1881 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



471 



Contents of this Numbsr. 



INDEX OF DEPARTMENTS. 



Black List — 



Bee Botany 510 



Bee Entomology — 



Blasted Hopes — 



Cartoon — 



Editorials 51<> , 



Heads of Grain -IHS Smileiy 



Honey Column 474 | The Gi'owlery 



Hiunbugs and Swindles 50.') 



Juvenile Department 4S4 



KiiiilWorils from Customers4?2 



L;u1li-s' liepartment 483 



Luiu-h-K'oiii — 



Notes and queries 505 



Reports Kncouraging 



486 



tobacco Column 505 



INDEX OF HEADS OF GRAIN, NOTES AND QUERIES, 

 AND OTHER SHORT ARTICLES. 



ABC Scholar in Louisiana 403 



ABC Scholar in Canada — Txi-; 



Ant -Lions 4',IS 



Bees, Capabilities of 481 



Bee Culture down South 488 



Butter- Weed 50r. 



Buckwheat 506 



Banner Apiary 475 



Bee-feeder, Another 477 



Bee Poison as Medicine 477 



Burch Matters 516 



Bees to be Killed 517 



Bee-men of Canada 516 



California 490 



Cyprians 496 



Carrying Bees three Miles.. 499 



Candy tor Cages .501) 



Comb Cupboard, A Cheap.. 50;f 



Churchill's Letter 504 



Doolittle's Items 48a 



Deceptive Looks of Queens. 506 



Grape Sugar for Winter 481 



Grimm's Letter 476 



Hunt's Horse-Power 487 



Harkness' Letter 488 



Hunt's Plans 489 



Honey-Boards, Chaff Cush- 

 ions, etc 490 



Hives, Patent 498 



Honev from Corn 499 



Hurrah for York State! 477 



Inserting ( ells when Queen 

 is removed 501 



Int. by Frames of Hatching 

 Brood 501 



Jones's Bee Islands 494 



L. Frame .Wi 



Locust Honey 503, 504 



Labels 517 



Machine to Pierce Top and 

 Bottom Bars 479 



Mistakes of Postmasters. . ..Ml 



>laijle Sugar for Winter .'lOS 



Muideil Foundation .504 



Merrybanks 507 



Non-hatching Eggs 506 



Our Own Apiary 478 



Pollen, is it at Fault? 4Ua 



Pollen, to Remove from the 



Combs .5o:i 



Premiums 517 



Questions by Young Hand. .495 



Queens, Three in a Hive 498 



Queens Fighting in Air 500 



Queens. Young. Inducing to 



take Bridal Trip 500 



Queen-Cells and Queenless- 



ness 505 



R.amble No. 7 491 



Returning Queens sent by 



Mail ; .. 50-3 



Raspberries for Bees 480 



Red Clover 517 



Sections on all Winter. .479, 503 

 Success not always in Num- 

 ber 487 



Sending Queens a Distance. 495 



Si)anish Needles 498 



Stings and Rlieumatism 500,504 



Separators or Not 518 



State Fair 517 



Tbermometers 499 



Thev Swarmed and they 



Swarmed 500 



Unsealed Brood for New 



Swarms 499 



Utah 499 



Ups and Downs in Wis 501 



Ventilation, Upward 497 



Vankirk's Record 505 



Wintering 491 



Experience Tells. 



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 present season in securing the laru:est yield of honey 

 on record, send for our illustrated circular. We fur- 

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L. C. ROOT & BRO., Mohawk, N. Y. 



A DellDorth 3-Horse Engine. 



Price SlOO, 10 per cent off for 30 days. For particu- 

 lars address JtEV. J. S. Woodbdkn. 

 Livermore, Westmoreland Co., Pa. 



ATKansas City, Mo., 



I breed pure Italian bees for sale. I warrant my 

 "Dollar" queens to be mated by pure yellow drones, 

 and guarantee safe arrival and perfect satisfflction. 



Tested Queens, $3 GO 



"Dollar" " 1 00 



Please address all letters plainly to 

 6tfd E. M. HAYHURST, P. 0. Box 1131. 



C. OLM'S COMB FOUNDATION MACfflNE. 



SEND FOR SAMPLE AND CIRCULAR. 

 5tfd C. OliM, Fond du Lac, Wis. 



HOLY -LAND & CYPRIAN QUEENS! 



Raised in separate apiaries 5 miles apart. Untest- 

 ed Queens of either race this month, S;i..50. 



H. B. HARRINGTON, Medina, O. 



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CONVENTION mRJCCTORY. 



TIME -iND PLACE OF MEETING. 



1881 



Oct. 4. —Eastern Michigan Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 at Detroit, in Y . M. C. A. Hall. 



Oct. 5.— South-Eastern Michigan Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, at Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Oct. 5, 6, 7.— National Convention of the N. A. Bee- 

 Keepers' Society, at Lexington, Ky. 

 Full particulars in regard to the deductions made on 



the different railroad lines, cost of board in the city, 



cost of going to Mammoth Cave, etc., are given in a 



recent number of the Prairie Farmer, of date Sept. 



14th, if I am not mistaken, but the paper has been 



mislaid. 



Coml) - Foimdatioii Machines. 



from one dollar to five. Comb fdn. from 3:^ to 40 cts 

 per pound. JOHN FAKIS. 



Chilhowie, Smyth Co., Va. 



ITALIAN BEES^FOR SALE! 



Sixty colonies, in 8 and 10-frame hives, Langstroth 

 frame. Write for prices. I will sell cheap, for I in- 

 tend to close out. THOS. W. DOUGHERTY, 

 Mount Vernon, Posey Co., Ind. 



rrr X""^ fine colonies of Italian Bees, with 

 e_>L , _J tested queens, at $7.00 each. Tested 

 queens, $3.00 each. A few colonies of good hybrids 

 with queens at $6.00. Address O. H. Townsend, 

 9tfd Hubbardston, Ionia Co., Mich. 



I CAN furnish Bees by the colony and pound. 

 Send for special rates. H. NEWHAUS, 



!)-10d Burlington, Racine Co., Wis. 



50 STOCKS OF ITALIAN OR HYBRID 



Bees for sale, either by the hive or pound, in any 

 quantity to suit purchasers. Address, for particu- 

 lirs, li-lOd J. J. KISER, E. Des Moines, Iowa. 



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