(JLEANIXGS IX BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1.1. 



The work is so excellonl that we liave decided 

 to place it on our booli-list. and can furnish it 

 postpaid by mail, in paper cover, for 7.5 cts. 



THE C'.VPPIXGS DEPAKTMEXT 



Of the Canndinn Bee Journal is interesting 

 and well edited. It gives the best thoughts of 

 bee-keepei'S. no matter whei-e uttered, with 

 substantial credit, not only of the writer, but of 

 the bee-journal as well. 



YELLOW CAKXIOLAXS. 



A GOOiJ deal is said in the Ainculturist about 

 yellow Carniolans. If they resemble the Ital- 

 ians at all, how are we to distinguish them 

 from the bees from sunny Italy? The typical 

 Carniolans we have tested seem dift(n-ent from 

 Italians only in color. Make the color the 

 same, and we could not tell which from t'other. 

 Who will be the lucky man to inti-oduce yellow 

 black bees'? 



A VISIT FKOM A VEKMOXT BEE-KEEPEK. 



Our friend and correspondent. J. H. Larra- 

 bee, of Larrabee"s Point. Vt., and secretary of 

 the Vermont Bee-keepers" Association, made 

 us a pleasant call last week. He is one of the 

 parties w ho helped to get up the bee-keepers' 

 camp on Lake George last summer. He is a 

 wide-awake and i^rogressive bee-keeper; and 

 the name "Genial .John."' as given him by 

 Rambler, seems to tit him well. Perhaps we 

 shall hear more of him later. 



THE BRITISH BEE JOUKXAL TO SUBSCRIBERS TO 

 GLEANINGS. 



Until further notice we will furnish the 

 British Bee Journal, published weekly, at the 

 same price as Gleanixgs— fl.OO a year. The 

 regular price of the British Bee Journal is $1.50. 

 We are enabled to do this by exchanging a cer- 

 tain number of Gleaxixgs for the same num- 

 ber of the B. B. J. After the number to be 

 exchanged is taken up. the price will be as 

 heretofore— *'3.40 for both. 



THE NEW YORK STATE BEE-KEEPERS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



This meets Jan. 2:1. ;i3. and 24. The charac- 

 ter of the discussions and essays, together with 

 the prominent bee-keepers whose names ai-e 

 attached, bespeak a si)lendid meeting. This 

 three days' session, together with its prominent 

 bee-keepers, will make this convention rank 

 in importance next to one of the N. A. B. K. A. 

 See published program elsewhere. Ernest or A. 

 I. R. expects to be present. 



QUEEN - EXCLUDING HONEY- BOARDS MADE OF 

 WOOD. 



These have been made before with the slots 

 parallel to the grain, but they were discai'ded 

 because of the shrinkage of the wood and con- 

 sequent moisture of the hive. But the G. B. 

 Lewis Co. are now making them with the slots 

 to go across the grain, and they predict their 

 success. By the way. this firm has lately made 

 a dovetailed hive out of ;'« lumber, and th(^y 

 sell it at a very moderate price. The testimony 

 of all apiarists has been against any thing less 

 than % inch for the walls of the hive; but here 

 will be a chance for somebody to test the mat- 

 ter. 



TWO NEW BEE-JOURNALS. 



Two more new bee-journals were issued Jan. 

 1. this year. The first that comes to our table 

 is the American Bcc-Kceper, edited and pub- 

 lished by tiie W. T. Falconer Co.. Jamestown. 

 X. Y. It is nicely printed, 16 pages, with a nc^at 

 arid attractive tinted cover. Such bee-keepers 



as Dr. Miller, Dr. Tinker. Mrs. Harrison. E. L. 

 Pratt. Mr. Holterniann. and others, have writ- 

 ten for it. The othci' jouinal is the Bee World, 

 edited and published by our old friend and cor- 

 respondent, W. S. Vandruff. Waynesburg. Pa. 

 The latter is a 16-page monthly. Price 50 cts. 

 per year. It starts out well. Success to the 

 new publications, is the wish of Gleanings. 



THE PROJECT TO MOVE A AVHOLE APIARY IX 

 WINTER TO COLORADO. 



Our friend O. R. Coe, still at Windham, X. Y.. 

 who, it will be I'emembcred. was proposing to 

 go to some alfalfa tields with his apiary, has 

 settled upon his location, which is Fort Collins, 

 Col. He has ascertained that it is in the midst 

 of the Rocky Mountain bee-plant and alfalfa 

 bloom, and proposes to get his bees into the 

 field early, and be ready for the honey-tlo^-. 

 He is going to move a carload of bees to his 

 new location this winter. In a letter just re- 

 ceived he expresses a fear that he may not be 

 able to move the bees as soon as he desires, on 

 account of the almost impassable condition of 

 the roads to the railway station, by reason of 

 th(^ great depth of snow, and the consequent 

 drifts. He writes, under date of Dec. 21: 



Never, since I can remember, have we been so 

 completely blocked in by snow early hi the winter, 

 as now. Our roads, many of them, are utterly im- 

 passable from drifts— as much so as they were in tlie 

 great blizzard of three years ago next March. 



BALL S ALFALFA AND SOIiE THROAT. 



A MEMBER of the Root family was suddenly 

 taken in the night with a distressing sore throat, 

 followed by coughing, and difficult and painful 

 breathing. Trask's ointment and gargling of 

 salt water had no effect. Xow. there happened 

 to be in .the house about half a tumblerful of 

 Ball's alfalfa. This honey was liquid, and of 

 beautiful body and color. Without much faith, 

 this was given to the patient. Almost instantly 

 came relief. That rich and beautiful honey 

 acted like a soothing oil upon a throat raw with 

 coughing. After a little the distressing symp- 

 toms returned, and again the honey was ad- 

 ministered, with like results, and so we kept up 

 the program until it was gone. Then we trapsed 

 around the house until we found a bottle of 

 white clover. We tried this, but it had no ef- 

 fect. We next gave the patient the scrapings 

 of the alfalfa jar. and, like oil to a hot box, it 

 went to the spot. T(»mporary though it was, it 

 relieved a great deal of suffering and no little 

 " scare." It seemed to cut the mucus, and pro- 

 tect the raw sores in the throat. 



[The above from Ernest sounds pretty strong 

 for alfalfa honey: and although I confess I do 

 not understand why alfalfa honey should have 

 any particular virtues over other clover honey, 

 the facts in the case given seem to decide that 

 there must be a difference somewhere. If this 

 be true, then may it not reasonably be presum- 

 ed that honey from other plants may have 

 special virtues for paiticular ailments.] 



, STATISTICS. 



The other day a correspondent, having in 

 view the preparation of an essay to be read at a 

 farmers's institute, desired us to furnish him 

 with statistics as to the number of colonies in 

 the I'niti'd States, the number of pounds of 

 honey and wax produced, etc. There have been 

 no reliable statistics made, although some pret- 

 tv good guesses have been given. It was esti- 

 mated, two or three years ago, that there were 

 ,3()0.()()0 bee-keepers in the land, and that the 

 number of colonics, if each owned not less than 

 ten, would be :}.(KK).()tX). Allowing 10 lbs. per 

 colony, the annual product would he 30.{X)().(K)0 



