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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Apr. 



think it will pay? Our surplus in past years has 

 been from the Spanish needle; but a different and 

 more improved mode of farming has eradicated it 

 from our fields, and I think this section will not 

 pay until some new plant takes possession of our 

 fields. We have but little pasturing land, and will 

 never have white clover. All our lands are avail- 

 able farming lands that farmers can not afford to 

 pasture or allow to lie idle. Hence bee-pasturage 

 is a failure. .John F. Laeferty. 



Martinsville, Clark Co., III., Feb. 16, 1880. 



Never mind the bees, friend L.; "let 'em 

 elide." We'll pay you a salary to keep up 

 this department, and to keep the boys from 

 getting too great an idea of bee culture. 



We 



will pay 10c. each, for April Nos. of last year. 



There! we have, this 31st day of March, 4271 sub- 

 scribers. 



Parker's machine for fastening in fdn. pleases us 

 more than it did at first. I think we will pay him an- 

 other $5.00 for his invention. See illustration in 

 March number. 



We have a very pleasant and wholesome article of 

 grape sugar from the Davenport factory, which we 

 can s> ip for iY t c. in 501b. boxes: 4Jic. in 110ft. boxes, 

 or for 4c. in barrels of 475ft. We will ship it from 

 here or the factory, at the above prices. 



T want some brooms for the 10 c. counter. Who 

 will make us 1000 brooms for $80.00? If there is a 

 broom-maker among you who will try it, send me a 

 sample by express of what you can do. Let it be 

 strong and serviceable, what there is of it. 



Milton Krum, of Hurleyville, Sullivan Co., N. Y., 

 furnishes wooden potato-mashers and rolling-pins, 

 solid handle, for the 5 c. counter: also a larger sized 

 potato-masher, revolving-handle rolling-pin, beef- 

 steak mauls, and towel-rollers for the 10 c. counter. 



I had proposed keeping the "counter store," only 

 in the price list, for the future, but it has become a 

 topic of so much interest, and seems to be doing so 

 much good, I give it you once more, and omit the 

 voluminous monthly contents to give place to it. If 

 you don't like it, " scold," and then I will do " t'other 

 way." 



TRICE OF A B C BOOkS. 



The price of the ABC book, in paper, is the same 

 as for a year's subscription to Gleanings, and it 

 may be counted with Glkanings in getting clubs. 

 The price in cloth is 25c. more. Above are prices by 

 mail. If ordered by freight or express, deduct 13 

 and 15 c. per copy respectively. 



conventions. 

 1880. 

 April 15. — Central Mich. Bee Keepers' Association. 



Semiannual meeting, in Pioneer Hall, in the 



new Capitol, Lansing-, Mien. 

 April 28. — Marion Co. Bee Keepers' Association, at 



Knoxville, Iowa. 



During this month I will pay $1.00 each for daugh- 

 ters of imported mothers that have just commenced 

 to lay, and $1.00 per pound for young Italian bees. 

 Blacks or hybrids, 50 c. per pound. They are to be 

 deliv ered here alive, charges paid. Test your skill 

 in putting them up, by sending a few the first time. 

 I can not sav what I will do in May, or whether I 

 6hall buy at all. 



For those who have inquired about tools for mak- 

 ing queen-cages. I have obtained S"me very nice'ex- 

 pansive bits, to bore holes of anv size you wish. The 

 prices are as follows: No. 1. boting from 1 to iy 2 in., 

 $1.75; No. 2, boring from Ji to 3 in., $2.50. . If wanted 

 by mail, add 5 and 10 c. respectively for postage. We 

 have a very nice patent grip-brace to hold them, or 

 to hold any bit, for 75 c. If wanted by mail, add 27 

 cents for postage. 



planing-saws. 

 We have one runninff in our saw-room that cuts 

 even smoother than almost any planer. Of course, 

 it d"es not cut as fast, but where your stuff does not 

 need to be of very accurate thickness, it is quite a 

 saving. You can run the saw either backward or 



forward, and it is a cut-off or bevel saw, just as good 

 as any, without any stoppina- and changing. We 

 have accepted the agency of them, and can give you 

 any size from four inches up, for just twice our reg- 

 ular list prices. 



We have to-day received from friend Given a 

 sample frame filled with fdn. made on his press. It 

 takes about 1-5 of a pound of wax, and the fdn. is 

 after the Dunham style. Some pieces that had been 

 worked out by the bpes showed that the whole of the 

 wax had been drawn up, so that the base looks pre- 

 cisely like natural comb. By omitting the wires, he 

 makes beautiful fdn. for comb honey on the same 

 press. I have ordered a press. 



We have just purchased of Byron Walker, Capac, 

 Mich., some very nice honey that he calls raspberry, 

 and we have all decided in favor of raspberry honey 

 at our house. It cost us 11 cents, and, after paying 

 freight, we retail it in those five-cent pint tin pails, 

 with covers, for 25 c. a pailful. This gives us about 

 14 c. per lb. Those pails with covers are certainly 

 the nicest thins 1 for candied honey, and, if you buy 

 them in nests of different sizes, they are not so very 

 bulky. With some cheap tin, a few tools, and our 

 soldering outfit, a bee-keeper can soon learn to 

 make his own tin pails, during winters and rainy 

 days. 



LIGHT BREAKING ON THE MAILING QUEEN-CAGE. 



Frtend Nellis has amended his queen cage by 

 substituting a tin bottle instead of one of glass, and 

 Prof. Cook says, in last Exchange, he caft see no ob- 

 jection to it. I think we should here remember Mr. 

 Langstroth's queen-eaa-e pictured in Mav Gleanings 

 for last year, for bis tin bottle is the principal 

 feature in it. If water can be sent in this way, I 

 will put in two bottles, and furnish you all the cages 

 vou wish, for 10c. each, or a dollar a dozen. As we 

 make a good stronsr cage, with plenty of "victuals 

 and drink," to last, in case of accidental delays, the 

 postage will be 4c. each cage. Tf I were sending 

 bees by express, I should fill one of the bottles with 

 honey. 



NEEDLES. 



Durinsr our electrical experiments a few evenings 

 asro, with my class of hoys, I called for a large nee- 

 dle. As it was handed me, T was struck with the ex- 

 treme beatity of its finish, oblonar eve. and delicate 

 taper. On attempting to break it. I found the tem- 

 per so nicelv adjusted, that it would neither snap as 

 needles often do. nor bend as those of too low a tem- 

 per do: in fact, T began to think T could not break it. 

 *v hen it broke, I found by examining, that it had 

 bent first, verv slightly. The needle came from a 

 package costing 25c , and my wife savs, sheneversaw 

 anything equal to them. She got them in this way: 

 a boy called at the door, and handed her a small 

 white envelope, saving "iflease examine, and I will 

 call to-morrow. ' The envelope contained 5 papers of 

 the=e excellent needles (25 needles each), besides a 

 larger paper containing 2 steel tape needles, 3 long 

 cotton darners. 2 extra fine cotton darners. 2 wool. 2 

 yarn, 1 worsted, 1 motto, 2 carpet, and 3 button nee- 

 dles. And this whole lot, was only 25c. Of course, 

 she took them at once, as did nearly all the neigh- 

 bors The boy might easily have sold a hundred 

 papers in our town in a day. I found the packages 

 co=t him 15c.. bv the hundred. Pretty good business, 

 for a b"y or girl either; do you not think so? Well, 

 when T sent th" Co. a copy of my paper and told . 

 them what T wished to do, they gave me a price in 

 quantities, so that T can furnish anv of vou as above, 

 to show von what tbev a»-e, we will send a paper for 

 5c, or the whole package of fi papers for 25c. 



BEES FOR JS-^IjE ! 



30 s*rnna r colonies, in Simplicity hives, metal cor- 

 nered frames, with plent.v of b»-ood and honey, at 

 $4.00 each. MRS. T. I. EBERMAN, 

 4 Merrimac Point, Illinois. 



Dollar Italian Queens 



Sent by mail, April and Mav. $1.00; a f ter. 90 c. 

 4-6 II. BARBER, Adrian, Mich. 



BEES BY THE POUND ! 



For Price List of Italian Queens, and Bees, send 

 to E. M. HAYHURST, Kansas City, Mo. 4d 



