1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Contents of this Number. 



Apiarv. Sunrise 



Atlanta Expcisitioli 



Axtell's Review 



Bees (if Caneasus 



Bee-lKii.lv hv Benton 



Blaiifnn's liepoit 



Bni. Ml-clia 111 heis. Divisible.. 

 Bui'kwheat Not Reliable .... 



Bulletins, Uii\-erunient 



DiH-tniinL' Withciut DruRs... 



Drones Coui tiuL;- 



Drv-weatlier Vine 



Eehoes, California 



Feertlug: in Winter Quarters. 

 Food, anil Temper of Bees. . . 



Footnotes 



Foiniic Aeifl for Foul Brood. 

 Foundation. T aylor'sTest. . 



Oreenhouse Irrigation 



Heildon's Quarterly 



Honey Exchange. Califor'a.. 

 Honey, Mrs. Axtell on 



Hoiiev. Calif 01 Ilia 



Hot-lied witli Exhan-t Steam 

 Inti-odii.-iutr. IntallibleWav. 



Lettuce, (iiand Rapids '. . 



Norman's Review 



Paekapes for Honey. Neat.. 



PiekiufTs by the Way 



Potato, Crais' 



Potato. Thoroughbred 



Potatoes, New. Christmas. . . 

 Potatoes. 7:«ii, Bu. to Acre.. . 



Prices, Fixing 



Oueen-cells. How Name' 



Rambler .Vrtiides 



Scarlet Clover in Illinois.... 



Sub-irrigation 



Swarms, Pi event'g Uniting. 



Wallenmeyei's Exhibit 



Wet Years. One in Seven 



Wintering. Doolittle on 



Wintering. Qtiinby 's Plan 



Zwieback 



CONVENTION NOTICE. 



The Wisconsin State Bee-keejiers' Societ.v will meet Feb. li, 

 1896, in the Capitol builtling, Madison. Program later. 



N. E. France, Sec, Platteville, Wis. 



The Ontario Coi Bee-keepers' Association will hold its next 

 annual meeting in Canandaigua, N. Y . Jan. 24. 2.o. An inter- 

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

 ers outside of the county. Ruth E. Taylok Sec. 



Bellona, N. Y. 



Those intending to attend the special meeting of the Illinois 

 State Bee-keepers' Association, in Chicago, Jan. 9 and 10, will 

 please notice that railroad lates will be on the certificate plan 

 — certiticates to be taken at place of inirchasing ticket, and 

 signed at Chicago, before returning, by tlie agent of the Cycle 

 Exhibition Co., and vised b.v the joint agent of the railway 

 lines. Tickets going may lie obtained at an.y time between 

 Jan. 1st and lltli. and return at any time between Jan. 1th and 

 16th. Jas. a. Stone, Sec. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Allow me to coiieratuUite you 011 your ma?niflcent 

 Langstroth memorial in current number. 

 Lock Haven, Pa., Dec. 19. E. J. Baird. 



Glk.anings has become almost a household ne- 

 cessitj% we tliink. Those Home talks I like to read, 

 believing you are honest in your convictions. They 

 do me good to read them, though you advocate 

 some forms of doctrine I don't believe. I like to 

 see a man frank and honest in what he believes. 



Rockville, Ind. D. M. Swaim. 



KIND WORDS FOR THE BEEFSTEAK AND HOT WATER. 



Say to Ernest that I am feeling better than I have 

 for the last two years. 1 give nearly all the credit to 

 the hot water. I have missed ray hot beverage hut 

 two or three times since I began. I am a pure-water 

 crank, and I went to the expense of putting up a 

 distill to distill water. You don't know what a dif- 

 ference there is in the taste of the water. I have all 

 my life drank extremely hard water; but this that 

 I am now drinking is softer tlian the softest rain 

 water. It makes a fine suds. The capacity of the 

 distill is 12 (juarts in 2t hours. The cost of running 

 it is nothing, for the heat lost by the condensation 

 of the steam heats the room. It is attaclied to our 

 steam-heater. 



Two weeks after I got home I weighed only 146 

 lbs. I now weigh 166. Say to Ernest tliat I may get 

 up to 18 ', the weight he said I ought to attain. The 

 butcher leaves I'A lbs. of steak here every da.v. I 

 am heautifiilln hunory. and drink 3 quarts of distiUeii 

 water a d;iy. It makes me sweat, and keeps my skin 

 in a moist condition. F. A. Salisbury. 



Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 26. 



2(K) TONS OF HONEY INSTEAD OF 40. 



Fricitd A. I. Rout: — I was much interestjpd in your 

 account of the AUanta trip, and well pleased with 

 it There is niie little item I would have changed, 

 howcYcr. had ! read the proof. Spt-aking of the 

 Ploi'ida friends you write: ''For they marketed 

 over 40 tons of honey in 1894, and all from one com- 

 paratively small locality." The four who were there 

 produced considerably over ."iO tons, and they and 

 their neighbors over 20O tons, from a "small local- 

 ity." The matter is unun|iortant, and hardlj' worth 

 correcting; but I mention it as we feel quite well 



round figures that repnesent itl '• 



We all came home with colds in our heads, and 

 friend Hrown has suffered considerably with his, 

 but is better now. 



The last issue of Gleanings is a very valuable 

 one, and I for one thank you all for it, and especial- 

 ly the part referring to our dear deceased friend 

 and brother, "Father Lansstroth." Either rela- 

 tionship as above, through affection or fraternity in 

 occupation, or even acquaintance with so good a 

 man, is a great privilege, and one that I highly nrize. 



Hawks Park, Fla. W. S. Hart. 



Potatoes. 



20 Varieties, $2.00. 

 • • • A Rare Chance I 



Ten cents pays for packet Cabbage, Beet, Tomato, 

 Lettuce, and Radish seeds. Catalog free. 



a. F. AIICUA.EK, Greenville, O. 



Ever.vone interested in- 



Strawberries 



should have my descriptive catalog for 1896. 

 Free to all. 



C. N. Flansburgh, Leslie, Mich. 

 '^Illustrated CATALOG FREE. 



It contains insti'uctions, and descriptions of a full 

 line of Bee-keepur.s' Supplies made by the A. 1. 

 Root Co. Send list of goods wanted and get prices. 

 Beeswax made up, bought, or taken in exchange. 



M. H. HUNT, Bell Branch, flich. 



Flease mention this pai)er. 



Wants and Exchange Department. 



WANTED.— To exchange safety bicycles, and an 

 Odell typewriter, for honey, beeswax, or gas- 

 oline or kciosene engine. J. A. Grekn, Ottawa, III. 



WANTED.— To exchange hives for nursery stock, 

 plums, gooseberries, etc. 



J. F. Michael, Greenville, Ohio. 



WANTED.— A situation in apiary by young man 

 of 19 years, with some experience. References 

 given. Address Stephen E. Bark, Yale, Mich. 



ANTED.— To exchange foundation-mills and 

 honey-extractors for honey or wax. 

 I, J. Stringham, 105 Park Place, New York. 



ANTED— To exchange 300 colonies of bees for 

 anything useful on plantation. 



Anthony Opp, Helena, Ark. 



WANTED.— To exchange 26-in. planer and matcher 

 and scroll-saw (for power) for wood-working 

 machinery or cash. Geo. Rall, Galesville, Wis. 



WANTED.— To exchange peach-trees, and Abon- 

 dance. Burbank. and Satsuma plum-trees, for 

 Italian bees and extracted homy. 10 peach-trees 

 by mail, 60 els.: 5 plum-trees by mail, 60 cts. 

 John Cauwalladek, ' 



North Madison, Ind. 



WANTED.— A position to work in apiary or a 

 fireman; Mge 2.3, single. Write at once. Ex- 

 perience in both. P. W. Stahi.man. 



Ringgold, Pa. 



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ANTED.— The address of parties who buy furs 

 and pelts. Thomas Gedye, Seneca, 111. 



WANTED.— To exchange for suburban or Cali- 

 fornia property, or sail or steam vessel, 50 

 acres or more of good Florida land. What have you 

 to otter? ., ) L. K. Smith, Grant, Fla. 



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