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GLEANIKGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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GlEAKmC S m BEE CULTURE. 



J^. I. -ROOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



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 OF READING MATTER. 



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Several articles with illustrations la regard to 

 reversible frames are Id type, but no room for them 

 in this issue. Look out for them next time. 



valuable, but altogether too long for our pages. 

 George House makes some very good remarks in re- 

 gard to the adulteration of comb honey. Mr. Aspin- 

 wall follows up with a valuable paper. He tells that 



J Thurber & Co., of New York, are putting up comb 



j honey in glass jars with a label on it, stating that the 

 liquid surrounding the honey in the comb is partly 



1 corn syrup, and is put ia to prevent granulation- 

 Now, if the corn syrup is nice, without any sulphur- 



I ic acid about it (and I guess the Thurbers are equal 

 to the task of furnishing pure and wholesome foods 

 of almost any description), I do not see what is the 

 harm, if people want to buy it so. Comb honey in 

 glass jars must have something surrounding it that 

 won't candy, if it is to be a succef s. 



Beeswax seems to stand still a little just now, and 

 for immediate shipments we can furnish wax, com- 

 mon run, for 38 cents. "We still pay 33 cents cash, 35 

 trade. 



We are out of the July number for 1883, and will 

 pay 5 cents for them till further notice. 1 don't 

 dare to offer 10 cents just yet, because we got such a 

 lot of them when we offered 10 cents for certain 

 numbers a few weeks ago. 



THE FLOOD. 



Many of the trains are stopped by loss of bridges, 

 and therefore please don't be Impatient if some of 

 your orders are not filled as promptly as usual. The 

 goods are loaded on a car, ready to go as soon as 

 trains run. 



ALSIKE CLOVER SEED. 



I AM sorry, friends, but I can not help it. Alsiko 

 has commenced already to go up, and is now worth 

 $12.00 per bushel; $8.50 per half -bushel; *4.00 per 

 peck, or 23 cents per pound. If any one has any for 

 sale, at a price not to exceed *10.50, I shoiiMVie glad 

 if he would send a sample, and tell how mnch he has. 



Rfports in reg-ird to wintering are at present 

 very favorable. Severe weather in December and 

 January seems to have done no particular harm. 

 The warm, pleasant weather during the month of 

 February seems to be quite universal; and in the 

 Southern States, fruit-trees are in bloom, and honey 

 is coming in plentifully. 



CAN NOT VERY THIN FDN. BE USED FOR WTREO 

 FRAMES? 



This is a question that Is coming before us re- 

 peatedly, and we have had a sufficient number of 

 reports to settle the matter, I think. Of course, if 

 the fdn. is made 8 or 10 square feet to the pound, 

 bees will not have so much wax to build the comb; 

 but as fdn. is now pretty high, and the thin will an- 

 swer equally well togot all worker combs after there 

 is no danger of the sagging of the wires, there is no 

 objection that I know of, where one wishes to econ- 

 omize in that way. We can now make L. sheets for 

 wired frames without much trouble, as thin as 8 

 sheets to the pound. Where the honey- flow was 

 quite moderate, perhaps the bees might bo more 

 likely to bite the fdn. away around the wires, than 

 with that which runs 4 or .5 sheets to the pound. 



FEEDING IN FEBRUARY. 



Only one colony of bees lost so far, up to to-day, 

 Feb. 13. Many of them are full of brood, and quite a 

 number have to be fed. As severe weather is liable 

 to occur at any moment, we have decided to give 

 them one-pound cakes of the old style bee-candy, 

 described in the ABC book. I have never fed any 

 thing better or safer for winter feeding. We run it 

 into the little square tins which we use for making 

 one-pound maple-sugar cakes, and place this cake 

 under the Hill device — over the cluster. I should 

 not dare to commence feeding maple sugar so early. 

 Another thing, the candy made of granulated sugar 

 costs little If any more than the maple-sugar cakes, 

 and it is certainly a great deal purer. 



With the large increase of the sub3cri tio' .istto 

 Gleanings, cnmes a corresponding omouE of mat- 

 ter sent in for publication. The quantity of manu- 

 scripts 8 head is now so great that we can use but a 

 small part of it; in fact, a great pile of long articles 

 have been waiting not only weeks but months for 

 me to get time ti) read them. Worse than all, quite 

 a number of the friends insist on my giving space to 

 matter that is. in my opinion, of only secondary Im- 

 ponancc. They urge that I have closc-d the subject 

 at a point whore it does them injustice. As theop- 

 posiie pfiity often fe< !■< the same way about it, there 

 will be really n) stopping-plflco; and so in default of 

 being alile to lind a go"d place to stop, I have de- 

 cided to stop in ji had pirtcp. In one case I am 

 threatened if I do not allow the writer spnce to set 

 himself right, before the i)efiple. Now, while lam 

 anxious to live at peace with all men, if there has 

 got to be a free fight todecide what shall or shall not 

 occupy the pages of Gleanings, let the fight come; 

 I am going to do what I think best and wisest for 

 all concerned, not even forgetting our juvenile prat- 

 tlers; and if F get some bruises in the fray, I will try 

 to think I got them in what 1 thought to bo a good 

 cause. 



COTNVENTION NOTICES. 



The Western Bee-Keepers' Association will hold 

 the spring meeting, April 24, 1884, at Independence, 

 Mo. CM. Crandall, Sec'y. 



The North-eastern Michigan Ree;keppers' Associ- 

 ation will hold its second annual meeting, Wednes- 

 day. March .5, 1884. at the Court-house in Lapeer. 

 Hotel rates reduced to |I 00 per day. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec'y. 



COMB honey in corn SYRUP. 



OuRth&nksarc due to friend Aspinwall, of the 

 Bee-Keepem' Magazine, for a, report of theE. N. Y. 

 B. K. A., over two yards long. The report is quite 



The regular annual meeting of the Eastern Iowa 

 and Western Illinois Bee-Ktepers' Aspocifltion will 

 he held at Moore's Hall, No. i:0 East Third Street, 

 Davenport, Iowa, on Thursdav, Friday, and' Satur- 

 day, February 2], 22, and 23, 1884. 



J. J. Naglk, Secretary. 



