GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



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Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



Published Semi- Monthly . 



JL.. X. BOOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



ZMZEDia^r-a., ohio. 



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For Glutting Sates, See First Page of Beading Matter. 



IMIEIDIILT^, AFB. 1, 1889. 



Ami 1 will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord; 

 and they shall he my people, and 1 will be their God; for they 

 shall return unto me with their whole heart.— Jer. 24: 7. 



THE DOVETAILED HIVE. 



The new dovetailed hive seems to be taking- well, 

 for orders are beginning - to pour in for it at a good 

 rate. At the solicitation of some practical bee- 

 keepers we have made the Dovetailed T super with 

 thick ends, thus throwing out the objectionable 

 loose boards to take up the waste space in the end. 

 The section-holder super is also made deep enough 

 to leave a full bee-space above the sections. W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, whose advice we have sought, says, in 

 a private note, " With the changes you have made 

 the hive is well nigh faultless." He prefers the new 

 Heddon hive, but next to it he says stands the 

 Dovetailed hive as we now make it. We are now 

 making some new engravings to illustrate it as 

 modified, and will give illustrations and further 

 particulars in our next. 



Many questions come in to this effect: " Will the 

 Dovetailed hive take the Simplicity frame, and will 

 it take the Mi-depth wide frame?" It will take the 

 Simplicity or Langstrotb, to be sure; but the supers 

 will not take the half-depth wide frames. We can 

 make them deeper to take the half-depth wide 

 frames if desired, but we shall have to charge some 

 more. 



MORE ABOUT SWEET-POTATO-PLANTS. 



I hope the friends will not complain because we 

 have made this so much a sweet-potato number. 

 The principles that are taught by the many letters 

 apply not only to raising and starting plants of any 

 description, but they are valuable to anybody who 

 is interested in or who has any thing to do with the 

 garden or with agriculture; and I want to give you 

 two more letters that are furnished by R. M. Rey- 

 nolds, of East Springfield, O. The following was 

 from Waldo F. Brown, in the Ohio Farmer, some 

 years ago : 



The great danger in sprouting is, that you get them too hot 

 and scald the potatoes. I lost a large part of my potatoes tor 

 several years from this cause. ... I found, finally, that, 

 when my bed had just the right degree of heat, a thick cover- 

 ing of straw cir corn-fodder would keep an even temperature, 

 so that it would not be chilled by cold nights, nor scalded by 

 the hot sun; and since I adopted this plan I have had little 

 trouble in sprouting snwi potatoes. Leave the bed open in 

 the middle of the day until it feels warm, and then cover 

 closely, and it is probable that your bed will need no more at- 

 tention until the plants begin to come through. . . . As thi' 

 straw will prevent evaporation, the bed will not need water- 

 ing until the sprouts appear, when it should be kept well wa- 

 tered until they are nearly large enough to set out. I think it 

 hardens the plants at this stage to let them get pretty dry. 

 but the bed should be thoroughly watered a few hours before 

 the plants are drawn. 



And here is another, from Alfred Rose, of Yates 

 Co., N. Y.: 



The potatoes should be covered with three inches of 

 line dry sand (sand is much preferable to loam, as it is 

 warmer and cleaner) ; then' will be a difference of a full 

 week or ten days between beds covered with sand or loam. 

 those covered with sand coming the earliest, After the sand, 

 then cover with as tine dry straw or hay as can be procured, 

 then the beds should be covered with boards in such a manner 

 as to shed rain. 



THORBURN'S BUSH LIMA BEANS, ETC. 



On page 209 of our last issue, I told you I had 

 written to Thorburn, asking him how many pack- 

 ets he had that he would let us have at 25 cts. each. 

 His reply was, that he was sold out. I then wrote 

 that we must have just a few, no matter what they 

 cost, to which he has made no reply. If no reader 

 of Gleanings can help us, I shall put an advertise- 

 ment in Popular Gardening and in American Garden : 

 and I feel sure that I can in some way strike one of 

 Thorburn's customers. I am going to offer their 

 weight in gold for a few of them, if I can not get 

 them otherwise. All I can find out about them is 

 given on page 209, March 1st. A bush lima beau 

 has been hunted up away out in Minnesota (adver- 

 tised by Northrup, Broslin, Goodwin & Co.. Minne- 

 apolis), but they are of a deep creamy yellow color, 

 and but little larger than Henderson's. 



We have at this date, 8544 subscribers. 



jSPEd/m pi0¥iCEg. 



THE IGNOTUM TOMATO. 



If any subscriber has omitted to ask for his to- 

 mato seed, or if any one has failed to receive his 

 package, make application at once and it will be 

 mailed to you. 



COLD-FRAME CABBAGE-PLANTS. 



With the aid of our new cold greenhouse, we have 

 secured a splendid lot of H. A. March's cold-frame 

 Jersey Wakefield cabbage-plants. Price 10 cts. for 

 10; 80 cts. per 100; $6 00 per 1000. If wanted by mail, 

 add 5 cts. for 10, or 25 cts. for 100. 



CLF.OME INTEGRIFOLIA, OR ROCKY-MOUNTAIN BEE- 

 PLANT— SEED WANTED. 



Since Samuel Wilson's advertisement of this Cal- 

 ifornia honey-plant, notwithstanding our caution- 

 see page 148. a demand for the seed has sprung up 

 that has exhausted our supply. Now, then, if any 

 of the bee-friends in California or elsewhere have 

 some seed to spare, we should be glad to get it. 

 Please mail us a sample, and tell us how much you 

 have and what you want for it. My impression is, 

 that the demand will be short-lived. By the way, 

 we should be very glad indeed to get reports from 

 those who have tried the plant. 



SEED POTATOES. 



Our seed potatoes have wintered nicely, and are 

 not sprouted a particle at the present writing. Ear- 

 ly Ohio, Early Pearl, Lee's Favorite, and Empire 

 State, we offer at 75 cts. per bushel, or $2.00 for a 

 barrel of three bushels. Beauty of Hebron, and 

 Burbank, we offer at 50 cts. per bushel, or $1.25 for 

 a barrel of three bushels. In ordering potatoes we 

 will pack them in our new slatted potato-box for 10 

 cts. per bushel extra. The potato-box, you know, is 

 worth 16 cts.; but we make the above deduction be- 

 cause it saves providing some other package. The 

 box will be worth 10 cts. to almost anybody. Where 

 you are so far away that express and freight 

 charges are quite an item, we will send potato-eyes, 

 postpaid by mail, at 10c for 10; 80c per 100, or $0.00 

 per 1000, of any of the above varieties. 



PRICE LISTS RECEIVED. 



Since our last issue we have received price lists of queens, 

 bees. and apiarian supplies in general, from the following par 

 ties, who will be glad to furnish them to applicants. Those 

 marked with a star (*) also deal in line poultry. 



A. E. Hanum, Bristol, vi. 



J. M. Hvne. Bte warts ville, lnd. (closing out h i^ stock). 



J. A. Nelson. JIuncie, Wyandotte Co., Kansas. 



c i. Hoo-v it A ( !o.. Snvdertown, Northumberland Co.. Pa. 



w. p. Beacti, Ovid, Clinton Co., Mich. 



J. ('. Sayles. Hartford, Washington Co.. Wis. 



Ransom & Culver. Quincy. .Mich. 



Wakeman & Crocker, Lockport, N. V. (section-formers only). 



