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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May 1. 



Contents of this Number | Qeduct 3 CtS. per Pound 



After-swaims 3i0 



Apiaiv. Buvningr an 342] 



Bags, How to Hold Open. . . SSS 

 Bees Carrying Each Otlier S-'il 

 Boiler, Home-made ... 347 



Catflsti 3r.3 



Cleome, Yellow 353 



Cook on Adulteration 350 ; 



Covers, Seal'd,Discussed.346,363 1 



Cushions. Absorbing 345,316 



Cyclone in Michigan 362 



Distances, Fixed 352 



Edison as Telegrapher 353 



Fertilizers. Chemical .356 



Hints to Writers 363 



Hiver— Its Cost.. 343 



Hive, Dovetailed 351 



Hoffman Frames .352 



Honey-dew 3.^0 



Humming of the Bees 354 



Italians, Golden 3.52 



Jake Smith 



Lan gst roi h ' s History 3:i8 



.Mice .and Bees 3.52 



MiisliniMuis .354 



\rlli.s' i;, roUections 347 



Nu.-U'i.To Start 349 



Onion sits 357 



Packing V. Single Wall .344 



Potato Onions 357 



Pyramids 363 



Q'lU'on, Caged. Miller's Plan.351 



liamblei- at Harbison's 340 



Rheumatism in Arizona. . .3-53 



Sand as Fertilizer 3.57 



R aled Cover-* a Failure.345, 316 



Starter-^. To Fasten 351 



TiTi V. Vi-^it to 3.55 



W:istc fill Smoker Fuel .... 351 



W;).\-rcHning 347 



World's Fair— Our E.xhibit 362 

 World's Fair 3.50 



CONVENTION NOTICES 



The Lambton Bee-keepers' As.sociation will meet in the town 

 of Sarnia. on Friday. May 19. 1893. As this is along the line be- 

 tween the two countries, a special invitation is extended to all 

 bee-keepers across the line. J. R. Kitchen. 



Weidman, Ont , Can. 



The Susquehanna Co. Bee-keepers' Association will hold its 

 next meeting at the Tarbell House, Montrose, on Thurs.. May 

 4,1893. All are invited. H. M. Sekley, Sec. 



Harford . Pa. 



A Four-Color Label for Only 75 

 Cts. Per Thousand. 



Just think of it! we can furnish you a very neat 

 four-color label, with your name and address, with 

 the choice of having- either " comb " or " extracted " 

 before the word "honey," for only 75 cts. per thou- 

 sand ; 60 cts. per 500, or 30 cts. for 350, postpaid. Tlie 

 size of the label is 3>^xl inch— .iust rigrht to ro round 

 the neck of a bottle, to put on a section, or to adorn 

 the front of a honey-tumbler. Send for our special 

 label cataloffue for samples of this and many other 

 pretty designs ii,. label work. 



A. 1. ROOT, ITfedliia. O. 



BY W. I. OHAMBEELAm, A. M., LL. D.. 



Formerly Secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, 

 and late President of the Iowa State Agricultural Col- 

 lege. At present Associate Editor of the 

 Ohio Farmer. 



This is a valuable companion to our other rural 

 books. It embraces the experience of forty years 

 of one of our foremost practical agriculturists, who 

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A t BOOK i FOR t BEGINNERS. , 



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 If you would learn to raise in it that mo.st luscious 

 of all fruit, the strawberry, with the best results, 

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Apiary and farm of 40 acres, 

 1 mile from R. R. station. 

 House, barn, poultry-house, etc. Apples, pears, 

 peaches, cherries, and <iuinces. Bees winter safely 

 without protection. Price $80.1.00. Bi es at a bar- 

 gain to purchaser of farm, or to any one wlio would 

 pack tor .shipment at own expense. This will not 

 appear again. For iiiforni:itioii, address, with 

 stamp, MliS. A. M. /ifXK Ji/L.VA'W. 



]\Iti liter ry Oroi'e, Hand Co., 111. 



Bees and Queens E:SaS;^^*-|^^f: 



ed, $1..5il; untested, 60 cts. One 2-frame nucleus, with 

 tested queen, $3.00; with untested queen, $1..50. 

 STEWART tV- CaOPHU, 

 9-12d Queheclc, Tenxi. 



BEES WANTED. 



Fifty nuclei, two frames of sealed brood with young 

 Italian queen preferred, and bees to cover -brood. 

 Want them delivered May 3U1 h. Reference. Bank of 

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Black and Hybrid Queens For Sale. 



For the benefit of friends who have black or hybrid queens 

 which they wish to dispose of. we will insert notices fi'ee of 

 charge, as below. We do this because there is hardly value 

 enough in these queens to pay for buying them up and keep- 

 ing them in stock -, and yet it is oftentimes quite an accommo- 

 dation to those who can not afford higher-priced ones. 



Forty queens, black and hybrid, from colonies 

 that are to be broken up into nuclei; 35 cts. each, 

 postpaid, for queens bred in 1892. 



Mrs. Frank Benton, Charlton Heights, Md. 



I have 40 black and hybrid queens at 25 cts. each, 

 or five for $1,00. Thos. E. Elam, 



Mulberry Grove, Bond Co., 111. 



Kind Words From Our Customers. 



GLEANINGS is the best journal that comes to our 

 house. Please let it come. R. A. Bellrose. 



Chilliwack, Brit. Col., Mar. 18. 



THOSE STOVE-MATS INDISPENSABLE. 



Inclosed you will find 65 cents to pay for three 

 stove-mats. Please send them as soon as possible, 

 as I gave away the one I got of yoti some time 

 ago, and our women-folks are as mad as the brood- 

 nest of a torn-down hive of hornets. E. T. Brock. 



Danuy, N. Y., Mar. 31. 



Later.— Ouv womt-n-folks have all struck. They 

 won't keep house without the stove-mat. 



I see you highly recommend the augite mat. Be- 

 lieving and having proven things to be as you 

 recommend, T inclose stamps for two of the mats. 

 Gleanings is excellent. The moral and religious 

 seed you are sowing must bear fruit. Some of it 

 will fall on good ground. " Be not weary in well 

 doing, for in due time ye shall reap if .ye faint not." 

 Franklyn Rowland, 

 Ag-'l Editor of the Standard. 



New Bedford, Mass., April 6. 



