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"KOVlCE's" GLEANIJMC IH SEE CULTUaE. 



NOVICE'S 

 gleanings iit |Jcc Suliure. 



A. I. ROOT & CO., 



E I' I T j: s a n I) p b o r R i e t o r s . 



Published Monthly, at Medina, Ohio. 



Terras: 75c. ]ior Annum. 

 Any one & ml inn us 5 Subscribers can rt tain 75c. for 

 ■■ troublt , and in tin s,nu, proportion 

 for a larger numbt r. 



(PRINTED AT MEDINA COUNH GAZETTE OFFICE.J 



Medina, Aug. 1, 1873. 



On; Quinby hive has again lots of bees 



bul "nary" box honey. 



In preparing to introduce Queens, re- 

 member that a hive sometime* contains 

 ticn. 



Doleful. Novice's basswood Orchard is 

 being eaten up by the Grasshoppers, but 

 lie declares "there'll be blood shed" be- 

 fore they finish. If grasshoppers made 

 honey what tons of it our county might 

 furnish. 



A. T, Wright Chicago Ills, sells a -very 

 small pamphlet, recommending his patent 

 hive, for 2jc. He not onhv endorses su- 

 gar syrup for wintering but leaves Novice 

 far in ihe shade in directing that it be fed 

 to bees to produce nice box honey profit- 

 ably. Nice looking comb honey can be 

 produced it is true as our experiments in 

 feeding last fall gave us ample proof, but 

 in taste 'tis sugar syrup still, and worst of 

 all 'twould Cost a dollar a pound or more. 

 it may be right for Mr. Wright to charge 

 people for a "right'' to make his closed 

 frame "Coming Hive," but we don't think 

 it right to charge 25c for the book. We 

 Beekeepers work hard for our "2."» cents- 

 e; Ml W. 



IIOM'/V COUIMJf. 



'^^f II. SHANE, Chatham Center 



J J: o, Center, Medina, county, 0., has 



;>000 lbs. nice clover honey, wants LGcents 



for ii. 



I have 2000 bis. ( I bbls.) of first-class 

 extracted honey for sale at is cents. Bar- 

 rels noi in bo returned. 



I!. Wilkin, Cadiz, Ohio. 

 We have about 1500 lbs. for which we 

 want 10 cents. ("liaised one cent, 

 catue honey's scarce/ ) 



A. I. Root & Co. 



ITALIAN Ql'EEXS FOB SI. OO. 



OT our prospectus for "Gleanings," we 

 ^y mentioned that we should endeavor to 

 test all improved processes before recom- 

 mending them, but the very plain state- 

 ments made in regard to sending eggs 

 successfully by mail induced us to deviate 

 so far as we did. The result, as we have 

 found it, is that eggs may hatch and pro- 

 duce good queens when sent short dis- 

 tances only, but we have in no case 

 known them to retain any vitality when 

 two or more days were occupied in transit. 

 Now, as we wish to make amends as far 

 as we can for the disappointment, we will 

 credit the parties who sent us monej- for 

 eggs, the amount on Something else, or 

 will return the money if they prefer, pro- 

 viding the eggs were properly cared for as 

 soon as received, and produced no brood. 

 Novice was so unwilling to aband- 

 on his project of furnishing Italian stock 

 to the mass of bee-keepers at a small ex- 

 pense, that he could not give it up ; ac- 

 cordingly on the 23d of July he rode 

 about twentj'-five miles on horseback vis- 

 iting neighboring apiaries, with the follow- 

 ing result: 



AVe, whose names are placed below, will, 

 after Aug. 1st, furnish Italian queens un- 

 tested and unwarranted for #1.00 each, for 

 the balance of the season. Queens will 

 be reared from the choicest mothers we 

 can procure, and will be shipped by ex- 

 pies.-; as soon as they commence laying. 

 .1. Shaw & Sox, Chatham Center, Medi- 

 na Co., O. 

 W. II. Shane, Chatham Center, Medina 



Co., O. 

 E. P. Parsons, Lodi, Medina Co., O. 

 I. E. Daniels, Lodi, Medina Co., (). 

 A. I Root it Co.. Medina, G. 

 In regard to chances ot the queens 

 meeting impure drones, we would say 

 that Messrs. Shaw, Daniels and Parsons 

 have almost no black bees in their locali- 

 tit s, and their apiaries comprise over two 

 hundred colonies of choice Italians. Mr. 

 Shane has not more than half a dozen 

 black colonies in range of his apiary, and 

 agrees to have these all Italianized if l.e 

 has to do it entirely at his own expense. 



As for our own apiary (we have now 

 but few black colonies in our own neigh- 

 borhood) we are diligently at work weed- 

 ing out all inferior queens, and as we pro- 

 pose to rear all queens from a well tested 

 queen, ours will be — well, good hybrids, 

 the worst of them. Those from the first 

 mentioned apiary, we think', will be near- 

 ly all pure. As the Postmaster (ieneral 

 has decided that bees are not mailable, 

 we recommend that queens be sent onlv 

 by express, and many queen breed) i- 

 think it much the. best mode of transit 

 for the future welfare of the queens. In 

 ca e mme orders are received than can 

 be filled this season, the money will be 

 returned. To have least trouble in intro- 

 ducing, order; should be sent as early a8 

 possible. 



