GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Ma£. 16. 



Contents of this Number. 



Absorbents v. Sealed Gov's. 198 



After-swarms 207 



Alum for Snakebites 206 



Antonv Bumpke's Scrape... 200 



Boiint V, Elw.iud on 197 



Cases, Outside Winter 2J6 



liistani-e, Fi.xed, A Bad 2(13 



ExcUiders, Propolized 207 



Kxtractor, Goold 191 



Koul Brood Not in Nebr'ka.205 



(ij-artinp Honey. Miller 189 



Hiver, Pratt's 199 



Uniiey, ,\rtifirial 212 



H.mt'v. Evaiii. rating ...206.207 



Hnniv, l'i.i>(.n 205 



Honey. Cost of 184—189 



Honey, (irailing 191 



Honey from Sugar 202 



Honey-dew in Cellar 303 



Manum Running 5 .\piariesl88 



Mountain Laurel 206 



Moving to a Ne . Place 212 



Old Mission 212 



Onion, Prizetaker 20."> 



Paralysis, Bee 201 



Planting for Bees 203 



Queens Dying 2fi6 



Queens, Mating Habits of.. .193 

 Rambler in Sacramento. ..196 



Salt for Foul Brood 19.i 



Spraying Trees 192 



Wax Secretion 202 



Wilson's Peak 207 



Wings, Injury to 207 



CIHCULAKS RECEIVED. 



Catalogues have lately been receive<l from the following: 



W. H. Laws, Lavaea, Ark. 



E. Kretciimer, Red Oak, la. 



W. D. Soper, Jackson. Mich. 



treer Brothers, St. Mary's, Mo 



S. Valentine, Hagerstown, Md. 



W. H. Norton, Skowheg.an, Me. 



P. L. Viallon. Bayou Goula, La. 



J. M. Young, Plattsmouth. Neb. 



Luther & Horton, Redlands, Cal. 



A. A. Weaver, Warrensburg, Mo, 



.T. Van Deusen & Sons, Sprout Brook, N. Y. 



E, L, Goold & Co., Brantford, Ontario, Canada. 



The following are from our press: 



N, A. Knapp, Rochester, O. 



J. D, Krnnady, Jordan, Ky. 



Jolin S. Reese, Winchester, Ky. 



Engh & MePherson. Lochiel, Wis, 



A, F, McAdams, Columbus Grove, O. 



Plinn.y Shepardson. Freeport, Wash. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The sixth semi-annual convention of the Missouri State Bee- 

 kLCpers' Association will be held at Pertle Springs. Warrens- 

 burg, Mo.. .Apr. 6 and 7, 1892, in the parlors of the Minnewawa 

 Hotel — the finest in Johnson Co. A rale of $1.00 per day has 

 been secured for bee-keepers attending the convention. 



W. S, DoRN Blaskk, Sec, Higginsville, Mo, 



The Utah Bee-keepers' Association will hold a convention in 

 this city, April 7th. The organization has evei-j- indication of 

 being a decided success this time, J, C. Swaner, Sec. 



Salt Lake City. 



Spec/al Notices. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



A friend ill Indiana calls attention to "strawber- 

 ries" in our seed catalogue wlicre tlie Sterling is 

 classed as a f<taminate or perfect-blossom variety. 

 The tlirce kinds last mentioned on our list. Sterling-, 

 Biibacli, and Haverltmd are pistillates, or imperfect 

 flowering- varieties, and need f rtini one-fourtli to one- 

 half their number of staminates such as Jessie or 

 Gandy planted with them to insure a paving crop of 

 fruit. 



VVaiTE DUTCB AND SWEET CLOVER SEED WANTED. 



Our stock of wliite Dutch clover seed is almost 

 exliausted, and sweet-clover seed all gone. If any 

 of our i-e;i(lers liave seed of either.to sell, you will 

 kindly submit samples at once, stating how much 

 you hjive, and if possible tlie price you want for it. 

 We witlidraw our published selling prices on white 

 Dutch till we are supplied. It will probably be the 

 same price as alsike. We will bill it as low as we 

 can afford on'^such orders as we receive. ■ 



POULTRY NETTING AND FENCING. 



Our special netting and fencing catalogue, with 

 discount sheet, is now ready for mailing. These 

 calaloaiies ;ire furnished us b.^■ the nianiitacturers, 

 and we have been out of them for some months. 

 Owing- to enlargement of the factory, and other 

 causes, we have been delayed in getting the lists, 

 and have .several hundred api>lic:itions that have 

 accumulated for the past few months. If any who 

 lia\ e already written foi- one do not receive itwith- 

 iii the ne.\t ten days, drop us a postal, with another 

 request. We have no change in price to note, our 

 prices being the same as last year, and given in con- 

 densed form on page 51 of our catalogue. We shall 

 be pleased to mail the special list to any on applica- 

 tion. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP. 



Since the appearance of the notice of sugar and 

 syrup in last number we have received a good many 

 orders, especially for .sugar. We have also had a 

 spell of winter weather, so that very little sugar 

 lias been brought in yet by the producers, although 

 we have syrup enough oftered to meet all demands. 

 We hope very soon to have plenty of sugar for all 

 ordei-s. In former years we have always had a sur- 

 plus, and see no reason wliy we should not have 

 enough for all demands this year. As we have three 

 grades of sugar, and syrup is offered us in about iis 

 great variety, we have decided to offer you two 

 grades of this. No, 1 gilt-edge will be $1.30 per gal- 

 lon; 10 gal., $10.50. No. 2, good quality, $1.00 per 

 gallon; 10 gal., $8.50. What we list here as No. 3 

 good is liked by some fully as well as the gilt-edge, 

 ;ind bj' some even better. It is a good ordinary run 

 of syrup, and we can supply you all you want at 

 above figures. 



NEW HA51MOND TYPEWRITER FOB $60.00. 



We have a new Hammond typewriter that has not 

 done two full days' "work, that we offer for sixty 

 dollars. It has the " Universal " keyboard, same ai-- 

 rangement as the Remington. We got the machine 

 expecting to use it in our office because of .some 

 superior polntsthatitpossessesover other machines. 

 We found on trial, however, that, although the ar- 

 rangement of the keys is the same, the touch of 

 them is so different that a Remington operator 

 could not write successfully on the Hammond 

 without learning over again. The Remington and 

 other similar macliines have the staccato (or piano) 

 finger movement, while the Hammond has the 

 legato (or organ) movement. The Hammond 

 seems to be preferred by clergymen and other pro- 

 fessional men who do not use it continuously as we 

 do in a business office. Dr. Miller and G. M. Doo- 

 little both use and prefer the Hammond, and would 

 no doubt tell you that the above offer is a bargain. 



A GOOD TIME COMING. 



As a rule I do not like to hear people gi-umble; 

 but there is one kind of grumbling that I am watch- 

 ing and waiting for— yes, I am hungering to hear a 

 little of it. When it comes I expect it to be some- 

 thing along in this line: "What has got into these 

 farming people V They are getting so thej' charge a 

 body just wliat they have a mind to, and they know 

 we can not help ourselves. Clover seed that used 

 to be three or tour dollars a bushel is now eight and 

 ten; and these bee-keepers that raise alsike want 

 even more. The yellow onion-sets are $7.00 a busliel 

 at wholesale. Wheat and Hour are going up con- 

 stantly, and nobody knows what things are coming 

 to." Well, friends, I have not heard anybody„say 

 just tliat; but in looking o%'er a price list dated 

 March 15* of seeds, etc., 1 thought it looked' some- 

 thing like it. There has been, as you know, a ten- 

 dency to run away from the farms, and crowd into 

 town; and I fully expect that tliese people who 

 like real progressive farming are going to have a 

 good time after a little. So don't you be in a hurry 

 to desert the farm where vou are now doing even 

 tolerably well. A. I. R. 



CLOVER SEED. 



Two weeks ago we announced an advance In the 

 price of pea vine or mammoth clover seed from $6.00 

 to $7, iiO per bushel. It has .since gone up at such a 

 rate that it is worth to-day fully as mucli tis alsike, 

 which we are selling at $10.50, or two bushels for 

 $20.00. Common red or medium clover is al.so the 

 same price. This ought to stimulate the demand 

 for alsike seed, because it does not require more 

 than half as many pounds of .seed to the acre as of 

 the large clovers, because tlie seed is so fine. You 

 can see from the article on page 165 of last issue 

 that it is fully as valuable for hay, as well as for a 

 paying seed crop. We have a good supply of choice 

 seed at prices last n;iiiied. We <-an not fill orders 

 alter this date for i)ea\ iue at less than the price of 

 alsike, unless the market subsides again. You may 

 be sure we will give you the best price we can, con- 

 sistent with the market as it lules at the time jjour 

 order comes. Some few are so unreasonable as to 

 insist that we fill orders at the catalogue price 

 printed some time ago, no matter where the mai"- 

 ket goes or wliat we have to pay. As a rule, these 

 are the people who do not watch the market and In- 

 form themselves of what is going on. When^.the 

 market is so unsteady as it has been on clover for 

 the past two or three montlis, there is no printed 



