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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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the same as they are offered in Chicago. 

 The little honey- gates will, foi' the present, 

 be 15 cts. eacli ; $1.25 for 10, or $10.00 per 100. 

 One honey-gate will answer for 100 cans or 

 more, as yon will observe. The air- 

 hole is easily stopped by means of a drop of 

 solder when the can is to be nsed again for 

 shipping. These cans liold exactly 5S lbs., 

 or 5 gallons, like the old iron jackets. The 

 price of a can crated singly is .50 cts. They 

 will, as a general rule, be shipped in pairs. A 

 stick, one inch sqnare, is laid over tlie tops 

 of the cans, before tlie cover is nailed. 



Gleanihcs in Bee Ccltcre. 



Published Seini-JTouthly . 



•i^- I. IROOT, 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Clulting Sates, See First Page of Keidit" Ihtter. 



We have to-day (April 1), 5240 subscribers. 



Ar>SlKE CLOVEIl. 



On immediate orders wc can furnish alsilie clover 

 at $8.C0 per bushel. If less than a bushel is wanted, 

 the price will be $4.2.5 por half-bushel; 12.25 per 

 peck, or 18 cts. per lb. 



BLUEBEIiHY-PI.ANTS. 



Since the letters were published in regard to 

 these, on another page, more of a similar import 

 have come in. If Mr. Delos Staples wants to refund 

 the money he has received for these dried twigs, he 

 may regain his good standing, but nothing else will 

 answer. 



wintering bees in a warm uoo.m. 

 The plan of wintering, on page 271, I tliirjk is a 

 mistake. In the first place, it is a very difficult mat- 

 ter indeed to make an upper room absolutoli' dark; 

 and after you have got it absolutely dark, my e.\- 

 pericnce has l)een that the bees will go out when 

 the temperature gets up to 63 or 70°. Although 

 there may be occasions when very strong colonies 

 would stay in their hives, as a rule I am sure it 

 would not work. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP. 



We have now a very fine lot of new maple sugar, at 7, 

 8, 9, and 10 cts. per lb., according to quality. By the 

 barrel of 520 lbs., one cent less. For the convenience 

 of those who want a sm':'ller package than a gallon, 

 of the new evaporated maple molasses, we have 

 the whole crop made by neighbor H., put up in 

 half-gallon cans at 60 cts. per can. Neighbor H. has 

 already, this 29th daj' of March, .500 maitle-trees on 

 his own grounds, dropping the crystal sap into new 

 tin pails, and one of the most modern evaporators is 

 to-day boiling it down into this maple syru]). The 

 half-gallon cans are tilled with the hot syrup in the 

 Eugarbush, and a screw cap is so arranged as to 

 seal them hermetically while hot, so they may 

 reach our customers in as nice shape as the best 

 canned fruit, Ten cans, 55 cts. cnch; 103, 50 cts, 

 pad). 



KIND WORDS OF SYMP.\THY SINCE THE LOSS OV 

 OUR W.IREHOUSE. 



I TAKK this Opportunity to thank the friends who 

 have written such very kind letters in regard to 

 our loss by fire, and to express my regret that it is 

 impossible for me to answer them individually, in 

 the kind way their letters seem to demand. If it is 

 indeed true, that the fire was the work of an enetny, 

 God's promise seems to begin to be verified already. 

 " Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee." 



AN OMISSION. 



The advertisements of W. H. Osborne, Chardon, O., 

 and C. Weckesser, Marshallville, O., should have 

 appeared in our last issue, as they do in this. In 

 writing about this, friend Osborne makes the fol- 

 lowing strong point: 



"Perhaps it has done no damage to me, but people seem to 

 liave more confidence in regular advertisements.'* 



Those who complain about not receiving a reply 

 from an advertisement inserted but once, would do 

 well to remember this. 



PERFORATED ZINC OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE. 



After some months of diligent toil we havebuild- 

 edahugc press, to be run by the engine, capable 

 of perforating sheets of zinc about as fast as a good 

 cow will chow up cabbage-leaves. The perforations 

 are exactly like those made in England, which 

 seem to give the best satisfaction, as a general 

 thing. Our machine, however, perforates sheets 

 only 28 inches wide by 8 feet long, making IS-'i 

 square feet in a sheet. Prices will be 10 cts. per 

 square foot, or $1.50 for a whole sheet, as above. 

 Two sheets, 5 per cent off; 10 or more sheets, 10 per 

 cent off. Samples mailed free on application. The 

 above low jn-ices are because we do not have to pay 

 duties to Canada, nor England either. 



OUR NEIGHBORS OF THE BEE-KEEPERS' MAGAZINE. 



A NEW pric3 list from the above firm (Aspinwall 

 &Treadwell, Barrytown on the Hudson) is at hand, 

 and it certainl3' is a novelty in some respects. The 

 picture of the factory, store, and shipping-house on 

 the banks of the Hudson is quite home-like, and 

 a description of their factory at the close of their 

 30-page catalogue has so much of the right ring in it 

 that I want to make a brief extract. After describ- 

 ing the difl'ercnt buildings, we read: 



The executive dcartment is seen on the ripht. There, sur- 

 rounded on fill sides by enoujrh paper to make a junk-dealer 

 hajiiiy, may be found your humble servants, jjentrini,' away at 

 their correspondence, always happy to be honored by either a 

 letter or order, however small, from jou. 



May much prosperity and manj' 3-ears of useful- 

 ness reward the new fli-m. 



WRITING LENGTHY ARTICLES. 



Friends, something must be done to enable us to 

 condense our ideas. It is not fair nor right to let 

 one man occup.y a great portion of the space in any 

 issue, to the exclusion of half a dozen others. Let 

 me suggest a little. Write more about your actual 

 experience, and less about your opinions. For in- 

 stance, we get long articles about reversible frames, 

 from somebody who has never used them, and who 

 opens upby saying hewouldn't have them in his api- 

 ary. Do we want such articles'/' .lust at present, I 

 do not believe that wc do. The same will apply, a 

 good deal of it, to the Heddon hive. What we 

 want now is facts from those who have been work- 

 ing with them. Let friend Heddon send some hives 

 to the friends in the South, where their bees are 

 working, and in two weeks' time they can give us 

 facti from experience. Please consider that we 

 are a great body, and wc want to hear from a great 

 many. Cut your articles off at both ouds, and glvo 

 up the meat. 



