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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1.5. 



Contents of this Number. 



Alfalfa lllustiatea '/ 



Bee-caves ^^ 



86615660111?, Co.st to Start. . 48 



Beef V. Fish 51 



Bicyi'les— Warning 52 



Blacks V. Italians til 



Boardnian at Institute ■•■i 



Brood olianiber. Size ot ^iii 



Buckwheat. Wild -f 



Celerv under Glass T8 



Clarke's Explanation 52 



Commission Houses 69 



Cuba. War in 63 



Danzenbaker H ve 64 



Doctorinsr without Medic'e.. 72 



Escape, Porter Spring 64 



Foundation, Old, Good 6S 



Frame-sjiacers •_•" 



Frames, Square, Wliy 'j 



Frames, Danzenbaker's. iji 



Gardening in January 7S 



Goodhue on War 74 



Hai-rison, Mrs., at Atlanta. . O-! 



Hive, Danzenbaker 6(> 



Hives, Nundiering .55,60 



70 



Home of Honaybees 



Honey, California 68 



Honey Marketing Califor'a. 49 

 Honey, Daniels' Artificial.. . 7.5 



Horleck's Milk 69 



House-apiaiics 6.t 



Keller. llcU-n 7.3 



Kiiilc rlii- cl. Apiary 59 



Lettuce. Starting 76 



Meat, Lean v. Fat 72 



Nails as S)iacers .57 



Norman's Review 50 



Paralvsis through Queen... 63 



Puultiviuid Bees 57 



Queens. Nmiiber from Nuc's. 61 



Rambles Discussed 62 



Recipes, Fiaudulent 75 



Russian Langstroth Fund. . . 62 



Stiims, Ktlertsof 68 



.Stings anil Rlieumatism -51 



Svmiiosium. Review of .54 



rneapiiing-box, Mit.'liell's. . .-.9 

 Wateimg, Sub irrig.ation... . iii 



Wax, Water-soaking 6:i 



Zwieback 73 



CONVENTION NOTICE. 



The 16th annual convention of the Colorado State Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association will be held Jan. 20,21, 22, in the Horticultu- 

 ral Rooms of the Capitol building, Denver. Every bee-keeper 

 is invited to be present and join the society. 



Frank Rauchfhss, Sec, Duff, Colo. 



The Ontario Co. Bee-keepers' Association will hold its next 

 annual meeting In Canandaigua. N. Y.. Jan. 24. 25. An Inter- 

 esting time is expected. All are invited, especially bee-keep- 

 ers outside of the county. Ruth E. Taylor, Sec. 



Bellona.N. Y. 



The Wisconsin State Bee-keepers' Society will meet Feb. 6, 7, 

 1896, in the Capitol building, Madison. 



The following is the program: ,, ^ • , „■ u 



President's address, F. Wilcox. Advantages in location, H. 

 Latbrop. Sweet clover as a honev-plaiit, J. J. Ochsner. Size of 

 brood-chamber, C. A. Hatch. Production and sale ot comb 

 honev >. Murray. Production and sale of extracted honey, J. 

 Hoffman. House apiaries, B. Taylor (Mr. Taylor will be pres- 

 ent) Benefits of a foul-brood law, N. France. Conimiss.on 

 men, L. M, Willis and S.T. Fish & Co. . . 



There will be a question-box. As other State societies are in 

 sessi(m the same week, all will be able to get excursion rates 

 on all railroads by getting full-fare certificate where tickets 

 are purchased. ^ ^ France, Sec, Platteville, Wis. 



Kind Words From Our Customers. 



RHUBARB CULTURE IN FLORIDA. 



[During my visit last winter I asked the friends a 

 good many times why it was they they did not grew 

 rhubarb to ship to the North; but no one had been 

 successful, so far as I could learn. As an e.Yperi- 

 ment we shipped some large roots to one of the 

 friends down there along the lore part of December, 

 and here is his report: ] 



Dear Bro. Boot:— You don't know how tickled T 

 am over my rhubarb. It is 6 inches high now, somo 

 of it. Will you please drop me a line in regard to 

 when to cut it and how to offer it for sale— that is, 

 what shape ? I do not know one thing about it. 



Tarpon Springs, Fla., Dec. 27. D. S. Buchanan. 



A KIND WORD IN REGARD TO OUR LIGHT COLD- 

 FRAME SASHES. 



Let us have more high-pressure gardening. If 

 honey fails, we can have vegetables. The cold- 

 frames I STOt la-st fall paid for themselves— glass, 

 paint, and all— with the first crop raised under them 

 —a bad crop at that. I think they would last long- 

 er, though, if the middle-bars could be put in with- 

 out making notches in the end-bars. 



Alexandria, Ind., Aug. 31. B. E. Edwards. 



We are glad to know you got your money back so 

 quick, fi'iend E. We have the matter under consid- 

 eration in regard to making tlie frames stronger 

 witliout making them any heavier. 



Bro. Root;— I have just returned from a "ramble" 

 of several weeks' duration, and find a pile of mail 

 on my desk. Taking up flr.st of all acopyot Glean- 

 ings I find a very broad intimation that the series 

 of articles by that veteran wanderer, the Rambler, 

 are to be discontinued. Mr. Editor, I object! ! You 

 hear me! ! ! ??? 



I have been a reader of Gleanings ever since it 

 was born into this world of wickedness and woe. 



with the exception of a few years when I myself 

 was rambling. I have watched with pride fraternal 

 the evolution of the infant paper from the time it 

 looked (size and sliape I mean) like a patent-medi- 

 cine almanac until the day when it pioudl> donned 

 a " yaller overcoat, and incidentally remarked "cir- 

 culation so many thousands; so many extra pages 

 this time." and stepped into the ti out rank of api- 

 cultural literature. 



I have never quarreled with the editor because he 

 would persist in usingand reconimendingadiflerent 

 hive from mine; and when my honey crop failed to 

 materialize I have spent what little money 1 could 

 raise for a few barrels of sugar, fed it to the bees, 

 and cheerfully " hung the editor up" lor another 

 year's subscription. I have left the bees to take 

 care of themselves to read Gleanings beneath the 

 shade of a friendly tree; and the Rambler and A. I. 

 Root usually divided honors with me— at leastthere 

 were more propoli.s- covered tiiumb-prints in their 

 vicinity than elsewhere; and then I have- 

 But "this is a long letter to write a busine.ss man, 

 so I will close. If Bro. Martin has seen Die error of 

 his ways, and is about to depart from sinyle blessed- 

 ness, I will cheerfully forget and forgive; other- 

 wise, never. J. A. Nash. 

 Monroe, la., Jan. 1. 



Italian Untested queens, $1.00; tested. $1 25. Bees 

 Bees by the pound, $1.00. Full colonies, $6.00; 



and nuclei, 2-frames, with queen, $2..50; 1- 



Queens. frame, f2. 00; queens after Aug., 50 cents. 

 B. P. and W. P. R. eggs for setting, 15 for $1.00. 



MRS. A. A. SIMPSOJ^, Swarts, F'a. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. Unsurpassed Honey Market. 

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 Commission Merchants. ,gtfdb and Prompt. 



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Ten cents pays for packet Cabbage. Beet, Tomato, 

 Lettuce, and Radish seeds. Catalog free. 



J. F. MIOHAEI^, Greenville, O. 



Everyone interested in- 



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C. N. Flansburgh, Leslie, Mich. 



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