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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1 



flow from fall flowers is good I often have 

 much honey in these combs for extracting, 

 or for feeding purposes for any colony short 

 of stores either in the fall or the next 

 spring." 



"Well, I thank you for this 'bee con- 

 vention,' and I think I have learned some- 

 thing that will be of much value to me next 

 year, as my great trouble with my out-api- 

 ary, which is worked for comb honey, has 

 been swarming. With the one worked for 

 extracted honey I have no trouble, for the 

 comb room given them seems to be sufficient 

 1o keep them from swarming, except in cases 

 of supersedure of queens; and where all 

 young queers are at the head of all colonies, 

 I have no trouble from that score." 



Further advices from Cuba and Califor- 

 nia go to indicate that the season -will be 

 almost an entire failure in both places. 

 The probabilities are there will be very little 

 Cuban or California honey, of th s season's 

 production, on the market. This will have 

 a tendency to stiffen prices for next season. 



W. F. Marks, of Clifton Springs, has 

 been re-elected president of the New York 

 State Association of Bee-keepers' Societies 

 for the seventh time, b}' a unanimous vote. 

 He has been chairman of the board of di- 

 rectors of the National Bee- keepers' Associa- 

 ation for two years, and during his term of 

 office he has been an active and efficient 

 worker. 



A CORRKCTION. 



In our last issue, page FO, the accom- 

 panying illustration should have been for 



THE DZIERZON THEORY AND ITS AUTHOR. 



After my editorial in regard to Samuel 

 Wagner was written I noticed Dr. Miller's 

 Straw about Dzierzon, recalling to mind 

 that the man is still living who wrote that 

 book about forty j'cars ago; and if it does 

 not stand entire, ckar up to the present 

 day, it ccmes pretty near it. How I should 

 like to take the old gentleman by the hand, 

 and talk with him! That Dzierzon theory, 

 coming out at the time it did, was to the 

 bee-keeping world, on a small scale, what 

 Columbus' discovery of America was to all 

 mankind. Can not the whole bee-keeping 

 world unite in a vote of thanks to this vet- 

 eran before he is taken away? — A. I. R. 



THE BOARDMAN HONEY CANDYING AT LAST. 



In the Sept. 15th issue of Gleanings, 

 and again Oct. 15th, last year, I referred 

 to some honev that Mr. H. R. Boardman 

 had sent us in a jelly-tumbler, which had 

 kept liquid for us for two whole years. 

 During one winter it had been set outdoors 

 on the sill of a window in my office, where 

 it was subjected to all kinds of zero weath- 

 er. I was surprised to see that, during the 

 following summer, it was as clear as when 

 we first received it. But we have been hav- 

 ing exceptionally cold weather this winter 

 so far; and this afternoon, Jan. j8, I acci- 

 dentally cast a glance at that sample of 

 Boardman honey, when, lol it was candied 

 solid. When Mr. Boardman wrote about 

 it. Oct. 15, he said: "I am very confident — 

 yes, sure — that I can do what I claim— put 

 up honey that will remain liquid indefinite- 

 ly — not almost but quite, and in anj' tem- 

 perature." But, in the language of anoth- 

 er, "the best-laid plans of mice and men 

 gang aft agley." The Boardman honey 

 stood it for two years; the continuous cold 

 weather, however, often down to zero, was 

 too much. The honey candied in spite of 

 itself. It is so solid it can be put up in a 

 bag, and be sent safely by mail. 



But somebody— I think it was our friend 

 Farmer, of Boston — said that a small per 

 cent of glycerine would keep honey liquid 

 indefinitel}'. Who has tried it? And that 

 reminds me that I will put the thing to a 

 test to-day. I will take a certain sample 

 and divide it. Into one part I will put a 

 small part of gUcerine, and leave the oth- 

 er one as it is, and set them out on the afore- 

 said window-sill. More anon. 



Fig. 10 in place of the one that did appear. 

 In some way the cuts got transposed after 

 the proofs were made up. 



IMPORTANCK OK PUTTING THE HONEY ON 

 THE MARKET EARLY. 



When I was east, visiting our agent, Mr. 

 Wm. A. Sel.«er, in New York cit_y, he gave 

 me a letter he received from a subscriber in 

 Wisconsin, whom we will call X. Y. Z. 

 About December 1. Mr. Selser received a 

 letter from Mr. Z , asking him what he 

 could get for about ten thousand pounds of 

 comb honey, which was very nice. Mr. 

 Selser said that he has tried continually^ to 

 have the producers of comb honey realize 

 the fact that the largest call forcombhoney 



