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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dkc. 15. 



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 PER YEARj 



The LonI is slow to anger, ami gieat iii power, and will not 

 at all acquit the wicked— Nahum 1:3. 



Eight extra pages in this issue. 



The new series of the Canadian Bee Journal 

 is proving to be a great improvement over the 

 old series. 



Dr. Mason lool<s too sober in the picture of 

 the Ohio honey-exhibit shown in another col- 

 umn. Say, doctor, why didn't you give us a 

 square look? 



A VERY important point brought forth in the 

 article by R. L. Taylor is, that " age is no dis- 

 advantage to foundation." This confirms 

 what Mr. Doolittle said in a late number. Un- 

 til facts shall be brought forth to the contrary, 

 we shall advise that foundation be not rejected 

 simply because it is old. 



Special attention is called again to the book 

 review in this issue. The thing that is particu- 

 larly interesting is to see how generally Huber 

 is right and how generally Huish is wrong. 

 Fortunately we are placed at a time in the 

 world's hij-tory when we know almost to a cer- 

 tainty the right and the wrong side of the dis- 

 puted points between Huber and Huish. 



The American Bee Journal has just been 

 making some " Inexcusable Mistakes." We are 

 sort o' glad of it, because over this way misery 

 loves company— see page 884. Well, to do a 

 little more confessing ourselves, we headed Mr. 

 Boardman's item, on page 889. '" Raising Sweet- 

 clover Seed," when we should have put it, 

 " Sowing," etc. Couldn't blame this on to the 

 typos this time. 



Good men may honestly differ. Alack the 

 day when editors or correspondents-can not ex- 

 press honest convictions for fear they may hurt 

 the feelings of the other side 1 Where there is 

 an honest difference of opinion, as there may 

 be between Bro. York and ourselves with refer- 

 ence to the Michigan Experiment Station, tiiere 

 will be no wounded feelings, because each of us 

 accords to the other sincerity of purpose and 

 honesty of opinion. 



The publishers of the ^/r?.evica?i Beekeeper 

 are about to undertake a novel plan of making 

 their deadheads pay up. Tiiey propose to 

 '• publish a list of the accounts " in their Febru- 

 ary number, and '• will offer them to the high- 

 est bidder." The list will include back dues 

 on subscriptions. No doubt the list will speed- 

 ily grow smaller before February. The scheme 

 is not a bad one to make the " poor-pays square 

 up;" but we shouldn't like to undertake it. 



Dr. Miller, in Straws, picks us up on the 

 statement, made in answer to a correspondent, 

 that " non-swarming means in most cases little 

 or no honey." We will acknowledge to the doc- 

 tor that the statement as we left it is a little 

 open to criticism. What we had in mind, al- 

 though we see we did not say so, was, that the 

 effort, on the part of the apiarist, including all 

 the various fixings to prevent swarming, so dis- 

 concerts the bees, that, if they do not swarm, 

 they do not gather honey. 



Our exhibit of supplies at first was back in a 

 corner, as Dr. Mason explains in another col- 



umn; but this was through no fault of Dr. Mil- 

 ler, who first set it up. Even after the Fair 

 was open, it was a long time, owing to the gen- 

 eral confusion, before Buchanan would say 

 where the exhibit should be put, although we 

 had engaged a certain space. After much so- 

 licitation, Buchanan finally put his foot down 

 on the floor where one corner of the case might 

 come. Dr. Miller marked the spot with a navl. 

 glad to get even something definite. Our ex- 

 hibit, being among the first put up, showed up 

 a little in the rear when the others were put up. 



Yes. Dr. Miller, I did hear things a little dif- 

 ferently twenty years ago from what I do now, 

 and may God be praised for an enlightened 

 hearing. But I take exceptions to your ex- 

 pression, " h^very bicyclist seems to be inclined 

 to double himself up like a letter C." I have 

 always ridden straight up, and I always mean 

 to ride straight up; and although I never expect 

 to enter the lists among the racers, yet I get 

 along pretty fairly. In regard to football, I 

 think it is high time that some of our college 

 professors were taken 1 y the collar and 

 straightened up. I am afraid there are other 

 people besides the wheelers who are inclined to 

 double up like a letter C, especially when the 

 '■gambling mania" gets a clutch on our sports 

 and recreations. A. I. R. 



The Progressive Bee-keeper says: " No class 

 of publications can show as clean advertising 

 pages as the bee-journals of to-day. They are free 

 from quack doctors and other humbugs that 

 fill the columns of many of our newspapers. 

 Even our religions papers are full of swindles." 

 Mr. Leahy has put it about right. We are 

 surprised and ashamed that some of our best 

 religious papers do contain in their advertising 

 pages that which is not bread, and satisfieth 

 not. They of all papers ought to be the leaders 

 in good clean advertising, as well as in every 

 thing else. We reject a large amount of adver- 

 tising because we do not want our readers- 

 duped, and because we do not care to lumber 

 up the cards of our regular patrons with every 

 thing under the sun, good or bad. 



The year 1893 will soon be gone; and, accord- 

 ing to the general custom, we presume we ought 

 to express suitable acknowledgements for past 

 favors, say something appropriate for the sea- 

 son, and then tell what we are going to do for 

 1894. When we see in so many journals the 

 usual stereotyped platitudes of the season — 

 well, somehow it makes us "'tired." There is 

 nothing magical about the ending of the old 

 year or the beginning of the new. Gleaning.s- 

 proposes to go on, just as it has been doing, but 

 always looking for improvements first, last, and 

 all the time. Of course, we've got lots of new 

 schemes for the new year, but we think it bet- 

 ter to let them materialize at the propiT time, 

 unheralded. These remarks are not suggested 

 by any thing appearing in bee-journals of late 

 — they are too practical for platitudes. 



Prof. A. J. Cook's future address will be 

 Claremont, Cal.. can; of Pomona College. The 

 apicultnral world will probably hear from him 

 the same as formerly. We hope that, in his 

 new home, he will find so much to write upon 

 apicultural matters that he will have nothing 

 to say about sugar honey. We are very sorry to 

 see that he has been writing more articles on 

 the subject for some of our apicultural papers, 

 even intimating that he believed that there was 

 a large amount of such honey on the markets. 

 If there is, it is not sold under its true name. 

 That being the case, and it being produced in 

 quantities, it is sold for genuine bee-honey, and 



