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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Spet, 



Shortly after the notice in our last number, of 

 our reduction in the price of maple sugar, we closed 

 out the whole lot, so we shall have no more maple 

 sugar until another season, except the little cakes 

 on our 3-cent counter. Where these are wanted by 

 the pound, they will be 18 cents. 



THE IRON-JACKET HONEY-CANS. 



A GREAT trade has sprung up in these. We are 

 able to make a discount from our table prices as 

 follows: On orders of 10 or more, a discount of 5 

 percent; on 100 or more, 10 per cent. These can be 

 shipped anywhere full of honey, or empty, without 

 any crating. 



From our notice in the last Juvenile, many of 

 the friends got the impression that we wanted to pur- 

 chase black and hybrid queens. 1 am sorry we did 

 not make it clearer. We do not want to buy them 

 at all. We simply publish the names for the accom- 

 modation of those who want them. Our imported 

 queens are all gone, even to the most indifferent 

 one. We are waiting anxiously for the next fifty. 



A NEW use for the QUEEN NURSERY. 



We have recently made the discovery, that the 

 queen nursery is just the thing for putting fdn. into 

 wired frames. Heat it up as for hatching queen- 

 cells, having the temperature pretty high; slip the 

 sheet of fdn. between the diagonal wires and the up- 

 rights, then hang them in the nursery until the wax 

 is quite soft. Now imbed it with your roller and 

 Easterday fdn. fastener, and you will find you can 

 do it with great ease, and it will stay, even for a long 

 shipment. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



WESTERN BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



The annual meeting will be held at Independence, 

 Mo., on the 30th and 31st days of Sept., 188,i. Special 

 invitation to all bee-keepers. S. W. Salisbury, 



Secretary. 



OHIO STATE BEE-KEEPERS' CONVENTION. 



The Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Association will hold 

 a convention during State Fair week at the State 

 Fair grounds, Columbus, O., commencing on Tues- 

 day evening, Sept. 4. Daniel Spear, Sec. 



A meeting of the bee-keepers of Maryland and 

 vicinity, and all interested, is called, by several 

 prominent bee-keepers ot this State, to assemble ai 

 the Bee Tent on Thursday, Sept. 6, at 11 a.m., for the 

 purpose ot forming a bee-keepers' association. 



Baltimore, Md., Aug. 13, 1883. C. H. Lake. 



TO BEE-KEEPERS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



As one of the oldest of your number, I desire res- 

 pectfully to remind you that the Toronto Conven- 

 tion will afford us all an opportuntity of paying a 

 well-earned tribute to the memory of our honored 

 dead— Samuel Wagner, Moses Quinby, Adam Grimm, 

 Richard Colvin and others, who did so much to ele- 

 vate American apiculture to its present high posi- 

 tion. L. L. Langstroth. 



Oxford, Ohio, Aug. 33, 1883. 



BEE CONVENTION AT TOLEDO, OHIO. 



The next annual meeting of the Tri-State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will be held on the 13th, 13th, 

 and 14th of next September, during the week of the 

 Tri-State Fair at Toledo, Ohio. It is customary to 

 say that Messrs. So and So, " and other prominent 

 bee-men will be present," etc., etc. Well, we have 

 quite a number of "prominent bee-men " (prom- 

 inent at home) in this region, and they know how to 

 raise the bees, get the honey, cure foul brood, and 

 winter the bees too; but if Mr. Heddon is well 

 enough to be at the meeting and the fair, we will 

 pump him on M'intering, and Mr. Muth on foul 

 brood, and Novice, if here, on general principles, 

 and the editor ot the Bee Journal to fill in where the 

 rest lack. We do not expect to have any long essays 

 or speeches. It being the week of the fair, we ex- 



pect the great attraction for bee-keepers will be the 

 Bee and Honey Show, and such bee-keepers and 

 their friends as desire to stay several days can bring 

 their " eatables " and blankets with them, and camp 

 on the fair grounds. One or more tents will be 

 provided for such as make application to me a few 

 days before the fair, at a cost that will pay for the 

 use of the tents, but we hope to be able to borrow 

 tents and so save expense. 



A premium is offered for the foundation-machine 

 making the bpst foundation tor the brood-chamber 

 on me grounds, and two mills have already arrived 

 for that purpose, and the makers of three other ma- 

 chines have promised to be here if possible. 



A premium list Avith extra blanks, rules and regu- 

 lations, railroad tares, freight rates, etc., will be 

 sent tree to all applicants. Db. A. B. Mason. 



Wagon Works, Ohio. 



From the American Bee Journal, of Aug. 32, 1883. 



SOMETHING MORE IN REGARD TO EXCURSION 



RATES. 



Mr. A. I. Root :—l have received a letter, of which 

 the inclosure is a copy, from Mr. Hiel, manager of 

 the Toronto Industrial Exhibition, which is the out- 

 come of an application which I made to him to se- 

 cure reduced rates for bee-keepers in the State of 

 Michigan. As it would receive publicity through 

 your journal, perhaps you will be kind enough to 

 give it insertion. There are single-fare rates for the 

 whole week of our convention. 1 inclose you, also, 

 a clipping sent me by the Rev. L. L. Langstroth, 

 anent cheap excursion rates from Cincinnati to Ni- 

 agara Falls. As these Falls are only a short distance 

 from Toronto, and the fares very lo>v, many of our 

 friends may, and no doubt will, avail themselves of 

 this opportunity, whei-eby they will behold the 

 grandeur of Niagara Falls, and also be present with 

 us at the convention. The prospects are brighter 

 than ever. D.A.Jones. 



B oeton, Can., Aug. 35, 1883. 



H. J. Hiel, Esq. ."—Replying to yours of the — inst., 

 would say that we do not wish to advertise any re- 

 duction from regular rates; but if there are any on 

 our line who apply to you, and you will refer the ap- 

 plication to me, I will furnish them certiflcdtes, on 

 which they can obtain tickets to Port Huron or De- 

 troit, and return, at excursion rates. 



D. Edwards. 



SUMMER EXCURSIONS BY THE BEE LINE. 



Cincinnati to Put-In-Bay and return, $8 35; Cincinnati to 



Lake Siile and return, $7.65; Cincinnati lo Lake Cliautauqua 



and return, $11.25; Cincinnati to Buffalo and return, $14.25; 



Cincinnati to Niagara l''allsand return, $14.75. 



All the places named above can be readied in twelve hours 



by the Hee Line. Tickets good to return until t)ctober2«, 1883. 



ISEE-LINK TICKET OFFICE, 108 WEST FOURTH ST., 



Between Race and Vine .streets. 

 AND GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT. 



FURTHER. 



When you report rates of fare to Toronto, you 

 can mention that tickeis from Odgensburgh to Tor- 

 onto, and return, for $8.00. If 1 learn of other rates 

 I will inform you. Geo. W. House. 



Fayetteville, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1883. 



DEALERS IN 



APIARIAN SUPPLIES! 



We invite correspondence with dealers in supplies, 

 and large consumers, as to furnishing their supplies 

 for next season. We shall give such discounts and 

 protection as will give them good profits, and still 

 be an advantage for small consumers purchasing of 

 them, avoiding the annoyances of delays, miscar- 

 riage, and shortage, and a great saving in freights, 

 and cost of lioxing and crating in small lots. We 

 are now building a new shop which will have three 

 or four times the capacity of our present one, and 

 shall be able to fill orders to any extent. We have 

 commenced the manufacture of a new hive, which 

 meets the wants of experienced bee-keepers and be- 

 ginners better than any thing we have seen. Send 

 for circular of this hive. G. B. LEWIS, 



Sept. 1, 1883. WATERTOWN, WIS. 



PATENT FDM. MILLS.' """'^ 



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10-inch, f 1.5.00. 

 WM. C. PELHAM, Maysville, Ky. 



