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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov 



SYIHPIIORH ARIMS VULGARIS. 



SINCE your notice in Gleanings of the Sj/m- 

 phortcarpw, I have had many letters and 

 postal cards concerning it, some containing 

 stamps, and requesting their value sent in plants 

 and seeds. I have; compliod with thoir requests up 

 to this time, but so much letter writing taxes my 

 time and pocket so much that I would have you tell 

 them, through Gleanings, that I will send, post 

 paid, l>y mail, six or more plants at 10c. per plant, or 

 5c. per plant for fifty or more, if sent liy express. 

 Money sent in 3c. stamps, or post office order if over 

 COc. That price will not more than barely compen- 

 sate for cost, and time consumed in procuring, 

 packing, and delivering to the office. 



For 15c. in stamps, 1 will send a package of seed; 

 but the best way would be for several persons to 

 join, and have a box of plants sent by express or 

 freight. Our nearest rail road communication is 

 twenty miles, with stago daily to Warsaw. Wo will 

 have a rail road to Warsaw by next April. I am 

 willing to accommodate the readers of GLEANINGS 

 in any way I can. I do not suppose there will be 

 demand for plants sufficient to pay for planting a 

 nursery, and advertising them for sale, but will do 

 what 1 can to oblige our brother bee-keepers. 



Warsaw, Mo., Oct. 25, 1879. W. ('. Smith. 



We have to-day, Oct. 31st, 43fS8 subscribers. 



We are compelled to advance the price of tin sep- 

 arators to 81.75 and $2.25 per hundred, instead of the 

 price given in the price lists you have. 



Since the rise in iron, nails have come up about 

 So, per »>. above the list price, given In Aug. Glean- 

 ings. 



It is now October 30th. We have had another 

 frost, and a heavier one, and the spider plant has 

 Stepped off the si age, no more to appear until next 

 July, unless Novice shall coax her Into earlier bloom- 

 ing, by some sort of an arrangement to start the 

 plants in doors. 



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WINTER PASSAGES. 

 If your combs have no holes in them, 1 think it 

 would be well to make winter passages, .say one in 

 the centre of the comb, about 2 inches below the top 

 bar. A sharp stick will do it very well. With the L. 

 frame, two holes, about 4 or 5 inclr.'s apart, would be 

 still better. 



AliE YOUR BEES HEADY FOB WINTEB? 



[ HOPE Our readers have all their bees in winter 

 trim by the time this reaches them. If in chaff 

 hives, with sealed stores all around the cluster, and 

 the upper story nearly tilled with chaff, either loose 

 or in a cushion, they are, so far as 1 know, in as good 

 condition as you trim well huvo them. If the colony 

 is not strong, I would reduce the 8 inch entrance to 

 about 2 inches. Pushing bits of woolen cloth in at 

 each side will make a sure joint, and one that will 

 keep out wind. If the bees have not stores enough 

 at this late date, it will be a pretty hard matter to 

 feed them liquid food, but it may be done, on warm 

 days, by crowding the cushion over enough to get a 

 simplicity feeder in at one side. You can hold the 

 cushion away, enough to let the bees up, by a block 

 or piece of wood. A pepper box feedor may bo 

 used in the same way, and would bo used, perhaps, 



when the other would not. Candy may be fed any 

 day in the winter, and I have wintered colonies on 

 it successfully, when they had almost nothing else. 

 Put it under the cushion right over the cluster. If 

 you prefer to put them in the cellar, I would pack 

 them in chaff the same way, and set them in some 

 cool, dry day, and do it without bumping them. The 

 cellar must be dark, frost proof, and dry, or you 

 would better leave them out. 



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Notices of Conventions, condensed so as to occupy 

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



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Dec. 



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 Jan. 



Feb. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



TIME AND PLAGE OF MEETING. 



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

 10.— Michigan Bee Keepers' Association, annu- 

 al, State, at Jackson, Mich. 



13.— North Western 111., and South Western 

 Wis., annual, at Davis, 111. 

 11.— North Eastern, at Utlca, N. Y. 



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DOOLITTLE 



Desires to place his Hoe Keepers' Club List in the 

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 to save money, put your address, plainly written, 

 on a postal and direct to G. M. DOOLITTLE, 

 lid Borodino, N. Y. 



