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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apk. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



Publislied MontUly, 



^A-. I- IIOOT <5c CO., 



EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



Treriils : TSc I*er Annxim. 



[Including Postage.] 

 For Clvh Bates see Last Page, 



Dear fellow iskekeepeks :— AUhongh well 

 aware that von have subscribed for a journal devoted 

 exclusively to bees and honey and that I really have 

 no right, to occupy this space With another subject, 

 under the circumstances, yet I hope you will excuse 

 me for suggesting that none of yon truly enjoy bee- 

 culture in its highest sense. Until you feel with every 

 breath, that these wonderlul insects are like ourselves, 

 are the work of that Great Being who rules over all 

 things : that they are only for a time entrusted to our 

 keeping, and how very wrong it is for us to get angry 

 at the little teliows, should they not always under- 

 stand our kind intentions; how very wrong it is for 

 us to feel an interest in them onlv so far as thev can 

 be turned to purposes of gain ? C'an you not feel that 

 He who created us all, feels an interest in us still, and 

 that when he placed us at the head of all creation, he 

 did not intend we should stumble through life the 

 helpless victims, of anger, jealousy and a host of vile 

 passions ? Can voii not believe that He is ever near 

 us, ever rea<ly "to lent! a heliJing hand, always wil- 

 ling to give us strength to triumph over our weak- 

 nesses, and to be true men and women deserving of 

 the great trust He has placed in us. Do you ever 

 get angry with your bees kintl reader? do you ever 

 get "Ijlue,"' low spirited, and despondent ? do you ev- 

 er grumble at the weather? <io you ever get cross to 

 father ami mother, brother or sister, because things 

 in the Apiary don't go right ? And ye fathers and 

 mothers, do you ever throw a cloud over ihose juve- 

 nile faces because some sellish )troject of your own 

 goes awry? It is very likely that you of yourself 

 alone will never succeed, in trying to preserve sereni- 

 ty peace and contentment, uniler all these trials, but 

 an earnest appeal to that Great Author of the Uni- 

 .verse, made in perfect sincerity, and submissive- 

 ness, will assuredly be answered, and it will be all 

 made easy. I do not know to whom I am talking, 

 only that it is to some fellow being whom I would 

 gladly take by the hand, and assist in any way towiird 

 making his liie better and happier, out of gratitude to 

 that One, who has lately given me a new life. 



_ ^ _ A. I, lioot. 



A. B. J., and Magazine were on hand in good time, 

 but Wmlil not until the '2<;th; Magazine for April is on 

 our table now, 



Mp;i)LEr is under way, but will require some days 

 yet betore they are ready to mail. Kemember patience 

 is a -we forget the rest. 



n.vKNL'M & PEtTON, TOdgeficld Junction, Tenn., of- 

 fer Langstroth frames of worker comb at 40c. each, 

 drone comb, at 30c; less by the (juantity. 



Even if we don't always say so, we feel grateful to 

 l.hose who send us local papers containing articles on 

 Dee-Culture. One from th(^ pen of 1). Lyons I'.rowne, 

 in the Indiana F'armer of March 'JOIh, richly deserves 

 being widely copied^ 



To get 1000 honey labels for 3,00 you must positivcijj 

 r.rder 1000 without any change of tyj>e and tlic same 

 bf the 2.50 and 500 rates. For instance, lOOO ordered 

 to be printed from four diflerent sources of honey 

 ;ir)0 each kind, l,7r) each) will cost 7,00 instead of ;;,0<l. 



is view of new postal rates we recommend that 10c. 

 extra be remitted when 8^1,00 (luecns are to be sent by 



mail. Owing to press of other duties we shall proba- 

 bly not be able to rear rjueens this season. Will 

 those whose names appear.in the 1,00 list, please men- 

 tion whether or not they use an Imported mother, 

 that we may mark them as such. 



We take pleasure in calling attention to "Money tn 

 the Ajiiary" which we advertise again with the un- 

 derstanding that Mr. Burch will return the money to 

 any one that may be dissatisfied with the pamphlet. 

 We also cheerfully make the same proposition in re- 

 gard to Gleanings. At the expiration of the year if 

 you feel that you have not had a full equivalent for 

 your money, write us as much, and we will cheerfully 

 return the 75c. We hereby withdraw our criticism, 

 for according to Mr. B's proposition you can all have 

 the privilege of examining the book before purchasing 

 —just as you would In fact If you saw It at your book 

 stores, so there will be no necessity for us to argue In 

 regard to its merits or demerits. Mr. B. names the 

 following quite reasonable conditions that you are to 

 observe. 



Everj' one of yonr readers shall name Gleanings in 

 connection with the order for "Money in the Apiary." 



2nd If dissatisfied with it, they must return It tin- 

 soiled within one week from date of its receliit, to- 

 gether with reasons of dissatisfaction, enclosing a 

 three cent stamp lor postage on return of money. 



Another change has been made in the Postal law, 

 requiring lOc, per lb. Instead of 08. Our prices on 

 many articles have been so close as to render a com- 

 plete new price-list necessary which we enclose In 

 this >fo., and we shall have to insist that yoa throw 

 the old ones away and order from the new one entire- 

 ly. On all the honey labels especially, we are obligetl 

 to require 25c. per thousand additional, when they are 

 to be sent by mail. Please bear this in mind in order 

 to prevent delays and troublesome correspondence. 

 We will be responsible for all changes ice make in 

 prices, but we cannot be for those made by the Gov- 

 ernment in regard to jiostage. 



We have procm-ed from Mr. Fred. Weiss a box of 

 his comb foundations and find them beautifully accu- 

 rate, and perfectly flat. At about the same time we 

 received a sauiple feeder from our friend Van Deusen, 

 which by the way for ingenuity and simplicity, is 

 enough to make any Yankee smile audibly. Well .al- 

 though the niglits were frosty, we determined on ma- 

 king a practical test of both, before going to press, 

 and accordingly titled a sheet of the wax foundation 

 Into a frame, placed it in the center of the cluster of 

 a strong colony, placed the novel feeder, full of syrup 

 over the frame, and then packed clothing over the 

 whole, so as to nearly till the upper story. After for- 

 ty eight hours, we found the feeder empty and beau- 

 tiful cells raised nearly full length from the wax 

 sheet. Mr. W. uses enough wax in the sheet to near- 

 ly if not ((uite, make the entire comb. The advantage 

 Is, that we got perfect, strait, tvorker comb, perhaps 

 more accurate than bees themselves ever build. 



The disadvantages are, that it is quite a task to fas- 

 ten the sheets in nicely, and they cost about as much 

 as ordinary combs can be bought for. frames and all. 

 Mr.V's feeder, we think simplest of all atmospheric 

 feeders. 



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"Did— Toii— EVER !" Novice had said for perhaps 

 the twentieth time as he and Mrs. N., and Blue Eyes, 

 were watching the bees in the forcing house, which 

 has had the south side removed, as we have explained, 

 so that the bees from the whole apiary had free ac- 

 cess to a barrel of rye and oat meal, that had been 

 sj»rcad out in shallow boxes. In the tirst place we 

 have more bees than ever before, and they were train- 

 ed to go out and in readily, by letting them worR on 

 combb of honey until they began to get somewha 



