188.5 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



467 



Gleanings, you may have the watch for $2.50. Or 

 it your time is nearly out, you can have Gleanings 

 lor another year lor every Xi.riO you send us for a 

 Waterbury watch. Where the purchaser floes not 

 want Gleanings at all, the price will be fa.OO; two 

 watches, ?5.T.5, or five for $12.50. 



ISEESWAX AND FOI'NDATKJN. 



FoK the present we can not offer over 20 cts. cash 

 for wax, or 25 cts. in trade. The reason is, we have 

 so larg-e a stock on hand, and there is so little de- 

 mand for foundation. We will also give a discount 

 of 10 per cent from figures in our price list for all 

 orders for foundation received after July 1. 



Ml{. LANGSTUOTH. 



Ouu olil friend is feeling- so much better that we 

 have the promise of something- valuable from his 

 pen for our ne.xt issue, no preventing- providence. 

 In a letter from him dated June 2S, we find the fol- 

 lowing extract: 



Ifiiiii that, inoi-p than a hundred 



thi- 



ihilf 



bee 



A l,ITTI-i: 1U)()K O.V KOIM. UltOOK. 



Wk have ,iust received a little book entitled, 

 " Foul Brood: Its Management and Cure," by 1). A. 

 Jones. In the book, friend Jones considers chilled 

 brood, neglected brood, overheated brood, drowned 

 brood, dead brood, dead larvse— all these as Avell as 

 foul bi'ood. Wo can furnish it from this office for 

 10 cts.; l)y mail, II cts. Altlioiigh friend Jones does 

 think that foul l)r()od may sometimes be geix'rated 

 spontaneously, we fliink the little book is well 

 worth the nione.\' 



ANOTIIEI! .!<)» LOT Ol' WIKE (LOTH. 



We are unable to get any more ;it the very low 

 price of 1' 2 cts. per S(|uare foot, but we have se- 

 cured a splendid lot of regular goods of the follow- 

 ing widths: 24, 2B, 28,30,;i2, ;54, JiB, 40,42, and 4« inches, 

 which is put up as follows: 



Ii4]l rolls of 200 s. f. r.-icli.-J c.fW, I .■.irli cl' 10, 120, 18ns. f. 

 a;2f, .M r.ill- ,.f'in -, r •■.<■ h.) . .<.h -f v<:, <;:, ri ^ f. 

 228 Ki r-IN . I ■■•:■;- i , :,. L i . ,,■<, -.i P, ,f ■> -10 s. f. 

 t»30llf, r.Ml ..I ' Ji I .,,.'. i-,,,,,.ii,, !•. .'I, ■;2:,. 2of fiOs. f. 

 ''.''2[l r.,11 -I -I I- I 



Slieillroll: 

 i;40 1 roll < 



feet. 



2 to. 



Of 2:« square feet. 

 ,= 4211 roll of .350 square leel. 

 I 481 roll of 192 square feel. 



The above we can sell at \\i cents per scpiare foot. 



The manufacturers have given us these remarka- 

 bly low figures in consideration of the very large 

 orders we have been giving th(>m for a year past. 

 I tell you, my friends, when the bee-keepers of the 

 world unite together in purchasing a certain line of 

 goods, it takes a pretty big factory to supply them. 



(,)UEENS MISSING IN SHIPMENTS. 



I'ltoiJAiSLv none of the friends who sell (nieens, 

 bees, and nuclei, have been very long in the busi- 

 ness before more or less complaints came that cer- 

 tain colonies or pounds of bees contained no (jueen. 

 The ()uestion then arises. Did the shipi)er omit to 

 put in the (juccns, or did the receivers let her get 

 away by some accident after the package was re- 

 ceived? It should be borne in mind, in deciding 

 such questions, that no otie is hardly ever safe in 

 declaring there was no <]ueen among the bees, 

 simply because he could not find her. The best of 

 us frequently look in vain for a (lueen, and some- 

 times in a comparatively small body of bees, and 

 yet she is there all the while. The universally ac- 

 cepted and plain way of settling the matter beyond 

 dispute is to look lor queen-eells. AVith a nucleus 



or a hi\e of bees, the matter is easily settled. If no 

 queen was put in when the bees were started, 

 queen-cells will always be found at the time they 

 ai-e received, and the purchaser should, of course, 

 write back at once, " You either omitted to put a 

 queen with my bees, or she was lost by some acci- 

 dent iibout the time of shipment, for queen -ccUk 

 were built, and icell aloiKj when the package was 

 first opened." With a pound or half a pound of 

 bees, the matter is not so easily settled; but as such 

 packages of bees should always be let loose on a 

 comb of sealed brood, the absence of the (jueen 

 should be settled decisively within 24 hours; for if 

 no (luceu is present they will stai-t cells on the 

 brood given them, in about tliat length of time. A 

 good many of the friends who receive bees are in- 

 experienced, and sometimes thoughtless, in writing- 

 back to the shipper that he did not send any fjueen, 

 for the simple reason they looked and did not find 

 her. Now, unless this matter of (lueen-cells is un- 

 derstood and plainly mentioned, 1 should say the 

 I)urchaser is not entitled to another queen free of 

 charge. 



MOW THOSE STUAWllEUUIES TUUMCI) OIT. 



Well, my friends, they turned out magnificently, 

 if that is the word for if. Our strawberry-i^ateh 

 was worth all it cost, just to see the whole family- 

 Maude, Connie, Caddie, clear down to Huber, mam- 

 ma included— and all as busy as tliey could be, 

 gathering the ruddy treasures. There is one thing 

 alxnif this strawberry business that astonishes me; 

 and that is, that people liave been lazily sleeiiing 

 over the matter, as it were, until almost clear up to 

 this year of 1885, bcfoie they knew what a feast and 

 what a " picnic" wc could all of us have with so lit- 

 tle exertion. Strawberries have sold in our mar- 

 ket as low as five cents a quart, and loads ami loads 

 of them have been consumed. Hut it diil not mat. 

 fertouswhat price they were up street; Me had 

 them at home of our own raising, sind they were 

 ahead of any that could be bought in the market. 

 Now, one more thing surprises me, and that is, that 

 IX'opIc do not with one accord give a great big vote 

 of thanks to the man who first gave us the Sharp- 

 less strawberry. Wh>-, on each side of our row of 

 Sharpless plants, the ground is covered with great 

 "chunks" of luscious fruit, as .juicy and as delicious 

 as one of the finest i)ears, and you do not need to 

 wait until they are real ripe either. As soon as you 

 can see one of these great berries colored, you may 

 1)0 sure it is good to etit, and without any sugar. I 

 never ate any fruit in my life that 1 so thoroughly 

 enjoyed as these great awkward chunks of berries 

 —berries so large that yon could take a great big 

 bite, and then look at the l)eaufiful, juicy, ruby 

 fiesh on the inside of a berry when^ you have bit- 

 ten it. Huber finds it a hard matter to get some <jf 

 them into his mouth, so he can get a good Sfjuare 

 bite. Perhaps the reason wh.\- our Sharpless berries 

 have been superior to any of the other vaiieties is, 

 that they occupied the double^ furrow in the center 

 of our bed. You will remember, perha))s, what I 

 told you about it last fall— the way we plowed and 

 harrowed and subsoiled that piece of ground, and 

 then covered it three inches deep with the best old 

 well-decomposed stable manure we could find. 

 Well, 1 tell you it was a paying investment. All the 

 Sharpless berries we had to sell brought 15 cts. a 

 (piart, while the common varieties sold at from 5 to 

 8 cents. Our best day we picked 5T quarts. 



