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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1.5. 



Contents of this Number. 



Alfalfa in Kansas i 



Bee, Big Model of i 



Bee-ef^o-tpe, The First f 



Bees, VVinteriiiK- (Q. B.)i 

 Bun-combs. To Prevent... f 

 (Jandy, Wrong End of Cage.! 



Cellaring. Time for f 



Cleoniella Angustifdlia ..I 



Colorado ( 



Cypru t 



Foul Brood in Queens i 



Foundation. Narrow Sheets.! 



Frames, Hoffman I 



Frames, Closed-end ( 



Gray. L, W ( 



HilKard's Apiary i 



Hives, Nucleus i 



Honev, Where to Keep 887 



Michigan, Trip to 897 



Tunics Defended 884 



Kamliler in Medina 891 



Reason of Bees 88S 



Ripley's Ruling 894 



Section-former, Leach 891 



Self-hivers 881 



Snears, To Sharpen 9(11 



Soldiers of Xenophon 892 



Stings for Rheumatism 889 



Stocks, Tf) Double 893 



Suiiers. Half-story 88ii 



Tobacco for Introducing . . .893 



Vermont 878 



Wiring, Horizontal 877 



Xenopliou's Soldiers 892 



gPECI^Ii ]^0¥ICE5. 



MAPLE SUGAR STIRRED OFF DRY. 



If any of tlie friends liave, llko myself, a sweet 

 tooth f()r this kind of sugar, 1 wish to tell them that 

 we liave about luU His. of extra nice. It was broug-ht 

 in by one of our Medina Count.v farmers a few days 

 ago.' We ean sell it to you for H ets. per lb. as long- 

 as it lasts. If you have never tasted maple .sugar 

 stirred otT dry, there is a pleasant suiiirise in store 

 for you; at least, tliat is what /think. It is espe- 

 cially nice on 'oatmeal, coinmeal mush, or any 

 tiling of that sort. Put on ph-nty of butter, then 

 sift in the sugar, add :i little cream, and— ti'y it 

 your.self. 



PROF. W. 1. chamberlain's NEW BOOK ON UNDER- 

 DRAINING. 



Tliis book is now in press, and 32 pages are al- 

 ready printed, and another 32 will be out very soon. 

 The book is to be a comiianion to tlie industrial 

 manuals wliicli we have lieen publishing; viz.. The 

 A B C of Krawberry Culture; The A li C of Potato 

 Culture; Prof. Cook's Book on the Sugar-lnish; 

 Winter ("are of Horses and Cattle, etc. Perhaps no 

 bettei- thing can be said of the book tlian to coi>y 

 an etlitorial from the Rural NfW- Yorker of Aug. 39. 

 The Bion? was permitted to use some of the cuts 

 intended for the book, with an article written by 

 friend Clianiberlain. Here is what they say: 



It is now nearly torty years since W. I. Chamberlain laid his 

 flrst uiidei drain. In that one. cobble stoni s were u.-ed for tile. 

 He has now, as he tells us clsewheie, liftci-n miles of tile on his 

 farm. The article printed in I his number gives the conclusions 

 drawn from forty years of aclu.il observation of the effects of 

 tile drainage on a soil that is lyjiical of thi usand.- of acres in 

 Ohio, and of millions of acres in this counti y. A dapper young 

 minister once asked Dr. Lyman Beecher. nfter listen. ng to one 

 of his great sermons. " How long did it take you. Mr. beecher, 

 to write that Sermon ? " " Forty years ! " wa.-^ the instant i-nd 

 emphatii levdy ; and it was a fact, because the ideas advanced 

 in the seriiion'wt rebMsedupon the thought and observation of 

 that length of time. In a hue manner we may safely say that 

 Mr. Chamberlain lias been forty ye;iis in writing- this article on 

 drainage. As to our cipinion o' ils value, we can oiil.v say that. 

 if any better statement of the matter has iver been printed, we 

 wish to know where it is that we mav publish it in our journal. 

 We like these forty year articles so well that we have planned 

 tor a number (jf thein during the coming .year. 



The price of tlie book will pi-obably lie 40 cents— 

 certainly not less. If :niy of you are at work on 

 underdraining, or want information right away, 

 send us 40 cts. and you ma.v lisive tlie advance 

 sheets of the book as fast as it is jiriiited, besides 

 having a complete coi).\ when done. Of course, 

 A. I. Root will have something to say in the book, 

 as he did when Teriy wrote about sti-awberi-ies. 



can get the dollar. Give us more of the garden de- 

 partment, also fruit, especially small fiuits. 

 Gi-and A'iew, Tenn. " A. F. Ames. 



Friend Root:— If I was pleased with your select 

 tested (jueen when she arrived, 1 am more than 

 pleased now that lier progeny has appeared. Her 

 workers are very gentle and energetic, beautifully 

 marked, and altogether handsome and pleasing to 

 the eye. Her long confinement in the mail has evi- 

 dentlj- not been detrimental to hei-, as she is very 

 proline, and lier strain is destined to predominate 

 largely in my apiary. Since reading- your straw- 

 berry hook, 1 ve got the strawberry fever right bad, 

 and should like to know how I can oiitain some of 

 tiie varieties mentioned therein. Kindly let me 

 know iiow it is po.ssilile to get them. 



Goodna, Queensland, Aus,, Oct, 3. H, L. Jones. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



TlieStai- butcher-saw plates from you till tiie bill 

 exactly to a dot. How nicely they cut, luiw easily 

 theii- work in the orcliard! Yes. and how cheap tliey 

 are'foi- tlie monev: j "^^ l.'Zl L. H. Hill.man. 



Caiiova, S. Dak., July 3S. 



A kind word for two (';") GOOD PERIODICALS. 



I can't resist subscribing for tlie Rural Neir- 

 Yorket when 1 can get it for $1 2'\ even if money is 

 sliort and cheap i apers plentiful. Tiie Rural is 

 wortli lialf a dozen of tlie ciieap monthlies, and I 

 will not get along witliout Gleanings as long as I 



SOMETHING FURTHER IN REG.\RD TO THE INTER- 

 NAI, W.\TER CURE. 



Your little pampiilet on the internal use of hot 

 water I haiipeiied tosee. 1 inive iiad occasion many 

 times to use tiie remedy for constipation, and be- 

 lieve a more .systematic u.se, as you recimimend, 

 would l)euertt me, and periiaps cure tiie internal 

 piles I now have. I would respectfully suggest to 

 ,Vou tiie importance of saying in tlie pampiilet tiiat 

 the iii.iection should not Ijc used witiiin an liour or 

 two after eating— at night on retiring or in tiie 

 moi-niiig on rising; digestion is interfered witli 

 otiiei-wise; also a little salt added to tiie water 

 lessens the .severity of the .stinging. Snuff waier up 

 tlie nose clear, aiKl see hows it iiui-ts; add a little 

 salt, and see iiow it soltens and smootiis it. Tiie 

 nozzle of the syringe should i)e greased— vaseline is 

 good — l^efore inserting it into the delicate memlier. 

 With tnaiiks for your humanitarian effort, 1 am — 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., iNov. 1. A. F. W. Grant. 



SOME KIND WORDS FROM A COLLEGE PROFESSOR. 



Mr. Ri Kit:— I iiave this minute tinislied reading 

 your little iiamphlet on '- A JSew Method of Tieat- 

 iiig Disease Wituout iMedicine. I liave long want- 

 ed just sucii a point in hygiene, not for my own 

 use, hut toi- my jiatieiits and those under m.^" cai-e. 

 1 admire >'()Ui- straightloiward w:iy ot imtti'iig the 

 truth. I do not doulit that you have already done 

 much good by the disti-ibution of tiiis little" tract. 

 Here is another thing tiiat will interest you. A 

 pint of cold water taken into the stomach on rising, 

 one lioui- before breakfast, washes out from the 

 stomacli all accumubited mucus and stimulates 

 the stomach to secrete a proluse supply of gastric 

 juice. The water and mucous from llie stomacli 

 pass on down through the alimentary" canal, soften- 

 ing and luliricating ever.v thing therein, so that, 

 within half an hour after l)reakfast, a free, easy 

 passage of the l)owels occui-s. It seems to me tliat 

 this l-emed.^■ combined with yours ought to keep tiie 

 system pretty well waslied out. There is nothing 

 deleterious in the driiilv of cold water we have lie- 

 fore breakfast. Let me tiiank you again foi- your 

 pamphlet. You very kindly oner to furnisii" the 

 pamphlets to any one who can use them ftn- the 

 benefit (if mankind. 1 iiave nlan.^• student friends 

 in tlie Noi-tiiwesterii LJniversit\- who are being 

 urged to pay J4.1KJ for A. Wilford Hall's "Secret.' 

 I should like to send them a few cojiies, and should 

 also like to have a few copies to use among our own 

 students. Winfield S. Hall. M. D., 



Prof, of Biology, and College Physician. 



Haverford College. Pa., Nov. 6. 



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