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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1.5. 



with blacks, or nearly blacks, when the brood 

 was all from the same queen. Why was this 

 so? 



Answer. — If you had told whecher you had 

 one colony or ont^ hundred, or if you had Ital- 

 ians and blacks in the same yard, standing 

 near each other, an intelligent answer could 

 have been more easily given. If you had a pure 

 German colony and an Italian colony standing 

 side by side, it would be nothing at all unusual 

 for you to find things as you state; for young 

 bees, when out for an airing, often mix, where 

 hives stand close together. If this is not the 

 right solution to the problem, then I should 

 calculate that your black or German queen 

 mated with an Italian drone, so that she pro- 

 duced what is known as hybrid bees; and I 

 judge this latter is the real truth in the case. 

 Where a German queen mates with an Italian 

 drone, many of her bees look like good Italians, 

 many like blacks, and the majority are a mix- 

 ture of the two as to markings. 



I had been invited, by the committee of the 

 Woman's Congress of the Cotton States Expo- 

 sition, to deliver at the Assembly Hall of the 

 Woman's Building an essay on bee culture for 

 women, which I did; and illustrated, by means 

 of charts, the fertilization of flowers. At the 

 close we had a pleasant "conversazione" rela- 

 tive to bees and honey-plants. 



While at the exposition at Atlanta I kept a 

 sharp lookout to see what advancement the 

 Cotton States had made in bee culture. On 

 entering the Georgia Building I saw a credit- 

 able exhibit of honey and supplies, by Dr. 

 Brown, of Augusta. In the N^gro Building 

 was a small but neat case of comb honey from 

 Alabama. In the West Florida exhibit, Alder- 

 man & Roberts, of Wewahitchka, had bees, 

 comb, and extracted honey, bearing its trade- 

 mark of " Orange Bloom." In the Plant Build- 

 ing was a case of several varieties of comb 

 honey of a peculiar whiteness, from Manatee 

 Co. I also saw bales of alfalfa, which promises 

 much to the bee culturists of Florida. 



At St. Andrews Bay, the past season, the 

 honey-flow was a failure, owing to an unprece- 

 dented fall of rain during the early bloom. 

 When it stopped it was followed by a severe 

 and protracted drouth. 



, A lady told me to-day, that, while stopping 

 this fall at Pensacola, she wanted honey to cure 

 a cold, and inquired for it at groceries and 

 drugstores, but failed to find any. 



Mbs. L. Harrison. 



St. Andrews, Fla., Dec. 25. 



HOW LANGSTROTH WAS ESTEEMED IN RUSSIA. 



The following will explain itself: 



Mr. A. I. Boot:— The Russian Society of Api- 

 culture has received the sad news of the death 

 of father L. L. Langstroth, the most eminent 

 bee-keeper of the century. The members of our 

 society know that the American bee-keepers, as 

 broihers of a large family, have done their best 

 to gladden the last days of their leader, and 

 that your journal was a distributing center of 

 the gifts to him. 



At the meeting on the 10th of December the 

 undersigned bee keepers, members of the Rus- 

 sian Society of Apiculture, collected the sum of 

 .53 rubles (.f26.90), and have asked me, ais the 

 chief editor of the Journal of the Rnssian So- 

 ciety of Apiculture, to send to you this sum, 

 and to beg you to be so kind as to forward it to 

 the remaining family of Mr. Langstroth. May 

 the check inclosed be at least a faint indication 

 of the friendship between the Russian and 

 American bee-keepers. 



All the members present express their sincere 

 regards to the memory of the great bee-keeper, 

 and their honorable respect to his family. 



I give here the list of names of the bee-keep- 

 ers who were present at the meeting of Dec. 10, 

 and who have made donations: 

 Belewich, Nasilof, L. Glasenapp, S. Glasenapp, 



Maloff, Philosophtf, Nikiforoff, Alferoff, Goni, 



Pentkowsky, Staritzky, Molewsky-Molewich, 



Owsiannikoff, Pocrowsky, Glagolewa, Ship- 



manoff, Aglenko, Kasin, Tomiloff, Mendel, 



Pelesky. TezofimofT. 



I am, sir, very truly yours, 



Prof. S. Glasenapp. 



University of St. Petersburg, Russia. 



[I am sure our American bee-keepers will 

 greatly appreciate this honor. We take plea- 

 sure in forwarding the amount to Mrs. Cowan, 

 the daughter of Mr. Langstroth, at Dayton.— 

 Ed.J 



those rambler articles. 



You ask for opinions about a cessation of 

 Rambler's articles. Perhaps as records of 

 travel they had; for. good as they have been, 

 people will tire. Notwithstanding, I freely 

 express my appreciation of them as having 

 been intellectually vigorous, well illustrated, 

 geographically instructive, having wholesome 

 humor without loss of respectability, and. with- 

 al, having a good moral pointing, calculated to 

 inspire both old and young. And as to the 

 future say: Rambler, knowing what he does 

 about the practical side of apiculture, admit- 

 ting that his growing apiary demands more at- 

 tention, might be expected to give readers of 

 Gleanings first-class items warm from the 

 workman's hand and brain. Of all the hereto- 

 fore regular contributors, I fancy that Ram- 

 bler's new articles, fresh from actual bee-work 

 of his own, would be read more eagerly than 

 any others, unless those of Mr. Doolittle and 

 Dr. Miller are excepted. T. C. Potter. 



Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 38. 



