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CJLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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up scoking wliom he may dc^vour; and it lias 

 (.•oiiu' into my mind of ialc that he lias studied 

 up a plan of ircttinsr pood (icoplcolT thi- track by 

 the ic}ii>hsiiU\ He pcrsuaiics them tlial tlicy 

 art' not havlnji a fair ohaiu'c. and tlial no man 

 ever secures a eonipetenee liy iioni'St. earnest 

 lal>or. Don't listen to him. Throw the lie back 

 into his teeth, and say, "<;ei thee behind me. 

 Satan:" tlicMi turn around and put in liie phKM> 

 of his evil sufisrestion the bright little text giv- 

 en us by that veteran saint. "■ Owe no man any 

 thiufi. but to love one aiioiher." 



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^::>^-X^^^--^l°.2 PER YEABj 



\Vk are informed that Ur. . I. H. Kellogg, of 

 Itattle Creek. IVlieh.. foi • the best part ot an 

 hour spoke of the object ions to the use of 

 honey." This is another (ividi'iice of how doc- 

 tors and bifj; professors sometimes '"put their 

 foot in it." We have no doiilit that Dr. K. is 

 honest in his opinion; but we can't help adding 

 that it is nothiiifi but an opinion. If the doctor 

 had made a propel- iiivestifratioii he could not 

 have conn^ to any conclusion but that honey is 

 wh.olesonu! to the average consumer. Certain 

 kinds of new fruits are very distressing, pro- 

 ducing colicky pains in many people. Even 

 strawberries can not be eaten by some; and yet 

 we know that strawberries, honey, and nearly 

 all fruits, are wholesome and nutritious to the 

 average person. It will be in order now for the 

 doctor to lecture for "the best part of an hour 

 on the objections to the use" of strawberries, 

 watermelons, and the like. 



It is gooil for iiie to draw near to God: I have put my trust 

 in the Lord God. th.it 1 may declare all thy works.— Ps. 73:28. 



Lettkks are Still coming in, saying that the 

 weather has been very unfavorable — rainy and 

 bad. in nearly all sections of the Northern and 

 Middle States, but the main honey-flow is be- 

 fore us. 



"Wk have not had enough faith in automatic 

 swarmers to even try them till this season; 

 and now we have actually told the boys to at- 

 tach them to several of our stronger colonies. 

 We await results. 



It has rained almost every day since our last 

 issue. To-day. June 10, the sky is cleared up, 

 and indications are that we shall have pleasant 

 weather again. Clover is just opening up, and 

 honey is just beginning to come in. 



It is with pleasure that we publish in this 

 issue an article from the Rev. L. L. Langstroth. 

 the father of American bee-keeping. We have 

 already another article in hand which we will 

 present to our readers in our issue for July 1. 



Wk are getting a good many letters, ordering 

 subscriptions continued, saying, " W(> can't get 

 along without Gleanings. Please continue 

 until I order it stopped." etc. Many times let- 

 ters of appreciation are so strong that w(i feel 

 like thanking each one individually. IJiit this 

 can not very well be done. We would, there- 

 fore, say to one and all. that all these (expres- 

 sions are appreciated, and have a molding intlu- 

 ence on the character of the journal. 



Wk must remind our friends again not to send 

 us models or samples of implements or devices 

 bv express or freight, to illustrate some new 

 idea, without first writing us. It goes rather 

 against our grain to charge up the express 

 charges to some kind and well-meaning friend 

 who sends us an elaborate trap or device, even 

 if it is entirely worthless, old. and abandoned. 

 It may seem like a simple matter to complain 

 of: but when things are sent to us constantly 

 in this way. charges not prepaid, the matter is 

 not so small as it might be. 



Good clean alsike clover seed is just the tiling 

 to sow for new lawn plots. It will take root 

 where all other seeds would fail ; and after it 

 has got nicely started you can sow IvcMitucky 

 blue grass, or any other grass that is of a slower 

 or more tender growth, and under the protecting 

 leaves of the alsike it will grow and thrive. 

 After the Kentucky grass is well rooted it will 

 "runout" alsike and all other clovers. You 

 can get a good lawn of blue grass when you 

 could do it in no other way. 



PERFORATED ZINC, AND THE KIND THAT IS 

 QUEEN-EXCLVDING. 



We have been making some experiments 

 with the Chicago zinc, and find that loaded 

 workers can not get through it very readily. 

 In fact, we could not easily foi'ce the bees 

 through it by smoking. This zinc has perfora- 

 tions only i\',\; of an inch wide. The zinc that 

 we now manufactur(! has holes A"jj. and that of 

 Dr. Tinker about the same. While jVfr is per- 

 fectly queen-excluding to the average queen, it 

 offers no particular hindrance to the workers. 

 Two years ago we made zinc with holes jVi^fi of 

 an inch, and discovered to our sorrow and that 

 of our customers that an occasional fertile 

 queen would get through it. We may safely 

 put it down, then, in our books, if our experi- 

 ments and the reports of our customers are any 

 safe criterion, that the zinc perforations for ex- 

 cluding zinc should be ^^jy wide. Perhaps we 

 should say that the Chicago zinc was originally 

 made for another purpose; but we sell it for 

 only a very limited use; and noone should buy it 

 for any other purpose than to prevent virgin 

 queens from going from one part of the liive 

 to another. It is alxsolutely unsuited for use 

 in honey production. 



THE "AMERICAN UEK-JOURNAL " AND ITS 

 TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. 



We were greatly pained upon seeing the an- 

 nouncement that the health of Mr. Thomas G. 

 Newman has been such that lie w as obliged to 

 sell the Americ(t)i Bee Jounidl, the "old relia- 

 Vile"' that has been so successtully conducted by 

 him for nearly twenty years. We have known 

 for some time that Mr. Newman's health has 

 been very poorly; liut wt> did not suppo.se that 

 it had come to such a [jass that it would be nec- 

 essary for him to dispone of some of his business 

 interests. We are very glad to learn, however, 

 that the Jourmit has b(!en transferred to entire- 

 ly competent and worthy hands in the person of 

 G. W. York — an old assistant and employe who 

 has for eight years lieeii more or less connected 

 with the publishing and editing of the Journal. 

 Mr. York is full of Dusimsss vim and enterprise; 

 and we have no doubt that the change will be 

 bett(!r for all parties concerned. We (>xtend our 

 right hand of fellowship to the new publisher; 

 and it will give us gi(;at pleasure tocooperate 

 with him as we did with Messrs. Newman & 

 vSon. Mr. York is a young man of just our own 

 age; and although we have never met him. we 

 have a sort of kiushi]) feeling for him already. 

 In our next issue we fiope to introduce him for- 

 mally to our readers through the medium of a 

 biographical sketch and a portrait engraving. 



We are glad to know that Thomas G. New- 

 man still remains as one of the editors of the 

 Bee Journal: and we may therefore expect — 



