4fiL' 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



J±. X. ROOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



terms: $1.00 per year, post-paid. 



fob clubbing bates, see fibst page 

 of beading matteb. 



IWIEIDIKr^, OOT. 1, 1880. 



And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and 

 found there a well of springing water.— Gen. xxi. 19. 



What do you think of our new cover? It was de- 

 signed by F. A. Whiting, Bunellen, N. J. 



Are your bees all provisioned for winter? If not, 

 see to it at once, and do not think of undertaking to 

 feed them along during the winter. 



A new structure of brick, is being builded almost 

 right under the window where I am writing, and it 

 is being made expressly for the counter store, as 

 shown on another page. 



Neighbor H. is going to the convention too. If 

 you should hoar him and Mr. Jones talk bees, you 

 would think of what Will M. Kellogg says about his 

 visit to friend Simpson. We are now waiting for 

 the train. 



Goods ordered during this month, for use another 

 season, in the apiary, will be furnished at a discount 

 of VA per cent, providing you mention this para- 

 graph when you order, stating the order was made 

 with this end in view. This offer includes no coun- 

 ter goods. 



While I write, we are honored with the presence 

 of Mr. D. A. Jones, and he and neighbor H. are now 

 discussing the probability of my being mistaken in 

 saying the Holy Land and Cyprian queens differ so 

 little from Italians, that scarcely any one would 

 note it. 



We have to-day, Sept. 28th, 5,015 subscribers. I 

 thank God for having given me so many kind friends, 

 and I thank you too, for the support and encourage- 

 ment you have given me. As this is comparatively 

 a dull season for advertisers, our advertising rates 

 Will not be advanced to 25c. per line until next year. 



CIRCULARS RECEIVED DURING THE PAST MONTH. 



A very neat, small, two-leaf circular from Jas. A. 

 Nelson, of Wyandott, Kansas, advertising Comb Fdn. 

 only. On the same is also a short advertisement of 

 Queens and Nuclei, bred by E. M. Hayhurst, Kan- 

 sas City, Mo. 



C. H. Deane, Sr., of Mortonsville, Woodford Co., 

 Ky., also sends us a card circular, offering Hives,— 

 Star Chaff and Simplicity. 



SUNDAY-SCHOOL BOOKS FOR ONLY 5 CENTS EACH. 



This would be nothing very singular, were it not 

 for the fact that these 5c books are precisely the 

 same that have been sold for from SI. 25 to $1.50. 

 You know what I have several times said about the 

 way books were sold, compared with the price of 

 other things, and that staple books of all kinds 

 should be sold at a price not to exceed a dollar a lb. 

 These books are sold for about 40c. per lb., at retail, 

 and they are printed on pretty fair paper at that. 

 Of course, they are in paper covers, but they are or- 

 namented so as to be quite pretty and attractive. 



One secret of their cheapness is that there are no 

 blank leaves, wide, useless margins, and double- 

 leaded lines, that we find in most ot our books. Best 

 of all, these books are all good and wholesome ones 

 for the family. If there is one family among our 

 readers, which is short of reading matter for the 

 children, or even grown-up ones, it will do you good 

 to see one of the 5c. Sunday-school books. Even if 

 they do nothing more, I hope they will take the 

 place of the cheap, dime-novel literature. The list 

 now comprises about 53 different books, a list of 

 which will be found on the cover of each. You will 

 find them on our 5c counter list. 



The price of the Cyprian and Holy Land queens, 

 for the present, will be just double the price of Ital- 

 ians of the same grade. Of course, in all likelihood, 

 they will be crossed with Italians, for we have no 

 means of insuring fertilization by their own drones, 

 even if we desired so to do. Mr. Jones claims that 

 they breed later in the season than Italians do, not 

 stopping at all for a frost, and neighbor H. had de- 

 cided pretty much the same, before friend Jones 

 came here. 



Friend J. also says if there is an Italian colony that 

 can rob a Cyprian or Holy Land colony, that is the 

 colony he wants to buy. I guess he is right in this, 

 from what experience I have had with the Holy-Land 

 bees. 



My experiments several years ago with parafflne, 

 cerosine, and other substances that were suggested 

 as a substitute for beeswax in making fdn., at a time 

 when we all supposed a patent forbade the use of 

 wax. were given so fully and publicly, that it never 

 occurred to me, that anybody would ever accuse me 

 of selling such tdn. for any thing else than it really 

 was. In regard to friend Betsinger's ofl>r of $50.00 

 for a sample of brood comb showing that the 

 brood is in no way affected by wired combs, I am 

 sure we have hundreds of bee-keepers who will most 

 willingly show him his mistake, but I do not believe 

 we have a sinsrle one who would take his money for 

 so doing. Have we, the bee-keepers of our land, so 

 little faith in each other, that we are obliged to set- 

 tle things by wager, or have we known each other 

 long enough, to have a loving confidence, trust, and 

 charity, one for the other? 



PREMIUMS FOR SUBSCRIBING EARLY. 



I have told you, in former years, how much trouble 

 it is to take down our subscription list, and re-ar- 

 range it, after the first of January, and also that the 

 trouble is not in the labor alone of doing this, but in 

 the liability of getting your names up wrong next 

 time. We have got them all right now, for we have 

 tested them during the year past. Now, to avoid the 

 necessity of going all over this again, that is, that 

 we may keep your names in our tj pe just as they are 

 now, I make the following proposition: 



Every subscriber who remits us $1.00 during the 

 present month of Oct., for Gleanings for the year 

 1881, may have his choice of any article on the 15c. 

 counter, providing you mention it at the time you 

 send the dollar, tell us which article you choose, and 

 send along the postage. 



All who remit during the month of Nov., may have 

 any 10c. article, under the same conditions. 



All who remit during the month of Bee, may have 

 any 5c. article under the same condi ions. 



We offer no premium for any single subscriber af- 

 ter the first of Jan. 



To avail yourself ot these offers, you must comply 

 with the conditions named. Bo not tell the clerks 

 to pick out your premiums themselves, and do not 

 omit the postage; for we want the whole business 

 so that we can go right along as rapidly as we can 

 handle the goods, just as we did with the counter 

 store on the fair grounds. 



These offers are for single subscribers for Glean- 

 ings; we cannot afford it on those that are sent in 

 at club prices. Any of the articles on any of the 

 counters may be secured by counting such name at 

 the price given. 



