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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Nov. 



Contents of This Nnmljer. 



Scrap3 and Sketches. No. 11. A Few Buzz- 

 Saw Scraps 425 



How an ABC Scholar Managed: How to Ital- 

 ianize an Apiary; Sending Off for Drones 421 



Our Own Apiary and Honey Farm: The Spider 

 Plant (Cleome pungens) in Oct.; How Much 

 Honev Will an Acre of Plants Yield; Differ- 

 ence in Colonies as Honey Gatherers; Hon- 

 ey Plants not Injured by Fronts; The Cheap 



Candv for Brood Hearing- 430 



Sp^ak Gently 432 



A Good Report from Cinaia; Fdti. on Paper, 



Successful wintering, &c 431 



Can Bees Hatch Their Eggs at Will? 431 



Tested Queens Turning- Hybrids, and Two 



Queens in One Hive 435 



Trials and Tribulations of Introducing Queens; 

 An ABC Scholar'a Story; More about 



Mitchell's Boards 436 



Queens from the Egg- vs. Queans from Worker 



Larva? • 436 



Sprin? Dwindling 437 



The Home of the Honey Bees; Au Apiary of 



500 Hives 433 



California as a B°e Keeping State. Article 



No. 3. White Sa/e 440 



Whence Cometh the Honey DewV 44J 



Glen Oak Apiary: The Yucca; California as a 

 Honey State; Honey from the Oak; Comb 

 Fdn. in California; Arrangement of Apiary.. 440 

 Rearing Fertile, Laying Queens, in a Hive Con- 

 taining a Fertile, Laving Queen— Can it be 



Dine? A New Fea'ure in Queen Q earing 441 



How Far Will Bees Go for Honey 441 



A Reminder; Getting Bees Ready for Winter; 



Drone« in Worker Comb 442 



Bees That Work on Red Clover 453 



Our C irtoon for November 459 



Symphoricarpu3 Vulgaris 460 



THE GROWLERY, 



Imported Queens and Their Bees Not, as a 



Rule, Being Handsome 426 



THE SMILE RY. 427 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLFS. 



Are Periodicals Responsible for Their Adver- 

 tisements 427 



HONEY COLUMN. 42LI 



BEE BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



Our Third Wax Destroyer; Aster Tradescanti; 

 Prairie Clover; Mollie Henth's H >ney 

 Plant, Stickweed, and Button Weed; Eupa- 



torium Altissimutn 433 



boys' department. 433 



A Boy's Experience in Introducing Queens 434 



heads of grain. 



Cutting a Bee Tree; Report from an A B C 



Scholar 442 



Honev Dew Honey; Where Did the Qu"en 

 Come From? Lazy Bees and What to Di 

 with Them; Is There Danger of Brood in 

 the Sections, Short L. Frames and Long 

 Ones: Chaff Hives Best fc Summw as well 

 as Winter; An ABC Seta dar's Trials in 

 Introducing; Those Nice Hammers 443 



Honev Candying in the (Mis during Warm 

 Weather; Italians Killing- Off the Blocks 

 Again; Is It Foul Brood? How an ABC 

 Sctaolar C ime to Grief, but Finally Su^cpel- 

 ed, After All; More about Introducing 

 Queens 444 



The Honey Season in Georgia, and That C)mb 

 a Foot Thick; Do Bees Destroy Grapes? 

 Making the Bees Rear Drones Out of Sea- 

 son, and Drone Brood bv Mail; Why Din't 

 They Swarm? and Honev from Smart 

 Weed: From the ABC Scholar That Grew 

 so Fast Last Year 445 



Sweet Potatoes as a Substitute for Pollen; The 

 Fibrous Material in B-ood C unb; Persistant 

 Absconding; Can We Have too Much Brood, 

 and Wired Frames for Fdn. ; What Consti- 

 tutes Pure Italians; Another A B C Scholar 

 from Maine and His Chaff Hive 440 



October Swarms; An ABC Scholar in York 

 State, and the New Way of Marketing Hon- 

 ey; Perforated Tin Separators; Good Re- 

 port from Minnesota; Another Apology to 

 Our Clerks, Where Did the Bees Go? Nice 



Comb Honey from the South, and Comb 

 Honey without Sep-ai-ators ... 447 



Wintering 8 Colonies, in a Shingle Chaff Tene- 

 ment Hive; The Case of One Tier of Sec- 

 tions versus the Broad Frames; Hybrids 

 versus Full Bloods for Swarming, C >ld 

 Blast Smoker. &c; Improvement in Smok- 

 ers Suggested, Two Q teens in a Hive, &c; 

 Buckwheat, &c. Chaff Hives— Do They 

 Need Division Boards? One Favorable 

 Mention of the Sweet Pepper 44S 



The New Grape Sugar Candy for Feeding B^es, 

 &c. ; Bees Killing a Span of Horses; The 

 Quarrel about the Sunshine; A Swarm of 



Bees in October 449 



notes and queries. 



Ready for Winter; Importance of Answering 

 All Letters Promptly, by Return Mail; 

 Honey Causing Sickness; Scalding to Pre- 

 vent Candying; Honey Yield in Oct. in 

 Virginia; Report from an A B C Scholar; 

 Another Report from Canada; The New 

 Plan of Introducing Queens; introducing 

 Queens; A Caution about Putting Many 

 Queen Cells in One Hive; The Cold Blast 

 Smokers; Brown Sugar and Cheap Syrups 

 for Feeding Bees; Pure Drones from Hy- 

 brid Queens: Sour Honey; The Aster as a 

 Honey Plant 453 



Italians versus Blacks; Extracting Unsealed 

 Stores in the Fall; Contracting Space for 

 Winter; Sugar Syrup versus Honev for 

 Winter; Apple Juice or Cider for Winter 

 Stores; Combining the Mat and Enameled 

 Sheet; Flax Chaff, &c; Buckwheat Some- 

 times a Failure, and What to D > with C Mo- 

 nies Hiving Little or noCmib; Artificial 

 Queen Cells and What Came of Them : Roof 

 to the One and a HUf Storv Hive, and Forty 

 Cent Case of Sections; The Queen That 

 Flew Away, and Where She Went; Ques- 

 tions from an ABC Scholar 451 



Early Italian Drones: Blacks versus It alii n«; 

 How Late Mav Queens Be Fertilized? Win- 

 tering in Both Stories; Paralyzing with 

 Puff Ball; Chaff Packing or Cellar Winter- 

 ing; Buckwheat Chaff; When to Pack Bees 

 in Chaff; Laws in Regard to Where Bees 

 Mav Be lOpt; Queens Whose Eggs Do Not 

 Hatch; Time of Bio >ming of the Simpson 

 Hmey Plmt; Covering Hives with Glass; 

 Drones All Winter, and Age of Drones 

 Asrun 452 



Confining Bees to Their Hives; Loss in Feed- 

 ing; How to Get Young Queens to Lay in 

 the Fall; Cement for Fastening in Fdn ; A 

 Queen Th it Would Not Lav, and Two 

 Queens in a Hive; Is a Pure D lugtater of 

 an Imported Qu-en as Good for Breeding 

 as an imported Qu^en? A Go >d Report 

 from Buckwheat an 1 also from That Sun- 

 day School 453 



editorial. 429 



An Extensive Bee Farm in Canada 454 



Managing Bees by Electi-icity 432 



Are Your Bees Ready for Winter? Winter 



Passages 461 



conventions. 460 



The pos'age on Gleanings to foreign countries 

 will hereafter be 18c. per year, instead of 24c. Our 

 friends in other countries will please add this 

 amount to the usual ratps. 



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On account of the advanee in pric" of grape sugar, 

 the grape sugar candy, for bees, will be 8c. per fl>., 

 or 40c. per tray of 4'i B>., instead of the prices given 

 lust m mtta. I sincerely hope this will be the last 

 advance. 



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Burlap makes very good chaff cushions, except 

 that the fine dust sifts' out when it is handled. How- 

 ever, as it is more porous, as well as cheaper, than 

 the Indian Head, we have decided to make a lot, for 

 our own use, of burlap. 



The thief who has been robbing- our mails promis- 

 ed to restore all the money, and to become a Chris- 

 tian, if we would keep him out of the penitentiary. 

 I think he will make a much b-tter Christian to go 

 to the penitentiary, and if he cannot become one 

 and go there, I do not believe h; would if released. 

 "I came not to send peace, but a sword."— Math. X. 34. 



