1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



417 



" Who is he ? " asked Thompson. 



" Gleanings in Bee Culture ! The greatest 

 bee-periodical in the world, and you ask me 

 who is he f and you a bee-keeper!" 



Here there was a great roar of laughter at 

 Mr. Thompson's expense; for by this time the 

 sidewalk and half the street were blocked up 

 with people. 



"But how do you get such nice honey? I 

 want to get white honey too." 



" Well, Mr. Thompson, in your locality, and 

 with your management, you will have to do 

 two things — " 



"That's it — that's what I want to know," 

 said Thompson. 



"In the first place, subscribe for Gleanings 

 IN Bee Culture, $1.00 per year, A. I. Root Co., 

 Medina, Ohio. In the second place, scrub down 

 each individual bee with soap and water, every 

 morning, during the honey season. 



At this, there was another wild roar of laugh- 

 ter and a clapping of hands. Unfortunately 

 for me, however, at this moment a donkey, 

 about a hundred yards down the street, gave 

 three of the most unearthly brays that I ever 

 heard in the donkey kingdom. An urchin in 

 the crowd cried out, " There's another feller 

 that want's to sell his honey." 



This brought down the house — or, rather, the 

 street. At this point the partner of the mer- 

 chant mounted a box in the doorway, and 

 shouted, "John! buy the whole load and get 

 that lunatic away!" 



"Well," said the storekeeper meekly, "will 

 youletupjf I take 25 cases at the price you 

 name?" 



" I will, with great pleasure; and I am only 

 sorry I did not let up before that other donkey 

 set up his opposition song. But, gentlemen, I 

 am still the far-famed, undaunted, unterrified 

 Skylark, of Gleanings in Bee Culture, even 

 if a ragged urchin did turn the laugh on me. 

 This circus is now adjourned— to be renewed in 

 some other part of the city."n 



I was not long in selling out. This is truly 

 an infallible way of selling honey. But I don't 

 want you fellows to be going round in the East- 

 ern cities, representing yourselves to be the 

 true, original, and unadulterated Skylark, of 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture. If you [^do, you 

 will be detected, for some one will ask you to 

 lend him a bale of undeveloped intellect, and 

 you won't^have it about your clothes." 



the CALIFORNIA HONEY EXCHANGE.^ 



I see that Rambler''has full charge of the 

 California Honey Exchange. This is as cit 

 should be— a professional bee-kfeper at |the 

 head of it. When the Association announced 

 that the secretary need not bo a bee-keeper I 

 thought they had made a great mistake. In 

 fact, I did not see how any other than a pro- 

 fessional could carry on the business. As I 

 understand it, Mr. Youngken, the former sec- 



retary, got tangled up with apicultural terms 

 and names, and voluntarily resigned. The di- 

 rectors at once put J. H. Martin (Rambler) at 

 the head of the Exchange, satisfied that he 

 could jerk the kinks out of all the apicultural 

 terms at the present time out of jail. 



THE PACIFIC BEE .lOURNAL. 



The Pacific Bee Journal for April comes to 

 us in a new Sunday dress. It is very much im- 

 proved, inside and out. In the galaxy of dis- 

 tinguished writers are Skylark, Prof. Cook, and 

 Rambler. What more do you want to carry 

 any periodical on to success ? If you fellows in 

 the East want to know any thing about bees 

 you had better subscribe at once. 



What has become of the Rural Kansan, n6e 

 The Kansas Beekeeper ? Has it, too, given up 

 the ghost? I have not seen any thing of it for 

 two months. It had entirely too many depart- 

 ments to be intelligently conducted by one per- 

 son. Every one is not a Skylark— not by a long 

 shot — equal to any occasion. 



TWO STARTERS IN A SECTION. 



HOW TO FASTEN FOUNDATION IN BROOD-FRAMES 

 AND SECTIONS. 



By B. Taylor. 



Mr. B. Taylor:—! see by your article in Gleanings, 

 page 102, that you use two pieces of foundatioa in 

 sections. Will you please explain to me how you 

 put it in, and what kind of section-holder you use? 

 I have been using- the T tins and full sheets in sec 

 tions; but last year they came down and caused 

 lots of trovible. I puc foundation in with the foot- 

 presser, so I sliould like to know how you work 

 them. My sections are hard to clean. I also use 

 the 4}4x4J^xl''3, Root smooth section and L. liive. 

 You will confer a great favor if you will please an- 

 swer and make plain these few points. 

 Crestline, O. Abraham Koontz. 



Mr. iJoot;— The letter above given* is a sample 

 of many I have received lately. The question 

 of putting the foundation both into sections 

 and brood frames is of far greater importance 

 than is generally supposed, if we would have 

 the brood combs in the best condition, and the 

 section honey of fine finish and best shipping 

 condition. In my early experience in using 

 sections [ fastened the foundation with melted 

 wax, using a camel-hair brush, and many other 

 methods of doing the work. I had no trouble 

 from foundation falling out; but the method 

 was slow, and the job not as neat as I wished; 

 so when the pressure machines were brought 

 out I at once adopted them and used that way 

 for many years, but never with entire satisfac- 

 tion; for, with all my care, more or less found- 

 ation would come loose; and a few pieces be- 



