1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



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Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



Published Setni- Monthly. 



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To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the 

 world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.— John 18: 37. 



CHESHIRE'S "BEES AND BEE-KEEPING." 



The second volume of the work as above has 

 reached us. For want of space we are unable in 

 this number to give it such a review as it deserves. 

 We hope to do so, however, in the next issue. 



WHEN TO GET GOOD PRICES FOR HONEY. 



A GOOD point i.s made in regard to the above by 

 one of our commission houses, F. Strohmeyer & 

 Co., in the Honey Column, page 194. We believe 

 the point is well taken, and honey-producers would 

 do well to bear it in mind. 



ARTICLES CROWDED OUT. 



A GOOD many valuable communications have 

 been crowded out of the present issue of Glean- 

 ings, in consequence of the inflow of advertise- 

 ments. In order to give our readers the full 

 amount of reading-matter, we .propose to add eight 

 extra pages for two or three months. We hope our 

 friends who have been waiting anxiously for their 

 articles to appear will bear with us a little longer. 



ONE-STORY CHAFF HIA'ES. 



t AM afraid that Ernest is getting a little too strong 

 in favor of these— see (^ur Own Apiary. For very 

 cold localities, I feel quite certain that the two- 

 story will give the best protection. I am also in 

 favor of the upper story as a place for feeding, 

 when robbers are troublesome. There are no 

 cracks nor joints for them to hang about. I also 

 like the large amount of space for surplus. Aside 

 from this, I quite agree with him. The two-story 

 chaff hive was not made, however, to accommodate 

 the T supers, so much in use at present, and is not 

 adapted to tiering up more than two high. 



done by old Sol. Such engravings are necessarily 

 a perfect reproduction— never making the person 

 represented look "horrid" or unnatural to his 

 friends. In order to print this kind of pictures it 

 takes flrst-class paper, a flrst-class press, and a flrst- 

 class pressman. Our readers can judge whether we 

 have all three or not. We hope to get out other pic- 

 tures by the same process during the year. 



THAT PICTURE OF E. FRANCE. 



Since tlie last issue, we have received the follow- 

 ing from Mr. France himself, and also from Mr. 

 Charles Dadant: 



That picture ot E. France is just splendid. Please let us 

 know who made it, and oblige Ch."V.s. Dadant & Son. 



Hamilton, Hancock Co., 111., March 9, 1888. 



I have received Gleanings for March 1, containing the pic- 

 ttire of myself. You have done remarkably well. Your new 

 process of making pictures must be a good one. Thank you 

 for the compliment. Edwin France. 



Platteville, Wis., March 8, 1888. 



To Others who may be interested in knowing how 

 that engraving was executed, we will say that it 

 was made by what is known as the Ives process of 

 direct engraving. The readers will see that it is a 

 direct copy of a photograph, the engraving being 



ALFALFA. 



JirsT now there is quite a boom of inquiries in re- 

 gard to alfalfa. I presume that much of it comes 

 about from some wonderful pictures in the agri- 

 cultural papers, of an alfalfa-plant with roots that 

 look as if they went as deep as the bottom of a 

 well, and branched out almost as much as the size 

 of a well sidewise. Inasmuch as alfalfa is a honey- 

 plant, we think it no more than fair that we should 

 explain a little. It is a wonderful plant to go away 

 down into the subsoil; and very likely it goes deep- 

 er than alsike, mammoth red clover, or any other 

 plant. We have raised it on our own grounds, and 

 1 it has come up year after year, and borne a large 

 ; amount of foliage right through the hottest and 

 I dryest weather. This was on hard clay; and when 

 I we came to use the ground finally for an addition 

 I to our factory we had a chance to see how far down 

 the roots went. If I am correct, some of them 

 reached two and a half and three feet into ground 

 that was hard to break up with a pick. Afterward 

 I had a piece of ground prepared and broken up 

 down deep with a subsoil plow; but before I got 

 round to sowing the alfalfa, strawberries became 

 my hobby and we have now the great big Sharpless 

 berries on that same ground. Before going into 

 the matter very extensively, I would try a small 

 piece. We can furnish you the seed at .5 cts. a 

 packet; 33 cts. per lb.; 40 cts. per lb., if wanted by 

 j mail. 



STOPPING GLEANINGS WHEN THE TIME IS OUT 

 FOR WHICH IT WAS PAID. 



As a matter of course, some of the friends are 

 displeased because we keep Gleanings going after 

 the time has expired for which they have made 

 payment. We never do this, however, when the 

 one who subscribes says, " Send it for the money 

 inclosed, and no longer." But when they simply 

 say, " Keep Gleanings going," or, " Send it for 

 another year," how are we to know what method 

 will please best? When we used to stop it at the 

 expiration of the time every year, a great many 

 would say, "Why in the world did you stop Glean- 

 ings when you had money to my credit on your 

 ledgers?" Of course, we explained that we had no 

 right to use such credits unless authorized to do so. 

 But a great many could not see it that way. They 

 would still say, " You might have known that I 

 wanted it kept going." And others would say, "I 

 would thank you to keep it going until you have 

 orders to stop it." The whole trouble is, dear 

 friends, that the matter is left without any or- 

 ders either way. In such cases we have found it 

 best to guess at the wishes of our friends as near 

 as we can; and, as a rule, a man feels better to 

 have more than he meant to have, rather than not 

 enough ; and we have for the past two years kept it 

 going until somebody says, "Don't send it any 

 more." By this latter plan we have to take the 

 risk of some loss, it is true; but we have found very 

 few who were unwilling to pay for all the num- 

 bers they had received. 



