1890 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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PURPLE VARIETIES. 



TCTRNER's Hybrid (Mikado).— Ripe in 130 days. Kept 5 days. 

 Large to very large; some wrinkled; large crop, ripen in a 

 short season; can't stand rain. 



ACME.— Ripe in 128 days. Kept 5 days. Medium size, smooth; 

 good crop, solid, good. 



CLIMAX. Ripe in 128 days. Kept 7 days, longest of any pur- 

 ple. Good bearer, smooth, solid; cracks in rain. 

 YELLOW VARIETIES. 



Golden Trophy.— Kipe in 128 days. Kept 5 days. Best of the 

 yellow varieties. 



Golden Queen.— Ripe in 124 days. Kept 5 days. Good bear- 

 er; nice, handsome looking. 



While no one test is ever just right or final, this is oertainly 

 given without favor or bias, and ,iust as they proved them- 

 selves during the past most unfavorable season. 



Please note the vast difference in keeping qualities between 

 the red and purple varieties, the former proving far superior 

 in this respect. V. H. Hallock & Son. 



Please note above, that the Ignotum is the 

 earliest with one exception, and that is only 

 two days earlier. Burpee's Matchless I 

 should put next to the Ignotum, and some of 

 the friends place it ahead. It is very much 

 like the Ignotum. All things considered, 

 we believe our former verdict pretty near 

 the truth— that there is no better tomato in 

 the world than the Ignotum. 



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We have at this date 9841 subscribers. 



those of our friends who are so stubborn and con- 

 trary as to refuse to fall into line and use such 

 bee supplies as other people do. If you start out 

 with the fixed purpose of mailing your own sup- 

 plies, you may get along very well to a certain ex- 

 tent; but sooner or later there will come a time 

 when you will want to exchange, swap, buy, or 

 sell, and then you are not only in a bad predica- 

 ment, but you intiict damage and injury on those 

 with whom you have deal. Now, we have expen- 

 sive automatic machinery, arranged to make work 

 of a certain size. The machine is buzzing away 

 day after day on regular goods, doing the work 

 with accuracy and beauty. When we are behind 

 on orders, as we are at present, to have some one 

 send in an order requiring that this complicated 

 and expensive machine be pulled to pieces, and 

 changed for something else, while others are wait- 

 ing for nvular goods, really seems preposterous. 

 Every time the machine is changed there is a lia- 

 bility of inaccuracy in the adjustment when put 

 back to its proper work; and with our factory of 

 thirty or forty new hands that have been crowded 

 into the service, the chances for mistakes are ever 

 so much greater. These new hands could run the 

 machine right along on its regular legitimate work; 

 but to stop it and adapt it to something else that no 

 one else ever heard of, requires not only an old 

 hand, but an expensive one. After the odd-sized 

 stuff is made up, boxed up, and sent off, it Is not 

 uncommon to hear that the things were not made 

 as wanted, or perhaps not as ordered. A great 

 part of the time these things of odd dimensions are 

 ordered by somebody who does not know even his 

 A B C's in bee culture. In the present state of pro- 

 gress, business should follow in beaten paths and 

 regular channels. In the fall of the year, when we 

 have not much to do, we are quite willing to make 

 rat-traps and perpetual motion, if any of you 

 want to foot the bill; but we can not stop our irgM- 

 lai- work to attend to such things now. 



The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that 

 moves the world. 



DEATH OF THE INTRODUCER OF THE CHAPMAN 

 HONEY-PLANT. 



We have received the following notice from the 

 friends of Mr. Chapman: 



Died at his home in Versailles, Catt. Co., N. Y., April 8th, 189:), 

 Capt. H. Chapman, aged 80 years. Mr. Ch.apman has been 

 widely known as a hortioulturist, but in later years he has giv- 

 en mueh of his time ti> the lulture of bees, and was the first to 

 introduce to tln' public the celebrated Chapman honey -plant. 

 He was an early pioneer in the town where he has livccl for 

 half a century, anil his loss will be deeply felt, for he was a 

 man of sterling integrity. 



I shall always remember my pleasant visit at the 

 home of our good friend Chapman. While he was 

 not doing very much then in the line of market- 

 gardening, his tools and facilities for the work con- 

 vinced us all that he had been one of the moving 

 spirits in this line of work. He was quite an en- 

 thusiast, also, with bees, especially after he took so 

 much pains to develop the plant that bears his 

 name. Probably no other plant has been cultivated 

 exclusively for the honey it bears, to the same ex- 

 tent as this one on Mr. Chapman's own grounds. 



STARTING OUT WITH ODD-SIZED FRAMES, HIVES, 

 SECTIONS, ETC. 



With our pi-esent rush of business and great 

 number of orders on hand for regular-sized goods, 

 we must decline for the present making any thing 

 odd-sized. While we are sorry to do this, we are at 

 the same time glad to give a whole:?ome lesson to 



SAD NEWS FROM G. B. LEWIS & CO. 



)IR. Root:— We beg leave to inform you that our factory 

 and office were burned to the ground Saturday last at about z 

 tli Theeauseof the fire is unknown. We were running at 

 the time. We have already rented another factorv ami will 

 be prepared to fill orders for sections very soon. We \v"uia 

 advise you, however, not to wait for us to supply yiL^Ve 

 were out of 1 15 16. and had to make them ^^^ '!;> l'\^" 

 about ready to shin, but were yet in shop, and all binned, vve 

 shSucommence rJbuilding at once, and will build about three 

 times our former capacity. G. a. IjEW is iv \^u. 



Watertown, Wis., .Apr. 21. 



The above is sad in a good many ways. As our 

 friends win gain from the above, a carload of sec- 

 tions was finished, ready to ship us, and they had 

 our order for still another carload. We sincerely 

 hope that they may be able to start up again with 

 very little delay, not only because it will throw a 

 great mass of orders upon us when we are already 

 overburdened, but because of the disappointment 

 It will probably cause to many of the bee-friends in 

 getting their supplies-another illustration of the 

 importance of sending your orders early, and hav- 

 ing your stuff ready before it is time to use it. We 

 presume likely that our Wisconsin friends were not 

 rigged as we are with automatic sprinklers; but 

 wouldn't their loss and trouble at the present 

 crisis have paid for the sprinkling attachments a 

 good many times over? Surely water should be 

 cheap and handy in a place named TT«ff/town. I 

 hope our friends will excuse this poor pun, for we 

 sympathize with them most fully in their mishap. 

 Perhaps their well-known prompt habits will enable 



