1887 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



519 



he sends off liis goods. Now, then, to the 

 point : Neiglibor H. drove several miles 

 away from home, jumped out of his buggy, 

 put lip 23 separate packages of bees contain- 

 ing queens, and did it all in 7.5 minutes. I 

 do not believe I could do half as well as that 

 myself. You see, lie had to open the hives, 

 hiint the queens, shake the bees from the 

 combs, weigh out the retjuired amount, be 

 sure the queens were put in, then close up the 

 hive. Simplicity hives and metal-cornered 

 frames were probably a large factor in en- 

 abling him to do this. Suppose, now, a 

 man should have such a run of business 

 that lie had four or five hundred dollars' 

 worth of ordeis for bees and queens on hand 

 at once. How long would it take him to fill 

 them all, providing he had the bees and 

 (jueens from which to fill orders V The 

 above also speaks well for the cages, tunnel, 

 and other arrangements that I invented 

 several years ago for the purpose of making 

 this kind of buying and selling possible. 

 The 23 cages of bees which he put up in an 

 hour and a quarter are worth over $50, at 

 our regular retail prices. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



Published Semi- Mo tit hi >/. 



J^. I. I^OOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



^WEEXJI^ST-fi., OHIO. 



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For Clubbing Bates, See First Page of Reading Matter. 



Blessed is the man unto whom the Loid imputeth not In- 

 iqiiily, and in whose spirit there is no guile.— Psalm 32:2. 



Our subscription-list now numbers 7491, a gain of 

 177 within the last month. Thanks. 



GLEANINGS AS AN ADVEKTlSINCi MEDIUM. 



We are pleased to append the following from one 

 of our advertisers. With our large and increasing 

 subscription-list, a responsible advertiser, who of- 

 fers good goods at reasonable prices, can hardly 

 fail to bi'ing some sort of return. If you do not 

 hear from your adv't, either your goods are not in 

 demand or the price is too high. 



The little advertisement in Gleanings of June 1st brought 

 me orders for queens from ten State.* — Pennsylvania. New 

 York, Virginia, New Jersey, Michigan. Ulinois, Iowa, Kansas, 

 Nebraska, and Ohio, and 1 have been compelled to send some 

 queens that I did not wish to, and could not well afford to, in 

 order to fill orders. It seems that, from the orders received, 

 Gleanings is a good advertising medium. Please announce 

 that I have no more queens at i>resent. Elias Cole. 



Ashley, Ohio. .lune 24. 1887. 



WATERBURY WATCHES— A NEW ARRANGEMENT. 



The manufacturers have recentlj' decided not to 

 allow anybodj^ to offer Watcrbury watches as pre- 

 miums for getting up clubs, or for any other pur- 

 pose. The new arrangement is, that all Water- 

 bury watches shall be sold for *3..50 each, no more, 

 no less. This is to be the price of one or the price 

 of a hundred. Bona-flde dealers in watches get 

 wholesale prices, as a matter of course; but all 

 dealers are to buy of the factory direct, and no 

 middlemen. The watch, in its recently perfected 



state, is simply a wonder for the insignitlcant price 

 of J!:J..50. For my own use as a timepiece 1 would 

 rather have it than any watch I ever before carried, 

 at any price, and 1 have carried watches that cost 

 $100 or more. All the Watcrbury watches we sell 

 are tested by myself individually, by carrying each 

 watch in my jiocket one whole 34 hours. 



THE HONEY-CROP FOR 1H87. 



At this writing, June 30, the entire yield from 

 white clover has been a little more than enough to 

 keep up brood-rearing; and reports from other 

 localities are, as a rule, a good deal the same. 

 Basswood opened a little earlier, and is now nearly 

 in its height, and honey is coming in fairly; but it 

 is hardly probable there will be a full crop in many 

 localities. In view of this I think I would not be in 

 haste to get rid of nice honej'. 



.JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 



Now is the time to sow buckwheat for grain and 

 for honey, in most localities. It is true, it can be 

 sown later, and give a crop of grain if the frost 

 holds off ; but it is always more or less risky. Bet- 

 ter get it in some time in July, if you can. We have 

 an acre of the Japanese that is looking beautiful 

 now in the morning sun. The first leaves are about 

 the size of a quarter-dollar, and the piece, to me, is 

 a thing of beauty when I first get up in the morn- 

 ing. We have secured another lot of the seed, and 

 can furnish it at the prices given in our issue of 

 June 1, page 447. Buckwheat does nicely on ground 

 where early potatoes have been dug. Every bee- 

 keeper should test his locality for buckwheat, and I 

 think it will pay him to make a small test of all the 

 ditt'erent varieties. Buckwheat can almost always 

 be got in on land from which a crop has just been 

 taken, so it costs comparatively nothing, except 

 preparing the soil and sowing the seed. With us it 

 pays to make the ground rich, and work it up ex- 

 tremely fine. 



MB. THOMAS HORN. 



I uo not see but that we shall be obliged to have 

 an article with the above heading in every issue 

 for some time to come, I hope, however, the 

 articles may grow shorter and shorter. As we go to 

 press, not one single individual has written us that 

 he has received a note from Mr. Horn. A letter 

 from his vicinity, however, informs us he has had 

 bad luck, and left the place to hunt for work. We 

 might have supposed that Mr. Horn meant to be 

 straightforward and square, but was simply un- 

 fortunate. His recent positive statement, however, 

 to the effect he had sent notes to all he was owing, 

 when he hadn't sent any note at all, seems to indicate 

 he is not now (if he ever has been) even a truthful 

 man. This seems to put rather another phase on 

 the matter of first receiving the advertisement of a 

 dishonest man and a swindler. In that view of the 

 case I feel as if I ought to make some arrangement 

 with the friends who have lost by sending him 

 orders. It may be well, however, to wait a little. 

 Meanwhile, is it indeed true that not one of you, my 

 friends, have received even a note from Mr. Horny 



MR. K. P. KIDDER. 



We have had quite a few inquiries in regard to 

 the standing and responsibility of this gentleman; 

 but 1 am glad to say that we have had no com- 

 plaints from any one who has ever sent to him for 

 goods. Many of his advertisements, however, 

 promise a good deal for only a small sum of money. 



