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"novice's" gleanings in bee culture. 



NOVICE'S 

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A. I. ROOT & CO., 



E H ! T II S A N I> 1? (I P J! I E T R s . 



Published Monthly, at Medina, Ohio, 



Terms: 75o. pei* Annum. 



Any nne snibding us SSubseribt racan retain 75c. for 



their trouble, and in the samt proportion 



for a larger mtttlbt r. * 



PRINTED AT MEDINA COUNTY GAZETTE OFFICE. 



Medina, April 1, 1873. 



All money sent us without specifying 

 definitely for what purpose, will be credit- 

 ed on "Gleanings," and the paper will be 

 sent just so long as it is paid for and no 

 longer. We hope our friends will excuse 

 us for making this our invariable rule to 

 all. 



1* wise the locality of any hive is to be 

 '•■hanged after the bees are flying in the 

 spring, do it by moving not to exceed one 

 foot. at a time, If moved otherwise, un- 

 less the distance exceed our mile, the 

 colony is frequently injured for the 

 season. 



I'hk different No's, of "Gleanings'" are 

 so. Intimately connected and follow each 

 othr.r in such a manner, thai we hope out- 

 friends will exeuse us for insisting on 

 having all subscriptions commence with 

 the first of each year. Of course we 

 shall always be prepared to furnish back 

 numbers. 



We have received from Dr. Jewel Davis, 

 ofCbarlestowo, III., a queen nursery, and 

 judging from what experience we have 

 had with asimular one of our own make, 

 we think it without doubt quite valuable 

 in an apiary. As he now offers them for 

 ''our dollars, right included, we cannot 

 call the price unreasonable. The fifteen 

 movable queen cages contained in one 

 (Vaine are nearly worth the price alone, 

 but we arc somewhat doubtful as to the 

 expediency of keeping your queens in 

 confinement very long after they have 

 been hatched. We want the most prolific 

 and longest lived queens that can be had, 

 and if unrestrained liberty of the hive 

 and "all oul doors" too, is one of the 

 essentials, "let 'em slide" by all mean-. 

 Will souk- of our large queen raisers 

 give U8 their opinion on the subject. 



Some one suggests that we make 

 "Gleanings' a "Weekly" which we might 

 easily do if we should publish all the ex- 

 pressions of approval that we receive in 

 regard to its value thus far; but as we 

 expect you to receive more money from 

 your bees than you expend, we have serious 

 doubts as to whether a weekly would be 

 prudent. Success is only achieved by 

 hard work, and books are only to assist 

 you in directing your work. Doubtless 

 the money can be better invested some- 

 where in the Apiary. 



[f seems we have been so unfortunate 

 in making ourselves understood, that 

 several have written us asking the price 

 of "individual rights" for the privilege, 

 of using the metal corners, which is quite 

 a joke on Novice, certainly. Of course 

 every one is free to use them if they 

 wish, ami so far as we are concerned, to 

 make them or any modification of them 

 they please for their own use. We only 

 reserve tin 1 privilege of manufacturing 

 them for sale its all valuable patented 

 articles are sold, and as they are furnish- 

 ed at ;' price but very little in advance of 

 the eost of making, we presume no one 

 will accuse us of charging an extra price 

 for them because they- are patented. 



From the March number of Bee Keep- 

 er s Magazine we infer that Mr. King has 

 at length given up selling "rights" or try- 

 ing to sell them, [f this is the case we 

 presume the lesser "patent hive men" the 

 world over will also drop the business, 

 and accordingly "my hive" and the "deed 

 of individual right to make and use" bus 

 all gone down, too, as it could not help 

 doing when the world became enlighten- 

 ed. Factories for making desirable hives 

 at a price below what they can be made 

 at heme, will be an excellent thing, ami 

 there can lie no objection to having them 

 patented, providing they are sold to ang 

 nil, or to go any where at one common 

 price. "Novice" commenced to ask all 

 bee keepers of America to swing their 

 hats and give three rousing cheers for 

 freedom from the thralldom of "patent 

 hives." when it occurred to him that no 

 intelligent bee keeper would use any of 

 the patented hives that have been paraded 

 over our country, were they now laid at 

 his feet as a free gift, (always excepting 

 the "movable frame'' feature,) so he 

 stands hat in hand and "don't swing it 

 nor (dicer either.'' We may be in error 

 for Mr. King talks about "trade marks,'' 

 1 hi t the result is inevitable in the end. 



