1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



543 



Contents of this Number. 



.551 



Automatic Extractor 



Kees in India 



Bees, The Minister's. 



Ke« Botany 



Bee-tree, Cutting 



Benton's Letter »a 



Bleeding, To Stop 552 



Kuclithorn 555 



Buffalo Clover 555 



California, Northeast bib 



California Notes 554 



Chalk for Ants 564 



Conventions 571 



Combs, To Straighten 549 



Died 571 



Editorials 57-2 



Figwort 548 



Flint Convention 561 



Forgettery 546 



Fun in Apiary 566 



. .560 



Honey Column 



Honey from Lettuce 



Humming-birds 



Insects on Comb Honey. 



Kind Words 



Mangrove 



Mosquito-Hawk 



Motherwort 



Moving Bees in Wagons. 

 Myself and Neighbors . 



Pails, Nested 



Pering's Qui 

 Pyrethrum. 



Rabbits 



Red Clover 



Reports Discouraging. 



Runaways, To Stop 



Spider Plant 



Sweet Potatoes 

 Swarniin(;:M:nnr. 

 SwariiiiimTiiHil.l.^ 

 Thank-tuliic'->. 



Tobacco Coll 



Tobacco at Four Viar> 



' I have been thinking- for some time that I 

 would give you an account of my experience with 

 bees; but so far something- has prevented my do- 

 j Ing so. If you will allow me to boast a little, I be- 

 lieve I will say that you have none in your A B C 

 class who can e.xecl nie in handling- bees. I have 

 transfpi-rert 7 liiMS without a sting, moved 7 hives 



without the loss of 1 s, introduced queens safely, 



beat i-olibcrs at their own game, and to-day I am 

 having the liest (it success in ijueen-rearing;. Now, 

 ' don't scold me for lia\ing- the "big head," for in so 

 doing ,M)u will heap leproach on the A B C book, 

 which'is at the inot of the whole evil. That import- 

 ed queen I bought of you is doing up things in a 

 j business-like manner. It is genuine fun to work 

 ! with the e.xtractoi-. We have had considerable 

 ' yield of hone.\-(lew in this section from blackjack — 

 ' perhaps lui blackjack. Gleanings comes i-egular- 

 i ly, and is read with avidity. D. W. Moss. 



San Augustine, Texas, Aug. 2, 1884. 



I recei\'ed 



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KIND WOBfiS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



A KIND WORD FROM ONE OF THE SISTERS. 



My bees are doing well. I had IT in the spring, 

 and now I have 40 good strong swarms. I am 

 pleased to see such good reports from the sisters in 

 bee-keeping, as all the success is due to you. 



Mrs. Jennie C. March. 



Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 1, 1884. 



When I wrote you about one year ago, I had 

 about 3 hives of bees; but now I have over 30; and 

 with Gle.^nings to read every two weeks, and your 

 ABC book at hand any moment, I have no trouble 

 to manage them. I have raised live ijueens this 

 year; they are all fertilized and la>ing, but my 

 bees are mostly hybrids and blacks, so I thought I 

 would get Italian queens, so as to have a cross, if 

 nothing more. Bees are booming here on buck- 

 wheat, goldenrod, etc., now. Wm. H. (tRAV. 



West Milton, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1884. 



I queen yesterday, accdi-diiig to uiiiuiintiiicnt, by e.\- 



j press; charges 9.) cts. I'm well saristied with them; 

 they were in as good condition as when they started 

 on their journey. They did not seem to be broken 

 of rest, (11- sleejiy, and were ready for work this 

 beautiful Sumlay morning. I received them at the 

 train between ~ and 3 o'clock p.m., and had them in 

 a hive b.\- themseh-es between .5 and 6 p.m. I took 

 combs from a lii\ e 1 built up last Monday, and put 

 in another hive, and tui-ucd them loose on those 

 combs. 1 think they will get along all right. I gave 



i the combs that came with them to the other bees, 



which 1 took combs (roiii for them; the queen had 



deposited (juite a lot of eggs in the combs while oil 



her trip. 



I had three weak colonies in the spring, and have 



i built them up to 13, besides the ones you sent me. I 

 bought one colony last year in the spring, and 

 built them up to nine, and got honey enough from 



I them to pay all expenses; but I lost six in the winter 



I and spring. David Eppert. 



I Glidden, la., July20, 1884. 



1 had a sample of Gleanings sent to me. I find 

 it full of instructive matter, so I resolved to become 

 a subscriber. I think you are the gentleman who 

 said at the Toronto convention, " I believe that (iod 

 is with us," which remark was certainly not lost on 

 the writer. We would certainly be in a dangerous 

 l)lace if we could not take Jesus with us. The 

 sentiment of your journal before me corresponds 

 with that remark. Mrs. Wm. Bryce. 



Watford, Ont., Can., July 28, 1884. 



THE BOYS AND THE BALLOONS. 



Bill of goods came duly to hand in nice order. I 

 have had enough fun with the boys and the balloons 

 to pay for the whole bill. There is a wonderful 

 sight of fun in those little iniiier sacks, when the 

 boys get hold of them. The tested (|Ueen and 'c lb. 

 of bees I received from you July Ist, are now a 

 booming colony. From eggs laid" b.\- the ijuei'ii, I 

 have raised three of the most beautiful (|iieens .\ ou 

 ever saw, and have got them in lii\es, and they 

 have all commenced laying. 1 think 1 made a tine 

 investment in that queen. J. 11. Louden. 



Bloomington, Ind., Aug. 4, 1884. 



SOME kind words FROM A NEW FRIEND. 



Frinul Riio/;— Your sample copies of the 1st and 

 1.5th just came to hand— the first issues 1 have seen 

 since ISTS, when my fathei- was dropped from your 

 subscription list. He has been a bee-man all his 

 life, advancing from the old box hive to the Lang- 

 stroth; and now 1, his son, have suffered the bee 

 fever to lay hold iijion me at an age considerably 

 under 25, "and 1 i)i-opose to try to teach and be 

 taught, and subscritie for (i leanings. But I am 

 no novice, oh. no! I lia\e been watching "the little 

 busy bee" all along, and read bee-lxxiks aiuKiLEAN- 

 iNGS, hived many a swarm, and got more kicks from 

 bees than every thing else together. 



I want to watch such men as A. I. Boot, Doolittle, 

 Viallon, Hayhurst, Brown, etc., to see that they 

 do nothing w7-ong; and there's the man Clarke, in 

 Canada, who had a rheumatic vision of "tree-top 

 winteiing." WhafU I do with, him? Get friend 

 Doolittle to help me out, on promise of being easy 



in In in .' 



KIND WORDS FROM AN OLD FRIEND. 



Some of the earlier subscribers to Gleanings 

 will remember Anna Saunders. When Gle.\nings 

 first started, she was, for a time, quite an enthusias- 

 tic " bee-woman," and I have several times wonder- 

 ed why we have not heard from her for so long. 

 Has it been on account of poor health, friend Anna"/ 



Many thanks for the circular. That price list is 

 arranged beautifully. Some of the boys have been 

 getting some wild bees (2 stocks) in tin- last few 

 da\s; and as soon as I can, I want logo and exam- 

 ine them to see if thev ha\e (jiieen^. If not, yoiir 

 cheaji (|ueens will just suit the iiockols of the little 

 fellows. Thev were two days getting one of the 

 stocks, cutting down the tree, getting at the bees, 

 and then getting them out. 1 would have lent a 

 hand, but was too sick to stir a step. 



levate his hive above the 

 gases, we would put it on four 3-foot locust jiins, 

 ■ driven a f<«it in tlie ground; to secure identy of 

 " pure but still air," we would get them \vithin a 

 high lioard-feiice inclosure. For tlu' i-eiiio\al of 

 " dead bees, etc.," li:i\iiig the whole entrance ojien, 

 clean o tf bottom-bo ard weekly with a wire bent 

 thus: ■' Did friend Clarke never see a 



bee-tree with no "shaft "or depression below^ en- 

 tranced' May be he never cut many bee-trees. 

 I I notice something about albinos, Holy-Lands. 

 I etc. Are any of those varieties of bees minus stings':* 

 1 With malice toward no modern bee-man, and 

 ; charity toward all box-hivo bee-men, 1 am lovingly, 

 I Jno. C. Capeh.vrt. 



St. Albans, W. Va., July 2it, 1SS4. 



COT.ONIES ITALIAN, and 10 colonic: 

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50 



I,, frames, ¥7. (ill; I 



_J per ceiil 



rival guaranteed. 

 14-15-16d 



d bees, in 2-story Simplicity hives, 20 



- ii-dered 



lit 1 

 d; 10 per cent discount on 5 or mon.. Safe ar- 



f^ept. 



all 



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Woodville. Miss., July 1, 1884. 



Anna Saunders, 



J. H. UGED, 



Orlcaiiis, Orange Co., Iiid. 



DADANT'S FOITND.ATION FACTORY, WHOLE- 

 SALKAND KETAIL. See advertisement in 

 another eoluniii. iJbttd 



