1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



667 



SHIPPING-CASES. 



Do not forget that yoii will hurt the sale of your 

 honay by using old or untidy cases. Get our no-drip 

 cases, and secure the be.st prices for your honey. 



WINTER CASES. 



It is none too early to begin your preparations for 

 winter. Have you ever thought how many pounds of 

 honey are required extra because you do not provide 

 suitable apartments for your bees? Why not try our 

 winter-cases, or some of our dovetailed chaff hives? 

 If you have mislaid our catalog, send for another and 

 see how little it will cost to put your bees up in proper 

 shape. 



SQUARE CANS. 



We have on hand a good stock of both one and five 

 gallon square cans at the following prices: 



BU.<=HEI, BOXES. 



Owing to advance in price of 

 lumber we were obliged to advance 

 our price on bushel boxes some 

 time ago to the following: 



All slatted bushel-box, per crate 

 of 15, $2.10. 



Slatted bushel box, per crate of 

 12 SI. 80. 



Galvanized bound bushel box, 

 crate of 12, f2 40. Price each, nail- 

 ed, 18, 20, and 25 cts. respectively. 

 Nothing handier for potatoes, apples, and many 

 other things than these boxes, ana the cost is very 

 little for any thing so useful. 



CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN SAGE. 



We have now a new supply of fresh seed of both 

 black and white sage, rectivi d direct from California, 

 which we shall be glad to mail in five-cent packages, 

 or at 35 cts. per ounce. It is easy to grow, and bears a 

 great profusion of very pretty flowers, and succeeds 

 nicely with garden culture. While there are but few 

 localities where it will probably pay to grow the plant 

 esnecially for honey, it is worth .something as a curi- 

 osity to have a plant growing in your garden that pro- 

 duces the finest and whitest honey in the world. The 

 friends who have learned to grow flowers in the win- 

 dow or in the greenhouse will have no trouble in get- 

 ting a nice lot of plants from five cents' worth of seed. 



A MISTAKE OF ONLY 8100 IN THE DAY'S RECEIPTS. 



In Gleanings of July 15, a mistake of SlOO was 

 made in the letter friend Terry sent you— only SIO a 

 day instead of $110. C. Vanderbilt. 



Alloway, N. Y., July 20. 



Friend V., there was some difficulty in making out 

 the figures ; but as we did not know how big a straw- 

 berry-farm you had, we did not know but the larger 

 figure was right. But even SIO a day is a good begin- 

 ning. 



Rp^t on Farth I ^ queen I had from you 



u»coi uii i-ai III . li^g^j 3 y^g ^„j ^33 jj,g 



best queen I ever had, and did not swarm.— E. W. 

 Brown, Morton Park, 111., July 30, 1900. 

 Three select breeding queens, S2 75. 



Henry Alley, Wenham, Nlass. 



Closing Out, 200 Queens. 



In order to close out till Sept. 15th I will sell my 

 queens, golden and leather-colored, at bottom prices: 

 1 queen, .50 cts ; 3 for SI. 25; per dozen, $5.25. Tested, 

 $1 00. Breeding queens, $2 .50 to S5.00. Send in your 

 orders promptly. G. ROUTZAHN, Menallen, Pa. 



The Influence of Locality. 



This matter of locality and the part that it plays in 

 bee-keeping is really becoming a chestnut ; but it 

 needs cracking just the same. Anything in the nature 

 of a paradox, or that appears mysterious, is at once 

 charged up to locality. In many instances the infer- 

 ence is correct. To illustrate : Holy L,and bees are 

 not liked here at the North. They are great breeders. 

 So long as there is honey in the hive they will keep 

 on real lag brood. We don't wish any such character- 

 istics here in the North. When the harvest is over we 

 wish breeding to stop. We don't care to rear a horde 

 of useless consumers. In the South, in Cuba, for in- 

 stance, the harvest comes in the winter, or what cor- 

 responds to our winter, and it is very desirable that 

 the colonies be populous at that season of the year. 

 To accomplish this. Holy Land bees exactly fill the 

 bill. Thus, you see, in one locality one strain of bees 

 is desirable, but another is not. In .some other locali- 

 ty the conditions are reversed. Again, here at the 

 North, where our main harvest comes early and is of 

 short duration, small brood nests are desirable. In 

 the South, or where the harvest is prolonged through 

 the whole summer, large brood-nests find favor. 

 Then there is the wintering problem that is ever with 

 us here at the North. In the South, chaff hives, bee- 

 cellars, and the like, are of no interest whatever. 

 California and Colorado have conditions and sources 

 of honey-flow that are entirely different from tho.se of 

 Michigan and Canada. The fundamental principles 

 of bee-keeping are ever the same, but localities differ; 

 they differ so much that a bee-keeper going from 

 Michigan to Cuba, or to Texas, and attempting to car- 

 ry on bee-keeping as he has done at his old home, 

 would be sadly left. 



In reading our bee-journals, and attempting to prof- 

 it by the advice they contain, we should ever have in 

 mind this matter of locality. The experience and 

 views and advice of Mr. Doolittle may be all right for 

 New York, Ontario, and Michigan, and some of it 

 may be all right for Florida or California, but not all 

 of it. 



Then there is another point : The more thoroughly 

 a man understands his own locality, the greater his 

 chances for .success. He mu.st know at exactly what 

 time in the season to look for the different honey- 

 flows. In' may seem incredible, but I have had bee- 

 keepers come to me to buy sections, come in great 

 ha.ste, and a heart filled with enthusiasm ; the bees 

 were "'just piling in the honey " and the owners had 

 only discovered it. and the iass7voood lioney hat-vest 

 was coming to a close. These men did not even know 

 where the honey was coming from. Of course, this is 

 an extreme case, but not so very extreme as some of 

 you may think. A man ought to know what strain of 

 bees to keep, what size and kind of hive and fixtures 

 to use, when to take his bees from the cellar, if he 

 winters in the cellar, whether to protect them on the 

 summer stands when he takes them out, and, if .so, in 

 what manner, whether to feed in the spring, whether 

 to unite before the harvest, whether to shade his 

 hives and how, when to put on the sections, and so 

 on through the whole season, he should know, as 

 nearly as it is possible for him to learn, exactly 

 what is best adapted to his particular locality. In 

 reading articles in the bee-journals he should al- 

 ways ask himself : "Does this apply to my locality ? " 



To the one who will send me the best article on this 

 subject, between now and September 1, I will send 

 $5.00 in cash. To the writer of any article, not the 

 prize article, that I think well enough of to publish, 

 I will send a queen of the Superior Stock and the Re- 

 view for one year. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Flint, Mich. 



Say! Improve Your Bees. 



Did you know that we are rearing golden Italian 

 queens from our famous $100 breeder Victoria? Stock 

 unsurpassed for beauty, gentleness, and honey-gath- 

 ering. Queens very prolific; bees do not crowd brood- 

 nest with honey ; swarm very little, and enter supers 

 readily. Also 3-banded queens fr. m our fine breeders, 

 Jewell and Beauty. Stock hardiest, gentlest, and best 

 strain in the world, r'rices, either race for the rest of 

 the year, unt., 7.5c; 6 for $4.25; select warranted, 25c 

 extra. Tested, $1.2.5. Holy Lands same p ice. Spe- 

 cial discount in quantities. Circular free. 



O. P. HYDE & SON, Hutto Texas. 



We give free .s^l. lest, queen for every -flO, and a fine 

 breeder for every $25 worth of orders at circular prices. 



