306 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 



Contents of this Number. 



Alfalfa 316, 324 



Basswood, Time of Blooming 317 



Bee Botany and Entomology: Red Bud 325 



Bee Culture, Improved, Educating the People in.325 

 Bees; Are they Able to Strain the Water from 



New Honey 307, 318 



" by the Pound 315 



" In Garrets 311 



" That are Small Eaters, a New Trait 324 



" The Finest Swarm in Texas, and What 



Came of it 318 



" When did They First Come to America. ?.. .311 

 Blasted Hopes: White Clover not Yielding 



Honey 313 



Boys' Department 323 



California Bee-Keeping 324 



Combs, Emptv. Utility of 320 



D. A. Jones: His Trip to Cyprus, &c 308, 310, 320 



Editorial 306. 310, 321, 340, 347, 318, 



Foul Brood, How they Exterminate it in Utah 322 



Geo. Grimm; Report From 310 



Grape Sugar, Feeding 307, 334 



Growlery 345 



Honey Column 310 



Honey from Corn; from Cotton; A Barrel of 



from one Swarm in one Season 314 



" from Tulip. 310 



Humbugs and Swindles: Mrs. Cotton; Mltchell.3I7 



Lippia Nodiflora 324 



Louisiana; A Talk from One of her Bee Men 314 



Maryland; A Report from 310 



Notes from the Banner Apiary 307 



'• " " North Shade Apiary 322 



Our Own Apiary, Honey Farm, and Factory 315 



Painting Hives 319, 328, 332, 340 



Queen Cells; How to Obtain Plenty of 323 



We have to-day, Juno 2 

 about 250 colonies of bees. 



tb, 4,633 subscribers, and 



Rape. 



.317 



Smilery 313 



The "Golden Bee Hive" 319 



Thistles, and Something about Other Weeds 314 



Separators, Wire 326 



Wintering in Cellars 326 



INDEX OP HEADS OF GRAIN, NOTES AND QUERIES, 

 AND OTHER SHORT ARTICLES. 



Moth in Empty Comb 329 



ABC Class, Rapid Increase 



by one of 332 



Alighting Boards 334 



All is Well that Ends Well . .330 



Ants 329 



Bee Candy. Lazy Man's 332 



Bees, as Well as Bee-Keep- 



ers, Notional 337 



Bees, I >o they Sleep 335 



' ' Enlarging the Race by 



Crossing: 330 



' ' How they Lived in the 



Ark 3130 



" That Don't Know 

 Enough to Go In 

 When it Rains, and 



the Remedy 337 



Colony that Won't Rear a 



Queen 336 



Comb Holder for Chaff Hivc.'tti 

 ( tombs Filled with dead bees338 



Conventions 348 



Division Boards; their Use. 328 



Drones and their Purity :«7 



Drones Wanted 336 



Dysentery, Agency of Pollen 



in Producing; 333 



Eggs, Many in One Cell 334 



Foul Brood; Improved meth- 

 od of using; salicylic acid330 333 



Fdn.for New Swarms 328 



Fdn. Oiven's Press for 331 



Fdn. Porcelain Plates for 327 



Frames, How Many in Up- 

 per Story for Extractor . . .331 



Hives, Tenement 334 



Holly Honey 328 



Honey Fit for Kings 333 



Honey, New 337 



Horse Mint 335 



Introducing, an A B C Schol- 

 ar's 327 



Locust Planting 333 



Milkweed Pollen 329 



Mrs. Cotton's Hive 328 



Mitchell 335 



lot 

 Palmetto Ho: 



Patents, Buying 330 



Planers, The Lilliputian 331 



Queen Cells, Trouble in Get- 

 ting 329 



Queens, < lyprian 337 



Dead in Front of 



Hives 338 



Dollar. a Misnomer .337 

 Great Number from 

 Natural Swarming327 



Introducing 329 



Red-Clover 327 



Retarded Develop- 

 ment of 333 



" Teeting before Swar- 

 ming 331 



' ' Unfertile, Not Mar- 

 ketable 321 



Radishes for Bees 329,331 



Red Clover 337 



Robbing, Look Out for 338 



Sections, All-in-one-piece ...335 

 Simpson Honey Plant. . . .331,339 



Sourwood Hoiiey 328 



Smokers, Fuel for 334 



Spider Plants 331 



Starving Bees in .Tune 339 



Stopping Journals 328 



Strong Stocks versus Chart' 



Cushions 334 



Substitute for Wire Cloth ill 



Extractors 328 



Swarm Catcher for Issuing 



Swa nns 332 



Swarming. Prevention of 



Retarded 339 



Swarm, New, Returning to 



eld Hive 338 



Swarm, New, Taking the 



Whole Hive 327 



Swarms Absconding 339 



Tool Boxes and Tool Chests. 339 

 Yucca, or Spanish Bayonet. 348 



T. F. Wittman, Camden, N. J., wants to know who 

 sent him $ 3.40 about a month ago. 



Since there has got to be such a demand for wire 

 cloth, I have succeeded in getting an article that 

 seems to answer every purpose for queen cages, or 

 for shipping bee3, for 3Y 2 o per sq. foot. This is 

 painted green. Toe ordinary tinnei is 5c per foot. 

 If wanted by mail, postage will be 3c. 



We shall have to stop u^ing glass entirely, pretty 

 soon, if it don't "subside." Mason's fruit jars are 

 now worth $ 16.00 per gross net. 



We can furnish Bingham smokers and honey 

 knives to the trade at wholesale, at his prices. Not 

 less than ] 2 doz. will be sold at dozen rates. We will 

 send a printed list of prices by the dozen on applica- 

 tion. 



June 29th.— After the experience of the last 24 

 hours in having heavy combs break down through 

 the influence of heat and a Hood of basswood honey. 

 I am more than ever determined to have all my 

 combs built in the braced wired frames. Then we 

 are all right. 



With the wired frames, or with the Cheshire 

 "rakes," you can use, if you choose, fdn. so thin 

 that 1 lb. will till 8 L. frames, and we have a mill that 

 will furnish such without trouble. 1 believe these 

 make just as good combs, but as the bees have to 

 furnish much wax, they are worked out more slow- 

 ly. A new mill just finished that makes fdn. much 

 like the Dunham, about 5sheets tothe lb. .furnishes 

 nearly enough wax for the whole comb. I do not 

 know which kind is best, but probably the latter 

 where you hang the sheets from the top bar in the 

 old way. 



THE FORNCROOK PATENT. 



The following is just at hand: 



Sir: -In reply to yours of the H inst, you are informed that a 

 diligent search lias been made, and no Patent found to have 

 been granted Forncrook and Co. for One Piece Section. 



E. N. Marble, 



Washington, I). C. , June 23. 1880. Commissioner of Patents. 



I suppose we should exercise a good deal of chari- 

 ty, until we give friend Forncrook a hearing, but, at 

 present, it looks rather bad. I do not know that we 

 should be a great deal surprised, for we have had 

 the same thing over and over again, by almost all 

 who claim patents on bee hives and bee fixtures. I 

 sent the Commissioner the advertisement just as it 

 appeared in Gleanings last month. 



DECLINE IN PRICES, ETC. 



It is so much fun for me to tell you when things 

 are lower, that I do not know but I am in danger of 

 selling too cheap sometimes. Separator tin, 14x20, 

 we can now furnish for $5.50 per box. Wire nails 

 are down quite a little, and other nails are away 

 down. Our new price list will give you the figures; 

 at any rate you will have the advantage of the drop 

 in any orders you may send us. Glass is still up 

 awfully. The very low rates on the counter goods 

 render it absolutely necessary that advances should 

 be made with the market. AVhere the profit is very 

 small, it hardly admits of taking the time lor expla- 

 nations. Will you not remember the note at the 

 head of the list, and bear in mind that I never make 

 an advance if I can possibly help it? 1 have been 

 obliged to raise thermometers to the 15 cent counter, 

 because of the breakages in shipping; but they are 

 of the best Kendal make. Those pretty little mag- 

 nets at 5c cannot be had any more at that price, so 

 we sell larger ones at 10c. 



ADDITIONS TO THE COUNTER STORE. 



5C. COUNTER. 



6 | Milk Pans, toy, V 2 pint, 2 for 5c | 25 | 2 00 



7 I Pen Racks pretty and useful | 42 | 4 00 



7 i Letter file and Paper weight combin- 

 ed, very pretty | 45 | 4 25 



10c. COUNTER. 

 13 | Match safes, double, pretty and use- 

 ful | 85 I 8 00 



1 [ Lead Pencils, red and blue, large I 65 | 6 00 



10 I Baking tins oblong square heavy [ 70 | 50 



15C. COUNTER. 



3 | Perfumery Wencke's genuine | 1 30 | 12 00 



62 | Wash Boards Serpentine Zinc a oood 

 article, that usually sell for 25c. or 

 higher [ 1 30 | 13 00 



25C. COUNTER. . 



6 I Oil Stone Slips, the best 1 1 70 1 16 00 



1.00 COUNTER. 



I Axe fine steel, extra make and fin- 

 ish |9 50 I 92 09 



