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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture. 



Published Semi-Monthly. 



JL. X. BOOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



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1ERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Clubbing Eatos, See First Page of Beading Matter. 



ib^iEiDinsr^, n^ro^r. is, iss9. 



In peace will I both lay me down and sleep: 



For thou. Lord, i alone ruakest me dwell in safety. 



i Or, ix solitude. Psalm 4: 8, Kc\ ised Version. 



DEATH OF MRS. CHADDOCK. 



As we pro to press, the following- reaches us: 



Mrs. Mahala B. ('haddock died at her home in Vermont Tp., 

 Fulton Co., 111., at 8 o'clock on the evening; of Nov. 12. She had 

 been ill for five weeks, but not dangerously so, until toward 

 the last, when typhoid pneumonia developed and caused 

 death. Anna B. ^uillin. 



Mrs. Chaddock, by her spicy writings, was wel* 



known through these columns; and her sudden 



death will be lamented by many of our readers. 



QUEENS FROM THE SOUTH. 



The following queen-breeders from the South 

 agree to furnish untested queens during the winter: 



Simon P. Roddy, Mechaniostown. Md., has four nice tested 

 queens which he will sell for 81.00 each. 



I can send out young tested queens during the winter, if 

 wanted. Nellie Adams. 



Sorrento, Fla., Oct. 28, 1889. 



Untested Italian queens all winter, ready by return mail, at 

 price in Root's catalogue. If sent at bujer's' risk, one-half of 

 Root's price. Luther W. Gray. 



Orlando, Fla., Nov. 9. 



I have about six untested Italian queens which 1 will send to 

 any address upon receipt of $100 each, by return mail. 



New Braunfels. Texas, Nov. 9. H. H. P. Kohlenberg. 



I have untested queens now ready to ship. 



San Marcos, Tex., Nov. 7. J. P. Caldwell. 



A HONEY ALMANAC. 



The Honey Almanac for 1890, published by T. G. 

 Newman & Son, Chicago, 111., is now out. It con- 

 tains 32 pages of facts, figures, and suggestions, for 

 honey in its various uses, besides the matter usual- 

 ly contained in almanacs. A very large number of 

 honey recipes for cooking are compiled. The vari- 

 ed uses of honey as a food and medicine are also 

 discussed. The design of this almanac is to place 

 in the hands of bee-keepers a lever by which they 

 can revolutionize public sentiment, and create a 

 market for honey. Sensational stories in regard to 

 adulterated honey are refuted. The following is a 

 pithy paragraph which sums up the whole story: 



THERE IS NO ARTIFICIAL COMB HONEY. 



"Combs made of paraffine, tilled with glucose, and sealed 

 overby machinery made for that purpose "—is a mere fabri- 

 cation! A LIE! that story was started by Prof. Wiley, in an 

 article for the Popular Science Monthly, which he says was 

 intended simply as a " scientific pleasantry." He expresses 

 surprise that any one should ever have taken it for a sober 

 fact. It was intended for a " huge joke," but the newspapers 

 have been deceiving the public by asserting that it i^ truth. 

 Several years ago, Mr. A. I. Root, of Medina, O.. offered a thou- 

 sand dollars for proof of the existence of such a factory, and 

 to sec such artificial comb made. He has never had an appli- 

 cation for the money— good proof that there is no such thing. 



FATHER LANGSTROTH. 



The following editorial from the American Bee 

 Journal of Nov. 2, we take pleasure in presenting 

 to our readers. It contains a bit of news in regard 

 to our much-respected friend, and some cheering 

 words from the editor that are well worth repeat- 

 ing. It is as follows:— 



The Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Society at its 

 last session voted to empty its treasury into the 



pocket of our venerable friend father Langetroth. 

 Accordingly, being the treasurer, we sent him a 

 check for the amount, $12.25, together with another 

 small amount sent to us by one of our subscribers 

 for that purpose. The following is the response 

 from Mrs. A. L. Cowan, his daughter. 



Mr ThoshsG. Newman:— My father is deeply grateful to the 

 bee-keepers for their remembrance of him. He is still sad and 

 feeble, and I appreciate highly every kind act which lightens 

 for a time the clouds which surround him— by the knowledge 

 that his labors are not forgotten. 



My father sends his kind greetings to you and to your fami- 

 ly. We are grieved to learn of Mrs. Newman's illness. I have 

 suffered so often from the same terrible disease (erysipelas), 

 that I know how to sympathize with her. With best wishes 

 for her speedy recovery. Respectfully, 



Dayton, O., Oct. 22, 18&. ANNA L. Cowan. 



"Sad and feeble" — how these words send gloom 

 to our hearts! Has that kind face, genial smile, 

 and sweet voice, given place to sadness, because of 

 the feebleness and natural decline of the physical 

 system? Be not sad, noble brother. Though 

 " weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in 

 the morning!" Cheer up, and remember Him who 

 says, " When thou passest through the waters, I 

 will be with thee." With eyes fixed on him to guide 

 through the deep waters, and through the pearly 

 gates, we hope with you soon to be made " living 

 stones in that temple not made with hands, eternal 

 in the heavens"— where "no discordant voice shall 

 e'er be heard, and all that we experience will be 

 perfect bliss, and all we express will be perfect 

 praise," and where " love divine will ennoble every 

 heart, and hallelujahs exalted employ every 

 tongue." 



MEMBERSHIP TO THE N. A. B. K. A.: AN INTERNA- 

 TIONAL BEE-ASSOCIATION AT THE WORLD'S 

 FAIR IN 1892. 



A letter just received from Secretary Holter- 

 mann will explain itself. It reads as follows: 



Friend Root:— I should like to see the International Ameri- 

 can Bee-keepers' Association what it should be; and it should 

 have, in its treasury, funds to defray the expenses of an inter- 

 ternational convention at no distant date, say during the 

 World's Fair in New York. 1892. As I have before said, who 

 knows the grand results which may be secured from a conven- 

 tion of bee-keepers of the World f To do this we must com- 

 mence at once; and I propose that every one who can, shall 

 send one dollar as membership fee to the international for the 

 coming year; and. as far as I am concerned, if the surplus be 

 voted to me for the work of the past year. I will turn it over 

 to the treasurer, to remain as funds of the association. 

 Surely very many will be found who will indorse this scheme, 

 or something like it, and send their dollar. We should no 

 longer have an empty treasury R. F. Holtermann. 



Romney, Ont., Nov. 1, 1889. 



We most heartily indorse what friend Holter- 

 mann says. It has been said several times, and 

 with some truth too, that the N. A. B. K. A. in its 

 meetings is largely a local affair. If we can not se- 

 cure the attendance of representative bee-keepers 

 from all parts of the United States, let those who 

 are interested in the success of the Association 

 send in their one-dollar membership fees. The 

 programme as announced elsewhere in these col- 

 umns promises to be interesting, and friend Hol- 

 termann has left no stone unturned to make the 

 meeting a success. In regard to the international 

 at the World's Fair, we feel sure that we ought to 

 begin to think somewhat of the matter. We want 

 an exhibit at that fair which will be a credit to our 

 industry in this country. We also want an inter- 

 national convention, international in name and in- 

 ternational in reality. It will be a fine thing if 

 French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, and 

 American bee-keepers (and that Includes Canadi- 

 ans too) could rub against each other in one grand 

 brotherhood of representative world's bee-keep- 

 ers. We should like to hear what our European 

 cotemporaries think of the matter. 



Since writing the foregoing, the following, from 

 the pen of the president of the association, has 

 come to hand: 



Friend Root:— Please say in next Gleanings that several 

 in Canada and the United States have suggested to me that it 

 would be a good plan to request those who attend the conven- 

 tion at Brantford next month to take along with them sam- 

 ples of both comb and extracted honey, say one or two 



