GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15. 



REARING QUEENS ON THE JONES SYSTEM. 



You ask in Gleanings for reports on how 

 the Jones system of rearing queens works. I 

 would say that I have some fine queens with 

 less work than when I had lo dip the cells on 

 sticks, a la Doolittle. Chas. Stewart. 



Sammonsville, N. Y. 



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Our stores in this part of the State are being 

 flooded with goldenrod honey put up in glass 

 tumblers retailing at 10 cts. each. I send a 

 sample by mail. If this honey is pure, no harm 

 is done. - H. W. McCombs. 



Richmond, Iowa. 



[The sample in question was undoubtedly 

 adulterated with glucose. — Ed.] 



Can you tell me where or how I can get a 

 queen or nucleus of the giant bee of India? If 

 so, what will be the probable cost? 



It is disgusting to read the different articles 

 in some bee-journals against the new deep-cell 

 foundation and the giant bee, when the writers 

 have never seen or tried either, and, one might 

 say, know nothing of either. It is surprising 

 to learn the number of narrow-minded, jealous 

 writers we have to put up with. I shall be glad 

 when we can get the deep-cell foundation. I 

 believe it will be invaluable. I am using the 

 new Weed process foundation. It is the finest 

 I have ever used or seen. J. W. Gregg. 



Gazell, Cal., May 24. 



[There is no place yet in this country, and 

 may never be, where queens of this race may 

 be obtained. See Straws, this issue.— Ed. 



SELLING HONEY IN A UNIFOEM PACKAGE; 

 BRO. AIKIN S IDEA INDORSIID. 



On page 407 Bro. Aikin has opened up a good 

 idea. I tried to get the Columbus Storage and 

 Commission Co. to do this very thing last fall- 

 to put extracted honey in cheap packages so I 

 could Sill to the groceries or to ihe consumer 

 direct through the market; and now if I can 

 get honey that I can guarantee to be pure, and 

 labeled as it should be, I can sell thousands of 

 pounds, as I have a good trade on comb in Co- 

 lumbus and at hotne, and I can do the same on 

 extracted; but on account of there being so 

 much on the market that is adulterated it 

 would take some little time to convince the 

 people that I was selling a pure article; but 

 when this is done my trade will be enormous; 

 and if there is a company formed to engage in 

 this business I will give up my business and 

 give all my time to the honey trade in Colum- 

 bus and near-bv towns; so I hope this matter 

 will be pushed to the front. In this way I 

 could get the producer a better price for his 

 honey, both comb and extracted, than they can 

 possibly get through commission houses. The 

 way honey is now sold here, there are at least 

 three commissions paid; while if I sold to the 

 consumer there would be only one. 



Blacklick, O. D. M. Ritchey. 



Bees are still booming. We shall have lots 

 of honey. David Grossman. 



Terrell, Texas. June 29. 



We are having the heaviest flow of white- 

 clover honey I ever saw^ C. C. Eddy. 

 Reinersville, Ohio, Juno 25. 



At present we have the first great honey-flow 

 from white clover for many years. My bees are 

 just rolling in the honey. M. N. Simon. 



Bloomdale, O., June 25. 



Sweet clover beginning to bloom. I took 48 

 lbs. of comb honey to-day from one six-frame 

 hive; others as good; will take off my first crop 

 to-day and to-morrow. D. M. Ritchey. 



Blacklick, O., June 24. 



We are having the heaviest honey-flow I have 

 experienced in the 17 years that I have kept 

 bees. Swarms that were hived the first week 

 in June have finished 56 sections besides the 

 brood-chamber, aad are swarming again. 



England, Pa., June 30. S. B. Post. 



Wanted at once, 100,000 overcoats for bees so 

 that they can gather a little of the thousands 

 of pounds of honey hanging in the clover-blos- 

 soms. L. B. Thatcher. 



Somcrville, N. J., June 15. 



[When the foregoing was written it was 

 doubtless cold; but tb day, July3.it is 98° F. in 

 the shade. Those overcoats will not be needed 

 now.— Ed J 



the great white clover year. 



If this is not the good old white-clover year 

 again, what is it? This year will always be 

 known as the great white-clover year. Here it 

 is June 15, and I have 50 hives with 60 sections 

 on each hive, two-thirds of which are sealed. 

 The ground looks as if it were covered with 

 snow, the clover bloom is so heavy; and lots of 

 swarming too, but not with the L. hive. I have 

 not had a swarm from one of these hives; but 

 the bees in American hives are swarming badly. 



Fremont, O. Chauncey Reynolds. 



A BANNER HONEY YEAR. 



This has been one of the best seasons that 

 Parke County bee-keepers have seen in several 

 years. White clover has been very abundant, 

 and yielded an unusual amount of honey. Oth- 

 er honey-plants have yielded in proportion to 

 clover. At this date basswood has just com- 

 menced to bloom. Taking all together, the 

 year 1897 will long be remembered as a banner 

 honey year. 



Rockville, lud., July 3. W. P. Overman. 



