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GLEANINGS IN BEE C5ULTURE. 



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Contents of this Number. 



ABC Scholar, What He Did 266' 



Account Book for Bee-Keepers 261 



Anomalies in Science . * . . 273 



Bee Botany and Entomology.— Colorado Bee 



Plants. Dragon Fly . 259 



Bee-Keeping, California.— Vine Clover Apiary. ..267 



Blasted Hopes 258 



California as a Bee-Keeping State 274 



Chaff Hives, Roofs to 270 



Dysentery or Confinement the Cause of Our Win- 

 tering Troubles,- Which? 259 



Extracting Honey 255 



First Attempt with Bees 269 



Friend Jones, and a Sketch of His Search for Hon- 

 ey Bees 268 



Gleanings, Criticisms Suggested by April No 269 



Gleanings. May No r. 266 



Grape Sugar for Feeding Bees 258 



Growlery 263 



How the Bees Kemove the Water from Thin Hon- 

 ey.— Friend Thomson's Story 270 



Humbugs and Swindles.— Mitchell.— A Suit on 



Hand 260 



Ladies' Department 258 



Lamp Nursery and Dollar Queens 266 



Natural History, Novel Discoveries in 272 



Notes From the Banner Apiary 255 



Obituary.— Rufus Morgan 288 



Our Own Apiary and Honey Farm.— Selling 

 Bees and Queens. Simpson Honey Plant. Red- 

 Clover Queen. The Braula, or Italian Bee- 

 Louse. Italian or Scarlet Clover. The Bass- 

 wood Plantation. The Common Locust as a 



Honey Plant. Simpson Plant in May 263-265 



Painting Hives Inside 271 



Queens in Stocks Supposed to be Hopelessly 



Queenless 271 



Smilery 265 



Tools, Useful.— Progress in Tool Making 256 



Water For Bees 267 



Wax Extractors, Improvements in 274 



INDEX OF HEADS OF GRAIN, NOTES AND QUERIES, 

 AND OTHER SHORT ARTICLES. 



ABC Book. How it Makes 



Trouble 279 



ABC Scholar, Chapter from 



Real Life 275 



A B C Scholar, Enthusiastie281 

 A B C Scholar's First Trans- 

 ferring 287 



ABC Scholar's Mishaps. . . .2X2 

 Absconding New Swarms... 278 



A Dilemma 288 



After Swarming, rreven- 



tion of 280 



Asparagus as a Honev Flant285 

 Bee Culture in Olden Times. 275 

 Bee-Keepers & Bee-Losers. .287 



Bees, Active 286 



Bees, Do They Get Lazy in 



Tropical Climates ! 279 



Bees Dying in Cellar 278 



Bees, Tinkering Them to 



Death 284 



Bees, Where Ours came from285 

 Book of Record for Bee- 

 Keepers 278 



Borrowing Journals 286 



Buckets, Wooden, as a Sur- 

 plus Honey Receptacle 288 



Candy Bricks Outdone 276 



Candy For Bees 278 



Candy For Bees, Lazy Man's286 

 Chart Hives, Sloping En- 

 trance 281 



Chaff Packing 284 



Cheirograph, How an A B C 



Scholar Erses it 284 



Climatic Corner 286 



Combs, Furnishing built out275 

 Combs. Immovable Movable285 



Counter Store 283 



Drones, To Get Rid of Live.285 



Dwindling', Spring 284 



Morida 280 



Fdn. , Made by Dipping, One 



Operation 254 



Fdn. , When to hang in Hives284 

 ldn. , Worker vs. Drone for 



Starters 281 



Friend Good's Good Success 



&c 278 



Glass-Cutters 286 



Grape Sugar Candy, Making276 

 Hand Holes to Hives, Iiu- 



provement in 283 



Handling vs. disturbing bees275 

 Hives, Rinsing With Salt 

 Water 279 



Honey Column 294 



Home Market, How to de- 

 velop 280 



Honey Boards 282 



Honey Dew 279 



"House Keeper" Wanted.. 2K5 

 How doth the Busy Bee; &C.283 



Hybrids, % Italians 281 



King Birds or Bee Martins. .287 



Mice, Look out for 278 



Ordering Goods 261,265,288 



Package, Novel for Surplus 



Honey 283 



Parker's Machine for Fa* 



tening in Starters 279 



Patent Hives, Trying Them. 277 



Queens, How to Import 286 



Queens, Missing 285 



Queens, Red-Clover 282 



Queens, Retarded Develop- 

 ment of 285 



Red Bud 287 



Bender unto ( laesar, &c 277 



Robbers, How to Disgust . . .287 

 Robbers, How to Get Out of 



Hives 283 



Saffron as a Honey Plant . . .287 



Saws, Planing 283 



Sections, All-in-one-piece, 



Who is the Inventor! 285 



Seven-Top Turnip 286 



Shears, Tinner's 283 



Shot Guns vs. Fountain* 



Pumps 284 



Simpson Plant Seed, Ger- 

 minating <&c 282 



Simpson and Spider Plants. 276 



Slates, Paper 277 



Smoke Making Bees Angry . .282 

 Smoking Bees with Mulein 



Leaves 280 



Sorghum, Favorable Report 



From 281 



Sourwood 282 



Sugar Cane as a honey plant285 

 Swarms Coming to be Taken 



Care of 285 



Thistles, Blue, Canada, &C.287 

 Thistles not dangerous weeds276 

 Tool, New, for the Apiary . .279 



Tongs and Gloves 283 



Watering Bees 277 



Wings for Brushing off Bees283 

 Wintering Bees, How Much 

 Does it Cost >. 281 



Never take an expensive trip to your express or 

 freight office for goods, before you have had notice 

 of their shipment. 



We have to-day, May 27th, 4,77H subscribers, and 

 there are 95 of us busily at work, filling your orders. 

 Some of us work a good deal more than 10 hours a 

 day too, I tell you. 



A WATCH FOR FOUR DOLLARS. 



It is a fact; a good serviceable watch, in nickel 

 case, is now made in Waterbury, Conn., for the 

 small sum named above. I could not believe It, un-> 

 til I had sent for one and carefully tried it. It is put 

 in a very pretty case or box besides, and is a stem 

 winder, no key ever being required. The only fault, 

 if it can be called a fault, is that it requires about 

 two minutes to wind it up. The spring fills the 

 whole case, and, by this long winding, a great many 

 wheels are spared, and a very weak spring that will 

 not be liable to break, runs it easily. I can furnish 

 them for the above price, if you wish, but it must be 

 distinctly understood that I cannot assume any 

 guarantee at such a small price. The watches are 

 sent out, regulated, in good running order, and a 

 book of instruction is sent with each. They can be 

 sent by mail for 20c. extra. 



PROGRESS OF THE FDN. BUSINESS. 



Givkn's machine has not been a success with us, 

 and although it cost us $40.00, it has been deposited 

 in the back room, and we use the rolls as before. 

 Four pairs of rolls are now at work in our wax room. 

 For making starters the 5 inch machines do the nic- 

 est work, and do it fastest. The machine of Mr. 

 Faris, mentioned last month, has made beautiful 

 fdn., L. size, and I have offered him the $100.00 for 

 it, or $125.00, if he will come with it and show us how 

 to use it. I am looking for him every day, so you 

 see that dipped fdn. has come, as I told you it would. 



LATEST FROM THE "SEAT OF WAR." 



Mr. A. I. Root. --Your letter is received. As to getting a 

 hundred dollars for my invention, '-that hardly entered my 

 mind. I have been working on it for over twelve months, and 

 have spent, in time and mohey, more than $100.00. If you 

 could see my yard all strewn over with broken fragments, now 

 worthless, and know how many sleepless hours I have spent be- 

 sides, I suppose you would not think SI, 000.00 too much. If I 

 had your printing -press behind me, I could make $5,000.00 this 

 season. 



Now, I am going to make you two propositions: 1st. --If you 

 will pay me $100.00. and hear my expenses to your place and 

 back, I will give you a half interest in the invention, and we 

 will both manufacture the machines, and divide the profits 

 equally. I will come up at once and get the work started, and 

 you must do all the advertising free. 2d. -I will take $500.00 

 for the invention, and come up and start the work for you. 



If you do not accept either of these propositions, I Want you 

 to advertise for me, and I will pay you liberally. If you do ac- 

 cept either one, let me know at once, so I can get to your place 

 before you go to press. I think there will he time, if*. you reply 

 by return mail. If you think not, you would better delay going 

 to press, a day or two until we can get settled, and you can ad- 

 vertise in June No., dipped fdn. machines, for making fdn. at a 

 single dip. L. size, $5.00; for starters, $2.50. Directions for 

 using given with each machine. .John Fakis. 



Chilhowie, Smyth Co. , Va. , May 24, 1880. 



I replied as follows: 



I can not but feel that you are exaggerating the 

 importance of your invention, friend F., for, even 

 though it be all you imagine, and the machines 

 could be made for $1.00 and sold for $5.00, I do not 

 think it would bring you $5,000. I will accept your 

 first proposition, but I think you would better be 

 sure you have it all perfected, and that you can 

 make machines that will work the first time, with- 

 out any bother, before we offer them for sale. In 

 view of this, I do not think best to delay the June 

 No., but if, when you come up, you have it all in 

 bice working trim, we will issue a Gleanings extra, 

 to announce it. Very likely it will take a month to 

 have machines and fdn. already to send out, and I 

 think we may therefore expect it in July No. 



