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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUllE. 



July 



PERTAINING TO BEE CULTURE. 



Wu respectfully solicit the aid of our friends in conducting 

 this depaj-tnieut, and won d con.sider it a »avor to have them 

 i-end U8 all circulars that have a deceptive nppearance. The 

 grratest care will be at all times maintnioed to prevent injus- 

 tice being done any one". 



OUR OLD FRIEND N. C. MITCHELL ONCE MORE. 



THRIEND HOOT:— I thought N. C. Mitchell was 

 ISV dead ; but here he springrs up in another place, 

 49^ as you can see by these papers I will send 

 ■^^ you. Ho and a friend want *10.00 for a 

 farm-rig-ht to make a bee-house, with four 

 hog-trouffhs running through it, as you see. I was 

 green enough to try to sell farm-rights for Mitchell 

 some time ago, before I knew any thing- about 

 movable-comb hives; and the first man I came to 

 knew more about bees than I or Mitchell, and 1 

 slinked ofif home, and threw the sample in the attic, 

 and it is there yet. If any of the friends want a 

 farm-right for making the adjustable hive, they can 

 get a spare one here. David Lucas. 



Jewett, O., June IS, 1884. 



Friend L., I, too, supposed that Mitchell 

 had about given up his bad ways, for we 

 had heard nothing for so long a time. It 

 seems now he has thought it safest to get 

 some other man to stand at the head, as the 

 name of Miteiiell would kill almost any 

 thing at the outstart, with his past record 

 behind him. We give place to the circular 

 below : 

 Circular to Bee-Keepers. 



OFFICE OF 



THE NATIONAL BEE-WAY COMPAXY, 



CrawfordBville, Ind. 



May 19, 1881. 



The Jfational Bee-Way Company h'we cstabli-ihed at the 

 above-named place an Apiary of two hundred colonies of bers. 

 ■ making honev. The w ll-khown apiarist 

 riter, Mr. N. C. Mitchell, will bn in charpr" of 

 11 personally direct the itinctieiil workinir 

 his new system of bee-k'^epinfj. making use 

 of the new principles and improved bee-wa>> and appliances, 

 of whiek he is the inventor. 



By the application of the new .nrinciples in bpo-keepina-. aa 

 taught by Mr. Mitchell, and by the use of the National Bee- 

 Way, and the Improved Adjustable Hive, the profits in bee- 

 keeping are more than twice as great as the profits re>ilized 

 by the rractice of any other system, or from the use of any 

 other hive. 



The National Bee-Way and Improved Adjustable Hire is 

 meeting with univei-sal favor and unqualifle 1 praise frun all 

 practical bee-keepers. The Bee-Ways and Improved Adjusta- 

 ble Hives are cheap in their construction, and simple and con- 

 venient in their workings; and wherever examined and tested 

 by practical apiarists, they are meeting with approval and 

 adoption. 



We are now using eight bee-ways, fifty feet in length, and 

 having compartments tor two hundred colonies. The apiarist 

 is entirely sheltered from the sufl and » ind and rain, d'^ing 

 all the »ork of roanipulation of colonies completelv piotected 

 from annoyance of any kind. No swarminir is allowed; the 

 increase of colonies is regulated at will ; i he honov is extract- 

 ed from any colony in the apiarv wlihout the knowledge of 

 any other colony, and any colony mav be stimulated, ur the 

 surplus honey fed back without the knowledge of any other 

 colony. 



The danger and annoyance usually expe-ienced and so much 

 dreaded by bee-keepers, that of bees robbing each other, 

 especially while the apiarist is at work. Is i-iitiiely obviate.!. 



The Bee-Wnys and Improved Adjustalilr lllvc-^ arc neat, per- 

 manent, and attractive, and are an (11 n uiKiit to aiiv yaiilen 

 or lawn. The new system of btc-krc|jnir is Nimph-'ainl imsv 

 and plain, and the endeavor is to cou-tiintlv foIl.>w tljc ii:i ur;il 

 Inrttincts of the bee. and t" nsfist tliini in s<'cinin)ir llie bc^c re- 

 sults. The large amount of sur))lus lu.inv ."eiuied, and the 

 facility with which the number and size of the colonies are 

 controlled, and the certainty and expediiion with which a 

 large apiary may be manipulated, .ire a winder and a gratify- 

 ing surpri-ie to the many old praclicnl bee-keepers who have 

 easmined the system and the new fixtures. 



That our new system of management, and the nse of the 

 National Bee-Way and Improved adjustable Hive will revolu- 

 tionize the industry of bee keeping is cert.iin ; for by their use, 

 apiculture is made an easy and pleasant business, and the 

 money invested will yield much larger and surer retums than 

 a like sum employed in any other legitimutc way. Besides the 

 securing of three time* the amount of suiplus honey obtained 

 uader like conditions by any other management, a prominent 



saving of about seventy-live per 

 usually re<iuired. 



cent in the amount of honey 



Instiuctions in our new system of bee-keeping are given 

 during the whole of the working season by practical and ex- 

 perienced men, and the student has the advantage of actual 



getic men and women everywhere to act as agents for the in- 

 t'oduction of The National Bee- Way and the Improved Ad- 

 justable Hive. For terms, etc . addre?s 



" W. McLain, Manager, Crawfo'd^ville, Ind. 



N. B.— Every one intere-ted in the industry of bee-keeping, 

 or in the subject of ap culture, is invited to visit our apiary, 

 and examine the National Bee-Wavs , and see the working of 

 cur new system of bee-keeping. The apiary is located on the 

 beautiful and finely improved Fair-Grounds of the Montgom- 

 ery-County Agricultural Association. 



Our friends will notice that this is a re- 

 vival of the exploded house -apiary idea. 

 Mitchell has taken it up after everybody else 

 has been satislied to drop it. We hope no 

 one who reads these pages will pay Mitchell 

 or anybody else ten dollars, or any smaller 

 sum, for a "farm-right pertaining to any thing 

 about bees or bee-hives. 



THE GOLDEN BEE-HIVE. 



Inclosed you will find a circular which a patent- 

 right vender gave me the other day. What do you 

 think of his hive? S. N. RiOGS. 



Rabbit Hash, Ky., June 2, 1884. 



The circular referred to is of the Golden 

 bee-hive. The same thing has been sent in 

 by a good many different parties, and it has 

 already been shown up during the past four 

 or live years. Have nothing to do with any- 

 body rejiresenting himself as agent for the 

 Golden bee-liive ; and, for that matter, we 

 might as well say, any other bee-hive where 

 there are rights for sale. Here is another: 



Our neighboring county is being flooded with the 

 Golden bee-hive, and the agents claim a royalty or 

 patent of ten dollars. Is the patent on above-nam- 

 ed hive valid? J. B. Marsh. 



Collinsville, Ala., May 31, 1884. 



The^-e may be a patent on sone nart of the 

 Golden hive, but it has been fully discuss- 

 ed in our back volumes ; and even if there 

 is, nobody needs any thing of the kind. 



HUBER'S -WORKS. 



SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM COMPETENT 

 AUTHORITY. 



KIEND ROOT:— As there seems to be a muddle 

 with regard to the date of Ruber's works, 

 will you allow me to set your correspondents 

 right? I have a library of over live hundred 

 works, and happen to have all Hubor's, so 

 can give you the correct dates. 



The first was published in 1793, under the title, 

 " Nouvdles Ohservatiims sur les Abeilles, adressecs a 

 M. Charles Bonnet." The second, which seems to be 

 a reprint of the 1703 edition, has the same title; was 

 published in 1796, and has added to it the following: 

 " Suivres d'un Manuel pratique de la culture des 

 Abeilles, contenant les moyens economique d'en 

 tircr le meilleur part, et les recettes pour faire 

 I'Hydromel, la Biere d'Epicier et de Genievre, par 

 D. Cultivateurd' Abeilles. "—The rest was published 

 in 1814, and was the 2d edition. It has a similar title, 

 with the addition of " Seconde edition, revue, corri- 

 gee, et considerablement augmentee." This is in 

 two volumes, the former ones being in one vol- 

 ume each, and all these in French. The English 

 edition, under the title of "New Observations on 

 the Natural History of Bees," appeared 1st, in 1806; 

 2d, 1808 ; 3d, 1821 ; 4th, in 1841. This last edition is still 



