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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



]\LVY 



colony by giving it a whole cake of sugar 

 like that, in cool weather." 



" "Well, don't T know that? I h<(ve killed 

 four or five in learning it by experience." 



In putting the frames back into one of the 

 hives, it struck some thing on the bottom of 

 the hive. It was fine dry sugar that had rat- 

 tled down, after they had sucked out all the 

 moisture. IL replied that he knew that was 

 one nuisance in feeding sugar cakes or can- 

 dy. I told him I would lix it if he would 

 show me a dipper of water. "With this we 

 dampened the sugar on the bottom-boards, 

 and the bees soon did the rest. The large 

 cakes, that had been eaten out to a dry shell, 

 were dampened and used up in the same 

 way. II. will, without trouble, make his 

 hundred hives bring him a tliousand dollars 

 in selling queens, and bees by the pound. 

 As the sun was going down, we got into the 

 buggy to go home, and I began looking 

 around anxiously for my bag of sandwiches. 

 Sad, sad to tell, they must have slipped out 

 of the hole in the bottom of the buggy ; 

 and the more I thought of it, the more I 

 meditated on the excellencies of sandwiches. 



" There they are," said II., and Fatsy was 

 on the spot in a twinkling, and we both de- 

 clared it had not hurt them one bit by lying 

 in the middle of the road on the top of the 

 hill an hour or two. Do you know how they 

 are made? Get some nice biscuit and butter, 

 boiled ham, and a pot of mustard. Put the 

 mustard on the slices of ham, then the but- 

 tered biscuit each side of the slice ; put 'em 

 in a paper bag, and when you are out riding, 

 after supper time, just — taste yourself, and 

 see. 



CLEANmCSlOEE COUmE. 



-A- I- K<OOT, 

 EDITOR AND FUBLISKEB, 



MEDINA, O. 



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15y their fruits j^e shall know them.— Matt. 7:20. 



Don't quarrel. _ 

 Save your money. 



Raise your own queens, and then you will be sure 

 nobody has cheated you. 



Please "go slow" in finding fault with each oth- 

 er. It is the easiest thing in the world to be mis- 

 taken. 



We shall now have all kinds of que ens on hand, 

 ready to ship by return mail, at our table prices just 

 as we have for years past. 



April 20th.— We have 4205 subscribers, aud the 

 catnip and nuAluricort plants are up in the optn 

 ground, as well as the others. 



AxD would you believe it? The Spider plant has 

 self-sown its seed also, aud under the influence of 

 this fine weather the young plants are coming up as 

 thick as " spatter." 



Do not be in too much haste to divide. Yovi con 

 raise more bees by making each colony a strong one 

 before dividing it, than by crippling the queens by 

 giving them only a small cluster of bees. 



The amount of matter on hanil is far beyond what 

 we can find room for, and the letters in regard to 

 losses are so many that we shall hardly find room 

 for one in ten. It is time now, friends, to take some 

 other topic, until another winter. 



I DO not want to buy empty combs, nor do I know 

 who does. All our comb.-< are now built on wired 

 frames, for convenience in shipping Ijoes. Those 

 who have them may advertise them, if they wish, at 

 20c each insertion, as in the bees, queen, and hive 

 columns. 



Let it be distinctly underctood, that those who 

 send out queens are to be in no way responsible un- 

 less a full and complete sjujIj address is given. An 

 order is now puzzling the clerks, where the letter is 

 headed one P. O., and another given after the sig- 

 nature. 



Do not let your empty combs go to waste. If they 

 are nice ones, do not try them up for wax either. 

 Look at them often, fumigate them if the worms 

 get started on them, and save them for another 

 year, if you do not need them all this. I have often 

 saved them over, without a particle of injury. 



The price of our one-piece sections will l)e, for tlio 

 present, $4 50 per thousand; but at this price there 

 can be no wholesale, and I can make no rebate to 

 those who have already purchased. Demand and 

 supply fixes the prices of rntiy such g.iods, and I 

 can neither well forsee nor be responsible for fluc- 

 tuations in prices. 



Neighbok Dean has wintered 00 cclonies, and 

 lost only 8. Do you not see that the veterans are 

 surely gaining ground? With the exception of my- 

 self, I really believe our Medina Co. bcc-mcn have 

 wintered better than the. do on an average. Friend 

 D. wintei-ed part in his cellar, and part in his saw- 

 dust-packed house, but says he found little differ- 

 ence. 



When you get something from the Counter Store 

 that is not as it is described there, please bear in 

 mind that it is probably because we could not get 

 the article we are accustomed to have, and so did 

 the best we could by sending the nearest thing to it. 

 I am sure I am more sorry than j-ou can be, when I 

 am obliged to do this. 



RouiNSON Crusoe has finally come out in cheap 

 book form too. It is published complete, with quite 

 a lot of pictures, in a book of 240 large pages, for on- 

 ly 25c. The frontispiece is a picture of Friday's as- 

 tonishment at the power of the gun. No boy's or 

 girl's education can be said to be complete tmtll 

 they have read Robinson Crusoe. Wc can .nail it 

 postpaid for 23c. 



Neighbok Shake, with an apiary of about 190 col- 

 onies, has not lost to exceed 10 per cent, and wintered 

 outdoors at that. The hives were ordinary L. hives, 

 with chaff cushion over the frames. He borrowed 

 one chaff hive from us, which wintered without a 

 loss of over two dozen bees, and consumed much 

 less stores than those in his other hives. Although 

 he always wintered in cellars until of late, he now 

 thinks he shall winter out of doors next winter. I 

 confess I am a great deal puzzled. 



