1887 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



419 



Contents of this Number. 



Advertising 428 



Alsike in Droufjht 141 



Apiarv of T. P. Andrews 426 



Bees anil Wliisky 440 



Bees on Tiill Trees 439 



Bees, MovinK 441 



Bees, Speed of 431 



Beediseuse, Nameless .439 



Benson's Letter 426 



Blnstetl Hopes 442 



Binnlih-hee, Hibernating.. 440 



Caliloiniii 433 



(^iirniiihins vs. Italians 440 



Cases. Doulile tii-r 432 



Cases, Sliit;lc tier 432 



Cells Not Hatrliini^- 440 



Clover, Kcil ami Alsike 427 



Oockroaches 4:« 



Cottoii, Mrs ■ 442 



Counly, importance of 430 



Cucunibii s vs. Cockroaches438 



Ed^e .The Beveled 441 



Editorials 447 



Elevation, Effect of 4.31 



Foul Brood 440,442.445 



Gas, Natural 441 



Heads of Grain 437 



Hives on Legs 438 



Honey vs. Sugar 438 



Honey and Eggs 438 



Honey by Feeding Sugar. . .437 



Mice. Scent of 43« 



Molasses-barrels 437 



Myself and Neighbors 443 



Noles and yueries 440 



Overstocked Locality 442 



Our Own Apiary 44.5 



Patents. Moral 4:!0 



Poppleton's Review 423 



Potuto-beetles 440 



lleports Discouraging 442 



Kiports Kncouraging 441 



Kolibins' Sale of Honey 4.33 



SicUons. Device to Reinove.429 

 Section-case, Kretchnier's. .436 



Smoker , The Bingham 44(> 



South, The New 431 



Sjiecial Notices 448 



Stores CoiiMimed in Cellar, 437 

 Sui plus .inan's, Compli'd..447 



Swarm, A Reduced 440 



Swarms, Hiving.. .. 431 



Swarming 434 



Swarming Out 437 



Tobacco Column 445 



Trade Secrets 448 



T Rail, Kretchmer's 436 



T Tins, To Make 435 



Whisky and Bees 440 



Wintering in Cellar 4.37 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMEES. 



FOUNDATION VERY NICE. 



The foundation you sent is very nice— or, at least, 

 the one bo.x we looked into is very tiiie — the nicest 

 we ever received from you or from any one else. 

 RANDALiL & Seares. 



Glrard, Erie Co., Pa., Apr. 22, 1887. 



THE SMOKER JUST THE THING. 



The smoker I ordered March 1st arrived April 2d. 

 It is just the thing I wanted. I tried it this week. 

 My wife says it makes too much smoke. Accept my 

 thanks for your promptness. M. A. Joiner. 



Waterboro, Ga., Apr. 9, 1887. 



THE SMITH PUMP PUT TO A SEVERE TEST. 



The Smith force-pump has arrived, and has been 

 put to the most severe test. 1 am perfectly delight- 

 ed with the result, as it is a much betterarticle than 

 1 had any idea could be obtained for so small a sum. 

 W. B. Dillon, Sec. Coraopolis School-board, 



May 11, 1887. Coraopolis, Pa. 



THE WHEELBARROW A BEAUTY. 



The bill of goods you shipped me came to hand in 

 due time and in good order. The wheelbarrow is a 

 beauty — the nicest that ever came to Southwestern 

 Wisconsin. "'Fables and Allegories" is a "daisy." 

 All the goods are No. 1. G. L. Hall. 



Waldwick, Iowa Co., Wis., Apr. 27, 1887. 



I commenced getting Gleanings something over 

 a year ago. When I saw your Tobacco Column, and 

 how much you were interesting yourself in it, I de- 

 termined to quit smoking for one year. I had quit 

 chewing something over ten years ago. The year 

 was up some time ago, and I have saved more than 

 the price of Gle.anings on that. W. S. Confer. 



Hemlock, Pa., Apr. 11, 1887. 



A PLEASED CUSTOMER. 



The bees I received from you, shipped on the 19th, 

 arrived on the :i6th in magnificent style, and are do- 

 ing finely so far. E.xpress charges were 82.70. The 

 extreme care you seem to take in having your bees 

 reach your customers safely is very commendable, 

 and I must express my delight in receiving mine so 

 promptlj- and in such excellent shape, as these are 

 the flrst in the county. J. N. Coe. 



Lincoln, New Mex., Apr. 29, 1887. 



A kind word FROM FRIEND STALHAMMER, AWAY 

 OVER IN SWEDEN. 



Your kindness and generosity toward me, in offer- 

 ing me Gleanings by way of exchange with my 

 very humble Svensk Bitidning (Swedish Bee Jour- 

 nal), far exceed any thing 1 could have expected, 

 but when getting so liberal a proposal I can not but 

 gratefully accept it. 



I suppose I shall never be able to pay a visit to 



you, a man not only a pre-eminent bee-keeper, but 

 also well conversant on any thing pertaing to agri- 

 culture, gardening, stock and poultry raising, etc., 

 and trying to spread lir-oadcast all ovi^r the world 

 and amongst your fellow-creatures the results of 

 your experience, ingenuity, and faith, thus giving 

 us plenty of material and needed help, only because 

 you are and always will be a true Christian, above 

 ail. I hope you will kindly excuse my boldness in 

 sending you my photo. Vour good and kind heart 

 will also be sure to excuse me in offering you to 

 kindly accept the two following treatises of mine: 

 "Theoretical and Practical Matmal of Ree-Keep- 

 ing," and, "The New Way of ('ultivating Potatoes" 

 — my own way as well as that of Mr. Terry — the one 

 copy of the Manual to be forwarded to Mr. T., that 

 gentleman having already the treatise on potato 

 culture. I am fully convinced those books have 

 only a very small value to you, if any; Init T am 

 sending them as a testimony and token of my es- 

 teem and gratitude to both of you. I suppose it 

 will interest Mr. Terry very much to know that his 

 book is reproduced in my book, and now is trans- 

 lated into German and spread over all that country. 

 I beg you to kindly read the preamble of the treat- 

 ise on potato culture. There you will see the testi- 

 mony of the great esteem in which I hold you. 



H. .1. STALHAMMER. 



Gotheborg, Sweden, March 11. 18S7. 



[Friend S., it was quite a pleasure to look your 

 books over, even though we could not read thera; 

 and it is gratifying to us to know that friend Ter- 

 ry's teachings have gone outside of our own lan- 

 guage.] 



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3btld Hamilton, Hancock Co., Illinois. 



