1885 



GLEANINGS i:ti BEE CULTURE. 



649 



house, with rough boxes outside of hives, packed 

 with chaff. I left in all the fi-ames justas they were 

 ill summer, and entrance all open, with mats and 

 brood-frames and chaff cushions on top of mats. 

 Oil City, Pa., Aug. 3, 1885. H. C. Finch. 



HDW AN ABC SCHOLAR "ROLLS UP THE BARRELS 

 OF FINE HORSEMINT HONEY." 



1 don't know that I can tell you why it is that I 

 have for a long- time wanted to write, thanking- you 

 as I feel 1 ought, for the many good things you 

 have taught. When 1 was introduced to you in 

 Dec. 188:i, we received the sample copy of Glean- 

 ings, and for some time afterward I also thought I 

 objected to the mixed matter in Gleanings. But 

 after a better and more intimate acquaintance of 

 three years, I want to say that any other Glean- 

 ings, than Gleanings as it is, would not be Glean- 

 ings at all. In greedily devouring, as it were, the 

 " bee-talk " of Gleanings the first year, and its in- 

 imitable offspring, the ABC book, I could see 

 queen-rearing, extractors, barrels of extracted hon- 

 ey, Italian bees, etc., as one sees objects in a dream; 

 but through your teachings I have been enabled to 

 see it all practically in my own apiary, and to roll 

 up the barrels of fine horsemint honey, two, three, 

 lour, and five deep. Besides the enjoyment, or, as 

 you say, "rare fun" of working with the bees, I 

 have become a closer student oltiaturc; and many 

 beautiful and strange things Innc unfolded before 

 me. "Myself and My iS'Lighbors," and "Our 

 Homes," have enabled me to see human nature in a 

 different and better light, and to make our own du- 

 ty plainer in our daily walk toward our "home 

 above." H. A. Goodrich. 



Massoy. Tex., Aug. 24, 1885. 



[Friend G., your letter makes me almost tremble 

 ill my shoes, as such letters have many times be- 

 fore, for fear I shall in some way prove unworthy 

 of such very, very kind words; and all I can say at 

 such times is, " May God help me to come even a 

 little way toward deserving it all."] 



[ADVERTISEMENTS.] 



Tlie Largest Cabbaise <J rowers In tlic 

 World (W. M. Johnson & Co., of (Chicago), use ui>- 

 Avards of five thousand acres of land for growing 

 cabbages. Last season they manufactured nineteen 

 thousand six hundred barrels of sourkrout, besides 

 shipping four hundred and sixty-seven carloads of 

 cabbages to eastern cities. They use and recommend 

 Tillinghast's Puget-Sound Cabbage Seeds. The dis- 

 seminator of this renowned brand of seeds, Isaac F. 

 Tillinghast, of La Plume, Pa., in order to introduce 

 th(!m into every county in the Union, has organized 

 a Seed and Plant Growers' Association. One relia- 

 ble party in each town in the Union is being enroll- 

 ed as special agent, and is supplied with seeds in 

 trade marked packages, and also instruction books 

 which will enable any one to grow cabbage-plants 

 successfully anywhere. Parties desiring seeds or 

 plants, will, upon application to Mr. Tillinghast, 

 be furnished with the addresses of agents nearest 

 them from whom they may he obtained. Purchas- 

 ers are thus saved unnecessary express charges, 

 and assured of obtaining the best strain of cabbage 

 seeds or plants which can be procured. 



This association thus furnishes one man in each 

 town -the appointed agent— a good cash-paying 

 business in selling seeds and grooving and supplying 

 plants. There are still many excellent localities 

 unoccupied, and any one so situated as to act as 

 agent for this association should address Mr. Till- 

 inghast as above, fo\- particulars in regard to it. 



Mr. Tillinghast has also just put upon the market 

 a " Cabbage-Pest Powder" which is entirely harm- 

 less to the plant at any stage of its growth, and also 

 harmless to persons eating them, yet the most ef- 

 fective destroyer of lice, fleas, and worms, which 

 has ever been pgrnpovinded. It retaJlg at 24 cents 

 jierpoijnd. 18d 



LOOK HERE! 



To introduce my strain of pure bright Italians, 

 equal to any in the United States, I will offer for 

 August, tested queens, $1.00 each; extra line, select- 

 ed, $1.50 each; one-frame nucleus, consisting of one 

 extra select queen, one frame of brood, J4 lb. bees, 

 for $2.00. If you want any bees, send me your ad- 

 dress on postal and 1 will send you sample by re- 

 turn mail. Beeswax or honey taken in exchange. 

 l.Dtfdb THOMAS HORIV, 



Box 691, Sherburne, Chen. Co., N. Y. 



The test Queens out. 



I will furnish ((uoens from July 1 to September 1 

 for one dollar; warranted tested, .*2. 00; after then 

 the price will be the same as in A. I. Root's list. 

 Queens all bred from an imported mother. 



C3r. OF*. S3VEX17ZZ, 

 16tfdb Bald ITTt., Lackawanna Co., Pa. 



-^FOR SALE.^^^ 



2J Colonies of Pun- Italian Bees in Langstroth 

 frames, straight pretty combs, with honey, in 

 DOUBLE-WALL OBSERVATORY HIVES; 



Been uscil two seasons with one-pound boxes, and 

 for extracting. Complete on board cars, for $8.00 

 per colony, or 5^14'. (ki for the lot. 



JA.1^T:S CRiLZG, 



16]7 18d .1IT. ITIEUIDI.IN, VA. 



MUTH'S 

 HONEY-EXTRACTOR, 



sqiiake: (;l.ass hokev-jaks, 



tin buckets, bee-hives, 



HONEY-SECTIONS, Arc, A;c. 



Apply to CH AS. F. MUTH, Cincinnati, O. 



P. S.— Send 10-ccnt stamp tor " Practical Hints to 



Bce-Keepers." Itfdb 



FULL COLONIES PURE^ITAUAN BEES 



.\ddress for sample workei-s, 

 18 Utcl S. F. HEED, North Dorchester, N. H. 



and hybrifl bees in 'i-story.'Sim- 

 plicity hi\es ipaintedi. One colony, Italian. S6.(X); 

 one colony of hybrids, ?5.(iO. Five or more colonies, 

 10' discount. I)eli\-ered at express office. Address 



18d A. B. JOHNSON, ElizitethtOTn, Bladen Co., M. C. 



SECOND-HAND FOOT-POWER SAWS. 



We have, subject to our order, two Barnes 

 foot-power l)U/,/,-saws, wlii(-h we ha\e taken from 

 parties whose business has enlarged so much that 

 they have no further use for them. They are all 

 nearly new, in goou oi-der, having all the latest im- 

 provements. We will sell them for one-fourth less 

 than the regular retail price; that is, we will sell a 

 .?40.00 saw for $30.00. 



A. I. ROOT, Itlodina, O. 



Queei\-Rearing. 



How to rear queens by the best and simplest 

 methods. For particulars address 

 letfdb HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 



keeper. I have had one season's 

 experience. Address Ij. C. DUNliAP, 

 18d NASHUA, IOWA. 



-rrr\"D ••• ^ a T xr one to fifty 



JrV/l\ • 0/\l^ll« COLONIES OF BEES. 



1T-I8d W. S. WASD, Fuller's Station, Altany Co., N. Y. 



DADANT'S FOUNDATION FACTORY, WHOLESALE andBBTAIL. 

 See advertisement in another column. 3btfd 



