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GLEANtNGS In bee CULTUIIE. 



Apr. 



colonies, part Italians and pai-t hybrids, all in good 

 condition; have moved them home, and now have 

 s strong: colonics. Ill got forgiveness tor past mis- 

 takes I will try 1() maiiage uiy lees letter in the lu- 

 tine. 



I quit the nse of tobacco the Ijth of last July, 

 after nsing the weed for B years. I was riding in 

 the smoking-car of a railway train near Cincinnati, 

 and the resolution seemed to come tome all at once, 

 and I took a i)lug of tobacco out of my pocket, and 

 ■A cigar out of my mouth, and threw them out at the 

 window, and have "stayed quit "ever since. Al- 

 tliough having a natural appetite for tobacco, by 

 the help of God I am and wish to remain a total 

 abstainer. 1 prize your Home Papers very highly. 



Winchester, Ohio. T. L. Rees. 



Friend R.,your resolutions, both in regard 

 to bee eidtiire and tobacco, have the right 

 ring ; and 1 tell you. Avhen these good im- 

 pulses come we Avant to recognize them as 

 the voice of God. and heed them according- 

 ly. When 1 can see a man take a plug of 

 tobacco out of one pocket and a cigar out of 

 tlie other, and resolutely throw them away, 

 asking God to help him, then and there I 

 begin to have faith in my fellow-men. May 

 (iod bless and help and sustain you. If you 

 go on in that way 1 know you will succeed, 

 with bees or whatever else you set about. 



EARI-y QUEEN'S FROM CALIFORNIA. 



I will introduce myself as a Maine man just arriv- 

 ed in this far distant bit of Uncle Sam's territory, 

 and starting in bee culture. I have invested in 

 about 100 stands, ranging from pure Italians to 

 blacks. , The season here promises to be dry— no 

 rain since .Ian. 1— and I have started nuclei prepar- 

 atory to Italianizing, and I write to ask if you can 

 use the superseded queens, as I note in your cata- 

 logue you supply such when obtainable. I can send 

 them any time, as I now have (jucens laying that I 

 have raised since coming here in November. If 

 you can not use them, do you think It would be ad- 

 visable to ad\-ertise them? I wish to sell them if 

 possible, as a poor season means that every cent 

 must count, to a new comer at least. I learned my 

 " trade " of J. B. Mason, Mechanic Falls, Me., being 

 tliere a part of two seasons. If I succeed in raising 

 l)ure queens after a while, as is my object, do you 

 think you would want a few early ones next season? 

 Uoth black and white sage grow in my apiary in 

 abundance, and we are picking strawberries, and 

 have been for some time. 0. B. Woouuerry. 



Verdugo, Los Angeles Co., Cal., Mar. 9, 1885. 



Friend \V.. we do not buy hybrid and 

 black queens, because there is not enough 

 money in tliem to pay the expense of two 

 shipments. Those we offer for sale are sncli 

 as are found in our own apiary, having a 

 Uace of black l)loo(l. Shipping ("|iicens from 

 California to the States is too risky, and I 

 would not advise it. I will tell you wliat 

 you can do, however. Keeyt a good supply 

 of all kinds of (lueens constantly on hand to 

 siipi)ly the demand from your coast. No 

 one has ever done that, that 1 am aware of, 

 and it makes me feel h.id to see orders com- 

 ing t(> ;;s from Jiv.iay across ihe Hock^; Moun- 

 tains. Von can get HiCPl tbroiigluij'jj;; (jiie; 

 but it is i)oi)r poUcy all roimfS^*' ship queC'i^ 

 such long distances. We expect to get oii^' 

 early queens from Florida and the Southeri^ 



States. You see, this is nearer home, and 

 they won't have to take a long cold trip 

 across the Rockies. 



SOUND nOCTKI.NE. 



Tell B. F. rasley (p. 17i)) to get down on his knees, 

 if he needs a wife, and ask our Father in heaven to 

 give him one, and God will get him a good one. No 

 })atent applied for. Ask in faith. '• The Lord keep 

 thee in all thy ways." I). ^[cI\ENZlE. 



New Orleans, La., March 11. 1^8."». 



Friend M., your doctrine is sound and or- 

 thodox. God gave Adam his wife, and it is 

 fair to presume he will do the same for any 

 of us ; and may I take the liberty of adding', 

 ! that Mhen the wife comes she should be re- 

 ! garded as a gift fpim (iod, and treated ac- 

 j cordingly ? 



i ITRIFVINO WAX. 



Will you please tell me how you purify wax for 

 foundation? My own wax, made with a wax-ex- 

 tractor, is all right, clean enough; but I get some 

 from m.v neighbors that is very dirty. I notice con- 

 siderable talk in Gleanings about the Heddon hive 

 and system. Let me say. the Heddon fixtures 

 throughout are perfection, in mj' opinion. I have 

 discarded ever thing else for them. It cost me con- 

 siderable to make the change, but I am not sorry. 

 Bro. Heddon deserves much ci-edit for his inven- 

 tions. E. J. SCOFIELD, 4t;— 100. 



Hanover, Wis., March 10, 1885. 



Friend S.. there is no way that I know of 

 to purify wax without considerable trouble 

 ami waste. We tind a good deal of dirty 

 wax that comes in all the wax of commerce. 

 Melting in a deep can. and dipping otf from 

 the top, is about as good as any way. Blow- 

 ing steam on the residue will'liberate a fur- 

 ther quantity of darker-colored wax. In 

 making fdn.. the dirty wax collects on the 

 steam-pipes, and on the bottom of the tanks. 

 We have sold this to wax-candle makers and 

 retiners, to some extent, but they allow us 

 but little more for it than the freight. The 

 use of acids gives us a better-colored wax. 

 but it is hard and somewhat brittle, there- 

 fore we have discarded the use of acids in 

 cleansing wax for making fdn. Nice clean 

 wax, such as comes from the wax-extractor, 

 is really worth quite a little more than the 

 wax of commerce. We usually i)ay about 

 one or two cents extra for l)right clean wax 

 from the wax-extractor. 



WINTERING HBES IX A CAVE, ETC. 



I I reeeiveil my tirst number of Gleaninos to-day, 



and am highly pleased with it. I was led to discon- 



I tinue several other bee-journals, and subscribe for 



i yours by the reading of jour A B C, which 1 procur- 



1 (>d from a fricnid. I was captivated with Blue Eyes, 



1 and more especially with the outcroppings of your 



j home life, which the pages of your book reveal. 1 



find the same sentiment in the copy before me in 



"Notes by the Way," in i-eference to i)arting with 



your famil.v. 



oil till- lili-s..in(rs(>r.i li.'ini' \>lii !.■ o!il ,111(1 .vniiii>riiii\ kiiidl.v' 



Th.- y. 



IK uiiav 



WJKi is this Iluber? A successor of Blue Eyes, I 

 suppose, which entitles him to papa's knee. Please 

 tell your new subscribers something about him. I 

 would ask only one trial, to guess after whom he 

 was named. 



