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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULl^UtlE. 



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umns of our bee-journals, of the names of 

 newspapers that persist in giving place to 

 these falsehoods. Hunt up the name of the 

 reporter, if it is possible to get it. and give 

 him all the ])ublicity he wants. When the 

 editor of any newspaper will correct the 

 statement, and apologize for letting it go 

 into his columns, then we will take his name 

 out, and not before. If the l)ee-keepers of 

 the world are not a very large body, they are 

 at least large enough to let their inlluencebe 

 felt. Who is the reporter that furnished the , 

 above, and what paper besides the Yates Co. 

 Chronicle has given place to it? I think we i 

 will fix it about this way : We will start a 

 new department in (Jlkanings, with a I 

 head something like the following : 



FALSE STATEMENTS IN REaARD TO THE HON- i 

 EY BUSINESS OF OUR COUNTRY. | 



As a priiteiti 

 this dfjiai liiir 

 sist in piil.li^l.i 

 honey ulii.h 

 any puiiii « ill 

 ogy, thf luuiic 

 mailed to tlit- 1 

 ments, with a 

 given. After t 

 corrected we \' 

 at largre thn 

 th 



largre tnat sai 

 is class of false 



The more one reads the extract above, the j 

 more diabolical it sounds. Please notice : ^ 

 " After the apple-parings have been kept so 

 long that they are spoiled, and won't make [ 

 jelly, they are sold to the makers of strained 

 honey.''' Furthermore, " All strained honey 

 in the market" (I presume they mean liquid 

 honey) " is made of " these same sour apple- j 

 skins. Of course, this includes packages 

 put up by the apiarists themselves ; and we 

 are told, with a gi-eat show of candor, there 

 is not a bit of honey a])Out it. 



GLEANINGS AS AN ADVERTISING ME- 

 DIUM. 



SOMETHING ABOUT PUTTING NEW GOODS IN OUR 



PRICE LIST BEFORE THEY HAVE BEEN 



PROVEN, ETC. 



T WISH to say of Gleanings, that it is almost too 

 ^IF good for advertising- purposes. I inserted an 

 jL adv't, got answers from almost everybodj-, and 

 '*' as many orders as I could All. 



Bees are all in line condition, and I did not 

 lose any in wintering-. I took my first comb honey 

 May 15, which I think is very good for this locality. 

 In the fall my bees bring in a quantity of beautiful 

 dark-red honey, which is very thick, and has an ex- 

 cellent tlavor. Can you tell me what it is made of? 



Do you sell any reversing devices at the present 

 time? I can not tell from Gleanings whether you 

 do or not. Edward S. Lea. 



Brighton, Md., May 27, 188.5. 



Friend L., (i leanings is an excellent adver- 

 tising medium for seasonable goods where 

 the prices are reasonable or low ; but some 

 of the brethren have complained tliat they 

 did not get a single api)lication froiii 

 their advertisement. Tiie reason was, the 

 advertisement was something not (iuit(^ in our 

 line, the price was high, or it was something 

 behind the times, and not N\anted by any- 



body. As an illustration, one friend ad- 

 vertised some books on freemasonry. No- 

 body ever replied to his advertisement. An- 

 other advertised seed wheat. The price was 

 rather high, and the kind of wlieat was 

 something the people did not know much 

 about. I believe he had no answer. But as 

 a rule, those who have advertised bees at low 

 prices have been, like yourself, more tlian 

 satisfied. —I can not give even a guess where 

 the red honey came from, without tasting it. 

 When you get some more, if you will let us 

 know i will send you a wooden block in 

 which to mail us a small portion.— We are 

 selling tiie reversing device described and il- 

 lustrated on page lo7. We are selling a great 

 many, and are waiting anxiously for reports 

 from them. They are not yet in the price 

 list, because I do not wish to put any thing 

 in the price list until it has been pretty well 

 tested by actual use, and at least a good 

 many dilferent people have decided that it is 

 worthy of a place among the established 

 " bee-Hxings.'' The lleddon honey-board, 

 Moore's crate for sections, Klimitz' queen- 

 catcher, and quite a lot of other things are at 

 present undergoing the ordeal of public 

 opinion. If they decide them to be good 

 during the present season, they will go into 

 the price list. 



]imE^ MB Queried. 



FIGHTING AND DEAD BEES IN FRONT OF A NEW 

 SW.\RM. 



HAD a colony that cast a swarm on the 24th. It 



was an e.xtra large swarm. They settled on a 



fence-rail. I hived them in the usual way, and 



ever since then they have been fighting. The 



ground around is covered with dead bees. The 



entrances are three feet apart — hives all alike, and 



painted white. What is the matter? 



Hunter's Depot, Ky., May, 1885. R. B. Barnes. 



[Friend B., your concluding words give the clew 

 to the whole trouble. Three feet is not far enough 

 apart to place hives; and if the hives are painted all 

 alike, the trouble is likely to be still worse. They 

 have probably got over their quarreling, and are all 

 right by this time; but many bees will get into the 

 wrong hives, and be lost, if you leave them as they 

 are. If you face one about so as to point a dittcrent 

 way, this would make some dilTerence. Better put 

 them as much as eight or ten feet apart, if you can 

 conveniently.] 



DOES THE swarming TELEPHONE IN.IURE BEES? 



I am ashamed to ask any more questions, but can 

 not listen any longer to that new telephone shoot- 

 ing my bees once a minute, without asking you if 

 you think it brings one down at every stroke. 



Sheboygan Falls, Wis., May 26. Quandary. 



LFriend Q., the same thought came into my mind 

 when we first used the swarming telephone; but 

 ui)on going out and watching the bees as they 

 hiiiiipcd against the wire, 1 was satisHeil that it did 

 not Inirl tliciii iiuitcriallv; lor alter I icIiik- knocked 

 out of tlKir (•(uii-sf a little tlicy tiew along as if 

 nothing had liaiipeniMl. Will some of the other 

 IriciKJs make ()lis('r\ ations, and report? Bees often 

 iMinij) against lihidcs of grass or stalks of timothy; 

 but even if il knoi-ks tln-ni down it does not seem to 

 luirt tlu-rn an.\. I would not have the wire so near 

 the bees that they would strike it very much while 

 at their regular work. If you can conveniently, 

 raise it so high that a bee seldom strikes it unless 

 the swarm is in the ail-] 



