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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 



apparatus the voice of the bee is produced, similar 

 to the way a tone is produced in whistling. The 

 trachete constitute the pipes, and the eurtain- 

 lilse film of chitin, which lies around the alr-open- 

 ing-s, represents the tong-ue. By means of the ex- 

 pelled air, the Jilm is caused to give forth a tremu- 

 lous tone. Now, the alidomen of a perfect queen is 

 more strongly developed than is that of drones or 

 workers; hence queens are able to give out a loud- 

 er and stronger tone, piping and teeting; and even 

 in a virgin state this tone is much stronger than 

 when the body is distended by a full ovary and 

 swollen oviduct, as shown at E and V in the cut. 

 This is the reason why we hear weaker and less 

 frequent tones from fertile queens. 



pafiBaeg ;«]\[d gwi^DiiE^ 



E notice by the Western Rural, that 

 Mr. F. E. Fross, the man who gives 

 away corn, is starting up again. This 

 is what they say: 



f . -E. ?')■«.¥.».— F. E. Fross, of Ohio, sends 

 to the Rural for its advertising rates. Our rates are 

 a million dollars an inch to such people as you, Mr. 

 Fross, and if that should not be high enough to 

 keep you out of our columns, we should raise our 

 rates. We have no use for you, your corn, or your 

 methods. 



That is the talk, good friends of the Rural, 

 and we hope every paper will follow suit. 

 We are willing to do almost every thing in 

 the world to accommodate square men, but 

 we have not space for a fraud, no matter 

 how much money he has to pay for the space. 



NEIGHBOR H. GIVES US A TALK ON 

 CLOVER-SEED. 



WHEN AND HOW TO SOW. 



TTp S this is the time of year when every bee- 

 qM^ keeper begins to inquire, " What shall I sow 



J^w or plant for bee pasture? " I will try to give 

 ■*•"*■ you a few pointers. I recommend clover. 

 It is the greatest honey-plant of America, 

 and alsike stands at the head. We don't half ap- 

 preciate it. 



We should sow it everywhere— sow it on the 

 roadside where tbe teams have cut up the sod, 

 to keep out of the mud; sow it where the pigs have 

 rooted up the sod in the orchard or pasture; give 

 the boy a pocketful when he goes fishing, and tell 

 him to scatter some wherever he sees a piece of 

 bare ground on the creek-bank; put an under- 

 drawn in the cat-swamp, and sow some there; burn 

 up all the brush-piles and old stumps, and sow al- 

 sike in the ashes. Kemember that it make^ the 

 best pasture and hay of any plant that grows. 

 Don"t forget to mix a little white clover with it. 

 They grow well together, and, at the price it is sell- 

 ing now, it is the cheapest grass-seed in the market. 



PEAVINE CLOVER. 



This, as a honey-crop, comes the last of July and 

 the fore part of August, just the time when we 

 need it most. It is the great crop to reclaim worn- 

 out or poor land. There is no clay land too poor 

 to raise a good crop of it. With 1.50 or 200 lbs. of 

 good phosphate or bone-meal per acre, you are 

 very sure of getting a good seed of clover after 

 oats, on the poorest clay soil, and you will get oats 

 enough at 2.5 cents per bushel to pay for your fer- 

 tilizer, and get your clover-crop extra. If you 

 have oorn-stubble on last year's sod-ground you 

 will get a better clover njetKiow by oultivatiag it 



with a disk or Acme harrow, or a two-horse culti- 

 vator, and drilling oats both ways, than to plow 

 the ground. I have tried it by plowing every oth- 

 er narrow land, and I get the best meadow every 

 time where the old sod is left down. If you wish to 

 raise seed, you must save the first crop of peavine 

 or alsike. H. B. Hakkington. 



Medina, O., Feb. 31, 1887. 



OUR P. BENSON LETTER. 



BEE-KEEPIN AS A OCKYOII I'ASHEN. 



TT is no ockyoupashen in life more condoocive to 

 jM employment. Evry 1 in the land shood keep 

 ^1 bees from the l.OOU.OOO air a goin around with 



"*■ his gold-hedded cane to the tramp which brakes 

 into Pringgal's skewl hous every iiite to sleep. 

 If evry man wooman & chiled hed a swarm of bees, 

 whatasoarce of happyness it would be. Besides 

 these they ar sum uther classes whiteh it is verry 

 appropreS to keep bees. 



For instants, the farmer. Woarn out. fateeged. 

 weary and tired with the care and toil and fateeg 

 of hayin & harvestin, as he cums in all hot and 

 played out, whot a releef it is to hev his mind di- 

 verted and his boddy refreshed by the soothin in- 

 flewents of hivin a swarm. Also the preecher. 



BEE-KEEPIN AS A OCKYOUPASHEN FOR THE PARMER 

 AN HIS FAMLEV. 



Now if ennybuddy in the wurld ot to keep bees its 

 a preecher. Whot ennoblin thots arises in the ex- 

 pansiv vishensof the mind of 1 whiteh contemplates 

 the vass abiss of nacher in whiteh floats dreemily 

 backerds & forrerds a baskin in the solar light of 

 the sun a 1,000 or may by a 1,000,000 tiny creechers 

 stiled insex a floatin on thair gozzy wings, a dartin 

 & a flyin. now here, now thair, a storin thair hun- 

 nied sweets in thair waxen sells, whiteh they will 

 store more into 1 of mi noo hives than enny uther 

 kind or variety. Under sitch intlewentses they is a 

 sighlent charm & the thots Hows in his hed & brain, 

 and wurds of silverr.v toned elloqnents exhails in 

 hunnied a.xsents of bammy mildness and limi)id 

 sweetness from his mellifioowus tung. * * * * * 



(Printer poot sum stars or sutliin to make a poz 

 logg enuff to taik in the buty of that air last.) 



Then if the preecher gits boath ize stung shut, 

 heel be blind to the faults of the peapel & look with 

 a more leanyent i on thair fuilins, whiteh sum pea- 

 pel has a good menny. If he is stung into 1 i, when 

 he goze into the poolpit a little girl will snicker, and 

 that will help to keep people awake. 



Also the invalid is espeshelly faverrable for the 

 bizness. I think I have saw this stated hrfour. 

 The invalid wants sum lite bizness & hede otto 

 keep bees for life. Il's a veny lite bizness. The 

 bees will lite all over him. P, Benson. 



Apiculturistioal Bee-Keepin Sigheutist. 



