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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



J ULY 



Contents of this Number. 



Scraps and Sketches. No. 7 240 



Introducing Queens ~ <" 



Troubles 250 



Honev Bees of South Africa 252 



Dual Royalty 252 



Wintering, Chaff Hives, Grape Sugar for Fall 



Feed, Ventilation, Etc 252 



Introducing by Rule. And Then Shutting the 



Hive and Letting Them Alone 255 



Cans for Honey and Their Embellishment 256 



Italians and Blacks 256 



Report from Georgia 257 



Keeping Things Sharp (Family Grind Stone) 257 



Honey Plants of Florida ("Pints and Teacupf uls")258 

 How Queens Stand a Journey in the New Sec- 

 tion Queen Cage, And How to Introduce 



Them 250 



How to Spring Bees 258 



Something About Transferring 25'l 



Robbing and Swarming Out— A New Feature 260 



Chaff Hives During the Honey Season, Some- 

 thing about Patent Hives 260 



Uniting Bees 261 



Water For Bees 262 



Improvement in Out Door Feeding 264 



Fountain for Giving Bees Water 265 



Whitewood, or Tulip Tree 266 



How to Use the Cold Blast Smoker 267 



The Grounds and Shade of the Apiary 268 



Alsike and Mellilot 268 



How the Section-Box Cages Answer for Long 



Distances, &c 281 



Martin's Circular Apiary 281 



Sagging of Top Bars, and Remedy 253 



LADIES DEPARTMKNT. 



Spring Dwindling 253 



Shall Feminine Bee Keepers Wear Bloomers 253 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLES. 



Mitchell Still at His Old Tricks 255 



Black Mailing on Division Boards Still Going On. 255 



BLASTED HOPES. 256 



BEE BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



Paulonia Imperialis 250 



Yucca or Spanish Bayonet 259 



JUVENILE DEPARTMENT. 269 



HEADS OF GRAIN. 



Getting Queens Promptly; Friend Hough 

 Contributes to the Cold Blast Smoker; 

 Object Lessons in Bee Culture; Scotland; 

 Shade in the Southern States; Feeding 

 Broken Comb Honey; Several Eggs in a 

 Cell, and Selling Honey; Mishaps in Intro- 

 ducing 270 



Bees in Missouri, a Surplus of Pollen; Califor- 

 nia; Bees Around a Soda Fountain, &c. ; 

 The New Section Box Queen Cage; A 

 Queen That Stops Laying and Commen- 

 ces Again; From a Very New A B C Scholar. 271 



Natural Comb Breaking Down; House Apia- 

 ries, Introducing Queens; Black Hats, 

 Have Bees an Aversion to Them? Dollar 

 Queens, and Those from High Priced Deal- 

 ers; Uncertainty of Buckwheat; From 

 Darkness to Sunshine 272 



Moving the Old Hive, When a Swarm Has Is- 

 sued; The New Mat for Covering the 

 Frames; Honey Bees as Big as Bumble 

 Bees; Smokers and Fuel for Same: How 

 the Queen Voids her Fa'ces; Wiring Frames 

 for Fdn., &c. ; Fdn. with Square Cells 273 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Moths; Another Claimant to the Invention of 

 the Cold Blast Smoker; Sagging of Frames. 

 Enameled Cloth versus Mats, &c; Honey 

 Flying Over the Top of the Extractor; Pol- 

 len in Sections, Starters Falling Down, 

 Fastening on Separators; Feeding and 

 Building up Colonies to be Brimstoned; 

 Bees Deserting their Hives when Deprived 

 of both Queen and Brood; Wooden Slates; 

 Fountain Pumps and How they Answer 2?5 



Smokers; Swarms Alighting on the Same Spot; 

 The Old Way and the New; An A B C 

 Child in June; Wired Fdn., Thieves in the 

 Apiary; Brown Sugar for Wintering; 

 Strengthening Weak Colonies by Exchang- 

 ing Stands; Do Bees Weigh More or Less 

 After a Journey than Before 276 



How rD Get Bees into the House Apiary 256 



A Congress of Bees 26$ 



EDITORIAL. 



The Honey Farm ; Queens by Mail; "Wood's 



Common Objects of the Microscope;" 

 Taxes on Bees; National Convention; Mr. 



Laneglroth's Health 274 



Honey Column " 283 



JUST BEFORE GOING TO PRESS. 



Making Fdn. by Dipping Only; A New Inven- 

 tion in the Way of Introducing Queens 282 



Names of responsible parties will be inserted in 

 either of the following departments, at a uniform 

 price of 20 cents each insertion, or $2,00 per year. 



$1.00 Queens. 



Names inserted in this department the first time with- 

 out charge. After, 20c each insertion, or $2,00 per year. 



Those whose names appear below agree to furnish 

 Italian queens for $1,00 each, under the following 

 conditions: No guarantee is to be assumed of purity, 

 or anything of the kind, only that the queen be reared 

 from a choice, pure mother, and had commenced to 

 lay when they were shipped. They also agree to re- 

 turn the money at any time when customers become 

 impatient of such delay as may be unavoidable. 



Bear in mind that he who sends the best queens, 

 put up most neatly and most securely, will probably 

 receive the most orders. Special rates for warranted 

 and tested queens, furnisned on application to any 

 of the parties. Names with *, use an imported queen 

 mother. If the queen arrives dead, notify us and 

 we will send you another. Probably none will be 

 sent before July 1st. If wanted iooner, sec rates in 

 price list. 



*E. W. Hale, Wirt C. H. W. Va. 1-12 



*A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



*H. H. Brown, Light Street, Columbia Co., Pa. 7-9 

 *E. M. Hayhurst, Kansas City, Mo. 1-12 



*J. M. C. Taylor, Lewiston, Fred. Co., Md. 1-12 



*Paul L. Viallon, Bayou Goula, La. 8ttd 



*J. Oatman & Sons, Dundee, Kane Co., 111. t-\ 



*J. E. Waleher, Millersville, Christian Co., 111. 3-8 

 *S. M. Hitchcock & Co., Warthen, Wash. Co., Ga. 3-8 

 *J. B. Keeler, Carlinville, III. 3-8 



*Newman & Baker, Norwalk, Huron Co., O. 4-7 

 Miller & Hollam, Kewaskum, Wash Co., Wis. 4-4 

 *D. A. McCord, Oxford, Butler Co., O. 4-9 



*J. T. Wilson, Mortonsville, Woodford Co. Ky 4-4 

 *S. D. Moore, Atlanta, Ga. 5-10 



Sam'l Greenawalt, Cearfoss, Wash. Co., Md. 5-7 

 *Amos Johnson, Sugar Grove, Warren Co., Pa. 5-10 

 H. S. Elkins, Kennedy, N. Y. 5-10 



J. Mattoon, At water. Portage Co., O. 6-7 



*F. L. Wright, Plainfield, Livingston Co., Mich.. 6-7 

 Henry Smith, Brooklyn, Green Co., Wis. 7-8 



*D. S Given, Hoopeston, Vermillion Co., Ills. 7 

 J. L. Bowers, Berryville, Clarke Co., Va. 7-12 



J. P. Sterritt, Sheakleyville, Mercer Co., Pa. 7-8 

 *lla Michner, Low Banks, Ont. Canada. 7-8 



*J. H. Martin, Hartford, Wash. Co., N. Y. 7-9d 



*T. G. McGaw, Monmouth. Warren Co.. Ills. 7-9 

 B. B. Barnum, 38 Preston St., Louisville, Ky. 7 

 *S. W. Salisbury, Kansas City, Mo. 7-9 



Hive Manufacturers. 



Who agree to make such hives, and at the prices 

 named, as those described on our circular. 

 A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



F. A. Snell, Milledgeville, Carroll Co., 111. 3-7 



H. Scovell, Columbus, Cherokee Co., Kans. 4-3 

 Nichols & Elkins, Kennedy, N. Y. 5-10 



Bees For Sale. 



OIVE DOLLAR PER LB. 



Names inserted in this department the first time 

 without charge; afterward, 20c each insertion, or 

 $2 00 per year. 



Those whose names appear below signify that 

 they arc willing to furnish bees, without hives, dur- 

 ing the coming month, at ?l 00 per lb., the purchas- 

 er being required to bear all express charges. Safe 

 arrival guaranteed. 



[Express Cos. have promised to return cages to 

 owners free of charge, if made very light.— Ed.] 



Jas. P. Sterritt, Sheakleyville, Mercer Co., Pa. 7-8 



