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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 15. 



Contents of this Number. 



Adulteration of Honey 690 



Analysis of Honey 68S 



Arizona 707 



Arizona Honey 700 



Bands on Bees 710 



Battery, Lewis' 710 



Brood. Injured 700 



Califoraiu 693 



Detroit Exposition 710 



Drones Congregating 700 



Ear-trumpet Recoinmended702 



Ernest's Tour 697 



Farm Hands in California. .696 



Habit of Observation 694 



Heathen. Confirmed 694 



Hirer, Alley's 702 



Hoffman Frames 702 



Honey, Selling 689 



Introducing Queens 700 



Laying Workers 692 



Leucopliyllum Texanum — 701 



Lizards 693 



Mantis. Praying 701 



Muth Vindicated 689 



Non-swariners 701 



Nuclei, Nursing 698 



Peppermint in lntroducing700 



Funics as Stingers 702 



Queens, Barren 701 



Rambler at John Smith's . .69.i 



Rheumatism and Bees 699 



Silk-Moth 696 



Smokers 698 



Speckled Beauty— Story.... 702 



Terracing a Field 704 



Union, A New 690 



Wa.x Scales 701 



Wintering, Pi-eparing for.. 691 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The Colorado State Bee-keepers' Association will hold Its 

 " Honey Day" at Longmout, Sept. 28. H. Knight, Sec. 



Littleton, Col. 



The Capital Bee-keepers' Association will meet in the Super- 

 visor's Room of the Court-house. Springfield, 111., Oct. 4th, 1892, 

 at 10 A.M. C. E. YOCUM, Stc, Sherman, 111. 



The Southwestern Wisconsin Bee-keepers' Association will 

 hold its next annual meeting in Boscobel, Grant Co., Wis., on 

 the 13th and 14th of January. 1893, commencing at 10 a.m. All 

 members of the association are requested to be present, as the 

 follo^ving officers are to be elected: President, vice-president, 

 secretary, assistant secretary, and treasurer. Blank reports 

 will be sent to each member of the association for 1892, with 

 instructions. .\ cordial invitation is extended to all bee-keep- 

 ers, and especially to those who would like to join us. Each 

 member will be notified at least one month before said meet- 

 ing. Benj. E. Rice, Sec. 



Boscobel, Wis. 



FERGUSON'S 



Madison, Morgan Co., Ga., Sept. 1, 1892. 



Ferguson's Lintless Cotton is the grandest discov- 

 ery of tlie ag'e. For four years, experiments have 

 been made witli tliis Cotton Seed. It comes true to 

 name every time. It is one of tlie most abundant 

 bearers ever seen in cotton and will resist a drought 

 ten to fifteen days longer than any other cotton. 

 Stalks bear from forty to eighty seed in each boll. 

 They contain more oil and more plant food than 

 any other cotton seed, and will make, this season, 

 four hundred or five hundred bushels of seed per 

 acre, planted 3x3 feet and cultivated as other cot- 

 ton. Sowed broadcast as peas for fertilizing pur- 

 poses up to the 10th of June, will shed on the land 

 from one hundred to two hundred bushels of .seed, 

 without any work. The cotton grows tall, putting 

 out from six to eight long running limbs near the 

 bottom of the stalk. They resemble potato vines 

 Each of these limbs will mature from eight to 

 twenty bolls, besides the short limbs and brace 

 limbs common in other cotton. 



For stock it is superior to all others. Chickens, 

 turkeys, and ducks devour the seed when in the 

 roasting-ear state as eagerly as they do corn. Stock 

 of all kinds eat them. No humbug whatever, but 

 the greatest blessing- of the age. 



This cotton is planted and cultivated as other 

 cotton. In harvesting, the burr is pulled and 

 threshed as peas. The threshing and gathering- is 

 very rapid work. 



I sell seed this season at one dollar per package. 

 Am filling orders every day, and will continue as 

 long as seed lasts. Each i)ackage will make enough 

 seed after one planting to plant 10 acres 3.x3. Care 

 should be taken to plant these seed wliere no other 

 cotton pre\iouslj' grew, then you will have no vol- 

 unteer lint-cotton stalks among it. 



This seed will not mix with any other seed. 



Can refer to the best men in my county. 



Please hand circulars to your friends. 



All letters of inquiry must enclose stamp for reply. 



Seed sent by mail at purchaser's risk. 

 Yours truly, 



R. H. CAMPBELL. 



B^In responding to this advertisement mention Glkandjgs. 



AUSTRALIA. 



Wanted— every bee-keeper in Australia to send 

 for my large illustrated catalogue of bee-keepers' 

 supplies, American queens, etc., etc. Post free. 

 18-33db H. L. JONES, Goodna, Queeuslaiid. 



For Sa.le — ^° simplicity hives, cheap, 

 12 nrklo-n-if^e ^^*^^ fixtures and everything 

 i.* \^<JX<JUlt;» needed in an apiary, with 

 BlO/Ck B668 Barnes saw, bee-veil, and smo- 

 ker. t\)r particulars address 



OSCAR C. ABEL, 

 ISd Wayville, Saratoga Co., N. Y. 



pALL 



14tfdb 



Eggs and Plants, Fowls, Poultrj'-books and 

 Papers; finely ill. circular free. Address 

 GEER BROS., St. Marvs, Mo., 

 Or, H. B. GEER, Nashville, Tenn. 



Wants or Exchange Department. 



Notices will be inserted under this head at one-half our usu- 

 al rates. .411 advertisements intended for this department 

 must not exceed five lines, and you must say you want your 

 adv't in this department, or we will not be responsible for er- 

 rors. You can have the notice as many lines as you please ; 

 but all over five lines will cost you according to our regular 

 rates. This department is intended only for bona-flde ex- 

 changes. Exchanges for cash or for price lists, or notices of- 

 fering articles for sale, can not be inserted under this head. 

 For such our regular rates of 20 cts. a line will be charged, and 

 they will be put with the regular advertisements. We can not 

 be responsible for dissatisfaction arising from these "swaps." 



WANTED.- To excliange Scotch Collie pups for 

 any thing- useful on farm or in bee-yard. 

 1.5tfdb N. A. Knapp, Rochester, Lorain Co., O. 



WANTED.— To exchange yellow Italian queens, 

 and strawberry-plants cheap. Bubach, Jessie, 

 Eureka, Haverlands, Warfleld, Crescent, Lady Rusk, 

 for poultry, or offers. 1.5tfdb 



Mrs. Oliver Cole, Sherburne, Chen. Co., N. Y. 



WANTED.— To exchange one high-grade Safety 

 bicycle; one 49-incli Columbia light roadster 

 bicycle; oneOdell typewriter; tested Italian queens, 

 for wax, honey, or offers. J. A. Green, 



13tfdb Dayton, 111. 



WANTED.— To exchange 2,5 new "Hunt" hives 

 (chaff), about one half nailed together, balance 

 in flat; 2.50 good straight brood or extracting- combs, 

 built from full sheets of foundation; 100 Hoffman 

 frames, wired, and a quantity of other frames; also 

 a honey-extractor, used but one season, and in first- 

 class condition; also 10 Lang'stroth Portico hives, 

 single wall, in good condition, for Safety wheel, or 

 offers. Reasons for selling hives, etc., have sold all 

 my bees. Geo. N. Cornell, 



Lock Box 6. Northville, Mich. 



WANTED.— To cxcluinge town lots in marvelous 

 Marion, Queen city of the Indiana gas-belt, for 

 honey; also 20U colonies of bees for small proper- 

 ties, building- material, live stock, or offers. 

 17-18d B. T. Baldwin, Marion, Ind. 



WANTED.— To exchange a Surprise incubator, 204 

 egg capacity, used only one year, cost $50.00, 

 for $35.00 worth of good extracted honey. Corres- 

 pondence solicited. 

 18d R. R. Cuyler, Alexandria, Va. Box 199. 



WANTED.— To exchange Light Brahmas (Felch 

 strain), .Silver Dorkings, 1 bull terrier (female), 

 2 rat and bull terriers, crossed (females), 1 Novice 

 extractor, 1 org-anini, 100 feet music, 1 plow, 1 double 

 shot-gun, 1 parlor cigar-case, for offers. 

 18-19d Eli AS Fox, Hillsboro, Wis. 



WANTED.— To exchange a Warwick Perfection 

 Safety bicycle, used but little, and good as new; 

 also a Gunkel E-flat cornet in perfect order, silver 

 and gold plated, in fine case, for wax, honey, or 

 offers. 18-19d C. A. Graves, Shelby, Ohio. 



WANTED.— Situation in an apiary, or on farm, 

 apiary preferred, by a young man of .steady, 

 temperate habits. For particulars iiddress 



O. B. Griffin, 423 Olney St., Providence, R. I. 



