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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15. 



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maintained by Mr. Holtermann for some time 

 back. 



Eight txtra pages tbis time. 



HONEY ADVANCING. 

 IF our readers will look over our Honey 

 Column they will see that prices are advanc- 

 ing. No doubt some of the commission 

 houses have taken our hint and advanced 

 prices, with the result that others will have 

 to follow. 



KELLOGG'S PURE WHITECLOVER HONEY. 



WE have assurances from one large grocery 

 company that they will not handle any more 

 of the Kellogg " pure clover honey " purport- 

 ing to come from Medina, O. They say they 

 would not knowingly sell goods of this char- 

 acter, and that they are, moreover, requesting 

 their salesmen to find out who it is that is 

 putting out this spurious article, and injuring 

 the name of the good old town of Medina. 



GOVERNMENT AID TO BEE-KEEPERS. 



Elsewhere in this issue I have referred to 

 the fact that the Division of Entomology, U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, is proposing to 

 examine pickled or other forms of diseased 

 brood that have developed in various portions 

 of the United States. These specimens of 

 brood " will be turned over to Mr. Benton, 

 who, with a bacteriologist from the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, will undertake the investi- 

 gation." The fact that we are to receive aid 

 from the government in this way, even though 

 to a limited extent, will be hailed with de- 

 light by bee-keepers all over our land. It is 

 the entering wedge ; and it is hoped the time 

 will soon arrive when we shall have an actual 

 apicultural station, for one is greatly needed. 



R. F. HOLTERMANN. 



MOST of our readers are doubtless aware of 

 the fact that Mr. R. F. Holtermann, formerly 

 editor of the Canadian Bee Journal, has re- 

 tired from the active management of that pub- 

 lication. He believes he has been called of 

 God to preach. At a great financial sacrifice 

 to himself he has given up a good position 

 with the Goold, Shapley & Muir Co., with- 

 drawn from the company, retired from the ed- 

 itorial management of the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal, and resigned his position as lecturer for 

 the Ontario government. 



Mr. Holtermann has met with good success 

 so far, and Gleanings wishes him Godspeed 

 in every sense of the word. 



While the Canadian Bee Journal regrets the 

 retirement of Mr. Holtermann, it says it is its 

 determination to turn out even a better publi- 

 cation than heretofore. It does not say who 

 is to be the new editor ; but the issue for Oc- 

 tober makes a very creditable appearance, and, 

 indeed, upholds the standard that has been 



gleanings subscription - list booming; 

 the value of illustrations. 

 Our subscription-list is on a boom. Glean- 

 ings has always been an illustrated journal, 

 but it will be, from this time on, more so than 

 ever. We realize the fact that it takes time 

 to read ; and where we can give information 

 by pictures we will illustrate regardless of ex- 

 pense. The amount of published matter now 

 in the world is so great that one would have 

 to have a reading-machine if he would get 

 through with even a very small portion of it ; 

 and as such a thing is out of the question it 

 becomes necessary in this age of hurly-burly 

 bustle to give people information that they 

 can take in at a mere glance; and that the 

 great magazines of the country appreciate this 

 fact is shown by the large number of illustra- 

 tions that grace their pages. 



introducing in the ordinary benton 

 mailing-cage ; a new kink. 



I recently learned that our Mr. Wardell 

 has been very successful in introducing queens 

 in the Benton cage. He withdraws the cork 

 from the candy end, and then tacks a small 

 piece of pasteboard over the hole. The bees 

 will gnaw this board, and the time occupied 

 in getting through it to the candy consumes 

 an} where from 2-1 to 36 hours. It then takes 

 10 or 12 hours more to get through the candy 

 to the queen, assuming that half of the candy 

 has been eaten by the queen and her attend- 

 ants. This little piece of pasteboard prevents 

 the queen from being released in much less 

 than 48 hours, during which time the bees 

 have had abundant opportunity to become ac- 

 quainted with her, after which they will re- 

 ceive her kindly. 



What led Mr. Wardell to use this piece of 

 pasteboard was that sometimes the candy 

 would be eaten out too soon, with the result 

 that the bees would get at the queen in from 

 10 to 24 hours, resulting sometimes in her loss. 



THE PRINCE OF AMERICAN BEE-KEEPERS 

 AND HIS CLOSED-END FRAMES. 



IT is with no little pleasure that I am able 

 to present to our readers in this issue, not 

 only a biographical sketch of Capt. Hether- 

 ington, but an article from his pen. This 

 prince of American bee-keepers does things 

 on such a magnificently large scale that the 

 operations of the rest of us pale into insignifi- 

 cance. It is one thing for a bee-keeper to 

 manage 100 colonies successfully, but it is 

 quite another thing to make 1000 bring in to 

 their owner clean cash. What shall we say, 

 then, of a man who can manage 3000 colonies 

 so successfully for so many years ? Such a 

 record is phenomenal. To my way of think- 

 ing, the feat of managing 3000 colonies re- 

 quires more skill and forethought than the 

 task of managing a whole system of railways. 



A very large proportion of the captain's 

 colonies are on closed-end Ouinby frames — 



