1889 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



515 



Gleanings in Bee Culture. 



Published Semi- Monthly. 



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He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed 

 the eye, shall he not see?— Psalm 91 : 9. 



HONEY MARKET. 



By glancing at the honey market, tor a few num- 

 bers back, we observe that the old honey has been 

 nearly cleaned out, and that there is a demand for 

 new honey. After the old stuff has been all moved 

 off, we shall hope for better prices, even with a 

 good honey-flow. 



DZIEHZON. 



The following item, from the Revue Internation- 

 ale, of Nyon, Switzerland, will be of interest to our 

 readers: 



Dzierzon, born in 1811, is still living a retired life 

 in Brieg, Silesia, where he has been for several 

 years. The University of Munich has awarded him 

 the diploma of Doctor of Philosophy, as a reward 

 for his numerous scientific works, and for his theo- 

 ey in regard to parthenogenesis. 



the bush lima bean. 

 May be you think 1 have got over my enthusi- 

 asm; but I tell you, I have not. A good many 

 thousands of the Henderson bush lima beans are 

 now above ground; but, like the seed they sprang 

 from, the plants are so diminutive they look like 

 Lilliputian beans. Not so with the Kumerle. It 

 looks exactly like a good, strong, healthy lima bean. 

 It is true, it may climb poles, as friend Henderson 

 has suggested; but if they do undertake to climb 

 poles, our friend Thorburn had better climb a pole 

 too, or else some bushy tree, where he can get him- 

 self out of sight. 



extensive bee-keepers. 

 As we have said many times before, our space is 

 crowded ; but we always have lots of room— in fact, 

 we make it for bee-keepers of large experience, and 

 those who own colonies by the several hundreds. 

 We are constantly striving to make improvements 

 in various ways in Gleanings; and our latest ef- 

 fort is to secure articles from the most extensive 

 bee-keepers in the land, on live topics. We take 

 pleasure in the fact that we have added to our col- 

 umns such men as A. E. Manum, S. I. Freeborn, 

 and others. Those who are large bee-keepers, and, 

 as a matter of course, successful, can hardly fail to 

 give us some practical hints. 



ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS FROM THE A B C CLASS. 



It will be noticed elsewhere, that we have started 

 a department for the ABC class. Most of the 

 questions are asked by beginners. Some questions, 

 however, are asked by the veterans, and are answer- 

 ed in this department because they are not only of 

 general interest, but they are of vital interest to 

 beginners. Although our ABC book is very com- 

 prehensive, it can not, from tqe nature of top case, 



cover all things under all circumstances. It will be 

 observed, that the question itself is omitted, the 

 query being implied in the answer. We do this, 

 because it saves space, because almost all of the 

 answers imply the question, and hence the specific 

 wording of the question before would be not only 

 useless but unnecessary. 



THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA— A CORRECTION. 



Since our article on page 4415 of our last issue was 

 printed, concerning manufactured comb honey, as 

 published in the American Supplement of the En- 

 cyclopedia Britannica, we learn that the J. M. Stod- 

 dart Co., Limited, of Philadelphia, were not the pub- 

 lishers of the Supplement in question, containing the 

 slander on the bee-keeping industry. As Dr. Nyse- 

 wnnder, who furnished us the facts, did not give the 

 name of the publishers, we consulted an American 

 edition of the Brita>uiica, &nd found that the publish- 

 ers were the J. M. Stoddart Co., Limited, Philadel- 

 phia. Supposing them to be the only publishers of 

 the American edition, we concluded a little too 

 hastily that they were responsible for the false 

 statement. We here desire to publicly exonerate 

 them from all connection in the matter. We have 

 since learned that the publishers of the Supplement 

 are Messrs. Hubbard Bros., 723 Chestnut St., Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., and have written them. 



OUT-APIARIES AND MIGRATORY BEEKEEPING. 



We are glad to note the disposition on the part of 

 our correspondents to discuss the matter of out- 

 apiaries in all its bearings. There is more to be 

 developed in this line than we are perhaps aware. 

 Migratory beekeeping, a kindred department of 

 the industry, will doubtless receive more attention 

 in the future. This fact has been proven over and 

 over again; namely, that often a difference of two 

 or three miles makes a very decided difference in 

 the supply of nectar. H. R. Boardman, of East 

 Townsend, 0., says in some of his out-apiaries last 

 summer his bees were almost on the verge of starv- 

 ation; while two or three miles away, in another 

 apiary, bees were very busy storing surplus. Mi- 

 gratory bee-keeping means moving bees to and 

 catching any flow of honey which may suddenly 

 develop in any locality where there are but few 

 bees. Scale hives, located in several localities, with 

 some one to report immediately any favorable 

 change of the pointer, would keep the apiarist post- 

 ed. Who can give us some experience in this line? 

 Perhaps H. R. Boardman will favor us with an ar- 

 ticle on this subject. 



CHILLED AND FOUL BROOD ; HOW TO DISTINGUISH 

 ONE FROM THE OTHER. 



Within the last few days, during the damp cool 

 weather, a great deal of chilled and foul brood has 

 been reported, and we have had a good deal of the 

 former. Quite a number who have written to us in 

 regard to their discovery have come to the conclu- 

 sion rather hastily that they had the real foul brood, 

 when the reported symptoms showed that they had 

 only chilled brood. While foul brood is getting to be 

 more and more prevalent, we fear, in the country, 

 most of the alleged foul brood is only chilled, and, 

 of course, not infectious. Perhaps we should re- 

 mark right here, that chilled brood, in a great 

 many points, resembles the virulent form. The 

 former may be recognized by the following i A cold 

 spell of weather comes on; the bees contract the 

 cluster, inside of the outside limits of the brood, 



