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GLEANliTGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 



the hive, I think I should use the Good can- 

 dy. As bees often need water as well as 

 feed, in some respects the very thin syrup is 

 preferable. If the bees seem in any way 

 feeble or diseased, I should use thin syrup 

 made of granulated sugar. Strong, healthy 

 stocks may be fed at this season of the year 

 any thing they will take. Last year, during 

 May and June, we fed large quantities of the 

 poorest kind of .maple sugar, without detri- 

 ment. Unless the bees liave a very large 

 quantity stored in the hive, I should feed reg- 

 ularly at all times when they are not gath- 

 ering honey from the fields. The reports 

 for last year have been stronger than ever 

 before in favor of heavy and regular feed. 

 Many who fed clear along into Julv, with 

 almost no hope of any honey crop, afterward 

 secured wonderful crops. 



Now to sum up, don't let your bees starve 

 for lack of food; and remember that any 

 kind of cheap food that they will take will 

 answer for warm weather. Always endeav- 

 or to feed intelligently, tliat is, feed in such 

 a way that the colony will be thriving, and 

 building up a little everyday ; feed about as 

 they get it naturally, to do most good. 



CIEAWINGS m BEE CULTURE." 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POST-PAID. 



FOR CLUBBINO RATES, SEE FIRST PAGE 

 OF BEADING MATTER. 



3VEXa33XI?a-.A., .A.JE':FL. l, 1883. 



And whatsoever ye do. do it heartily, ns unto tlie Lord, and 

 not unto men.— Col. 3:23. 



We have to-day, the 29th of March, 5053 subscrib- 

 ers, for which we are very thankful. 



We are sorry to say, our engraver has not finished 

 friend Muth's picture, so we shall have to keep It 

 until next month. 



ALSIKE CLOVER-SEED. 



Wb have an abundant supply of choice seed, which 

 we can send by return mail, express, or freight, at 

 prices as given In March Juvenile. 



Many of the friends are ordering heavy goods by 

 express; but when we send them so, they complaia 

 bitterly of the charges. Please bear in mind that 

 heavy goods should always go by freight. 



Our ABC book is having a larger sale than ever 

 before. An edition of 1440, although almost just out 

 of the press, as it would seem, is so nearl}' exhaust- 

 ed that we are obliged to commence at once on an- 

 other larger edition. 



Notwithstanding the severe winter, the bees 

 have wintered unusually well, as a general thing. 

 A few, it is true, report heavy losses, but they are 

 few comparatively. Among these few we shall have 

 to be classed. Out of 185 prepared for winter in the 

 fall, we have now less than 85 good colonies left. 

 They didn't have a particle of grape sugar either, 

 but they were all used for queening during the 

 ■whole of last season. 



We shall, in a few days, have a large supply of 

 Cook's new "Manual." It has been recently re- 

 written, revised, and enlarged. We can furnish it 

 at wholesale and retail in any quantity. The price 

 is the same as for our ABC book. 



We are getting wax so plentifully for 35 cts. cash 

 or 37 cts. trade, that we are inclined to think further 

 advances on foundation will not be found necessai-y- 

 We have now over 2 tons of nice wax in stock, and 

 more is coming daily. I am verj' glad to say so, for 

 I do dislike advancing prices. 



wanted, seeds of FIGWORT, ok SIMPSON HONEY- 

 PLANT. 



If any of our friends have any of the above, please 

 let us know at once what they will take for it. At 

 present writing we can't report iu regard to the 

 roots, because they are not up yet. The frost is not 

 out of the ground with u«. 



A GREETING to you all, dear friends I I am now 

 speaking to you for the lirst time by means of the 

 short-hand system, sitting back in my chair at ease, 

 and gazing around the office in the meanwhile. All 

 that troubles nic now is, that it seems so easy that I 

 fear I shall occupy too much space by talking too 

 long. 



In making orders, please be explicit as to what 

 you wish. A lady sent us an order yesterday, say- 

 ing: "Send me boxes, with the necessary trim- 

 mings, for the $15 00 inclosed." We presume she 

 wanted hives; but the next question is. What hives? 

 And as she wants the goods at once, delays and dis- 

 appointment are almost inevitable. 



dollar QUEENS. 



For all received before the J5th, we will pay $1.25 

 each. We will furnish them to the friends who wish 

 to buy, for $2.00, and we hope to send them by re- 

 turn mail, as is our custom. If any of the friends 

 think the above too large a margin for taking risks, 

 furnishing cages and paying postage, we are willing 

 to let them try it. 



Our friend Geo. Grimm has recently ordered from 

 this office the following, relative to candied honey. 

 It is so " to the point " that we here insert it for the 

 benefit of our readers. We can furnish these labels, 

 gummed or ungummed, with your own name and 

 address, for 75 cts. per 500; $1.00 per 1000, or $7.50 per 

 10,000. 



TAKE NOTICE.— As manufactured adulterated 

 honey can not be made to imitate the granulation or 

 " cand.ving ' ' of pure honey, granulation has been 

 found to be the only ready test of pure lioney. I there- 

 fore do not ship e.xtracted honey before it is thorough- 

 ly granulated by cold weather: and I warhast every 

 pound of honey put up and shipped by me to be abso- [= 

 lutely pure honey as collected fiom the blossoms by the rJ 

 bees. To restore to the liquid form and retain its orig- S) 

 inal honey flavor, set can in waini water and lemove m 

 cover, but do not heat honey to boiling-point. Let cool U 

 beforeusing. GEO. CRIMM, Jefferson, Wis. ffi 



ODD-SIZED GOODS. 



As the busy season approaches, we have the same 

 troubles again with odd-sized goods. For instance, 

 a few days ago we received an order for 50 Simplici- 

 ty hives, made to take American frames. In the 

 first place, we had to sort the lumber to get boards 

 of adififerent width from those we generally use. 

 Then all the machinery had to be changed. After 

 we got them all done, by mistake the rabbets had 

 been cut in the sides instead of the ends. When It 

 came to packing them up, the packers had trouble, 



