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GLEANINGS IX BI:H CULTURE. 



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and the sunlight for about a five-mile drive I 

 called at a farmhouse and inquired of the good 

 lady if she would like some honey. 



" Well. yes. I should like some, but I have 

 no money." 



Seeing some ducks, I offered to trade honey 

 for ducks; and for a pair I gave four pint jars 

 of honey. 



Calling at another house, I .sold !r!'i.00 worth 

 for cash; and while I was talking with the 

 man one of the ducks gave a quack, which 

 lead to an inquiry as to what I had. I told 

 him I had traded honey for ducks. 



" Well, now, look here ; can't I trade you 

 some hens for some honey ? " 



I traded for half a dozen, and made the 

 children, I hope, liappy (I was). In this way 

 I pa.ssed the day, and on my drive home I was 

 trying to figure out my profits. 



I had disposed of two gross of pint jars, and 

 120 pounds of cond) honey. For the pint jars 

 I received 25 cents; also 2") cents each for the 

 sections of comb. I had had a royal day's 

 sport; and as I listened to the quack of the 

 ducks and geese, the cackle of the hens, and 

 squeal of the pigs, and looked at the large box 

 of eggs that I had in the wagon, I thought I 

 would have to send for some of Dr. INIason's 

 egg-preservative. 



After getting home I took account of stock. 

 I had S'14.40 cash, 108 dozen eggs, 8 ducks, 1 

 goose, 2 pigs, 24 hens, and 1 bullpup. ( The 

 pup is for sale. ) 



Charlton Citv, Mass. 



THE TALL SECTION. 



Who First Brought It Out? Patents. 



BY F. G. BASS. 



M7-. E. R. Root: — Why do you allow read- 

 ers of Gle.\nixgs to be "^misinformed by call- 

 ing a copy of a section used by Capt. J. E. 

 Hetherington for the pa.st twenty years the 

 " Danzy " section? I suppose it is because 

 you are not postel. Please allow me to infonn 

 you that the so-called " Danzy " section, .3,?^x 

 5x1^-^, was copied from J. E. Hetherington 's 

 section in this State five years ago. I s^e the 

 " Danzy section " is now changed to 4xoxI 5^. 

 Why not change again to 4)4^x-5Xxl^, so 

 those wlio wish to deceive the eye can do so 

 by simply adding one inch to the top of old 

 supers ? If this does not satisfy you as to who 

 is the origdnator of the tall section, I will go 

 into particulars, as I am personally acquainted 

 with the parties and facts in the case. 



I notice great change in the management of 

 Gle.\xings. Instead of fighting against pat- 

 ents on bee-keepers' supplies, it is controlling 

 patents on foundation and bee-hives. I do 

 not see why we should not patent them as well 

 as other agricultural implements. 



Front Royal, Va., Oct. 18. 



[Why, my friend, you are not posted on 

 what has been printed in Gle.\nixgs. Mr. 

 Danzenbaker does not claim that he introduc- 

 ed the deep section. In fact, I think he has 

 stated more than once that Capt. J. E. Hether- 



ington was using sections 3%x5xlf^; and I 

 know he has said that, after he had been to 

 Capt. Hetherington's, and seen his beautiful 

 honey, he became convinced that the deep 

 sections were the ones he would use. 



Why do we call the section the Danzy ? For 

 the reason that it has a peculiar opening or 

 bee-way. There is no 1 ee-.space on one side, 

 and a bee-way on the other, and those bee- 

 ways are decidedly different from those Capt. 

 Hetherington uses. The latter would prob- 

 ably not care to father such a form of section, 

 and we have therefore called the section the 

 Danzy. We are very well aware that Capt. 

 Hetherington was one of the first to use deep 

 sections, and we are sure we have no desire to 

 deprive that distinguished bee-keeper, whose 

 good will we value much, of his rightful 

 credit. 



Yes, indeed, we believe that ivort/iy inven- 

 tions, even in apiculture, should be protected 

 by a patent. The " boys," of whom I am one, 

 have never experienced a change of mind in 

 regard to the subject of patents. We stand 

 to-day just where we always have stood ; and 

 A. I. R., while somewhat of the same opinion 

 as before, has no desire to interfere with the 

 changed policy regarding patents. 



Later. — Since writing the above, Mr. Weed 

 h;is called my aUention to the fact that the 

 "deep section is oiler than the hills." We 

 have run across an old vokmie of Kidder, 

 pubHshed in lS(iS, where the deep section is 

 illustrated and described on p. 174. The re- 

 markable part of these sections is that they had 

 no bee-ways in them. They are simply boxes 

 without top or bottom, deeper one way than 

 another, with plain edges. A .'■ort of cleated 

 separator was i;sed to regulate the bee-spaces. 

 Even Kidder himself does not claim that this 

 section was original with him. — Ed.] 



POISONOUS HONEY-PLANTS. 

 Scotch Heath. 



BY MRS. L. E. R. LAMBRIGGER. 



Replying to Dr. Miller's Stray Straw in Oct. 

 1st Gleanings, I would say there is probably 

 no mistake about the existence of Scottish 

 heather in New Jerse\'. The late Peter Hen- 

 derson, himself a .Scotchman, says: " Calluna 

 vn.[q-ai-is, the only species, is the well-known 

 heather of Scotland, populaidy known as ling, 

 or common heath ; a low-growing, much- 

 branched little shrub, with very pretty rose- 

 colored, purple, or white fragrant flowers pro- 

 duced in crowded axillary clusters, forming 

 one-sided (mostly) spikes or racemes. This 

 beautiful little plant has become naturalized 

 in a few localities in Ameiica. It is reported 

 at Tewksbury, Mass., and at Cape Elizabeth, 

 Maine. It is also found sparingly in Nova 

 Scotia and Newfoundland." 



NATURAL ORDER, ERICACE^. 



Turning now to Gray's Manual, page 318, I 

 find the following: 



" Catluna vuIo;aris. Low grounds, Mass., 

 at Tewksburv, and W. Andover ; Maine, at 



