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GLEANl^Gf5 JX BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15. 



Contents of this Number. 



AntK, Poisoning 822 ] 



Audubon's Hymn 812 



Bees as Fertilizers 821 



Bees. Enemies of. M)8 



Bees, Carrving to Cellar 8;i 



Bees, Stingless 823 



Bees, Punic 810 



Beeparalvsis Contagions.. 819 



Brood in Sections 820 



Calil'oinia, Editor off for. . .828 

 Carpenter Bee, or Xylocopa81ti 



Colorado Notes 811 



Crates 820 



Diagnosing Colonies 822 



Enemies <.t Bees 808 



Escape, Porter 811 



Escapes, Bee 817 



Feeding, Outdoor 817 



Frames, Wiring 809 



Frames, Closed-end 807 



Frames, Close-fitt ng 827 



Gardening. High-pres.<ure..823 

 Heddon v. Hoffman Frame 807 

 Honey-dew for Wintering. 8U 



Hone.v-pails Sli 



Introducing 804 



Kerosene on Hop-lice 8i2 



King-birds 811, 8U 



Luck in B"e-l<eeping 811 



MiCulloch's Exhibit 8.2 



Pails lor Honev 814 



Pollen Snbslitutes...(Q. B.).81S 



Prices, High 8 .s 



Pnnic Bees in Medina 828 



Punic Bees 810 



Queen, Super.- eding Old Sl.'i 



Queens, First Sent by Mail.. 805 



R imbler at Vrooman's 816 



Regurgitation 814,8,0 



Rolibing 817 



Rural Nh w-Yorker 828 



Salt for P.ualysis of Bees 8.'1 



Sections Paitl v Filled 804 



Sections P.uailel to Frame. 8iit 



Sections Wedgiig 82.1 



Seetion-fol.ler. Leach's 80.-. 



Siuczeweeil Himey 822 



St;imi.-ss Bees 823 



Sul|iliuiic .\ciil, D.iilant on. 82,; 



S ^^•:u Ills. Return ng 821 



Toba'co Column Sai 



Wanted— A Hive 800 



Wax Bleaclung 816 



Xvlocoi.a 816 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The Executive Committee liave lixed the date of the next 

 session of the North American Bee-UccpL-is' .\>si>tiation. Dee. 

 8 to 11, at Albany. There will be an informal meeting on the 

 evening of Tuesday, Dec. 8th, for getting acgu.iinteil. i-tc. The 

 real woilt of the convention will commence We.'.nesday morn- 

 ing, and extend through two full days ending Friday morn- 

 ing, giving distant delegates time to get home before Sunday 

 We want all to get there if possible on Tuesday. If they have 

 a few hours of daylight it will give an opportunity to look 

 around the city, view the capitol building, etc. Reduced rates 

 have already been secured in all trunk-lyie territory, and the 

 same is expected over other railroads. The program is now 

 under way. and other ariangemtnts are nearly completed. If 

 you have decided to take a varation that will, we trust, be 

 profitable, don't fail to attend this convention. 



C. P D..il>AXT, Sei 



H. Ki.wiioD, Pi-es., Starkville, N. Y. 

 , Han.iltoii, 111. 



EVERY FAMILY NEEDS ONE. 



Here is yi)ur fliauct' foi' a winter's job. Buy 

 them in tlie Hat. Learn to set tliem up. and con- 

 trol tlie sale of tliem in yoiii- locality. Foi' paiticu 

 lars address D. S. Hai-l. S. Cabot, Vt. 



Please mention this paper. 



m 0^ 0^ I can furnish aliout 100 young- layingr 

 *1 ilil Itnlian queens by return mail at $1.00 



I \J\J each; six foi' $5.01. My (picens, many 

 of them, are yellow to tlie tip. Over 

 1000 (lueens sold in past two seasons, and not a dis- 

 pleased custonici', and but two queeibs i-eported im- 

 purely mated, 20tfdb 



W. H. LAWS, Lavaca, seb. Co., Ark. 



MUST BE SOLD.— I have a lot of new and 

 .second-hand bee-supplies for sale at .50 per 

 cent below cost. Full list and pi'ices on aiiplicat.ion. 

 They consist of Simp, bodies, covers, Simp, section 

 cases. Sections made up and Hat, Honey-Extractor, 

 No. .5, Division-Boards, Drone-Traps, Parker's Fti.s- 

 teners. and numerous other things, about .$45.00 

 worth ill all; $:'5.0U c.ish buys them. Honey taken 

 in exchange. 

 19-24db G. WIEDERHOLD. Yonkers. N. Y. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



That cover (Gleanings, Aug. 1) takes the cream. 

 Huntington. Fl;i., Aug. 9. A. F. Brown. 



Your columns ai'e a good medium to reacli the 

 liublic with salable goods in tlieir season. 

 Dennison, O., Sept. 11. Hill Mfg. Co. 



The goods ordered of you bj' express a few days 

 ago came to hand yestei'day in lUce shape. It is a 

 pleasure to deal with a man wlio is so prompt and 

 careful about his shipments. 1 will send you an 

 order soon foi' my next year's supplies, in order to 

 have them readj' wlien needed. Z. Wells. 



Fort Smitli, Ark., Sept. 16. 



Tlie goods came all right, and we join witli tlie 

 many who ai\> praising the qualities of the imiirov- 

 ed smokers. We could not sleep until we had pe- 

 rused till- A B C, and i-ead most of tlie pictures at 

 least. Now wlicn we read Gleanings we can turn 

 to the frieiidl.N' faces of the writers, and soon feel 

 we are acquainted witli tliem. S. Coknish, 



Sprnigtiekl, >h»., .July 3 . 



THE NEW IMPROVED (;LARK SMOKEH. 



1 have trii'd one of tlie new im|)roved Clark smo- 

 kers, and it is (). K, now. Tlie grate is a big im- 

 provement. If there wei'e the same mimbei' of 

 lioles in tlie slide-door it would liurn more evenly. 

 jVly lireference has been decidedly in favor of the 

 Bingham; but the Improvt'ment on the ('lark 

 makes it (n'er.y wa.\' as good, and just look at the 

 dilteieiice in price I F. A. Salisbury. 



Svrtu'usc, i\. Y., .liil.v 13. 



THE ABC AND COOK S MANUAL. 



The ABC of Bee Cultui'e haslieen on hand for a 

 few da.\ s. and 1 like the newly written and revised 

 articles very much. 1 tind it my most convenient 

 book tor quick reference. 'J'his book and Prof. 

 Cooks is all a Ijeginner needs in ilu' wa.v of books; 

 then a good journal, and he is equipped as far as 

 theoi-.v goes. C. L. Bl'CKM.\ster. 



Columbia, Mo., Aug. 1, 



THE WAY WK PUT UP NUCLEI. 



We received the bees in tirsl-rate order, and were 

 well pleased wiih the change you made for us. We 

 saw tlie (pieen the evL-niug we hived them. I have 

 received nuclei of three frames from others, but 

 we were better pleased with the one you sent us 

 than any other so far; and as for packing, it was 

 just grand. Thiinks for your promptness in filling 

 mv order. K. Swift. 



Bliisdell, N. Y., Sept. is. 



Kindly send me ten water-cuie pamphlets. This 

 simple cure has done more for m.v wile than all of 

 the doctoring for the past eight years. A short 

 time ago we became fearful lest the constant wash- 

 ing would injure or remove the lining or coating, 

 and the use was partly abandoned for the time. 

 Then my wife said she did not feel as well, and 

 would have to start the use of it again, when she 

 exjierienced the siime relief as before. We have 

 told a great many, but I should like the pamjihlets 

 to send away where it is more dillicult to send par- 

 ticulars or have my journal returned. This to me 

 has been worth many times the jsrice of Gleanings. 



London, Out., July 31. F. J. Miller. 



From two nuclei bought of you in August, 1S90, I 

 now have eleven good eiglit-frami' colonies, and 

 exjiect to have three or four more swiirms in the 

 next few days. 1 am also getting a good croj) of 

 honey. M.v crop of Japanese buckwheat is in full 

 bloom, and bids f.iir to give a handsome yield of 

 both honey and grain. 



By the way. fi'iend Root, my select tested Italian 

 queen that 1 purchased of you last August led out 

 a swarm yesterday, and settled in the top of a mul- 

 beriy-tree. I was at work at the Call oflice, over a 

 mile away, and my wife could not get them down. 

 She sent after me, and I reached home just in time 

 to see my beautiful queen :ind her babies leave for 

 the woods; $3.5.00 would not have tempted me to- 

 part with her. Z. Wells. 



Fort Smith, Ark., Aug, 30. 



