1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



471 



Contents of this Number. 



Ants and Honey 489 



Ants, Red 4S1 



Bees moving Brick 494 



Bees, Speed of 470 



Bermuda Grass 491 



Bertha and her Bees 494 



Child that hates Honey .... 491 



China 479 



Crops for Honey 47S 



Uoor-Spring Starter 489 



Editorials SOO 



Faulkner Children 48.T 



Foul Brood .'iOO 



Frogrs 491 



Harrison Mrs 48.5 



Hive, Golden ' 489 



Honey Column 172 



Honey-dew. More about.... 478 



Honey of 1884 474 



Honey from Pear-trees 490 



Honey to City Market 480 



Honey-dew from Maple 49.'i 



Huber's Letter 480 



Italians and red clover 47G 



Kind Words 471 



Moth-s To Trap 480 



Myself and Neighbors 48:i 



Pyrethrum 481 



Queen, Wlion- to Tut i'.H 



Queen, to lilt loiliKc 4se 



Queen not Suai mu ^;\liulay^'.ll 



Queens from IMly .ind 



Queens, Many in a Hive 48ii 



Queens, Two in Hiv« 47:i 



Recent Developments 476 



Reports Discouraging 477 



Sections, Too late 494 



Slang Words 47.T 



Smokers as Prizes 48(1 



Smokers, 5-cent 490 



Slings. 



Swarm, The First 



pai-ated 489 



473,491 

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KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



I am making- good use of the extractor, and it 

 works like a charm. Chas. Drf.yfus. 



Macon, Ga., May 38, 1884. 



OUR FOUNDATION. 



Please send me 15 lbs. fdn., 8x16! i. The other hox 

 you sent was the best I ever saw; it ran 6' i sheets 

 to the pound. Please send the same this time. 



Attica, O., June 26, 1884. J. E. Ennis. 



Received the goods in fine order. I am well pleased 

 with every thing you sent. It you give every one 

 as good count as you give me, I don't see where your 

 profit comes in. I put 500 sections together in one 

 hour and eight minutes, by the clock. 



D. W. HiGGINS. 



Annapolis, Md., May 8, 1884. 



I must say a word in favor of wintering on sum- 

 mer stands with chaff division-boards and chaff pil- 

 low on top, and no enamel cloth, as you recom- 

 mend in A B C. Oui'S came out in good shape. I 

 will also say that your directions in the same have 

 made bee-keeping a success with me. 



F. M. Bl.\nchai!D. 



Orwell, Ohio, June 6, 1884. 



The 17 Simplicity bodies and two smokers I ordered 

 of you, came all right. They are as good as I ex- 

 pected, therefore I am very well satisfied. Thanks 

 for your promptness and liberality. You have 

 treated me so well that you can look for orders from 

 my neighbors. I have a brother wlio has acted as 

 agentfor Gleanings, and dealt with you lor sev- 

 eral years. He has great faith in you as being an 

 honest man. That great " bee-starver," the ex- 

 tractor, is the cause of many colonies dying this 

 winter in our ueighborhood. Noah W. Harlan. 



Jolietville, Ind., Feb. 10, 1884. 



KIND WORDS FROM A DISABLED SOLDIER. 



I wish to say that all my little orders to >ou have 

 been so promptly filled, and your good,-^ have given 

 my customers such general good salislaetion, that 

 I must say "thank you." I liavc imivliaseil several 

 of your dollar queens, aiirl so tar e\ eiy one (iroved 

 to have been purely mated; in fact, I h:i\ e two, one 

 of last year and one <)t this, tliat are so large and 

 fine, and have such beavitful tluce banded bees, 

 that I expect to exhibit thein as your dollar ciueens 

 iit our county fairs. I liave made a pretty good 

 record in the bee-work this season for a disabled 

 soldier. I made 68 two-story L. hives, old style, 

 and transferred 43 colonies of bees in the neighbor- 

 hood, besides attending to 20 coloiiif's at lioine. I 

 am very tired of the old-style I,, hive; at;d just .so 

 soon as I get able to buy a foot-powei- .saw 1 will 

 make my hives as you make them; lor as ( under- 

 stand, the Simplicity would be very haid to make 

 by hand, so that the parts would tit as they should. 

 And, by the way, do you deal in or have control of 

 any second-hand foot-power saws? Long years ot 

 enforced illness have reduced my circumstances so 

 that I have to be very economical in all my piu-- 

 ehases; and if I can get a se(?ond-hand IJarnes saw 



that is not too badly worn, I think it Avould do my 

 work, and I would make my hives so thev would 

 not be so heavy and homely.' 1 did not e.vpect to 

 bother yoit uitii a letter: ami unless you eaii gl\'e 

 me soiue inforinatioii about the saw, why, I do not 

 expect jou to answer it at all ; but all the stuiie, I 

 shall always feel very grateful foi- the many good 

 thiuus I have learned from your words and your 

 works. A. B. IlEirM.v.N. 



Burnettsville, Ind., July, 1884. 



[We have no second-hand buzz-saws at all; but 

 perhaps some of our readers may be able to accom- 

 modate our friend.] 



0IiD TYPE F0I^ ^^IiE. 



We have still on hand 70 lbs. of our old nonpareil 

 tyjie I'oi- sale. I'or a sa!ni)le of it, see any latenum- 

 lier of (;f;i;AMN(is previous to May 1,5. Also 17 lbs. 

 of Italie, if (lesii-eil. As it is all iiacked, we can not 

 divide either lot. The Roman includes 5 lbs. and 

 over of "logotypes;" that is. the words thf, and, 

 //((if. Mi!/, <i())i, etc., are made all on one body, thus 

 facilitating composition. We otter the lot at ~0 cts. 

 per 111. ■ A. I. BOOT, Medina, Ohio. 



lloroifhio. \. v., Aii{/. ir>. JSS'J. 



CYPRIANS CONQUERED.— All summer long it 

 has been "which and t'other" with me and the 

 Ciprian colony of bees I have — but at last I am 

 "boss." Bingham's Conqueror Smoker did it. If 

 you want lots of smoke just at the right time, get a 

 Conqueror Smoker of Bingham. Respectfully, 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



Mess. Diin)ham A- IMhcrimjton: — 



Dear Sirs.— 1 received those Smokers inrgood or- 

 der, and am much pleased with them, and the im- 

 provements, over the old ones. They can not fail 

 to please your customers. Thanks for promptness. 

 Yours truly.— J. M. Hibbahd. 



Athens, Ohio, April 21, 1884. 



M.\KEN(i(), Ii.r,., June is, 1884. 

 The Doctor Siibtliicx All. -Mu.T. K. I!in(;ham, 

 Dear Sir:— I've used the "Doctor" till it is all daub- 

 ed up with Itee-glue, and although ut flrst sight I 

 thotight I did not like anything so large, I could not 

 now he iixlueed. e.vcept bv the direst poverty, to do 

 yvith any thiii"- sinaller. As a matter of "economy" 

 I much prefer th.' "Doctor" to any of the cheaper 

 smokers, of which I have yvorn out several. The 

 "Doctor" has entirely cured me, so that I am now 

 a Bingham man, as iiiv wife always has been. It 

 the somewhat \ auiie i.'mark in your letter means 

 that nothing was charged for the smoker sent, ex- 

 cept the readiiiL! of your letter, 1 shall lie very glad 

 ot another "I)octor" for the money sent, so that 

 my wife won't take mine from me. Bees just boom- 

 ing on white clover. 



Yours truly, C C. Miller. 



I^IRIOES : 



Doctor Smoker (wide shield). 



By mail, jmstpaid. 

 iiVt Inch, $3 00 



Conqueror Smfiker (wide shield). 



[.ari-'e Smoker (wide shield) 



Extras. iioker (.vide shield) 



Pl.iiu Smoker 



Little VVonrler Smoker 



Bingham & IRlhering'u lloney-Knlte 2 

 To sell again, apply for dozen or. haif-dozon rates. 

 Address T. F. BINGHAM, P. M., or 



BINQHAM fc HETHERINGTON, 

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