410 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



Contents of this Number. 



Are Large Apiaries a Nuisance? 420 



Bee Botany and Entomology: Asclepius Tu- 

 berosa or Pleurisy Boot: Minnich's Honey 

 Plant, Eupatorium Purpureum, or Trumpet 



Weed 423, 424 



Bees of Arkansas 421 



Blasted Hopes 419 



Boys' Department; Dividing and Introducing-. .418 



California Bee-Keeping- 424 



Candy for Queen Cages, that Does Not Kequire 



Any Water 427 



Cartoon 451 



Conventions 450 



Editorial, 410, 451, 421, 42!t, 448 



Friend Duff and His Story 426 



Friend Martin's Apiary 424 



From the ABC Child that Grew so Fast 422 



Gallup in California; How He Manages His Bees.427 



Growlery 449 



Heads of Grain 431-441 



Honey Column 414 



Honey From the Oak 415 



How to Make Money and Honey (Bees) in July and 



August 420 



How to Raise Plants— Simpson, Spider, Etc 430 



Humbugs and Swindles: Mitchell 452 



Kind Words erom Customers 452 



My Hive Balance 416 



New Zealand Flax 421 



Notes and Queries 441-444 



Notes from the Banner Apiary 411 



Our Own Apiary, Honey Farm, and Factory.. 412 

 Queen Cage, Combined Shipping and Introducing449 



Queen Cells, When They Should be Given 415 



Queens, Italian, Changing to Blacks and Hybrids. 423 

 Queens, Judging of Their Purity by Their Looks. 430 



Report, L. C. Root's 418 



Swarms Going to the Woods; Is Unsealed Brood 



an Advantage or Disadvantage? 428 



The Sunshine Controversy 452 



Wintering Bees, Dadant's Plan 418 



INDEX Or HEADS OF GRAIN, NOTES AND QUERIES 

 AND OTHER SHORT ARTICLES. 



Absconding: 429 



A Fish— Bee Story 439 



Ants aud Queens 431 



Apiary, Friend Buchanan's 438 

 t'.ees, Blacks Dulling: Their 



Queen 438 



" Blacks out Earliest in 



Morning 413 



" Building up Weak 



Stocks 435 



" Buying 4&5 



' ' Cross, What to do with 440 

 " Cyprian and Holy 



Land 413,414,448 



' ' How an ABC Scholar 

 .Make* them out of 



frugal- 440 



" How They Survived 



the Flood 444 



' ' Hunting with Survey - 



or's Compasses 442 



" Killing, for Honey 



and Wax 442 



" Lazy, How to Put 



Them to Work 444 



' ' Queenless Stocks Cross- 



er than Others 435 



' ' That Won ' t Work 434 



" " " "in 



Upper Stories 441 



" What can be done 

 with a pound and a " 



Queen! 438 



' ' Workers in Partners' p4S3 



Bee- Veils 429 



Brush for Brushing Bees 132 



Buckwheat 411 



Good Report 



from 436, 442 



Silverhull 443 



California 422 



Candy, its Effect in Setting 



Bees to Work 136 



Frames of 438 



Cartoons 434, 443 



Cheirograph, and how to 



Use it 434, 432 



Cotton, H»ney from 433 



Cotton Hulls 'vs. Chaff 436 



Deleterious Effects of cer- 

 tain Blossoms on Bees 413 



Dividing and Introducing. .418 



Drones, to get Rid of 439 



Early-Amber Sugar Cane. ..433 

 Egg, where did it Come 



from ? 444 



Egg of aQueen 420 



Faris Dipping Machine. 449, 411 

 Fdn. Curling up at Lower 



Edges 435 



' ' Keeping Over 442 



Fertile Workers 441 



" How to get 



Kid of.... 436 



Given's Dies 434 



Golden Rod 442 



Grape Sugar for Wintering 



Bees 442 



Hardening Plaster Dipping- 

 Plates 444 



Hives and Frames, Uniform- 

 ity in 425 



Honey, Curing by the Sim's 



Rays 442 



Honey-dew 137 



" in Denver, Col. 443 



Honey in August 440 



Profit on for Selling 437 



Horsemint 435 



Introducing by Caging a 



whole Frame of Brood 439 



Introducing by frequently 



Smoking 438 



Introducing by W. L. King's 



Plan 137 



Introducing Quickly 442 



Introducing with Sweetened 



Water 432 



Italianizing in Fall 411 



Italians, A B C Test of 431 



Italians, Four-Banded 442 



Lippia Nodiflora 424 



Mats for Covering Frames. . 131 



Melilot 410 



Milkweed Pollen 416 



Moth Worms, how Italians 



Serve them 435 



Moth Worms in Brood 



Combs 436 



Tails for Honey 434 



Patent - Hive Men; bow to 



Treat them 434 



Pennyroyal as a Honey-Pl't*S3 

 Propagation of Honey-PI'ts 



by Layers 441 



Putty - Knife for Working 



among Hives, etc 432 



Queen Cells, how to Repair. 432 

 Queen Cells, large Number on 



Single Comb 440 



Queen Cells, Townsend's Plan 



of Getting 434 



Queens, don't Hasten t« 



Pinch 438 



Queens, how Long after a 



Journey, before they Lay .442 

 Queens, how old must tin-A- 

 be to Lay? 443 



Queens Lost in Introducing. 443 

 Queens Reared Late in Fall. 444 

 Queens, Resuscitating those 

 Apparently Dead 439 



Queens Taking Wing 413 



Queens that do Not Lay.... 437 

 Queens, Two in one Hive... 443 

 Queens, Young, getting fast 



in a Cell 444 



Reports 436, 433, 441^444 



Rheumatism; will Bee-Stings 



Cure it! 441 



Separators of strips of Wood437 



Separators. Wire-i 'loth 431 



Simpson Plants.... 412, 413, 414 



Spider Plants. 412, 413, 414, 424, 

 441 



Stab 1 's Apiary 110 



Sourwood 131 



Sumac as a Honey-Plant 435 



Swarming-out Mania 133 



Swarms going buck to Old 



Hive 443 



Thieves in the Apiary 450 



Transferring am (.Italianizing, 

 438, 139 



We have to-day, August 30th, reached 4,993 sub- 

 scribers, lacking just 7 of 5,000; this is lucky for our 

 advertisers, for you know, when the number reach- 

 es 5,000, the price for advertising is to be 25c per line. 



Owing to a large surplus of very nice, tested 

 queens on hand, in our own and neighbor H's apiary, 

 the price during the present month will be $1.50 and 

 $i50, instead of $2.00 and $3.00, as given in the price- 

 list. We can now give you almost any kina of a 

 queen you may ask for, by return mail. Dollar 

 queens in abundance, extra nice; and imported 

 queens with nearly a hundred to select from. 



We are now making preparations to send a copy 

 of our catalogue to all of our customers twice each 

 year. The list will reach from 25 to 50 thousand, aud 

 several clerks have been at work on it a great part 

 of the time for a year past. If you do not get it du- 

 ring this present month, drop us a card. The coun- 

 ter store alone occupies nearly 6 pages, and even if 

 you do not buy of us, it will be handy for a refer- 

 ence in legard to the changes in prices. 



OUR RED CLOVER QUEEN. 



After my strong report of her good qualities last 

 month, we discovered that her colony was slowly 

 robbing another. After this was stopped, her bees 

 worked like the rest, and no better. It is a little 

 humiliating to confess at this late day, that I fear 

 such may have been the case a year ago, but it is the 

 only honest way 1 know of. Her hive has now seal- 

 ed stores as it had last fall, but a hundred others are 

 just as well off. Freshly imported Italian stock all 

 work on red clover in August usually, 1 believe. If, 

 after reading this, you still wish a queen from her, 

 1 shall be happy to oblige you. 



At Mogadore, Summit Co,, O., you will find one of 

 the prettiest apiaries in the state, in charge of Mr. 

 S. Stahl, and his better half. It contains nothing 

 but chaff hives ; a neat grape vine and trellis give 

 shade to each; the ground is kept so clean and tidy, 

 that you could easily find a queen bee, if she got 

 lost; and friend S. and his wife I found to be the 

 pleasantest people to visit and talk bees with you 

 ever saw. 1 do not know whether it was because 

 they were proud of their apiary, or because they 

 were glad to see me. 1 opened several hives at ran- 

 dom, and found the combs all straight, and all nicely 

 spaced; not a bee was above the enameled sheets, 

 and every thing was as neat and thrifty inside the 

 hives as it was outside. Although it was the middle 

 of August, the bees were building comb, rearing 

 brood, and seemed as happy as their owner. I be- 

 lieve I have never before visited an apiary where 

 the directions advanced in the ABC were so thor- 

 oughly carried out, as at friend Stahl's. 



The Day Star is the title of a little sheet publish- 

 ed by A. F. Foster (brother of our Oliver Foster) of 

 Mt. Vernon, Iowa. It is not a very elegantly gotten 

 up sheet, it is true, but when I tell you that friend 

 F. "works for nothing, and boards himself," you 

 may conclude it is pretty well gotten up after all. 

 He works for nothing, to human view, but God sends 

 him the means to purchase the paper and types, 

 and pay postage, and he does the printing himself. 

 The motto of the paper is this : 



• 'Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace and pursue it. " 



The only terms of subscription are as follows: 



THE DAY-STAR, will be sent free to any who will read and 

 distribute five or more each issue. 



Address, A. F. Foster, Mt. Vernon, Iowa. 



The spirit of the paper seems to be to teach the 

 children of men, that God fights the battles of those 

 who never strike back. My mind has been turned 

 to this in thinking of how Oliver Foster uttered nev- 

 er a word, when his fdn. machine was copied. I pre- 

 sume he trusted God to set him right, and God has 

 moved a stranger away down in La. (see page 449) to 

 take up his cause. If you wish to be one of God's 

 messengers too, send a few stamps when you send 

 for sample copies of the Day Star. 



