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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



Contents of this Number. 



A New Scholar's Troubles 366 



Apiary, Allen's Lawn Hive - :>;:! 



A Visit from a Louisiana ABC Scholar :JT1 



Bee Botany and Entomology an 



Bees, How to Realize the Most Money, &e :!72 



Blasted Hopes: How to Bear Disappointment;.. 370 



Brains versus Machinery 376 



Dzierzon Theory; Extraet from Prof. Cook's 



Biology 375 



Editoh i ALS 358, 365, 392, 399 



P\iris Fdn. Machine: New Developments 363 



Frame, which is the Best 363 



Foul Brood 378 



Giving- Plainer Directions for ABC Scholars 377 



Given's Press a success after All 360 



Growlery: Saying Goods Did not Come 365 



Honey Column 362 



Humbugs and Swindles: Mitchell 400 



Notes from the Banner Apiary 359 



Obituary: John Hunter 370 



Our Own Apiary, Honey Farm, and Factory. .367 



Queen Cells, Choice, How to Get Plenty 362 



Saw Mandrel and Table, Home-made 366 



Some Things Learned by Experience and Observa- 

 tion 359 



Swarms Leaving after Being Hived 378 



Yucca or Spanish Bayonet; 375 



INDEX OF D.EADS OF GRAIN, NOTES AND QUERIB6, 

 AND OTHER SHORT ARTICLES. 



Alfalfa 371 



Alightine; Boards of Slate... 387 

 Apiary.D. A. Jones' 3X9 



Asparagus as a Honey Planus; 

 Bee Fever, How Induced. . .386 



•' Hawk, Anax Junius 372 



" Killer. Asxilus Mis 391 



Bees and Fruit 382, 390 



" Attacking Their Own 



Queen 379 



" Black; DoTheyWorkon 



Red Clover..' 388 



' ' By the Pound 368, 390 



" Difference in Working 



Qualities of 3*1 



" Do They Rest' 300 



' ■ Hew to Get Them into a 



Cage 368 



" Non-Swarming 380 



' ' Pursuit of,&C 370 



' ' Saving Those to be Kill- 

 ed 391 



'■ Swarming Out 373 



" That Won't Start Q. 



•'ells 380 



" Win Cross 385 



" Wild, in Texas 389 



Beetle, Rose, Staphilinns..f872 

 " Sylpha Jtiirprinatiis. ; :■', i 



Bombilius Mexicanus 372 



Brood, Unsealed, to New 



•-'''arms 359, 386 



Buck Bush 371 



Buckthorn 371 



Building up Queen and lb. 



of Bees 390 



Button Bush 881 



l iandy, Pollen 3X2 



I latnip 367 



i heshiri Rakes as Trans- 

 ferring Wiles 381 



Do. . an Improvement in 



• 'lever, Meiilut 307 



Bed, Strong Stocks 

 ( fathering Honey from. . ..369 

 ( .'fun! >s. Broken-down, what 



to Do with them 36g 



Cotton, Honey from 3X9 



Dipping - Machine, Harri- 

 son's 361 



Eggs, two or more in 1 Cell. 360 

 Feeding Ext. Honey to get 



Comb Hon. in Sections 399 



Fdn., Drone, for Comb Hy.388 



Dunham .'. .879 



Fastening in Frames. 386 



Keeping over 380 



Making 388 



Putting into Wired 



Brood Frames 377 



Frames, using- other than L. 303 



Heart 's-ease 381 



Hive, how to get an Insight 



of the Inside 379 



Hives, changing old into L. 390 



Honey from Basswood 391 



from Clover 390 



House to set over Hive when 



Robbers are troublesome .309 



Hybrids, a good Report fimn3,S2 



vs. Italians for Hv.'Wl 



Introducing, a Failure in. ..382 



Jones. 1). A 3XS 



LOCUSt 371. 386 



Mistakes of Beginners 374 



Monarda Aristata, great 



Yield of Honey from 372 



Money, Losing by the Mail. 389 

 Oilcloth, worn, for Cover- 

 ing Frames 3X7 



Patent-Hive Venders 385 



Patent, The Forncrook 365 



Plaster Casts, Hardening 



with Alum 389 



Queen Cells, Inserting 3liS 



'• Market val. of 390 



" Natural 391 



Raising: 1I1 ■■ 



it Pay! 369 



Turning Up- 

 side Down. .387 

 Queen, Red-Clover, in 2d yr 398 

 Stray, Replacing an 



Old '>ne 387 



Queens, Cypr'n and Holy- 

 Land 307. 399 



Dead, in frt. ot Hv 381 



Hollar 380 



with the < 'ramp 399 



Fly' g when Int. 883, 384 

 Meet. Dr. twice ....391 

 that won't Laj .381,399 

 tO W. T. ; hO-H 



l;. li. oiliciuls Faulty 



Rain, Too Much 3X1 



Rape 381 



i.'epoel IV Tennessee 391 



( alifornia 373 



Sees., Unfilled, keeping ovi r380 

 1 1 dens, value ot to 



Apiarians 379 



Sending Q. and Bee- to Col. 384 

 Simp. Upper Story over 



Box Hives ' 371 



Simpson Pl'ts..307, 3,0, 3S0, 3X3 

 Sum., Simp., Large-Siz.e ..369 



Sourwood 371, 386 



sp. Needleas a Hon. Plant:389 

 Spider Pl'ts.3»7, '70, '89, '92, '99 



Stone Crop 3,1 



Sugar 1 'me. Early Amber. .391 



Sumac '. 390 



Sw'm'g; is it retar'd by bxs 302 

 Swarms. Absconding ..381,390' 



Texas, <; 1 Report from ..380 



Thieves, How to Circumv't.859 



Thistles, Blue, etc 378,3X0 



Toads 390 



Tools, Borrowing 389 



Verbena, Mullein 371 



During the past month, every order has been 

 filled promptly almost without exception, and the 

 greater part of them have gone off the day the order 

 was received. Queens have been nearly all the time 

 caged ready to go the minute the letters were 

 opened, but it has taken hundreds of queens to do 

 it, and more sharp managing perhaps than you are 

 aware of. It is fun to do business in that way, hut 

 if you think 40c on a queen is too much (to pay for 

 cages and make everybody satisfied), just try it. 



House apiaries are being generally discarded. 



We are rejoicing to-day, the 28th, in 4,88:; sub- 

 scribers, the highest "pinnacle" ever reached. 



On p. 381, the heading of L. E. Sinsabaugh's com- 

 munication should, read, Button Hush instead of 

 Button Ball. 



The best feeder.— A slab of maple sugar, made 

 by pouring it while hot into a frame. Hang this 

 frame in the hive, just as you would a frame of 

 honey. 



counter stohe. 

 For latest additions to, and reduction in prices of, 

 the counted store goods, send for our new price 

 list for August 1st. 



The heap of letters waiting for a place in Glean- 

 ings is greater than it ever was before. One of my 

 sore troubles just now is that I can not make room 

 for more than a tenth part of the real good ones. 



CONVENTIONS. 



Oct. 6 and T.— Tuscarawas anrl Muskingum Valley 

 Bee-Keepers' Convention, at Newcoraerstown, Ohio, 

 Oct. 14 and 15.— Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa 

 Society, at New Boston, 111. 



Ernest has discovered that the red pencils on our 

 10c counter are excellent for writing on the slate that 

 we hang on the hives. The bright red marks can be 

 read easily from a distance, and it is not affected at 

 all by rain, like a common pencil. For all that, it 

 can be rubbed out without much trouble. Price hy 

 nutil, lie. 



THE ENAMELED CLOTH SHEETS. 



With the past month's experience, I decidedly 

 prefer the tin lined enameled sheets to the wooden 

 mats, even if they do cost as much again. If your 

 Simplicity hives are not made so as to receive the 

 ends of the tins, saw a little notch in each corner to 

 let them in. 



THE GIVEN PREPS AGAIN. 



Since our article, Mr. Blosser, a neighbor of 

 friend Good's, has paid us r visit, and he says the 

 machine Good speaks of only takes a short L. frame 

 to go crosswise of the hive. It would he easy work 

 for so small a frame, compared with the regular L. 

 frame. 



DOES AN IMPORTED QUEEN EVER PRODUCE BLACK 

 OR HYBRID BEES;' 



The ease given on page 291, June No., has been so 

 explained as to make it at least extremely probable 

 that the queen was not the real imported queen we 

 sent, and friend Bowen consents to calling the loss 

 his own. One more like case is in hand, and 1 have 

 sent, for the queen that I may test her progeny in 

 our own apiary. As none of the hundreds we have 

 imported have ever produced any black or hybrid 

 bees in our own apiary, I think we can sot it down 

 safely, that there are no common bees in Italy. 



blasted HOPES. 

 We have a pretty full Blasted Hope-: column this 

 month, and 1 am a little afraid it will jrivo a false 

 impression. If the friends who have said so much 

 about pooi- seasons will pardon the liberty 1 take I 

 would like to add that so far as my personal ac- 

 quaintance extends, the ones who complain most of 

 poor crops, hard times, and bad seasons, are almost 

 always those who neglect their business, waste their 

 time talking, leave their tools out in the rain, etc. 

 I have never known a season that would not trive at 

 least a moderately fair crop of honey, if rightly im- 

 proved, and, bear in mind that when you complain 

 of the weather, you are complaining of God. 



WANTED! 



A good man that understands Bee Culturr, and 

 Farming. Farm is stocked with bees, sheep, and 

 cows. He must have a good recommendation. 1 

 live in a good locality. It. J. THOMAS, 



8d Montrose, Pa. 



ANOTHER REDUCTION! 



Tested Queens, $1.50 ; Dollar Queens, 75c : Hy- 

 brids, 25j. All are daughters of imported mothers. 

 8 J. A. WAKD, Madison ville, Ohio. 



