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GLEAKiNGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



MAY 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



J'lihli.shed Seini-MotitJiIf/. 



.1^. I. I^OOT, 



EDITOK AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Clubling Katec, See First Page cf Esading Matter. 



Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who i^hall 

 stand in his holy place? He iliat hath clean hands, and a pure 

 heart; who hath not lifted up his soul into vanity, nor sworn 

 deceitfully.— Psalm 2i: 3, 4. 



We will pay 10c each for the January Gleanings 

 (not Juvenile) for 1883. 



This number is printed entirely from new type. 

 I thought perhaps I had better tell you, as you 

 might not have noticed it otherwise. 



E. S. MiLLEK & Son, Dryden, Mich., wish us to 

 give notice that they can fill no more orders at pres- 

 ent, as their stock and factory have been burned by 

 Are. We trust they are insured, that they may be 

 read3' for business soon. 



DRONE COMB FOR BEE -FEEDERS. 



Friend J. E. Stanley, Wyoming-, N. Y., makes a 

 feeder of a piece of drone comb fitted in the bottom 

 of a shallow bo.\. The hole is made through in the 

 center of the piece of comb, and through the box 

 also, and the bees are to come up through this hole. 

 Drone comb is better than worker, inasmuch as the 

 syrup goes down into the cells much easier. I have 

 often used a drone; comb for feeding, by simply 

 pouring the syrup into the cells on both sides, and 

 then hanging up in the hive. The objection is, that 

 the queen will often fill it with eggs after the bees 

 take the feed out. 



DIPPING -boards ok PINE. 



B^RiEND Jones ga\e us a great many new kinks 

 while here, and one was the above. Now, we used 

 pine for dipping-boards a good many years ago, and 

 thought we had discovered that some harder wood 

 was a groat deal better. The reason was, we did 

 not make our pine boards thick enough, and we did 

 not have them entirely free from knots. These we 

 have now are full ■'» thick, and without a trace of a 

 knot or blemish in them; and if kept soaked with 

 water, we find they make the most perfect sheets 

 of any thing we have ever tried. Please try it, you 

 who are making foundation. 



SEED OF THE SPIDER PLANT. 



We are out of the spider-plant seeds, and do not 

 know where to get any, and yet a good many of the 

 friends want some. If you have any, and will send 

 it to us by mail, we will pay you at the rate of $2.00 

 a pound for it. Would it not be a good idea for the 

 boys and girls to set to work and save some this sea- 

 son? The seed is easily gathered, but it needs to be 

 done every day, or every two or three days. Just 

 grab hold of the pods when they look ripe, and if 

 they shell out they are all right. If they do not, 

 wait until you come around next time. Where there 

 is a good patch, a little girl will gather a pail full in 

 three or four hours (provided the i>ail is not large). 



GRASS AND WEEDS AROUND THE ENTRANCES. 



If you are annoyed in this manner, sprinkle a 

 handful of salt around where you do not want the 

 grass and weeds, and they will vei-y quickly die, and 

 stay dead. Half a bushel of salt will go over a pret- 

 ty good-sized apiary ; and even if they need another 

 dose after a while, we begin to think it is about the 

 cheapest way to keep their little dooryards clean. 

 Do not have the little fellows spend more time dodg- 

 ing around obstructions than it takes to suck the 

 honey out of the apple-blossoms. 



HYBRID QUEENS WANTED. 



A MONTH ago I told you why untested queens ai-e 

 more desirable than tested, and gave that as a reason 

 why orders were probably so many for untested 

 queens. Within the last few weeks we have been 

 surprised to find that there is a wonderful call for 

 hybrid queens. We had decided not to purchase 

 these this season; but a friend has just sent for 40 

 hybrid queens with half a pound of bees with each, 

 and we have had many other orders. To tell the 

 truth, I do not much blame the friends, for 

 we get almost if not quite as much honej' from 

 hybi-ids as from full-blood Italians. Until further 

 notice we will pay 90 cts. for untested queens, and 

 half as much for hybrids. 



REVISED PRICES OF NOTE, LETTER, AND STATE- 

 MENT HEADS. 



THERE has been so much of a call for Gleanings 

 paper, as mentioned in a recent editorial, that we 

 shall be obliged to make a new schedule of prices. 

 The size generally preferred is h^i by 9 inches. 

 There are 300 of these in a pound. We furnish the 

 paper plain for 30 cts. per lb., as we ha\e told you; 

 10 Ihs. for $1.80; 100 lbs. foi- $1.5.00. You will notice, 

 that even by the single pound you get 15 sheets ol' 

 paper for a penny. Now, we rule this paper by 

 means of the printing-press, as 1 have told you ; 

 and while we are printing the ruling on it we can 

 just as well print the heading or business card. 

 But we can not very well set up the type for any 

 particular job for less than about .50 cts. After the 

 tyjie is once up, we will furnish you 100 sheets of pa- 

 per for .50 cts., or .50(1 for $].(H). Thus you see you 

 get the last 4(X) as cheap as you get the first 100. 

 Now, if you will take 10 lbs. of paper, which will be 

 3000 sheets, we will furnish it already printed foi- 

 $2. .50. This latter, yoxi see, will give you 12 printed 

 sheets for a penny. Who is there among us who 

 can not afi'ord to have his name and address, IN- 

 CLUDING COUNTY, printed on his writing-paper? 



PUTTING TWO OR MORE ADDRESSES ON YOUR LET- 

 TERS. 



One of the greatest troubles in business, as we 

 have so often told you, is to find out where folks 

 live, and where they want their goods sent to. 

 Many times orders are sent us from some other 

 town or postottice than where the party who 

 makes the order lives. In that case they head the 

 letter where they are at the time of writing. An- 

 other address is given at the bottom of the letter, 

 and no one is sure which of the two is right. Now, 

 friends, why not, when writing, use only one ad- 

 dress? It is not uncommon to have three, and the 

 difficulty may not be discovered until the goods are 

 packed and ready for shii)ment, and just where 

 shall they go? Delays arc oftentimes dangerous; 

 and when we take the risk of guessing as the only 

 alternative, the Avriter writes back and suggests 

 some fact that did not oe(,'ui- to our over-worked 



