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GLEANINGS IN BEE CtJLTtJEE. 



Apr. 



portraits f?iven we notice that of our old friend 

 L. L. Lang-stroth, Weygandt, Dzierzon, Kanitz, 

 Schonfeld, Hrusehka (the inventor of the extract- 

 or), Butlerow, and others. These are very fine, for 

 the Germans excel the world on fine portrait wood 

 engraving. Although the general management of 

 bees as laid down in this book is peculiar to Ger- 

 many, we can heartily recommend it to all who 

 can read and understand the German language. 

 The price is not stated, but can be obtained of C. J. 

 H. Gravenhorst.. Wilsnack, Germany. 



A SPANISH BEE-.JOURNAL. 



No better evidence of the spread of modern bee 

 culture over the world has lately reached us than a 

 little journal published in Mahon. Balearic Islands, 

 east of Spain, entitled Revista Apicola (Apicultural 

 Review). It is edited by Francisco F. Andreu, and 

 is thoroughly abreast with the latest improve- 

 ments. Mr. Andreu has just been traveling 

 through France and England, and has adopted the 

 sj'Stem most prevalent in the latter country. The 

 large yields per colony made in England seem to 

 astonish Mr. Anilreu; but we seem to think his as- 

 tonishment will increase when he learns the large 

 yields made by Edwin France, for instance, in 

 hundreds of colonies. He speaks of apiculture in 

 France as being in a very backward state. He says 

 that in the garden of Acclimitizalion, in Paris, the 

 old box hives are shown as representative of api- 

 culture in France to-day. The journal has 8 pages, 

 and is published at a nominal price which does not 

 seem to be stated. 



NO MORE HELP WANTED. 



We are obliged to put a notice like the above in 

 our county paper every little while; and with the 

 number that are wanting to come from a distance 

 to Medina to work for us, I do not know but I shall 

 have to keep such a notice in Gleanings. I should 

 be very glad indeed, dear friends, to furnish em- 

 ployment if I could; but the truth is, I can not pos- 

 sibly find work for more than a small part of those 

 right in our own town. I appreciate the compli- 

 ment you pay me in wanting to come here; and I 

 believe it is indeed true, that we have a pleasant 

 place to work, and that we have succeeded in a re- 

 markable degree in making work a pleasant pas- 

 time; but the same thing may be done on almost 

 any spot on the face of the earth, providing you take 

 Christ Jesus along with you to that spot ; and wheth- 

 er you work or not, or whatsoever you do, do it all 

 for his honor and glory. You do not need to come 

 to Medina at all. If you want a more detailed ex- 

 planation of what I mean, I must refer you to the 

 book I have been writing, on this very subject, for 

 the past two or three years. 



CLEANING ALSIKE CLOVEB-SEED. 



Anothek reason besides the one given, why we 

 can not sell alsike as low as it is sometimes adver- 

 tised, is, that nearly all we handle is re-cleaned be- 

 fore we send it out. We have the best clover-clean- 

 er known, and this runs by the power of our big en- 

 gine. By this means we get a steady uniform blast. 

 The different sieves have a steady motion, whereas 

 by hand sometimes good seed is jerked over with 

 the waste, and at other times the bad seed gets 

 over with the good. Where the mill is run by pow- 

 er, we can also afford to take a great deal of time in 

 the cleaning process. The clover-seed Is put into a 

 large hopper in an upper room. The mill is set so 



as to take only a small stream of clover-seed at a 

 time; and as it works for nothing and boards Itself 

 (which is not true of the average hired man) we can 

 go oft' and leave it and let it take its own time. If 

 anybody can by any process send out any cleaner 

 clover-seed than we do, we should like to know it. 



THE DEATH OF MRS. TUPPER. 



We note by the Prairie Farmer, that Mrs. Ellen S. 

 Tupper, well known to our older readers, died sud- 

 denly. March 12, at El Paso, Texas, while she was 

 visiting her daughter. At one time Mrs. Tupper 

 was considered not only as a standard authority on 

 almost all ([uestions pertaining to bee culture, but 

 she was also remarkably successful as a honey-pro- 

 ducer. She finally went Into the supply-business 

 in company with a Mrs. Savery. under the name of 

 the Italian Bee Company, at Des Moines, la.; but in 

 consequence of financial troubles and overwork it is 

 said she became partially deranged, since which 

 time we have heard little or nothing from her. 



SPOILING THE MARKET. 



A GREAT deal has been said at our conventions 

 and through our journals in regard to offering 

 small lots of honey below the price, and thus break- 

 ing or spoiling- the market price for honey. A 

 great many times we have been told that this is not 

 the case with the great staples; that wheat, corn, 

 potatoes, and such commodities, bring what they 

 are worth. I think, friends, this is a mistake. Take 

 clover-seed, for instance. We have been advertis- 

 ing alsike at 8*7.50 per bushel; and as this price is 

 below that of many of the large seedsmen, we 

 thought it was a very fair rate. A few days ago. 

 however, a friend who had ordered a bushel or two 

 wrote us, countermanding his order, saying he 

 thought when the order wss made, A. I. Root could 

 be trusted to furnish goods at what they are worth, 

 without watching, or something to that effect, and 

 asked how it was that it was now advertised at $6.3.5 

 in the Ohio Farmer, while we kept asking and tak- 

 ing $7.50. I looked up the advertisement, and im- 

 mediately wrote to the advertiser, asking him how 

 much alsike he had at $6.25, and what he would 

 take for his whole stock. He replied that his three- 

 line advertisement in the Fai-mer had taken it all. 

 or nearly all, and he would probably have to disap- 

 point many. Now, I do not mean to complain be- 

 cause this man advertised it at $6.25. It was his 

 privilege; but is it our duty to put a price on, say, 

 100 bushels or more, down to $6.25 (regardless of 

 what it cost us) because this man decided to get rid 

 of a few bushels in the above way? Surely not. 

 Another thing: Whoever sells alsike must furnish 

 a bag to put it in. and a good stout one too, or he 

 may have loss in transit to make good. There is 

 one good moral to this matter, however; that is, 

 subscribe for the agricultural papers— a good lot of 

 them. Read them through, advertisements and all; 

 and when you see something advertised at a low 

 price that you want, just "go for it." It makes 

 things lively to have people on the alert to catch up 

 every good offer like this that is made. It makes it 

 lively for the producer, and lively for the editor to 

 have his paper filled with lots of offers, and it makes 

 it lively for the transportation companies, etc. 

 But, dear friends, before you put an advertisement 

 like the above in such a paper as the Ohio Farmer, 

 be sure you have got a good lot on hand to back up 

 your promise. 



