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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



A I'll. 



hinged just below the entrance. The hinges keep 

 the alighting-board securely in place, and let it drop 

 down at any convenient angle, while if the hive is 

 ever to be shipped it turns up over the front, so it 

 will not get knocked off, and it is entirely out of 

 the waj-. 



SECOND-HAND CIGAU-BOX PLANEH FOH SALE. 



We have one of the above planers that has been 

 ill use in our factory for two or three years. The 

 price of such a one new is .$70.00. This one is all in 

 good order, with an extra pair of new knives that 

 have never been used. As we have taken it away to 

 give place to a larger one, we will sell it for an even 

 ?;+.5.00. 



EirAME-REVERSING DEVICES. 



At the present writing, five ditferent individuals 

 claim our reversing device as their own invention. 

 Now, these five different devices are not at all alike ; 

 in fact, one would hardly recognize them as being 

 alike in any respect, and mine is certainly like none 

 of them. It seems to me there is a bad spirit get- 

 ting in right here, and I do not know but a bad spirit 

 is getting into me too. Even the Howes reversing 

 device proves to be over ten years old, as you will 

 see from friend Flory's description in another col- 

 umn. No doubt I have used features in my device, 

 belonging to each one of the five; but, where shall 

 we end, if we go on in this way? that is, each one 

 of us claims to be the original inventor of every 

 thing that uses even a small portion of something 

 embodied in our invention. 



SENDING us SAMPLES OF UEE-HIVES. 



If any of the friends wish us to look at the hives 

 they have made, of course we can not very well 

 object; but I hope when thej' do, they will pay the 

 express or freight on them clear to ^Medina. I hope, 

 too, they will not feel hurt if after we have looked 

 it over we send it right back again. Our attic is not 

 big enough to store away bee-hives; and after the 

 experience we have had storing them away in our 

 warehouses because there is a po.s.fi/u'/tV;/ that they 

 maj" be- needed some time, we think it much the 

 better waj' to send them back to the shipper. We 

 are often requested to set them in our apiary, and 

 give them a trial. And now, dear friends, please do 

 not think me uncharitable when I say that, when 

 we have attempted to do something of this kind, 

 it has always proved a trial, but in another sense of 

 the word. It is not unlikely there are better hives 

 in use than those in our apiary; but the expense of 

 making changes is so great that we feel as if we 

 would rather take the chances with what we have. 



modate the brethren. Now, friends, this is entirely 



out of the question. We will try to keep in stock, for 



prompt shipment, the four kinds of honey-boards to 



' fit the Simplicity hives or chaff' hives (which is the 



I same thing), but I am afraid we shall have to be ex- 



I eused from making these same to fit other kinds of 



hives. The above gives you a little glimpse of the 



I sea of confusion we shall have in bee culture, if we 



' do not come down to uniform dimensions, and stay 



there. 

 i 



A WOMAN S SEED-C.\TALOOUE. 



j We have received a four-page catalogue froiii 

 Mrs. Jennie Frances Belden, West Branch, Michi- 

 gan, and Mrs. B. certainly offers seeds reasonably 

 enough. Flower seeds are 2 cts. per paper; very 

 choice varieties, 4 cts. per paper, and novelties come 

 ui) to the extravagant sum of 5 cts.; garden-seeds, 

 ■i cts. per packet, and our friend assures us that the 



I varieties she offers are carefully selected from the 



j best known. She says, "My garden is my pride, 

 and I grow no poor plants in it." She pays all post- 



I age, but no order is accepted for less than 10 cents. 



i For orders running from three to five dollars, a 

 still further discount is offered. Now, the point 

 that striks me is this: Why can't a woman do this 

 work? Women, as a general thing, would be more 

 honest than men. Perhaps they could afford to 

 work cheaper because they have no tobacco nor 



I whisky bills to pay, and I really believe that many 

 a woman could make a very nice little business in 

 the way our friend has started out. Of course, the 

 qualitj' of the seeds sent out would determine 

 whether the business would build up or not. She 

 says her seeds wei-e all raised in 1884, and were all 



j tested in December. It has occurred to me many 



j times while working in the greenhouse lately, that 

 a great part of this work is emphatically woman's 



: work. All that is wanted is a woman that loves 

 plants and flowers, and a woman that is willing to 

 work, and wants to make her way. The price list 

 mentioned is nicely arranged, but the printing is 



\ vei'y poor. If Mrs. Belden would like to reward us 

 for the good notice we have given her business, 



■ I wish she would let us print the next catalogues 

 she needs. 



MOKE COMPLICATIONS. 



In our price list we have for some years adver- 

 tised a honey-board. A few months ago friend 

 Hutchinson invented a queen - excluding honey- 

 board made of wood. We had honey-boards made 

 of perforated metal before. Right away after, Mr. 

 Heddon said Hutchinson's honey-board was "no 

 good," and sf) he gave us a real genuine honey-board 

 for an cightfiamc hive. That makes four kinds rf 

 lioney-boards. Well, just as soon as they were illus- 

 trated, somebody wanted the same thing made for 

 the Simplicity hive. Others will probably want 

 them made lor the American hive, for the (Jallup 

 hive, etc. There are lour different kinds of honey- 

 boards, and they are wanted for four different kinds 

 of hives. That makes a stock of sixteen kinds of 

 lioney-boards that we iii\)st linve on hand to aeconi- 



FIRST-CLASS ARTICLE FOR 15 AND 22c PER LB. 



U11IT1-: Foil I'Airncrf.ARs. siiii.i 



%A#HO ¥^ll I so COLONIES or ITALUIT BEES 

 WnV/ ;nrBL.L. i,,,- sale l.v the colony or 



BUV WHO** pound. SiMiplic-ity Hives, 

 K9W I ■ vvn^i^i J.-,.,^,„^.s Liuigstroth. g'gX 

 IT '8. Wired Iraiiics, combs built from foundation, 

 and are all worker-cells, and straight as boards. 

 The finest lot of bees in the market. Queens and 

 Given foundation lor sale. Send for Circular. 

 5-6-7-8d X. H. KLiOER, 



Tcrrc Haute, Vigo Co., Ind. 



DADANT'S rOUNDATION FACTOSY, WHOLESALE AND 

 UETAII*. See lulviTtiaeuicnt in another column. 



