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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 



ENGLISH GUIDE-BOOK PAMPHLETS. 



From Thomas Wm. Cowan, editor of the British 

 Bee Journal, we have received Nos. 1 and 3 of a se- 

 ries of guide -bool< pamphlets. No. 1 is entitled, 

 "Doubling- and Storifying for Extracted and Comb 

 Honey, and the Prevention of Swiinniiig.'" No. 3 

 tells "How to Make an Extractor and Bellows Smok- 

 er.'" In the former, the author, Mr. Cowan, gives 

 some plain practical directions on the production of 

 honey. The term "doubling and storifying," as 

 used by our English friends, is, we presume, about 

 synonymous with our word "tiering-up." He rec- 

 ommends only simple and inexpensive hives— those 

 that will " tier uji." He very sensibly discourages 

 the use of frames with side supports for spacing- 

 frames for fixed distances. We notice in the ad- 

 vertisements of the British Br< JnHinnl that a good 

 many are advertising this kind of frame. Tn refer- 

 ence to this point, Mr. Cowan says, "Our frames 

 have neither distance-guides, pins, nor projecting 

 shoulders; we can Ijring them closer together, or 

 put them further apart, as we wish, without any 

 difficulty. It is many years since we discarded all 

 these encumbrances, and we have never had rea-, 

 son to regi'et it." Mr. Cowan also emphasizes the 

 importance of having only one size of hive and one 

 size of frame. His method for storifying, or, as we 

 term it, tiering up, is such as is practiced by our 

 most successful bee-keepers here in America. This 

 little work, "Doubling and Storifying," may lie 

 had for the modest sum of 3 pence, or, in our mon- 

 ey, postage included, probably 10 cts. " How to 

 Make an Extractor and Rellows Smoker" may be 

 had for fi pence. Boih of the above are published 

 by .]. Huckel, Kings Langley, Hei-ts, England, of 

 whom they can be obtained. 



HOW TO KEEP DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF POULTRY 



PURE WITHOITT GOING TO 'IRE EXPENSE 



OF FENCES. 



May be it won't suit your case, but 1 will tell you 

 how it answers here. Friend .1 oh n C Caijehart, of 

 St. Albans, W. Va., sent me a beautilul trio of 

 Silver-spangled Hamburgs. They are not only 

 evei'lasting layers, but they are also everlasting 

 flyers. One day I happened to look up and was as- 

 tonished to see a bird of beautiful plumage hover- 

 ing over the factory. She sailed down at my feet, 

 and proved to he one of the Hamburg pullets. So 

 you see that making a fence for these is out of the 

 question. 1 tried a sitting of eggs, hoping they 

 would be mostly pui-e; l)ut the chickens had feath- 

 ers on their toes, and bore other unmistakable 

 evidences of relationship to our ten-dollar Brahma 

 rooster. If T fenced them up, the fence must be 

 covered with netting at the top as well as the sides; 

 but T could not bear the thought of cooping up the 

 graceful little fellows, so ] carried them down to 

 the carp-pond and kept them shut up three or four 

 days. They are now roosting in a beech-tree 

 nights, and the pullets are laying beautiful white 

 eggs in a brush-heap under said tree day times. 

 What food they need, besides what they gather, T 

 place in a box after dark, under the beech-tree. 

 Thus you see I have tieen working on the Stoddard 

 egg-farm plan. They never follow me up to the 

 house or barn, because they do not know that I 

 have any thing to do with the supply of food. The 

 carp-pond is so far away from the barn that the 

 other fowls do not often get down there. As to 

 how many different breeds could be kept in this 

 way on ten acres, without mixing, is the problem. 



3PECi;il£ ]^e¥ICEg. 



MAPLE SYRUP. 



That nice maple is not all gone yet. Remember, 

 we mail samples of the two kinds to any one on 

 application. 



SPKCIAL NUMBERS OF GLEANINGS WANTED. 



We will pay 10 cents each for a limited number 

 of April 15th Gleanings for 1NS4. Be sure not to 

 send any other number. Remember the date, 



SUNFLOWER-SEED FOR FEEDING POULTRY. 



We can furnish a nice article of plump seed, but 

 not quite as lai-ge as the Mammoth, for 7 cts. per 

 lb.: 10 lbs. for tiO cts.; 100 lbs. for $.5,00. There are 

 about -to lbs, in a bushel. 



KrVE-l'ENT ROUND-POINTED SCISSORS, 



We are unable to get any more of the flve-cent 

 round-pointed scissors, made of steel wire. We 

 have some veiy nice ones, however, the same as 

 we formerly had, made of metal. They are much 

 handsomer, if not (juite as strong as the ones made 

 of steel wire. 



I'l-ANTS OK THK t'IGWORT, OR SIMPSON HONEY- 

 PLANT. 



Those who have failed to get good plants by sow- 

 ing the seed can bo furnished with good strong- 

 roots which can hardly fail to grow and give blos- 

 soms this year. Price for one root, 5 cts. ; 10, 3.5 cts. ; 

 100, $1.35: 1000, *10.00. If wanted by mail, add 3 cts. 

 each extra for postage and packing. 



HASPBEliRY-PLANTS. 



We can furnish honey-bearing rasperries, if or- 

 ders are sent in at once, before cultivating. We- 

 can furnish roots of either Cuthbert or Gregg rasp- 

 berry-plnuts, at the same figures given above for 

 the flgwort. The Cuthbert and Gregg we consider 

 the leading sorts for fruit, and the Cuthbert is espe- 

 cially the bee-plantj 



THE SMITH LMI>ROVED FORCE-PUMP ADVANCED 

 A(i AIN. 



We have just received a shi]3ment of the Smith 

 improved force-pump and sprinkler, illustrated on 

 another page in this number. The impi-ovements 

 are all in the plunge)-. The lower end, instead of 

 being wound with cotton tow, has a band of leather, 

 which will work much more easily, and last much 

 longer. The upper end of tlie handle has a round 

 knob instead of the old handle, and is painted red. 

 The plunger is turned the same size from top to 

 bottom, and runs through a wooden plug that fits 

 into the top end of the barrel. All these improve- 

 ments have cost the manufacturer so much that he 

 is obliged to advance his price again. We can 

 furnish you them at his wholesale price to jobbers, 

 which is as follows: Single pumps, $1.00 each; 

 three for $3.7.5; crate of one dozen, $10.00; two doz- 

 en, $18.00; four dozen, $;13.00: eight dozen, $60.00; 

 twelve dozen, $81.00, They are all put up in crates 

 of one and two dozen each. The plungers come in- 

 serted in the pumps, instead of being in a separate 

 crate as heretofore, 



THE 33d THOUSAND OF THE A B (• BOOK .JUST OUT, 



The last 5000 of the ABC book for 1886 was sold 

 in just about a year's time, and in order to get the 

 edition for 1887 out just as the former edition was 

 exhausted, we were obliged to run our press night 

 and day. We are happy to say to our readers that 

 the present edition has received a more thorough 

 revision than any previous one. Not only has a 

 great deal of new matter been added, but many new 

 and fine engraviugs have been inserted in the con- 

 text. Almost every subject in the whole work has 

 received more or less changes to suit the advance- 

 ment of the times. Some of the subjects have been 

 entirely re-written, so changed is the progress of 

 apiculture. The work is now virtually as near up 

 to the times as if it had been entirely written in the 

 year 1S87. As you are perhaps aware, the whole 

 work is kept in standing type, so that a single 

 letter, word, paragraph, or whole ])ages, can be 

 stricken out or modified as the true spirit of ad- 

 vancement dictates. The i)rice of the ABC will 

 remain the same as formerly. 



