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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Feb. 



BUT IE A FRAUDULENT CLAIM IS MADE, 



Don't get frightened, but go slow. In this country, 

 even a pretended patentee can not throw a farmer 

 into a dungeon and feed him on bread and water. 

 The thing is to be settled by law, and in a United 

 Staff* court — not before the next Justice of the 

 Peace. If one claims that a gate or other thing is 

 patented, ask to see the patent — you are not obliged 

 to take his word for it. If he has his patent, take 

 its date and number. If he has not the document 

 with him, ask for the date and number. If he can't 

 give these, tell him that when he can bring them 

 you will consider the matter further; "but for the 

 present, as I am rather busy, good-morning." If he 

 does give date and number, tell him that you will 

 write to the Patent Office to see if it is all right. 

 Mark this: If one has an honest patent, he will ac- 

 cept the justice of your position; otherwise he is 

 probably a fraud. 



Oh! I forgot to tell you my friend, N. C. Mitchell, 

 paid me a visit a few weeks ago; indeed, I was real- 

 ly pleased with him. K. F. Wier. 



South Kiver, Anne Arundel Co., Md., Dec. 10, 1879. 



People are generally pleased with him, 

 friend W., and that is the secret of his suc- 

 cess in getting their money. "Confidence 

 men" are all adepts in making themselves 

 agreeable, are they not? It is for this very 

 reason, I am obliged to keep telling our read- 

 ers to look out. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE* 



.A.- I. ROOT, 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



terms: $i.oo per year, post-paid. 



3VEEXDiisr^3k-, htveib. i, leeo. 



For there shall be no night there.— He v. xxi. 25. 



Is there any mud where you live? 



Have your bees got plenty of stores? and are they 

 tucked up warm, ready for a " big freeze," if one 



comes? 



» ♦ » 



We have more than the usual number of letters 

 waiting for a place, so do not get cross, my friends, 

 if you find yours left out. It is but human nature 

 to think your items of a vast deal more importance 

 than those of your neighbors, to which I have given 

 place. Inasmuch as you can not all be right, will it 

 not be well to exercise charity? 



In my notice of the permit to allow queens to be 

 sent by mail, I neglected to state that it was at the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Association, where a 

 committee was appointed to confer with the P. M. G., 

 in regard to the matter. Prof. Cook was chairman 

 of this committee. Let us not forget to give the 

 convention due credit for taking up the matter. 



There is considerable discussion in regard to the 

 sawing machine advertised in this number, and, as 

 it seems a hard matter to determine whether it is 

 really a good thing or not, I would caution our 

 readers against purchasing until they have seen the 

 machine and tried it. Of course, I shall make no 

 charge for the advertisement after this notice. 



We are selling a great many of the foot-power 

 grindstones, but I do not hear a word either for or 

 against them. As I have praised them rather 

 strongly, 1 would like to know if my customers are 



as well pleased. When I see how you all invest in 

 anything I recommend, it makes me feel that I 

 ought to De pretty careful as to what I say. 



There ! I had hardly got the above written, when 

 the following card was handed me. You see the 

 grindstone is all right, in at least one family : 



The grindstone has been received, and is a gem, — 

 the very thing to keep tools sharp. Please send me 

 two new price lists. I have given mine away, and 

 have been asked for another. 



St. J. T. Moore. 



Monroe, La., Jan. 21, 1880. 



It seems that some of the friends have been a lit- 

 tle disappointed in the cheirograph described last 

 month. With good ink, and practice, a single writ- 

 ing will give HO or more impressions that can be 

 read without difficulty, but as the impressions con- 

 stantly grow fainter, they are, of course, not as 

 handsome as printed circulars. 



There again! I had just got the above written, 

 when " Bess" discovered that "W. O's." violet ink 

 works just beautifully on the cheirograph. After 

 the "troubles" we have had making ink for it, you 

 may guess how we rejoiced. 



Now we can give you a nice apparatus, ink and all, 

 for only 50c; if sent by mail, 75c. Samples of the 

 writing free on application. 



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POLLEN NOT ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR WINTER- 

 ING. 



Quite a number are worrying because their bees 

 have nopollen. and fear they will die for want Of it. 

 Be not troubled, my friends; bees will winter just as ' 

 well, and some think better, without a cell of pol- 

 len. Of course, they must have pollen when they 

 commence brood-rearing, but some cases have seem- 

 ed to indicate that those colonies did best which 

 raised no brood until they could fly out and get pol- 

 len in the spring. If you want to build up your col- 

 onies in the winter, the flour candy furnishes it with 

 very little trouble. If you feed so as to have young 

 bees hatching out all winter, you will certainly have 

 more bees in the spring (unless they get the dwin- 

 dling and die off), but it will take more time and 

 money than it would to let them rest until natural 

 stores come. 



the new section box. 



The machine for making sections shown this 

 month only makes the 4&x4J4, Simplicity section. 

 As it runs constantly on these and nothing else, we 

 are enabled to make the white basswood sections at 

 very low prices, even though lumber and every 

 thing else has advanced so much. Our prices for 

 this season will be as follows: 



Any number less than 500, ?_iC each; fr.-.m 500 to 

 5000, in whole packages of 500 each, $6.00 per thous- 

 and; from 5 to 10 thousand, $5.50 per thousand. 

 Ten thousand or over, $5.00 per thousand, which is 

 only ^c each. This latter rate can be secured by 

 neighbors clubbing together. Closed top sections, 

 same prices. Is not that cheap euough? The sec- 

 tion with the V shaped groove, if accidentally bro- 

 ken, can not be nailed, or at least not easily; ours, 

 if broken by carelessness or otherwise, can be 

 quickly and handsomely nailed, with the smallest 

 size wire nails. 



Mr. (i ray is now at work on a machine that will 

 make the same section of any size, and any kind of 

 packing boxes on the new-principle corner. Odd 

 sizes, as per prices in the price list. 



