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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



OCT. 



Contents of this Number. 



Scraps and Sketches. No. 10. Lots of Bees 

 and Chaff Cushions; Winter Dwindling-; 



Spring Dwindling- 381 



Do Bees Choose a Location before Swarming- 381 



California as a Bee-Keeping- State. Article 2 382 



The Shing-le Tenement Chaff Hive 383 



Dang-er of Adulteration in Bees-Wax; Amer- 

 ican Mineral Wax 383 



A Visit to One of the ABC Scholars Who liais- 

 es Queens instead of Honey; Does Queen 



Bearing Pay? : 383 



Feeding in October for Winter; What to Feed; 

 A Very Valuable Discovery: Bee Candy 

 for 5c. per lb.; How to Make the Five Cent 



Candy 384 



Doolittle's Report for 1879 386 



Our Own Apiary and Honey Farm; Do Not In- 

 troduce the Accompanying- Bees, When 

 You Introduce a Queen; Out Door Feeding 

 with a Ban-el Feeder; Time to Sow Buck- 

 wheat; Itapefor Fall Pasturage; The Seven 

 Top Turnip; Alsike Clover Sown in the 



Fall 387 



Feeding- 388 



Instruction in Bee Culture in the Shape of 



Practical Work in the Apiary 389 



An Apology for Uncharitable Thoughts 389 



An ABC Scholar in Maine 390 



Report from an Apiary Run by Hired Labor; 



Honey Vineg-ar 390 



Do Pure Queens Ever Change to Hybrids? A 



Vexed Question 392 



Wintering; Continued from Sept. No 393 



Glossary 396 



A Complaint 413 



Simpson Honey Plant 413 



Prices of Honey, Separators and no Separators, 



Profits of the business, &c 414 



Our Cartoon for October 414 



Just Before Going to Press 415 



Alighting Bushes 415 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLES. 



Mitchell and Mrs. Cotton 416, 386 



BBE BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



Another Destroyer of Honey Comb; Insects on 



Basswood Bloom; Symphoricarpus 391 



A New Species of Milkweed; Germander 392 



HEADS OF GRAIN. 



Do Bees Ever Add a Fibrous Material in Comb 

 Building to Give Additional Strength? 

 Shall We Have One Tier of Sections over 

 the Brood Nest, or Two? How to "Intro- 

 duce" alb. of Bees and a Queen; Do Ital- 

 ians Drive Out the Common Bees? An A 

 B C Scholar's Experience, Bee Hunting and 

 All 401 



Strange Freak of an Italian Queen; "Handles" 

 for Packages of Bees or Queens, &c. ; Ex- 

 tracted Honey Will Keep; How an ABC 

 Scholar Introduces Queens and Prospers 

 Generally; The Simplicity Feeder and 

 Dampness when Feeding 402 



Introducing, Italians, Wiring Fdn., &c; A 

 Sure(?) Method of Increasing the Number 

 of Colonies even in Winter Time; How to 

 Find a Black Queen; When to Buy Bees, 

 What to Pay, &c; Artificial Heat for a 

 Wintering House; Queens by Mail, and 

 Canadian Postal Regulation 403 



How Old May a Queen Be, and Still Be Fertil- 

 ized? More About That Granulated Honey ; 

 Feeding to Promote Brood Rearing in the 

 Fall, and Feeding while in Doors in Winter; 

 A Royal Combat Resulting in the Death of 

 Both Queens ; Are We to Consider Bumble 

 Bees as Enemies? Non-Prolific Queens; 

 Report from Michigan 404 



More About Drones in Worker Cells; No Queen 

 in the Cage; Further Cautions About Rob- 

 bing while Transferring, Mitchell, &c; A 

 Few Words in Behalf of the Abused Black 

 Bees 405 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Bitter Weed as a Pollen Plant; Moving Bees 

 for Fall Pasturage; Can a Queen Be Reared 

 from Drone Larva?? Value of Engravings, 

 &c; One Way to Get a Start; A Strange 

 Freak of Bee's; How One Man Prospers, 

 while Another Has only Blasted Hopes; 

 Wooden Separators; Dark Queens, and 

 Tinned Wire for Brood Combs; Quickness 

 in Transit; Drone Brood in Worker Comb — 408 



What is the Matter with the Bees? Simpson 

 Honey Plant; Queens That Stop Laying 

 and Queens That Produce All Drone Brood; 

 What is Royal Jelly? Moving Bees Short 

 Distances; "Chunk" Honey; North and 

 South Entrances; "Peppery" Honey; 

 Queens with lib. of Bees; Rape, &c. ; How 

 a Patent Right Man Came to Grief 407 



EDITORIAL. 



The Safest Package for Sending Queens; Cag- 

 ing Queens on Hatching Brood, Caging 

 Queen Cells, &c 408 



HONEY COLUMN 413 



BLASTED HOPES 416 



CONVENTIONS 416 



To-day, Sept. 30th, only 4,397 subscribers, Whew ! 



The large picture of Our Own Apiary, will be giv- 

 en next month. 



Most Queens stop laying this month unless the 

 colony is fed daily; will the A B C class please take 

 notice, instead of writing that they are queenless. 



Our new price list, carefully revised, and a great 

 deal larger, will be sent to any body on application. 

 It will be sent to all subscribers with the last num- 

 ber of the year. 



Queens can be introduced now as well as at any 

 time, and, as but little brood is being reared, it U 

 the most economical time in the year to have a col- 

 ony queenless. We shall be prepared to furnish 

 them, not only during all this month, but probably 

 all of next. 



One dollar sent for Gleanings now, pays for it 

 the balance of this year, and the whole of 1880. To 

 all of our old friends who send us a dollar during 

 this present month, for Gleanings next year, we 

 will give a still better present; see notice in anoth- 

 er place. 



The )i lb. of bees with a dollar queen, that friend 

 Hayhurst sent us last May, mentioned on page 210, 

 June No., has increased of itself to a fine colony of 

 bees. The queen he sent, after being tested, was 

 sold for $3.00, and they raised another, besides 

 gathering a full supply of stores for winter. Was 

 not that $2.00 rather a profitable investment?— Come 

 to think of it, I did not pay anything; the bees and 

 queen were a present. 



Any person sending us $1.00 for Gleanings for 

 1880, during this present month of October, may 

 have as a premium the last 3 Nos. of 1879, or any one 

 part of the ABC, or a photo of "Novice and Blue 

 Eyes," or a lithograph of our old apiary, or the 25c. 

 plane, or a two foot pocket rule, or last, but not 

 least, the beautiful hammer with metal handle in- 

 laid with black walnut, shown on page 326, Aug. No. 

 Now, to avail yourself of this offer, you must men- 

 tion it when you send the dollar, and tell what, 

 present you want, for our clerks have no time to 

 hunt up back correspondence, at these very low fig- 

 ures. 



The cheap candy works beautifully; a moderate 

 colony will take out of the tray from 1-4 to 1-2 lb. 

 daily, after they get the "hang of it." For the first 

 day or two, they sometimes use it but little. The 

 flour can be stirred in easiest when the grape sugar 

 is flrst taken from the stove; but the conee sugar 

 must not be put in until it is perfectly cold, or it 

 will not harden. For 10c, we will mail you a small 

 tray of it, sufficient to try it on your hives. This 

 little tray will also show you how thin stuff may be 

 nailed with the new wire nails; and, on the back of 

 it, is pasted printed instructions for making and 

 feeding the candy. 



If your young queens reared late in the fall won't 

 lay, toss them up when 15 days old, to see if their 

 wings are good. If so, feed the colony every day, as 

 I have directed on page 380. If she does not lay 

 after a week, put her in a strong colony and give 

 her the flour candy; this will generally succeed, if 

 there are drones, and there are almost always, even 

 if you do not know it. Sometimes when you cannot 

 make them lay in the fall, they will lay all right 

 next spring; but of course you are never to sell a 

 queen until you have seen her laying freely. It 

 would be safer not to sell her until some of the 

 brood was capped, to be sure she was not a drone 

 layer. 



