1887 



GLEAiSINGS iK BEE CULTUKE. 



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Gleanings in Bee Culture. 



Published Senii-Moitllil;/. 



j^. X. :E^ooT, 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



lv^EI3I2lT^a., OHIO. 



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For Clubbing Bates, Sec First Figc of Heading Matter. 



He tliat loveth God lovith his brotlier also.— 1. John i: 21. 



Our subscription list is s'.iU increasing. Our pres- 

 ent number of siibsrv'bcrs is 7G74. Thanks. 



SEED OV THE I\!EI.rsS.\, OR BEE-BALM. 



Since our article on pag-eS!;; was printed, we have 

 received the following- from tiM^nd Tyrrel : 



1 can sell small trial packetn lir 5 cts. Seeds that lipen 

 lirst have to be picked by hand. An oiince of seed will plant 

 nt-aily four acres, 3 ft. apart each way. A. C. Tybrkl. 



Madison, Neb.. Oct. 25, 1887. 



THOSE BEES. 



In what condition are your bees for the coming- 

 winter? Have you done your duty by them lo the 

 best of your knowledge, or have you neglected 

 them up to the present time? If the latter, you had 

 better hustle. 



THE BUNDI-ES dF HEHBS HUNG UP IN THE GARRET. 



Since what I have said on page 83t) was put in 

 print, it has occurred to me that it may have been 

 our friend Terry instead of Prof. Cook who told me 

 he was satisfied that the catnip, pennyroyal, and 

 other like herlis that it used to be so common to 

 preserve for their medicinal properties, had of 

 themselves no effect whatever on diseases. I 

 should be sorry to make a mistake in this matter, 

 therefore 1 mention it here. 



THE HONEY QD0T,\T10NS. 



We call the attention of our readers to the Honey 

 Column of current issue. Choice comb honey, in 

 one-pound sections, is ruling quite uniformly at 

 18 and :iOc, as will be seen. It will also be observed 

 that fu'o-pound sections of honey, with scarcely an 

 exception, bring about two cents less jier pound 

 than the one-pound sections. Will the friends 

 please make a note of this in ordering for next sea- 

 sou? Put your comb honey in packages that will 

 bring the best returns. Two cents on a pound is an 

 item worth taking into consideration. 



THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. 



The following in regard to reduced rates, we ex- 

 tract from the A. D. J. of Oct. 26: 



Reduced rates on all railroads arc {rranted to attend the Fat- 

 Stock Show in Chicaeo from Nov. .S to 18. 1887. Ticket" will be 

 issued at one-and-onc-flfth fare for the round trip. Bee-kecj)- 

 ers who wish to see the Fat-Stock Show should come the last 

 and best week, and can lluii attend the convention which oc- 

 curs on the last three days. Wednesday lo Kiiday. Nov. l(i to 18. 



As we understand it, you purchase your ticket at 

 any station, direct to Chicago. When you go home, 

 by presenting some sort of paper furnished at the 

 convention, at the Chicago ticket-office you get a 

 return ticket for one-fifth fare. This will be quite 



a saving. We are very glad to know that such an 

 arrangement has been secured. 



A LAWSUIT IN REGARD TO BEES BEING. A NUI- 

 SANCE. 



While at the convention at Albany, last Janua- 

 ry. I had some conversation with Stephen W. Rich, 

 in regard to a lawsuit. John M. Olmstead, of Ho- 

 bart, Delaware Co., N. V., asked for $12(ill damages 

 for injuries inflicted by bees upon his personal 

 property. I suggested to Mr. Rich that he had bet- 

 ter try to make some friendly arrangement with 

 his neighbor, but he said it was impossible. Well, 

 Mr. Olmstead has gained the suit; but instead of 

 f 1200 damages, he got only six cents. Mr. Rich has 

 a heavy expense to pay in the way of costs. It 

 seems to me the decision was rather a reproof to 

 both parties; but the Bee-keepers' Union does not 

 propose to let it rest where it is. Mr. Rich must 

 move his forty colonies of bees. It may be bard to 

 decide what is the proper thing to do, since it has 

 got in the shape it is; but lawsuits are certainly a 

 pretty expensive luxury. 



THE NEW .JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 



Our own field, although it has blossomed finely, 

 and filled out beautifully with grain, has not given 

 half the number of bushels we expected. One 

 trouble, no doubt, was that forty or fifty hens and 

 cliickens helped themselves during the time it was 

 ripening, and the heads that were too high for the 

 chickens to reach were carefully gone over by a 

 flock of English sparrows. But such has been the 

 case with almost all the buckwheat we ever raised, 

 and it gave a better yield per acre than the Japan- 

 ese. It is no more than fair to state, however, that 

 our crop was matured during the great drought of 

 188V; and as most of you kuow, buckwheat stands 

 dry weather very poorly. To get a good crop, you 

 must have rain. The best I ever raised was when 

 we turned under a heavy growth of clover, and the 

 ground was so wet while preparing it that a great 

 deal of the time it threatened to mire the horses. 

 In regard to its yield of honey, very few bees were 

 noticed on it while in bloom; but it should be re- 

 membered this season has been peculiar in this re- 

 spect; for very few bees were seen even on white 

 clover. We have had at this date, Oct. 21, just one 

 other report of the Japanese buckwheat, and that 

 was not very favorable. Now, we shall be very 

 glad indeed to get a brief report from every one 

 who pui-chased seed of us during the past season. 

 If it is not going to pay to raise this great big black 

 buckwheat, we want to know it. 



ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE READING-COLUMNS. 



I KNOW it is quite customary to insert articles in 

 the reading-columns of journals and newspapers, 

 that seem to be disinterested news items, providing 

 the publisher gets good pay for such reading-notic- 

 es. It has always seemed to me, however, a sort of 

 cheat, or swindle. Why not let the advertiser use 

 the advertising pages, and let everybody under- 

 stand that what he has to say is an advertisement 

 of the goods he has for sale? 1 don"t believe in any 

 feints or make-believes, or sly tricks to get people 

 to notice goods of any kind; and whenever I take 

 up a paper, and find a lengthy article headed in 

 such a way as to mislead the reader, while 

 somewhere in the middle of the article, or toward 

 the end, it advertises " Warner's Safe Cure," or any 

 other similar commodity, I at once lose faith in the 



