640 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 15. 



Contents of this Number. 



Bees, Ahnormal ...660 



Bees, Handling at Nighr. 660 



Beginners' Department 661 



Bi cycle as a Dray 660 



Bicycles, Women Riding ...663 



Brood in Sections 6-")6 



Brood, Dead 661 



Colony of 12 Bees 662 



Comb in Brood-nest 641 



Cuba Letter 651 



Discussion, Root-Hatch 6 2 



Editor at Lakeside 666 



Kax. 



.6.6 



Foul Brood, Phenol Cure 647 



Frames, 8 or 10, Ph.n on or.i 



Fuel, Smoker.... 6«)i) 



Hive, 8 or 10 Frame 6.^3 



Hives Small 6,')3 



Medicines. Value of 6.'i.5 



Onion, Potato, Stalks on. . . .668 



Patent Offlee 660 



Phenol Cure 647 



Pomona College 6.'il 



Oueens. Good and Bad 662 



Rambler at Spanish .MissionOiO 



Reports. Good a nd Bad 8.59 



Starvation and Paralysis — 648 



Stings, Painful 661 



strawberry. Sterling 668 



Strawberry, Timbrell ... 664 



Sugar for Cages 662 



Swarming. Millci's Plan 6.58 



CONVENTION NOTICES, 



The bee-keeper.s of Utah will hold their semi-annual conven- 

 tion at Salt Lake City, Oct. 4 1891, J. C SWANKR.Sec. 



The Quarter Centennial Meiting of the North American Bee- 

 keepers' Association will be held at St. .lo-eph. Mo., Oct. 16. 17, 

 18.1894. It is the first convention ol the N .\. B. K. A. beyond 

 the western bank of the Mississippi and large delegations 

 from the great West will be present. We hope the East, the 

 North, and the South will gather with them, 



Frank Bekton, Sec'.y. 



U. S. Department of .\griculture, Washington, D. C. 



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

 We do this because there is hardly value enough in these 

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

 and yet it is oftentimes quite an accommodation to those who 

 ean not afford higher-priced ones. 



Fine young- liybrids and mismated queens from 

 iiiilural cells, 20 and 30 ct.s. each. 



C. Gr. Fenn, Washington, Conn. 



Twent.v mismated Italian queens, most of tiiem 

 three and four bands; they can work red clover; 

 30ets. each; 4 for $1.00. 



G. R. KouT/AHN, Menallen. Adams Co., Pa. 



About 10 black and hybrid queens that I traded 

 for, 35c each; all appear to he good laying- qurens. 

 P. .7, Thomas, Fiedonla, Kan. 



Yellow to tip mismated queens from Doollttle's 

 best breeder, Soc; 5 for $1.00. 



H, G. QuiRiN, Bellevue, Oliio. 



Thirteen hybrid and mismated queens of this and 

 last year's reaiing, at rioc, or 5 for $1 tO. Some have 

 one wing- clipped. 



J. P. F. Smith, Liberty, Clay Co., Mo. 



Busisiess ^is33ns. 



On account of a few hybrid drones that may be 

 flying In the air this year 1 will sell my all-golden-to- 

 tip queens, untested, unwarranted, but am satisfied 

 90 per cent are purely mated and will produce 4 and 

 5 banded bees, :it .50 cts. apiece. Order some, test 

 them, and be convinced. 



WM. A. SELSER, Wyncote, Pa. 



tS"Inr2sponding to th)« advertisement mention lij^KAND'ufi 



California Dried Fruit. 



I have for sale over two ton.s of (iiicd Apiicots, 

 and am peiniittefl to left'r to A. 1. Root in regard to 

 1 he good qualit.^' of my piothict. I'rice— 8 cts. pei- 

 11). here; or if yon will write inc whiic you are locat- 

 ed I will give prices 1)\ IIh' hai id. ilclhcred at \oiii- 

 station. WM. STli.^^J£,^;sc^N, 



SO Orange Grove Ave. J*asadetia, C^nl. 



Woodcliff A No. 1. 



In order to introduce my strain of beautiful yel- 

 low Wooclclit'f Queens, which are bred from 

 an imported leather-colored Italian crossed with 

 the best5-banded stock I can procure by Doolittle 

 method, I will sell guaranteed purely mated un- 

 tested queens at 75 cts. each. As I produce large 

 quantities of comb honey. I bree^ principally for 

 laige honey-gatherers. Apiaries near Philadelphia. 

 Address 



WM. A. SELSER, Wyncote, Pa. 



Adel Queens and Bees. 



A new strain of l)eauliful yellow-banded bees 

 Queens, each, $1,00, 



H. ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 



Colonies Italian Boes'v!^^?^' Cii!: 



$:15U, Bees, t50c a lb. Tested Italian (lueens, 60c; 

 untested queens, 5(lc. ( 'an send :it once. Address 

 Otto Kleinow, ii8 Military Ave., Detroit, Mich. 



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 nor 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. Exchangesfor cash or for price lists, or notices of- 

 fering articles for sale, ean 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." 



WANTED.— To exchange several good safety bi- 

 cycles. Honey wanted. Send .sample. 



J, A. Gkken, Ottawa, 111. 



WANTED.— To exchange 200 colonies of bees for 

 any thing useful on plantation. 



Anthony Opp, Helena, Ark. 



WANTED.— To exchange yellow Italian queens, or 

 nuclei of bees, for fnuiidation or 1-lb. sections. 

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



WANTED,— Parties having extracted honey for 

 sale to send to my address sample and imce. 

 Give name of kind of honey. W. T, Zink. 



Nichols, Greene Co., Mo. 



Vl/ANTED.— To exchange one new and several 

 W extra good second hand bicycles, and .500 60-lb. 

 screw-cap cms, for clioice comb or extracted honey. 

 Mail sample. J. A Bttchanan & Son. 



HoUidays Cove, W. Va. 



WANTED.— To exchange for extracted honey one 

 Simplex incubator and brooder combined, 160 

 eggs. One Noxa.l brooder, 200 chicks, used only one 

 season, price $20.00, J. T. Van Petten. 



Linn, Kan. 



WANTED.— To exchange White and Brown Leg- 

 horn thoroughbred poultry foranything useful. 

 John W. Wagner, 3401 S Grand Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 



ANTED— To exchange for honey, foundation, 

 or ott'ers, 75 hives at 30c each. f. o. b. .Toliet. 

 V. E. Freeman, .loliet. Ills. 



W 



WANTED. -500 Greenville strawberry-plants or 

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



W 



ANTED.— To buy quantity lots of white comb 

 and dark extracted honey. B. Walker. 



Evart, Mich. 



WANTED.— To exchange four-horse engine and 

 boiler, u))right boiler and iiorizontal engine, 

 F't. Wayne pattern, ill good order, with new grates 

 and smokestack, for extracted honey or offers, 

 W. H, WORLEY. 7th and Johnson St., Keokuk, la. 



