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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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not reach those under my hair, these produced ulcei-s 

 which for two days were very painful. I felt ready 

 that evening for an encounter with half a score of 

 buflaloes, or a brace of lions, rather than have any 

 thing more to do with bees ! Several of our party sui- 

 fered from violent fever. Of sixteen boats which fol- 

 lowed U8 all were pestered by these hees, and two 

 persons were stung to death." 



Mr. Langstroth adds as follows : 



Does any one want such bees 'i There are two pas- 

 sages in the Bible in which the anger of bees is sjjolien 

 of— Moses, In Numbers, says, "Your enemies chased 

 you as bees do."— Such a comparison would liardly 

 have been suggested by any experience with our com- 

 fnon bees. It was this very species, .4;>/s Fatwiata, 

 tliat inhabited the Holy Laud— and to his Ijearers who 

 were so well acquainted with its terrible ferocity, and 

 pei'sisteucy of attack, he could have used no compari- 

 son more forcible. 



"They compassed me about like bees," says the 

 Psalmist, and we know now the power of the compar- 

 ison. The sacred writers were speaking of this very 

 bee— and we have here another incidental confirma- 

 tion of the fact, they were speaking out of a true 

 ex|ierience. L- L. L. 



Notwithstanding the above it is our opinion 

 that we have more than one reader, who could 

 liave taken that very colony and have made 

 them "humbly apologise." It' you doubt it, get 

 the boys to show you "maddest nest" of 

 Bumble bees — you all remember such in your 

 childhood — and see how they will now respect 

 "superior intelligence." We have made one 

 trial with "Yellow jackets" in the above line 

 but someway they failed to pay due respect, 

 or to have any proper sense of propriety of 

 the thing, as Bumble bees do. 



wishes, had we not better look about us and see how 

 best we can mould our wishes to suit the weather. 



Terms: 75c. I?er Anmini. 



[Including Postage] 

 For Club Bates see Last Page. 



:D^E3DI3Sr.A., JTJlSrE 1, 18'75. 



But I say unto you. Love your enemies, bless them 

 that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and 

 pray for them that despitefully use you, and perse- 

 cute you. Mat. \. 44. 



QiJiNBY's Smoker by mail. Si. 00. Express $1.50. We 

 keep 'em. 



A QUARTER of a million of the metal corners are 

 now in use. 



A. B. J., on hand on the 11th, and Magazine and 

 World on the 15th. 



In writing to our Advertisers) will you please say 

 that you Baw their notice in Gleanings ? 



Magazine is at present edited by Albert J. Kinj 

 brother to II. A. King, if we are correctly informed. 



\Vhen you order an Extractor or gearing, please do 

 give the length and depth of tiic frame, or frames, you 

 wru going to use in it. 



Mit. Elwood informs us that he by mistake stated 

 that his "tall" (Juecn came from Benedict. What he 

 intended to say was that her mother came from Mr. B. 



Manv excellent communications, are only left out 

 for »vant of room. It really gives us pain to be obliged 

 to omit so much that has evidently been prepared for 

 print, with so much care. 



Di'KiNG the absence of Miss A., (the "school ma'am" 

 of our establishment) who is spending the summer 

 with a sister in Minnesota, please be lenient with us 

 if we do now and then frame a sentence "backwards," 

 etc. You know we mean well. 



If a Queen is capable of supplying eggs for or 8 

 combs, and we confine her to 2 or 3, by giving her an 

 insuflicient supply of bees, are we not defeating our- 

 selves ? If such is the case had we better not delay 

 increase of stocks, until our hives are all full. 



We should consider a maniUacturer, who neglected 

 to protect himself by patenting the wares of his own 

 invention, almost as imprudent as he who neglects to 

 keep his propert}' insured. If what we have said in 

 regard to patents has given an impression to the con- 

 trary, we have certainly been misunderstood. 



We have seen the bee louse mentioned by Mr. El- 

 wood last month, in our own Apiary, but it was in a 

 very weak colonj'. We feel satisfied, that like the 

 moth miller, and "most other enemies, it would find no 

 berth in sti'ong colonies. We noticed it over a year 

 ago (during the manure experiment) bat have been 

 able to find none since. 



M.\NY of our friends are making out nice clubs. 

 T. ti. McGaw, of Monmouth, Ills., has just sent his 

 15th name. Albert Potter, of Eureka, Wis., has also 

 sent ijuite a club as has several others, but our friend 

 Dooliitle is still aliead of all, having sent directly and 

 inilirectly 35. Remember j'ou can retain ibc. on each 

 atter you get up to 10. V^olumes 1 and 2 count all 

 the same. ^ 



As an apology for not giving personal answers to 

 all inquiries sent us, we may remark that our right 

 hand is again protesting— those who complain tiiey 

 can't read our "postals" will please be lenient. No 

 one can be hired to do this work, and our only re- 

 source is the printing press. Verj' many of these 

 questions are fully answeretl in back volumes— oft- 

 times in the price lists which we always furnish 

 gratuitously. 



Those who recommend no uniformity in dimen- 

 sions of frames should listen to our plaintive tale. A 

 neighbor had one L. hive— all the rest Americans. 

 Ditln't extract any from L. hive, cause had Am. ex- 

 tractor. L. hive very heavy— weighed 80 lbs. in fall — 

 we hail all L. hives, so gave him ifl5.u0 for it and "all 

 was lovely." Hees got uysentery— ate nearly all the 

 80 lbs. hoiiey, and then were "not happy." In April 

 tkey got the "dwindling"— tried to unite 'em to anoth- 

 er vVeak colony, but when it was almost done found 

 these L. frames were about one inch deeper, and one 

 inch longer, llees died— result is, all that we have 

 left for our $15.00, is a hive that we have got to hire a 

 man to make into kindling wood, and ten coiubs 

 that must be transferred into frames that irill go into 

 our hives. Even American irames, called l-.'xIJ, v;uy 

 from IDs to li'A. Shall we make no efl'ort at all to go 

 in a few beaten paths in the future ? 



bo Ions as we cannot mould the weather to suit our 



MuLTuM IN vAv.vo— May 'iS^/t- Suspended hive 

 shows a gain of 1,'a lb. honey per day— Medley will be 

 out next week -Dean will ship Queens about July 1st, 

 price bv mail SI. 10, none sent by expi'ess - Mr. I'eabody 

 savs in ".4. li. J., that we approve his Kxtractor, which 

 was vcrv nauglitv in him, knowing as he did, that we 

 do not— Mitchcirhas been very naughty loo, in accu- 

 sing us of so many things in liis May Dirccttyry, that 

 we didn't do— says now he is going to pay all he owes. 

 Mr. M. we'll help you all we i)Ossibly can if you only 

 will do this and stop getting more money by telling 

 such wicked stories— We have just extracted 10 lbs. 

 of honey from Standard hive, from fruit and dande- 

 lion blossoms. Now there are but few blossoms, and 

 the Queen is not even an average one (see page 123, 

 Vol. 2,) but she has had bees enough to take care of 

 every single egg laid during the luist Ci months ; there 

 is the secret, "for we believe every egg has ])roduced a 

 bee— We are now doing so much of a business v/ith 



