800 



GLeanIngS IK liEE OULTUUe. 



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colony on the scales that gathered 31 lbs. in one day, 

 and 148 lbs. in «9v«!n days, from English clover, and 

 my whol? apiary averajred 157 lbs. per colony, spring 

 count. I took 5 barrels of nearly pure red-clover 

 honey in June, from which I skimmed over 50 lbs. of 

 pollen with the Muth honey-knife. Every few days 

 1 would skim it again, and more would rise. 

 Marion, Ind., Oct. 26, 1885. B. T. Baldwin. 



Friend B., I should say that the sample 

 you send is clover honey .'without question, 

 and it may be from red clover ; still it is not 

 ripe enougch to bring a good price in the 

 market. If I were you I would let it be in 

 the hives until it is all ripened over, if it 

 does not get thicker than this. We have 

 been paying at the rate of 7 cts. per Ih for 

 good thick clover honey ; but I don't believe 

 we could sell honey like your sample, unless 

 it was ripened in some way to make it 

 thicker. Some of the friends who are used 

 to that kind of work can tell what the ex- 

 pense and loss in weight would be, better 

 than Ave can. 



for 6 ct^. is by making a great lot of them at once, 

 and you know we can not do this for odd sizes. 

 A friend just now sends us an order for four, to 

 hold dn odd-sized section. For such an order we 

 should have to charge about ten cents, and I doubt 

 if it would pay expenses, even then. 



Gleanincs in Bee Colture. 



Published Semi-^rontltlij. 



EDITOK AND PUBLISHEH, 

 MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: SI.OO PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Clntliing Bate:, See First Page of Beadic^ Uatter. 

 lvEE3Di:]tT.£C7"^^0^. 15, ISaS. 



He saved others; hihlself he can not save— Matt. 27:42. 



Our discount of 5 per cent on goods ordered now 

 for next season's use will be continued until Dec. 1. 

 Please mention it when you make an order. This 

 is in addition to all other discounts. 



PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BEE- 

 KEEPERS' CONGRESS. TAKEN AT NEW ORLEANS. 



We have not as yet been able to obtain the names 

 of all shown in the picture; but the fact that it con- 

 tains good photographs of the noted bee-keepers 

 enumerated on page 599 of our September number, 

 ought to make it worth a dollar to any one conver- 

 sant with the bee literature of the past ten years. 

 We can mail it at the above price. 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLES. 



One of our subscribers sends us a new circular 

 from Mrs. Cotton, in regard to her pure-blood Ital- 

 ian bees at $20.00 a colony, and the same old story in 

 regard to her book with drawings, illustrations, etc., 

 for *4.00. He adds, as a postscript, at the bottom of 

 the circular, the following: 



She caught me once— can't catch me again, 



Blackslone, Mass., Nov. 10, 1885. 



Hervi 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON S 6-CENT SHIPPING-CASE. 



SO.ME of the friends seem to have got the opinion 

 that these cases could be made to order to hold any 

 size of section, for the above very low price, but 

 this is impossible. The only way they can be made 



STANLEY'S AUTOM.^TIC HONEY-EXTRACTOR. 



Our friends will notice that the reports we called 

 for in regard to these machines have all been re- 

 markably favorable; and judging from the machine 

 submitted to us for inspection, I should say that G. 

 W. Stanley & Bro., of Wyoming, N. Y., have the best 

 machine for reversing the combs by simply revers- 

 ing the motion, that has ever been brought before 

 the public. They make them for reversing frames 

 from two in number up to ten, and the price is from 

 §12.00 to §.58.00, according to the size and number of 

 frames. They furnish circulars on application. 



AVIRED combs; THEIR ADVANTAGES. 



After the mishap mentioned on our first page, it 

 was found that not a comb had been broken from 

 the frames in any of the six hives; but had these 

 combs not been wired, the damage would have been 

 fearful. The shock was so great that some of the 

 sticks composing the frames were broken ; hut these 

 can be replaced with but little trouble. The wires 

 held the combs together, so that but little if any 

 honey was started to running. Some bees were 

 mashed, but no queens were killed. The accident 

 was caused by a slip of the foot of the driver, who 

 was unloading manure. It had been raining a lit- 

 tle, and the bed of the wagon-box was — well, you 

 know how. When she started he grasped for the 

 lines, but his foot slipped, and — remember the 

 moral. 



advance in cut NAILS. 



A GREAT many goods are a good deal lower once 

 more, as you will see by our new price list, .50th edi- 

 tion, sent on application. The Amei-ican watch, 

 that has been so many years SIO.OO, is now f 9.00, and 

 better made than ever before— incased in 2'2-ounce 

 coin-silver case, manufactured by the American 

 Watch Co. themselves. While so many things are 

 down, nails are having a boom upward, caused by 

 strikes among the nail - makers. Instead of the 

 prices in our list, read— M nails, 5 cts.; Cd common 

 nails, 5!4 cts.; td casing, fi cts.; 4(? common nails, 6 

 cts.; id casing, 6'i cts.; 2d fine, 9 cts. Prices by the 

 whole keg of 100 lbs., a little lower. No advance on 

 wire nails at present writing. 



bees and grapes. 

 Although the suit concerningthebeesand sheep 

 has terminated so happily, not so with the Califor- 

 nia suit by one of the grape-growers. The jury 

 gave a verdict against the bee-keeper for i?75.00 and 

 cosls of suit, which amounted to over $60.00. Now, 

 it is my opinion, as perhaps many of you know, that 

 bees are sometimes annoying to grape growers, 

 even if they do not puncture sound grapes; but 

 whether the annoyance is sufficient to warrant 

 grape growers in commencing prosecution in gen- 

 eral against bee-keepers, we presume will have to 

 be determined by the courts. At any rate, we bee- 

 keepers ought to be fairly represented in the mat- 

 ter. To that end, I would advise all, who have not 

 already done so, to send their one dollar to the ed- 

 itor of the A. B. J., that they may become members 

 of the Bee-keepers' Union. For further particulars, 

 see A. B. J. for Nov. 11. 



