336 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



Contents of this Number. 



Scraps and Sketches. No. 9. Eight Queens 



with One Swarm ! 337 



Age of Bees 337 



From an A B C Scholar. Are They Pure Ital- 

 ians? .338 



Just What I Did in the Chase for Tnat Honey 339 



Description of R. Wilkin's Apiary 340 



California as a Bee Keeping State 342 



Our Own Apiary and Honey Farm: Robbing— A 

 novel way of stopping it: Introducing 

 Queens Again; Box Hive Bee Keepers; 



How Bees "iMake" Honey 342 



How Rape Succeeds in Kansas; Also a Caution 



About Shipping Bees 345 



Importance of Keeping Hives Free from Un- 

 pleasant Odors, and Antipathy of Bees to 



the Smell of Coal Oil 345 



Removing a Frame from the Centre of a Hive 

 for Wintering; Also a Match Box Attached 



to a Smoker 346 



Honey Dew, Mellilot Clover, &c 346 



Foul Brood 347 



Extra Thick Combs for the Extractor, &c 347 



Our Cartoon for Sept. ; Impending Bankruptcy. . .347 

 Home Made Comb Foundation; Also Fdn. Made 

 by the Single Operation of Dipping; Start- 

 ers Made and Fastened in the Sections at 



One Operation 348 



Wintering; Continued from May No 310 



Pictures of Apiaries; E. A. Sheldon's Apiary, 



Independence, Iowa 370 



Bees That Did Not Swarm, and What to Do 

 with Them ; Also Something About Winter- 

 ing Epidemic 371 



Removing Wax and Propolis by Steam 371 



BEE BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



Queen of the Prairie (Spiraea rosea) 345 



Bugs— Are They Enemies to Bees; Lippia No- 



diflora; Rice Corn 346 



BOX HIVE DEPARTMENT. 



Black Bees versus Italians 318 



HEADS OF GRAIN. 



Report from an A B C Scholar; Shade from 

 Grape Vines the First Season; Handling 

 Bees Often; Coal Cinders and Sand around 

 the Entrances; Newly Made Fdn.; How to 

 Use Black Bees in an Apiary; How to Start 

 an Apiary Without Any Money 357 



Introducing a Queen with y 2 \b. of Bees; Sepa- 

 rators and Cheap Fdn. Machines; Queen 

 Rearing in Florida, &c.; Can an Impregna- 

 ted Queen Deposite Drone Eggs in Worker 

 Comb V 358 



Too Much Pollen Again; Black Bees Being 

 Robbed by a Neighbor's Italians; A Queen 

 Whose Eggs Won't Hatch; More About the 

 Simpson Honey Plant 350 



More About Black Hats and Getting Stings: 

 How to Fasten Fdn. in a Frame, and How 

 to Make a Brush for Melted Wax; Cheap 

 Sections Made of Veneer; How Much Food 

 Do Bees Need on a Journey? How to Se- 

 cure Straight Combs; Why the Bees Don't 

 Work, Getting Lower Combs out of Chaff 

 Hi ve, &c 360 



Two Queens in One Hive; Queen Cells by Mail, 

 also Queens by Mail; A Home Made Queen 

 Nursery; From Shadow to Sunshine; The 

 Century Plant and Flowering Yucca; Ten- 

 ement Hives 361 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



Feeding Colonies Through on Sugar Syrup, to 



Save Them from Brimstone, &c 341 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



What Ails the Bees? and How to Cure 'Em; 

 The New Cone on the Cold Blast Smoker; 

 Queens by Mail versus Express; A Good 

 Reason for Needing a Smoker; How Does a 

 Queen Know Her Own Hive? Sowing 

 Buckwheat Early; Bees That Won't Work 

 or Swarm; Simpson Honey Plant Again 362 



Charity; A Beginner; Feeding Too Much for 

 Safety to the Brood; Why Did They Swarm? 

 What Advertisements Are Suitable for a 

 Bee Journal? An Improvement on the 

 Cold Blast Smoker; Sugar Syrup versus 

 Honey for Winter Stores; Novice's Dove- 

 tailed Sections in Louisiana; Report from 

 Texas 363 



BOYS' DEPARTMENT. 369 



THE SMILERY. 369 



THE GROWLERV. 369 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLES. 



Gillespie, Mrs. Cotton, and Mitchell 371 



HONEY COLUMN. 372 



EDITORIAL. 



Hunter's Manual on Bee Keeping; Fdn. Mills 

 for Thick Side Walls; The Shinsrle-Chaff- 

 Tenement-Hive; Arc There Hybrid Queens 

 in Italy? 361 



The Sweet Pepper, Clelhra alnifolia; Troubles 

 in regard to Mail Matter; What you are to 

 Do with the Bees This Month 372 



Have to-day, Aug. 28th, 4,403 subscribers, which is 

 13 less than we had last month. I wonder if I would 

 not better get up a little earlier mornings, and stir 

 around a little faster after I am up. Sec if I don't 

 do better next time. 



16 oage Illustrated Circular Sent Free. 



EVERETT BROS., 107 Monroe St„ Toledo, Ohio. 



M QUEENS! QUEENS! "m 



We can supply very large, very yellow, extra pro- 

 lific, and pure queens, by mai?, at $1.00 each. All 

 from imported mothers. Ten per cent off above 

 prices by the dozen. Circulars giving our method 

 for raising pure queens sent free. 

 9d H. ALLEY', Wenham, Mass. 



LEWIS SECTIONS, 



ALL IN ONE PIECE. 



Owing to the many sizes of sections in use, we can 

 not manufacture largely in advance, and in the 

 honey season we can not supply the demand; so we 

 will sell the celebrated Lewis section, of white bass- 

 wood, nicely finished and sandpapered, of any size 

 up to 6x6 or its equivalent, until Dec. 1st, at the low 

 price of $8.50 per 1000, cash accompanying the order. 



Wc claim this section to be the finest in the world, 

 mill a small boy can put together 6000 per <'«;/• 



Send 5 cents for model of section. 

 9d LEWIS & PARKS, 



Watertown, Wis. 



BUILD UP Y0U3 LIGHT SWARMS. 



A pound of black bees and an Italian Queen for 

 $1.75. Bees without queens, 75 cts. Queens, $1.; or 

 with one lb. of Italian bees, $2.50. J. H. MARTIN, 

 Hartford, Wash. Co., N. Y. 



