1889 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



835 



Contents of this Number. 



Alfalfa 844 



Aphidie 847 



Asters 860 



Bees Biting Plants 858 



Bees Outdoors 859 



Bees, Cost of Moving 848 



Bees, Getting- out of Sect's. 860 



Bees, Speed of 846 



Bees, Why They Die 861 



Bee-escape, Reese 857 



Bee-tent, Miller's 838 



Brantf ord or Buffalo ? 845 



( tentipede, Poison of 853 



China. Bees of 853 



Church Hive 861 



Colony Too Large 860 



Convention in Chicago... .865 



Demons, Chinese 853 



Doolittle's Report 839 



Dooryards for Bees 838 



Drone Foundation . (Q. B.) .862 



Editorial 871 



Extractors, Reversible 840 



Fairs 849, 850 



Flying, How Done 853 



Grampus, Illustrated. . .849, 856 

 Greenhouses— All About 866 



Hatchery, Manum's 845 



Heads of Grain 859 



Honey, Peculiar 858 



Honey, To Fumigate 857 



Honey, To Market 866 



Hoven, or Clover Bloat 846 



Idyll 860 



Introducing at Once 854 



Japanese Buckwheat 861 



Kiln-dried Seed 846 



Mating of Queens 855. 861 



Out-apiaries 837 



Overstocking 866 



Poultry. To Feed 860 



Prices, Cutting 852 



Pump, To Doctor 859 



Queens, Color of 859 



Reports Encouraging 861 



Robber-cloths 857 



Scorpion, Whip 849, 856 



Sections Unfinished 866 



Snakes, Glass 842. 843 



Snakes of the South 851 



Swarming, Prevention of. 865 



Top-bars, Width of 866 



Van Deusen Corner 852 



Zinc Excluders 866 



Wants or Exchange Department. 



Notices will be inserted under this head at one-half onr 

 usual rates. All ad's intended for this department must not 

 exceed 5 lines, and you must sat you want your ad. In this de- 

 partment, or we will not be responsible for any error. You 

 can have the notice as many lines as you please; but all over 

 five lines will cost you according to our regular rates. This 

 department is intended only for bona-fide exchanges. Ex- 

 changes for cash or for price lists, or notices offering articles 

 for sale can not be inserted under this head. For such our reg- 

 ular rates of 20 cts. a line will be charged, and they will be put 

 with the regular advertisements. 



WANTED.— To exchange honey for beeswax. We 

 will take beeswax in exchange for honey in any 

 quantity. Will give three pounds for one. Write for 

 particulars. Chas. Dadant & Son, 



18tfdb Hamilton, Hancock Co., 111. 



WANTED.— To exchange improved Hammonton 

 Incubator, capacity 240 eggs, new, for honey or 

 offers. A bargain. Finis A. Wootton, 



20-21d Skilesville, Muhlenberg Co., Ky. 



WANTED.— To exchange Books, Pamphlets. Pa- 

 pers, and other articles, new and 2d hand, for 

 what I need in Office, Shop, or Apiary. 21d 



Christian Weckesser, Marshallville, Ohio. 



TO Exchange. Free Religious Reading-Matter for 

 your address. Address Box 1516, 

 21d Fresno City, Cal. 



WANTED.— To exchange Shakespeare for Miller's 

 Year Among the Bees, or Newman's Bees and 

 Honey. I also want one Hand-Wheel and one Speed 

 Wheel similar to cut in A B C, page 153. 21d 



G. W. McGuire, Dark Ridge, Watauga Co., N. C. 



W 



ANTED.— To sell or exchange, 20-inch Gem pla- 

 ner. Has been used very little. 21d 

 M. H. Hunt, Bell Branch, Mich. 



WANTED.— Help in a large apiary. Also an apia- 

 rist to take charere of an apiary. Address 

 21d E. Y. Terral, Cameron, Tex. 



WANTED.— To sell my hive-factory and bees, or 

 one to take charge of the business. A good 

 chance for one understanding the business. For 

 further information write to 



P. L. Viali.on, Bayou Goula, La. 



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The Canadian Bee Journal and Poultry Weekly is 

 the best paper extant devoted to these specialties. 

 24 pages, WEEKLY, at $1.00 per year. Live, prac- 

 tical, interesting. Nothing stale in its columns. 

 Specimen copies free. Subscribers paying in ad- 

 vance are entitled to two insertions of a five-line 

 adv't (40 words) in the Exchange and Mart column. 

 TEE S. A. JONES CO., BEETON, ONTARIO, CAN. 



TAKE NOTICE ! 



BEFORE placing your Orders for SUPPLIES, 

 write tor prices ou Une-Piece Bass wood Sec- 

 tions, Bee-Hives, Shipping-Crates, Frames, Foun- 

 dation, Smokers, etc. Address 



R. H. SCHMIDT & CO., 

 21-20db NEW LONDON, Waupaca Co., WIS. 



t^Mn responding to mis uuvei u.-ciiient mention Gleanings. 



FOR Folding Paper Boxes send to 

 21-8db A. O. CRAWFORD, S. Weymouth, Mass. 



NOW READY TO SHIP! 



Pedigreed Poland China Pigs from 6 to 12 weeks 

 old, from $8.00 to $12.00 per pair. White and Black 

 Ferrets, single male, $2.50; female, $3.0u; per pair, 

 $5.00; per trio, $7.00. White Rabbits, White and 

 Brown Leghorn Chickens, and Mallard Ducks, $1.00 

 each, either sex. Italian Bees in season, very rea- 

 sonable. Address N. A. KNAPP, 



Rochester, Lorain Co., Ohio. 



t^"ln responding to ihis advertisement mention Gleanings. 



Honey Almanac for 1890. 



JUST the thing ueeded to create a demand for 

 honey at home. Bee-keepers should scatter 

 it freely. It shows the uses of Honey for Medicine, 

 Eating, Drinking, Cooking, for making Cosmetics, 

 Vinegar, etc.; also uses of BEESWAX. Price 5 cts.; 

 100 for $2.50; 500 for $10.00; 1000 for $15.00. 



THOS. G. NEWMAN & SON, 

 21-22-23 923 & 926 W. Madison St., Chicago, 111. 



0*ln responding to this advertisement mention Gleanings. 



MUTH'S 



HONEY -EXTK ACTOR, 



SQUAKE (iLASS HONEY-JARS, 



TIN BUCKETS, BEE-HIVES, 

 HONEY-SECTIONS, &< ., &c. 

 PERFECTION COLD- BLAST SMOKER*. 



Apply to CHAS. F. MUTH & SON, 



Cincinnati, O. 

 P. S.— Send 10-cent stamp for "Practical Hints to 

 Rep-KeeDers." (Mention Gleanings.) Hfrib 



No. 1, $2.00; No. 2, $1.75; No. 3, $1.50 I Knile 

 No. 4, 1.25: No. 5, 1.00; No. 6, 65 | $1.15 



On receipt of the above price 



SMOKERS and KNIVES 



will be sent postpaid. Descriptive 

 circulars will be sent on receipt of re- 

 quest card. 



Bingham & Hetherington Smokers 

 and Knives are staple tools, and have 

 been used ten years without com- 

 plaint, and are the only stovewood 

 burning clear-smoke bee-smokers; no 

 going out, no vexation. Address 



BINGHAM & HETHERINGTON, Abronia, Mich. 



Mention Gleanings. 19 21-23d 



A Four-Color Label for Only 75 

 Cts. Per Thousand ! 



Just think of it ! we can furnish you a very neat 

 four-color label, with your name and address, with 

 the choice of having either "comb" or " extract- 

 ed " before the word " honey," for only 75 cts. per 

 thousand; 50 cts. per 500, or 30 cts. for 250, postpaid. 

 The size of the label is 2i4 x 1 inch— just right to go 

 round the neck of a bottle, to put on a section, or to 

 adorn the front of a honey-tumbler. Send for our 

 special label catalogue for samples of this and 

 many other pretty designs in label work. 



A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. 



