GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



Thank you. friend D.; but I don't want 

 any more money, unless you go back to to- 

 bacco again, then you can send me the 70 

 cts. If 1 can see the friends giving up to- 

 bacco and other bad habits, it will be pay 

 enough, and God will take care of the post- 

 age-stamps. 



Gleanings in Bee CultcreJ 



fublislud Srini-Moitilihf. 



EDITOR AND PUBIiJSHER 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS; SI.OO^ER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For CltsttiEg Rates, Seo First Pies of tsiih- i::tt5r. 



i^^:e:idzi<tj^7^~o^. is, ises. 



that ye mete withal it shall he 



is good; but, would not water as hot as the patient 

 can bear it be equally good, or possibly better? 



MAMMOTH cave; FRIEND HOLMES TELLS US SOME- 

 THING ABOUT HOW TO GET THERE. 



Since my articles on the Mammoth Cave appeared, 

 several have asked the question as to the best way, 

 cost of getting there, etc.; and Mr. Holmes has 

 kindly furnished me the following. If you will 

 write to him where you live, he will probably tell 

 you about what the expense of the trip will be. 



Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, is eight miles from 

 Cave City station, which is 19.5 miles south of Cin- 

 cinnati, and 8,5 miles south of Louisville, on the 

 main line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 

 which is one of the great trunk lines from all 

 points north to Florida, and from the North and 

 East to Texas, Mexico. Arizona, and California; 

 and passengers purchasing their tickets over the 

 Louisville & Nashville railroad, by notifying the 

 conductor after leaving Louisville, can stop at Cave 

 City to visit Mammoth Cave, within the limit of 

 their tickets. Parties desiring to visit the cave can 

 make arrangements for so doing by writing to 

 General Passenger Agent, Louisville .St: Nashville 

 Railroad, Louisville, Ky., or Herman Holmes, 

 Traveling Passenger Agent, Medina, Ohio. 



Fisiired t<i you aRaiii.— LrKF, 6: 



SECOND-QUALITY SECTIONS. 



We have in stock about 10,000, just as good as our 

 liest in every respect, except that the color is a little 

 off. We will sell these at half price as long as they 

 last. 



SPA fiord's DRONE-TRAP. 



PiNCii our article on another page in regard to 

 this little implement was written, our apiarist gives 

 notice that it works like a " charm." The drones 

 arc all found outside in a cluster the next morning 

 after it has been used. We can furnish them at the 

 prices given under the illustration. 



OUR LAWN-MOWER FOR BEE-KEIiPERS. 



So much of a trade has sprung up in these that we 

 are enabled to reduce the price to an oven $(5.00, in- 

 stead of 1^6. .50. Tt is, perhaps, the best lawn-mower 

 made, for cutting grass when it gets to be four or 

 live inches high; and during a damp season, like 

 the present one, such a machine is (juite desirable. 



INTRODUCING NEWI-V HATCHED QUEENS, ETC. 



ON page .56:J, friend Ellison gives a report in re- 

 gard to introducing virgin queens. His success was 

 just about what 1 should expect it to be with queens 

 newly hatched. With those several days old he did 

 better than I should expect. I believe the general 

 experience lias been, that newly hatched (jueens 

 can be let loose into any hive that has been queen- 

 less for »4 h<uirs or moi'e, almost without a failure. 



SENSE ANi 



ADVERTISEMENTS THAT DO NOT PAY. 



StJMETixMES an advertiser writes that his adver- 

 tisement has not brought him a single application. 

 Now, although we are \ery sorry to know that any 

 investment of this kind has not been a paying one, 

 we can in no wise be responsible for the result of 

 such ventures. We sell you the space in our adver- 

 tising columns, and arrange it so as to make the 

 best appearance possible for each of our advertis- 

 ers; but the result must rest with the one who 

 gives the order. Perhaps some suggestions in re- 

 gard to advertising may help you. When the sea- 

 sou is comparatively over for untested queens, and 

 everybody wants to sell, a good many will put in 

 an advertisement. At such times it may meet with 

 no response, where the same advertisement, put in 

 in April or May, would Hood the advertiser with or- 

 ders. Again, people arc a little slow in sending 

 their money to a new man. A trade in any com- 

 modity must be built up by degrees, as a general 

 thing, and it is only human nature to prefer to wait 

 until your card has been standing for some; time in 

 the advertising pages, before sending an order. 

 People prefer to get acquainted, as it were; but 

 after they once discover you are promi)t, and that 

 you furnish all or more than what you agree to. 

 your advertisements will meet with a (|uick and 

 bountiful harvest, providing, of course, your prices 

 are fair, and that you come before the public at a 

 season when your goods are in demand. 



THIi 



sense; sifting om: 



OTHER. 



Our good friends of the Ohin Faninr pleasantly 

 lake Gleanings to task for being devoted exclu- 

 sively to bees and honey, and yetdiscussingwhether 

 arnica is good lor sprains or not. If the editoi- of 

 the Oldi) Farimr read our whole article through he 

 will notice that 1 had been speaking of the aiiplica- 

 tion of remedies in the shape of medicines for bee- 

 stings. Well, I believe that nearly every old l)ee- 

 kccpcr now agrees that the \arious stuffs that have 

 liccn so cmiihatically declared a iierfect remedy 

 for stings have all been proved to amount to just 

 nothing at all ; and I " sort o" " asked the (luestion, 

 if it was not jiossible that our remedies for sprains 

 and other like mishaps had as much to do with re- 

 lieving the suffering, and no more. May be arnica 



] BEE-Kl.F.PIliS WHO MAKE A BUSINESS ,OF GETTING 



TRUSTED FOR SUPPLIES AVHICH THKV NEVER 



INTEND TO PAY FOR. 



j A PAPKu on this sul)ject has just been sent us lor 

 I i)ul>lication. Thewriterstatesthat thcrearemcn who 

 i get trusted one year to A, the next year to R, the 

 j next to C, and so on, without e\-er i)aying any of 

 I their bills; and the proi)osition is made, that the 

 I names of such men be pulilislied. I am glad to see 

 that this class of individuals seldom go into bee cul- 

 ture very much; but I do feel that there arc enough 

 of them so that the names of one or more of them 

 should be kept constantly before the public, as a 

 warning. Heforc doing this, h«wever, we will noti- 

 fy the parties, and ask them what they have to say 

 in regard to the course they have pursued. Anoth- 

 er thing, I do not believe it is right for supply-deal- 



