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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



THE BIJRCH MATTERS. 



QlINCE our last, a few more reports have 

 ^) come ill f»f money sent for bees, and 

 the followinc; have reported having re- 

 ceived queens. 



I admire the way you propose to stand by the cus- 

 tomers of your advertisers, if it is "unbusinesslike." 

 However, I should not allow you to stand an3' thing 

 I had sent Burch. But he has sent me my queens, and 

 ended my account with him. What he agreed to 

 send June :iOth, 1 received Sept. 10th. 



C. M. Bean. 



McGranville, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1S81. 



Mr. Burch mailed me 2 queens. J got them the 

 27th In good shape; only one dead bee. Please ac- 

 cept thanks for kind words. H. Dickson. 



West Lima, Richland Co., Wis., Aug. 29, 1881. 



Some time ago I wrote to you concerning sojue 

 money sent to H. A. Burch for Italian queens. The 

 queens were received this morning. 



G. H. Pond. 



Bloomington, Hen. Co., Minn., Sept. 18, 1881. 



I received the queen all O. K. Mr. Burch has sent 

 me two queens, which makes him and me all square. 



Wm. Paumenter. 

 Bean Blossom, Ind., Sept. 16, 1881. 



I received a queen from H. A. Burch & Co. 

 Cumminsville, Can., Sept. 22, 1881. A. Fbasek. 



I have not heard of any bees being sent 

 out during the past month, of any money 

 being returned, nor of any security l)eing 

 given. Neither have I heard of any assign- 

 ment being made. It would certainly be out 

 of place for me to commence paying an ad- 

 ^'ertiser\s bills before it has been shown he 

 either could not or would not pay them him- 

 self. No one, so far as I know, seems to 

 think I am in any way responsible for those 

 who were not subscribers to Gleanings. 



THE BEE-MEN OF CANADA. 



FRIEND in Canada sends the follow- 

 ing, clipped from the Toronto Globe 

 of .Sept. 10th : 



HONEY AND APIARY SUPPLIES. 



The advance made by this department during the 

 last three years is prodigious. Up till the time of the 

 establishment of the Industrial Exhibition the apiar- 

 ists of Canada were represented in the Provincial 

 and other large shows by the display of a few pounds 

 of honey and wax, and may be one or two hives and 

 a few supplies, the whole being usually accommo- 

 dated on one shelf in the Dairy Building or else- 

 where. Now the bee-men have a house of their own 

 completely filled with articles which make it one of 

 the most interesting sights on the ground. Several 

 of the exhibitors have working colonies of bees on 

 the ground, and by to-morrow a large tent, 30x44 

 feet, will be erected in which to display the various 

 operations of transferring, packing for winter, doub- 

 ling, and dividing swarms. 



Dr. Nugent, Strathroy, a gentleman who went in- 

 to bee-farming last spring, shows about 3000 pack- 

 ages of honey put up in attractive forms in glass, tin, 

 and other cases. The clover, bass wood, and buck- 

 wheat honey are put up separate. Dr. Nugent has 

 now some 400 colonies, all left well supplied, not- 

 withstanding that 15,100 pounds of comb and ex- 

 tracted honey have been taken away from them. 



W. L. Wells, Phillipstown, makes a large show of 

 extracted and comb honey, put up in a convenient 

 form for sale; also beeswax, and a very simple and 

 cheap wax-extractor, together with comb, comb 

 foundation, apiary supplies, and a frame of bees, 

 showing the queen, and the methods in which the 

 insects work. 



M. Rainer, Cedar Grove, shows extracted honey 

 and comb honey of singularly good quality. This ex- 

 hibitor gets his comb honey built so evenly by his 



use of the slit zinc partition sheet, shown for the 

 first time here last year. The slits in the sheets are 

 of oblong shape, a little over nine-sixteenths of an 

 inch long, and a little less than three-sixteenths 

 high. This admits the worker tn'cs, Init neither the 

 queen nor the drones can pass. Consequently, 

 wherever this perforated divider is placed the 

 queen is confined to the frames on one side of it. 

 The frames to which the queen has access will con- 

 tain brood, but the frames which she can not reach 

 will contain honey only, which can be extracted 

 without interfering with the brood. It is found in 

 practice that, when the frames in the brood-chamber 

 are filled partly with honey and partly with brood, 

 the bees can be induced to carry the honcj' back- 

 ward to the honey-chamber. This is done by the 

 simple act of uncapping the cells and returning 

 them. This being done, the bees carry the honey 

 away, and put it where the bee-keeper wants it. Be- 

 hind the division-board can also be placed the frames 

 for the making of the comb honey, and it is found 

 that, bj' the use of the perforated sheet for backing, 

 the combs get the regular appearance to be seen in 

 Mr. Rainer's exhibit. 



D. A.Jones, Beeton, makes a display of nearly 30,- 

 000 pounds of honey, principally in packages of dif- 

 ferent weights; about half a ton of wax; sets of 

 packing cases designed to carry small packages 

 without waste of space; packages of graduated size 

 arranged so that they can be returned empty in nests 

 of six; comb foundation imported from the States, 

 and also comb foundation made in Canada, the su- 

 periority of the latter being plain at a glance; a cen- 

 trifugal extractor, with a little improvement, so 

 that it can be made to fit frames of any size; and all 

 kinds of apiarian supplies. 



Mr. Jones has also si.x frames of bees containing 

 pure-bred Holy-Land, Cyprian, and Italian bees; also 

 crosses from the i)ne breed to the other. The cross 

 between Cyprian and Italian is a very fine, strong 

 bee. One nucleus contains an improved Italian bee, 

 the outcome of constant selection and attention. 

 There are also six colonies of bees complete, which 

 will be handled and subjected to all the operations 

 of the apiary for the instruction of observers. 



Boys, let's all go to Canada. 



CLEANmC S m BEE COUTURE. 



J^. I. I^OOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



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-Ps. 



S. C. & J. p. Watts, Lumber City, Pa., send us a 6- 

 page descriptive circular of chatf and Simplicity 

 hives, with price list. 



Friend Oldroyd has succeeded in getting his 

 inks in shape so they can be sent by mail, as a pow- 

 der. See his advertisement, and send to him for a 

 circular. 



We consider it a privilege to mail a sample copy 

 of Gleanings to anybody in the world; so if you 

 have a friend anywhere you would like to have re- 

 ceive a copy, just write his name on a postal card 

 and send it to us, and we will thank you for so doing. 



Four numbers of a weekly bee journal, under the 

 title of The New England Bcc Journal and Home Ga- 

 zettc have reached us. The paper is quite spicy, and 

 has some good articles in it. Price T.'ic per year. 

 Henry A. Poole, editor and proprietor. Mechanics 

 Falls, Me. 



