

 it is generally conceded that they do) may per- 

 haps be found in the very possible explanation 

 put forth by R. McKnight, in this issue. It 

 has generally been held that an unvarying 

 temperature in the cellar was desirable. But 

 here, perhaps, we have been making a mistake. 

 Bees outdoors are surely not subject to a uni- 

 form temperature. With us it varies from 60 

 above to 10 below zero. A cold spell rarely 

 lasts longer than three weeks. This is a timely 

 and important question, and I hope it will be 

 further discussed. 



OUR CHRISTMAS NUMBER. 



Never before, I think, has it been the lot or 

 privilege of any bee-journal, certainly not of 

 Gleanings, to publish in any number such a 

 list of articles from such eminent bee-keepers 

 and writers on bee-lore from all over the world 

 as in this our Christmas issue. Representatives 

 from seven different countries have spoken, and 

 six of them have sounded the praises of Lang- 

 stroth. Six different bee-editors — two of them 

 ex -editors— have contributed to the Memorial. 

 Besides the usual number of illustrations and 

 other general matter, A. I. R. himself is actu- 

 ally writing on the subject of bees. See his 

 department. There, there ! I didn't mean to 

 blow our own horn; but somehow it has been a 

 real pleasure to me to think that we could suit- 

 ably pay our respects to the memory of fjang- 

 stroth. It is no little source of gratification 

 that bee-keepers and bee-editors, without re- 

 gard to country, have been so generous in their 

 responses; and to our friends across the water 

 I desire, in the name of the American bee- 

 keepers, to express especial thanks. 



the CALIFORNIA BEE-RANCH, ON PAGE 941. 



I CONFESS this picture brings a host of pleas- 

 ing recollections to mind. On almost every bee- 

 ranch in California the extracting-house is in- 

 variably located on high ground, usually near 

 the roadway. The honey runs from the build- 

 ing through a pipe, into a huge can made of 

 galvanized iron. Some of these cans are large 

 enough to hold a ton or more. This can is also 

 located sufficiently above the driveway, or 



