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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Oct. 



names ought to be inserted to make the list a ser- 

 viceable one. 



Class 1. Plants avoided almost entirely. Lilac, 

 balsam fir. 



Class 2. Plants evidently regarded with aversion. 

 Maple, chestnut. 



Class 3. Plants regarded without aversion. Oak, 

 peach, plum, grape, currant. 



Class 4. Plants regarded with evident prefer- 

 ence. Apple, pear, sunflower. 



Class 5. Plants very decidedly preferred. Snow- 

 ball, cherry. 



By making a proper selection, and allowing noth- 

 ing tall "around the shanty," the work of hiving 

 swarms might be very much lessened. 



Bodley, O. E. E. Hasty. 



DEPOSITORY OF 



Or Letters from Those Who Have Made 

 Bee Culture a Failure. 



fjjRlEND NOVICE:-I am "busted"— that' s the 

 word. I have waited all summer for the weath- 

 . er to get so that the flowers would yield honey, 

 but— no go. My bees commenced increasing, in the 

 spring, at the wrong end, and have kept at it pretty 

 faithfully all summer. What I have left are weak, 

 and are getting honey from the Spanish needle, very 

 slowly. I have only taken 201b. so far; so you see 

 that I am not getting very rich this year. Well, 

 that is not the worst of it; you have run me in debt 

 again by sending finished instead of unfinished ex- 

 tractor gearing. Now you will have to wait for your 

 pay, till I sell that 20tt>. of honey. H. Scovell. 



Never mind, friend S., I will wait. But, 

 hold on ; here is a P. S. to the letter. It is 

 astonishing how soon our friends get out of 

 "blasted hopes, 1 ' if they do get there occa- 

 sionally. 



P. S. — Our county fair begins the 29th. I am going 

 to exhibit an apiary, hexagonal, of 36 hives; inside 

 circle, 6 chaff hives; next row, 12, two story Simplic- 

 ity; and next, my 1% story Simplicities; the whole 

 to be enclosed with the new visible wire fence. 

 Besides, I will have the various implements used in 

 the apiary, honey in crates, observatory hive, &c. 



Columbus, Kan., Sept. 10, 1879. H. Scovell. 



Do you suppose any body at the fair will 

 think of friend S. as a "blasted hoperV" 



Now, Mr. R., I much appreciate your Gleanings 

 and would like it very much, but I broke down dead 

 poor, last spring. I started last fall, to winter 52 

 colonies of bees, and came out this spring, with only 

 two hives that had living bees in them, and less than 

 three tea-cupf uls in the two. Now, I have five good 

 swarms so I can't give up yet. 



Cardiff, N. Y., Sept. 12, '79. Edmund Estey. 



Be of good cheer, friend E. ; we will keep 

 the Journal going for a while longer, at least, 

 to an old subscriber like yourself. 



Bees are starving, and have commenced swarm- 

 ing out. They will have to be fed immediately. 

 We have no surplus honey this year, to speak of. 



Saxon, 111., Sept. 5, 1879. J. A. Maxfield. 



Last year, from our 100 colonies, we got 4,0fl0Tt>. of 

 honey surplus; this year, with our 125 colonies, we 

 get nothing. James Spencer. 



Woodburn, la., Sept. 14, 1879. 



Since our editorial on page 408, in regard to ship- 

 ping queens, we have had reports from 1-2 doz. sent 

 to Indian Territory, which were on the road 21 days. 

 Those sent in the large bottle cages went in far the 

 best order. Now I will tell you what we will do for 

 long distances. We will give them candy, water, 

 and a good slice of sealed honey besides, in every 

 cage. The 1-2 doz. to Indian Territory went all right 

 except one; but 1 want them all to go all right any- 

 where. 



At the conclusion of the article entitled "Troubles" 

 in the July No., I recorded a prayer, that the brother 

 who was robbing our mails might be brought to 

 light and justice. You will see by the following 

 telegram, from the chief of the detective force of 

 the postal department, that at least a part of my 

 prayer has been answered : 



Grafton, O., Sept. 29, 1879. 

 Come to Cleveland. We have the thief solid. 



C. E. Henry, Special Agt. P. O. D. 

 I leave just as our last sheet goes to press, and 

 may God grant that my efforts may be as successful, 

 in inducing him to think of "laying up treasures" 

 for the world to come, as they have with the boys I 

 have met in our own jail. 



MORE ABOUT MITCHELL. 



[The following belongs in the Humbug and '. Swin- 

 dle Dept., but was crowded out.] 



About 3 months ago, I ordered, from a certain 

 Mitchell, 3 bee queens. I inclosed with the order 

 $10.00. The address given to me was Nelson Mitch- 

 ell, B. K., Sandusky City, Ohio. I never received an 

 answer. As you live in the same state I would be 

 very much obliged to you, if you could give me his 

 address. Rev. John Teitien. 



Victoria, Tex., Aug. 23, 1879. 



The address was correct, friend T. If you 

 look in the Humbug and Swindle Depart- 

 ment, you will see why you don't hear from 

 him. 



Mitchell's man is scouring over this county, sell- 

 ing rights, at $5.00, to use the adjustable hive. 



Geo. W. Housel. 

 Bainbridge, Ind., July, 1879. 



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Notices of Conventions, condensed so as to occupy 

 not over two lines, will be inserted free of charge. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



1879. 

 Oct. 



Nov, 



ISSil. 



Jan. 

 Feb. 



TIME AND PLACE OF MEETING. 



7.— Central Kentucky, at Lexington, Ky. 



7.— Albany County, N. V., at Albany, N. Y. 



15.— Central Michigan, at Lansing, Mich. 



18.— North Ky., at Alexandria. Ky. 



21.— National Convention, at Chicago, 111. 



30, 31.— Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa, at 



Burlington, Iowa. 

 10.— Lancaster Co., Pa., at Lancaster. 



13.— North Western 111., and South Western 

 Wis., annual, at Davis, 111. 

 11.— North Eastern, at Utica, N. Y. 



GLEANINGS AS AN ADVERTISING 

 MEDIUM. 



It pays to advertise in Gleanings. I sold all my 

 hives and combs, and had orders for double the 

 amount. A. Fahnestoc . 



Toledo, O., Sept. 8, 1879. 



Will you please send me a copy of Gleanings for 

 a customer of mine. 1 find the Gleanings one of 

 the best advertising mediums I have tried, and think 

 it has paid me better than any 1 have used. 



Catskill, N. Y. July 28, '79. E. H. Wynkoop. 



BEE KEEPEUS ! Send 5c to A. J. King & Co., 

 61 Hudson St., New York, for a copy of their 

 Journal, and Price List of Extractors, Smokers, etc., 

 etc. Grand Inducements to Live Agents. 4tf 



I WILL sell, this fall, 100 stands of Black Bees, at 

 $2.50 per stand. They are in Langstroth, Amer- 

 ican, and International hives, which are well paint- 

 ed. ROB'T QUINN, Shellsburg, Benton Co., la. 



