1880 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



459 



Contents of this Number. 



A Life Picture in 2 Chapters 170 

 Arkansas Bees, some Facts 



About 471 



A Visit from Friend Taylor. 178 

 A Visit to jas. A Simpson's 



Apiary 4fiS 



Bee Botany 478 



Bee Entomology 482 



Bee Stints and Rheumatism 472 



Bee Hunting: 4t>8 



Blasted Hopes 4ii7 



Boys' Department 470 



California Bee-Keeping- 47B 



Conventions 459 



Different Kinds of Frames .467 

 Early Amber Sugar Cane. . .-HH 



Editorials 402 



Friend Keran's Storv 481 



(iROWLERY 4(i9 



Heads of Grain 483,491 



Honey Crop in Western 



Missouri 475 



Honey, Extracted vs. Comb 477 

 Kind Words From our 



Customers 459 



Honey Plants, unrecognized 



How to Utilize a Pound of 

 Bees 



Humbugs and swindles 



Meeting- between the Drone 

 and Queen 



Modern Bee Culture, what 

 an Authoress thinks of it 



Notes and QUERIES 492, 



Notes from the Banner 

 Apiary 



Our Own Apiary, Factory 

 and Honey Farm 



Packing Hives for Winter 

 on the Tenement Hive 

 Idea 



Queen Hearing, Friend Jef- 

 frey's Ideas about 



Rkp( 'hts Encouraging 



SMII.ERY 



The A B C Child that Grew 

 so Fast 



Useful Articles for a Small 

 Amount of Money 



Honey Column 



INDEX OF HEADS OF GRAIN, NOTES AND QUERIES 

 AND OTHER SHORT ARTICLES. 



Absconding Mania 493 



An Agreeable Surprise 490 



Another from Blasted Hopes 



into Smilery '. . .484 



Ants Guilty of Stealing 



Eggs 486 



Asilus Missouriensis, a near 



Relative to 482 



Balling the Queen, Is it 



Dangerous.' 483 



Basil 4fi5 



Bee Moth and Italians 494 



Bees and Confectioneries.. .494 



.464 



Propolis. Where from 484 



Queen Cells, Selecting the 



best 478 



" Cells on Drone comb 477 



'• A Working Colony 



without a Hive 487 



" Does disturbing in Win- 

 ter Affect Consump- 

 tion of Stores? 478 



" Do They Steal Eggs 



From Other Hives!. .ISO 

 " Italian, Working on 



Red Clover 484 



" Just Hatched, three 



Bands on 484 



'• Making Them Accept 



A Queen 487 



•• Must Those from a 

 Pure Queen be all 



Alike? 474 



Book "Larnin" vs. Box 



Hives 483 



Brood, too Much in a Hive. .486 



Convention Report 491 



Conventions 494 



Cornels 465 



Drones, black. How to Get 



Rid of 488 



" Color of 493 



Eggs, More than One in a 



Cell Hatching 485 



" Eggs Disappearing.. 4SS 



Feed, What for Winter 489 



Feeding Back Soured Honey493 



I Mn. Dipping 486', 494 



From 4 to 20 by Natural 



Swarming 494 



(fathering Seeds of Honey 



Plants .'..473 



Giant Hyssop 478 



(iiving Counties 487 



Heart's Ease as a Honey 

 Plant 481 



t>y the gross . . .492 

 • ' great No. from 



1 Colony 488 



" " not always an 

 indication of Queenle'ss. .485 

 Queenlessness, How to tell 

 it by appearance of combs 478 



Queens lost in Mail 474 



How far do they go 

 for fertilization! .474 

 ' ' Clipping the Wings .492 

 ' ' and Queen cells, judg- 

 ing of them by their 



looks 474 



■ ' that keep Laying 

 Daughters in the 



hive with them 474 



' ' what to do when they 



get awav 492 



' ' Two in a Hive. . . .491,493- 



' ' That won't lay 490 



■■ Spurious 489 



' ' Dollar, Reared late in 



the Fall 484 



" Flying 492 



• • How to Prevent from 

 flying when Intro- 

 duced 484 



How late in life can 

 they be fertilized 

 and became a pro- 

 lific Queen? 486 



How young can they 



lay! 486 



' ' Italian, Are they 



sometimes black .'..487 

 " being fertilized twice 488 

 Rape Culture, Remedy for 



black Flea 490 



Reports . . 185, 487, 488, 190, 492, 



493,494 

 Rocky Mountain Bee Plants 487 



Kcabish or Scabiosa 480 



Sections and Separators 475 



Simpson Plants, Transfer- 

 ring 473,484 



Smokers, Bee, vs. Tobacco 



Pipes 493 



Fuel for 489 



Hehanthus 460 Soil for Simpson and Spider 



Heliotrope as a Hon. Plant. 493 

 Honey, a Sudden Flow of... 190 



" by the Cupful 491 



" for Sale 483 



from Smartweed 484 



hoarhound 489 



in September 494 



' ' storing all above 478 



Honor to whom honoris due 483 



Horsemint 493 



Indian Hemp or Swamp 



Milkweed 480 



Indian Plantain 479 



Introducing 486,488,490 



UOCUSl i Hove, How to raise 192 



Mallopbora Bomboides 182 



Matrimony Vine, Vulgarc ..479 

 Nucleus, 3-frame, Pretty 



Good for 484 



Plants 493 



Spider Plant Outdone... 473,490 

 Plants in Different 



Localities 473 



Swarms Absconding 486 



Swarming Flag- 483 



The Peet Cage 494 



Thieves in the Apiary 485 



Triumphing Under Difficul- 

 ties 491 



Twenty-two Days in the 



stata 



Blue 



Cefl 



Verbena 



Verbena... ....480 



Wintering 3 Colonies in 1 

 Chaff Hive 485 



Working Qualities of Dif- 

 ferent stocks. Differ- 

 ence in 494 



You will notice, on the back cover, an advertise- 

 ment of pocket knivks, and, even it you do not 

 care to buy. 1 think it will pay you m send for their 

 circular. One of the firm, Mr. Maher. has written a 

 must excellent book for young- men, or old ones 

 either, for that matter, entitled, l, On the Koad to 

 Kiehes." We shall add the book to our list, and can 

 mail it to any address, for $1,00. 



>cn$wtwn$. 



Notices of Conventions, conden sed so as to occupy 

 not over two lines, will bo insert ed free of charge. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



TIME AND PLACE OF MEETING. 



1SS0. 



Oct. ft.— Cortland Union Bee-Keepers' Association, at 



Cortland, N. Y. 

 Oct. 8. — Livingston County Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, in the Court-house at Howell, Mich. 

 Oct. 14, 1ft.— Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa Bee- 



Ke'-pers' Society, at New Boston, 111. 

 Oct. 20.— Southwestern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, at the residence of E. France, 

 Platteville, Wis. 



30 COLONIES ITALIAN & GOOD HYBRIDS 



AND 



70 COLONIES C0M3I0N BEES, 



In V/ t and 2'i story Lang-stroth hives, and in 2 story 

 Simplicity hives, with broad frames above and tin 

 separators attached: also 100 frames Worker Comb 

 made from foundation. $4.50 for 14 story Lang- 

 stroth with common bees, and honey plenty to win- 

 ter on. $5.00 to $5.50 for 1 ' & story hives with Hybrids 

 and Italians. Correspondence solicited. 

 lOd A. PAHNESTOCK, Toledo, Ohio. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



I think that the 24 lb. scale is a perfect jewel. 



W. P. Clement. 

 Monticello, Wis., June 21, 1880. 



Friends who subscribed for Gleanings through 

 me, are wild with delight. Fked V. Sargent. 



Hubbardston, Mass., Sept. 11, 1880. 



In 60 hours after we started our order, the queen 

 was at our office. Accept our thanks for your 

 promptness, also lor the qualitv of the queen. 



Mrs. W. H. Carpenter. 



Springboro, Ohio, Sept. 20, 1880. 



For the enclosed forward by mail double ender 

 fili-s, and one handle for same. These files are 

 the finest I have ever used. There is almost no 

 wear out to them. James A. Pritchard. 



St. Gabriel, La., June 12, lfcSO. 



I received the bees all in good order, and put them 

 in a new hive, giving them two combs of honey, and 

 two of worker brood. They carried in pollen two 

 hours after I opened them. J. S. Kauffman. 



Arcadia, Ind., Aug. 23, 1880. 



The try square, brad awl, and soldering outfit 

 came all right, wiihin less than a week after they 

 were ordered. I am well pleased with them. The 

 try square is a handsome tool; much better than I 

 anticipated. W. C. Stevens. 



Lawrence, Kan., Sept. 8, 1880. 



gleanings as an advertising medium. 

 I receive more orders from advertisements in 

 Gleanings than from any other paper I have ad- 

 vertised in. Honey season in this section is very 

 poor. Many colonies will have to be fed to live over. 

 Dry weather all the season was the cause. 



H. H. Brown. 

 Light Street, Pa., Sept. IT, 1880. 



The watches and pens are received, and in fine 

 order. I am much pleased with them, and with 

 your punctual way of doing business. Your holders 

 and pens are so much nicer and cheaper than we 

 can get them here, that I think I can obtain several 

 orders as soon as I start to school in the village. 



W. D. LOVELAND. 



Lawrence, Mich., Aug. 25, 1880. 



