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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



May 



GLEANINGSJNBEE COUTURE. 



-A- I. I^-OOT, 

 EDITOR AND FUBLISHEH, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER VEAR, POST-PAID. 



FOR CLUBBING RATES, SEE FIRST PAGE 

 OF READING MATTER. 



^VCEIDIIISr-A., l^J^-Sr 1, 1884. 



We have now 6782 names this 29th day of April, 

 1884. Don't you think it a little encouraging, 

 friends? We do. 



A GOOD friend takes us to task for creditiog Pope 

 with the little couplet which appears on page 273 of 

 our last issue. He shows conclusively that Shake- 

 speare wrote it, though with somewhat of a differ- 

 ent wording. We did not mean to rob William of 

 any of bis well-earned laurels, and hope this will 

 make it all right. 



UNTESTED QUEENS WANTED. 



Until further notice we will pay 90 cents each for 

 untested queens. At present we are prepared to 

 ship by return mail queens, of any grade, except 

 blacks and hybrids. We have none of either kind 

 just now in our apiary. We have a fine stock of im- 

 ported queens on hand, and another lot coming from 

 Italy as soon as the weather is warm enough. All 

 orders we expect to go by return mail or express. 



WHITE CLOVER HONEY AT TEN CENTS PER POUND. 



We have just received 50 cans of beautiful white- 

 clover honey, which we ofifer to any who may want 

 it, at an even 10 cents per pound. The cans are five- 

 gallon iron-jacket, and are all ready to ship any- 

 where. There are about 58 lbs. of honey in each can, 

 and 68 cents for the can itself would make .$6.48. 

 But to make even change we will ship them to any 

 address for an even .t6.40. The honey is equal to 

 any I have ever handled. 



PROF. COOK'S BOOK, "INJURIOUS INSECTS." 



Some of the friends will be glad to know that we 

 have the above little book in stock again, and can 

 furnish copies promptly on receipt of price, 25 cts. 

 If wanted by mail, add 3 cents more for postage. In- 

 jurious insects sometimes do a "heap of trouble" 

 in a little while, which might be saved if we knew 

 how to manage; therefore the little book will often- 

 times pay many times its cost in a little while. 



HOW TO send MONEY BY REOI.STERED LETTER. 



When you send money by registered letter, put 

 the money in the envelope yourself, and seal it up. 

 Then have your postmaster register it. Do not, un- 

 der any circumstances, give the money to your 

 postmaster. In fact, he is prohibited by law from 

 receiving or inclosing it. Several losses have oc- 

 curred recently where the money was handed to the 

 postmaster to inclose. The envelope came through, 

 but not the money— or, at least, only a part of it. | 



NOS. 30 AND 36 WIRE ON 1-LB. SPOOLS. I 



We have just got our spool- wire folks started on ! 

 the above, and are now able to furnish No. 30, on j 

 1-lb. spools, for 30 cents; 10 spools for $1.85; 100 ' 



spools for $17.50. No. £6 wire, 40 cents per spool; 10 

 spools, $3.75; 100 spools, $35. The latter comes high, 

 because it is a pretty big job to wind a pound of No. 

 30 on a spsol. If any of you have handled any of 

 the latter very much, you will know all about it. If 

 wanted by mail, add 20 cents each for postage. 



THE SECTION BUSINESS AT THE PRESENT D.4.TE. 



AS the weather has been beautiful for drying 

 basswood lumber, we are now crowding our factory 

 on spciions to the utmost; but at the rate orders are 

 pouring in, it will be some little time yet before we 

 can fill orders for sections promptly. The "Homo 

 of the Honey -Bees" is doing more business now 

 than it ever did before at this season of the year; 

 and with the way orders are pouring in by each 

 mail, it would almost seem as if our establishment 

 would have to have still another enlargement. Mail 

 and express orders go with little if any delay; and 

 orders by freight, with but few exceptions, for any 

 thing that does not include sections. 



SEPARATORS OF THINNER TIN. 



Some of the friends will remember, that a few 

 years ago we furnished separators of what is called 

 "tagger's" tin. Tbis tin is only about one-half as 

 thick as the regular kind, and therefore would car- 

 ry off less of the animal heat from the hive, for met- 

 als in thin sheets are much better non-conductors 

 than sheets of greater thickness. The reason why 

 we have not used it of late was, that the price was 

 too great; but we have recently run on to a lot of 

 50 boxes. It is much lighter for shipment, and it 

 can be fastened to frames with wire nails, without 

 pricking any holes. As it kinks up or bends a little 

 easier, it will have to have a little more care; but 

 we think in every other respect it is greatly to be 

 preferred to tin of the ordinary thickness. 



HIVES AND SECTIONS BY EXPRESS. 



Now, friends, look out about ordering heav^y goods 

 by express; that is, remember that express charges 

 are generally awful on any thing weighing 100 lbs. or 

 more. We are puzzled every day to know whether 

 some of you knew what you were doing when you 

 said "express" or not; therefore if you are posted 

 about this express business, and expect to pay all 

 the goods are worth, or more too, by way of express 

 charges, just add to the end of your letter, " I know 

 very well what the express charges are likely to be 

 on this shipment ; but I must have the goods at once 

 and expect to pay accordingly." Then you see wc 

 will know exactly what to do. A few days ago, a 

 friend down South made quite a good-sized order, 

 and said distinctly, "Send them by express." The 

 express charges would have been about $^45.00, and 

 he thanked us with some energy for having disobey- 

 ed orders, and sent the goods by freight when he 

 told us by express. 



A REVERSIBLE FRAME THAT IS ALIKE ALL AROUND, 



AND CAN BE USED AS WELL ONE SIDE UP AS 



THE OTHER. 



Some of the friends may have noticed an adver- 

 tisement of O. J. Hetherington, of East Saginaw, 

 Mich., in regard to a reversible -frame bee-hive. 

 Knowing that friend H. rarely comes out in public 

 with a thing unless it is just right, we sent for a 

 sample, and I,confess the hive comes the nearest to 

 being a rival of the Simplicity hive of any thing I 

 have ever before seen. Externally it is a Simplicity 

 hive; in fact, a Simplicity hive can be, with a little 



