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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



Gleahincs in Bee Culture, 



Published Snni -Monthly, 



-^. I. I^OOT, 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Clubbing Eites, Sso First Page of Eeadi:3 IJitter. 



THOSE HAMMERS. 



In our last issue we gave the price of an entire 

 set of hammers at $5.00. This was wrong, and the 

 type should have been changed. Wc send the entire 

 assortment for $3.7.5^ 



HOW TO BUILD HOUSES. 



A BOOK has been presented to us, entitled " Shop- 

 pell's Building- Plans for Low-Cost Houses." It 

 will be mailed on receipt of 50 cts. by the Co-opera- 

 tive Building-plan Association, 24 Beekman St., 

 New York. 



MRS. cotton's new CIRCULAR. 



Mrs. Cotton sends us a circular of Italian bees for 

 1885; price |120.00, book included. At this price it 

 seems to me she should certainly furnish a complete 

 hive with full set of boxes, comb foundation in 

 place, and every thing ready for a crop of honey. 



L. L. LANGSTROTH. 



We are pleased to know that our good friend is 

 well enough to be able to write. As we go to pi-ess 

 we receive from him the following postal card, re- 

 ferring to a letter found in Kind Words of this issue: 



Dear Friend:— Your letter inclosing S'-l.K from 

 D. H. Macomber came duly to hand. I have written 

 to him my thanks. L. L. Langstroth. 



Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 15, 1884. 



THE youth S COMPANION. 



Blue Eyes wanted a paper all her own, and one 

 that would come once a week too. " Well," said I, 

 " what one do you want?" She chose the Ymith's 

 Cooipajiion, and Itold her to write a nice little let- 

 ter to the editor, and ask him how much money he 

 wanted to " swap." He replied he would swap will- 

 ingly; but as theirs is a weekly, and ours only a 

 semi-monthly, we ai-o to give the Companion a little 

 notice, if we chose. Well, dear friends, here is the 

 notice, and I do not know of any weekly paper for 

 children that Blue Eyes could have chosen with 

 more wisdom. 



A §75.00 BOOK. 



We have now in one of our vaults a book for 

 which we paid over $75.00, and it has not got any 

 " reading " in it either. It is the index-book for our 

 series of ledgers, and will contain, when filled, from 

 25,000 to 50,000 names, and keep them so that the 

 book-keeper can find any one in an instant, and be 

 in no danger of getting the same man indexed in 

 two different places. The book is itself quite a 

 wonderful piece of mechanism, and is quite a little 

 load to carry about. The investment was made 

 mainly to keep from making our good friends mad 

 because we got hold of the wrong man, or dunned 

 some man who didn't owe us. You see how hai-d 



we are trying to get fixed so there will be small 

 liability of error. 



extractors that throw HONEY OVER THE TOP 

 OF THE CAN. 



Since our offer of last month, perhaps a dozen 

 have apprised us of having extractors " guilty " of 

 the above. Now, wc have some narrow tin bands 

 made to slip in the top of the extractor. By loosen- 

 ing the screws that hold the castings they go right 

 down into place, and do not in any way in- 

 jure the appearance of the machine. Wc furnish 

 these free of cost to any who want them, who have 

 bought our machines. But in ordering it will save 

 us expense if you will arrange so as to have it come 

 with other goods. 



SEED OF THE BLUE THISTLE. 



Mtt. K. B. IloBBiNs, Bloomdale, O., sends us a 

 very neat packet of the above seed. Directions for 

 planting and cultivation are given on the outside of 

 the packet, as follows: 



Plant in rows one foot apart, and 4 inches in row, 

 early in spring. Cover half -inch deep. Transplant 

 early the following spring, 3 feet apart each way. 

 To transplant, run a plow as deep as possible; set 

 the plants in and turn a furrow to cover. These 

 furrows may be turned, then set in another row. 



Whoever sends for this seed will please bear in 

 mind what has been said in regard to its being a 

 bad weed to introduce on to their farms. From 

 what experience we have had with it, however, I 

 should consider it no more dangerous than borage, 

 buckwheat, and a good many other similar plants. 



TINNED COVERS FOR SI.MPLICITY HIVES. 



By importing the tin directly from the old coun- 

 try, we are now enabled to furnish Simplicity cov- 

 ers, covered with a single sheet of tin, for only five 

 cents more than the all-wood covers. Besides this, 

 we are enabled to use a board for the top, of only 

 half the thickness necessary where no tin is used. 

 This reduces the weight of the cover from 6 lbs. to 

 only i^i lbs. Our friends will remember that we 

 can not furnish the sheet of tin for 5 cts., however, 

 of the above size, for the reason that we use cheap- 

 er lumber, and less of it, where the tin cover is put 

 on. I presume the tin covers will eventually take 

 the place entirely of those made all of wood, be- 

 cause the tin cover is not affected by the sun, and, 

 if kept painted, is good for a lifetime or longer. 

 Price of sheets of tin as above, 9 cts. each sheet, or 

 S8.00 for a box of 112 sheets, as per our price list. 



A NEW HAND ON THE HONEY-FARM. 



While I write, Huber (sixteen months old) is 

 driving the horse to roll the ground, while the man 

 who has been driving picks up stones, etc. The 

 ground has been underdrained three feet deep, and 

 the drains are only 30 feet apart. It was then sub- 

 soiled, and a good crop of clover turned under, then 

 harrowed often with the Acme harrow, and now it 

 is being rolled down smooth, as I told you. I car- 

 ried Huber out to the lot to see the men work; and 

 as he is always fierce for a ride, I set him in the box 

 with the stones. This suited him a little while, but 

 pretty soon thei-e was no peace until he could have 

 the lines, so now he is happy. This afternoon we 

 are going to sow the piece to wheat, drilling in 

 guano and phosphate along with the wheat. When 

 we get the ground in shape so it will raise a good 

 crop of any thing, no matter whether the season is 

 wet or dry, then we shall be ready to show you hon- 

 ey-plante dripping with honey. 



