1886 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



348 



Contents of this Number. 



Apiary, Location of 362 



Apiculture in Cornell Uni. .37H 



Banner Apiary 345 



Bark-lice 3fi8 



Bee Moth 363 



Bees in Texas 35ft 



Bees Emiprrating 3B3 



Bees, Mexican 3fi2 



Bees, Moving- in Winter 3.% 



Bees, Forcing in Sections.. .:<54 



]!ees, Bartluiided 365 



Bees. SfttinfT Out 3J6 



Book-Reviews 348 



Books on Entwines 366 



Bucket of water for Bees. .366 



Bumble-bees 349 



Circulars Received :M4 



Conventions 344 



Cyprus 358 



Drones Congregating 365 



Editorials 372 



Eggs, Sex of 362 



Florida ;K)9 



Goods by Express 374 



Heads of Grain :!6J 



Home Market 347 



Honey Column 314 



Honey from White Ash 373 



Honey, Coreopsis 357 



Honey, Poisonous 362 



Honey-trade :<63 



Honey-boards. Perf'd 373 



Horsepower for Hives 366 



House-apiaries 365 



Imitation of Or'd Honey... 366 



Iodine for Stings 364 



Italians vs. Blacks 368 



Jane Meek & Bro 351 



Kind Words 343 



Linden, European 865 



Linden from Seed 364 



Lindens 364 



Lindley's Report .■i47 



Market for Honey 354 



Microscopes 373 



New Zealand 360 



Notes and Queries 368 



Our Own Apiary 371 



Poultry-house, Our 367 



Privies 371 



yueen, Refusal to Accept.. 3.50 



Queens, Surplus 369 



Red-clove r Queens 349 



Reports Encouraging :-'6n 



Reversing Dark Honey ... 368 



Road-sides, Seeding 368 



Salt for Bees 356 



Sand-Bees 369 



Sex in Bees X,3 



Solar Wax-extractor 352 



Stings in Honey 369 



Stories, Upper, in Winter ..363 



Swarms in Forest 366 



Sweet Clover 369 



Ventilation, Upward 359 



Wint'g on Empty Comb 365 



Wintering Warm 348 



Wintering 357 



400 Lb 



i5. 



"^'^•J"^* Thin Foundation 



still on hand. The lot, 43c per lb.; 100 lbs., Uc; less, 



45c. Few lbs. more brood at 3.5c. 



9d H. L. aEAHAM, OEANDVIEW, LOUISA CO., IOWA. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



CHAPTER 12— HIT THE NAIL SQUARE ON THE HEAD. 



Friend R., we want to say that never, in our ex- 

 perience, have we read so good a chapter as No. 12. 

 page 220, Gleanings, March 1.5. You hit the nail 

 square on the head. I believe hundreds will thank 

 you for it. With best love and wishes. 



R. C. Taylor. 



National Cemetery, Fort Scott, Kans., Mar. 24, 1886. 



"THE OLD ROOT AND THE ROOTLET." 



I appreciate your efforts to give us the latest aud 

 best pertaining- to bees, carp, etc., and now as the 

 young " Rootlet" has come to the assistance of the 

 " old Root," I presume the tree of knowledge will 

 take a boom; iu fact, it has already started, and 1 

 wish it success. C. R. Schmeltzek. 



SchoU's Ferry, Oregon. 



now WE DO OUR ,JOB WORK. 



Friend Root:— I have had hundreds of dollars' 

 worth of printing done within three years, and con- 

 sider myself a good judge of job work, and can say 

 that the work you did on my " First Principles in 

 Ree Culture " is very fine, and fully meets my o.v- 

 pectations. G. K. Hubbard. 



La Grange, lud., March 20, 1886. 



A KIND WORD FOR GLEANINGS AND ITS WRITERS. 



Received the goods all right and in excellent con- 

 dition, packed by " Bert." They were eleven days 

 in transit. I just got my freight bill, $1.13; reason- 

 able enough for V2o lbs., the distance they came. I 

 am highly pleased with them. Every thing comes 

 together exactly right and true to nieasure. I am 

 a practical carpenter, but I can buy of you far 

 cheaper than I can make. As you seem to be criti- 

 cised on the moral.part of Gleanings, permit me 

 as a subscriber to say that part is very welcome 

 here. I was sorry to see friend Hutchinson disa- 

 gree with you, for I like his writings in Gle.\nings 

 very much. The information he gives is worth 

 more to me than I pay for Gleanings. And then 

 Doolittle— well, his contributions are second to 

 none, in my estimation, sub ram, not even to Nov- 

 ice himself. Now, as you have so many to cater 

 for, you must expect to step on some of our toes. 

 Per.sonally, I chew tobacco; there you step on my 

 toes; do I complain? Not much; you are too light 

 to hurt. I believe you think it wrong, but I don't. 

 I read your articles, however, for I like both sides 

 of a question. I think you are doing as you wish to 

 be done by; only give us the amount of bee-infor- 

 mation we get now, and I won't complain. 



Cape May City, N. J. Geo. W .Rlake. 



HOW shalij we keep the boys at home. 



The opcning-up of these diversified industries on 

 the farm not onlj' gives employment to persons of 

 different tastes, but makes counti-y life more at- 

 tractive, and will do much to answer the question 

 so often asked, " How shall we keep the boys on the 

 farm?" Your Home Papers have been helpful to 

 me, and 1 heartily sympathize with you in your ef- 

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 ples. Wm. C. Coombs. 



Lindale, O., Apr. 4, 1886. 



get aboard at the right station. 



I have been reading your A B C book, also some 

 of30ur old journals, and found ^?i6m. very intei-est- 

 ing. I have only one swarm of Italians. I wish to 

 increase my stock. I want a through ticket, and 

 wish to get aboard at the right station; therefore 

 please find inclosed one dollar for Gleanings for 

 this year. R. E. Harper. 



Hartsgrove, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. 



THE EDIT0RI.\L "WE." 



Friend Root: — I am glad to see that neither you 

 nor our Ernest young friend, who bids fair to be his 

 father's worthy successor, is addicted to what is 

 sometimes called the vice of " wegotism." I like 

 to see any one, even if he be an editor, give his 

 own opinions on his own responsibility, and not 

 cover it up with a we. and it seems ridiculous for 

 one who has reached the position of a "stump 

 speaker," or for an editor of a one-horse county 

 paper, to speak as if he represented a large and im- 

 portant constituency. You have my hearty sympa- 

 thy in regard to your loss. Burdett Hassett. 



Howard Center, Iowa. 



excellently packed. 



Please excuse me for not letting you know before 

 this that the goods purchased from you came to 

 hand all right. I have examined every article ex- 

 cept the comb foundation, and have found them all 

 right, and am much pleased with them all. They 

 were excellently packed— not a single thing either 

 broken or scratched by shipment. I am much 

 pleased with the ABC book. Its being in the form 

 of a cyclopaedia makes it very easy to find just 

 what we want at any time; and as to Gleanings, 

 I do not think a person could invest an honest 

 dollar in any thing else that would pay him better. 

 Please accept my sympathy on account of your re- 

 cent loss by fire. Fikm.\n Tettemer. 



Montgomery Citv, Mo., Mar. 29, 1886. 



kind words of sympathy by a fellow-soldier 



—OLD JACK. 



It was with deep feelings of regret that I read of 

 your heavy loss of propert.v in the loss of your 

 warehouse and contents, and the cruel loss of your 

 old family servant " poor old Jack;" but I think I 

 should rather be in your place than in the shoes of 

 that ])oor miserable specimen of humanity, with 

 the remorse of conscience that he must carry 

 through life, although it seems sometimes if such a 

 thing could be possible, that some folks were born 

 without any conscience, or had lost the very small 

 one they might have possessed. I am glad that 

 your factory and lumber was spared, and that yoil 

 are tfoing to be able to fill all orders; and I hope 

 the friends will all remember you In your misfor- 

 tune, and give you their orders, and will all be 

 blessed with good luck with their bees, so they will 

 prosper and need to send good large orders. May 

 the Lord ever bless .vou, and keep and prosper j'ou, 

 both spiritually and temporally, all of your days; 

 and may you finally receive the reward of the 

 righteous, is the best wishes of your friend and 

 fellow-soldier of the cross. D. H. Allen. 



Birney. Pa., March 29, 1886. 



[Poor faithful old Jack ! After giving a life of al- 

 most twenty j-ears of faithful service to our family, 

 letting each new baby learn to drive by holding his 

 lines, and learn to ride by trying to sit astride of his 

 great broad back; aftercarrying the whole family, 

 singly or collectively; after pulling boxes and pack- 

 ages through the mud, or our whole factory, almost, 

 and never flinching, poor faithful old Jack lost his 

 life by the burning of our warehouse. Mar. 7, 1886. 

 He was the special property of my wife, having 

 been raised by her father; and now the only me- 

 mento of this faithful old servant is a blackened 

 horseshoe. May God help us to remember these 

 household treasures while they are with us.] 



