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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 



Or Department for duties to bo attended to 

 tills month. 



fmiEND ROOT:—! see by Feb. Gleanings of the 

 15th that your bees are light of stores. Proba- 

 — ' bly there never was a year when there were 

 so many in the United States; and probably you 

 could not do a greater favor to your many readers 

 than to tell how the candy is made, and give a de- 

 scription of the Hill device in your next issue. T 

 have not the A B C, and thousands of others have 

 not. Geo. W. Battey. 



Scipioville, Cay. Co., N. Y., Feb. 23, 1884. 



Making- candy is a very simple matter, 

 friend B. Just put some granulated sugar 

 into a tin pan ; pour on a liitle water, just as 

 you would to make molasses ; then boil it 

 tmtil it sugars otf by stirring in a saucer. 

 When it grains nicely, and gets hard when 

 cold, take the pan from the fire, stir it until 

 it gets about as thick as you can spoon it 

 out, then ladle it into small pans cr basins, 

 greased a little so the cakes will come out 

 readily, and let it cool. If you are a new 

 hand at the business, try say one pound un- 

 til you are sure you won't burn it, and know 

 how to cook it just hard enough, i.ay these 

 cakes right over the cluster. There is no 

 particular need of any Hill device so late in 

 the spring as this ; but you will see a picture 

 of this in the price list, if you do not under- 

 stand it. Maple-sugar cakes may answer 

 just as well ; but if we should have severe 

 cold weather yet, it might produce dysen- 

 tery, if the quality were not very nice and 

 pure. Granulated sugar is always safe for 

 cold-weather feeding. AVe have not lost any 

 bees yet ; but we do not mean to hui-rah be- 

 fore the first of May. 



brought to our Columbus association, with 

 some good nice bread, such as our bee-keep- 

 ers' wives know how to make, and plenty. of 

 milk by the " jugful," I think I should like 

 to be there about dinner time. Wouldn't 

 you V • 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The spring meeting of the Progressive Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will meet at the residence of J. B. 

 Haines, Bedford, Cuy. Co., O., on Saturday, May 3, 

 1884. All are invited. L. E. Brown, Pres. 



J. R. Reed. Sec. 



There will be a meeting, Mar. 15, at 10 A. m., in the 

 Council Rooms, in Vassar, Tuscola Co., Mich., for 

 the purpose of organizing a County Bee-keepers' 

 Association. M. D. Yohk. 



Millington, Mich., Feb. 18, 1884. 



The annual meeting of the New Jersey and East- 

 ern Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in Room 

 24, Cooper fTiiion. in the city of New York, on Wed- 

 nesday and Thursday, March 12 and 13, 1884. The 

 meeting on Wednesday begins at 10 o'clock a.m. 



J. Hasbkodck, Sec. 



The Iowa Central Bee-keepers' Association will 

 hold their 8emi-an"ual meeting in the C lUrt-House, 

 on Friday. April 18, 1884, at 10 o'clock A. M. All are 

 cordially invited to attend. All visitors from abroad 

 will be hospitably cared for. Members of the asso- 

 ciation are requested to bring their baskets well till- 

 ed, and we will have a general good time. Any one 

 having any new apiarian implements, or any thing 

 that will advance the interest of the association is 

 requested to bring them for exhioition. 



.1. E. PjjYoi?,Sec. 



Maple Grove, Iowa, Feb. 12, 1884. 



Well, now, friends, that is hospitality i)i 

 good old backwoods style. I wonder if they 

 will have any honey for their lunch. If they 

 have some as nice a» that which Mrs. Culp 



GlEANmC S m BEE CULTURE. 



TDITOB. AND FUBLISHEB., 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.C0 PER VEAR, POST-PAID. 



FOR CLUBBING RATES, SEE FIRST PAGE 

 OF READING MATTER. 



jvLiEsumsr^A., »/E^a.:Et. i, leo^L. 



Shall any teach God knowledge?— Job 21:22. 



SpiDer-plant seed has advanced from $1.C0 to 

 $1.50 per lb., or 20 cts. per oz., selling price. 



Beeswax is about ono cent higher than we last 

 quoted. But as we have a pretty good stock on 

 hand, our prices for the present will remain un- 

 changed. 



We rejoice in being able to tell you that our sub- 

 scription list stands at 0278— a gain of 456 since last 

 month. In December we were 6388, but we shall 

 doubtless be beyond that before April. Thank you. 



We are buying No. 30 tinned wire in such quanti- 

 ties now that we have been enabled to reduce the 

 price to 20 cents for a single pound; or in coils of 

 from 5 to 10 lbs., as it comes from the factory, for 

 only 16 cents per lb. No. 30 wire, one-half more than 

 the above prices. 



SUNFLOWEIl SEED. 



We a"e all out of mammoth Russian sunflower 

 seed, if anybody has any for sale, will he please 

 send a sample and give price? We had a great bin 

 full, but it went all of a sudden. Our friend "Lu" 

 suggests that Oscar Wilde is to blame for this sud- 

 den mania for sunflowers. 



ALSIKE CLOVEU. 



Just as we go to press we have secured by tele- 

 gram a 1 )t of 28 bushels of beautiful clean alsike, 

 which we will sell, as long as it lasts, at $11.00 per 

 bushel; S6.C0 per half bushel; $3.50 per peck, or 25 

 cents per lb. The above includes bags. If wanted 

 by mail, 18 c per pound extra, for bag and postage. 

 We can ship it by first train to any who may want it. 



Speaking of Alley's drone-trap, I omitted to note 

 that the machine will make it a very easy matter to 

 get a boxful of choice drones from any hive wo wish 

 to breed from, and introduce them to any queenless 

 hive we wish. Several times during the last sum- 

 mer we had orders for a cage of drones, and it was 

 quite a .job, I tell you, to catch and cage cne hun- 

 dred or more. " 



PE.A-VINE, oil MAMMOTH RED CLOVER. 



We are having quite a brisk trade in the pea-vine, 

 or mammoth red clover; and if you have never seen 

 any, it might pay you to send for a 5-cent package. 

 A great deal is sold for mammoth pea-vine clover, 

 but it is not the genuine. AVo once purchased 

 enough seed for several acres; but when it came in- 

 to blossom we were chagrined to find it was only the 

 common red cjover. 



