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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 15. 



■easily as can be done ivWi any hangiiui frame: 

 there are no rabbets cut in the hive, tior corners 

 for the bees to daub with propolis; it is practi- 

 cally a double trailed hive without extra cost 

 or weight, or in any way changing the outward 

 symmetry of the hive. 



All pans of these fixtures are designed to be 

 used ill any \^. hive 14I4 or Ukj wide; as they 

 are supported from the lower edgf\ the extra 

 depth will afford space for top packing, so that 

 thousands of old hives can be fitted, up to use 

 these sections, at a trifling cost. 



Sixteen extra pages again. 



"Are you on the beef diet yet?" Yes, sir, 

 both of us, and we expect to keep on it so long 

 as we keep on improving. 



I SHOULD be glad to receive suggestions as to 

 proper subjects for symposiums that may occur 

 during the year, in our columns. Several have 

 been already proposed, and I should prefer to 

 make a selection from a large list, and take as 

 practical questions as may be— something the 

 discussion of which will lead to real practical 

 results. 



The date of the meeting of the Ontario Bee- 

 keepers" Association is Jan. 16th and 17ih, at 

 Brantford, Ont. I had intended to be present 

 at this meeting; but it follows too closely on 

 the heels of the convention which takes place 

 in Chicago this week on the lOLh and 11th. I 

 can not very well get home, catch up with my 

 work, and attend the other convention, in Can- 

 ada. 



Ou.jECTiON has been made by some of our 

 subscribers to the very glossy paper upon which 

 Gleanings has been printed for two or three 

 months. By a mistake, the paper-mill sent us 

 a paper more glossy than we ordered, and we 

 decided to let the matter go. We shall be 

 using now, shortly, from the next car of paper, 

 some that will be entirely free from this objec- 

 tionable glare. We always desire 10 print 

 liLEANiNGS on the very best of paper — that 

 which will bring out the half-tones well, and 

 give a general pleasing effect to the printed 

 page. 



Somnambulist, in the Progressive Bee keep- 

 er, after commenting on the naughty way that 

 some people have been treating him, winds up 

 in this philosophical way : "Young man, you 

 can't quarrel with me, for I have learned the 

 art of never being hurt when hit, as I find my 

 fellow-creatures seldom hit those they can not 

 hurt." The italics are mine. The i)ossession 

 of such an art is a valuable one indeed; and if 

 we do not all of us have it, I believe it can be 



acquired. I am not very often hit; but when I 

 am hit unjustly by a friend it hurts. When I 

 am hit by an enemy, I am like the proverbial 

 duck and the drops of water. 



Bro. Hutchinson has been passing through 

 deep waters. The serious illness of his daugh- 

 ter Ivy has absorbed a good deal of his time of 

 late, from the Review, and he begs the indulg- 

 ence of his readers. I am sure he need make 

 no such apology, for both the numbers that 

 were issued during her sickness have been 

 quite up to the former standard of excellence. 

 We have been having serious illness at our 

 house, and for a few days we were fearful that 

 the worst might come. Mrs. A. I. R., wife, 

 mother, grandma, and aunt, of Rootville, and 

 one who has ministered to us all so faithfully 

 when we were sick, in the years that have gone 

 by, was the one this lime to be stricken down. 

 She seems to be, at the present writing, out of 

 danger, and all Rootville, from the last baby 

 to grandpa, is rejoicing. 



bee-sting poison, and its effects on the 

 human system. 



A subscriber wants to know if bee-sting poi- 

 son injected into the system in the ordinary 

 routine work in the apiary, year after year, will 

 not in time result in some chronic trouble in 

 the system. 1 know of hundreds of bee-keepers 

 (and perhaps it is safe to say they have been 

 stung thousands of times), who yet seem to be 

 none the worse for " Apis mellifica," as the bee- 

 sting poison is sometimes called. On the other 

 hand, there have appeared a few, a very few 

 cases where the subject seemed to be unfavora- 

 bly affected; but even in these, the ills and ail- 

 ments of the human body are so numerous and 

 complicated that it is not altogether clear that 

 the poison of the bee had any thing to do with 

 the trouble in the exceptions noted. 



CALIFORNIA HONEY NOT ADULTERATED, AND 

 WHY. 



A FEW issues ago Mr. Dayton made statements 

 to the effect that a large portion of Califor- 

 nia honey was adulterated. Rambler and 

 Prof. Cook say that the best extracted sells in 

 California at 3 cts. It looks as though there 

 could be no adulterating honey with glucose, 

 in California at least, especially after paying 

 freight on the inferior article manufactured in 

 the Ea^t. If there is any adulteration prac- 

 ticed at all, the California honey would be 

 shipped east; then the price would be raised 

 high enough by the freight, after the honey 

 has got into the glucose regions, to make glu- 

 cosing possibly profitable. Gleanings does 

 not wish to ever conceal the facts about glu- 

 cosing— that is, to try to carry the idea that it 

 is not adulterated when it may be; but when 

 the probabilities are the other way, it will use 

 all its influence to show that the honey is pure. 



