496 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Aug. 



Juvei\ile Gleai\ir\gs. 



-A-TJC3-- 15, 1883. 



Contents of this Number. 



Bees, etc.. in Michigan 484 



Beginner's Troubles .500 



Cars, Speed of 494 



Convention, Toronto 495 



Convention Notices 499 



Drones that can Sting 493 



Editorials 49« 



Fdn. , Fastening 486 



Forgettery 500 



Frames, Metal-cornered 486 



Gapes in Chickens 506 



George Grimm 492 



Hn rpoon 486 



Harrison, Mrs 491 



Hemp .504 



Hives, Decoy 499,.500 



Hives of Brick 505 



Hiving-box, Basket 506 



Honey Column 499 



Hiney, A Place to Keep 506 



Honey, Poison 484 



Honey, Feeding Extracted 492 



Humming-Birds .504 



Kind Words 510 



Labels 497 



Letter-clip, Ruland's 488 



Locality, Choosing a 484 



Manitoba 498 



Maples for Honey 503 



Milkweed for Honey .512 



Missing Goods .505 



My Neighbors 481 



Paul Price 483 



Pease's Invention 494 



Queens do Sting 487 



Queens in Winter .511 



Reports Encouraging 498 



Scholar one Month old 486 



Sections, One-piece 490 



Shorthand, Juvenile 503 



Smoker Fuel 506 



Starvation 512 



Sunflowers 505 



Swarm, Artiflcial 512 



Tobacco among Juveniles. .502 



Tobacco Column .509 



Victoria Fields 487 



Virgil 488 



Water-lily 505 



Wholesale Rates 497 



Stand fast, tlierefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath 

 made us free.— Gal. 5 : 1. 



We will pay 10c each for March Gleanings for 1881. 



Remember the date of the Toronto Convention, 

 September 18, 19, and 30. 



We have as yet received nothing ia regard to half 

 fare to the National Convention at Toronto. We 

 hope to be able to state definitely in regard to it in 

 our September issue. 



WAX. 



Wax is now offered so plentifully that we can pay 

 only 28c cash, or 30c in trade. As quite a little which 

 we have in stock cost us 32 and 33c, we can not sell 

 for less than about 34, and save ourselves. 



FOtJNDATION. 



We have foundation now in stock, ready to ship 

 by return mail, express, or freight, and are very 

 glad indeed to see orders, either large or small. For 

 that matter, we are now prepared to fill orders for 

 almost any goods. 



honey. 



We are well supplied with a nice article of ex- 

 tracted honey that cost us about 9c per lb., and we 

 could not very well use any more unless we should 

 extend our trade by an offer of still lower prices. If 

 any one should have any nice extracted honey that 

 he could deliver to us as low as 8c per lb., we could 

 perhaps use it, but would not care for any more at a 

 higher rate. 



Lest some of our readers do not have our Jan. No. 

 on hand, we reprint friend Miller's proposed method 

 for sending in statistics on a postal card: 



F. Torrcns, East Liberty, Pa. 

 21 colonies in fall of 1882. 

 18 " " spring of 1883. 

 25 " " fall of 1883. 

 400 lbs. of comb honey. 

 300 " " extracted. 

 3 " " beeswax. 



A SUCCESSFUL IMPORTATION. 



Day before yesterday we received 50 imported 

 queens, of which 48 were in splendid condition. 

 They were all introduced by the Peet cage, and at 

 present only two have been lost. Two of the 48 were 

 laying the next morning, which is something I have 

 never known before; viz., a queen that had crossed 

 the ocean to be found laying within 34 hours, or 



less, after being put in the hive. Present orders 

 would take almost every one of these queens at 

 once were it not that the greater part are for select, 

 or $6.00 queens; and there are not more than twelve 

 in the whole 48 that will come up to the standard. 

 However, another 50 will be in shortly, and still an- 

 other 50 soon after. Unfortunately, the greater 

 part of our orders are for best grade. So we can 

 send you a fair queen at once if you want one. 



FOUL BROOD. 



Twice lately I have found specimens of foul 

 brood lying on the table where the mail is opened, 

 near an open window. If one of our bees should 

 have happened to come and get a sip of it, where do 

 you suppose our apiary would be, kind friends? 

 Now, please do not send any more foul brood to me. 

 lam not a judge in the matter; and if I were, I 

 should not want it sent here. Mail it to friend 

 Muth, who knows more about it than I ever expect 

 to (at least I hope so), and he will tell you whether it 

 be real foul brood or not. 



OUR NEW FACTORY. 



The floors are down, ceilings mostly in place, and 

 the masons are at work to-day plastering. The men 

 who are to put in steam arrangements for warming 

 both our old and new factory are expected here this 

 week. Instead of doors to the rooms, we have pas- 

 sageways under broad brick arches, so that the 

 crowds of clerks can pass to and fro without getting 

 in each other's way. Mr. Gray has been away up to 

 Saginaw, hunting up pine and basswood lumber, and 

 we are now making preparations to enable us to be 

 ready for the siege when it opens next season. 



MAPLE SUGAR. 



We purchased so largely last spring that we have 

 quite a quantity of maple sugar on hand unsold. 

 We now offer the best for 12c; next best, 11; fair, 10, 

 and poorest, 9c. As we sell any of the grades one 

 cent less where a barrel of about 200 lbs. is taken, 

 this last grade costs only 8c. It is pure maple sugar, 

 but rather dark. This grade answers nicely for 

 feeding bees, for the purpose of keeping up brood- 

 rearing, or rearing queens, etc. All you have to do 

 is to lay lumps of it on the tops of the frames. It 

 will be taken up quickly, and yet the bees are not so 

 eager for it as to incite robbing, as almost any kind 

 of honey is sure to do. Very nice maple molasses, 

 in tin pails holding 3i4 quarts, 90c. As this was 

 soldered up just as soon as made, it should be little 

 if any inferior to that fresh from the camps. 



BLACK AND HYBRID QUEENS FOR SALE. 



Inasmuch as it hardly pays to buy and sell queens 

 for less than a dollar, we have decided to let all those 

 who have blacks or hybrids that they will furnish at 

 a uniform price of 25 and 50 cents each, to do so, un- 

 der this head. It will also be an excellent exercise 

 for those who have not had experience in shipping 

 or introducing queens, to try their hand at it in 

 these. Here is what one friend says: 



I intend, within the next two weeks, to Italianize 

 20 colonies of black bees. Would you like to pur- 

 chase mv 20 black queens? If so, at what price? 

 Will send them to you if you want them. 



J. McKiNSTRY. 



Nelson, Lee Co , lU., Aug. 12, 1883. 



Who comes next? Here is one already: 



Do you want any black queens? If you do, let me 

 know at once, and send me ^ dozen shipping-cages, 

 with sugar in, to ship them in to you. 



H. H. Monroe, 



Waterton, Luzerne Co., Pa., August 13, 1883. 



