" NOVICE'S " GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



isrovicE'S 



Icunings in Jltf fetltnre. 

 A. I. root & CO., 



EDITORS AND P P. I' K I E T O R S . 



Published Quarterly, at Medina, Ohio, 



Terms: £25c. for the 4 Numbers. 



Auu one sending us 5 Suhscribt rs can , • tain 25c. 



for their trouble. 



[PRINTED ATMEDINA COUNTY GAZETTE OFFICE.] 



Medina, January 1, 1873. 



As we are only a "wee" Journal as 

 yet, many things are crowded out 

 that we should have been glad to 

 have used. 



Messrs. Shaw & Daniels, whose 

 advertisement appears on last page. 

 are men to whom we should not 

 hesitate to send an order if we 

 wanted Bees. 



Our readers will oblige us by call- 

 ing the attention of their Bee keep- 

 ing friends to this our first number 

 "Gleanings," if they think it worthy 

 of it, but don't otherwise. 



We have received queens from 

 both Mr. Argo, of Lowell, Ky., and 

 Mr. Carey, Colerain, Mass., too late 

 to judge of them, as with us a queen 

 is estimated by her work, and "hand- 

 some is as handsome does." We 

 hope the gentlemen will accept our 



thanks all the same. 



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Wk have no "Associate Editors," 

 tind are only ti plain, simple "Novice," 

 yet we are going to try hard to earn 

 the many "25 cents-rx" which have 

 been sent in so freely : and the many 

 kind letters of regard and approval 

 of our past efforts in the American 

 life Journal wc have no room to 

 notice further than that they are 

 worth more to us than "coined gold." 

 ( >nr heartfelt thanlcs to you, one and 

 all. 



Wk shall, if a sufficient number 

 desire, describe our machinery for 

 making hives, windmill, buzz saw. 

 etc., etc. Several have made in- 

 quiries already, and those caring for 

 the matter will please drop us a line. 

 We recommend every Bee keeper 



to make his own hives if possible. 

 » » » 



Thanks. — "0" from "noivhere," you 

 have given us something far superior 

 to "covered wagons" with sleeves, 

 strings, and wire cloth, so often 

 recommended and which are in hot 

 weather a greater punishment than 

 stings. The veil we used when 

 handling closed top frames was brief 

 enough to be carried in the vest 

 pocket and yet protected the face 

 perfectly. We think very many 

 could make, burning rotten wood, a 

 sufficient "argument in all emergen- 

 cies" if "they only thought so." 

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A correspondent who rears queens 

 for sale writes us that 3ome of his 

 neighbors are stocking up with black 

 bees, which they will neither sell 

 nor pay half price for having 

 Italianized, thinking he will do it 

 for nothing rather than suffer so 

 much damage from hosts of common 

 drones. As these persons are of 

 course ignorant and unskillful, he 

 suggests the probability that their 

 bees may ail die during the coming 

 winter. Wc are inclined to think 

 kindness, forbearance and a friend- 

 ly disposition to try and make better 

 neighbors of these people, will, as 

 with all other neighborhood difficul- 

 ties, be found the most powerful 

 weapons in the end. 



By "fixed" frames we understand 

 such as are not movable laterally, bat 

 have a permanent position assigned 

 to them, which the bees commonly 

 make more fixed still by means of 

 propolis. To adopt and use such 

 is to go half way back to the old box 

 system. On that principle railroad 

 men should abandon steam and run 

 their locomotives by horse power! — 

 ./. M. Price, in American Bee Journal. 



