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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 1. 



ei'S. and that strange miraculous system of cure, 

 and he himself accepts it as true. What do you 

 suppose the whole sensational thing is about? 

 Whv. it is a tremendous advertisement for Dr. 

 Green's N<'rve and Wood Remedy. Now, 

 please do not think that I mean to criticise 

 particularly the editor of the paper I happen 

 to pick up. You take up almost any home 

 paper in any home in the land, especially 

 the I'egiilar county papers, and these puffs for 

 patent medicines are so frequent one hardly 

 knows whether or not the item he undertakes 

 to read is going to turn out only as an adver- 

 tisement. You may say this is only a joke- 

 that everybody expects it as a matter of course. 

 Mv good friend, your nearest neighbor accepts 

 it as truth, and he pays more money than he 

 can earn in a day for a bottle of this same med- 

 icine. May be he buys half a dozen bottles be- 

 cause he gets them cheaper: and thus it goes 

 on until he decides, as I have done, that the 

 medicine orobably has no effect whatever. 

 Whv. it has got to be such an everyday mattei' 

 that manv of them put thetu in their papers 

 without ever seeing them or reading them over. 

 I think it is bad; and I do believe the editor 

 who sells his good name and reputation to these 

 medicine makers who have money will repent 

 it sooner or later. In California, many palatial 

 residences were pointed out to me as belonging 

 to millionaires who made their money in selling 

 the very medicines that have been before your 

 eyes in your county paper so often that you 

 have really become tired of seeing the same 

 thing over and over. 





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In tlie sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.— liKN. 3: 19. 



One of the sweetest and nicest of baby girls 

 found her way to the home of the Bee-keepers' 

 Review. Gleanings offers congratulations. 



Bkwabe of the Rambler when he pulls out 

 his camera. We show him in another column, 

 so that you may be on the lookout if he should 

 by chance come your way. 



It is getting time now for prices on honey to 

 he stiffening up a little. Better ligures are 

 usually secured from now on until the holidays 

 than before or later. Watch your chances. 



Hildreth Bros. & Si':gelken, in the Honey 

 Column, say that the California honey crop is 

 not a failure, as first reported, and that, since 

 July S, they have purchased twelve carloads of 

 California "extracted honey. Good! While it 

 may not have been a failure, yet the ciDp was 

 very much shorter than usual. 



The following from Prof. Cook, in regard to 

 honey-dew and its analysis, will explain itself: 



Will you iisk bee-keepers, tln-ough Glr.^nings, 

 to send nie samples nf liuiiiw from lionoy-dew y I 

 wish all Vcinds— g-ood. bad, and indittcreiit; fi'om 

 acorns or oak; Missouri and Arkansas, and from 

 plant and bark lice. Will all w'lO liavt- samples ex- 

 press to nie three or four i)ounds at nay t'.xpenst' '! I 

 don't care when it was collected. 1 need it for the 

 investigation which we are carrying- on. 



A. J. Cook. 



Ag-ricultural College. Mich., Sept. 17. 



We have just been trying the new Crane 

 hot-blast smoker, as recently illustrated in the 

 Bee-keepers' Review. From some lests we have 

 made we are of the opinion that it is superior 

 to any other smoker ever constructed. It has 

 the force of the cold-blast and the volume of 

 the hot-blast very nicely combined. Mr. Crane 

 authorizes us to say that the smoker will not be 

 offered for sale until it has been thoroughly 

 tested by a few compi'tiMit lice-keepers, and its 

 value fuliv determined. 



There seems to be a smaller crop of honey 

 this year than usual — at least, there is not very 

 much offered. We notice from the reports, that 

 consignments are small. Does this mean that 

 the honey crop this season was actually smaller 

 this year, even, than last? By the way, the 

 fall honey crop, judging by the letters we are 

 receiving every day, is unusually large. At 

 our basswood "apiary we actually" had to give 

 the bees more room because they had crammed 

 almost every available cell with honey and 

 brood. Goldenrod has been out in great pro- 

 fusion, and this is, no doubt, the source whence 

 the honey comes. 



Neat and novel display is one of the impor- 

 tant requisites in advertising; and to help our 

 patrons we are always glad to offer suggestions 

 or to submit proofs of advertisements, free of 

 charge. As a general thing, if our customers 

 will allow us to use our own judgment as to dis- 

 play, not cramping us too much in space, we can 

 suit them better than to try to carry out a cer- 

 tain style that they may have in mind. We 

 have a good many advertisers who have been 

 with us for years; and if there are any of these 

 who would like to see a proof of their advertise- 

 ment reset according to our own ideas of dis- 

 play, we will send it free of charge. An adver- 

 tisement ought to be changed occasionally, else 

 it becomes worn out and people do not see it. 



Next to the North American, the Illinois 

 State Bee-keepers' Association, formerly the 

 old Northwestern, is the most important, prob- 

 ably, of any bee keepers' association in the 

 United States. Since it receives annually an 

 appropi'iation of $500 from the State govern- 

 ment, it is in a position to do effective and im- 

 portant work for the bee-keepers of Illinois. 

 The next meeting promises to be an interesting 

 one, and certainly all bee-keepers of the State, 

 besides those near in Wisconsin and Michigan, 

 should make an effort to attend. The following 

 is an announcement from the secretary: 



The Illinois State Bee-keepers' Association will 

 meet at the Conimercinl Hotel. Chicago, on Tuesday 

 and Wednesday, Oct. ISth and 19tli, 18t>:J. This being- 

 tlie week of the dedication of the World's Pair 

 Buildings, we may expect reduced railroad fare, and 

 consequently a large attendance. 



Bradfordton, 111., Sept. 23. Jas. A. Stone, Sec. 



those HOFFMAN FRAMES AND PROPOLIS. 



Those who have "been using the Hoffman 

 frames have doubtless noticed that propolis 

 seems a little worse just before cool weather 

 than at any other time. In pulling apart the 

 frames, the bee-glue acts rather w«,xy. Some 

 observing this might feel, perhaps, this was 

 only the beginning of troubles: but for their 

 encouragement we may say that new propolis 

 is more sticky or gummy than old. When it 

 becomes a little older it will be less tenacious, 

 and give less trouble in separating the frames. 

 We know, for we have been trying the experi- 

 ment. If one desires to enjoy immunity from 

 propolis, let him rub the contact edges with 

 grease. But even with tlie propolis we can not 

 see that the Hoffman frames on the new tin 

 rabbets separate with any more difficulty than 



