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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



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Contents of this Number- 



Ants 501 



Apiary, Our— A Poem 578 



Bee Bi)tany 582 



Bees. Forcing: into Super?.. 670 



Bees, Shiny 584 



Bee cellar, A New ,5.59 



Beedlsease, Nameless .573 



Beeswax, BleachinK 673 



B(.iiiiet. Axtell's .565 



Buck wheat with Clover .584 



Candy. Uood, To Make .505 



Carpenter Bees .572 



Chaff in Missouri 670 



Chestnut 585 



Clover Not Killed .572 



Prumrainff Out ,556 



Duck-eg-g Story ,578 



Editorials ,586 



KksIS, AKe ot 670 



Extiai-tintr (Q.B.).574. '5 



F.I Ise Sl.i tenients .507 



Fraini. t>qnare 571 



Heads of i;rain .570 



Hive, Let alone 571 



Hives. Honn -made ,573 



Honey, Dark 505 



Honey, Labeling. 585 



Honey, Testing Purity of. . ..587 



Honey-dew 572 



Honev from Trees 569 



Hcmc'v Stal istics ,500 



Hi nsclika's Fxtiactor 5.55 



Huinl)nKS and Swindles 583 



Knife, Saddler's 581 



Lettuce. G. R., in South 570 



Maples for Honey .563 



May-queen 678 



Miller's Fdn. Fastener 573 



Morrison's Device 552 



Notes and i.nieries .584 



Oui- Own Apia IV 586 



Poisons on Trees 582 



Pollen. Colors ot ..577 



Pollen, Sources of 577 



Question-Box 674 



Ramble No. 3 508 



Repoits Discouraging 583 



Reports Encouraging .583 



Robinson Corrected 5.58 



Saratoga Springs 508 



Sawdust for l^ollen 671 



Sections. 1 and 4 Piece 503 



Sections. Five-cent 585 



Section-f.Hiner 573 



Shrinkage in Sections 572 



Smoker with New Valve 572 



Spraying Trees 582 



Sugar. Cut-loaf 565 



Super, T. M. .dified 566 



Supers, Woik in .553, 



Strawberries, Terry's ...,557 



Swarms, Sprinkling 577 



Tar on Corn 677 



Thunder .571 



T.ype- writer. Our New 580 



Veil, A New 664 



Black and Hybrid Queens For Sale. 



For the benefit of friends who have black or hybrid queens 

 which they want to dispose ot, we will insert notices free of 

 charge, as below. We do this because there is hardly value 

 enough to these queens to pay for buying them up and keep- 

 ing them in stock ; and yet It is oftentimes quite an accommo- 

 dation to those who can not afford higher-priced ones. 



50 mismated Italian ((ueens for sale at oOc each by 

 return mail. Good layers. Progen.v industrious. 

 J. C. WiiEELEK, Piano, Kendall Co., 111. 



We have a few hybrid queens, which we will sell 



at 40c each. Very prolific. Safe arrival guaranteed. 



G. W. Cribbs & Son, Heshbon, Indiana Co., Pa. 



For Sale.— Two mismated Italian queens, large 

 and fine, 3.")C each. Cha.s. McClavf,, New London, O. 



I shairhave about 40 black and hybrid queens for 

 sale this month at 2.5c. Y. P. Clare, 



Oliver's Ferry, Ont. 



I have 8 black and also some hybrid queens for 

 2.5c each. A. W. Spracklen, Cowden, Shelby Co., 111. 



I have 15 or 20 hybrid queens that I will send by 

 return mail to any address, for 25c each. Address 

 Walter Martin, Cameron, Ind. T. 



Hybrid queens for sale at 25c each. Safe arrival 

 g'uarantecd. J.H.Johnson, 



Middaug-h, Northampton Co., Pa. 



.50 nice black and hybrid queens for sale at 30c each, 

 fine introducing'-cage included. Wm. H. Clark, 

 St. Albans, Vermont. 



I have a fine lot of hybrid queens nearly pure, all 

 young; will be shipped in Peet's shipping-cage by 

 mail, and safe arrival guaranteed, at 3.5c each, or 

 three for $1.00. J. C. Frisbee, 



Suflolk, Nansemond Co., Va. 



I have 15 hybrid and black queens for sale, as I 

 am Italianizing; 25c for blacks; 50c for hybrids. 



David Lucas, Jewett, Harrison Co., Ohio. 



I have some prolific hybrid queens; will take 

 $1.00 for 4; have also a few black, for which I will 

 take 15c each. W.m. Barth, Petersburg, O. 



O. R. Coe, Windham, Greene Co., N. Y., will pay 

 25 cts. for hybrid queens. ]2-13-14d 



BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN QUEENS, 



from a select imported or a large vellow mother. 

 Untested, .'ipl.OO; tested, $2.00. Select tested, $2.25. 

 12-13-14d W. A. PEEK, Hartwell, Ga. 



Wants or Exchange Department. 



Notices will be inserted under this head at one-half our 

 usual rates. All ad's intended for this department must not 

 exceed 5 lines, and you must say you want your ad. in this de- 

 partment, or we will not be responsible for any error. You 

 can have the notice as many lines as you please; but all over 

 five lines will cost you according to our regular rates. This 

 department is intended only for bona-flde exchanges. Ex- 

 changes for cash or for price lists, or notices offering articles 

 for sale can not be inserted under this head. For suc-h our reg- 

 ular rates of 20 cts. a line will be charged, and they will be put 

 with the regular advertisements. 



WANTED.— To exchange choice Italian queens 

 for comb or extracted honey. Correspon- 

 dence solicited. James F. Wood, 

 13tfdb North Prescott, Mass. 



WANTED. — To exchange warranted Italian 

 queens, reared from imported mother, for 

 White Leghorn fowls, lop-eared rabbits, or Maltese 

 cats. J. H. Garrison, 3969 Sarpy Ave., 

 14d St. Louis, Mo. 



WANTED.— To exchange 8000 basswood sections 

 VY for nice comb or extracted honey. 14d 



A. D. Bllingwood, Milan, N. H. 



T17ANTED.— To exchange Italian bees for a flrst- 

 VV class 48-inch bicycle or a foot-power turning- 

 lathe. Engine lathe preferred. 14tl'db 

 D. S. Bassett, Farnumsville, Worcester Co., Mass. 



WANTED.— To exchange 35i boxes 5 x 5 glass and 

 a complete Jones wax-extractor, but little used, 

 for any thing useful. F. D. Woolver, 

 14d Munnsville, Madison Co., N. Y. 



WANTED.— To exchange a 50 in. planer tooth saw, 

 and one plain Florence sowing-machine for 

 best ofCers of 3fraine nucleus, Italian bees, each 

 with fertile queen. W. J. Row, 12-13d 



Greensburg, Westm'd Co., Pa. 



ANTED.— To exchange full colonies of bees in 

 L. hives for a good bicycle. 14tfdb 



J. V. Caldwell, Cambridge, 111. 



WANTED.— To exchange one camera, H size, 1 

 camera stand, 1 fork and dipping-glass, 1 glass 

 funnel, 1 rubber funnel, 1 glas* measure; also a full 

 assortment of paints and brush s for painting the 

 pictures; supply of plates aud of chemicals, and 1 

 head-rest. It is a splendid machine for ferrotype 

 work. I have to stop on account of my eyes. I 

 will exchange the above for a foundation-mill, 10- 

 inch size, or offers. W. M. Vickery, 



Hartwell, Hart Co., Ga. 



PARTIES having either Carniolan queens mated 

 to Italian drones or Italian queens mated to 

 Carniolan drones would do well to correspond with 

 me. I want about 4 of these hybrids. 14-15"16d 



T. K. Massie, Concord Church, W. Va. 



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Ufxr Q^Ia 50-Coloniesi«^ 

 rur OdlO.- ^Italian. Bees, 



strong, on 8 L. frames, with brood and tested (jueen, 

 in shipping-box, $5.00 each; or will sell bees by the 

 pound. No foul brood. A. A. Fradenburo, 

 litfdb. Port Washington, Ohio. 



It^"ln responding to this advertisement mention Glkaninos. 



Four-Color Label for Only 

 Cts. Per Thousand ! 



75 



Just think of itl we can furnish you a very neat 

 four-color label, with your name and address, with 

 the choice of having" cither " comb" or " extract- 

 ed " before the word " honey," for only 75 cts. per 

 thousand; .50 cts. per .500, or 30 cts. for 2.50, postpaid. 

 The size of the label is 2'/i x 1 inch— just right to go 

 round the neck of a bottle, to put on a section, or to 

 adorn the front of a honey-tumbler. Send for our 

 special label catalogue for samples of this and 

 manj' other pretty designs in label work. 



\. I. ROOT, inedlna, Olilo. 



OW TO RAISE COMB HONEY. See Fos- 

 ter's advertisement on another page. 4-1.5db 



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