1891 



GLEANINGS IN 15P:E (TLTrRE. 



107 



EDI¥0RI^Ii. 



1 will arise ami go to my father, and will say unto him. Fa- 

 ther. I have sinneil against heaven and before thee.— Luke 

 15:18. 



Renewals are coming in fast. Thanks. 



EIGHT vs. TEN FKAME HIVES. 



In the Question-box of the American Bee 

 Journal, page "2, the respondents vote strongly 

 for eight-frame hives, altiiongh a few favor the 

 ten-frame. 



SI'B.SCKIPTION ItECEIFTS. 



We never send a receipt for money received 

 for renewals. After you S(^nd the money, watch 

 the little label on the wrai^per of your journal; 

 and if the date has been changed a year ahead, 

 that means that your dollar has been received. 

 At this time of the year, liowever, it sometimes 

 takes a month or more before the dates on the 

 labels are changed. 



HOPEFri.. 



GvR subscription clerk informs us that sever- 

 al who have written, requesting Gleanings to 

 stop, have repented of doing so, and asked to 

 have it kept going again. In fact. I have no- 

 ticed quite a few such letters myself. You see, 

 there is a delicate compliment. They began to 

 feel lonesome, even at the proaiieet of bidding 

 adieu to an old friend. Thank you. 



PKEMIUIMS FOE NEW SUBSCKIBEKS. 



Any subscriber who will take the pains to se- 

 cure a new name besides his own for Glean- 

 ings may retain 2.5 cents and send us 75, provid- 

 ing he agrees not to take any subscriptions for 

 less than the advertised price, si.OU. If he ob- 

 tains more than one name besides his own, a 

 part may be renewals and part new names; but 

 at least half of the names must be new. 



LOOK OUT FOi: THEM. 



OvR friends Miller Bros., of Bluffton, Mo., 

 wish us to caution bee-keepers in regard to the 

 Indiana Paint and Roofing Co. We have writ- 

 ten the above firm at two different times ; and 

 although they replied, they certainly do not 

 seem disposed to make good their waiTant on 

 their rooting. And. by the way. is there any 

 sort of roofing that is really reliable, and worthy 

 of notice, unless they use shingles, slate, tin, or 

 iron? I have seen so much dissatisfaction from 

 all kinds of cement, paint, and paper roofing, 

 that I confess I am a good deal incredulous. 



DEATH OF MR. ALFRED NEIGHBOUR. 



We learn from the Britinh Bee Journal, that 

 Mr. Alfred Neighbour, of London, England, died 

 on the I'Jth of last December, after an illness of 

 considerable duration. Mr. Neighbour was a 

 prominent bee-keeper in England, and the old- 

 est of the appliance-makers. He wrote a bee- 

 book, entitled The Apiary. It passed through 

 several editions. The B. B. J. says. *' He was 

 extremely affable, and always ready to assist 

 one in bee-keeping. His strict integrity caused 

 him to be trusted by all who knew him." 



THE DOVETAILING IN HIVES IN DEMAND. 



We have just received a letter from a corres- 

 pondent in Utah. Mr. Willard Bishop, of Kays- 

 ville, Davis Co., to the effi'ct that a dovetailed 

 corner on hives will be a great advantage in 

 their climate. He says that ordinary nailed 

 joints are not strong enough to stand their cli- 

 mate: that the nails of an ordinary lap joint do 



draw because of the drying out and \\ arping of 

 the boards in the sun. The dovetailed joint is 

 not only chi'uper. but there is a demand for it 

 in several of the Western States, where the cli- 

 mate is such as to make the ordinary box joint 

 insufficient. 



honey FKOJI the sandwich ISLANDS. 



One of our old acquaintances, Mr. Chauncey 

 N. Pond, of Oberlin, ()., has just returned from 

 a visit to the Sandwich Islands, and has left 

 with us a sample of honey from that part of the 

 world. We expected to tind something dark- 

 colored and poor in fiavor, as the honey from, 

 the islands of the sea usually is. We were 

 agreeably surprised to find, however, that it is 

 not only of a beautiful color but of exquisite 

 flavor. It reminds us very strongly of alfalfa, 

 which is so jioijular at oui' house. We should 

 be very mucli pleased to have one of our sub- 

 scribers in the Sandwich islands tell us more 

 about it, and of the progress of apiculture as^it 

 is on those islands. 



HOW TO winter bees. 



On page 3(5 of our catalogue, for the benefit of 

 beginners and others we have given the very 

 latest there is in regard to wintering, in doors 

 and out; how to pack in chalf on summer 

 stands; how to carry bees into the cellar, and 

 how to stack them up there. In fact, they are 

 the same instructions as are given in the A B C 

 book, boiled down. We hjive also given in- 

 structions on how to feed and how to do a great 

 many other things. Our new catalogue is not 

 only a price list and description of implements, 

 but it contains a good deal of instruction for the 

 benefit of bee-keepers. It will be cheerfully 

 sent on application. 



the number of queens we import from 



ITALY. 



I SEE it is reported in one of the bee-journals 

 that we import annually about 300 queens from 

 Italy. If this figiu'e were split in two it would 

 be more nearly correct. We do not kno\V how 

 the mistake occurred, but perhaps thi'ough our 

 fault in some way. In 188.5 we imported 130; 

 and during successive years our importations 

 went down to nearly nothing while we had foul 

 brood. In 188ii we imported 50; in 1890, 98. 

 The fact is, one imported queen can be the 

 mother of hundi'eds of daughters; and as they 

 will live on an average about three years it does 

 not take many queens to supply the prominent 

 breeders, to say nothing of the importations 

 that are made by other parties. 



WHAT A VISITOR SAYS OF THE HOME OF THE 

 HONEY-BEES. 



We have just had a very pleasant call from a 

 couple of bee-keepers, one of them an Iowa 

 man and the other a native of our own State. 

 Said Mr. Firman, the gentleman from Iowa, 

 after we had shown him about our premises, 

 " Why, I had no idea you had such an immense 

 plant. We get glimpses, occasionally, of some 

 of the improvements in (Jleanings, but there 

 are few subscribers who lealize the number and 

 size of your buildings." This remark has been 

 uttered so many times by visitors that we 

 thought possibly some of our customers and 

 other subscribers might like to get this bit of 

 news. Our plant has been very much enlarged 

 of late, and we are always glad to welcome our 

 bee-friends; and while we can not always take 

 the time to show them around, we want them 

 to feel perfectly at home, and free to go through 

 all the departments, and ask all the questions 

 they wish. Our establishment is open from 



