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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15. 



Contents of this Number. 



Bees, SmokinK, in Supers 422 



Bees in Shi pning-cage 420 



Bees on the Islands 407 



Book Aerents. Agrain 432 



Brood, Spreading 413 



California, Failure of Crop. 417 

 Cages Should be Marked . . .423 



Cans, Waxing 4()4 



Comb-leveler. Aldrich's 421 



Covers, Sealed, Ahead 423 



Cowan Extractor 413 



Cowan, Card from 414 



Cows in Garden 431 



Echoes from Rambler 414 



Editor at Creston Again 42fi 



Exchange, Bee keepers' 412 



Extractor, Cowan 413 



Feeder, Manum's Suspended.410 



Foul Brood, Book on 425 



Frame-spacer, Stephens 417 



Galvanized Iron for Cans.. ..404 



Heddon's Second Reply 4I.'i 



Hive. Ten frame. Ahead 423 



Honey, Marketing Califor'a.412 

 Honey-dew, What isl 421 



Introducing, Time of 420 



Intvoducing-cage, German .406 



Journals, Matter in 424 



Manum on Starvation 410 



Manu m 's Feeder 410 



Maple Syrup. Small Crop.... 423 



Non-swarmer. Proposed 421 



Paralysis, is it Curable? . . . .42.'i 



Percolator a Success 419 



Plan -beds 428 



Prosecution, Newman on 424 



Queens. Surplus, To Keep.. ..407 



Rambler at Clareraont 408 



Soap, Manum on. 410 



Statistics this Spring 424 



Stephens Spacer. The 417 



Sunflowers f->r Shade 422 



Swarming, P'-evention of. . 40.") 



Svrup from Percolator 419 



Terms. Bee Shorter 421 



Transplanting to^ls 426 



Vaniila Fl.ivor in Honey 423 



Veil How to Wear 410 



Wall Pa].er.To CIe.an 422 



'Waxing Cans 404 



Wants or Exchange Department. 



Notices will be insei'ted under this head at one-half our usu- 

 al rates. All advertisements intended for this department 

 must not exceed five lines, and you must say you want your 

 adv't in this denartment, or we will not be responsible for er- 

 rors. You can have the notice as many lines as you please, 

 but all over five lines will cost you according to our regular 

 rates. This department is intended only for bona fide ex 

 changes. Exchanges for cash or for price lists, or notices of- 

 fering articles for sale, can not be inserted under this head 

 For such our regular rates of 20 cts. a line will be charged, and 

 they will be put with the regular advertisements. We can not 

 be responsible for dissatisfaction arising from these "swaps." 



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ANTED.— Situation in apiary for tlie coming 

 season. A. T. Ball, South Sebec, Maine. 



WANTED.— To excliange extra thin foundation, 

 and fine extracted lioney, in 60-lb. cans, for bees 

 by the pound, nucleus colonies, and queens. 



R. C. AiKiN, Loveland, Colo. 



WANTED.— To exchange several good safety bi- 

 cycles. Honey wanted. Send sample. 



J. A. GuEEN, Ottawa, 111. 



WANTED.— To exchange 300 colonies of bees for 

 any thing useful on plantation. 



Anthony Opp, Helena, Ark. 



WANTED.— To exchange Root's goods, at his 

 prices, to be shipped from here or factory, for 

 white comb honey (crop of '94 preferred) in quan- 

 tity lots. See ad. in another column. 



B. Walker, Evart, Mich. 



WANTED.— To exchange 1 treadle Novelty print- 

 ing-press, chase 10x14, lot of type, rules, bor- 

 ders, etc., valued at $60.00 (sample of work on appli- 

 cation!, for registered Jersey heifer, section-boxes, 

 Hallock potato-planter, or offers. 



J. F. Michael, German, Darke Co., O. 



WANTED.— To exchange large extractor, yellow 

 Italian queens, fancy nuclei, hives, choice straw- 

 berry-plants, for books, groceries, or honey. 

 Mrs. Oliver Cole, Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y. 



WANTED.— A young man with some experience 

 in bee-keeping would like a position with a 

 practical apiarist, where he can thorouglily learn 

 the business. F. C. .Tones, Jr., 



99 South 10th St., Newark, New Jersey. 



WANTED.— To exchange card printing-press and 

 outfit complete for portable blacksmith outfit 

 or offers. O. D. Belding, Claremont, Va. 



WANTED.— To exchange pure R. C. St. Bernai'd 

 puppies for offers. Registered stock on both 

 sides. Would like a 10-inch photoliurnislier. 



Scott Brillhart, Millwood, Knox Co., O. 



WANTED.— To excliange one Columbia Safety 

 bicycle for any tliiug I can use; also Inive to 

 exchange bees in 8-f i-une L. hives, foundation, jind 

 break-joint honey-boards. Want beeswax. 



E. H. McFarland, Hyde Park, Vermont. 



WANTED.— To exchange for 300 lbs. clover comb 

 honey or safety bicycle, Appleton's American 

 Cyclopedia, 17 vols., sheep, latest edition, and in per- 

 fect condition. Reason for selling, I have the 

 Britanniea. Honey to be delivered July 1. 



J, B. Enos, 209 Main St., Connellsville, Pa. 



WANTED.— To exchange a good 6-inch Vandervort 

 foundation-mill or 1000 and less of empty L. 

 brood combs, A No. 1, for offers. 



J NO. Nebel & Son, High Hill, Mo. 



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ANTED. — Situation in apiary ov market garden. 

 References given. Wm. K. Bryce, 



310 S. Dewitt St., West Bay City, Mich. 



id Queens For Sale. 



For the benefit of friends who have black or hybrid queens 

 which they wi;<h to dispo-^e of, we will insert notices as below, 

 first insertion free of charge. After the first, 10 cents per line. 

 We do this because there is haidly value enough in these 

 queens to pay for buying them up arid keeping them in stock, 

 and yet it i- oftentimes quite an accommodation to those who 

 can not afford higher-priced ones. 



Mismated Carniolans from imported mothers, 40c 

 each; a few hylirids, 3.5c each. By return mail. 

 Mrs. Fr-^nk Benton, Charlton Heights, Md. 



Friends, I have eight young hybrid queens for 3C 

 cts. each, or 4 for $l.ii0; also ten mismated Italians 

 at 40c each, or 4 for $1.3.5, and two queens, the work- 

 ers of which are nearly all black; about one bee 

 in a dozen sliows a little yellow; you may havt 

 these at the same price as mismated. 



H. G. QtJiRiN, Bellevue, Huron Co., Ohio. 



SECTIONS CHEAP! 



Until sold, we will sell tlie sections listed below ii 

 quantities of 500 or more at $1.50 per thousand fo; 

 creams, and fl.OO per thousand for No. 3. AH 4^^ 

 4>4 sections, open two sides. 



41,000 3 inch cream. 37,000 2 inch No. 3. 

 47,000 IK " " 91,000 lii " 



116,000 1% " " 30,0001% " 



134.000 7 to ft. " 87,000 llg " 



3.53,000 7 to ft. No. 3. 



PAGE <£ KEITH. NEW LONDON. WIS. 



iSfln responding to this advertisement mention Glkaninqs. 



Bees and Supplies 



Always on hand. Send for circular. 



I. J. Striiiii-hniu, I05 I'nrU l^lace. A". 



NOW IS YOUR CHANCB 



To buy clieap. Bee-keepers' Supplies, hives, sec 

 tions, fdn., etc. Write for price list. EOOT'S QOODS. 

 ^OHlSr JSEBEI. * SOA% Ni^ti Hill, Aio. 



BEES FOR SALE. 



Italian, $4.00. Hybrids, $3..50. All in S-fram^ 

 Langstroth liives. WILLIAM I DEN. 



ETNA GREEN, INDIANA, 



BEES! BEES! BEES! 



If you coiitemi)lati' buying bees and queens thi 

 coming season, write to LEININGER BROS, foi' price 

 whicli will suit you. FT. JENNINGS, 0. 



Order No. 37,289 was filled in good order. T an 

 well pleased. The hives and sections are the fines ' 

 I ever saw. Every thing flis up nice. 



Elmgrove, Mo., Apr. 3. Geo. W. Kern. 



THE CRANE SMOKER OUT OF SIGHT. 



Tlie supplies ordered of you were received al 

 right except 4 end-pieces of hives, which were spli 

 off. That Crane smoker is out of siglit. I considei 

 it good enough for any one. I am more than pleas 

 ed with tliose Hoffman frames, they are so easy t( 

 handle. All of the goods received are first-class. 



Patrouville, lud., April 38. R. B. Larkin. 



