1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



535 



Gleanincs ih Bee Cultore, 



J'lthlishvd Soni-.lloiithli/. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMSi $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Clnibing Eates, Soo First Page of Eeadi^:; Uitter. 



Wash me, and I shall be whiter than i 



We will pay 10 cents each for Gleanings of April 

 15, 1884. 



HOKSEMINT SEED. 



We have now on hand a larg-c stock of good fresh 

 seed at 20 cents i)er ounce, or $3.00 per lb., postage 

 added. If you want only a "pinch" to try it, the 

 price will be 5 cents for .5 cents' worth. 



Wax seems to bo taking- its usual tumble after 

 the honey season is over, and until further notice 

 we can pay only 30 cts. cash or 33 cts. trade. If any- 

 body wants to buy, wc can furnish any quantity at 

 35 cts., which latter price is just what we paid for it. 



REDUCTION ON THE PRICE OF SEED BUCKWHEAT. 



Until further notice we will furnish common 

 buckwheat for fl.25 per bushel; silverhull, $1.50, 

 and common gray, ,fl..50. Prices for less than a 

 bushel will be as per price list. 



We have on our table a revised and enlarged edi- 

 tion of the book called " Bees and Honey," by the 

 editor of the American Bee-Journal. Friend New- 

 man treats the subject in a general way, not confin- 

 ing his remarks to any particular hive or any pai-- 

 ticular system of management. The book is vei-y 

 nicely gotten up, and is full of pictures. Price, in 

 cloth, $1.00; in paper, 75 cts. We can furnish it at 

 the above prices. 



the honey-dew troubles; reduction in the 

 price of honey. 

 This has proven a pretty bad thing for most lo- 

 calities, yet we have succeeded in making some 

 purchases of some very nice honey, at a price so 

 low that we can now not only sell a nice article for 

 10 cts. per lb., retail, but for a 58-lb. package— the 

 contents of a 5-gallon iron-jacket can— we can make 

 the price 9 cts. ; and as the cans are now reduced to 

 58 cts., the whole package, can and honey, will 

 amount to only $5.80. We have it all ready to ship 

 by the first train, and in these cans it will go safely 

 either by express or freight. We have both white 

 clover, and basswood and white clover mixed", and 

 tJie quality is equal to any thing we ever sold. 



A ONE- QUART HONEY - PAIL WITH RAISED COVER, 

 FOR ONLY FIVE CENTS. 



We have succeeded in getting a very pretty tin 

 pail, with a neat nicely fitting covei-, so that we can 

 sell a single one for 5 cents. We might sell 10 of 

 them for 48 cts. ; but if anybody should buy 10, we 

 should have to furnish a box to put them in, and 

 that would take off the small margin of profit, so 

 we shall have to say one pail, 5 cts.; 10 pails, 50 cts.; 

 and 100 pails for $4.75. Please do not order less 



than 100 pails, friends, for they come all boxed up, 

 100 in a box, and we do not make profit enough on 

 them to pay for opening a box and dividing the 

 package. We can send you a sample by mail, if 

 you wish, for 8 cts. extra for postage. It may get 

 smashed, it is true; but you can see what it is like, 

 even if it does. The regular 3-lb. Jones labels will 

 fit these pails very nicely. 



TELL us JUST WHAT YOU WANT. 



Many have been the sad complaints during the 

 past few weeks, from those who got something that 

 they did not want; and one great trouble is, that 

 our friends did not tell us what they wanted, until 

 after the goods had been received. As an illustra- 

 tion: A customer returned a box of 30 lbs. of fdn., 

 because it was not the size he thought he ordered. 

 His boy wrote the letter, and simply said, " Our 

 frames are 13x9',^." The order came in the latter part 

 of May, and the fdn. was wanted at once. We sent 

 exactly the kind needed for frames of the above 

 dimensions, leaving the margins at the sides and 

 ends as stated in our price list. Now our friend 

 says he wanted foundation 13x9i4. It seems to me a 

 little hard that we should bear the blame under the 

 circumstances; yet if I were to wait and write back 

 to every one of you who make an order, for further 

 particulai'S, 1 fear I should be blamed worse than I 

 am now, for I have tried it a few times. Now, then , 

 please do not write to us the size of your frames or 

 the size of your hives, but tell us exactly the size 

 you want your fdn., or your sections or your 

 frames made. Do not leave us to do the figuring 

 nor the calculating, for we shall have to be more 

 than human to hit it every time while people have 

 such different ways of thinking and expressing 

 themselves. 



.\LSIKE and" RED CLOVER, AND THE WONDERFUL 

 VITALITY OF THE SEED. 



One of our neighbors has just been in, and in 

 making the remark that he considered alsike clover 

 ahead of red for any purpose for which clover is 

 used, gave me the following circumstance: Several 

 years ago he had a nice field of alsike, which was 

 cut twice for hay at the proper time. The next 

 year it was plowed under, and corn planted on the 

 ground. After the corn he raised a crop of oats, 

 then sowed the piece to wheat, and seeded it down 

 to timothy. This spring, to his astonishment, he 

 had a beautiful field of alsike along with the timo- 

 thy, the seed having lain dormant in the soil for 

 three or four years. This reminds me of a circum- 

 stance recently brought up. One of our customers 

 purchased of us some alsike. We purchased the 

 seed at the time of the great scarcity, and paid 

 about $14.00 per bushel for it, and the seed seemed 

 to be nice and clean. Our customer sowed it; but 

 when it came up, about halt of the field was almost 

 all red clover. He wrote to us complaining, saying 

 he thought that we must, by mistake, have put two 

 kinds of seed in the bag. Now, we could not have 

 put in red clover, because at the time we sold the 

 alsike we had ncA'er had any red on our premises. 

 Where, then, did his red clover come from? lean 

 not, of course, be positive; but it seems to mc that 

 pei-haps red clover had been sown on this ground 

 years before; and in preparing the ground for 

 alsike, the circumstances were for the first time 

 favorable to the germination of the old clover seed. 

 Something like this happens quite frequently in 

 preparing ground, although I do not remember to 



