1889 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



727 



Contents of this Number. 



Apiary, Piatt's 739 



Averages 7IS8 



Bee-escape, The Reese 785 



Bees by Mail 758 



Bees for Honey (Q. B.i.746 



Her-, Tearing Starters 742 



Blacks on Buckwheat 742 



Carniolans, Temper of 740 



Cell-protector. Do., lit tie's. ..751 



Cloths. Enanieleil 743 



Clover-bloat Remedy 744 



C>m1>s, Double-decked 741 



Cuban Hives 737 



Editorials 756 



Foul Brood, To Cure 738 



Gardening In September 755 



Heads of Grain 742 



Honey, Artificial 757 



Honey, Poison, in New Z'd.743 



Honey-dew 744 



Hybrids (Q. B.1.745 



i ncrease, Artificial 733 



Minorcans 755 



Non-swarmers 732 



Our Own Apiary 753 



Out-apiaries 731 



Pollen, Surplus 744 



Queen-excluders 741 



Queen-rearing, New 733 



Scale-hive Record 741 



Sections Built Out 740 



Tobacco, Evils of 744 



Tomato Seed. Saving 750 



Ventura Co. Crop 734 



Vermont Letter 734 



Weather in California 744 



Wolves anil Bears 744 



World's Fair. 1892 743 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The next meeting of the Fayette Co., Ohio, Bee-keepers' As- 

 sociation will be held at the residence of Mr. Joseph Bonham, 

 Washington C. H., O., on Wednesday, Oct. 2. 188y, at 10 o'clock. 



S. R. Morris, Sec'y. 



The annual meeting and basket picnic of the Progressive 

 Bee-keepers' Association will be held at the residence of Mr. F. 

 E. Dutton, near South Newbury, Geauga Co., O., on Thursday. 

 Oct. 3, 1889. All interested are invited to attend. 



Bedford. 0., Sept. 10. Miss Dema Bennett, Sec'y. 



The American International Bee-keepers' Association will 

 meet in the Court-house. Brantford, Canada, Dee. 4, 5. 6. 1889. 

 All bee-keepers are invited to attend. State and district bee- 

 keepers' societies are invited to appoint delegates to the con- 

 vention. Full particulars id' the meeting will be given in due 

 time. Any one desirous of becoming a member, and receiving 

 the last annual report, bound, may do so by forwarding $1.00 to 

 the secretary. R. F. Holtermann, Sec'y. 



Brantford, Ont., Can. 



The Northwestern Bee-keepers' Society will hold its annual 

 convention at the Commercial Hotel, corner of Lake and Dear- 

 born Sts., Chicago, on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 11 and 12. at 9 

 A.M. Arrangements have been made with the hotel for back 

 room, one bed, two persons, $1 75 per day, each ; front room, $2 

 per day, each person. This date occurs during the exposition, 

 when excursion rates on the railroads will be one fare for the 

 round trip, good from Oct. 10 to 14. inclusive. There has been 

 a fair crop of honey in the West, and an old-time crowd may 

 be expected at this revival of the Northwestern from its " hi- 

 bernation." W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec'y. 



Black and Hybrid Queens For Sale. 



Fifteen choice untested Italian queens, at 35 cts. 

 each, or four for $1.10 



G. H. Denman, Pittsford, Mich. 



Four very prolific hybrid queens, two of them 

 nearly pure Italians, at 30c each, or all four for $1. 

 Frank Moore, Frost, Ky. 



BEE-KEEPERS and FBIIT-GROWBKS, 



Send for mv price list of 



BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES AND STRAWBERRY - PLANTS. 



Twentv-tive varieties to select from. 



Address F.W.LAMM, 



BOX 106, SOMEKVILLE, - - BUTLER CO., OHIO. 



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Writing and Pencil Tablets. 



We have secured a bargain in these, and propose 

 to give you the benefit of it. We have thirteen dif- 

 ferent styles, of which we give size, number of 

 leaves, name, and price, in the following table. You 

 can write with a pen on any of the tablets, although 

 most of them are designed for penciling. 



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Our Pets Ruled Pencil Tablet. 

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Ideal Unruled Pencil tablet 

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Student's Note-Book 



America Writing Tablet 



No. 86 Writing Tabid 



No. 65 linen Writing: Tablet. 



In case we get out of any one style we reserve 

 the right to substitute one as near like it as possi- 

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 "America" has lithographic views of several cele- 

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A. I. ROOT, Medina, O. 



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 at $1 a year— the oldest, largest and 

 cheapest Weekly bee-paper. Address 

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BURNED OUT! 



My bee-hive and section factory was burned to 

 the ground Aug. 13. All orders sent will be filled 

 as before. I will not rebuild, but buy and sell. 



W. D. SOPER, Jackson, Mich. 



Cash for Beeswax! 



Will pay 21c per lb. cash, or 24c in trade for any 

 quantity of good, fair, average beeswax, delivered 

 at our R. R. station. The same will be sold to those 

 who wish to purchase, at 30c per lb., or 33c for hest 

 selected wax. 



Unless you put your name on the box, and notify 

 us by mail of amount sent, I can not hold myself 

 responsible for mistakes. It will not pay as a gen- 

 eral thing to send wax by express. 



A. T. ROOT. Medina. Ohio. 



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