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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



Gleanincs in Bee Cdlthre, 



Published Senil-Monthly. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 

 MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Clubbing Bates, See First Page of Readies Hatter. 



Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrousht, 

 and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, it was 

 vanity and vexation of spirit, and that there was no profit un- 

 der the sun.— ECCLESIASTES, 2: 11. 



In connection with the Home Papers for this 

 month, please read Ecclesiastes, chapter 2. 



We have just made another shipment of 3000 Ihs. 

 of extracted honey to England. 



By some mistake between the printers and ad- 

 vertising- clerk, the advertisement of friend E. H. 

 Cook, Andover, Ct., was lost and did not appear in 

 our last issue, as it should have done. We are very 

 sorry to miss any advertisement the friends may 

 send us, for it cuts off our own bread and butter, to 

 a certain extent, and we should surely be " daft " if 

 we did that purposely. 



ANOTHER DROP IN WAX. 



Until further notice, 28 cts. cash or 30 in trade, 

 are the best figures we can offer. 



We omitted to say at the proper place, that friend 

 Fradenburg', the rabbit man, lives at Port Washing- 

 ton, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio. 



IMPORTED QUEENS. 



We have received a second shipment of 50 queens 

 from Bianconcini, every one of which came through 

 alive. These, with the other lot, give us a very 

 good opportunity to select any grade, and we can 

 ship them by return mail. 



Inste.ajj of using- the ordinary pots for the straw- 

 berry plants, take a common lamp-chimney. You 

 can then witness the wonderful rapidity with which 

 those little rootlets g:row and make their way 

 throug-h the soil along the surface of the glass. We 

 have at present two growing in that way. 



During the reinainderof this month, and through 

 the month of September, we will allow an extra dis- 

 count of ?i per cent on all goods ordered during 

 these months for next season's use. We do this in 

 order to prevent the crowd in the spring. The above 

 discount is over and above all other discounts. If 

 you wish to avail yourself of this otter, please men- 

 tion this, that the clerks may not fail to give it. 



pollen erom the milkweed. 



As the season approaches, we ha\'e the usual 

 number of Inquiries in regard to what is the matter 

 with the bees' feet, where they have been at work 

 on the milkweed-blossoms. We would refer all such 

 inquirers to the ABC book, which explains the 

 matter, with illustrations. It is not a disease, and 

 it is not any thing that will ever be llkel.y to harm a 

 colony materially. 



Friend G. B. Lewis, of Watertown, Wis., has 

 just been paying us a call. Friend L., as you may 

 know, is one of the largest manufacturers of bee- 

 hives, frames, and sections, in the world. He re- 

 ports the honey crop of Wisconsin, during the sea- 

 son just passed, as beyond any thing ever known 

 before. We can certify to the goodness of some of it, 

 for we have just made « purchase of oiie jot of «000 

 lbs- from Wisconsin. 



HENDERSON S NEW BOOK. 



By purchasing in lots of 100 at a time, we are en- 

 abled to furnish Henderson's new book, " Garden 

 and Farm Topics," now for an even dollar. If 

 wanted by mail, add 10 cents for postage. This book 

 ought to be worth many times its value to any one 

 at all interested in the modern improvements in 

 gardening and horticulture. If you have not even 

 as much as a quarter of an acre of ground, if you 

 like to see plants grow, it may be interesting to you 

 to know what is being done nowadays on just a 

 little bit of ground, with modern methods of work- 

 ing. 



MORE ABOUT THE POTTED STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 



After the little roots had got nicely rooted in the 

 pots, I took a couple of them for an object-lesson at 

 our noon-service. AVhen I had explained the pro- 

 cess to the boys and girls, I showed how the little 

 rootlets had gone through the bottom of the pot, 

 and all in only about ten days, and then I tipped the 

 pot over, turning- out the little ball of earth with a 

 network of little white rootlets covering the whole 

 surface of the soil, where it had come next to the 

 pot. After thej^ had been passed around and ad- 

 mired, they were set on the dining-table, kejjt 

 around the house for a couple of days, and then 

 planted out in the garden, and now they are as 

 bright and thriving as one could wish, and one of 

 them has started out a runner so that it may have a 

 little plant of its own. Henry, the gardener, calls 

 it " weaning- " when they are first cut loose from 

 the mother-plant, and he says they had better be 

 shaded a day or two until they get fully weaned and 

 able to go on with the business on their own ac- 

 count. 



THE little words rt AND (/((. 



Perhaps many of the friends would be surprised 

 it they knew how of ten we have troubles just be- 

 cause people so often cither neglect these little 

 words entirely, or else use them indiscriminately. 

 With the present magnitude of our business, even 

 during- these dull months of the .year, it is impossi- 

 ble for us to remember correspondence as one 

 might be expected to do \vho attended to all his cor- 

 respondence personally. Therefore it is of theut-' 

 most importance that customers, when ordering, 

 should say whether their order depends on or re- 

 lates to any previous correspondence. But, to get 

 everybody to do this seems next to impossible. Our 

 estimate-heads have the matter very plainly itrint- 

 ed in large black letters, "This estimate must be re- 

 turned with your order, or we can not hold our- 

 selves responsible for errors in filling." Well, peo- 

 ple do not return the estimates. They write away 

 from home, or perhaps use a postal card. But even 

 then, if they would say, "Send me the hive," we 

 should at once infer it alluded to some particular 

 hive, and the clerks would at once look for former 

 correspondence; whereas, if the order read simply, 

 "Send me a hive for the $3.50 inclosed," the most 

 natural thing in the world would bo to send the only 



