1890 



Gleanings in bee; culture. 



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What do you think of our Christmas issue ? 



Sixteen extra pages in this issue, and yet 

 there is still on hand a lot of good matter that 

 had to be held over. 



Some of these editorials in this issue are 

 written at the rate of 60 miles an hour — that is 

 to say, they are scribbled off on a Pullman 

 car going at that rate from Denver to Chicago 

 via the Union Pacific and the Northwestern. 

 If my thoughts appear somewhat joggled (my 

 writing is surely that way) you will please lay 

 it to the aforesaid break-neck speed. 



My route to the Denver convention was 

 over the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, 

 Chicago and Northwestern, and Union Pacific. 

 Over the last two roads I look what is known 

 as the Colorado Special, one of the fastest 

 trains in the world ; and the route as a whole 

 in a modern sleeping-car was one of the easiest 

 and smoothest I ever took. 



GOOD FOR "LUPTOM." 



As far as we have been able to learn, Mr. 

 Luptom has either senl queens or returned the 

 money ; and my impression is, the lesson he 

 learned in this transaction will probably last 

 him as long as he lives. If this be true, shall 

 we not forgive and forget ? and remember, 

 " There is joy in the presence of the angels of 

 God over one sinner that repenteth." A. I. P.. 



THE COLORADO CONVENTION. 



The convention of the Colorado State Bee- 

 keepers' Association was a success in every 

 way. The attendance was good, ranging from 

 50 to 80; and the discussions, always spirited, 

 were along practical lines. Instead of there 

 being a regular set program, a program com- 

 mittee provided a set of topics for each session, 

 assigning subjects to such members as would 

 be the most competent to take them up. The 

 plan worked admirably, for the association is 

 made up of live bee-keepers who can talk from 

 an extended experience. A report of the pro- 

 ceedings will appear in our next. 



OUR INDEX FOR 1899 GLEANINGS. 



This, our Christmas number, is a little late, 

 partly because I have been away and partly 

 because of an extended index that has to be 

 made up and prepared, very largely at the 

 last minute, when the whole volume for the 

 year is complete. And speaking about the 

 index, you will find it, perhaps, the fullest 

 that we have ever given. Subjects of impor- 

 tance are cross-indexed, so I believe our read- 

 ers will be able to find any thing with little or 

 no difficulty. With the exception of the index 

 of correspondents I dictated the whole to W. 

 P., or Stenog, and then it devolved upon the 



latter to arrange the whole in alphabetical 

 order. 



But a good index is worth nothing unless 

 the whole volume is preserved and kept in 

 regular order. Get the whole 24 numbers, 

 place one upon the other in regular order, 

 and if you have no better files drive two wire 

 nails of suitable length through their back 

 edges, and clinch. Better still, get our regu- 

 lar binder which we can supply at 82 cents 

 postpaid, or the same leather-backed for 92 

 cents. 



A NEW KODAK FOR GLEANINGS. 



In my trip through Colorado I carried a 

 brand-new folding kodak with all the latest 

 attachments, for I felt that an illustrated 

 journal like Gleanings required one of the 

 very best that money could buy ; and of all 

 the cameras I have ever seen, the Eastman 

 Kodak Co. get out the best. With this in- 

 strument I took "snap shots" and "time 

 views," some of the latter being taken in a 

 dust-storm when there was a little lull in the 

 wind and the dust. I find I have secured 

 something like 60 exposures in all, the best of 

 which will be reproduced in these pages dur- 

 ing the coming year, so that my Colorado trip 

 will be spread out through the succeeding 

 issues of Gleanings for the next four or five 

 months. Considering the fact that Colorado 

 is one of the greatest and best bee localities in 

 the world, the series ought to prove interest- 

 ing- 



HUTCHINSON AND YORK. 



I have several times spoken of the pleasant 

 relationship existing between the editors of 

 bee-papers. This editorial fellowship is es- 

 pecially strong between Editors York, Hutch- 

 inson, and myself. I have gone to conven- 

 tions with both, in the same sleeper, and have 

 bunked with each, both in the car and at ho- 

 tels, so that I have come to know them inti- 

 mately; and it gives me special pleasure to say 

 that they are royal good fellows, genuine rivals 

 in a business way, but the rivalry is of the 

 pleasantest sort. We know each other well 

 enough to offer criticisms of each other on the 

 quiet and in the open ; and in every instance, 

 so far as I know, these criticisms have been 

 taken in the kindly spirit in which they were 

 offered. 



Mr. Hutchinson started the Bee-keepers' 1 

 Review at a very inauspicious time, as it seem- 

 ed to me. Indeed, it was up-hill sledding for 

 him for a long time ; but with that indomit- 

 able perseverance that is characteristic of its 

 editor, the Revieiu has moved onward and up- 

 ward until there is not a trade journal of any 

 sort that excels it in typographical neatness 

 and general appearance. The Review to-day 

 enjoys the largest patronage, I believe, it has 

 ever had since its first issue ; and no one re- 

 joices more in that success than does your 

 humble servant. 



The "Old Reliable" was purchased by Mr. 

 York of Thos. G. Newman at a time when the 

 latter was steadily declining in health, and 

 found it necessary to seek a change of occu- 

 pation and location. While the American Bee 



