40 



(il.yANliS'GS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 15. 



Contents of this Number. 



Beeti Fertilizing Blossoms- 



Bees, Raisins; 



Bee-candy— Caution 



Book Review 



Buchanan, J. A 



Bumble-bees and Clover. 



Candying vs. Purity 



Cress. Sturtion 



Echoes from California... 

 Feeding, Stimulative — 

 Fertilization and Bees — 



Frame, HoSman 



Frames, Reversible 



Glucose, To Detect 



Heeling Plants 



High pressure Gardening. 

 Hive. Uov<'tailed, Indorsed.. 



Honey, Adultci atiu«- 



Hunt's Adulteration 



Jake Smith on Spelling 



Son-swarmer, Langdon 



Rambler at Sealer's 



Robbing, Stop or Prevent? . 



Russi;iii Apiculture 



Sera pi ng kii i ves 



Sep:u ;it,)r^ Discussed 



Smoker, Crane 



Spacing, Exact 



Statistics. Unreliable 



Transplantingtuljes 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The third annual meeting of the California State Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association will be held at the Chamber of Commerce, in 

 Los Angeles, Jan. 2:i. U. 189 1. J. H. Martin, Sec 



The next annual meeting of the Wisconsin State Bee-keepers' 

 Association will take place Feb. 7, 8, 18W. J. W. \ aNC;e, 



Madison, Wis. Cor. See. 



The lyth annual meeting of the Vermont Bee-keepers^'As^so- 



^^'^on" '''""* ^"^'"■""^'"iv. w.-i;^T'v^.;Ba,-,4:^(:" 





BUSIHESSni^slf " 



CARLOAD ORDERS. 



Our trade for the coming' season is oi)eniiifr up 

 nicel.r. As we g-o to press we are loading- a ctr for 

 Inyo'Co.. Cal., and liave another ordf-r for a carload 

 for Las Graces, N. M., and one from Jennie Aicliley, 

 Beeville, Bee Co., Texas. In addition lo the hirg'e 

 trade in bees and queens done by the Atchleys, 

 they are going into the bee-supply trade with a car- 

 load of assorted groods most needed in Texas, from 

 the Home of the Honey-l)ees. 



EXTRA POLISHED SECTIONS. 



We are having- lots of calls for samples and prices 

 on our new make of sections. Some of these in- 

 quiries seem to imply that the prices may be higher 

 than those quoted in uur catalogue. On the con- 

 trary, we are selling: all old stock, made in the old 

 way, at lower prices, tuid all the sections we are 

 now making and have been making for some little 

 time are made by the new process, and sold at cat 

 alogue prices. Special prices to dealers and in large 

 lots. 



MAPLE SYRUP. 



It is two months yet before we shall have new 

 maple sugrar and syrup to otter. We wish t( > rt>miMd 

 you however, that we have some choice syrup, 

 made last spring, which has kept fresh and good, 

 and which we otter at $1.00 per gal., in lots of 5 gals, 

 or more, put up in 1-gallon cans. We have also a 

 little second g-rade that we will sell f or 80 cts. If 

 any of our readers need sugar-makers' siipplies for 

 this year's operations we ciill your attention in this 

 connection to our advertisement in another column. 



CALIFORNIA WHITE-SAGE HONEYS 



Soon after this number of Gleanings reaches our 

 readers we expect a carload of Mercer's white-sage 

 extracted honey. Like most of the ('alifornia sag-e 

 honey the past season, it is of exceedingly fine qual- 

 ity, being white and thick. Sage honey is very slow 

 to candy or g-ranulate, and for this reason it is es- 

 pecially suitable for retailers who put up honey in 

 small g-lass packages to retail. We sold a whole 

 carload in August to two such dealers. The tiavor is 

 very fine. If any, not familiar with sage honey, 

 would like to sa,mi)le it, we shall be pleased to send 

 you one of our sam|)le mailing-blocks, filled, for 8c 

 postiKiid, wliich siniijly pays for the package and 

 postage. We offer this honey in 6U-lb. cans, two in 

 a case, for 8c; lots of four cases or more, 7'/4c per 

 lb., free on botird here when car arrives. 



We offer fancy white comb honey, 1-lb. sections, 

 100-lb. lots or over, tit 1.5c piT lb.; No. •^. 13c. Choice 

 extracted clover and l)asswood, (iO lb. cans, two In it 

 case, 8i4; two cases or more, 8c. 



clover seed. 



We are getting a good niBfUy inquiries for price.s. 

 on ditt'erent kinds of clover seed. For the present 

 the prices quoted on page 3;3 of our catalogue are as 

 near right as we could make them if fixed to-day. 

 These prices are as follows: 



Name. 



Pilce^ 1-lb. 



Alsike clover seed 



Whiti' clover seed 



Alftdfa clo^■er seetl 



Sweet clovei- or Bokhara 

 Scarlet " or German 

 Peavlne " orMam'th. 

 Japanese buckwheat . 



$19 8(1 

 3.-> (iO 

 U 50 

 U 00 

 14 00 

 19 SO 

 3 30 



\^ e can not tell how long we can hold these prices, 

 as the wholesale market has been tending upward 

 for the past month or two; and if they continue to 

 go up we shall be compelled, within a few weeks, to 

 advance our retail prices, especially on mammoth 

 (or peavine) and on alsike. Sweet (or BokharaV 

 clover is growing in favor more and more. We had 

 a short article recently from H. R. Boardman, who 

 has had manj' acres within range of Itis bees for 

 several years, and who considers it a dec-ided succt ss 

 for hay and pasture, as well as for the bees. We 

 shall have a longer article from his pen in our ne.xt, 

 giving fuither particulars. 



our AMERICAN WONDER PEAS OF 1893. 



Some of the friends may recollect one or more 

 reports expressing surprise tliat our American 

 Wonders last summer grew so much larger than 

 usutil; but as the quality was excellent, and they 

 were very productive, but few complained. From 

 a report made by Burpee in his little book, "Selec- 

 tion in Seed-growing, " we are inclined to think 

 that our peas were n'>i American Wonders at all. 

 Burpee pronounces tin m Premium Gems. As the 

 crop of American Wonders was very short, the 

 prices were away up. \'ou may remember we pur- 

 chased ten bushels of t)ne of our l)ee-keeping 

 friends in the northern part of Michigan, where 

 bugs have not yet been invented— that is. the bugs 

 that infest peas. I believe this friend supposed he 

 had the genuine American Wonders, but we soon 

 found they grew a great deal larger than we had 

 known them to before. As we sokl them for about 

 half what American Wonders weie worth, most of 

 our customers were satisfied. Well, just now Amer- 

 ican Wonders are worth from $6.00 to $7.00 a bushel 

 at wholesale. We can furnish the same peas we 

 sold last year, however, at the same price. But if 

 >-ou want "genuine American Wonders, we can not 

 do any better at present than 8 cts. per half-pint» 

 or $3.00 per peck. One reason why there is such a 

 demand for it is, that it is the most dwarfed pea 

 known. In fact, it can be readily grown under 

 glass. Another thing, it is a wrinkled sugar pea, 

 equal to almost any in quality, and exceedingly 

 etirly. being but a few days later than the Alaska. 

 The Premium Gem is a little biter, grows consider- 

 ably larger, but is latlier more productive, and 

 nea"rly if not quite equal in quality. I am sorry for 

 the blunder that was made last year. Burpee tells 

 us, however, that a great number of seedsmen made 

 the same or a similar blunder, by paying for Amer- 

 ican Wonders and getting Premium Gems. 



BBB'S! 



If you keep HBliS. 

 subsci-ibe for the Pro= 

 gressive Bee=keeper, a 

 jourinil devoted to Bees, 

 Honej-, and kindred in- 

 dustries. ;>(> c't .s. />t'/- 

 yclir. Stimitle Cop>-, 

 also a beautifully illustnited catalogue of Bee- 

 keepers' supplies, FUKB. Address 

 LEAHY MFG. CO., HiGGINSVfLLE, MO. 

 0rin responding to this advertisement mention Glk.vnings. 



For Sale, 125 Bushels Freeman Potatoes. 



Grown from Wni. Ileniy Mauie's seed, at the fol- 

 lowing prices: two-bnshel sack, $4.25; one bu., $3.35; 

 V4 l)u.,$l.-35; 1 peck, 75t-; >i peck, 40c. Would t .\- 

 chaiige Freemans for a New Model garden seid- 

 driil. H. O. McELHANY. 



Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa. 



tyin responding to this advertisement mention Glkajjimj^ 



