1889 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Ill 



Contents of this Number. 



ABC Scholar 62 Years Old. 123 



Amateur Expert. 124 



Beans. Bush Lima 119 



Bees Working in January. .139 

 Bees from Imported Stock. .135 

 Bees Losing Sting. . . (Q. B.) .138 



Bees and Berries 130 



Bee-trees, To Find 133 



Bees, Honest 131 



Bees. When toRemove(Q.B.)137 



Blackboards in Apiary 128 



Brood-rearing (Q.B.).13? 



Cans, To Clean 139 



Carbolic Acid vs. Smoke 139 



Caves, Temperature of 116 



Chapman Honey-plant 134 



Clover, White 133 



Colonies, Strengthening — 136 



Comb, Building of 132 



Corn Salad 121 



Cucumber, Wild 141 



Currecanti's Needle 146 



Cyclone of Jan. 9 133 



Dandelions under Glass 117 



Editorials 147 



Exchange Department 126 



Feeding in Cellar 132 



Fertile Workers, To Tell. . . .134 



Foul-brood Inspector 131 



Foundation, To Fasten 131 



Frames Filled with Brood.. 116 

 Frames, Number Needed. . ..139 



Gardening in February 117 



Heads of Grain 131 



Hives, Direction to Face 139 



Hives, Shading 133 



! Honey, California 131 



Honey, 9 Tons 130 



| Honey, To Sell 114 



Honey-jumbles 139 



I Hot-beds, To Make 120 



House-apiaries 136 



| Italians. Changing t<> 136 



i Japanese Buckwheat 121 



I Lettuce, Grand Kapids 118 



Manzani ta 132 



Melon-boxes 119 



Niman's Exhibit 122 



Notes and Queries 139 



Out-apiaries 113,134 



Porcupine Hens 128 



Potatoes, Sweet 120 



Press Strainer 130 



Quantity vs. Quality 126 



Queens in Shipment 133 



Question 102 127 



Ramble No. 10, Continued.. 128 



Reports Discouraging 139 



Roaring in Winter 132 



Saws, Setting 136 



Sections, One-piece 121 



Sections, Size of 129 



Shoes. A pair of Old 142 



Sweet Potatoes 120 



! Tarantulas 123 



Tobacco Column 142 



Trees for Timber and Ho'y. 133 



Vinegar, Honey 135 



Water in Cellar 116 



Wintering in the Cellar 115 



Wants or Exchange Department. 



Notices will be inserted under this head at one-half our 

 usual rates. All ad's intended for this department must not 

 exceed 5 lines, and you must sat you want your ad. in this de- 

 partment, or we will not be responsible for any error. You 

 can have the notice as many lines as you please; but all over 

 five lines will cost you according to our regular rates. This 

 department is intended only for bona-fide exchanges. Ex- 

 changes for cash or for price lists, or notices offering articles 

 for sale can not be inserted under this head. For such our reg- 

 ular rates of 20 cts. a line will be charged, and they will be put 

 with the regular advertisements. 



WANTED.— To exchange for extracted honey, a 

 10 h. p. horizontal engine, worth $200. I will 

 give somebody a rare bargain. Speak quick. 

 15tfdb C. H. Smith, Pittsfield, Mass. 



WANTED.— To exchange one of Livingston's farm 

 feed, or grist mills, for hand or power, as good 

 as new, for Barnes foot-power saw. 2-3-4d 



H. L. Fisher, Milford, Kos. Co., Ind. 



WANTED.— To exchange 350 colonies of bees, for 

 horses, mules, wagons, buggies, and 4 h. p. en- 

 gine, or any thing useful on a plantation. 

 21tfdb Anthony Opp, Helena, Phillips Co., Ark. 



WANTED.— To exchange pure Brown Leghorn 

 eggs and cockerels (Todd strain) for any thing 

 useful. Write first. A. F. Bright, 



3tfdb Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minn. 



WANTED.— Two students for the coming season. 

 Geo. E. Hilton, Fremont, Mich. 4-5d 



WANTED— To exchange Turner raspberry- 

 plant, for improved poultry eggs or bee-sup- 

 plies, or fine pig. G. F. Tyler, 

 3-4d Honey Grove, Fannin Co., Tex. 



WANTED.— To exchange a new 8x12 self-inking 

 Monumental press, with a lot of type, cases, 

 etc.; one 240-egg self-regulating incubator; one 

 Monarch brooder, for 200 chicks; one brooder for 

 100 chicks, for 2 or 3 H. P. boiler and engine, section 

 machine, cigar-box planer, honey, alsike clover 

 seed, or offers. J. T. Fletcher, 



3-4d Clarion, Clarion Co., Pa. 



WANTED.— To exchange a lot of Turner aud 

 Crimson Beauty raspberry-plants for other 

 nursery stock, Italian queens, sections, eggs for 

 hatching, etc. Write first. E. R, Miller, 



3-4d Garden City, Cass Co., Mo. 



WANTED.— To exchange one well-drill, good as 

 new, made in Aurora, 111., cost $450; will value 

 at $200, and exchange for bees or any kind of bee- 

 Supplies. This is a rare bargain. Address 3-4d 



S. Ray Holbert, Watson, Marion Co., W. Ya. 



WANTED.— To exchange a Webster's Unabridged 

 Dictionary for extracted honey or bees, with 

 some one not too far distant. John A. Geeting, 

 4d McKeesport, Pa. 



WANTED.— You to send for my new price list of 

 Imported and American Italian queens. Can 

 ship as early as the earliest. R. H. Campbell, 

 3tfdb Madison, Morgan Co., Ga. 



ANTED— You to send for my illustrated Price 

 List of supplies; Bees, Queens, etc. 4-5d 



Geo. E. Hilton, Fremont, Mich. 



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WANTED.— To exchange 160acresof fine land near 

 Watertown, Dakota, for property in some good 

 location for bee-keeping, or would take stock if not 

 too far from here, or an apiary, in part payment, or 

 offers. J. L. Cole, 



3-4d Carlton Center, Barry Co., Mich. 



WANTED.— To exchange for honey or offers, 

 about 25 colonies of Italian bees, in new, mova- 

 ble-frame hives, frames 9%xl2% inside measure; 

 8 frames to the hive; also one second-hand Barnes 

 foot-power combined saw. 



Chas. Dorfman, Pittsburg, Tex. 



WANTED.— To exchange one American Incuba- 

 tor, 250-egg capacity, about 50 nuclei, 2, 3, and 

 4 frame. 20 cts. each, about 50 Simplicity hives, 10 

 frame, $1.00 each, for horse-power, corn-grinder, or 

 any thing useful to a farmer. Geo. W. Baker, 

 4-5d Milton, Wayne Co., Ind. 



WANTED.— To exchange, house and lot with 

 grapevine apiary of 50 colonies Italio-Carnio- 

 lans. Good location, and a good property, at a bar- 

 gain. Also want to buy or rent an apiary in grood 

 location. Jno. C. Capehart, St. Albans, W. Va. 



WANTED.— To exchange one Jones wax-extract- 

 or, 275 side-opening sections, 375 %-lb. sections, 

 500 separators for Heddon case, 20 Simplicity hives, 

 one Lamb knitting-machine, 50 Jones honey-cans, 5 

 lb. ; 200 Concord grapevines, for 20 to 24 inch circu- 

 lar saw, type-writer, bicycle, camera, bees, or sup- 

 plies. J. A. Green, Dayton, LaSalle Co., 111. 4d 



WANTED.— To exchange Italian bees for timber 

 or a " Springfield roadster." L. Heine. 

 3tfdv Bellmore, Queens Co., N. Y. 



WANTED.— Bee-keepers in Missouri, Kansas, Ne- 

 braska, and Arkansas to learn something of 

 value by addressing Rev. E. T. Abbott, St. Joe, Mo. 

 4-5 



WANTED! Bee-Help. Will engage on favorable 

 terms two young men, desirous of learning 

 practical apiculture. None but strictly temperate 

 need apply. S. I. Freeborn, 



4-7d Ithaca, Wis. 



WANTED.— Correspondence with parties having 

 Japanese buckwheat to sell, or exchange for 

 supplies. Jos. Nysewander, Des Moines, la. 4d 



WANTED.— Situation in an apiary for the season 

 of 1889, from 6 months to a term of years. 

 4-5d S. W. White, Liberty, Clay Co., Mo. 



WANTED.— To exchange one cutter-head, one 

 dovetailing mandrel with saws, one six-inch 

 rubber-belt, 30 ft. long; 50 ft. of three-inch rubber- 

 belting, all as good as new, for bees or bee-keepers' 

 supplies; also one six-inch Pelham fdn. mill, itfdb 

 Thomas Gedye, Kangley. LaSalle Co., 111. 



WANTED.— To sell or exchange, Italian bees and 

 queens, and supplies. Address 



Otto Kleinow, 

 No. 150 Military Ave., Detroit, Mich. 



1889. Italian Queens. 1889. 



For $l.QO From Jan. till June. 



2-4-6d N. Adams, Sorrento, Lake Co., Fla. 



FAR <\AI F In WInter Fark, Fla., 5-acre 

 run OnLLi Orange-groves. Circular free. 

 4d Address J. B. La Montagne, Orlando, Fla. 



DADANT'S FOUNDATION FACTOR?, WHOLE- 

 SALE AND RETAIL. Sep advertisement in 

 another column. 3btfd 



