1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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mucb enthusiasm, and just as much genial good- 

 fellowship. ]f friend S. is a bee-man, I tell you, 

 my friends, he is also a poet of no mean order. 

 Where can you find more expressed in a few short 

 verses than in the above little poem? You should 

 have been at the convention, though, to be able to 

 drink in the music that hums forth from not only 

 every line, but almost every word of that bright 

 little pen-picture. 



MATTER FOR GLEANINGS. 



I BELIEVE there never was a time when we had so 

 large an amount of really good copy awaiting pub- 

 lication as now. We shall endeavor to give place 

 to all that is worthy of insertion; but to do so, it 

 may take a couple of months. We hope this ex- 

 planation will be an answer to those who may be 

 wondering why their articles have not appeared in 

 print. In order to hear from all, we shall have to 

 ask the friends to write as briefly as possible. 

 Short articles, amounting to two or three inches of 

 printed matter, are highly acceptable at any time. 



THE WESTERN BEE-KEEPER. 



Did you ever! Another bee-journal under the 

 above caption has started This time it is in Des 

 Moines, Iowa. The editor and publisher is our old 

 friend Joseph Nysewander, formerly one of the 

 shorthand writers at the Home of the Honey-Bees, 

 and latterly a supply-dealer at Des Moines. As 

 you will see by the advertising columns, he is still 

 in the supply-business, and in addition has, like 

 some of the rest of us, hitched on a bee-journal. 

 Vol. I. No. 1 of his journal i)resents a good appear- 

 ance, and will doubtless fill a niche in the West. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL IN A NEW DRESS. 



The first numbers of our esteemed cotemporary, 

 the A. B. J., for 1888, have come out in a new dress. 

 It is printed almost wholly from new type, and the 

 matter has been somewhat rearranged. Altogeth- 

 er it is a decided improvement. As in times past. 

 Gleanings extends the right hand of fellowship, 

 and wishes the publisher every success. In this 

 connection we note with pleasure the brotherly 

 feeling existing among all our bee-journals at the 

 present time, and likewise the absence of little 

 petty jealousies which, we are sorry t<> say, used to 

 crop out once in a while. 



THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



Since our last issue we are informed that the 

 American Garden has purchased the OariUncr's 

 Monthly and Horticulturist, and consolidated it with 

 the American Garden. The Gardener's Monthly has 

 been an acknowledged authority of its class for 43 

 years. A short time ago the .1 /neiica/i Gardcji pur- 

 chased the FJo?-at Cabinet. There is one good thing 

 about these consolidations— one gets nearly every 

 thing that is valuable, and has to go over only one 

 journal instead of three. It has often seemed to 

 me like the economy of uniting two weak swarms 

 of bees— you get one rousing colony. I believe it 

 has not yet become the fashion among bee-jour- 

 nals to double up. 



CABBAGES FROM AMSTERDAM. 



That is where we got them, dear friends; and 

 our boys are having a tiptop trade in tbem on the 

 streets of Medina, and they are magnificent cab- 

 bages— in fact, the hardest heads, I believe, we ever 

 saw in the world. Now, then, is it the skill our 

 Amsterdam brethren have in raising cabbages, or 



have they got a better kind of seed that makes these 

 solid heavy heads? In the latter case, we want 

 some of the seeds. There is one thing vei-y pleasant 

 to me in regard to this: While these far-away 

 brothers are helping us by supjdying us with cab- 

 bages, when we arc cabbage hungry, we are perhaps 

 also helping them by taking their fine products off 

 their hands. They cost fll.OO a hundred here, but 

 I don't suppose our foreign friends get 14 cts. apiece 

 for them by considerable. I wonder if we have not 

 a subscriber in Holland who could tell just what 

 the cabbages do net them that they send off to 

 America. 



omitting addresses. 



We hoped we should not be obliged to say any 



thing more about this right away; but some of the 



brethren are getting to be quite bad again. Seethe 



following: 



Mr. a. 1. Root:— I wish my name discontinued from your list. 

 I do not wish to talce Gleanings any longer. 



William Hawkins. 



On the opposite side of the postal card, all we can 

 make out of the postmark is"ing." Without the 

 postoffice, we should have to look over 77.33 names 

 to find William Hawkins. Had there been any cor- 

 respondence with him during the year past, we 

 could find him by hunting over letters, and we have 

 already spent con.^iderable time over it, without 

 avail. Now, friend William, if this meets your eye, 

 we hope you will be kind enough to tell us where 

 you live, and I assure you we will stop your copy 

 of Gleanings instantly. 



seed-sowing for vegetable plants. 

 Now is the time, dear friends, with most of you 

 for sowing the seeds for cabbage, cauliflower, to- 

 mato, celery, and, if you choose, kohl-rabi, onions, 

 beets, etc. Some may urge that it is altogether too 

 early; but I tell you, strong, thrifty, early plants, 

 that have been several times transplanted, almost 

 invariably find a customer, and at good prices. A 

 tomato-plant, for instance, that has been trans- 

 planted until the root is a great mass of fibers, with 

 a good short stout stalk is worth five or even ten 

 cents, if the ordinary thin delicate spindling plants 

 are worth a cent apiece. If they threaten to grow 

 too fast, keep them growing slowly, in a cooler 

 temperature. This cooler temperature, with free- 

 dom from frost, is easily secured by frames of cloth 

 instead of glass; and the common cheap muslin, 

 such as you get at the stores, answers, so far as I 

 know, as well as the water-proof fabric. Perhaps, 

 however, the latter lasts enough longer to pay for 

 getting it. For full particulars in regard to this 

 matter, see our new book, " What to Do, and How to 

 be Happy while Doing it." 



MORE ABOUT THE CHILD THAT GREW SO FAST; HIS 



recent discovery, as MENTIONED IN OUR 



OWN APl.\Ry, THIS ISSUE. 



Our older readers will doubtless remember that 

 our old friend E. A. Morgan, who has given us such 

 a valuable invention (see page 110), is none other 

 than the one we named, some years ago, " the ABC 

 child who grew so fast." You see, friend M. took 

 hold of bee culture so suddenly, and made such as- 

 tonishing strides, that we were all surprised. If I 

 remember correctly, he has had some mishaps that 

 didn't turn out so lucky as this one, when he let 

 those sheets of wax tumble into the pork-barrel. 

 The latter mishap bids fair to be not only lucky for 

 friend M., but a pretty big streak of luck for all of 



