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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 



be better adapted for the majority of bee- 

 keepers, I see more of their merits than 

 ever before. I mean to try his plan of win- 

 tering this year, and shall try it alongside of 

 the chaff hives for comparison of results. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



Published Semi-Monthly. 



-&.. I. ROOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDIlsTA, OHIO. 



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TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 

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For Glutting Bates, See First Page of Reading Matter. 



fowls. Altogether we think the change is an im- 

 provement, and we trust that the added subscrip- 

 tions from poultry-fanciers will more than pay for 

 the extra expense of getting out the journal. Suc- 

 cess to you, brother Jones, in your new venture. 



n^zEDDiiisr^, j^ljl.it i, less. 



Henceforth I call you not servants; tor the servant know- 

 eth not what his lord doeth: but 1 have railed you friends; 

 for all things that 1 have heard of my Father (have made 

 known unto you. — John 15: 15. 



GIVING THE PLACE OF PUBLICATION. 



Several of our correspondents, in sending us 

 clippings from other papers in regard to the alleged 

 adulteration of honey, have failed to give us the 

 address and the date of the papers copying such 

 extracts. We are glad to have these clippings sent 

 in to us, but we can not do very much unless we 

 know the address and the date of the paper. 



THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD. 



I will give their weight in gold for an ounce 

 of Kumerle's lima beans, such as were advertised 

 and sold by J. B. Thorburn & Co. They must be in 

 Thorburn's envelopes, or I must have satisfactory 

 proof that they are exactly the same that Thorburn 

 sold. I purchased one package before his supply 

 was exhausted, so I think I am prepared to know 

 the genuine when I see it. 



200 TONS OF HONEY SOLD. 



Commission firms in California handle a great 

 deal of honey. One of them, Messrs. Lacy, BaiJa- 

 hache & Co., of San Diego, Cal., write us that they 

 shipped, during 1887 and 1888, over 200 tons of honey ; 

 but as the two years preceding were poor ones 

 their sales are usually much larger. They are mak- 

 ing an effort to get bee-keepers to adopt the one- 

 pound section, as they say the demand is strongly 

 in favor of that size. 



ISRAEL'S POEM— SEE PAGE 2. r )4. 



By an error of the compositor in the misplace- 

 ment of the pages, some of the lines of the poem 

 entitled ''The Starving Colony " were a little out of 

 their regular order. To get the connection right, 

 read the first ten lines; skip eight lines; read eight 

 lines more, then go back aDd read the eight lines 

 skipped. We say this in justice to Mr. Israel. Our 

 more critical readers may have noticed the appar- 

 ent disconneciion. 



THE CANADIAN HEE JOURNAL AND POULTRY 

 WEEKLY. 



Vol. V. No. 5 of the Canadian Bee Journal has 

 shed its tinted cover, and added in its stead eight 

 extra pages. Half of the journal is devoted to bees, 

 and the other half to poultry— the latter depart- 

 ment being edited by W C. Peter, an extensive 

 breeder, and authority on all matters pertaining to 



DOVETAILED HIVES POPULAR. 



The new hive seems to be filling a "long-felt 

 want," as the fellow said. Orders for tens and 

 twenties are coming in at a rapid rate; and it is 

 really surprising what a wonderful demand has 

 sprung up in the short time they have been adver- 

 tised. Messrs. Schlichter Bros. & Co., of Burnside, 

 Lapeer Co., Mich., have ordered 300 No. 2 Dovetailed 

 hives in one order. We have already used up one 

 carload of lumber for these hives alone, and have 

 ordered another. This hive, it should be remember- 

 ed, is not a new thing, but an old one that has been 

 in use by practical bee-keepers for a good many 

 years. The times being ripe, it has met with a 

 hearty reception. 



SWEET-POTATO PLANTS RAISED ACCORDING TO A 

 "MULTITUDE OF COUNSELORS." 



Well, friends, our bed is just splendid. It was 

 built exactly according to directions; and as we did 

 not have spare sash it has had no covering so far, 

 except shutters; but as there have been several 

 cold stormy days, rendering it necessary to keep 

 the shutters on, the plants were getting too white 

 to suit me; therefore we borrowed some sash from 

 one of the greenhouses, and under the influence of 

 more light they began to be more healthy looking. 

 Very likely, however, shutters would have an- 

 swered every purpose had the plants been started 

 a little later ; and, in fact, we now have plants 

 big enough to set out, while it would hardly be safe 

 to put them in the open ground for at least a couple 

 of weeks yet; therefore I think that, in our locality, 

 there is no very particular need of having any glass 

 at all to raise good sweet-potato plants. 



WHO IS TO HAVE A PACKAGE OF HENDERSON'S 

 BUSH LIMA BEANS FREE? 



Well, in the first place I said that any subscriber 

 who sent us one new name; then I said that, if it 

 were too much trouble, send us a dollar for another 

 year, after your subscription was out. Pretty soon 

 the subscription clerk informed me that people 

 were asking for lima beans, just because they sent 

 a dollar to pay up or to renew. And then quite a 

 few asked for the lima beans who did not pay up at 

 all; therefore I think we shall have to put it this 

 way: The lima beans are for those who send us the 

 name of a new subscriber. If you can not get a 

 new name handy, pay up all you are owing on 

 Gleanings, and send us a dollar for a year ahead. 

 If you have already paid up till next January, then 

 send us a dollar now for Gleanings for 1889; or 

 send us 25 cts. for one packet, or $1.00 for five pack- 

 ets, or $2.00 for a dozen. 



CALIFORNIA HONEY. 



Our friend J. F. Mclntyre sends us the following 

 note, accompanied by the three samples of the 

 honey he mentions: 



Mr. ROOT: I send you a little block containing three sam- 

 ples of honey. The darkest is fresh ttlaree honey. If I have 

 not forgotten the flavor of suit maple, it tastes a little like it, 

 and it takes the place of soft maple here. The clearest sample 

 i^ sage honey evaporated in the bip tank, and represents one 

 grade of last season's crop. The other was evaporated by the 

 Bees. J. F. McIntyre. 



Fillmore, Cal., April 15, 1889. 



The darkest, or fllaree honey, was very fair. The 

 flavor of the clearest sample of sage honey— that 



