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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 15. 



Contents of this Number. 



Bees Expellinir Water 609 



Bees, Raising Large 50() 



Bees, Stingless, in Yucatan.. 511 



Bee-enemy, New 493 



Bee-keeping, Migratory 49t 



Bee-keeping in Germany.. .611 



CauliHower Culture •'JIK 



Comb, Drone, To Prevent... .''08 



Cramps m Queens 507 



Ecnoes from Rambler 60.") 



Editor at Dan "White's .519 



Eggs. Bees Removing 5 6 



Evergreen Corn 619 



Free Trade, etc 506 



Frost, Protecting from 618 



Galvanized Iron 514 



Glucose and Grape Sugaj... 610 

 Hives, 8 and 10 Frame. .. .502, 503 



Hives. Size of 604 



Hives, Shade for 609 



Hives, Harbison 499 



Honey, apple-blossom 512 



Honey, Comb, To Secure 601 



Honey-dew Honey 493 



Honey for Children ."JP^ 



Out-apiary R-'pository 404 



Queens from Drone-cells 497 



Q"eens, Rnising 507 



Rambler Packing Hives 497 



Raspberry, Gault 521 



Rice, A. A.. 514 



Seed, Planting Good 519 



Shade for Hives 609 



Smokers, to Light 502 



Spiicer. Stephens 512 



Stingless Bees in Yucatan. . .511 



Supers, When to Put on 510 



Sweet Clover a Weed 511 



Sweet Clover on New Land. .512 



Svrup. Sugar 496 



Tariff on Honey 505 



Zinc for Honey-utensils 614 



Wants or Exchange Department. 



Notices will be inserted 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 department, 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.— To exchange several good safety bi- 

 cycles. Honey wanted. Send sample. 



J. A. Green, Ottawa, 111. 



WANTED.— To exchang-e 200 colonies of bees for 

 any thing useful on plantation. 



Anthony Opp, Helena, Ark. 



WANTED.— To exchang-e 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 of June 1 issue. 

 B. Walker, Evart, Mich. 



WANTED.— To exchange a good 6-inch Vandervort 

 foundation-mill or 1000 and less of empty L. 

 brood combs, A No. 1, for ofifers. 



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



WANTED.— To exchange 20 second-hand chaff 

 hives, for a good second-hind Safety bicycle. 

 J. G. Townsknd, 31 Linden Ave., Jamestown, N. Y. 



WANTED.— To exchange full colonies and 4 and 5 

 frame nuclei, for hammer and hanimerless 

 guns and gold watches. All Italians on L. frames. 

 Address L. Wer.n'eu, Edwardsville, 111. 



WANTED— To exchange alfalfa honey (comb or 

 strained) for one pneumatic safety bicyle, 

 clincher tire preferred. Must be as good as new; 

 '93 or '94 model. Give full description in first letter. 

 D. S. Jenkins, Las Animas, Col. 



WANTED.— Registered Poland-China Pigs, Jersey 

 lieifer calves, for 6-banded queens. 



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



M„THc HONEY 

 ^^^^^^ EXTRACTOR. 



Square Glass Honey- Jars, 

 Tin Buckets, Bee-hives, 

 Honey Sections, Etc., Etc. 

 Perfection Cold-blast Smokers. 

 APPLY TO 



CHAS. F. MUTH & SON, Cincinnati, 0. 



p. S.— Send 10-ct. stamp for " Practical Hints to Bee-keepers.' 

 fSTln responding to this advertisement mention Gleanings. 



Italian 



golden or 3-band- V^UCCllS. 

 ed leather-colored. Untested, $1.00 each; one- 

 half dozen, $4.50. Tested, *1.,50 each. Select 

 tested, $2..50 each. Extra select tested, fine 

 breeding queens, $3.50 each. 



E. A. SEELEY, Bloomer, Ark. 



Golden Queens llTJ^^^h 



for business, beauty, and gentlem ss. Safe arrival 

 and satisfaction guaranteed. 



21G well-filled 1-lb. sections is what I took from 

 one colony in '93, containing a queen bought of you. 

 J. A. Whitaker, Oak Cliff, Texas. 

 Warranted queens, $1.00 each. 



J. D. GIVENS, Box 3, Lisbon, Texas. 



HiA/AC inf ^jiIa Having gone out of the farm- 

 IIIVC^ lUl oaiC. j„g. business, I have 12 Chau- 

 tauqua and 16 chaff' hives, all new, for sale at half 

 the cost of new ones. J. Q. Townsend, 



31 Linden Ave., Jamestown, N. Y. 



J- 



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Bingham Perfect Smokers. 



Cheapest and Best on Earth. 

 Patented 1878, 1882 and 1892. 



Have all our new improvements. 



T. F. Bingham, 



Abronia, Mich. 



|9*In responding to this advertisement mention OLEANiNea. 



5=Banded Golden Italian Queens. 



Untested, each, 75c; 6 for $4.35. Best only. Try 

 them and l)e pleased. 



CHAS. H. Thies, Steeleville, Illinois. 



Read what J. 1. Parent, of 

 Charlton, N. Y., says — "We 

 cut with one of your Combined 

 Machines last winter 50 chaff 

 hives with 7-inch cap, 100 honey- 

 racks, 500 broad frames, 3,000 

 honey-boxes, and a great deal of 

 other work. This winter we 

 have doubled the amount of bee- 

 hives, etc., to make, and we ex- 

 pect to do it all with this saw. 

 It will do all you say it will." 

 Catalogue and Price List free. Address W. F. & 

 JOHN BARNES, 545 Ruby St., Rockford, 111. 



When more convenient, orders for Barnes' Foot- 

 Power Machinery may be sent to me. A. I. Root. 

 eoitf Please mention this paper 



Black and Hybrid Queens For Sale. 



For the benefit of friends who have black or hybrid queens 

 which they wish to dispose of, we will insert notices as below, 

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

 We do this liei^ause there is hardly value enough in these 

 queens tn \r.t\ f,>i- Imyint; them up aiid keeping them in stock, 

 imd yet it i> uftintinics iniite an accommodation to those who 

 can iiot alfcii<l hiKhei -)>rioe(l ones. 



I have 30 hybrid queens for sale at 30 cts. each, or 

 4for$l.(X). They are last year's queens. Address 

 Albert Hines, Box 532, Independence, la. 



About 13 nice young prolific mismated Italian 

 queens for sale at 30 cts. eacli, or 4 for $1.00. A good 

 sliare of their bees are yellow. W. F. Stuart. 



Box 439 Ottawa, Kan. 



