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1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Contents of this Number. 



Rees Moved ill Winter 176 



Bee-kei'piiig- for Preachers..] 73 



Bee-space, Upper 173 



Blacks Aliea<i 178 



Buckwheat. Japanese. . .166, 175 



Butter-dishes a Success 174 



(\dimies per Square Mile... 17(1 



Cones, Pine 167 



Editorial 183 



Fouiulation for Sur. Boxes. 160 

 P'oundation. Workiiit,' Old.. 174 



France, E.. Picture of 163 



Heads of Grain 171 



Hives. Shaded (O.B.) .17.t 



Hone V Consumed .... i Q.B. ). 176 



Honey, To Keep (Q.B.).176 



Honey-knife, Wyrick's. 171 



Lay's Romance. 165 



Leaves for Smokers 167 



Lettuce, Grand Rapids 161 



Notes and Queries 171 



Our Own Apiary 181 



Out-apiaries, Help for 164 



Poor, Remember the 166 



Queen Gnawing: Cappinp: .. .Ii2 

 Queens Shipped in January. 174 



Queen, Survival of 173 



Question-box 175 



Reading- for the Destitute.. .172 



Record-books for Apiar.v 167 



Reports Discouraging' 178 



Reports Encouraging 177 



Reversing Not Practical — 174 



RoachesI 173 



Separators, Tiering 171 



Sections. Glued 171 



Sections, Open-side 174,182 



Simpson Plant 174 



Small Fruits with Bees 160 



Snow Over Hives l.iS 



Song for Bee-keepers 166 



Statistics. Honey 162 



Sugar v. Natural Stores 182 



Swarming. To Prevent. . .172, '3 



Swarms, Who Owns! 169 



Sweet Clover, To Sow 175 



Tomatoes, Improving. 168 



Wife's Share, -Mrs. Hayhu't.l69 



PHICE LISTS HECEIVED. 



Up to date we have received the following price lists ; 



R, E, Smith, Tillbury , Ontario, Canada ; a 20-page circular of 

 bee-supplies. 



Oliver Foster, Mt. Vernon, Iowa; a la-page circular of bees. 

 honey, and supplies; specialty, Foster's adjustable honey-case 

 and open-side sections. 



E. Kretchmer. Coburg, Iowa; a 30-page price list of bee-keep- 

 ers' supplies. On page 10 we notice Kretchmer's invertible T- 

 rail section case. 



E. S. Armstrong, Jerseyville, 111. ; a 36-page price list of Arm- 

 strong's reversible crown beehives. We believe that friend 

 Armstrong has the best invertible T super of any thing we 

 have seen, where one desires to invert. Most of the hives and 

 supplies offered by friend A. are of his own invention. 



C. W. Costellow, Waterboro, Me.; a 16-page catalogue of 

 apiarian supplies. Friend C. also sends out an advertising 

 card. On one side are mentioned a few facts about bees, 

 which are intended to enlighten those who have no knowledge 

 of some things which are familiar to the bee-keeper. On the 

 other side is his advertisement. 



William Buglass. Ontario, Canada; a 16-page pamphlet en- 

 titled Buglass' Honey Advertiser and Practical Reeipe-book. 

 It contains articles from Newman's " Honey and Food as Medi- 

 cine," to whom our friend gives proper credit. 



G. B. Lewis, Watertowii, Wis., sends us a 10-page catalogue 

 of bee-keepers' supplies in general. Friend Lewis is always 

 abrea.st of the times, and- is one of our old reliable supply 

 dealers. 



gPECI^Ii ]\l0TICEg. 



THOSE CHOICE SEEDS. 



At present writiuff, just about half of my two 

 pounds of choice ctibbage-seed is gone, and we have 

 sent out perhaps 300 flve-oent pacitages. There is 

 also plenty of the Grand Rapids lettuce-seed left, 

 although we have sent out over 300 flve-ccnt pack- 

 ages, I mention this because many of the friends 

 have been afraid they were too late to get a pinch. 



VICK'S EAHLY SCAKLBT-GLOBE RADISH. 



These are now ready to " harvest," in the green- 

 house, and they certainly do beat any thinj^ in the 

 way of radishes we have ever before got hold of. 

 In fact, they are just as handsome as Vick's color- 

 ed plate in his catalogue for 1888. They grow with 

 wonderful rapidity; and almost as soon as the sec- 

 ond leaf l)egins to show, they begin to make their 

 little scarlet bulb. We have tried extra-early forc- 

 ing radishes from other seedsmen, but we pro- 

 nounce ^'ick's ahead of them all. We have added 

 this radish to our catalogue, and can furnish the 

 seed in .5-cent packets, or at 10 c. per ounce, or $1.00 

 per pound. 



MONTREAL MUSKMELON. 



Last season a friend brought from one of our 

 large cities a muskmelon that seemed to me a little 

 larger and nicer than anythingin the melon line 

 ever before seen here. He could not tell the 

 name of it, and neither was I able to tlnd out what 

 variety it was, until quite recently, when, from the 

 description, 1 find it to be the Montreal musk- 

 melon. We did not save the seed of it, because I 

 have been told there is no certaintj' of melon-seeds 

 being true, unless they are raised at a considerable 

 distance from other members of the vine family. 

 Will our friend W. J. (ireen, of the Ohio E.vperi- 

 ment Station, please tell us whether this is true? 

 At any rate, to be sure to have the genuine I have 



secured a quantit,v of choice seeds from one of our 

 most expert seed-growers, which we will f uruish at 

 5c per oz. or 60c per lb. The melon in questicn is 

 not only very large, but the cavity that contains 

 the seed is so exceedingly small that you get a largo 

 amount of edible melon, and the quality i,< certainly 

 equal to any thing that it has ever been my fortune 

 to taste. Our seed catalogues have gone oft so 

 rapidly that a new edition will be out in a few days, 

 giving prices of potatoes and several other things 

 of merit that I have thought best to add. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Your 35-cent shears are the best I ever saw. I 

 have tried several pairs of them, W. D. Hill. 



Lake Washington, Miss. 



I think that Gleanings is a treasure in itself, 

 and I would not be without it for many times its 

 cost. S. H. Beaver, 



Tamora, Neb., Dec. 15, 1887. 



The goods sent the other day, smoker, etc., came 

 in good order, and suit me well. I am pleased with 

 them all. U, G. Pine. 



Argo, Fla., Oct. 17, 1887. 



I put the saw in good order. It works well, and 

 saws as smooth as a plane cuts. To get it so, I fol- 

 lowed the direction given in A B C. and found it to 

 be correct. P. McCracken. 



Beloit, Kan., Feb. 4, 1888. 



You will please send Gleanings so long as you 

 find any credit in my favor. Gleanings first, other 

 things after. May God bless you in your efforts for 

 our fellow-man's welfare, W. H. H. Dotterrer. 



Newton Mills, Forest Co., Pa., Dec. 26, 1887. 



I thank you for your prompt, straightforward, 

 and honest way of doing business. It seems to me 

 we find your success founded in Proverbs 3: 6—" In 

 all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct 

 thy paths;" and 33:11— "He that loveth pureness 

 of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be 

 his friend." Agnes Ironside. 



109 King St., East Toronto, Jan, 6, 1888. 



I believe the great majorit.v of people who know 

 of you at all will readily call you a friend. I did 

 not write to tell you that the goods shipped were 

 all right, and were in the best shape, or as good as 

 any one could possibl.y put them in, because I know 

 you receive so man.v complimentary letters (and 

 you deserve them all). I know you get tired of 

 reading them. F, E, Tarven. 



Hephziliah. Ga , Oct. 32. 1887. 



[But, friend T., we do like to get kind words when 

 we deserve them, it encimragcs us, you know.l 



our CHATILLON'S scale, and how a CANADI- 

 AN saves money on them. 



The scales came all safe and sound. Now, for the 

 same kind of " Fairbanks " make here in Ontario 

 we have to pay $8.00. I sent you $6.00 for two 

 pair. Duties and entrance fees were S3.75, freight 

 Ji.lO. So you see ray two pair cost me only $9.85. 

 You can see how much I saved by sending to you 

 forthem. Honey is scarce herein St. Catharines, 

 none offering at all except what I send there. That 

 sells at 18 cts. for comb, and VZVi for extracted. 



Pelham Union, Ont,, Can. D. W. MoORE. 



HOW GLE.VNINGS saves money for its SUB- 

 SCRIBERS. 



I have been thinking, as this season was so very 

 dry and crops poor, especially the honey crop, that 

 I must stop or discontinue some of my papers and 

 journals; but as I looked over them and saw 

 Gi-eanings I said to myself I must have it, for it 

 gives me information every year that benefits me 

 more than several times thoprice of it. If it had 

 not been for Gleanings I should not have had an.v 

 .Japanese buckwheat thisyear, and even one bushel 

 would be worth to me more than ten dollars, if I 

 could not get another. I have no honey to sell this 

 season, but have 57 stands o*' bees in good shape to 

 winter. A- J- Shepard. 



Walker, Linn Co., Iowa. 



