1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



119 



Contents of this Number. 



Bees and Borries 121 



Bees and C'oldrs (Q.B.) .138 



Bees Safe Near Railroad. . . .136 



Bees Between Koeks .-..136 



Bees and Nemhliors 135 



BeesN..t Hint li\ Light 132 



Bee-rave, l)..,)lit'tle's 123 



Bee-eellar. Kint:'^ 124 



Bible. Karts Aliout 148 



Bovs- Hi ve-f artory 140 



Buinljle-hees, To Destroy. . .142 



Carniolans ill U.S...;'. 13,5 



Chaddnck Pi.'tnre of 127 



Chaff Hi v.-s K,i \ . .red 137 



Chapniaii-pLant Se.dFree. .110 



Convention in Cmtou 136 



Crops on Poor Ground 145 



Drinking-t'ount 134 



Drones, Lang.stroth on 125 



Editorials 146 



Essay by A. B. Mason 10 



Florida, Invitation to 135 



Foundation-mill, Improved. 115 

 Heads of Grain 1.34 



Hermaphrodites, Again 133 



Honev by the Bushel 134 



HuneV, Extracted 130 



Honev, How to Market 130 



Honey, Prices of 122 



Husband-; .\dvice to 128 



Killed oil Kailroftd 13.5 



LifXht ill the Cellar 132 



r,i u'li I K i 1 1 i n>r Bees 124 



Oliio Cent] Exposition 126 



Our I iwn .Vjjiary 14.') 



Paiutinn- Hives (Q.B.) ,i:,9 



Pollen as a Food 121 



Queen, Removed in Harvest. 1^1 



Question-Box II 8 



Reports Discouraging 137 



Reports Encouraging 137 



Reviving Bees 1^1 



Sections in Potato-boxes 134 



I Snow at Entrance. . . . (Q.B.) .138 



S(ati-ti<-s 134 



\V,-itcil..r Poultry 134 



Woin.iii's Work 128 



Yellow-jackets, To Kill 112 



CONVENTION NOTICE. 



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The second annual nieeMng of the Southwestern I 

 keepers' Association will be held at the Court-house at lied 

 Oak, March 6th and 7tli, 1^'8S. All bee-keepers are cordially in- 

 vited to attend. E. AV, Pitzer, Sec'y. 



Hillsdale, la. 



CIRCULARS RECEIVED. 



The following have sent us their price lists: 



Christian Weckesser. Marshallville, O,, a 20-page circular of 

 Italian bees, queens, garden-seeds, plants, etc. 



G. D. Black, Brandon, la., an 8-page list of Italian bees, comb 

 and extracted honey. 



A. E. Maniim. Bristol, Vt,, a 12-page price list of high-cl.ist; 

 poultry, bees. etc. 



E, L. Blake \ Co., Peabody, Mass., send a 4-page circular of 

 seed-drills ,iiiil ,\ineiic.an hives, 



M. H. Hind, I'.ell Branch, Wayne Co.. Mich., a 12-pape price 

 list of bee-keepeis' suiiplies. Till' novel feature of this cata- 

 logue is. that friend Hunt ]miehascd a pi in!iii!.:-outtil , set the 

 type, made the display lines, and printed his circular himself, 

 lie writes, that he never sjient au hour in a printing-office. 

 For a novice, he did well. •■ Hut," he writes, " it was rather ex- 

 pensive." Next year he will do it cheaper 



Mrs. Lizzie E. Cotton, W 

 cular and price list. The ■ t.ii- me 

 she charges foi; the good- 1m 

 classed with regular supiil.N -'!• il' 

 a colony of Italian bees in iiei 

 book, '■ Bee-keeping for Prolit." 

 does all she agrees to. 



A 20-page circular of hce-snpplies for B. J. Miller & Cj., Nap- 

 panee. Ind.. was ijriiue.l ai iln-- offii c. 



i a 16-page cir- 



■ 111, ikes ,111, i iiie prices 

 ml, loiliid her being 

 ' -111! eh:ir^vs t'2ll,fl0for 

 .liable liive, with her 

 believe, however, she 



Wants or Exchange Department. 



Notices will be inserted under this head at one-half our 

 usual rates. All ad's intended tor this department must not 

 exceed 5 lines, and you must say you want your ad. in this de- 

 partment, or we will not be responsible for any error. You 

 can have the notice as many lines as you please; but all over 

 Ave lines will cost you according to our regular rates. Of 

 course, this- department is intended only for boiia-tlde ex- 

 changes. 



WANTED.— Bee-help for 1888. One man with ex- 

 perience and one wishing' to learn the business. 

 3U0 colonies, 30 j-ears' experience. 



S. T. Freeborn, Ithaca, Wis. 



WANTED.— To exchange new Simp, hives for fur- 

 skins, either red- fox or sliiunk. Address 



A. P. Sharps, Exeter, Luzerne Co., Pa. 



WANTED.— To exchange Wheeler & Wilson sew- 

 ing-machines (new) for honey, bees, or sup- 

 plies. J. A. Green, Dayton, ill. 'aotfdb 



WANTED.— To exchange bees in Langstroth or 

 Simplicit.v hives, for disk-harrow and band 

 seed-drill. I also want seed-catalogues. Address 

 W. H. Putnam, River Falls, Wis. 



TTT ANTED. —Correspondence on apples, potatoes, 

 Vt seed-potatoes, cabbage, onions, small fruit, and 

 fruit and jiroduce generally. Consignments solic- 

 ited. Will (juote market at any time. 



Eakle Cuckenger, 

 4tfdb General Commission Merchajit, 



117 South 4th St., Columbus, Q. 



WANTED.— To exchange sample sections, and 

 price list of apiary supplies, for a two-cent 

 stamp. Will also exchange supplies for founda- 

 tion, and a few colonics of Italian bees, delivered 

 at Clintonville, Wis. Address 

 3-4d W. H. Cook, Clintonville, Waupaca Co., Wis. 



WANTED. — Correspondence with parties who 

 have strawberiy-plants and wisli to exchange 

 for red-raspberry-plants. E. Clickenger, 

 4-5d 117 South 4th St., Columbus. O. 



WANTED.— To exchange our Price List of Bee- 

 Keepei'S' Supplies, etc., for your name on a 

 postal card. Address 

 4-.5-6d J NO. Nebel & Son, High Hill, Mo. 



WANTED.— A. position in large apiary for the 

 coming season. Address 

 4d E. L. Pratt, Marlboro, Mass. 



WANTED.— A bee-keeper to take charge of my 

 apiary, on shares. Robert Blacklock. 

 Kilgore, Boyd Co., Ky. 



V17ANTED.~By an experienced man, a position as 

 VV apiarifit and queen-breeder. Have had an ex- 

 perience of 10 years, or as foreman of several 

 apiaries. Address T. S. Half,, 



Calhoun, Gordon Co., Ga. 



^17"ANTED.— A situation for the season of 1888, as 

 Vt assistant in apiwry ; .3 years' experience: New 

 England or New York pi-eferred. Address 



A. L. Trowbridge, Willimantic, Wind. Co., Ct. 



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ANTED.— Situation for 1888, by an expert bee- 

 keeper. B. F. Howard, 

 Hoyt's Corners, Seneca Co., N. Y. 



WANTED.— To exchange Gregg raspberry-plants 

 for comb fdn., lib. sections, alsike and white 

 Dutch clover-seed. Address Thompson Brown, 



Cloverdalo, Ind. 



V17 ANTED.— To buy or hire a small place, in a good 

 VV location, for keeping boes; must be in the 

 western part of Vermont, or eastern part of New 

 York. F.C. Fuller, 



Wendell Depot, Franklin Co., Mass. 



T\7 ANTED. —To exchange B-flat cornet, made in 

 VV Paris; two crooks, two straights, second-hand, 

 in good Older; case and instruction-book, lor sec- 

 tions, fdn., or any thing useful to me. 



Geo. W. Miijii.s, Teepieville, Craw. Co,, Pa. 



I will sell my entire apiary of S.'jO colonies of Ital- 

 ian bees, in good Langstroth hives, cheap, or any 

 number of colonies, to suit purchaser. Unsurpass- 

 ed facilities for shipping bv i-iver or railroad. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. Address 

 4d J, ^V. T^'INDEE, New Orleans, L.a. 



OW TO KAISE COMB HONEV. See F<\s- 

 ter's advertisement on another page. 4-1.5dh 



Vy ANTED —To exchange pure P. R. cockerels, or 



VV eggs from prize - winning stock, for alsike 



clover-seed or ferrets. Eggs.f a 0(1 for 13 or f 3,00 for 30. 



45d B. D. StowELi;, Flushing, Belmont Co., O. 



DADANT'S FOUNDATION FACTOR?, WHOLE- 

 SALE AND KRTAIL. See advertisement in 

 another column. 3htfd 



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 others, is cun shape, with Self- 

 adjusting Ball in center,adapt,i 

 itself to all positions of th(! 

 body while the ball in the cup 



' presses back the intes- 

 — „, tines just as a person 



does with the finger, with Ughtprossuro the Her- 

 nia is held securely d-ay and night, apd a r.adical cure 

 certain. It is easy, durable and cheao, .Sent by mail, CiPr 

 cularsfreo. liGGLESTON TRCS3 CO., Chicago, UU 



