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GLEANI^'G« IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 1. 



Contents of this Number. 



Bee-book Review 435; 



Canning *43 



Cnestnut for Honey 432 



Correction from Bliss. ... 43S 



Ci.uuterfeit Money 452 



Covers, Sealed 437 



Drains 446 



Egg in Candy 449 



Ellingwood, A. D 448 



Fax. 437 



Feitilization of Bloom 427 



Hive, Aikin's 4.')0 



Ice at Entrance 432 



Jake Smith 435 



.Journals and Supplies 433 



L.iquin- Business 432,446 



Maple Sugar of Ohio 437 



Medirine Advertisements... .448 



Mistakes, Avoiding 449 



Rambler on Hi ves 430 



Sections, Emvitying 434 



Smokers Compared 447 



Smoker, Crane 437 



Tobacco Column 451 



Weeding 444 



Wintei-ing in Cellar 426 



Woodchopper 431 



World's Fair 428 



CONVENTION NOTICES 



There will be a meeting of the Southeastern Kansas Bee- 

 keepers' Association, June 17, at the apiaries of C. C. Thomp- 

 son, one mile west of Bronson. Bourbon Co.. Kansas. No hotel 

 bills to pay. Everybody invited. J. C. Balch, Sec. 



Black and Hybrid Queens For Sale. 



A few brown and hybrid queens for sale at 25 and 

 35 cts., or 3 for $1.0U and 4 for f 1.00. 



Louis Werner, B. 389, Edwardsvillf , III. 



I have 3 nice hybrid queens 10 sell June 1. Will 

 be read V to ship by return mail; they are clipped. 

 Price 3.5c each, or the 3 for $1.00. 



Calvin C. Phelps, East Windsor Hill, Conn. 



Twenty flrst-class mismated queens at 35c e;ich, or 

 3 for $1.00; all reared in 1892. 



Enoch Anderson., Comanche, Texas. 



Twenty-flve hybrids, 35c each ; 3for$1.00; 5blacks, 

 25c each. Buyer to furnish cage. Send money 

 order on LaFayette, Ga. 



J. A. Clements, Greenbush, Ga. 



Kind Words From Our Customers. 



those d section cases. 



My order of goods T received all riglit. Those D 

 section-cases are not only beauties to look at, but a 

 very convenient thing to have in a liome apiary, as 

 they are so handy to get to honey at any time. 



Elkhart, Ind., May 11. M. D. Wenger. 



a word or TWO TO MR. A. I. ROOT. 



Dear Si/:— Do not, under any circumstances, as 

 long as you have strength, allow any one to Influ- 

 ence you in the course you are pursuing in Glean- 

 ings. I always begin at tlie back part, and read 

 toward the front part. Allow me to put it thus: 

 You furnish the leaven; Ernest the pudding; 

 Kambler the sauce, and Miller spice enough for the 

 whole lot. Albert Wittmeyer. 



Emison, Ind., Mar. 37. 



a kind WORD FOR THE HEALTH PAMPHLETS. 



I have received one of your pamphlets, "A New 

 Method of Treating Disease Without Medicine." It 

 was sent me by my brother from Florida. I have 

 always wanted the treatment, but would not buy a 

 secret and bind myself to keep it. I rejoice in this 

 exposure. I am a minister of the gospel, and want 

 some of these pamphlets to give to those who need 

 them. Send me at least 100. I will not waste any of 

 them. J. R. Letherman. 



Conway Springs, Kan., Apr. 29. 



Thank you, friend L. I only wish there were more 

 'ministers of the gospel who feel as I do, that they 

 can not consistently either buy or seU a secret — 

 especially a secret that bids fair to be of benefit to 

 their fellow-men. 



NOT ONLY A KIND WORD, BUT A KIND INVITATION 

 ALONG WITH IT. 



Mr. Boot;— I have .iust been reading your interest- 

 ing account of your visit to Mr. Terry's, and the 

 many things you saw there to instruct and 

 " amuse." Now, I think it hardly fair for you to go 



to see Mr. Terry so much, and give me the go-by. 

 If you will come and see me I will show you a 

 .steam-excavator which is throwing 500 cubic yards 

 of clay every ten hours, and y6u will not get a bit 

 of mud on your shoes or punts. We have straw- 

 berries as large as tliose ycu ate, and they are can- 

 ned in maple sugar, which makes the syrup ever so 

 much richer and nicer; and you shall have all of it 

 that you think your principles will warrant you in 

 indulging in. Then my wife will play you any 

 number of tunes on the piano, and then you shall 

 see all that goes in carrying on a dairy farm on the 

 last idea; and to make you feel entirely at home I 

 will borrow a hive of bees. We ha\e other things 

 that may be of interest to you. that will come up 

 later. Now, what say you to these attractions, in- 

 dependent of a hearty greeting, which I can assure 

 you is in waiting for j our coming ? 

 Aurora Station, O. John Gould. 



[Perhaps I should explain to our readers that the 

 writer of the above is one of the trio mentioned by 

 Thomas Shaw on page 134 of our issue for Feb. 15; 

 in other words, he is the man who has built up a 

 fine library by saving the money which he used to 

 spend for tobacco. Somebod.y has said — I can not 

 remember who just now— that it is a little singular 

 that three such men as Chamberlain, Terry, and 

 Gould, should happen to grow up in the same neigh- 

 borhood. While Terry raises potatoes, and Cham- 

 berlain teaches underdrainint;, Gould is, if I am 

 correct, the best authority we have on the matter of 

 dairying. And now a word to friend Gould himself. 



holding too long to one SET or IDEAS. 



Brother G., you need not go to the trouble of bor- 

 rowing that hive of bees; and perhaps I should say 

 .something just here that, in justice to our readers, 

 I ought to have said long ago. An incident of our 

 trip to California brings it to mind. While travel- 

 ing somewhere in the vicinity of the Rockies, all at 

 once Prof. Cook remarked : 



"Look here, Mr. Root; I want to ask you one 

 question." 



Of course, I told him to ask any question he saw 

 fit. Said he: 



"You were once so full of the subject of bees 

 that you could neither think nor talk much about 

 any thing else. Of late years, and especially within 

 the last few days, it has seemed to me as if you 

 rather avoided the subject than otherwise. What 

 has brought it about ? " 



"I am glad to answer you. For many long years, 

 as you say, I never tired in talking about and in- 

 vestigating and studying the honey-bee; and I used 

 to think I should never get weary of that one sub- 

 ject. Finally, however, when my liealth began to 

 fail, I discovered that I turned almost involuntarily 

 to something else as a relief— a rest, or change; but 

 when business, and a desire to help others who 

 wanted to know, continued to hold me down to that 

 subject, it began at times to be almost painful. I 

 went into other things expecting and rather hoping 

 that a little rest from that one subject would throw 

 ofi' this feeling. It has done so to some extent; but, 

 to tell the truth, I have, at the present time, very 

 little to do with the bees. The bee-keeper of our 

 establishment is, at present, Ernest. Growing po- 

 tatoes and draining the land, riding the wheel, and 

 even looking into the wonderful progress that has 

 been made in your line of business, attracts me 

 much more than be©' culture. Sometimes I have 

 felt sad about it; and then I have thought that, per- 

 haps, there was a sort of providence in it; and I do 

 believe that it is God's will that, while we look after 

 our own industry, we should also avoid settling 

 down into one narrow line of work too long at a 

 time." 



After I explained to friend Cook as above, he as- 

 tonished me by coming over to where I sat, and 

 putting out his'hand. When I looked up in surprise 

 for an explanation he said something like this: 



" Mr. Root, I rather suspected something of what 

 .you have told us; and I want to tell you that my 

 experience is much like yours. 1 have felt as if I 

 could not stand it unless I had some sort of relief 

 from duties that have been wearing, month after 

 month and year after year, on the same set of 

 nerves, and in the same line of work." 



Perhaps he did not say it just as I have put it, 

 but it was something in that line. It is true, there 

 is such a thing as changing about from one thing to 

 another before one has had time to accomplish any 

 thing anywhere; but there is also an opposite ex- 

 treme to be avoided.] . ■ . 



