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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Our last issue was a little late, owing to 

 the fact that we are preparing to move into 

 our new quarters. Some paper that we had 

 ordered for our new press had not arrived. 



a 

 lied 



OcK Christmas number is going to be 

 beauty. The entire number will be issm 

 from our new publishing house, and a large 

 portion of it will be printed on our mam- 

 moth new press. Of its kind it is within two 

 sizes of being the largest and most expensive 

 that is built. Ttis will enable us to triple 

 our output. 



In the Australian Commonwealth Bee-keep- 

 er is a notice of a eucalyptus which is claim- 

 ed to be hardy. As it grows naturally on 

 the mountain-tops of Tasmania there is some 

 chance of this being so. It grows only as a 

 shrub, and Howers very young. Our bee- 

 keepers in the Gulf States ought to investi- 

 gate this pi-oposition. as such a bush is like- 

 ly to be popular. It might grow also in 

 ]Slorth and South Carolina, Georgia, Ten- 

 nessee, and Arkansas. 



The Rev. Paul Schoufeld, who was pastor 

 of a church in Teutschel, Germany, for 42 

 years, and one of the brightest bee-keepers 

 this world has ever produced, died recently 

 at his home in Lieguity. He was born in 

 Lower Silesia. We are indebted to him for 

 most of our knowledge of chyle food and 

 royal jelly. Practically all our knowledge as 

 to the functions of the chyle-stomach of the 

 bee we owe to him. He was an expert on 

 the anatomy and physiology of the honey- 

 bee — probably the best we ever had. He 

 was 85 years of age when he died. 



BEES FOLLOWING THEIR OWNER TO HIS 

 GRAVE. 



Our readers have doubtless seen a news 

 item going the rounds of the press, to the ef- 

 fect that a bee-keeper in or near Des Moines, 

 Iowa, who recently died, was followed to his 

 grave by his bees. The item even goes so 

 far as to state that, when their owner died, 

 they became immediately very uneasy, and 

 swarmed out and hung around the trees in 

 the cemetery. Quite a number of our sub- 

 scribers have asked what th'is all meant. It 

 does not mean any thing. The weather 

 may have been warm on the day of the funer- 

 al; and on such days after a cold spell bees 

 are likely to make themselves particularly 

 numerous everywhere. That they swarmed 

 out and hung on the trees in the cemetery is 



utter nonsense. The statement probably 

 originatetl in the brain of the reporter, who 

 was writing to till up space and make a 

 general sensation. 



HONEYSUCKLE Al'IARY AT MALTABEND, MO.; 



A BEE-YARD CONVENTION OR FIELU 



MEETING. 



On the front cover page of this issue will 

 be seen a very pretty apiary belonging to E. 

 G. Guthrey, at Maltaliend, Mo. This yard 

 contains something like 100 colonies, and, as 

 will be seen, it is very neatly arranged and 

 especially fitted for the entertainment of 

 visitors. 



Mr. Guthi'ey, the owner, is Vice-president 

 of the Saline Co. Bee-keepers' Association — 

 an organization which had a held meeting 

 at his apiary on the 14th of July last. Mr. 

 R. G. Robert is President, and M. E. Tribble 

 is Secretary. The county association is a 

 sort of club of bee-keepers that meets every 

 six or eight weeks, or at least that was the 

 plan of the organization. 



Apparently this journal is in good favor 

 with the members or the owner, for there is 

 a tent at the left-hand corner with the word 

 "Gleanings" across the top of it. Then 

 there is another tent or booth on one side of 

 the apiary, where the memljers, after they 

 finish their field woi'k, can assemble and 

 discuss their work, and talk as only a lot of 

 bee-keepers can. On an occasion of this 

 kind, with only a small gathering the dis- 

 cussion is probabljMuformal, all taking part. 

 It is just such free-for-all conversation that 

 brings out valual)le hints, and why? Be- 

 cause evei'ybody can and will talk. 



Mr. Guthrie reports that last year was a 

 very poor one; but nevertheless he had one 

 colony of hybrids that stored 3>9 lbs. of drst- 

 class extracted honey on full sheets of foun- 

 dation. 



The Saline Co. Bee-keepers' Association 

 has worked up a great deal of interest and 

 enthusiasm on bees — so much so that it re- 

 cently entertained the Missouri State Bee- 

 keepers" Association at Marshall, the county- 

 seat of Saline County, about ten miles from 

 where Maltabend is located. The effect of 

 these field meetings at Mr. Guthrey's yard, 

 which many have attended, has been such 

 that there was a large attendance of the 

 State Association. The members report that 

 they were highly pleased with the entertain- 

 ment that they received from their hosts. 



Among the subjects were foul-brood in- 

 spectors, queen-rearing, uniting weak colo- 

 nies, foul-brood lavvs, etc. There was a tine 

 display of honey, beeswax, and bees in an 

 observatory hive. 



The following officers were elected: J. W. 

 Rouse, President, Mexico; E. G. Guthrie, 

 Vice-president, Maltabend; Robert A. Hole- 

 camp, Secretary and Treasurer, St. Louis. 

 Mr. H. is a director in the National Bee- 

 keepers' Association, and an enthusiast on 

 bees. 



Gleanings will be glad to encourage any 

 of these field meetings, as it believes that 

 discussion accompanied with field demon- 



