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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Fee. 



Contents of This Number. 



Notes from the Banner Apiary. No. 2. Alsike 



Clover 55 



Foundation Machine, Expressly for Starters 50 



Early-Amber Sugar Cane : Cane Syrup for Bees : 

 Clarifying- Cane Syrup with Clay; Bees and 



Sugar-Cane Mills 57 



Visit from an Old Friend, and What He Talked 

 About; Bees Drinking at Their Hives; 

 Bees and Grapes; Bees Balling Their Own 

 Queen; SpringDwindling; Fdn. in Sections; 



White Dutch Clover, 59 



My Wax Extractor 59 



Fdn. Mills Cheaper; Bourgmeyer's Mill 60 



Given's Machine for Making Fdn. in Wired 



Frames 61 



Our Own Apiary 62 



Gallup's Ideas on Bee Culture in California 63 



Do Bees Eat Grapes? 63 



Gray's New Section Box and Machine for Mak- 

 ing It. Also Some New Ideas in Making 

 Wooden Boxes; How to Make Sections to 



be Glassed 64 



Queens are Permitted to Go by Mail : 65 



Protecting with Corn Fodder; Chaff Packing 

 Better; Introducing without Ceremonies; 

 Why Do Bees Leave for the Woods? Two 

 Swarms Separating Themselves; Letting 

 Bees Starve After They Have Given a Crop 



of Honey 66 



Winter Covering Under the Cushions; Enam- 

 eled Sheets 66 



How Friend Steele Learned His First Lesson, 



and Didn't Get Stung After All 67 



Select Queen Raising 68 



Simpson Honey Plant and Its Cultivation 68 



Artificial Pollen and Flour Feeding; How to 



Start Bees to Working on Meal 68 



Simpson and Spider Plant; Raising Plants for 



Spring Planting 69 



Eight or Ten Frame Hives 69 



Another Feeder 70 



Honey Dew : Do the Leaves of Trees, as well as 

 Blossoms, sometimes Secrete Honey? Ori- 

 gin of Honey Dew 70 



THE GROWLERY. 



Giving Premiums 



BEE BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



Water-Leaf as a Honey Plant; The Tochina Fly; 

 Purple Thoroughwort as a Late Honey 

 Plant; Blue Thistle Plants; Blue Thistle in 

 Michigan 



Italians Robbing Blacks; Do Bees Rob because 

 They Lack Stores? Shipping Bees in the 

 Winter; Carrying in Flour in Jan. ; Blasted 

 Hopes; Robbing the Neighbors' Bees; Ba- 

 ker's Division Board — Correction; How 

 Friend Kendig Gets a Big Crop of Honey in 

 a Poor Season; Strong Stocks to Get Honey. 



How to Make Full Sheets of Fdn., with a little 

 Wax ; The Red Raspberry as a Honey Plant: 

 Leaves versus Chaff; A Word in Defense of 

 Friend Alley; The Decimal System of 

 Weights, Measures, etc 



Wool for Cushions; Bees by the Pound; Can a 

 Queen Feed Herself? Honey of the South; 

 Wired Frames for Fdn.; Transferring in 

 Dec. ; Buckwheat in Northern Localities. . . 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Simpson Honey Plant,— It Has Medicinal Prop- 

 erties; Good for Canada; Fuel for Smok- 

 ers; How to Sow Amber Sugar Cane; Does 

 It Pay to Raise Queens? Honey Dew from 

 the Oak; Coarser Wire Cloth for Extractors; 

 Is the Spider Plant or Simpson Honey Plant 

 a Bad Weed? Can the Seven-Top Turnip 

 Seed Be Made to Bloom the First Season? 

 Packing Chaff Cushions; Friend Harring- 

 ton's House Apiary; Good Report of Hy- 

 brids; Introducing at Swarming Time; 

 Chaff Packing for Mild Winters; Can an 

 Imported Queen's Daughter Produce Any 

 Bees All Black? 



AVintering on Candy Alone; Oat Hulls for Win- 

 ter Packing; Keeping a Cash Balance for 

 Purchases; What to Do with Box Hives 

 That Are Short of Stores in Winter; Cheap 

 Way of Fixing Leaky Roofs; Flat Bottomed 

 Fdn.; Extracting Unsealed Honey for Win- 

 ter; First Report of the Bee Malady 



G rape Sugar Candy 



EDITORIALS. 



Foot-power Grindstones; Cheirograph; Pollen 

 not Absolutely Necessary for Wintering; 

 The New Section Box 



Saws for Making the New Section Box 



Dipped Fdn. versus Rolled 



HONEY COLUMN. 

 CONVENTIONS. 



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THE SMILERY. 

 LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



Natural versus Artificial Swarming 



BLASTED HOPES. 



Buckwheat not Always a Honey Plant 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLES. 



Mrs. Cotton; N.C.Mitchell; Patents and Pat- 

 ent Hives, in General 



100 COLONIES 07 BEES M SALE ! 



I will sell very cheap (as owners are dead), 100 Col- 

 onies of Bees in L. hives; 1 Barnes Foot Power Buzz 

 Saw; 2 Extractors; Honey bottles, 1 and 2 lb.; 20, 40, 

 and 80 gal. cans: a lot of Circular Saws, Files, Wire 

 Cloth for cages and Extractors, Show Cases, &c. 



C. H. GETCHELL, 

 2 230 Main St., Memphis, Tenn. 



~G-A.3XT^SLID.A- OKTIjY. 



Summer Rape seed and Sweet Clover seed. Either 

 kind, 15c per pound, post free. H. SMITH, 

 2d Box 102, New Hamburg, Ontario. 



HEADS OF GRAIN. 



The Quarrel about the Sunshine; Honey Plants 

 and Their Cultivation; Queenlessness in 

 Cold Weather; Saving Bees That Are to Be 

 Brimstoned; Surplus Pollen; Dead Bees 

 in Front of the' Hives; Harvesting Alsike 

 Clover Seed 



Comb Building in Spring Rather than Fall; 

 Doolittle's Theory about Dormant Eggs; 

 Ducks' Feathers for Wintering Bees; To 

 Make Chaff Cushions with Little Cost; 

 Moores' "Jimmy" for the Apiary 



Does a Queen Lay Drone and Worker Eggs Al- 

 ternately? and How? Is Frequent Handling 

 Detrimental? Introducing Cage for Cold 

 Weather; Spider Plant not Always a Suc- 

 cess 



Artificial Pasturage; Movable Frames and Ital- 

 ians, versus Blacks and Box Hives; What 

 Mice May Do; From 8 to 30, and 9001b. of 

 Honey; Grape-Sugar Candy Made with 

 Honey; Prepared Paper as Rooting for 

 Hives; Open-Air Feeding in Spring; Keep- 

 ing Bees on Shares; Why Does Candv Drip. 



Quoens,— How Even Imported Ones Differ; 

 Honey Dew That " Is Dew " ; Fastening the 

 Combs to the Separators; Carpeting for 

 Covering the Frames; Sourwood Boney 



CHEAP BEES ! 



About 30 Colonies in good, movable-comb hives, 

 at $5. each. E. A. GASTMAN, 

 2 Decatur, Macon Co., 111. 



,J CHEAP HIVES M CffiAP SECTIONS ! 



The best Bee Hives, Honey Boxes, Sections, Sec- 

 tion Cases, Shipping Crates, etc., 



-,-> FOB THE LEAST MONEY. 



Manufucturers of the " Hiox^xs " Section, 

 all in one piece. The 



73 Finest Section in the World! 



Not only formerly known as the Lewis Section, 

 but still known as the Lewis Section; and we are 

 the sole and only manufacturer thereof in the Uni- 

 ted States, and the original inventors of the same. 

 From 60 to 100 thousand sold during the past three 

 . 74 months. 



Send for Price List. 



LEITVS <l PARKS, 



75 ltf.d Watertown, Wis. 



