JUVENILE GLEANINGS. • 



Apr. 



Juvei\ile Gleai\ii\gs. 



J^FTITIL, 15, 188S. 



Contents of this Number. 



April Showers, otc 212 



Atchley's Ciiildren 219 



Bees, Butchering 2U 



Bees, Watering 2U 



Bee, The Coming 213 



Cards for Children 223 



Chalcedony 218 



Corn. Hot, for Hens 215 



Eggs, How Many from Qu.!.218 



Extracting Late 215 



Florence and the Bees 218 



Foundation, Old 217 



Four Cents well Invested. . .223, 



Harrv March's Letter 211 



Honey, Black 219 



Honeyville 218 



Kind Words 221 



Lookout Mountain 219 



Maiile Sugar 22t 



My Neighbors 209 



Scotland S22 



Sugar cane for Bees 218 



Virgil 210 



Watch, The Waterbury 223 



Woe unto him th:it sti-iveth with his Maker. —Isa. 45; 9. 



Juvenile is just one year old to-day. 



Until further notice, we will pay $1.00 each for 

 dollar queens. The same will be furnished for $1.50. 



"Wb are still about 25 orders behind on fdn. mills, 

 in spite of the best we can do. 



We have now plenty of extra nice alsike, $15.00 a 

 bushel, $7.75 for Vi bushel, or $4.00 per peck. 



We still continue to get plenty of wax at 35 to 40 

 cents; therefore the present price of foundation 

 will remain unchanged. 



Can't any of our friends in California mail us any 

 more of the j'ucca brushes, such as we have been 

 selling, for brushing the bees off from the combs? 



ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF WIRED FRAMES OF FDN. 



With the present advance in prices on fdn. we 

 find ourselves obliged to put metal-cornered frames, 

 wired and filled with fdn., at $18.00 per hundred, in- 

 stead of $15.(0 as heretofore. We make the remark, 

 that we are producing a better article now; that is, 

 the sheet is of an equal thickness throughout. 



A SMOKER FOR LITTLE MONEY. 



We have, laid up on a shelf, several dozen old 

 Quinby smokers that cost us something over $1.C0 

 apiece at the time when they used to sell for $1.50. 

 We should be glad to sell these now for 25 cts. each. 

 If wanted by mail, send us 15 cts. extra, for postage. 

 Each smoker is packed in a pasteboard box, ready 

 for mailing. 



LARGE SHEETS OF THIN FOUNDATION. 



Many customers still persist in calling for thin 

 fdn. for starters, in large sheets. Please bear in 

 mind, friends, that we can get fdn. with a very thin 

 base only by making it into very narrow strips, say 

 from 3 to 5 inches wide. We can make it 6 inches 

 wide; but even then it is not quite as thin as if made 

 five inches wide or less. 



SUGAR FOR MAKING THE GOOD CANDY. 



We are happy to say that the powdered sugar is a 

 decided success, and we have .lust purchased a bar- 

 rel for that express purpose. We ordered the finest 

 and purest sugar that could be procured. It is espe- 

 cially an improvement for the que^n-cages, because 

 it obviates the sifting-out of the dry sugar. We can 

 furnish this powdered sugar for 13 cts. per lb. : in 10- 

 Ib. lots, 11^2 cts.; or 100 lbs. at 11 cts. per lb. Simply 

 knead it up into a dough with good clover honey, and 

 it is ready for use immediately. 



The call for sections has been so great that we are 

 unable to make our drying-house season the lumber 

 as it should be, as fast as wanted. Should you get 

 any sections that are a little damp, it may be well to 

 open them out to dry a little, unless they are to be 

 used very soon. If you fold them right up, they will 

 work all the better. We are now having fine weath- 

 er, and have an immense stock of basswood. We 

 shall soon have any quantity of nicely seasoned 

 lumber. 



We are now approaching the honey months, dear 

 friends; and ti those who have neglected ordering 

 until now, I shall have to say that we can't be re- 

 sponsible for the delays, although we will return 

 your money promptly at any minute when you get 

 tired of waiting. Orders by mail or express, as a 

 rule, go off the same day the order is received, or the 

 day after; but large orders, to go by freight, are 

 many times unavoidably delayed; and one of the 

 worst features of these delays is, that we can not 

 tell positively when the goods may go. For instance, 

 we are dependent on other manufacturers for many 

 goods. If they are delayed by strikes or flres, or 

 other causes, it delays us. Also on many goods of 

 our own manufacture there is liable to be a sudden 

 run far beyond our capacity. Of course, we shall try 

 hard to avoid delays or disappointment to those who 

 trust us with their patronage. 



MAPLE SUG.\R VS. CONFECTIONERY. 



Children always want candy, and somebody has 

 said that children always ought to have candy, or 

 some equivalent. While in Cincinnati last fall, friend 

 Muth said that he doubted whether any pure candy 

 could be found in the city; that is, candy made of 

 pure cane sugar. Well, maple sugar bought of our 

 home farmers, we know is pure, and we have this 

 season purchased more than a ton, made by the 

 farmers directly into little cakes. By ta'ning more 

 pains than they have ever done before, they have 

 given us little cakes of n creamy whiteness and deli- 

 cacy of flavor that seem to me far in advance of any 

 confectionery that was ever made in any of the 

 cities. To keep these little cakes nice, and preserve 

 the flavor, we have had our girls wrap them in tis- 

 sue paper .iust as fast as they were brought in from 

 the sugar-camps. We sell them for 3 cents each, 25 

 cts. for a package of 10, or $3.00 for a basket of 100. 

 If you want a sample of what can be done in the way 

 of nice maple sugar, just send us two 3-cent stamps, 

 and we will mail you a sample cake. 



ALLEY'S NEW BOOK ON QUEEN-REARING. 



We have just received friend Alley's book on 

 " Queen-Rearing." It is nicely bound, and printed 

 in clear, attractive type. The firit one hundred 

 pages is devoted wholly to queen-rearing. In addi- 

 tion to this there are two essays by practical bee- 

 men. The first essay is on the " Management of the 

 Apiary," by Geo. W. House; the second is on " The 

 New Race.^ of Bees," by Silas M. Locke, formerly 

 employed by D. A. Jones. 



While we can not fully agree with our friend Al- 

 ley in some things, yet on the whole he has given us 

 many practical hints. With regard to cell-building 

 in rows, we can hardlybeliove that his methvjd is en- 

 tirely new. In our own apiary the boys have used a 

 modification of the same plan for several years 

 back. As, however, the book contains a summary 

 of many of the best methods of queen-rearing, we 

 are glad to recommend it to our bee-keeping frater- 

 nity. It contains 184 pp. and 20 illustrations. We 

 can mail it for $1.00, or send it by freight or express 

 with other goods for 94 cents. 



