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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



out the last of Api-il: and though the season has 

 boeu terribly dry they have grown on light sand 

 most vigorously; are magnificent plants, and are 

 loaded with globe-like flower -heads. The plant 

 looks srni? like a thistle, as wc might expect, as it 

 is a eoni])osite plant. The flowers opened July 20, 

 and each ball has a great many flowers, each of 

 which must l)e visited many times aday by the bees; 

 indeed, the flowers arc alive with bees from early 

 morn till late in the evening. Surely this thing of 

 beauty is a joy in a double sense. A. J. Cook. 



Agricultural College, Mich.. July 23, 1880. 



The iiiiiiie is from tlie Greek, cvJiiuojjs sij?- 

 iiifying hedgehog, and the phuit is Jilmost 

 exactly like a big thiit'ty thistle, ojily it beai's 

 roiiiur balls, as seen in the engraving. The 

 latter ])art of the name means "■ronnd- 

 headed." Now, if this plant furnished hon- 

 ey right along, day after day, for as many 

 iiionths as the ligwort does, it would proba- 

 bly, be ahead of any plant known on the 

 face of the earth. The spider-plant fur- 

 nishes a larger quantity of nectar, but it is 

 secreted only in the night, and gives ns 

 nothing in the daytime. It is also so thin 

 and watery that the amount of saccharine 

 matter is probably not as great as in the 

 Chapman plant The Chapinan plant yields 

 lioney about 20 days ; but by mowing off the 

 tops it can easily be made -U days later; it is 

 also much hardier than the spider phuit, and 

 would probably grow on poor soil where 

 even the ligwort woidd not amount to much. 

 There have been more bees at work on our 

 patch of ligwort for the last (iO days than I 

 I ever saw anywhere on the Chapman honey- 

 plant ; but the honey is not nearly so thick as 

 that from the latter. It may be a nice point 

 to determine which plant would be most 

 protitable. The Chapmafi plant will con- 

 tinue to blossom and yield honey for three 

 years, after it is once started. Dr. (!. C. Mil- 

 ler, who has experimented considerably, can 

 probably aid us right here; and in any case 

 we can thank God for this new revelation in 

 regard to the possibilities of cultivating 

 phuits for honey alone. Of course, friend 

 Chapman's bees" were not all at work in sec- 

 tions ; but colonies having young (jueens 

 just commencing to lay were storing at a 

 pretty fair rate, and tlie sections of honey 

 placed on the, table for examination were 

 taken froitt one of these colonies. 



The social element at frieiTd Chapman's 

 model bee-keepers' convention was a decided 

 success; and J echoed the thought of our 

 friend L. C. Uoot, that it would be an ex- 

 cellent thing if we could have more just 

 such informal open-air meetings of bee- 

 keepers, "l^y this shall ye be known of all 

 men, that ye have love one to another." 

 And how better can we demonstrate to the 

 great Father above that we are trying to 

 look np ill the spirit of our text to-day than 

 by showing our good will to each other V 

 '•I will be their (tod, and they shall shall be 

 my people." 



Tlio Iowa Statp lice-lcroper;,' Association will nioet on the 

 FaiiSJi-ounds in lies iMoincs, on Tuosdny, Sept. 7, 188G, at 2 P.M., 

 continiunfr in sossion ilnriiiff that anil tlio toUowing two or 

 tlutf (liys A lai'u-c and suhstantial tfnt has been secured, 

 and is ikiw at hand, tor tho use of thi' sonicty. Any or all of 

 tlif CdOi) iii-c kci-piTs ol onr State ai-e urgently ri-iincsted to be 

 pri'smt and lirlp make the meeting a )ili'.isi\iil ;iTid |indil:ible 

 one, and .-1 licnrlv invitation is extended to all visltint;- broth- 

 ers IroiM idher- States. O. < ). PoI'I'I.KTon, I'res. 



A. J. NoRKis, Secretary. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



I'uhllshed Svnil-Montldy . 



^^. I. I^OOT, 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Clabbing Bates, Geo First Page of Beadiss Matter. 



No good tiling will (iod withhold troni them that walk np' 

 rightly.— P.s. 81: II. 



URTNO FtTr,T. SHEETS OP TTTIN FOUNDATION FOR 



SECTIONS. 



n. A. Jones says, in the C. D. J. for July 38: 



Those wlio have not used lull sheets of section I'oundation in 

 their seolions, should tr.v it and observe the dilference in 

 iiuantity ol' honey secured, tinr exiieriments have fully con' 



should contain full sheets; and with 

 ition iounilation we are now m.aklng 

 ly backboiu' in the comb lionej'. 



vinced us that : 



the beautiful light s 



there is no danger of 



]n Scrihnci'f! McKjazinc for Nov., 187.5, is an inter- 

 esting article on long lil'e, and from it we quote the 

 following lines: 



Dcnuii-iitus. Pythagoras, and Pliny, tiwce their length of 

 days to the use of oil without and honey within. Two persons 

 in modern times .are UR'ntioned as having lived to the ages of 

 1(18 and ltd, who, dining the last half-century of their lives, 

 for their breakfast took only a little tea sweetened with lion- 



UEDUCTION IN THE IMMCE OF EXTItACTED HONEY. 



Foil the tirst time in our recollection, v,'c are able 

 t3 furnish a nice article of extracted honey for S!i 

 cts. per II)., paclmge included, providing a .^^S-lb. 

 package he taken at one lime; and for two such 

 packages we can make the price onl.v eight cents. 

 We make this discount on two, because two of our 

 square honey-cans ship so nicely in one case. For 

 10 cases, 20 cans in all (1100 lbs.), we will make the 

 price at only 7(2 cts. ]ier lb. This is for the best 

 (luallty of " Western Reserve " clover honey. For 

 basswood honey, equall.v good in evei-y respect, the 

 only dllt'erence being in tiavor, the price will be '2 

 cent loss. Now, then, if honey can not be used at 

 this price, in localities whore it is scarce, I shall be 

 much mistaken. 



ANOTtiren SERIES OF THE WATERBURV WATCHES. 



The first gross of series E is now on our hands. 

 While the watches are better made than any here- 

 tofore, there has been a reduction in price, so that 

 we can furnish single watches by mail, registered 

 and postpaid, at $3.75; two watches as aliove, at an 

 even $.5.00; live or more watches by express, for 

 «3 30 each. If ordered by mail, in lots of five, add 

 4.5 cents for postage and registry; or we will send a 

 watch i)ostpaid, and Gi-eaninos one year, for *3 00; 

 or a watch will be sent free as a premium for 5 sub- 

 scribers. Of course, Waterbury watches are liable 

 to fail, like all other pocket timepieces; and it 

 would be natural to suppose that, if they are fur- 

 nished at such c.rtremr.ly low figures, they could 

 hardly be expected to do as well as watches costing 

 $10.00 or more. We think, however, that the cost 

 of keeping them in repair is, as a rule, much less 

 than with any other pocket timepiece at any price. 



THE OLD AMERICAN ZINC, AOAIN. 



Although the great ma.iority have reported 



favorably to the perforated zinc of our raanufac- 



I ture, some few have claimed that the queens pass- 



