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GLEANINGS IX BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



CLEAKING S ffl BEE CULTURE. 



-A-. I- I^OOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER, YEAR, POST-PAID. 



FOR CLUBBING RATES, SEE FIRST PAGE 

 OF BEADING MATTER. 



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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall sec 

 God.— Matt. 5:8. 



Basswood closed here about the 10th. 



Wk have to-day, July 29th, 4391 subscribers; a sain 

 of 307 since last month. 



In my absence the cover to Gleanings was print- 

 ed with the price of wax unchanged. Please read 21 

 and 33c instead of 23 and 35. 



The North-Eastern Bee Association of Maine will 

 meet at Grange Hall, Dexter, August 11, 1881. 



The National Bee-Keepers' Convention will meet 

 at Lexington, Ky., Oct. 5, 6, 7, 1881. 



I WOULD call especial attention to our two-quart 

 covered pails for honey. They were bought last fall, 

 before the advance on such goods, and at $7.00 per 

 hundred are a bargain. They have riveted ears, 

 raised cover, and hold exactly 6 lbs. of honey. 



The new Clark smoker is so much more ellicient, 

 so much cheaper, simpler, and handier, that I think 

 it must eventually take the place, to a great extent, 

 of those of a higher price. We shall soon discontin- 

 ue making the Simplicities unless customers insist 

 on having them. 



Do not send us any more blacks or hybrid ijueens. 

 We can at present use dollar queens at $60.00 per 

 hundred, but do not know how long we shall be able 

 to do so. We shall probably introduce the gf eater 

 part of them into our own apiary, and if too many 

 of them prove hybi'ids, we shall not be likely to 

 want more of the same party. 



The preference for the thick-walled idn., running 

 from 5 to 6 feet to the pound, is this year greater 

 than ever. As it is much less trouble to roll this 

 kind than that with the thin light walls, we will, un- 

 til further notice, furnish it at 35c per lb. We have 

 a large lot of it piled up ready to fill orders, and 

 have over three tons of nice wax ready to "fall 

 back on." This kind of fdn. costs more per square 

 foot, of course, but it does not sag, and the bees 

 work it out much more readily than they do that 

 with the thin light walls. 



The worst besetting sin that afflicts mankind, as 

 it looks to me to-day, is, that they do not fulfill their 

 promises. I am guilty with the rest of you, and the 

 consciousness of it so galls me at times that I think 

 I shall give up business and go out in the woods to 

 live, where I shall not have to make any promises 

 to anybody. I do not mean holding only to the let- 

 ter of the promise, but to the verii spirit of it. May 

 God in his infinite love and mercy help us not only 

 to be better in the future, but to make full and am- 

 ple amends for our sins in the past I 



It will be observed that our friend Forncrook ad- 

 vertises having a patent that covers broadly "any 

 section made of one piece of wood, of whatever de- 

 scription." I presume, of course, the Patent Office 

 have granted him such a patent; but as sections 

 made of one piece of wood are a very old idea, I fear 

 he has wasted his money. Cook's Manual, even the 

 first small edition, described such sections, and il- 

 lustrates the plan of making them. 



The rubber plates still fail to elicit satisfactory 

 words of approval from purchasers, although we 

 can not see where the trouble is, in using them 

 here. It is true, there is a difficulty as yet in 

 using them for making fdn. on wired frames. The 

 trouble is to avoid having surplus wax around the 

 outside of the frame, without going to the other ex- 

 treme and not having the sheet fill the frame com- 

 pletely. You see, we gauge the size of the sheet by 

 the quantity of melted wax that is poured on the 

 plate. Practice will doubtless remedy all this in 

 time. 



As usual at this season, there is much trouble in 

 regard to delays in sending queens and bees. Per- 

 haps charity is needed on both sides. Delays often 

 cost purchasers money, I know ; but all who order 

 queens should remember that those who have them 

 for sale do not guarantee to send them at any spec- 

 ified time. I do not know how they can well do so. 

 Every dealer, however, should be prepared to return 

 the money instwitli/ when called for; if he does not 

 do this, he should be promptly advertised as a warn- 

 ing. Once more, my friends: There is no advertise- 

 ment in the world like sending queens and bees the 

 very day you receive the order. 



EXPRESS companies AS PUBCHASING AGENCIES. 



As the return charges on the money is an expen- 

 sive feature in the C. O. D. business, we have made 

 an arrangement with all the principal express com- 

 panies whereby our friends may simply hand the 

 money over to any express agent, desiring him to 

 purchase from us whatever is wanted. By this 

 means no money is sent at all, and therefore the ex- 

 pense of this is all saved. We get our pay here, just 

 as if you handed it to us personally. This is for 

 small purchases only, say a dollar or two; larger 

 amounts better be expressed directly to us in the 

 usual way. 



A SMOKEK FOR STOPPING THE USE OF TOBACCO. 



Some of the younger ones are asking for the high- 

 est-priced smokers, where they have used tobacco 

 but a very little while. Others ask for only the 

 smallest size, and offer to pay the postage besides. 

 I think, my friends, we had better have it this way: 

 Every habitual user of tobacco who will give me his 

 written promise to use no more tobacco until he 

 shall have paid for the smoker, can have one of our 

 50c ones, postpaid, or any other one, he paying the 

 difference in price. This will make it fair all 

 around. The new smoker is giving excellent satis- 

 faction, and we prefer them in our apiary to any 

 smoker made, at any price. 



HERBERT A. BURCH. 



Since our notice of last month, w*e have heard of 

 but two cases where the bees have been sent, and 

 one of them is mentioned in the Growlery. Friend 

 B. was very much displeased at ray notice, and I 

 asked him to give me a list of all orders he had filled, 



