GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Jan. 



Contents of This Number. 



Notes from the Banner Apiary. No. 2 7 



Queens' Voices, and Talking- Queens 7 



Friend Simpson's Story; Water for Bees in Winter 8 

 A Printing-office that will Print in Colors, for 



only 50 Cents 10 



That New Match-Box for any Smoker 11 



Adam Grimm; His Earlier D iys in Bee Culture .. .11 

 Drones in Worker Comb; Natural vs. Artificial 



Queens, and Chaff Packing for Winter 11 



Bees and Grapes 13 



Queen - Rearing — How Doolittlc Raises His 



Queens; Two Queens in a Hive 12 



The New Sugar Cane the Early Amber 13 



A Cheaper Division B >ard; Remarks in Regard 



to Division Bou-ds 15 



Why did They Per-ist in Swarming Out? 16 



Will Requeening in the Fall Prevent " Dwin- 

 dling"? 16 



From Germany; Another Relation of the Simp- 

 son Honey Plant 17 



The New Grape-Sugar Bee-Oaudy ; I am Not the 

 Original Discoverer; Keeping Queens in 



Winter in a Cage 17 



Advantages of a Hilly or Mountainous District 



for an v piary 18 



Sunflowers for Shade, and Odds and Ends; Con- 

 densation of Water in Unprotected Hives; 



the i lover Experiment 18 



The Honey that Pleased Queen Victoria so 

 Well; the 5-inch Fdn. Mills; Fdn. Starters 



for Comb Honey 19 



Balling the Queen; Wintering l?ees 19 



Spring Dwindling — Fradenburg's Plan for its 



Prevention 22 



Scotland — Bees and lee-Keeping in 1879 22 



California Sage as a Honey Plant 34 



The Spider Plant and Simpson Honey Plant- 

 All I Know about Their Cultivation 34 



A Simplicity Chaff Hive 45 



Tinware tor the Honey business 46 



A MiiCf-liox for those who Make Hives by Hand.. 46 



THE SMILERY 14 



BEE BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



A Big Bumble-Bee — Mallophora Bomboides; 

 Lophanthus Scrophularit'olius and Scrophu- 

 laria Nodosa— a Correct ion 14 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLES 20 



THE GROWLERY 21 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



Color for Shipping-Crates 21 



BLASTED HOPES. 



In the Shade or in the Sun for Winter; " Bless- 

 ed Bees." 36 



BOX-HIVE DEPARTMENT 36 



OBITUARY 36 



HEADS OF GRAIN. 



Length of Time that Eggs Remain in the Cell 

 before Hatching; Cellar Wintering; Ital 

 ians versus Blacks as Robbers; Benefits of 

 Feeding during a scarcity of Forage; Size 

 and shape of Starters; Vacant Corners in 

 Sections of Honey 23 



Unsealed Stores for Winter; Advantages of 

 Always being with Your Bees; Dysentery 

 in the Fall; Legs to Hives; Hopes not Blast- 

 ed, after All; Good for an A B C Scholar; 

 Answering Letters Myself 24 



How 1 Introduced a Queen Dec. 1; Friend Al- 

 ley and His Queeus; Ants vims Queen 

 Bees; Clover Seeds — Alsike, White Dutch, 

 and Common White; Introducing by Spe- 

 cial Method* 25 



Another Hive Full of Honey, and didn't Know" 

 it; What to Do with a Barrel of Bees; 

 brimstoning bees an Infringement of the 

 Laws of Our Land; Bee-Houses; Alighting- 

 Bushes and Trees; Roofs for Hives; a Clear 

 Case of Bees Balling Their own Queen 26 



When Does the Queen Cease Layiug? Carpet 

 for Covering the Frames; Three Remarka- 

 ble Queens — How Old may a Queen be, and 

 still become Fertilized? a Hybrid Queen 

 that Grows Pure as She Grows Older; \ 

 Queen that \lways Keeps a Laying Daugh- 

 ter with Her; \n October swarm; V\ inter- 

 ing Hees in a Cellar 27 



keeping Bees Without Trouble; Quoen Dead ' 



at the Entrance; Feeding Up a September 

 Colony; Wili Italians Predominate, if Left 

 to Themselves? Winter Passages, and how 

 to Make Them Permanent; Scovell's Un- 

 capping-Hox 28 



An Improvement in Wabbling-Saws; From 3 to 

 CO, in Three Years; A Successful Decoy 

 Hive; Introducing-Cage tor < old Weather; 

 The <artoons; Extractors with a Vertical 

 Motion to the Crank; Combs of -ealed 

 Honey for Feeding: Extracting in Nov 29 



Still more about Two Quecs in a Hive; An- 

 other A H C Scholar. Red-Clover Honey; A 

 Small -'warm Coming out of a Heavy New 

 Swarm; A Good Report from the Blacks; 

 Juice of Sugar Cane for Bees 30 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Chaff Hives Ahead for Comb Honey; Choosing 

 a Location before Swarming: Fdn. for Comb 

 Honey; Dark Honey and Old Bees; How 

 Near each other Hives may tie Placed: Can 

 Hives be ton Warm? Brown Sugar for Win- 

 ter Food: Setting Bees Near a Main Road; 

 Getting Bees that are to be Brimstoned; 

 Increasing from 2 to 25 in One Season; How 

 to Contract the Entrance to naff Hives for 

 Winter; Extraci ing All Unsealed Honey for 

 M i nter 31 



Letting Bees Starve; The Hotter Way; Will the 

 Loss of a Sting Kill a Bee? One Good Re- 

 P' >rt for 1S79, any way ; How to Prevent Pro- 

 polis tickingto the Fingers; PuttingGum- 

 med Honey-Labels on Tin; United Stocks 

 Quarreling; feeding Sugar to Make Hon- 

 ey: Troubles— In Fall Feeding Out-doors, 

 in Feeding at the Entrance, in Feeding in 

 the Upper Story, in Uniting 32 



Will Honev Freeze? How to Put the Tin Roof 

 on a Chaff Hive; Localities for Bee-Keep- 

 ers in Michigan; A Great Crop of Honey 

 in Ontario, Oa.: Picture of the Apiary, and 

 the + artoon; Flat-R< ttomed Fdn. Not a 

 Succss; Worker Hrood from a Queen that 

 was Hatched without Wings: V\ hite lover 

 that Doesn't Yield Honey; Great Yield 

 from the Asters :>3 



Poisoning B"es with Yeast; Honey-Dew from 

 the Beech; Report from Iowa; Cellar Win- 

 tering in Iowa: Adverti ing Bees and Hon- 

 ey this Year; Age of Drones 34 



HONEY COLUMN 45 



CONVENTIONS 00 



EDITORIALS. 



Snow over the Hives, and lee in Ihe Entrances; 

 A Book on Taxidermy; That Red-Clover 

 Queen; Having the t ushioi s Fit Closely in 

 the UpperStory; Lucerne and Alfalfa: Our 

 business for 1879; Giving Pi izes and Premi- 

 ums 35 



Headquarters for Early Queens! 



Imported and Home-bred: Nuclei and full Colonies. 

 For quality and purity, my st< ck of Italians can not 

 be excelled in the United States. If you wish to pur- 

 chase lees or Apiarian Supplies, send for mv new 

 Circular. Address Dr. J. P. H. BROWN, 



ltf Augusta, Ga. 



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