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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



Published Monthly, 



.A»_ I. ROOT &c CO., 

 EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS 



MEDINA, OHIO 



Terms: 75c. Per Annum. 



For Club Rates see Last Page. 



ZMHEZDHSTA., OCT. 1, 1874. 



The Bee World for Aug., Mas laid on our table on 

 I lie Sth of Sept.. but neither the A. B. J., nor B. K. M.. 

 were received until the 10th. 



If X. C. Mitchell has made good his promises of last 

 spring in even a single instance we should be glad to 

 publish it. Was not his pretended reformation only a 

 pretense to get mo re victims ? 



Fourteen No's for 75c. All subscriptions ree'd 

 between now and .Tan. 1st, will be credited until Jan. 

 1876. As we wish to be equally liberal with our old 

 subscribers, to all who renew hefore Jan. 1st, we will 

 send a— a— not a horse and wagon because they 

 wouldn't go into the post office, so we'll say a penny 

 whistle or— well, you'll know what when it comes. 



Lots of trouble with the cider mill. To-day. Sept. 

 25th, the owner of the mill is laying idle at our ex- 

 pense. Even dampened sugar wont call the bees 

 away now. and we don't know whether the trouble is 

 that'we have got so manv more, or that the "Imported 

 grand children" have a special fancy for sweet apple 

 mice. We fear bees and cider mills are unsuited to be 

 neighbors, at any rate 'tis rather an expensive joke on 

 us now. We have offered to enclose the mill, and to 

 furnish wire cloth doors and windows, but our neigh- 

 bor don't relish being shut up and wont listen to it. 



Sept. '2Mh— Sunshine once more, already. After a 

 visit to the scene of war (cider mill) this morning 

 about sunrise. P. G. quictlv suggested cloth curtains 

 as a remedy for the troubles that a dozen men had 

 puzzled over in vain, and about which two had almost 

 quarrelled. Some strips of pine, a few nails, 82.50 

 worth of sheeting 1% y'ds wide, and two willing 

 hearts and hands, (Novice and the cider man) comple- 

 ted the whole in a counle of hours ; the relief we feel 

 in seeing the bees completely baffled and obliged to 

 return to their legitimate duties also allowing the 

 cider man to return to his, is more than we can tell. 



Several have written us in regard to making 

 Gleanings larger with price to correspond, while 

 thanking them we would say, that in order to do so 

 we must have a considerable 'larger number of sub- 

 scribers, and as we have full confidence in the judg- 

 ment and good sense of our American people we have 

 felt sure they will give us the necessary support as 

 soon as we deserve it. In this age of the world real 

 worth is sure to be appreciated sooner or later. Rest 

 assured that when the world seemingly neglects to 

 appreciate vou, it is pretty certain to be the case that 

 there is nothing to appreciate, and that the fault is 

 your own, and not theirs. Is not Gleanings as it is 

 now, about large enough to contain all that is really 

 new and valuable? Our friends may not all be aware 

 that with the close small type used in Gleanings of 

 late, it actually contains more matters by measure 

 than either the "Bee- Keepers' 1 s Magazine or Bee World, 

 and nearlv if not quite as much as the American Bee 

 Journal. "The contents are also almost if not entirely 

 original, and even if not always chosen with the hap- 

 piest faculty of pleasing every body, we have so far 

 been cheered in our labors with quite a comfortable 

 amount of patronage. When we succeed in deserving 

 a better one we feel sure we'll get it. Don't you kind 

 leader ? 



We have at a considerable expense of time and 

 money, had a Lithograph made of the Hexagonal 

 Apiary. Of its merits we will say nothing, preferring 

 that it shall speak for itself. 



Our Photo' was very well so far as Photography 

 is capable of doing, but the amount of foliage threw 

 so many shadows, as may have been observed, that a 



full representation was impossible. In the new picture • 

 we fear our Artist has gone to the other extreme and 

 cut down the vines so much that they hardly do jus- 

 tice; however, as he has given us a 12x16 picture, we 

 have ample room for delineating all the particulars : 

 Bee House, Walks, Feeding room, Fountain. Stand- 

 ard Hive, Standard Extractor, inside and outside view 

 of the latter etc. etc., besides a full complete view of 

 the Wind-mill. Instead of giving an exact represent- 

 ation of our own Apiary we have thought best to give 

 it as we would have one were we to lay ont one anew, 

 and we trust our efforts will meet with at least a 

 tolerable show of approval. The picture will be se- 

 curely put up on a roller and mailed for 30c. 



Or sent with Gleanings for $l-iK> 



" to any subscriber sending one name beside his own. 



" " '• " " for either of the previous 



volumes. 



Vol's 1, 2 and 3, including Lithograph, ordered at one- 

 time §2.00 



The pictures are now ready for mailing. We have 

 purposely omitted making any mention of them until 

 they were all ready for mailing to avoid disappoint- 

 ment. 



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^ T the stores where I sell honey they put th«* 

 bottles on the shelves and they are not noticed- 

 ould not a good show bill with Pure Extract- 

 ed Honey for Sale, printed on it be a good thing ? 



J. Winfield, Hubbard, O. Aug. 1st, 1S74. 



Such a card might be a good thing, but our 

 stores and shops are so filled up with adver- 

 tisements that people nowadays have a fash- 

 ion of not reading any of them. This we have 

 tested by experiment. If you can get a neat 

 small glass case to be set on the counter, con- 

 taining a sample of each of the different jars, 

 also one jar containing a nice piece of comb 

 honey it will attract attention quickly, and 

 will be recognized at once by every one. This 

 also helps the sale of the ext'd hone}-, for if 

 customers are informed the jar containing one 

 lb. comb honey, and two lbs. ext'd is worth one 

 dollar, while the three lb. jar of the latter is 

 only 75c, they can soon reason out the real 

 state of affairs. Should the dollar jars go off 

 fastest, you can bay box honey of your neigh- 

 bors and keep up the trade. 



From the Daily Times of Biughampton, N. Y. 

 of Sept. 1st, we gather that Broome Co., can 

 boast of quite a number of successful Scientific 

 Bee Farmers. Their uniform succes in getting 

 large yields of box honey, shows that they 

 either are experts in the business or that their 

 locality is extraordinary ; possibly both. 



Mr. J. P. Moore's yield is mentioned in an- 

 other place. Mr. L. Beard from 22 stocks in 

 the spring, has over one ton of box honey ; his 

 best colony gave about 160 lbs. Mr. J. L. Scho- 

 field has 3*1 stands that will average 91 lbs. of 

 box honey each ; one stock giving over 225. 

 Mr. D. D. Winn, of Port Crane, has ten stocks 

 that will average 100 lbs. per colony ; best, gave 

 180 lbs. The most successful yields were from 

 hives in which the honey was stored in frames 

 instead of boxes. The honey is sold in N. Y. 

 City at au average of from 25 to 30c per lb. 

 These are all men who take Bee Journals. 



FRIEND NOVICE :—I almost think I am entitled t« 

 a place in the column of "Blasted hopes" this fall. 

 From the condition my bees were in last spring, I 

 expected 3 or four tons "of box honey, but alas ! man 

 merely proposes. Owing to the loss of nearly all the 

 clover by winter killing, and drouth now, I shall have 

 to content myself by reporting 3000 lbs. 



'Tis true, the breeding apartments are hill ot honey, 

 and 1 might extract from 10 to 50 lbs. or even more, 

 from each of them, and thus send in a much more 

 favorable report, but the fact is, the good people of 



