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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Aug. 



Contents of this Number. 



Scraps and Sketches. No 8. Shingle Hives 293 



The Section Box Queen Cage— Improvements 296 



Feeding and Feeders 296 



Sunshine and Shadows among the ABC Class 298 



Length of Life of rhe Drone Bee 299 



Our Cartoon for August 299 



How- to Cii'cumvent Bobbers, And Keep on 

 Transferring and Baising Queens All the 



Same 300 



Our Own Apiary. Introducing Queens; Econ- 

 omy in Maturing Queen Cells; Simpson's 

 Honey Plant; Introducing Again; The 



Honey Farm 301 



We Must Have That Honey 302 



Italians and Blacks 303 



Our Cartoons, Queens Straying Away from 



Home, &c 304 



Wax 305 



How Friend Bolin Winters and "Springs" His 



Bees by This Time 311 



A Good Way to Introduce a Queen 313 



Queens by Mail 301, 312 



Introducing Queens 320 



THE GROWLERY. 294 



THE SMILERY. 295 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



Report from Mrs. Axtell 295 



New Swarms Leaving Their Hives 295 



JUVENILE DEPARTMENT. 



Ants 298 



A Lecture for the Boys .298 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLES. 



A Patent Right Swindler Gets His Deserts 300 



BEE BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Bumble Bee and Laphria Thoracica 304 



Candleberry Myrtle or Bayberry 304 



The Apathus 304 



The Milk Weed Bee-Trap 304 



HEADS ®F GRAIN. 



Speed of Circular Saws; Bumble Bees Killing 

 Honey Bees; Refuse from a Corn Sheller 

 for Winter Packing; Queen Cells by Mail; 

 Fastening Fdn. in the Frames; Honey 

 Dew for Winter Stores 313 



Whitewood or Tulip Tree — Corrections; Do 

 Queens Lay Continuously? Stings— Are 

 They the Cause of Skin Diseases, &c? Sec- 

 tion Case Sticking to Frames, Queen Cells 

 with Nothing in Them, Queen Cells Not Al- 

 ways an Indication of Swarming; Cloth 

 Bag Feeders; Sugar Syrup in Preference 

 to Natural Stores, Closed Top Frames, &c 314 



Giving Room to the Young Queen After 

 Swarming, Fdn. for Italians After the First 

 Swarm is Out, How Many Wires Are 

 Needed in Fdn.? Swarming Out with the 

 Young Queen When Brood is all Hatched, 

 Crowding Bees and Stores on Few Combs 

 for Winter; A Word as to Dollar Queens 

 and Grape Sugar; Bees and Honey in Tex- 

 as ; California White Sage 315 



Composition of Brood Combs: Comb Basket 

 for Extracting Broken Pieces; Chaff Right 

 on the Bees; Home Made Mats; Wintering 

 Without Protection, Stands for Hives, &c 316 



A New Comb Holder, Clarks; Over Production 

 of Drones, and Pasteboard Sections; What 

 to Do with Bees that Hang Out and Won't 

 Swarm; An Improvement Suggested on 

 Preventing Frames from Sagging; Combs 

 Made with a Thin Pine Board as a Base; 

 Sponge for the Bottle Cages, and the Pau- 

 lonia Tree 317 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



A Word from Beech City, O. ; Color for Honey 

 Crates; After Swarms Returning to the 

 Parent Hive ; Which Will the Bees Choose, 

 a Fertile or Virgin Queen? Dextrine for 

 Gumming Labels; How to Cure Dull Times; 

 Pruning Shears for Taking Down Swarms; 

 Introducing Queens by rolling in Honey; 

 Burying Bees, &c; Black Bees around 

 Soda Fountains &c; What to Do with After 

 Swarms 318 



Dark Color of Imported Queens; Introducing; 

 Saving Forest Trees; Pinchers for Lifting 

 Frames; Getting Starters Built Out in the 

 Brood Apartment; Bees Eating Raspber- 



ries, Grapes, &c; Carrying Out Immature 



Bees. &c 319 



Introducing to Stubborn Bees 295 



BLASTED HOPES 319 



EDITORIAL 



Fitting a Saw Table to the Family Grindstone; 

 The Honey Farm on the 28th of July ; Candy 



Cage with Bottle 320 



Hammers and Nails 326 



Electrotypes for Dipping Fdn 325 



In the centre of our central apiary, stands a flag 

 pole, and from its summit the stars and stripes are 

 flung to the breeze. On the flag is the inscription, 

 "By Industry We Thrive." The flag was made by 

 the girls of our establishment. 



At one time during July, we were 150 orders behind 

 on dollar queens, but in less than a week we were 

 almost as many ahead of orders. We now have a 

 large stock on hand, ready for shipment by first ex- 

 press. For queens at wholesale, see advertisement. 



Those out door feeders that are working such 

 wonders in our apiary, are only a half gallon fruit 

 jar inverted on the board figured last month, on 

 page 264. 25cts. will pay for the whole apparatus, 

 and, with it, you can feed (of thin syrup) a half gallon 

 an hour, all day long. 



We have built one of the shingle, chaff, tenement 

 hives, and it has now 4 swarms of bees in it. I tell 

 you it is just handsome. We have put a little more 

 work on it than has friend Hutchinson, but even as 

 it is, it can be furnished without furniture, for 

 about $10. 



DOW QUEENSlTWHOLESALS. 



Young, fertile, laying queens, from impoi'ted 

 mothers, safe arrival guaranteed, each $1.00; per 

 half dozen, $5.50; per doz., $10.00; 50 for $40.00; 100, 

 for $75.00. I cannot promise to continue these low 

 figures after present stock is exhausted. Therefore 

 you must order at once, if you want them. This 

 month is perhaps the most profitable time to Ital- 

 ianize of the whole year, for there is no loss in hav- 

 ing the hive a short time queenless. 



A. I. ROOT, Medina, O. 



I CAN ship good Glass Cutters for 25 cents, post- 

 paid. Special terms by the dozen. 



H. M. MOYER, Pfill Church, Berks Co., Pa. 



Tested Queens for $1.00. 



Homebred, young, vigorous, beautiful; purity and 

 safe arrival guarantied. Address, 

 8d J. A. WARD, Madisonville, Hamilton Co., O. 



IMPORTED QUEENS 



Just received. Price $5.00. Safe arrival guaran- 

 teed. MISS M. ANDREWS, Medina, Ohio. 



COTUB FDN., 45c per pound. Choice Queens, 

 $1.00. Nuclei and full colonies, very low. Smo- 

 kers, etc. B. B. BARNUM, 

 8 380 Preston St., Louisville, Ky. 



miumi 



Ours is guaranteed to be the best in 

 the world. Catalogue free. 8-10 

 W. W. Giles, 149 Clark st. Chicago, 111. 



ITALIAN QUEENS 

 RAISED FROM IM PORT ED MOTHERS. 



Italian Queens raised from Imported Mothers 



per y 2 dozen $5 00 



Bees, full colonies, from $5.00 to 10 00 



One Frame Nucleus with Tested Queen 3 00 



" Dollar " 2 00 



Section Boxes and Comb Fdn., Cheapl 

 Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed! 

 Circular and Price List free. Address 



REINHARD STEHLE, 

 8d Marietta, Washington Co., O. 



