1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



689 



the titles of which have not yet been handed in. are requested 

 to send to the Secret.avy at as eaily a date as |Kissil)le the exaet 

 title and a very brief abstraet of the artieh'. u hicli will eu.ible 

 him to assign the topie its proper jjlaee in Ilie pri)t,'raiiiiiie. 



Frank Benton, 

 Secretary North .imerican Bee-keepers' Association. 



U. S Department of Agriculture. Washington, D. C. 



Special Notices. 



AVINTER OR EGYPTIAN ONION-SETS. 



Until fiirtlier notice we will fill order.s at the fol- 

 lowing veiy low prices: 13 cts. per quart; 75 cts. per 

 peck; $3.5U per bushel. If wanted by mail, add at 

 the rate of lu cts. extra for postage. 



AMERICAN PEARL ONION-SETS. 



We are expecting daily our first shipment. Prices 

 will be, pint, 15 cts.; quart, 25 cts.; peck, $1.75; 

 bushel, $6.0(1. If wanted liy mail, add 10 cts. per 

 quart extra. There has been so much discussion in 

 regard to these that we need not go over it asain 

 this year. In our locality we liave t'oi' ihree seasons 

 had nice crops from sets put out in September. We 

 shall plant them again largely tliis season. From 

 the numl)er of orders that are coming in. I presume 

 a grea; many of our customers have, like ourselves, 

 succeeded with them. 



HONEY MARKET. 



We find that while, in most places, a good honey 

 crop has been secured, there are manj^ places where 

 there was little or no honey gathered; consequently 

 there is a good demand for honey in these localities 

 as well as in the large centers. Except for the gen- 

 eral financial depression caused by hoarding on the 

 part of the people generally, the honey market 

 would be much more active, and prices better sus- 

 tained. There is a tendency, however, toward lower 

 prices, when they are already as low as they ought 

 to go to bring any profit to the producer. We have 

 already disposed of one carload of sage honey from 

 California, as well as two or three tons of Ohio and 

 Michigan honey, comb and extracted. Almost all 

 the honey we have sampled so far this season seems 

 to be superior in quality. We offer choice white 

 comb honey in 1-lb. sections, in 12 and 34 lb. cases, 

 crated so as to go through by freight safely without 

 breakage, in lots of 100 lbs. or more, at 16c per lb.; 

 smaller lots, I7e. Choice extracted clover honey, 

 in 60-lb. cans, two in a case, WtC per lb. ; lots of two 

 cases or more, 8 cts. per lb. Write for prices on lots 

 of 1000 lbs. or over. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



I am well pleased with the Crane smoker. I think 

 it a noble one, but rather too lieavy. G. W. Reams. 

 Franklin, Tenn., July 21. 



I believe I get more orders through Gleanings 

 than any other journal I advertise in. 

 Steeleville, 111., July 33. Chas. H. Theis. 



I received my goods in splendid order some time 

 ago, and am much obliged. Geo. H. Sayers. 



Montague, Mich., July 3. 



My potato-eyes all grew, and are looking very 

 nice; and tlie Stratagem peas— why, I never saw the 

 like— sucli pods, four inches long! I will save every 

 one for seed. Mary Moffatt. 



Glidden, la., July^O 



I have taken Gleanings 11 years. It is worth 

 more than it cost, even if one had no use for the 

 bee part of it. The various travels are excellent, 

 and the Rambler is a bonanza of himself. Dr. Mil- 

 ler is the seasoning of the cake, and a host more of 

 them make up the foundation. Long may it live. 



Cuba, 111., July 8. M. W. Murphey. 



THE new crane SMOKER. 



I put on the valve that you sent me. The old one 

 was shriveled up, but I tried the new one the 29th, 

 also to-day. I have had it in constant use for eight 

 hours, and I can not see but it works just as well as 

 when it was first put on. In short, I will say I 

 think, all points considered, the new Crane smoker 



is the liest I ever saw, and I have used nearly all of 

 them. c. H. Austin. 



Allen. Mich., July 31. 



I received those labels in good shape. 1 am very 

 much obliged for being so prompt in filling the or- 

 der. I was more than surprised when I went to tiie 

 postoffice and found them there. I would advise 

 any one who produces comb or extracted honey to 

 send to A. I. Root for one of his honey-label cata- 

 logues, and be surprised. R. R. Welsh 



Portage Creek, Pa., July 31. 



AN A B C scholar's SUCCESS. 



Inclosed find $1.00, for which please send me 

 Gleanings. About three years ago I bouglit vour 

 ABC book and a swarm of pure Italian bees,' and 

 had four or five swarms of other bees, said to be 

 Italians, and now I have 30. They are the strongest 

 of swarms. I have had the grandest kind of suc- 

 cess, and I want to give you all the credit, for I 

 went according to your instructions— bought my 

 supplies of Nysewander. I iiave done so well that I 

 am going to let my farm next year and give all mv 

 attention to my bees. I expect to take in $100 this 

 year for bees and honey. I am taking off tlie supers 

 now that aie filled with the most beautiful white- 

 clover honey, all capped over. P. H. Morris. 



Webster City, la., July 30. 



Mr. Boot;— Friend James, of Gordon, N. S. W., has 

 been taking prizes for his tomatoes and other veg- 

 etables wherever shown this year, and he " blames " 

 your seed for it. Well, I also want to take some 

 prizes next year, and so am sending to you for a 

 small assortment of seed. I wish the " boss printer " 

 had followed your suggestions in the March 15th 

 numlier (1 think that was the date) to condense the 

 catalogue and publish it, as I do not know what to 

 order. 



Gleanings is fully appreciated here. The only 

 fault we find in it is, that it is so long between the 

 numbers, and that the " High-pressure Gardening " 

 column is so short. That column alone is worth the 

 subscription. 



Please send the seeds by return mail. I shall get 

 them in time for oui spring in this part — Septem- 

 ber. I shall have a J. W. Day calico frame ready 

 for them when they arrive. Herbert J. Rumsey. 



Boronia, Barber's Creek, New South Wales. 



KIND WORDS FROM CALIFORNIA, AND A GOOD 

 HONEY REPORT AS WELL. 



Friend Boot .-—Proceed with j^our blessed religious 

 talk. It doeth good like a medicine. It does good 

 even to those who sneer and ridicule and say, " fool- 

 ish" and "silly" and "superstitious." Even they, in 

 the still small hours, will think and ponder, and 

 say, " Perhaps Mr. Root is right;" and if it does not 

 do him a vast amount of good, certainly it does not 

 seem to hurt him any. Proceed, Bro. Root, as I 

 know you will any way. My father, Oliver, went 

 to Mantua, Portiige Co., Ohio, in 1805, where I was 

 born in 1828. There were Roots in Mantua, but I 

 was young when we left there. Myself and sons 

 have often sent to you for goods— always been sat- 

 isfied, I believe. I liave kept a few bees for many 

 years. 1 have two colonies now, from which I took 

 200 lbs. this season. Mr. Holly, 50 rods from me, 

 took 15 to 16 tons, from about 300 swarms. Mr. Ken- 

 ny, a mile away, has between 100 and 200 colonies, 

 and says he is getting rich this year. Mr. Mclntyre. 

 2 miles from here, has still more bees and is doing 

 well. I forgot how well. This is a prosperous sea- 

 son for bees in this locality. Throughout the State, 

 however, I think the result is only fairly good. Our 

 season is now over. Bees are working on other 

 plants than the sage, and the honey is inferior. 

 The first of the lioney is unusually good. In Santa 

 Barbara, where I kept bees 15 years, the honey sea- 

 son continued till October, bees working in the 

 numerous fiower-gardens of the city, often working 

 on tarweed, with the result of excessively bitter 

 honej . In parts of Santa Barbara County honey is 

 usually very good, but scarcely up to the Ventura 

 Co. sage lioney. According to a printed statement 

 now before me, Mr. Archer, in 1876, near Santa 

 Barbara, increased t)ne swarm to 36, and took from 

 it 1576 lbs. of strained honey, and 65 lbs. comb honey. 

 I am well acquainted with Mr. Archer, and consider 

 him reliable, but there may be some mistake some- 

 where. It seems almost incredible. S. P. Snow. 



Fillmore, Cal., July 18. 



