1891 



GLEANIN(J.S IN BEE CULTURE. 



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from only one kind the coming season, will it 

 be the same, or go on increasing? Was it a 

 sport or not? I thought they produced the 

 same as the sport. I liave some of tliem yet, 

 just as sound as when picked from the vines. 

 They are a sweet pumpkin. Ben.t. Passage. 



Stark, Mich.. Dec. 25. 



[Friend P., you have struck upon something 

 of great interest to me. and perhaps to others. 

 You can. without question, by careful selection, 

 get a distinct variety of pumpkins from the 

 sport you mention: but. if I am correct, a sport 

 is always inclined, more or less, to sport still 

 further": thei'efore your pumpkins will sport 

 still further unless you by selection hold them 

 down, as it were, to something you have decid- 

 ed on. I wish Prof. Cook would tell me wheth- 

 er I am correct.] 



EDITOl^I^Ii. 



Wherefore do 3-e spend mone3' for that which is not bread ! 

 and vour labor for that which satisfleth not;— Isaiah 55:2. 



Reduced rates to the Ohio State Bee-keep- 

 ei-s' Association (to be held at Toledo, Feb. 10 and 

 11), will be given on all the roads — at least IK 

 fare, and possibly better. Dr. Mason has the 

 matter in charge. 



XEW CATALOGUES. 



What is the matter with the new catalogues? 

 If you want them noticed, send them in: and if 

 perchance we overlook it. please jog our mem- 

 ory. 



GAKDEXING AND BEES. 



E. L. Pratt says, in the ApiejtltKrist. that 

 there is no pursuit that can hv worked with 

 bee-keeping to such advantage as gardening 

 under glass. 



THOSE OUTSIDE WINTER CASES. 



These seem to be doing nicely so far in our 

 apiary. The bees seem to be in just as nice 

 condition as those in large chaff hives. So far 

 we feel very much encouraged as to their ulti- 

 mate success. 



THE SLATTED HONEY-BOARD. 



The slatted honey-board is now scarcely or- 

 dered, and we havi^ almost ceased making them. 

 Fixed distances and thick top-bars are running 

 it out entirely. Of course, queen-excluding 

 honey-boards are as popular as ever. 



HOFFMAN frames. 



These are growing exceedingly popular, judg- 

 ing by the way orders are coming in for them. 

 It fans E. R.'s conceit mightily to think that he 

 helped to call attention this fall to something 

 so manifestly good and useful in the bee-hives. 

 Mr. Julius Hoffman is a benefactor. 



SILO and silage, by pbof. cook. 

 The third edition is now out, and more than 

 25,000 copies have been sold in less than two 

 years. The book will be worth many times its 

 cost to any of our readers who have even a 

 small interest in this wonderful invention in 

 agriculture. Mailed from our office for 25 cts. 

 We will send Gleanings and the silo book to- 

 gether for $1.15. 



the new dress of the AMERICAN BEE 

 JOURNAL. 



The Jan. 1st number of the '' old reliable,"" 

 always-on-time bee-publication is before us. 

 While its pages have been reduced to a size 



slightly smaller than these, the number has 

 been increased to 32 instead of 1(5 as formerly. 

 Its general appearance and make-up. as usual, 

 are good, and it is printed wholly Irom new 

 type. With this number the Anicrlcdn Bee 

 Journal celebrates its 30th year of existence, 

 and we wish it many more happy New Years. 



A NEW BOOK BY FRIEND COWAN. 



•'The Honey-Bee" is the title of a new book 

 by Thomas William Cowan, editor of the 

 British Bee Jcniriidl. It contains over 200 pages, 

 detailing the natural history, anatony. and 

 physiology of the bee. Some handsome origi- 

 nal engravings adorn the pages of the book. 

 We have not had time to review it. but we will 

 do so a little later, reproducing a sample of one 

 of the enlarged engravings of the honey-bee, 

 showing the internal organs. 



PRINTING PRICE LISTS. 



Our facilities for printing apiarian price lists 

 were never better than now. We have an 

 enormous selection of electrotypes from which 

 to choose; and having put in another new 

 press, we are enabled to do work cheaper and 

 more expeditiously than ever before. A cata- 

 logue is now before us which was evidently 

 printed at some local printing-office. A cut of 

 the one-piece section is upside down, and the 

 size of the sections is given at 4K,x4i4. We tind 

 other errors that would have been corrected by 

 any one who knows any thing about bees. 



PAINTED MUSLIN VS. PAINTED TIN FOR COVERS 

 TO HIVES. 



Some one has said, we do not know where, 

 that painted muslin answers excellently in 

 place of tin for covers to hives. Muslin or com- 

 mon cloth is stretched over the board cover, 

 and nailed around the edges. It is then given 

 two or three good coats of paint. Of course, it 

 can not be quite as durable as tin: but if it can 

 be made to answer for several years, we could 

 afford to re-cover the hives. Who has had lots 

 of experience in this matter ? If outside winter 

 cases can be covered with painted cloth instead 

 of tin it will make them cheaper still. 



queen-excluders, AND WHEN TO USE AND 

 WHEN NOT TO USE THEM. 



Our best bee-keepers seem to think that 

 perforated zinc queen-excluders are not a ne- 

 cessity in the production of cotnb honey. The 

 instances in which queens enter the supers are 

 so rare that it is not worth the expense and 

 time in putting them on the hives. For extract- 

 ed honey, excluders are fast being regarded a 

 necessity. Queens are much more apt to enter 

 extracting-combs than the sections. The rea- 

 son is, because the foimer are more nearly of a 

 natural thickness; and in the latter, the cells 

 are so deep that the queen is quite discouraged. 



THE AMATEUR PH0T<>GRAPHER"S HANDBOOK. 



We have had a call at various times for a 

 good book on amateur photography; but here- 

 tofore we have not been able to furnish some- 

 thing that was up with the times, simple in 

 style, and reliable in instruction. ]Most of the 

 books are too complex, and suited onlv for the 

 professionals. Recently our attention "has been 

 called to the Amateur Photographer"s Hand- 

 book, by that very fascinating author, Arthur 

 Hope. It is easy to see that he has been 

 through all the "experiences." His style is so 

 captivating, and so simple and plain, that al- 

 most any boy will be enabled to turn out good 

 work. In fact, if he is inclined to run into hob- 

 bies he will be carried clear away with the 

 book, and with the subject with whic h t deals 



