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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



TWO HUNDRED POUNDS OF BOX HONEY 



from a swarm of bees in one year, in localities where 

 forty pounds by other methods is considered a large 

 yield. 



NO LOSS OF BEES IN WINTER. 



Bees wintered safely on the same stands they oc- 

 cupy through the summer. 



GREAT PROFIT IN FEEDING BEES. 



It pays to feed bees, as well as our domestic ani- 

 mals, cows, sheep, etc. 



NO LOSS BY BEES ROBBING, NO LOSS BY THE BEE MOTH. 



Complete instructions for making Controllable 

 Hives, Glass Honey Boxps, and all Fixtures required 

 in the New System of Bee Management, taught in 

 the book. In short, complete and comprehensive 

 instructions are given in this book on every point 

 connected with the successful and profitable man- 

 agement of Bees. So plain are the instructions that 

 every intelligent person, though not acquainted 

 with bees, can readily understand and apply them 

 to bee keeping successfully and profitably. 



THE BOOK IS HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED. 



At the request of distant friends, my photograph 

 appears in this book. 



The book will be sent postpaid to any address on 

 receipt of One Dollar. 



Money in Registered Letters or by Money Order at 

 my risk. However small the amount sent by Mail, 

 always Register your letter, or send a Money Order. 

 Every postmaster is obliged to Register any letter, if 

 tendered the Registering fee, which is ten cents, in ad- 

 dition to the regular postage, or t hirteen cents in all. 

 Address, MRS. LIZZIE E. COTTON, 



West Gorham, Cumberland Co., Maine. 



The circular is substantially the same as 

 the one sent out four or five years ago, only 

 that, this time, she promises her photograph. 

 I have several times before mentioned that 

 we sent the money promptly, but have never 

 received any book. If anybody ever finds 

 that such a book ever comes into existence, 

 I hope they will send me a copy, and, if it is 

 not too long, we will have it printed in 

 Gleanings. Haven't we a subscriber near 

 West Gorham, that can go there and get the 

 book without losing his dollar? 



BEE STINGS AND RHEUMATISM. 



DO THE STINGS PROVE A REMEDY OR TO THE CON- 

 TRARY ? 



MERE are answers to friend Lemmon's ques- 

 tions on page 441, September Gleanings, 



— ' according to number as asked. 



1st.— Am 29 years old. 



2nd.— Have been keeping bees 12 years. 



3rd.— Never had the rheumatism. 



4th —Ditto. 



5th.— From 1,000 to 2,000 stings per year by actual 

 tally. A bee sting used to swell in my tlesh fearfully. 

 Now I have got so used to it as never to know I have 

 been stung, except for a few seconds. 



Will M. Kellogg. 



Oquawka, 111., Sept. 18, 1880. 

 P. S.— Friend Lemmon, you need not expect any an- 

 swers from our lady bee-keepers; that first question 

 dashes all hopes of that. W. M. K. 



1st.— Am 75 years old. 



2d.— Have been bee-keeping 5 years. Had rheuma- 

 tism before engaging in bee-keeping. 



3d.— Stinging time makes no difference, but I grow 

 gradually worse by age. I am able to take care of 

 40 swarms. 



5th.— I get about 500 stings per season. 



I am glad Mr. Lemmon has interested himself in 



relation to the effect of bee stings on the human 

 system. No man has been more exercised on the 

 subject than I have. I had exema (salt rheum) to 

 such a degree as to bo unable to walk, and was con- 

 fined at home nearly all winter. While preparing 

 my bees for winter, I got a great many stings, and 

 the complaint became much worse. My friends laid 

 it to stings. The doctor thought it only aggravated 

 it. I wrote to several, Doolittle and yourself includ- 

 ed. Doolittle said he had exema before he kept bees, 

 but had had none since. I have had rheumatism for 

 12 or 14 years, slightly at first, but it has been in- 

 creasing slowly (chronic) with age. Now it is diffi- 

 cult for me to get about. N. A. Prudden. 

 Ann Arbor Mich., Sep. 10, 1880. 



1st.— My age is 52. 



2d.--I have been handling bees for 15 years. 



3d.— I was afflicted with rheumatism before I be- 

 gan to keep bees and I don't think stings do me any 

 good. 



5th.— I don't think I get more than 15 stings dur- 

 ing the honey season. M. M. Callen. 



Moravia, Appanoose Co., Iowa, Sept. 11, 1880. 



1st.— I am over 60 years old. 



2d.— Have kept bees over 20 years. 



3d.— Have been afflicted with rheumatism for 15 

 years, and remain the same. Stinging does mo no 

 good whatever. 



5th.— On two or three occasions, I have been 

 covered with bees, and perhaps stung 50 times a 

 minute. It certainly does me no good. B. B. TON by. 



Otwell, Pike Co., Ind., Sept. 18, 1880. 



I am 24 years old, and have had the care of bees 

 for 10 or more years. I have never had rheumatism 

 except after taking off honey and introducing 

 queens, and rest always cures that. I seldom get 

 stung. But once in a while I pinch them, and they 

 sometimes crawl up my legs. I generally give such 

 to understand that I "am no bee hive." 



Leroy Van Kirk. 



Washington, Pa., Sept. 1, 1880. 



The above seems to indicate that stings 

 have no effect either one way or the other, 

 unless it is to aggravate the disease by ir- 

 ritation, just about as severe work would do. 

 Very likely, in some cases, the sting might 

 give relief as a counter-irritant, in exactly 

 the same way as the application of a blister 

 would do. 



OUR OWN APIARY, FACTORY, AND 

 HONEY FARM. 



fplE weather has been so exceedingly dry, 

 that work in the apiary has been pretty 

 — ' dull, except where we'have fed to get 

 young queens fertilized and laying. The 

 Cyprian and Holy Land queens show, by 

 their progeny, as last month, that they are 

 only average Italians, and nothing more, so 

 far as we can see. The Holy Land queens 

 are so much crosser than Italians and Cy- 

 prians, that one is tempted to think they get 

 those whitish bands, by an admixture of 

 Egyptian blood, and from what I have been 

 told in regard to the Egyptians, it seems to 

 me they are very much like them. The hard- 

 est colony I ever got hold of, that is when I 

 tried to subdue them by smoke, was one of 

 our Holy-Land stocks, and neighbor Blakes- 



