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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 



Contents of This Number. 



Advertising- 



Tools 



Early A m her Sugar Cane 



How to Manage Robbing B»es 



Cas-es for Queens to go by Mail 



The Raspbetry as a Honey Flint 



Making Fdn. by the Single Operation of Dipping 



Hurrah for Texas ! Doolittle in the Shade 



Leakv Covers 



California Sage; Hoarhound as a Honey Plant. . . 



Something from Mr. Langstroth Once More; 

 Pea Flour for Pollen 



Building up Weak Colonies, and strengthen- 

 ing Feel le Stocks 



Alsike Clover. — Foreign Seeds in it, and How 

 to Get them Out; Some Excellent Hints on 

 Sowing Seeds, in General 



Chaff Packing, and Advantages of Keeping it 

 on Late 



How to stock an Apiary 



California as a Bee-Keeping State. No 5 



Suspended Animation; Tea-Chest Matting for 

 Covering the Frames 



Improvement in Queens: That Red-Clover 

 Queen ; Double-Queen Stocks 



Select Queen Rearing. No. 3 



THE RROWLERY. 



How Much Profit Shall be Allowed Those Who 

 Take Subscriptions, &c 



THE SMILERY. 

 DADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



Report froTi a Feminine A. B C Scholar; Arti 

 fieial Pollen and Spring Dwindling; Wet 

 Cloths to Prevent Robbing 



BOX-HIVE DEPARTMENT 

 HEADS OF ORAIN. 



Frames All in one Piece; How Cheap Should 

 we GetWirerl Frames of Fdn.? Chaff Hives, 

 bv an A B C Scholar; Long Lived Queens; 

 Alsike Clover; Honey from RedClover 



Grape Sugar That Will Kill Bees; A Home- 

 made Wax Extractor; Anomalies in Sci- 

 ence: "Visit" from an ABCScholar; Mov- 

 ing Bees Often ; 



Is Italian Brood "Catching"? What to Do with 

 Odd-Sized Frames: Raising Bees and Let- 

 ting Them Run Off; California; Toads; 

 Hives on the Ground 



Chaff Hives versus Cellar Wintering'; Early 

 Queens from the South; Simpson and Spid- 

 er Plants; Teaching- Bees to Ga'her Honey; 

 Report from an A B C Schol ir in Colorado; 

 Honey from the Oak: Taking Bees out of a 

 Tree in Jan.; New Zealand 



Does confinement to the Hives Cau«e Dysen- 

 tery? Keeping- Extra Queens in Cages; Ma- 

 pleSugar as a Substitute for Candy; Flat- 

 bottomed Fdn. Starters. &c 



The Simnson Honey Plant; Golden Rod Hon- 

 ey; The Red Clover Queen; Size of Entran- 

 ces to Honev Boxes: An V B C Scholar's 

 Report; Triansrular Starters 



The Field of Gleanings: Second Generation 

 from Imported Mothers; Ventilation for 

 Simplicity Covers: Making Water Run off 

 from Simplicity Covers; D-ones in Jan.; 

 Eggs Remaining Dormant, Doolittle's The- 

 ory; A Few Remarks on Queen Rearing, &c. . 



To Prevent Covers from Leaking-: Wabhling 

 Saws and How to "Wabble" Them, with- 

 out Coll irs; Fdn. Machine with Wood Rolls; 

 Honey from Black Gum; Home-made Saw 

 Mandrel*; D.nrk versus Light Italians; 

 Grape Sugar and Svrup; Spring Dwind- 

 ling- 



The Adams Horse-Power not a Failure: A Tas- 

 ty Apiarv; Mitchell Again: Spider and 

 Simpson Plants Grown in Boxes; What an 

 A B C Scholar Did; Buckwheat Sometimes a 

 Failure; Cockroaehes in Bee Hives; To 

 Make Labels Adhere to Tin 



Do Queens ever Lav in a Finished Queen Cell? 

 Fdn. with Square Cells: An A B C Scholar 

 in Trouble; Queenless Hives in the spring; 

 Handling Bees in Winter, Dead Bees in the 

 Hive&c 



Transferring in the Fall; Candy for Bees; Was 

 it an Accident? 



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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Grwpe Bvpw ttwwV; BJgrfct Fmnw Hive*; 



Smut from a Straw Stack as a Pollen Sub- 

 stitute; Plank Hives versus Chaff Hives; 

 Ink for the Cheirograph; Laving Out an 

 Apiary; A Uniform Length of Frames; The 

 Familv Grindstone; Drones in January; 

 WhyD : d They Die? 128 



What is the Matter with the Bees? Blacks and 

 Hybrids. — Who Wants Them? When and 

 How to Take ReesOut of the Cellar; Swarm- 

 ing- Out in Spring; Alsike in New Hamp- 

 shire: Blue Thistle; Stencil Plates for 

 Marking Bee Hives; Italians and Hybrids 

 versus Blacks; Planing-Mill Shavings for 

 Packing 129 



How to Get Spider and Simpson Plants; Hon- 

 ey Gathering in Jan. in Ohio; Blue Thistle, 

 — A Caution; Saws That Are too Hard; 

 Rubber Gloves; From California; Bearing 

 Each Other's Burdens; Clark's Cold Blast 

 Smoker; Fastening Combs for Transfer- 

 ring- and Shipping-; How Much do Bees Pav?.. .130 



Simpson and Spider Plants; Italianizing; Cut- 

 ting out D--one Brood, &c; The Short L. 

 Frame Compared with the Gallup and the 

 American Frame: Looks not Always aSafe 

 Criterion; A Cheap Ree Feeder, — My Plan; 

 How to Decoy Runaway Swarms: Oats for 

 Bees; Grape Sugar Candy that Won't Har- 

 den; Bingham's Smokers: The New All-in- 

 One-Plece Section; Age of Drones 131 



EDITORIALS. 



Managing- Bees by Electricity; Handling Bees 

 The Cheirograph: Rack for Prize Sections 

 on the L. Hive; Syrup for Table use; Hon- 

 or to Whom Honor is Due; Peet's Combi- 

 nation and fntr -ducing Cage; Grape Sugar. . .132 



Protest against Disseminating Blue Thistle; 



Improvements in Smokers 103 



Feb. 28, Just before going to Press: We have to- 

 day, :i,o:;<i subscribers, and 1R4 colonies of bees.— The 

 maple-trees are drooping the sap on the grooved 

 boards and thebees-have learned to take it as fast as i{ 

 falls. Maple sugar, for feeding bees, is equal to any 

 candy. I will pay from 7 to 8c per lb., according to 

 quality, for any quantify delivered here— All of the 

 seeds we now sell are put through an improved Seed 

 Separator, bought expressly for the purpose, that 

 we may not sell you foul seeds 



ARE YOU INSURER? 



Our friend Everett, of Toledo, O., has lost his home, 

 factory, hooks and all, through carelessly letting his 

 insurance run out. Oliver Foster, of Mount Vernon, 

 Towa. has lost in a similar way. Is not this a suffi- 

 cient moral? In such a case, one ought to be trou- 

 bled, and he ought to be troubled so that be cannot 

 sleep nights, when his property is uninsured. Do 

 you say you haven't the money? In that case, you 

 certainly should be insured, for if you should burn 

 out then, vou probably could not build up again. 

 Instead of saying you cannot g-et the money to pay 

 for insurance, sell off a part of the propertv, at any 

 sacrifice, and insure the remaining part. If you are 

 well enough off, to stand being burned out, it is well 

 enough to go without insurance if you choose, for 

 this is equivalent to insuring yourself. In time of 

 peace, prepare for war. My friend, what would you 

 do if you should be burned out this very night? Are 

 you prepared for it? God may find it necessary to 

 punish us, and many times most severely, for let- 

 ting these things go, and for not using proper pre- 

 cautions in any business which he may see fit to en- 

 trust to our care. 



m> Queens! Queens! 



Pure tested Italian queens, from choice imported 

 mothers, April and May, $2.50; afterwards, $2.00. 

 Lniested queens. $1.00. Safe arrival guaranteed by 

 express. Send in your orders early, as I live 10 or 

 12 miles from tho railroad The mail comes twice a 

 week to my apiary. Y.S.HALL, 



3-5d Fern Cliff, Jackson Co., Ala. 



100 good Envelopes with your return address and 

 business card printed thereon, only 50c; 250 for $1., 

 postpaid. You need them. Address, 

 3 ». P. YOIWift, Virtmiiw In-a. 



