1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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bp*'-supplies, on the Langstroth system, there 

 ;ue otlier establishments that aic doing their 

 shari'; and as we think of tlie results that have 

 followed the invention of the Langstroth hive 

 and frame, it will be interesting to read just 

 exactly how this invention came about. All 

 this, and more, Mr. Langstroth tells in his usu- 

 al charming manner on page Ibj. Be sure to 

 read it. 



A VISIT TO H. R. KOAHDMAN. 



We used to call him '"the man who never 

 loses bees in winter." and I rather think he is 

 going to come through the pre.sent severe win- 

 ter as usual. It was my good fortune to spend 

 a couple of days at his home while attending a 

 farmers' institute. He winters his bees mostly 

 in long narrow buildings above ground — see 

 pag(> :U9, April 15.1889. I do not think lever 

 saw a more tidy and pleasant apiary; and his 

 tasty little home is just in keeping with the 

 apiary. Of course, friend Boardman is some- 

 what of a gardener, for he could not very well 

 be a particular friend of mine without at least 

 having the subject well pres(>nted to him. 

 Now, he has some cold-frames and glass sashes. 

 Instead of his sashes being 6 feet long, how- 

 ever, they are only 4. When I commenced re- 

 monstrating, he said: "Look here, friend Root; 

 I have no Iwys of my own; and a good many 

 times there are not anybody's else boys handy; 

 therefore I adapt my tools and implements to 

 the circumstances."' Then he picked up one of 

 the four-foot sash, took it off' the hot- bed. and 

 put it back again with ease. There were no 

 vegetables under the sash, for it was about the 

 first of February; but what do you think we 

 did see'.' Why. White Brahmas and Plymouth 

 Rocks, scratching and having fun right under 

 the sashes, and laying eggs every day right 

 straight through the winter. His beds are 

 pretty nearly as wide as the regular hot-bed— 

 say about n^'.^ feet inside; and to make his sash 

 ■'catch on "' he has a one-foot board along the 

 north end and another along the south end. 

 These boards are nailed down permanently, so 

 when he handles the sashes all alone he has a 

 one-foot platform to rest on while he is swing- 

 ing them tip on one corner. The arrangement 

 is much like the new celery-culture bed you 

 saw in the picture on page 2<). 



Friend Boardman is an enthusiast on sweet 

 clover, as you may remember. He raises it by 

 the acre every year, ^ets honey from it for the 

 bees, and food for his Jei'sey cow and horse. 

 Said Jersey dow. and horse too, will take sweet- 

 clover hay in preference to any other kind of 

 hay or clover you can give them. They are 

 educated to it; and they will even reach for the 

 dry seed-stalks, and chew them up with avid- 

 ity, if you give them a chance. He k^-eps his 

 ground seeded permanently to sweet clover by 

 letting the seed drop on the ground and come 

 up of itself. But he savs it is quite a hard mat- 

 ter to get a good stand by sowing seed in the 

 first place. The plant seems to hav(> a que(!r 

 fashion of growing better on hard roadsides 

 and hillsides tlian it does on fertilized ground. 



I can not begin to tell you of all the things 

 we went over in regard to bee culture and gar- 

 dening; but my impression is. that friend 

 Boardman is one of the most thoroughly post<>d 

 bee-men we have living at the present day: 

 and it is not theoretical only, for he practices 

 as well as talks, and succeeds in his practice. 

 He has made quite a fair crop of honey during 

 this past season, when everybody else for miles 

 around him has made an utter failure; and. by 

 the way, there are some very nice people around 

 East Town.send, Huron Co., O.. besides friend 

 Boardman. A. I. R. 



Specml Notices. 



IjEe's favorite potatoes. 

 Have :u)y of our readers any of the above ? If so, 

 liow many, and wbat do they want for them ? Just 

 now there seems to be a demand l)cyond the supply. 



.JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 



It is a little early in the season for this; but we 

 should like to be getting in a larger supply of seed 

 than we have ready for the season wben it comes. 

 If any of our readers not too far distant have a 

 supply of seed for sale we should be pleased to 

 receive samples and otters. 



POTATO ONIONS. 



Since t^ur remarks on anotlier page, in regard to 

 potato onions, we have found where we can get 

 some so as to sell them as low as a dollar a peck. 

 May be some of our friends, liowever, will furnish 

 tliem so we can do a great deal better than this. 

 Price 15c per quart; by mail. 35. If tlie suliscribcrs 

 of Gleanings can not furnish potato onions i-hca))- 

 er than this by another season, it will be because 

 there are not any good onion-growers among us. 



ONE-POUND CARTONS CHEAP. 



We have secured a lot of cartons, or pastel xiard 

 Ijo.xes, for 4iixl Ja sections, withaut tape liamHcs. at 

 a low price, so th;it we are ableto otter them at Sl.nO 

 per 1000 less than the prices given in our catalogue 

 for cartons iritli handles At this rate the price 

 would be, without printing, 100 for 50c; 500 for $:i.2.5, 

 or lOllO for $4.00. Larger quantities at a lower price. 

 Orders may lie sent here or to F. A. Salislmry, 

 Sj'racuse, N. V.. if more convenient. These are not 

 inferior in quality in any way; but the factoiy got 

 25.000 made up without tapes when we ordered them 

 with ta.p(\s, and they could not put tapes in after- 

 ward withtnit great expense; hence we got them 

 at our own price. 



ALSIKE CLOVER SEED. 



We are getting now for choice al.^ike seed, $10.00 a 

 bushel; sl'S 10 for X bushel: $2.60 per peck; 32c per 

 lb. Ptavine and common red liave been ad- 

 vancing so that they are now wortli $1.00 a bushel 

 more than alsike. As it tiikes only half the amount 

 of the latter to .seed an acre that it does of the large 

 seed, the liigh price of the latter is bound to stimu- 

 late the demand for alsike. and we may have to 

 advance the pi'ice.of this before the season is over. 

 Now is the time for seeding- in some localities; and 

 during the next six or eight weeks, as you get 

 j further north. If any of our readers have a surplus 

 of choice seed, we shoidd be pleased to heai- from 

 you, with sanqiles. and the price at which j'ou hold 

 it. 



H()'J'-B1':D SASH. 



As one of oui- iieai- neighbors has a lumtier-yard 

 and sash-factory, and makes a business of making 

 hot-bed sash, we ina.\' be able to help you by fuinish- 

 ingyou with a sample of just the l^ind we jirefei-. if 

 nothing more. One sanq)le sash, without glass, size 

 6 feet by :!i,, feet. 1 '„ in. in thickness, 75 cts. lii lots 

 of si.v. crated togetheT-, TO cts. each. The same i>aint- 

 ed and glazed, singli' sash. $2.00; 5 crated together. 

 $1.75 each. Howe\i'i'. we do not leeoniniend thi'm to 

 be shijipi'd with the glass si't ; and we could in no 

 ease be responsible for breakagi-. Belter bii.\- .aoui- 

 glass by the box, and paiiU and glaze tbein where 

 they are to be used. 



COMB FOUNDA'J'ION AND MACHINES. 



We have .just supplied the W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. 

 with an outfit of foui- of our fonndation-rnachiiu's 

 for malting tin' different grades of what tlie.\- style 

 the ■' Fak'on " brand of foundation. We funnshed 

 them also a power-frame, wheieby tln'.\ can itui 

 their mills by steam powei-, as wv do in the niaiiufac- 

 tuie of foundation. If tlie.\ aie careful in i)iirif.\ing 

 theii- wax, tlie.\ are in a position to fuinish founda- 

 tion equal to that we are now sending out. That is 

 saying a good deal. If.vou don't believe it. send foi- 

 a sample of our foundation and see foi- yoiu.self. 

 There are two reasons wh>- our comb foundation is 

 so siq)ei-ior. One is, that tlie wax is all piu-itied and 

 made a bright yellow, or coin color, even for brood 

 foundation, befori- it is made up into foinidation. 

 ' Another is. that the mills we are now turning out 



