GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



Published Monthly, 



.A.. I. ROOT <Sc CO-, 

 EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



Terms : 75c. Per Annum. 



For Club Rites see Last Page. 



IMIEIDIlSr^, J-TTL^r 1, 1874. 



Roll of Honor, is so large, 'twas crowded out en- 

 tirely. ^ 



Miss Anna Saukdkks, and W. J. standefer, have 

 more orders tor Queens than they can till. 



The yield of honey is reported good in some places, 

 poor in others, ami extra good in a few localities. 



Mil. L. B. Hogi'e sends us a sample of a new honey 

 jar. It is of flint glass, very neat, and the price is 

 very low. 



We are happy to state that Mr. E. Kretchmer whose 

 advertisement appears in this number, has abandoned 

 the "right" business. His prices for implements are 

 quite reasonable. 



Bv a series of fortuitous events we And to-day, "26th, 

 three more of our hives well populated, one of these 

 densely, and we are now 27. Will tell how we hive 

 natural swarms next month. 



E. C. Blakeslee who advertises in this number, 

 real's from an imported Queen that came with our 

 own, and is in every respect her equal. We cheerful- 

 ly recommend Mr. B. as being prompt and reliable. 



We are pained to learu ihat Dr. Hamlin of Edge- 

 field Junction, Tenn., died on the "24th of May. The 

 Dr.. has been one of our veterans in Bee Culture, has 

 been especially active in rearing and disseminating 

 the Italians, and has for many years controlled a 

 large Apian - . 



We hold ourselves at all times, responsible for the 

 prompt appearance of Gleanings at the beginning of 

 each month, but not for any of the Journals with 

 which we club. We guarnatee that their respective 

 publishers receive the raw ey,- ndcorret t address, and 

 alter that all responsibility on our part ceases. 



In mentioning last month, the comb baskets offered 

 by Kruschke Bro's, Berlin,'Wis., we omitted to give 

 residence. A sample of the Rape seed, they advertise, 

 sent us, proves it to be quite unlike our own. Their 

 little book on Rape Culture etc., is now mailed on re- 

 ceipt of a stamp. 



The Standard Hive works excellently, and we are 

 inclined to think comb building goes on with better 

 economy than where the entrance allows a passage of 

 air directly between all the combs. It is possible the 

 same may be said of brood rearing also. 'Tis true the 

 L. frame may be worked in a long hive the same way, 

 but their length makes them much more inconvenient 

 to handle. 



We are so unfortunate as to have no colonies that 

 have as yet required any subduing to speak of, but 

 yet we have given the wormwood spoken of in our 

 last number, a trial. It will without doubt, at once 

 quell a colony, that might threaten to disregard the 

 smoke of rotten wood alone, and it is very easily used, 

 for we have only to sprinkle the leaves of the dried 

 herb on the coals in our sauce pan smoker. 



The Bee Woiid, for June made its appearance 

 promptly a little after the first of the month, and we 

 are happy to add with an appearance indicative of 

 much care in its general ''■get up". We hope it may 

 receive a liberal support so long as it is kept equal to 

 the number in question. 



Terms, £'2. 00 per year. We can furnish it with 

 Gleanings, for $2.25 or to our present subscribers for 

 81.50. 



The Basswood Orchard has recovered from the ef- 

 fects of the "Grasshopper siege" of last summer, and 

 the trees are now waving their thousands of bright 

 green leaves, in a way that seems to say "we're good 

 lor barrels of honey if you'll only wait patiently a few 

 years." 



Oi'K June So. was badly printed, some Nos. very, 

 and we will with pleasure send a better one on being 

 notified. The Bee World discovered our vulnerable 

 point, and very properly remarked that bad print was 

 as bad, as bad grammar. That's right, if Novices can't 

 keep the "rolls" in order it's their business to get 

 lie that can teach them how. 



We will send eggs and larvae by mail, from our 

 queen just imported from Italy, for 25c. Those situa- 

 ted so near by, that they can get them the same day 

 they are mailed, will probably rear queens from them . 

 When they are to go a greater distance, we can al- 

 most guarantee them to be useless. A great number 

 of experiments were made last season, but they were 

 entire failures, except when they were only sent to 

 adjoining, or neighboring counties. We will send 

 the eggs promptly, but can be responsible uo farther 

 for the success of the experiment. 



We omitted to mention that the glass jar for giv- 

 ing bees water, should be supported by three bits of 

 glass placed under its mouth, when inverted, or the 

 water will not present surface enough to give a large 

 number of bees a chance. 



Also, under the head of quilts, we should have sta- 

 ted that the space above the frames in the Simplicity 

 two story hives, was necessarily made shallow, to 

 avoid having too great a space between the upper and 

 lower combs, when the hive was used two story. With 

 the Standard hive, nothing prevents having all the 

 depth required for tucking down the quilt with facili- 

 ty. We therefore make the rabbet IX by % which, af- 

 ter putting in the metal rabbet, leaves a space between 

 the top of the frames and the upper edge of the hive 

 of about % of an inch, which is about right to hold a 

 good thick warm quilt, or a straw mat if preferred, 

 for wintering. 



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AVE find upon actual trial, that Quinby's New Smo- 

 ker has many qualities that we have not given it cred- 

 it for heretofore. It is very light and very neat, and 

 perhaps the most ingenious part of it is, that if stood 

 on end, it will burn for an hour, or more if need be, 

 but will go out at once when laid on its side. It will also 

 drive bees any where we wish, with an ease ami 

 speed, and with an extremely small amount of smoke 

 that was an agreeable surprise on first using it. We 

 should be very glad to stop here, and not mention 

 that it all came to pieces before we had used it an 

 hour, in consequence of its having been put together 

 with soft solder, but such is the fact. We wrote to 

 Mr. Q. at once, and he will doubtless see that they are 

 properlv made hereafter. When ours got cold we 

 managed to fasten it without the solder, and it is now 

 certainly a most convenient implement in the Apiary. 

 The bellows part of il is exceedingly well made and 

 verv light and neat, and as the combination is entire- 

 ly Mr.QV in\' i. ion we hereby protest against its be- 

 ing copied \>} hers without his consent. With this- 

 smoker, the di pening the Quinby hive 



would be ver much 1 



