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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



el LfNE 



call a mass meeting- and vote you a monument, and 

 write thereon, •' In memory of the man who dared 

 to stand up for principle and rifrht." I would give 

 S5.00 for Gleanings, even if it were published 

 onl.s- once in six months; and all it need to contain 

 would be a reply to patent-right claimants such as 

 is in the last issue, in reply to Mr. Langstroth's arti- 

 cle on patents. Friend Root, that article is worth 

 more to bee-keepers than all the patent hives ever 

 made or ever will be. When I read it I could not 

 help saying, " Well done, good and faithful servant 

 of bee-keepers. God will reward you for doing 

 your duty." W. E. Clark. 



Oriskany, N. V., May 24, 1888. 



One is led to smile at friend (".'s extrava- 

 j^ance ; but, dear friends, tliere is a moral to 

 all this. Prof. Cook wields a wonderful in- 

 rtiience throughout Micliigan ^ in fact, 

 throughout the country at large. President 

 Clark also wields a large intluence through- 

 out York State ; and this matter of patents 

 has already come up in the conventions in 

 York State, and it has at different times 

 brought bitterness in our ranks. I have re- 

 cently attended conventions both in Mich- 

 igan and York State, and I love the people 

 whom 1 have met at all these conventions. 

 Now, if Prof. Cook and President Clark 

 both hold on tenaciously to what they have 

 expressed in the above letters, there is going 

 to be quarreling and bitterness to the end, 

 and perhaps it will be encouraged by these 

 two letters between the two great honey- 

 producing States of New York and Mich- 

 igan unless — . How shall I fill out this 

 blank, dear friends? Why, in this way : 

 The only hope of peace and kind brotherly 

 feeling is, that both give way a little. 1 ask 

 you, friend Clark, to give way a little, and 

 have more respect for those who believe in 

 patents; and 1 ask you too, friend Cook, to 

 consider the opinions and convictions of 

 many other good people, and be less posi- 

 tive. Then may we have peace and harmo- 

 ny. As for myself, you may do as you please 

 with me, or put me where you like, and I 

 will l)e silent ; only do not ask me any more 

 to publish any thing in favor of selling 

 "• patent-rights " on bee-hives. 



I^EP0R¥g ENcea^^Gip. 



NKW HONEY FROM NEV'ADA THAT IS "JUST SPLEN- 

 DID." 



SI^VEKr thing looks well and favorable for a 

 t good harvest in this section— lots of eggs, 

 f brood, and young bees; and our honey here is 

 ■ "just splendid"— very light-colored, and free 

 from any foreign Havor, for they get but little 

 except the clovers, and of course there is no mix- 

 ture. Perhaps I will send you a sample of it some 

 time in the course of the season; and if you think as 

 much of it as Dr. Mason did, I shall be well repaid 

 for sending it. E. A. MooRE. 



Reno, Nevada, Ai)ril :i4, 1888. 



SUCCESSFUL. 



As 1 am one of your A B C scholars, and a little 

 proud of ray success, I give you a little of my experi- 

 ence. I wintered 37 colonies through the winter of 



'886, packed in chaff, on summer stands, without 

 any loss. Prom these 1 tookl7:i5 lbs., which brought 

 me $:il6.U. Last winter I had 4T stands; I lost one. 

 My bees are in tirst-class condition, and I think the 

 prospect is good for a large yield. I take Glean- 

 ings, and think I made enough extra on my honey 

 in consequence to pay for it ten years at least. 

 Millview, Pa., Apr. 30, 1888. John Norton. 



NO loss. 



Apple-trees are in blossom, and bees are in good 

 shape. We are happy to say we wintered our bees 

 without loss. I don't know of a single colony that 

 perished in this locality. Fruit-bloom yields honey 

 in abundance. To my surprise, one of our Italian 

 colonies sent out a rousing ^warm to-day. The sea- 

 son has opened with good ijrospects. 



Douglas, O., May 11. Hillside Apiarv. 



6a^ 0WN ^Pi^RY. 



CONDUCTED BY ERNEST R. ROOT. 



THAT NEW WIRE SUPPORT FOR THE T 



TINS. 



fll E little pieces of strap iron are good 

 when once put on ; but the trouble of 

 cutting them up, perforating two 

 holes, together with nailing them on 

 the bottom edges of the sides of the 

 T supers, made them a little expensive. In 

 response to my call for something better, 

 we received a great many suggestions, but 

 hardly any of them Mere practicable. One 

 of the correspondents, how- 

 ever, put us on the track of 

 an idea which developed 

 into something like the ac- 

 companying cut. You will 

 observe" thSt it is nothing 

 more nor less than an ordi- 

 nary stajile of suitable size, 

 bent at right angles in the 

 middle. Tlie prongs point- 

 ing upward are driven into r-rif^ support. 

 the bottom edge of the wood in such a way 

 as to leave the horizontal V projecting far 

 enough inside to support the end of the T 

 tin. After we had developed this idea, a 

 letter from one of our correspondents came 

 to hand, inclosing a few samples of identi- 

 cally the same thing. 



These staples make not only a neater and 

 prettier job. but very much" cheaper, and 

 they can be put on very much more rapidly. 

 Notice prices in the column of Special No- 

 tices. We sent one of these supports to 

 C. C. Miller for his opinion ; and in reply 

 respecting tiiem lie says : " The staple T- 

 tin rest is at hand ; and after trying to tind 

 some fault with it 1 am obliged to say it is 



excellent It is much stronger 



than sheet iron."' All T supers sent out 

 now will have tiie new T-tin rest. I omitted 

 to mention that straight staples can be used, 

 and are a little cheaper. They are to be 

 driven about half way into the wood, and 

 then bent at right ;ingles. After trying 

 l)otli ways we much prefer to drive the sta- 

 ple lirst mentioned. It goes in easier, and iS 

 not so liable to split the wood, 



