1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



183 



Gleanings in Bee Cdltdre. 



t'tiblished Semi-MonthUj . 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



ing- a plan, that there are more difficulties in the 

 way than we had anticipated; but we are going to 

 make a hard pull, any way. 



For Clubbing Sates, See First Page of Beading Matter. 



ZivdiEiDinsr^fL., i>^j^Ti. 1, laes- 



Have the gates of death been opened unto thee! or hast thou 

 seen the doors of the shadow of death?— Job 38: 17. 



Our subscription-list is now 7976, a gain of 244 

 within the last month. 



PRICE LISTS RECEIVED. 



What is the matter with our supply-dealers? 

 Did the drought of last season kill them out, or 

 doesn't the business pay? So far we have x-eeeived 

 hardly a tenth of the price lists usually sent out 

 this time of year. 



BETTER NEWS FROM FRIEND W. Z. H. 



Just as we go to press, the following card comes 

 to hand: 



Dear Sik:— Mr. Hutchinson is fast improving now, and will 

 soon have the Review out. Mrs. W. Z. Hutchinson. 



ARTHUR TODD. 



The following further particulars have been re- 

 ceived from a son of the deceased, Arthur H. Todd: 



Mr. Root:— My father, Artlnir Todd, F. R. G. S. & A. K. C, of 

 London, died in this city, of jMU-uiuonia, on Saturday, February 

 11, aged 46 years. He was the lirst man to import your comb 

 foundation into France, and owned the first foundation ma- 

 chine in Algeria. He also was manager of the apiary at the 

 Zoological Gardens in this city, and owned the bees on exhibi- 

 tion. ARTHt'R H. Todd. 



Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 17, 1888. 



THE WANTS AND THE EXCHANGE'DEPARTMENT. 



Some of our advertisers do not seem to under- 

 stand that ad's intended for the above department 

 must be bona-flde exchanges or wants. We can not 

 insert any thing that names the jn-ice of an article 

 for sale, neither can we give place to an advertise- 

 ment that says, " Wanted, to exchange certain com- 

 modities for cash," naming the price; the exchange 

 must be for something not money. 



honey STATISTICS IN THE REGULAR CROP iJE- 

 PORTS. 



Just before we go to press, through the kindness 

 of A. B. Mason we are informed that Statistician J. 

 R. Dodge, of the Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, has promised to make an effort in 

 gathering statistics relative to bee-keeping, to be 

 published in the regular crop report at least once 

 in a jear, " providing that those engaged in the in- 

 dustry take sufficient interest in the matter to 

 furnish the necessary data." Gleanings will lend 

 its support to this enterprise in every wa.v it can. 



statistics for gleanings. 

 We have gotten out some blank iirinted matter, to 

 be sent to the bee-keepers in all parts of the coun- 

 try—the blanks to be tilled out and returned. Our 

 corps of honey-statisticians has not been fully 

 made up yet, but we hope to get the thing going, 

 so that we may be able to make some official an- 

 nouncements in our April 1st issue; that is, if our 

 " machinery " works all right. We And in formulat- 



ALSIKE CLOVER FOR RE-SEEDING. 



Our friend M. M. Baldridge gives the following in 

 the Prairie Farmer, in reference to a previous ar- 

 ticle : 



If th.it 13-acre piece nf timothv and red clover wcic mine. 1 

 should lose III! time to :\drl tlurctn. tlie prcs.nt winter or early 

 the cominy- sprint,', twn ii.>iiiids of :ilsike i-l(iver-seed to Ibe 

 acre. The s..il, beiMK low :nid moist, w.inid he i\i>t litrlit for 

 alf-ike clover; and on sueli soil, it would do miieh hettei- than 

 the coiniiioii red. Hut :ilsike will do well on any soil, no 

 matter how dry, which w ill ]iroducc ffood crops (d red (dover. 

 Still, no :itteinpt should l.i- ni:ule to grow aisike on auy soil, or 

 in any latitude sulgei't to drought, unless mixed with red 

 clover. When thus mixed, :ilsike will always do just aswidi 

 as red clover, iiud tlu' aisike will add greatly to the \ .,lue .d' 

 the crop tor either hay or ]iasttire. The fact is, Here is no 

 clover equ.-il, ill my |udt;ini'iit. to aisike for h.ay or |i,isiui e lor 

 bothshecii and cattle, and esjieidally for mileli ,-ohs. Hut I 

 prefer always, when seed inn' l.iiid to aisike clover :ind the eom- 

 rann red. to :idd there!., tie- usual .luantily ..f timothy, so as to 

 hol.l I1..II1 eloveis up :iii.l away from the L'round. hi this Kox- 

 River Viilley, the gie.it .l:iiiy region of Illinois, liiiii.he.ls of 

 acres will be seeded the present year to a mixture ..f timothy, 

 1-ed id. >ver, .111(1 aisike. The dairymen are just beginning to 

 realize tliat aisike clover has most excellent qualities and is 

 one of the best plants for dairy purposes ever introdueed into 

 the United States. M. M. BALDKlD.ilc. 



THE SPIDER-PLANT SEED THAT WOULD NOT 

 GERMINATE. 



In my editorial in our^last issue, I supposed that, 

 because we had waited a month for the seed to 

 come up, kept it warm, given it sun, etc., as we did 

 all our other honey-plant seeds, in our testing- 

 boxes, that there was not any use of waiting any 

 longer. During these bright days at the close of 

 February, when the sun shines every day, the neg- 

 lected and forgotten spider-plant seed took a start, 

 and came up all right. Now, will not the friends who 

 have bought seed of us, and complained that it 

 would not grow, try again? Keep the seed moder- 

 ately damp, in a warm place, and in the sun; and if 

 it does not come up in four weeks, it probably will 

 in eight. There has always been more or less 

 trouble with the spider-plant seed. I do not be- 

 lieve I ever had a real good stand of it, except 

 once, and I did not raise that. A market-gardener 

 raised it for me in a cold-frame, and he produced 

 the plants that gave us half an acre on our rich 

 creek-bottom land. 



OUR EUREKA WINDMILL. 



We are happy to say that|this mill has run the en- 

 tire winter, every day, when the wind blew; in fact, 

 it has not been stopped once on account of weather. 

 One reason why we wished to have it go all the 

 while was, that we cut our ice from our carp-pond ; 

 and by allowing the windmill to keep flooding the 

 ice with water from the .spring, we have been en- 

 abled to fill a large ice-house with what we call 

 "spring-water ice." You see, as fast as the water 

 froze, the windmill pumped more on top of the 

 ice, and then that froze. To my great astonishment, 

 the tub by the side of the pond has not had a bit of 

 ice on it this winter, not even around the edges— 

 the warm spring water keeping the contents of the 

 tub also above the freezing-point, even when the 

 thermometer indicated five degrees below zero. 

 When the wind did not blow, a small hole in the 

 pipe in the well let the water from the tub run back 

 into the well, so that, when the wind is not blowing, 

 there is no water in the tub. In my first talk about 

 windmills, I mentioned the fact that mills were on 

 the market as low as f3.").O0 or $<36.(K); but I did not 

 mean to convey the idea that o(t/- mill was purchased 

 at this low i)riee. The proper price can be ascer- 

 tained by writing to the manufacturers, Smith Si 

 Woodard, Kalamazoo, Mich. 



