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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15 



Now he is a fine-looking, gray-haired, but well 

 man. 



To-day the women were almost wild with 

 enthusiasm over a lecture on dress, with practi- 

 cal illustrations, by Mrs. Jenness Miller. Now 

 the Indians agaiii. Somebody said when they 

 took the children, there is almost no trouble. 

 We can educate the " Injun " out of them— at 

 least practically so. It isjtrue, they still prefer 

 to lie down on the floor before the fire, to sleep- 

 ing in beds ; but they can be educated, as a 

 rule. We shall have to give up many of these 

 fathers and mothers, but. strange to tell, their 

 untrained parents are all ready and anxious 

 to send their children off to school. Are they 

 so very much different from us whites ? Aren't 

 there some of us who haven't lost all the " In- 

 jun "yet? O dear friend! there is a great lot 

 of Injun yet in my poor self, and I could only 

 say again and again, " May God have mercy on 

 me a sinner." If it were not for the promise 

 that the blood of Christ shall cleanse from all 

 sin, I do not know but that I should lose hope, 

 and sometimes almost give up in despair. 



02 HEBYEARj 



And in their mouth was found no guile; for they are without 

 fault before the throne of God.— Rev. U: 5. 



The Progressive Bee-keeper, although its ed- 

 itor is comparatively new in the business, is al- 

 ready in the front rank of bee-journalism. 



The beginner will find seasonable questions 

 with seasonable answers under the department 

 elsewhere of Answers to Questions. 



Although Gleanings enjoys the distinction 

 of being an illustrated journal, this number in 

 particular is rich in high-class engravings. 



By the time this journal is out. the big Co- 

 lumbian convention will be a matter of history. 

 In our next issue we propose to give, as usual, 

 a brief report of the first sessions. 



A shokt time ago, comparatively, it was our 



Eleasure to announce that Bro. Newman's 

 ealth seemed to be improving; but from the 

 last American Bee Journal we learn that he is 

 very unwell again. However, Mr. Newman 

 expects, at this writing, to be present at the 

 Columbian convention. 



Perhaps many of our readers will be wonder- 

 ing whether it would be advisable for them to 

 try sealed covers in wintering outdoors. We 

 would say, let them alone except for experi- 

 mental purposes in a small way. After all the 

 evidence was secured last spring, the conclusion 

 was irresistible that upward ventilation and 

 absorbents gave the better results. 



It seems from the American Bee Journal, 

 that, years ago, Adam Grimm found, in his 

 experience, that the bright yellow Italian bees 

 were less prolific; but if we may judge from a 

 few of the queens of the yellow sort that have 

 been reared in these latter days we should say 

 they are just as prolific. We hope, since the 23 

 years that have elapsed since Mr. Grimm wrote 

 his article, that queen-rearing has progressed 

 to such a plane that beauty as well as general 

 usefulness have been combined. 



Le Rucher is the title of one of our most 

 valued French exchanges, which enters upon 

 its tenth volume next January. It is edited by 

 Mr. Alexander Leroy, one of the most progres- 

 sive bee-keepers, so far as we know, in France. 

 It is fully up to the times, and is published at 

 Amiens, France. Those of our readers who 

 can "lire la langue fran(;aise" can not do bet- 

 ter, we believe, than by subscribing to this en- 

 terprising paper. 



Glucose, unless there is a large amount of 

 it, does not prevent honey fi'om candying. It 

 is a mistaken notion that all honey that candies 

 is pure. Last spring, when we were experi- 

 menting to determine how reliable a good edu- 

 cated taste was in detecting glucose in honey, 

 it will be remembered that we placed various 

 quantities of the stuff in the honey, varying all 

 the way from 10 to 75 per cent. We have the 

 samples on hand now, and all show more or less 

 candying, with the exception of that which is 

 about 75 per cent of glucose. Bro. Hutchinson, 

 some years ago, tried similar experiments with 

 the same results; but there is a difference 

 between the candying in glucosed honey and 

 that which is absolutely pure; and only one 

 who has carefully compared the two side by 

 side, knowing the contents of each jar, could 

 detect the difference. 



In the Bee-keepers' Review, a correspondent 

 makes some criticism on Mr. Taylor's experi- 

 ment with the Langdon non-swarmer, referring 

 to which Mr. T. caustically replies as follows: 



In replj' to the criticisms of friend Rauchfuss, I 

 de.sire to say tliat I write for those who think and 

 who read before they criticise. Time and space 

 would fail me were I to write at .such length as to 

 compel acceptance witliout the exercise of thought. 

 I know my readers have knowledge, and I expect 

 them to use it in interpreting- me. Tliis is not for 

 friend R. especially, but for certain others also, 

 and, at all events, let the criticism come; it will 

 help to get at the truth which we are all seeking. 



We insert the above because there is a good 

 deal of truth in what Mr. Taylor says, and we 

 ourselves have been many times misinterpreted; 

 but at the same time, the language seems to us 

 "a leetle bit'" harsh; but as friend Taylor has 

 said it, we will let him do the clubbing for our 

 benefit as well as his own. 



For the last two days we have had the very 

 great pleasure of having with us a distinguish- 

 ed bee-keeper clear from Australia— Mr. J. W. 

 Pender, who is vice-president of the Hunter 

 River Bee-keepers' Association— a society that 

 occupies the same position relatively as our 

 North American of this country. Mr. Pender 

 is father of Mr. W. S. Pender, who has written 

 more or less for Gleanings, and through whose 

 instrumentality queen-bees are admitted by 

 mail to all parts of Australia. Mr. Pender goes 

 with us to-day, Oct. 11. to the big convention in 

 Chicago. It is not often that our society has 

 been honored by the presence of so distinguish- 

 ed a delegate from so distant a country. We 

 hope to have more to say in regard to bee-keep- 

 ing in Australia, as we gathered it from some 

 very pleasant conversations. Oh. yes! we are 

 also honored with a visit from Mr. Karl Rudolph 

 Mathey, of Kesmark, Hungary. Mr. Mathey 

 is a German bee-keeper of no small note, and is 

 thoroughly well versed in apicultural subjects 

 for the whole world. Although he speaks sev- 

 eral languages, he can not converse in English; 

 but our old standbys, Mr. Borger and W. P., 

 managed that part admirably, so our conversa- 

 tion has had to be carried on somewhat in the 

 form of a triangle — Mr. B. and W. P. forming 

 one side, Mr. Mathey another, and we forming 

 the base. But we hope to have more to say in 



