1891 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



339 



THE BENTON CAGE SfCCESSFITI- AGAIN. 



We are just informed of the sncccssful mail- 

 ing of a seloct tested qneen in a Benton cage, 

 •consigned to W. W. Somerford, San Miguel de 

 Jaruco, Cuba. This makes the second time 

 that the Benton cage lias been siiccessful in 

 mailing queens to the West Indies. 



DOVETAILED .JOINT IN HIVES, .'50 VEAKS OI,D. 



While looking through the"^lanual of Hee- 

 keeping." by John Hunter, we ran across a hive 

 with dovetailed corners. This, the author says, 

 •on page 88. was first described by Mr. Wood- 

 bury in the JournaJ of Horticulture in ISUl. 

 There has been some little discussion as to who 

 first introduced the dovetaih-d joint on hives, 

 that has since become so popular. This ought 

 to ))ut an end to the discussion. 



THAT SHINY PAPER OF GLEANIN(iS. 



Two or three have complained that our 

 journal paper is too glossy to be i-ead with ease. 

 This same trouble applies to the Century. Cos- 

 iiiopoliian. Scribncr's. H<tri>cr'>^, and other tirst- 

 class standard magazines. To be able to print 

 our half-tone work, and to bring the engravings 

 out with the best effect, we have to use this fine 

 paper. It will give no reflection to the eyes if 

 yon hold it at the right angle to the lamvJ- In 

 the day time it will give no trouble. 



been opposed to conventions, but now I am half 

 converted." There was a time when the senior 

 editor of this journal was not a '' convention 

 man," but now he is altogether converted, and 

 he goes every chance he gets. 



SANDPAPERING DOVETAILED HIVES. 



As the new Dovetailed hive is now sold by 

 nearly all dealei-s, and by the carload, all over 

 the country, a hint on putting together may 

 come in place. After driving the dovetails 

 home, nailing and squaring the hive, you can 

 very greatly improve the appearance of the 

 corners by tlie use of sandpaper where the ends 

 of the tenons, as it were, come even with the 

 surface. When thus treated, and coated with 

 paint, the dovetails disappear, and the hive 

 looks as if it were made of a solid block of wood. 



IIOAV TO HANDLE FIXED FRAMES. 



We expect to publisii shortly some articles 

 from Mr. Ehvood and Mr. Hoffman, on how to 

 manipulate fixed frames. These articles will 

 be fully illustrated, and will explain many 

 points which may not be clear. The great mass 

 of bee-keepers do not yet understand how it is 

 that fixed frames can be handled as rai)idly as 

 the loose frame. We have some beautiful pho- 

 tographs which illustrate each step of the mo- 

 (his operandi. 



BOOMING THE BEE-BUSINESS. 



Bee-journals have been accused many 

 times of publishing only the Z)rw//(t side of bee- 

 keeping, such as, for instance, reporting big 

 yields, and letting the smaller yields go unpub- 

 lished. The trouble is not so much with the 

 \)ee-journals as it is with the hee-keepers them- 

 selves, who will not send in reports of poor 

 yields. If they have a big yield they like to 

 hand it in. Ijecause it looks well. A poor report 

 may mean a poor bee-keeper, in the eyes of the 

 public, they thinlv^ 



THE CHIPS AND SHAVINGS DKI'ARTMENT OF 

 THE APICULTURIST. 



This is edited by E. L. Pratt, and the chips 

 are crisj) and full of hints and hits. Here is a 

 couple of them: 



Father Root is acting- as "balhist" to Gleanings. 

 He thinks Ernest too progressive. 



If all the journals are going' into the "cream" 

 business, where are they going to get their milk to 

 skim? Would a skim-milk bee-paper payV 



The first one is a sort of compliment to us 

 both. Don't you see that it makes our journal 

 broader '? 



hasty in convention. 

 Hasty is a valuable man in convention. He 

 is brimful of that same vein that appeal's in 

 his printed articles. He seemed to thoroughly 

 enjoy the last meeting at Toledo, of the Ohio 

 State Bee-keepers' Association. Toward the 

 close of the session. Dr. Mason said, bantering- 

 ly: "There, now. Hasty, don't you think that 

 conventions are a good thing?" Hasty seemed 

 to hesitate for a moment, and finally said, with 

 a sly twinkle in his eye, "I have heretofore 



SURPLUS COMMUNICATIONS. 



I'erhai's some of our correspondents ai'e won- 

 dering why their ai'ticles do not appear. The 

 fact is. we have a great stack of good articles; 

 and although we use only about half of those 

 sent in. there are others that we fear will have 

 to be left out. though just as good, and in some 

 cases bettei', than some we print. After they 

 have lain a couple of months, many of them are 

 out of date or behind the times; and to publish 

 them later when we have space would be too 

 much on the Rip Van Winkle style. We have 

 enlarged our space to 16 pages for the present, 

 but this does not let us out yet. 



circular saws; how to file them and 



KEEP them in OKDER. 



The best treatise I have ever seen on this sub- 

 ject is a book by Mr. Henry Disston, entitled, 

 •• Handbook for Lumbermen." As the iiook is 

 also an advertisement of their saws and tools, I 

 suppose they give them away — at least they 

 sent us a hundred, and all we had to pay was 

 the express charges. They ought to have been 

 sent us by freight; but as they charged us noth- 

 ing for the books, of course we could not well 

 complain. Now, we will send them to any of 

 our friends who will send us enough to pay 

 postage and express charges mentioned, which 

 would be about 8 cts. In my opinion this book 

 is the best authority on this whole matter of 

 saw -filing of any tliiug the world contains. 



WASHINGTON ALMOST A MILLIONAIKE. 



Our friends of the Rural New-Yorker are re- 

 sponsible for the following: 



After having been twice President, George Wash- 

 ington died, in 1799, worth $9J0.000, the richest man 

 in the United States. Could the richest man in the 

 United States be elected Piesident to-day? Is the 

 change in public opinion with regard to the holders 

 of great wealth due to a change in the cliaracter of 

 tlie millions or of the millionaires? 



Had not the father of our country been so sit- 

 uated that he could advance money to the fee- 

 ble and struggling colonies at just the time he 

 did, can anybody tell what would have been 

 our condition to-day? History says that Wash- 

 ington accepted no pay for his Revolutionary 

 services of eight years, but simply allowed Con- 

 gress to refund the money he had advanced to 

 pay a starving and almost rebellious army. Of 

 this rich man, Hyron says he was 

 "The first, the last, tlie best. 

 The Cincinnatus of the West." 



.JOHN H. I,ARRABEE AND THE APICULTURAL 

 EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Some months ago Prof. Cook wrote to E. R. 

 R., asking whom he thought would be a good 

 man to take charge of the apicultural experi- 

 rnent station at Lansing. After thinking the 



