1889 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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open a business that will compete success- 

 fully with that of shipping berries from the 

 South. 



Here is something from a friend, right in 

 a line with the abuve : 



A runner blossomed the last of August. In Sep- 

 tember, toward the last, it bore about eight or ten 

 good-sized berries. Perhaps you can start some 

 fall berries. Who knows, in these times? 



Wm. C. Holmes. 



Amity, Dekalb Co., Mo.. Sept. 27, 1S89. 



This reminds me that our friend Dan 

 White, of New London, Ohio, who raises 

 strawberries on a considerable scale, as well 

 as honey, informed me a short time ago that 

 he had several runners that put forth blos- 

 soms, and bore fruit in the fall. Now, will 

 our experiment stations or somebody else 

 tell us what is necessary to make the Jessie 

 do so every time V Who knows but that we 

 can have strawberries here in the fall 

 months as well as in California and Oregon ? 



TESTING NEW VARIETIES OF STRAWBER- 

 RIES AS THEY COME UP. 



A word in regard to new strawberries in 

 general. The Rural New-Yorker people say 

 they have been for years testing every new 

 variety that made its appearance. Some 

 seasons the new berries that claimed won- 

 derful things amounted to even 50 or 75 ; 

 but after years of patient testing they have 

 not a whole dozen worthy of being retained. 

 The probability is, that this work must 

 still be repeated for years to come. The 

 strawberries recommended ten years ago, 

 that are still under cultivation, are very few. 



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IS/dHEZDIIfcT-a-, 0<3 r T. 15, 1889. 



As the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden eaus- 

 eth the thing's that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord 

 God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before 

 all the nations.— Isa. 61: 11. 



THE OREGON EVERBEARING STRAWBERRY. 



A good many of the friends have complained of 

 the way in which the advertiser of these plants has 

 used them. By the way, I will explain that our 

 friend Seth Winquist is a boy of only 20 years of age; 

 and when our friends learn that, I believe they will 

 have a little more charity. You remember, that, 

 when he first sent out the advertisement, I suggest- 

 ed that the price was too low. Our young friend 

 soon found it out. Most of us, however, would have 

 filled orders, even at a considerable loss, until an- 

 other advertisement could appear, correcting the 

 price. Our young friend, however, thinking it al- 

 was s fair and honorable to return the money, chose 

 the latter plan; hut so many orders were sent him 

 that he was obliged to have printed circulars, pay 



all postage, and do all the corresponding, for noth- 

 ing. It was unfortunate for htm to put the price so 

 low to start with; but very likely as he grows in 

 years he will also grow in judgment and wisdom. 

 1 think we can excuse him, can we not, even if his 

 large advance in price does savor somewhat of 

 speculation? 



ANOTHER BEE-BOOK FROM GERMANY. 



We have just received from C. A. Schwetschke & 

 Son, of Brunswick, Germany, a book devoted en- 

 tirely to apicultural carpentry. The pages are 

 10 x V, printed on fine calendered paper. This first 

 number of the whole work contains 38 pictures of 

 hives and out-apiaries and honey-houses. First we 

 have, for instance, a most superb cut of the entire 

 house or hive, as the case may be, and then a front 

 sectional view, a side sectional view, and then the 

 ground plan. The cuts show every piece used in the 

 construction of the house, and its exact length, 

 breadth, and thickness; in fact, the cuts give a bet- 

 ter idea of the construction of the buildings than a 

 personal inspection could possibly do. The typo- 

 graphy of the book is of the very highest rank, and 

 the entire work only increases our admiration for 

 the scrupulous care and artistic eye of our German 

 friends. All bee-keepers who can read German will 

 find this work of great value, even in the construc- 

 tion of honey-houses of different shape from those 

 represented. The work sells at 25 cts. a number, 

 which is remarkably cheap. It is printed where 

 Gravenhorst's book was, in Brunswick. 



TOO MANY REMEDIES FOR FOUL BROOD. 



There are remedies for foul brood almost with- 

 out number. One claims that coffee is a sure cure; 

 another that coal oil is the remedy; still another be- 

 smears his affected combs with a solution of sul- 

 phur, and he avers, that, since then, he has had no 

 more trouble. The truth is, that, just as soon as 

 Brown finds out that there is something irregular 

 with the brood in one of his hives, he jumps at the 

 conclusion that he must have foul brood. He 

 straightway daubs the combs with a mixture of his 

 own "get up." Eureka! it's a success! He must 

 needs go and publish it in some bee-journal. Of 

 course, he did not stop to consider whether the lit- 

 tle irregularity in the brood would have got well 

 any way; much less, whether he had the real dis- 

 ease in the first place. There may be some reason 

 in using a remedy that is a well-known antiseptic 

 or a germicide; but when a foul-brood mixture is 

 neither, and has no science nor even common 

 sense to back it, it is the height of folly for yon to 

 fuss with it. It is well enough for scientists to ex- 

 periment with a remedy; but a beekeeper who 

 owns a hundred or even a less number of colonies 

 can not afford to ri6k his whole apiary. Don't try 

 any thing else than the starvation plan, or, in isolat- 

 ed cases, complete extermination. Iht se are svre. 



The above was written by Ernest. I heartily in- 

 dorse it; and 1 should say that the same system of 

 reasoning should be applied to remedies for dis- 

 eases that afflict the human family. 



GIVING IT TO THE EDITORS. 



One of our subscribers, Mr. J. M. Harris, seeing 

 the comb-honey business maligned in the usual way 

 in the shape of a clipping from Harper's Bazar, in 

 his own paper, the Cedartown Standard, after show- 

 ing the impossibility of the thing, called upon the 

 editor, and the result of it was that Mr. Harris 



