1883 



(JLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



473 



CLEAWINC S m BEE CULTURE. 



-A-- I_ -ROOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



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 OF BEADING MATTER. 



]VEX3X3ZPa'.A., .^SL.TJC3r. 1, 1883. 



I have set before you life and death.— Deut. 30: 19. 



Wb have to-day, July 30, 6031 subscribers; and this 

 would warrant us in raising our price for advertis- 

 ing to 30 cts. per line; instead of doing so, however, 

 we shall continue at the same old price, 30 cts. per 

 line. But advertisements can be inserted in the 

 JuvKNiLE hereafter at the uniform price as above. 



I AM notified that a paragraph has appeared in one 

 of the French bee-journals, reflecting on the charac- 

 ter of our good friend Dadant; and the worst part of 

 it is, they have tried to attach my name to it. I 

 hope It is a mistake in translation, and not any will- 

 ful attempt; for of one thing I am certain — 1 have 

 never written any thing against the business charac- 

 ter of the Dadants, either home or abroad. 



Although all hands in our factory are pretty 

 busy, we can send most goods by return express or 

 freight. We have clerks prepared to give especial 

 attention to telegrams. In fact, we have sent more 

 goods in answer to telegrams this season than in all 

 previous seasons together. It is somewhat expen- 

 sive, it Is true; but there is some satisfaction in 

 knowing that, by taking this extra expense, you can 

 have what you want in 24 or 48 hours. 



SELLING BEES TO MORE NORTHERN FRIENDS AFTER 

 THE BASSWOOD FLOW. 



About the middle of July, R. Stehle. of Marietta, 

 O., sold us 40 lbs. of bees at 50 cts. per lb. He sold 

 them thus low because the basswood yield was over 

 In his locality. They reached us just in its height, 

 and in two days after they were let out they gath- 

 ered enough to pay for themselves, and a little more. 

 Now, is here not an opening for an important 

 branch of our industry? The bees went to work like 

 new swarms, and worked thus for nearly ten days. 

 at the expiration of which time we might easily have 

 sent them to some friend in Michigan, and have the 

 same thing repeated until we reached the limit of 

 the basswood region. What is to hinder, friends? 

 and why not start the thing going? As they were 

 shipped in the light cages, the express charge was 

 not heavy, and I presume one or two hundred miles' 

 distance would be sufficient for each shipment. I 

 win tell you more about it in our next issue. 



A BRISK trade In queens is going on this year. 

 We are sending out from 30 to 40 daily, and the sup- 

 ply just about equals the demand. Some write us, 

 evidently thinking that we claim our queens to be 

 extra. This is not so, friends. Our dollar queens 

 are most of them purchased of good reliable men. 

 But they have no particMlar recommendation, unless 

 it is that they are raised from freshly imported 

 stock. I am sorry to say that we are out of imported 

 queens, although we have an order in Italy now for 

 over,100.^ A shipment Is expected daily. We can 



usually send black and hybrid queens by return 

 mail; but as we do not raise these, there is no guar- 

 antee on them whatever. Our select tested queens 

 are all raised in our own apiary, or that of Neighbor 

 H.; and we endeavor to have them all that we claim 

 in our price list. I am sorry to say, that the demand 

 is at present rather beyond the supply. With the 

 exception of these and imported queens, we are pre- 

 pared to fill all orders for bees or queens by return 

 mail or express, with ut few exceptions. 



OUR COLD-BLAST SMOKER. 



Years ago I had a hobby of having a smoker 

 that would work nicely while the door to take in 

 fuel was all the time open and ready to replenish. I 

 finally abandoned it as something to be desired, 

 but hardly to be secured. A few days ago I saw one 

 of the girls in the apiary using one of our smokers 

 in just that way. Her rotten wood was a little long, 

 and she waS not strong enough to break it up readily, 

 so she just pushed in long pieces, as many a good 

 housewife has done on baking-day when the wood 

 was too long. But in this case it did not seem to 

 work badly at all, for no smoke came out of the 

 door while the smoker was being used. As the fuel 

 burned down, the long chunks were simply pressed 

 down a little, and it seemed to work quite handy. 

 One or two have complained because the doors to 

 our smokers did not fit very closely. Why, friends, 

 they do not need to fit closely. If you keep the soot 

 scraped out according to directions, your smoker 

 would do very well without any door at all. Keep 

 the air-passages free, in any case. Perhaps I might 

 tell you that we have, since July 26, 1882, up to the 

 present date, sold a little over 10,000 of our smokers, 

 and still they are going at the rate of nearly a hun- 

 dred a day. 



OUR OWN MAKE OF FOUNDATION-MILLS. 



Very much to my surprise, I was informed by 

 our machinists that we had made and sold, since Jan. 

 1, 1883, one hundred and forty-eight of our fdn. -mills. 

 They have gone to all parts of the world; and al- 

 though a few have complained because their rolls 

 looked rough when they first received them, I think 

 none have complained after giving a sheet of 

 the fdn. to a hive of bees, and many are the kind 

 words received in regard to them. Here is one 

 from George Neighbour & Sons, London, Eng., who 

 have recently had two of our mills : 



We like your foundation-mills very much. 



London, Eng., July 13, 1883. Geo. Nkighbouk & Sons. 



Now, you may think it a little singular when I tell 

 you that the fdn. we have been making this season 

 has not, until recently, been made on mills of our 

 make. From the time the first mill was turned out 

 until about the first of July, orders were so impera- 

 tive that a mill could not be spared to go into our 

 wax-room. Since we have got these new mills, how- 

 ever, we find we can make six or eight Langstroth 

 sheets to the pound without any great difficulty. It 

 is owing somewhat to the shape of the cell, and per- 

 haps more to the superior hardness of the metal 

 used in our mills. We are now prepared to ship, by 

 first train, any mill of either size. 



TWO QUEENS IN A HIVE. 



A FEW days ago our apiarist went to a chaff hive 

 where he expected to find a select tested queen. To 

 his surprise, she had somehow turned to a very in- 

 different one. A few days afterward he called on 

 her again, and found her f ijUy up to the standard, 



