GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1. 



Contents of this Number. 



Adulteiatiug Honey 897 



Bain, J. M., a Fraud 890 



Basswood troni Seed 885 



Bees Dead on Comb 881 



Cardinal Flower 88;! 



CeleiT in W inter 893 



Extractcii-, Boiudnmn's 885 



Fi-anii-s, NumhtT Wlied 897 



Gri;enhuuse. < lur New 893 



Hunibuiis and Swindles 889 



Lang:strbth's History 876 



Location, Prior RiMrlit to. . . .888 



Oak-galls 883 



Paralysis of Bees 887 



Paso del Norte 89U 



Passageways, Winter.. .880 



Rambler on California 887 



Salt Remedy 888 



.Slumg-um. More About 883 



Spanish Wui-cls 882 



Sugar Fed f ( ir Honey 897 



Sugar-honey Discussion 878 



Walking-sticks 883 



Wintering in California 881 



CONVENTION NOTICES 



Tlie National Bee-keepers' Association will meet at Washing- 

 ton, D. C., Dec. 27—29. See our editorial columns. 



The bee-keepers of Eastern Iowa will meet at Maquoketa. in 

 the City Hall, Dec. 14 and 15. F. Covf,bdai.k, Sec, Welton, la. 



The eighteenth annual meeting of the Vermont Bee-keepers' 

 Association will be held in the city of Burlington, Dec "-iSth and 

 29th. 1892. Every one interested in apiculture is earnestly de- 

 sired to be present. As a bee-keeiiers" association we know no 

 State lines, but will gladly welcome all that come, regardless 

 of their residence Programs will be published soon, for 

 which address H. W. Scott. 125 Brooklyn St.. Barre.Vt. 



The Ohio State Bee-k,eeiiers' annual convention will be held 

 in the parlor rooms of the Chen y Hotel, Wasliint;ton C. H., O., 

 Dec. 27 and 28. An-angements are made tor l',; railroad fai-e on 

 all roads leading into Washington ; viz., B. & O.; C H. &, D.; 

 Panhandle, and Toledo & Ironton. Also reduced hotel rates. 

 Miss Dema Bennett, Sec, Bedford, O. 



The Illinois State Bee-keepers' Association will meet at the 

 Statehouse, Springtield, Dec. 14tli and 1.5th Railroad rates have 

 been secured on the certificate plan. Hotel rates have also 

 been secured. We hope for a large attendance. The Illinois 

 State Short-honi Breeders', Swine-lnvedcis'. uml Sheep-breed- 

 ers' A.ssociafions will meet the same week at I lie same jilace. 

 J. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, 111. 



The Southwestern Wisconsin Bee-keepers' Association will 

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

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

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

 following 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. A 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- 



Benj. E. Rice, Sec. 



The 27th annual convention of the Michigan State Bee-keep- 

 ers' \ssociation will be held in the Senate Chamber, Lansing, 

 on Tues(la,\ and Wednesday, Dec. 13 and U. The following is 

 the prograiii : 



Morning scission, Dec 13.— Se<Tetarv's reiiort of last meeting; 

 apiM.inting coniinittees; recci>tinn of members; adjouiniiient. 



Afteino.m si'ssion. -Annual address bv Prest. R. L Taylor; 

 Adulteration, H D. Cutting; Shall we feeil cane-sugar synip tor 

 honey! W. Z. Hutchinson; Question-box; reception of mem- 

 bers;' adiournment. 



Evening session.— Experiments in bee-keeping. Professor A. 

 J. Cook; Has the bee-escape come to stay! S. M. West; Ques- 

 tion-box; rei-eiition of members; adjouniment. 



Morning sessitm, Dec U.— Few bees and nnich attention, ver- 

 sus many b"es and littk' attention, B. L. Walker; Shall we go 

 out of the bee business? T. F. Bingham; reception of members; 

 adjouniment. 



Afternoon session.— Deciding on next place of meeting; elec- 

 tion of offic. is; report of committees; financial report of sec- 

 retary; How can we stimulate the market? Jas. Heddon; Carni- 

 olans, lia\e tliey come to stay? E. R. Root; miscellaneous busi- 

 ness; ail journnieiit. 



Reduced railroad r.ites can be had by applying at your ticket 



offic 



G. E. Hilton, Sec, Fremont, Midi. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



The queen with the one-frame nucleus arrived 

 Saturday evening-. I found all in good condition, 

 which demonstrates that you have long--distanee 

 shipment of aueens and bees down to perfection. 

 The bees are as gentle as kittens, so I am well 

 pleased. Geo. W. Brodbeck. 



Los Ang-eles, Cal., Oct. 24. 



THE NEW WATER CURE FOR CHOLERA. 



Pj-ie/u( Ho(»f;— Thanks for the water-cure tracts. 

 I will endeavor to place them where they will do 

 the most good. Keith, of Mother and Child, now 

 says Hall has accomplished much good by advising 

 large injections. The cures of cholera cases in 

 Europe by this simple process are suflBcient to in- 

 duce every intelligent person to save a physician's 

 bill if taken in time. H. M. H. 



Please accept my thiinUs fui- ;i package of "A new 

 method of treating diseases without medicine." I 

 was askirig a noted physician of this city what he 

 thought of the method. Strange to saj , he had 

 never heard of it. He liim.se if was ti-oubled with 

 persistent constii atioii. 1 gave him one of your 

 pamphlets. He liecanie interested, and this morn- 

 ing informed me he ihou.trht it a good thing; in 

 fact, had proven it in his own case. Verily the 

 physicians can and do learn many important things 

 from tlie laity. E. L. Simmons. 



New York City, Oct. 31. 



THE WHEEL OF 1893. 



Friend Root:—! have just read vour article in 

 Gleanings of Nov. 1.5. on "The Wheel of 1892." I 

 want 10 thank you for it. " Well," you say, " that's 

 strange. ' Perhaps it is, l)iit I am glad 1 read it all 

 the same, for, while I hiive looked kindly on the 

 advent of the wheel it'or it has come to Phoenix 

 quite numerously of late), and lealized some of its 

 usefulness, I had never thought of half the things 

 in its favor until 1 read your article. Your com- 

 parison of the wheel as against the saloon as a de- 

 moralizing agent, together with your description of 

 its practical usefulness, is sd jenod tliat I wish every 

 intellujcnt objector could read it; for then their ob- 

 jections would surely be no more. While I am a 

 professing Christian, and often read your sermons, 

 as I call your Home talks, and have been thinking 

 after you. on the line of God's blessing, yet I had 

 not thought of the Safety bicycle as one of God's 

 special blessings until I read what you think about 

 it, and I believe you ai-e right: and I want to say 

 right here, that 1 thank God for right-thinking men 

 who give the public the benefit of their thoughts. 



Phoenix. A. T. J. P. K. Irvine. 



A KIND WORD INDEED. 



Friend Rnot: — J have just found leisure to read 

 the first column on page 3 of your illustrated cata- 

 logue and price list. I can tell you one great secret 

 of your building up and holding such an immense 

 trade. Vears ago you acquired the name of dealing 

 honestly, and it has stuck to you ever since. Every 

 man who once buys of A. I. Root not only buys 

 there again, but advises his bee-keeping friends to 

 buy there, so that you have tliousands upon thou- 

 sands of men who are living advertisements of j'ou 

 everyday in the week, including Sunda.v; and as 

 long as you make everybody believe you are honest, 

 and give them as good bargains as, or a little better 

 than, they can get anywhere else, why should they 

 not overwhelm you witli orders ? Without any in- 

 tention of flattery, I can tell you that you have a 

 reputation that you may well be proud of. 



Marshalltown, la., Nov. 28. O. B. Barrows. 



P. S.— I am associating with bee-keepers in the 

 West, and therefore know what 1 am talking about. 



I know of one bee-keeper in the Stale of , and 



another in the Statt' of , who have the reputa- 

 tion of being confoundedly ><clfi><h. O. B. B. 



\My good friend, we are exceedingly obliged to 

 you for the above, which is certainly extravagantly 

 kind. There is also a grand moral to be gathered 

 from your letter. It doe," pay to work hard, and t6 

 "suffei- long and be kind," in j'our efforts to build 

 up a business. I do not mean that we have done all 

 you give us credit for doing, but we have certainly 

 trifd to do so. Your postscript also points an- 

 other moral; and if I were to name the States you 

 have mentioned in your letter. I presume a great 

 part of our readers would readily guess at least 

 the first letter of the two names, because these poor 

 friends of ours have been so thoughtless as to let 

 their selfishness and greed stand right out before 

 the world. I mean this: They should have recogniz- 

 ed beforehand that such business transactions 

 would be terribly damaging to the reputation of 

 any mtiti who wants to get a reputation for being 

 fair and square in business matters. I am weU. 

 aware, too, good friend B., that everybody does not 

 see even my poor self in the light you do. Some 

 might think your closing words belong to me; and 

 I have been afraid sometimes that they might be- 

 long to me just a little. On the other hand, there 

 are those who, perhaps, have been pleased with 

 their business deal with tlie two parties alluded to 

 in your postscript. Let us try hard to " abstain 

 from all appearance of evil."] A. I. R. 



