1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



687 



Contents of this Number. 



Bees that'Make SuRar 



Beesof liulia 



Bees, Wliat Aileil th.>; 



Bee-keepiiip: iiijMicluK'an. 



Bug-liunters 



Cathoy's ObKervations 



Cheerfulness 



Conventions 



Doolittle's County 



Editorial'!.' 



Extracting all the Honey. 



Feedinp: and Feeders 



Hi%'es, Cleaning Old 



Honey Column 



Honey Show at London. . . 



Honey Vinecrar 



Honey, Bitter 



Honey, Is It I'oisonous?... 



Introducing-. Nwed of 



Italians vs. Worms 



Italians vs. Hy 



Leyvraz' A] 

 Long hand. 

 MyNeighbo 

 Nectar, or 1 



KIND WOKDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



The Italian queen bought of you is in g-ood condi- 

 tion, and about twice as large as when 1 g-ot 

 her, I hope to start next spring with Italio-hy- 

 brids, at any rate. ** 



Although I do not keep bees at all, I like your pa- 

 per very much. God give you good words for our 

 youna people, is my earnest wish and prayer. 



Chardon, O., Aug. I.'8, 1884. A. S. Hovey. 



A GOOD REPORT FROM THE PELIUM MIIjL,. 



I had a foundation-mill from Mr. Pelham, of 

 Kentucky, some time ago, as he was selling cheap- 

 er than you. It may not be as good as yours, but I 

 like it very much. J. O. Bbllefleur. 



Laprairie, P. Q., Can. 



I received my goods all O. K. Every thing order- 

 ed was there, and I thank you and your clerks for 

 the same. The freight charges were 80 ets. on 10(10 

 sections and 200 all-wood frames. The 100 all-wood 

 frames I got of you last year cost me .$1.45 for 

 freight. .Torn Davis. 



Allison, Lawrence Co., Ills., Sept. 2G, 1884. 



CLIMBING ZION'S HILL. 



Brother Boot:—l can say, thank you, and bless 

 God for Gleanings; for throuph my many troubles 

 there comes a cry, " Be a man for * 'I'nist's sake," and 

 I can truly say, blessed be the name of .lesus. I am 

 climbing Zion's hill, and all alone, since my jiartner 

 went before me; and with the love of God as a help- 

 mate I will meet her in heaven. J as. Swan. 



FOR value RECEIVED. 



I have .just received Gleanings, and the first 

 that meets ray eye is a reminder of what we owe to 

 the Rev. L. L. Langstroth. I am not able to give 20 

 cts. per swarm, as I have not made it off my bees; 

 but, give him the amount due me on your ledger, 

 as I have been more than repaid that amount in 

 the pleasure that I have received in working with 

 them. D. H. Macomber. 



Sweet Home, Texas, Sept. 24, 1884. 



[Thank you, Friend M. We have forwarded the 

 $1.12 to friend L., and have balanced your account.] 



making our lives in keeping with WHAT WE 



profess. 



From my dealings with you I believe you to be 

 an honest, conscientious, and upright man, which, 

 to be frank with you, I very much doubted at first. 

 In our State we are accustomed to suspect any man 

 who makes a specialty of religion. I freely confess 

 that lam happily and agreeably disappointed in your 

 case. May you live long and prosper. 



Clarkson, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1884. H. E. Hammon. 



[Friend H., I am afraid I do not deserve the above. 

 Any way, there is a moral in it, and the moral is, 

 that we who profess to love the Master should be 

 very, very careful in all our dealings with our fel- 

 low-men. May God help us to do better!] 



I received the tent for setting over a hivo, in good 

 order, and am well pleased with it. I commenced 

 the bee business last spring with 12 colonies of 

 blacks, in patent hives. I transferred them into 

 Simplicity hives (according to directions given in 



the ABC book) early in the season; increased to 35 

 stands, which I am now Italianizing. I obtained 

 1000 lbs. of extracted honey, which was gathered 

 from horsemint. It is very dry in this country at 

 present, and If it does not rain we shall have to feed 

 our bees. j. p. Caldwell. 



San Marcos, Texas, Sept. 21, 1884. 



OUR foundation-mills, etc. 



I received your comb-mill July .5th. You sent it 

 without delay for sui-e, as I ordered it without de- 

 lay, and it came on the first express that I expected 

 it. It works just like perfection. I have made a 

 big lot, and have put most of it in use. The bees 

 uo vi<iht to ^v()rk on it without delay. I am highly 

 lilcascd with \our wa.v-lxiilci- and dipping-hoards. 

 I wdiililn't care if you had sent me half a dozen or 

 s(i inoi-v (if (lipi.ing-boards. I would have been just 

 as well jileastMl ; but, of course, you have to do as you 

 are bid, or you will be censured for it. I am so well 

 pleased, I would not take ten times the price paid for 

 the outfit- c. H. Clark. 



Aldia, Monroe Co., Iowa, July 26, 1884. 



IS IT TRUE, THAT BEE-KEEPERS AS A RULE ARK 

 GENTLEMEN? 



The two insertions in Gleanings brought me all 

 the orders I could fill for bees by the pound, but I 

 lost heavily; nearly all the heavy packages were 

 jammed and mashed, so that I had to nearly dupli- 

 cate the orders. Light packages went pretty well, 

 even to different parts of Canada; but my losses 

 were nearly made good by the gentlemanly and gen- 

 erous letters from my friends. I say friends, for I 

 feel that they are such, although I never saw them. 

 Although I guaranteed safe arrival, some of them 

 offered and did stand part of the loss. Several said, 

 " Hold up, don't simkI an\- more now, it is all right." 

 It was not tlicii- fanlt if I got only enough to pay 

 me to put them up 'i"d take them to the express 

 ofiice. I found all square men save one. He ac- 

 knowledged the receipt of bees in first-rate condi- 

 tion, and that is all I ever got from him. We'll wait 

 awhile yet before I give his address. He may come 

 up all right yet. I wish there were room in Glean- 

 ings for the addresses of a number of others whom 

 I consider Christian gentlemen. I think Mr. Henry 

 Kenney, of Portsmouth, O., hit the nail square on 

 the head when he said that nearly all bee-men are 

 gentlemen. M. L. Williams. 



Vanceburg, Ky., Sept. 18, 1884. 



a kind AVORD from CANADA. 



The bees, brood, and queen shipped by you on 

 the 30th ult. arrived safe to-day. Express charges, 

 $2.05. There was about a handful of dead bees. Ev- 

 ery thing else very satisfactory. I must congratu- 

 late you on the very careful yet simple manner you 

 put up every thing you send me. I was very 

 anxious to see what a really good queen— a marked 

 one— was like; and I am pleased to be able to say 

 that my own queens are quite equal to what you 

 have sent me. 



COLD FRAMES FOR FIGWORT. 



I got a packet of flgwort from you, and planted it 

 —one-half in a hot-bed, and the other in a cold 

 frame. That in tlie hot-bed never put in an appear- 

 ance; but that in the cold frame came up strong. I 

 planted them out in due season, and they have been 

 in bloom some time (we have had no frost yet), but 

 with the most careful watching, I have never seen a 

 bee working on it. But it appears to be the rendez- 

 vous for wasps. There is seldom less than a dozen 

 to be seen on the small plat. 



FRIEND C.'S DISCOURAGEMENTS IN HUNTING UP A 

 RUNAWAY SWARM. 



I lost a swarm of bees in June (my only swarm), 

 and have kept a standing offer to the Indians here 

 of .$4.00 to show me the tree the.y were located in. 

 On Siiturday ii young *cliow oaiiie and told me he 

 had fouiKl tl'u'in.' I staitcd oir with him, and travel- 

 ed tlii-ough tlic wet bush toi- iilMiut two miles, when 

 he pointed to a— what I thought at first was a fine 

 wasps'-nest; but whicii,upori inspection, turned out 

 to be the abode of as fine a lot of hornets &s ono 

 would wish to be a mile from. You may suppose I 

 came home a wiser and a sadder man. Mr. Sioux 

 did not get his ju'eniiuni. But his intention was 

 honest, so I satisfied him greatly with a dollar as an 

 incentive to keep his eyes open. 



Thos. Collins, 



Portage ja Prairie, Man., ('an., Oct. 6, 1884. 



