1885 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



•6-11 



Geo. T. Hammond, West Sweden. N. Y., sends a 2-page cir- 

 cular; hives, sections, etc. ; specialty, paper boxes for retail- 

 iiiK lioiiey. 



W. B. Coegesh.'ill. Summit, N. .f., sends a «-pafre circular; 

 spei'ialtics, bees hv the pound, and nucleus colonies. Printed 

 at this office. 



.S. ]'. HoilMTSon, Hornind's Mills. Ont.. Canada. sen<ls a 20- 

 Ijage circular of hives and supvjlies generally, specialty, tin- 

 ware for the apiary. 



Gleanincs ih Bee Culture, 



I'tihli.slit^il SfDti-^ronlhli/. 



.^. I. I^OOT, 



EDITOR AND PUBLISKEn. 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS. $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Clutbics Eites, Soo Hist Page of Eeidi:: ::;t'.e:. 



n New York became unable to fill our orders, then 

 we induced a factorj- in Cleveland to take it up, 

 until tliey got behind badly, then we struck a 

 factory in Chicag-o, that bids fair to keep us going. 

 A quantity sufficient to prevent any further delay 

 has just been unloaded from the train. ^A'hen we ad- 

 vertised to furnish it, we thought we had enough on 

 hand to accommodate all the brethren; but, of 

 course, we did not know there were so many who 

 wanted just exactly the same thing. We shall keep 

 in stock only the four-foot width, and in our own 

 yards this seems to be high enough for almost any 

 purpose (especially if a board one foot wide is put 

 along the bottom) but we can furnish to order any 

 width from two to si.x feet. If you want us to cut 

 rolls, the price will be '^ c. a foot e.\tra. On two or 

 more rolls, we can now give 5 per cent discount; on 

 ten or more rolls, a discount of 10 per cent. As the 

 above prices are very close indeed, they can be 

 given only when cash comes with order. This wire 

 netting can be used in a hundred different ways, 

 for protecting any thing. As it is galvanized wire, 

 the weather has no effect on it whatever. 



Notice the decline in Idn.. in another column. 



ALSIKE CLOVER. 



As we have still in .stock a large amount of fine 

 seed, we will, for the rest of the season, fill orders at 

 $fl.no a bushel : «;4.7.5 per ha!f bushel, oi- S<'.l.nO a peck. 



rMI'OKTKI) yl'KKNS. 



OiiK apiarist rei)orts fi fine imiiorted (|ueens in 

 (lur hives, wintered over. We don't think any pf 

 the brethren will be troubled by delays on imported 

 (pieens this season. 



MAIIilNQ QUEENS WITHOl'T Tool). 



Miss Neli>ie Auams, of Sorrento, Fla.. mailed 

 us a queen Apr. 20, and forgot to put any candy in 

 I ho cage. It roach(>d our office on the 23d; bees all 

 dead, but the (jueen was alive, and when supplied 

 with honey she seemed all right. Now, we would 

 not advise mailing queens witho*it any food; still, 

 it is interesting to know how long they may sui-- 

 vivo. The weather has been warm and damp, 

 which perhaps lavoi-ed them somewhut. 



INOKATlXCi THE PAHT OF THE STATE IN WHK H 

 VOL' LIVE. 



With the permission of the -4. B. J. we will copy 

 the cvcellent plan they have adopted for letting 

 each subscriber tell what portion of the State he 

 lives in. It is virtually the plan adopted bj' the 

 Postal Guide. It will be understood with the fol- 

 lowing e.xplanation; thus, cf indicates that the 

 friend who uses it resides in the north-east portion 

 of the State; ? indicates a southern portion, etc. 



THE PR.AIRIE F.VRMER AND THE AMERICAN .\ORI- 

 I CULTURIST. 



I It is amazing to lock on and see how two good re- 

 spectable journals— journals full of years of useful- 

 ness — can be so led astraj- by Satan as to come out 

 in public and quarrel— yes, quarrel worse than a 

 couple of juveniles inight be expected to (luarrel 

 over some of their playthings. For the sake of de- 

 cency, if nothing more, dear friends, do stop right 

 where you are, and drop the whole matter. Fill 

 your pages with something of value to your read- 

 ers, as you have been wont to do. And do not any 

 more, for the sake of the example you set, and for 

 Christ's sake, put another word in print— no, not 

 even in a circular, in regard to those personal differ- 

 ences. Perhai)sthe feeble voice of Gleanings may 

 not count for much, but it nuiy be worth something 

 by way of suggestion. There is a little scrap from 

 good old doctor Watts, that I have thought many 

 times would apply to newsijaper editors as well as 

 to (luarrelsomc children. It seems to me it used to 

 run something like this: 



Let dogs delitfht to bark and bite. 



For lis thiir nature lo; 

 I.cl ijiars and lions growl and Hght, 



F'or<ii>d halli made them so. 

 lUit. rhildrcii. you should never let 



Your angrrv pa.ssions rise; 

 Your little hands were never made 



To tear each other's e.yes. 



If anybody else can fix the above better, let him 

 do it. 



( ()NVERT1N(! A HALF-STORY SIMPLICITY INTO .\ 

 HONEY-CRATE. 



Will Ellis, St. Davids, Ontario, near Niagara 

 Falls, sends us a Simplicity half-stor.v, arranged for 

 liolding sections on the Heddon or Moore plan, 

 which still admits of using separators. It is essen- 

 tially the same as the plan mentioned on page 314. 

 It is <]uite ingeniously arranged, and fills the bill 

 nicely, only it leaves those spaces for imprisoning 

 bees. Trifling as it may seem, I should say that 

 this of itself would be a fat.J objection. 



wire NETTING FOR POl'LTRY FENCES. 



Since our last, an enormous trade has sprung up 

 in wire netting Coi' poultry ipclosures, The factory 



FERTILIZING QUEENS WHILE IN THE CELL, RY 

 MEANS OF DRONE-LAKV-«. 



At New Orleans this subject was brought up, and 

 some facts were brought forward derogatory to 

 the character of those who claim to have succeeded 

 by this process. Some of the friends may remem- 

 ber the originator of the process was a Mr. H. F. 

 Lee, of South O.xford, N. Y., as given on page 29(), 

 1884. We have written to the postmaster of South 

 O.xford, but, to our great surprise and astonish- 

 ment, he says he knows no such individual as B. F. 

 Lee. Two of our subscribers at the above post- 

 office reply in the same way. Now, unless Mr. B. F. 

 Lee can come forward and explain matters, it 

 seems to me he bids fair to prove an excellent 

 candidate for the Humbug and Swindle depart- 

 ment. I regret now that I did not ascertain more in 

 regard to his standin.g, before I published his letter. 

 The whole thing seems to be the old story of fctiliz- 



