1887 



GLEANINGS IN BEh: CULTURE. 



75 



Gleanincs in Bee Cdlture, 



Published Semi- Monthly . 



u?L.. I- I^OOT, 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



for Clnbting Bates, See First Page of Beading Matter. 



Unto every one that hath shall be Riven, and he shall have 

 abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away 

 even that which he hath.— Matt. 25; 29. 



New names and renewals are coming in at a rap- 

 id rate. Thanks, friends, for your l«ind suppoi't. 



FLAT-BOTTOMED FOUNDATION. 



We have just succeeded in malting' some beauti- 

 ful flat-bottomed foundation send for; samples and 

 prices. In weight, we believe it comes as near the 

 natural foundation made by the bees as any thing 

 we ever turned out. Mr. T. F. Bingham said he 

 preferred the flat-bottomed foundation for sections. 



CLOSED-TOP SECTIONS. 



At the Ohio Convention, when an opinion was 

 called for, not one of the members present favored 

 the use of closed-top sections, because it would not 

 permit tiering up. Our readers will please take 

 note, that this confirms the opinions expressed 

 lately in the answers of our prominent apiarists, 

 to the question-box department in a late issue of 

 The A.B.J. 



FOUL BROOD, AND FALSE ALARM IN REGARD TO IT. 



On page 10 of our last issue, friend Broers pro- 

 tests against a statement made in a former issue by 

 one of our contributors, that foul brood was in 

 the neighborhood. From a letter just received 

 from friend McCamant. it seems the whole matter 

 was only a hearsay. Their bees died, it is true, but 

 probably from starvation, as friend B. suggests, 

 and they guessed it must have been foul brood. 



will see that' some one does give you the proper 

 attention. Wc have many visitors to our place 

 every season, Ijut we never have had too many. 



HAVING A SPACE BELOW THE BROOD-COMBS FOR 

 WINTERING. 



In my remarks at the foot of friend Doolittle's ar- 

 ticle, page 976, Dec. 1.5, I omitted to mention that 

 Mr. H. R. Boardman, East Townsend, O., has for 

 years been a vehement advocate of this idea. Our 

 readers will perhaps recollect him when I mention 

 that T gave his portrait as "the man who winters 

 bees without loss;" and, if lam correct, he has 

 continued to winter his bees almost without the 

 loss of a colony, year after year, although he counts 

 his stocks by the hundreds. 



VISITING THE HOME OF THE HONEY-BEES DUR- 

 ING THE BUSY SEASON. 



A NUMBER at the Ohio Convention expressed to 

 us their desire to visit, at some future date, the 

 Rome of the Honey-Bees, but that they would pre- 

 fer to come and see us when we are in " full blast," 

 and that, if they came during this time, they feared 

 they would be unwelcome. To be sure, you would 

 be welcome, dear friends. Come at anytime; and 

 if we are too busy to show you about ourselves, we 



GOING WEST. 



Mrs. Jennie Gulp, before leaving the conven- 

 tion, informed us that she would probably not be 

 able to attend anothtr.^Ohio State Convention; that 

 she proposed selling^her farm, apiary and fixtures, 

 with a view of going west with her boys. She stat- 

 ed, that, after selling, she proljably would not do 

 much with bees. As the work in the apiary has 

 now gone beyond her strength, and as she is not 

 obliged to work for a living, she has so decided. 

 It is with some degree of regret that we give this 

 intelligence to the friends; but we hope that, when 

 she is located in her new field, we may again hear 

 from her through the columns of Gleanings. 



MANUFACTURING COMB HONEY. 



The people who stick to the falsehood about 

 manufactured comb honey have finally found a 

 place in Chicago where a man could be seen seal- 

 ing up the combs with a hot iron. C They never saw 

 him making the combs out of paraffine, but he was 

 simply sealing them up. Our enterprising friends 

 of the A. B. J., when notified, made haste to see 

 the sight. QWhat; do you suppose they found? A 

 Chinaman near a window, ironing collars and cuffs 

 with a flat-iron! Did j'ou ever? Ernest suggests 

 that I have foi-gotten to state that the innocent- 

 looking laundryman had a cake of heeswax by his 

 side, with which to polish his flat-iron. 



SENDING DELEGATES TO THE OHIO STATE BEE- 

 KEEPERS' CONVENTION. 



A MOTION was carried at the Ohio State Conven- 

 tion, mentioned in another column, that we in\Tte, 

 through the columns of Gleanings, the county and 

 district bee-keepers' 'conventions to appoint and 

 send delegates to the State Convention to be held 

 at Columbus, about a year from date. The object 

 of this is to put the county and district associations 

 into direct communication with the State associa- 

 tion. We therefore eai-nestly request that the sec- 

 retaries will see that this matter is brought proper- 

 ly before their respective bodies, and that the mem- 

 bers may act upon it. We give you notice thus 

 early, that all arrangements may be completed in 

 time. 



bee-keepers' price lists. 

 Our facilities lor turning out first-class price 

 lists and general job work were never 'more com- 

 plete than now. If you have any thing in this line, 

 write us for prices "and samples. Remember, we 

 have a very large stock of wood cuts, especially for 

 price-list work. The following have been printed 

 at this office: A 22-page price list, apiarian imple- 

 ments and bees and queens, for P .L.Viallon, Bayou 

 Gou la. La; a 4-page large-size list of bee-keepers' 

 supplies for J. D. Rusk, Milwaukee, Oregon. The 

 following have been sent to this office: 



The first comes from C. M. Goodspeed, Thorn Hill. Onondaga 

 Co., N. v., Specialty, the leading papers and magazines; also 

 Italian bees and queens' raspberry and strawberrj' plants, al- 

 sike clover, poultry, etc. 



A VERY neat 36-page circular has been sent us by .Tames Hed- 

 don, giving nice drawings of his new shallow hive, and much 

 impoHant and valuable matter on various subjects. He also 

 offers honey in attractive packages at very low prices. 



A .'i4-page circular comes to hand from C. F. Muth &Son. 

 Specialties, honey and apiarian supplies. 



From E. T. Flanigan, Belleville, III., an 8 page list of bees, 

 hives, fdn., small fruit, etc. 



From G. W. Stanley. AVyoming. N. Y.. a 12-page list. 



