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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



^. I. EOOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHES,, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POST-PAIR. 



IMIEZDIHST-A., FEB. 1, 18-70- 



Give us the names of the bee-keepc 

 sold comb honey containing' glucose. 



ps wli.i have 



adulterated honey shipped from California to Eu- 

 rope, as bees here work cheaper than rascals can af- 

 ford to. To the credit of California be it said, that 

 she has upon her statute books a law making the 

 adulteration of honey a penal offence— an example 

 that should be imitated by every State in the Union, 

 not only for the adulteration of honey, but for the 

 adulteration of any articles of food, many of which 

 are most fearfully adulterated, in a manner to affect 

 the public health." 

 A hearly amen to the above. 



And they shall build the old wastes, th3y shall raise 

 up the former desolations, and thoy shill repair the 

 waste cities, thy desolatijns of mmy generations. 

 lsa. 61 : 4. 



Give us a law against adulteration, such as they 

 have in England and Scotland. 



It is always a pleasure to me to see things cheap- 

 er. The Magazine folks have made an arrangement 

 by which we can furnish the Bex-Keepers' Magazine 

 and Gleanings, hereafter, for only $1. 75. 



Can anybody adulterate either comb or extracted 

 honey, with grape sugar? Leave out the talk, and 

 just do it; of course I mean in the apiary or in your 

 homes, not in the laboratory. 



While here, friend Bingham explained to me the 

 manner in which the Bingham & Hetherington hon- 

 ey knife was to be used, and I am well satisfied that 

 for uncapping honey their knife is a great improve- 

 ment over anything heretofore made. 



controversies. 

 There seems to be an unusual tendency, at pres- 

 ent, to indulge in long controversies. I hope you 

 will excuse me, my friends, for declining to publish 

 communications, however good and true, that will 

 stir up this spirit. Those who get engaged or en- 

 tangled in these discussions seem to lose their usual 

 good, strong sense, and worst of all, seem incapable 

 o e being made to see their error; they cannot see 

 hiw painful the whole matter is to an outsider. If 

 I could see some concession, or some giving up, on 

 one side or both, I would try and have more faith. 

 It seems to me we are ignoring facts, and spending 

 breath on theories. You know how much time was 

 wasted in discussing black bees; would it not have 

 been better for the writers to have started an apiary 

 of black bees and demonstrated their value by tons 

 of honey? Would not quiet work and shnrt stories 

 have been far better? 



Thin wood for separators answers, as seA - eral have 

 repoi'ted, and I, at one time, thought of usingthem; 

 but as they will be very liable to get broken unless 

 they are very much thicker than tin, and as tin is 

 now so low that it costs less than y t cent for each 

 section (25c. for a two story hive) we retain the tin. 



We have made arrangements by which we hope to 



supply, promptly, the British Bee Journal, mailed 



from our office, at $1.50 per year. In these days of 



adulteration, it may be well to have a journal from 



England, even if they do seem to know little more 



in regard to the adulterated ship load of comb honey 



than we do. 



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The cut of the Itocky Mountain bee plant, given 



in this No., was copied on a smaller scale from 



Cook's Manual. The cut of the aster, given in Dec. 



No., was from King's New Text Book, in the same 



way. Had these ilowers been in bloom when the 



cuts were wanted, they would have beeu taken from 



nature. If the authors or publishers of these works 



object, I shall of course do so no more. 



During the months of Dec. and Jan., we have had 

 more losses in the maiU than ever before in the 

 same length of time. At first, we thought the deep 

 snows had only caused a temporary delay; but as 

 three clerks in the postal service have been recent- 

 ly arretted, and mail matter found in their posses- 

 sion, many of the letters will probably never como 

 to light. Several advices of money orders are now 

 in our P. 0., for which the orders have not yet come. 

 Be patient, dear friends, and state just what your 

 orders were, and I will send the goods at once. All 

 money sent by P. O. orders or registered letters is 

 safe. Incase the letters containing money were 

 not registered, I have, several times, sent the goods 

 and asked the parties to remit half the original 

 amount, if they saw lit. Perhaps it will be well to 

 register, or use postal orders, if you wish to be sure 

 of no delay. To save so much expense, it will be 

 well to have neighbors send in their orders togeth" 

 er. By this means, money will be saved both ways. 



From the way in which the wired fdn. has worked i 

 in our own apiary, and from the reports of others, I | 

 dare not at present advise its use. If we use very j 

 thick fdn., so that the wires are completely covered, I 

 I presume no cells of brood would be lost, but the j 

 expense of so much wax, I think, makes it, for the j 

 present, entirely out of the question. I am, at pres- 

 ent, experimenting with very hard paper, as a base 

 for the wax. 



Our friend, Levering, says in the Los Angeios 

 Herald :— 

 "I do not think there has ever been a pound of 



I have decided, since there has been so much said 

 against the dollar queens, to rear all we sell, in our 

 own apiary. The only difficulty in doing this, is that 

 when orders come far beyond our ability to supply, 

 as they do almost every season, we shall get a hail 

 storm of unkind letters, in consequence of the de- 

 lays. By purchasing, I have been enabled during 

 the past two seasons to ship queens almost the hour 

 the order was received, and the satisfaction to pur- 

 chasers was such that the business was really a 

 pleasure. By rearing them in my own apiary, I 

 shall know just how the queens were reared, and 

 that the unkind and inconsiderately thoughtless 

 statements made in regard to them, are undeserved, 

 at least in my case. You that have queens to dis- 

 pose of would better advertise and send them out 

 yourselves, that any who have a complaint to make, 

 may go directly to the one who raised and shipped 

 the queens. Our back Vols, show that some of the 

 largest yields of honey ever made, were from hives 

 containing dollar queens, and 1 think we shall have 

 no trouble in having them do as well in the future. 

 By their fruits ye shall know them. 



