552 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1. 



and I did not find her till too late. They issur d 

 again May 11th. The first queen-cell for the 

 first hive was capped May lOth, and for the 

 second hive May 15th. R. F. Ritchie. 



Rumford, A''a., June 8. 



[Can't we lay it down that first swarms will 

 not generally come forth without a capped 

 queen-cell in the hive? — Ed.] 



Know ye not .... th.-it ye are not your own ! for ye are 

 bought with a price.— I. COR. 6; 19. 20. 



An exchange says: "If you stop to answer 

 every fool, you won't have much time to talk 

 with sages." 



Bro. York has made a visit to Dr. C. C. Mil- 

 ler, and will tell about it in an early issue of 

 the American Bee Journal. Say, Bro. York, 

 it is a splendid thing for editors to rub against 

 bee-keepers. We get inspiration and helpful 

 suggestions every time we venture out. 



One of the oldest, most extensive, and most 

 practical bee-keepers of the Pacific coast, Mr. 

 R. Wilkin, of Newhall, Cal., writes: "I am 

 trying hard to save my bees. Some are letting 

 them starve." Fi'om various sources we learn 

 that there will be very little California honey 

 on the market this year, except last year's 

 honey, and this will be scarrce. 



We have just learned with surprise that the 

 Bee-keeper's Quarterly, published by James 

 Heddon, at Dowagiac, Mich., a new paper that 

 was started last April, is ruled out of the mails 

 as not being eligible as second-class matter. 

 Mr. Heddon has sent out a circular letter to 

 the subscribers of that paper, placing the re- 

 sponsibility for all this upon " some who recent- 

 ly have left no stone unturned to do up Hed- 

 don." And in connection with this he refers to 

 the "opposition of some supply-dealers," and a 

 certain "jealous interference." He does not 

 say in just so many words that supply-dealers 

 are back of it all, but the inference is that way. 

 We are sure that no supply-dealer has had any 

 thing to do with it whatever; certainly we have 

 not, for we should never have supposed that his 

 journal could have been rejected on the ground 

 that it contained too much advertising for its 

 publisher, or any other ground. The fact is, 

 the Department at Washington is watching 

 new publications with extraordinary vigilance, 

 and many have been thrown out. Burton L. 

 Sage's first paper, as legitimate a publication, it 

 seems to us, as was ever issued, the Bee-keep- 

 er's Enterprise, was rejected. 



the JUNE NUMBER OF THE CANADIAN BEE 

 .JOURNAL 



contains quite a picture-gallery. The first 

 half-tone shows the apiary of the Goold, Shap- 

 ley & Muir Co., which, we are told, is in Mr. 

 Holiermann's yard. AVe presume it is here 

 that all the new-fangled notions are tested and 

 tried, and where its editor gathers some of his 

 inspiration and material that graces the pages 

 of his journal. Over on the next page is a half- 

 tone portrait of Bro. York, and right beside 

 him is— well, the associate editor of Gleanings. 

 Bro. York and ourself sat in the same chair at 

 the last meeting of the N. A. B. K. A. at Chica- 

 go, awd Bro. Holtermann sees nothing inappro- 

 priate in putting our two faces on the same 

 page, side by side. Well, we always did like to- 

 be seen in good company. 



But what graces the pages of the journal 

 more than any thing else is a couple of fine- 

 half-tones showing the editor's family. And 

 well he may be proud of them. 



CONDITIONS FAVORABLE TO THE GROWTH OF 

 BASSWOOD-TREES 



The trees in our bass wood orchard— some 

 4000 of them on 10 acres— are fairly loaded' 

 down with bloom — something that has not hap- 

 pened before in several years. The scarcity of 

 bloom in the past years was partly owing to the 

 fact that the ground was a little swampy, and 

 last spring it was drained out. As it is, these 

 trees have not done nearly as well in the same 

 length of time as some other trees on dryer 

 ground in the forest or in the shade of build- 

 ings. We have a few handsome basswoods on 

 the north side of our main building; and al- 

 though tHey are only ten years old, they are 

 seven inches in diameter, and as high as the 

 building. Trees planted at the same time, oa 

 the same street, in the open, are not nearly as 

 large and thrifty. We have a few basswoods 

 "over home," on ground well drained that 

 were set out some four or five years ago, that 

 are just beauties. Indeed, they are larger and 

 more handsome than the majority of trees in 

 the basswood orchard that have been growing- 

 for 23 years. Lack of proper shade, such as & 

 forest affords, and, to a larger extent, lack of 

 proper drainage, has made this great differ- 

 ence. 



OUR BASSWOOD APIARY— WORKING UNDER 

 DIFFICULTIES. 



We have just located an out-apiary in our 

 basswood orchard. We selected the poorest- 

 marked bees in our apiary, including a few hy- 

 brids, and placed them here away from our gen- 

 eral queen-rearing yard. 



By the way, we had quite a time in getting 

 those bees down to the orchard. We were 

 bound they should go last night, in spite of ob- 

 stacles. The team was not available ; hives 

 were not ready, and, besides, it looked "awful- 

 ly " like rain, and a regular downpour at that. 



