1883 



GLEANINGS IN BEB CULTUKE. 



525 



Contents of this Number. 



Awai ding Premiums 531 



Apiary, To Move 546 



Basswoods from Cuttings.. 540 



Bees and Peaehes .545 



Bees and Chickens 547 



Bertie and 50 Swarms 545 



Black and Hybrid Queens.. 555 



Blue Ridge 539 



Boardraan's Letter .5.36 



Boy on Tobacco 543 



Cart for Moving Hires .529 



Combs FallingDown 548 



Editorial 5,55 



England .540 



Entrances, Large Winter... 539 



Emery Wheels 544 



Ethel Pounding Hives .544 



Harrison, Mrs .542 



Honey Column 58^ 



Honey Tipped over 548 



Kind \Vords 525 



Lulu's Swarm 547 



Missouri and Kansas .540 



Myself and Neighbors 541 



New 'I Inware for Honey 532 



New Fountain Pump ,5.30 



Ncbel'sRcport 546 



Nor.a's Bees 546 



Norton on Breeding 537 



Orange-trees 547 



Our Uarry .543 



Quails .548 



Queen with 2 Yellow Bands.54S 

 Queens Hnli-hr.l in Cages... .544 

 Queens, Hatching in Bed. ..547 



Reports Encouraging 5.52 



Repof t from Blacks 553 



Smith's Report 553 



Sorghum and Bees 544 



Springs, The Twin 5.52 



Sunday; 538 



Swarming-box 546 



Swarm that went off 545 



Swarms, Little .548 



Texas 546 



Tobacco Column 552 



Toronto Convention .533 



Vine Maple 544 



Virgil .527 



Wedding 543 



KIND WOMS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



There hns been a great rush for chaff hives, 1- 

 pouQd sections, and your style r,f fdn. Thank you 

 for systematizing- this great industry. 



Sterling, 111. A. ff. Stauffer. 



Thanks for your indulgence, and also to the boys 

 and girls for the nice packing, etc. May the Lord 

 continue to bless you hU. D. M. Tweedy. 



Smilhfleld, O., Aug. 7, 1883. 



The bill of goods ordered of you two weeks ago 

 came to hand last Friday, in the best possible shape; 

 and although I expected something nice, I was real- 

 ly surprised to And every thing so much better than 

 1 expected. Geo. W. Vandergrift, ago b'Z. 



I have used now for about 10 days your No. 10 

 honey-extractor, and will say that I am well pleased 

 with it. I have extracted nearly 3000 lbs. prime 

 quality white- clover honey. My vicinity is first 

 class for bee culture. We have plenty of bassswood. 



Preston, la., Aug. 4, 1883. Christian Henton. 



I see that you are building some addition to your 

 factory, in order to have more n otn. It may be 

 that subscriptions in advance will be acceptable. 

 To that effect I inclose $1.00 for Gleanings for 1884. 

 If you should make any change, so that the subscrip- 

 tion would be more, then I will make It all satis- 

 factory. D, F. Lasbier. 



Hooper, N. Y. 



We have received the honey-pails and labels all O. 

 K. They .just look tiptop. Hurrah for the Juve- 

 nile Gleanings with her mother's bonnet on! Tell 

 Judge Harriman we want him to be sure to rep- 

 resent Arkansas at the B. K. Convention in Toronto. 

 Also send me his address. A. K. Nisbet. 



Dobyville, Ark. 



[Who can answer friend Nisbet?] 



Well, friend Hoot, I am sorry to henr that you are 

 experiencing some trouble with intemperate broth- 

 ers in your town. I will just tell you how it is with 

 us. When the temperance people of our town do 

 their whole duty, then we are on the mountain-top; 

 and when we fail to do that duty, then the whisky 

 men get upon the mountain-top, and we are down. 

 Just now I think we are pretty well down, and the 

 fault is all our own. United we stand, divided we 

 fall. D. P. Lashier. 



Hooper, N. Y. 



Juvenile is just at hand. Up goes our hat — hold 

 on! It is just brand new, so it can't go up; but our 

 prayers have, and will. Glory to God! the temper- 

 ance ball is rolling at last, and in the right direction 

 too. When a nest of vipers is stirred up, you both 

 see and smell 'em; hence, that " man and brother " 

 across the way. Turn on the electric light (spir- 

 itual), stron{j, and " keep your powder dr.v." Sooner 

 or later we or our children will have to flsrht the is- 

 sue out in blood. Let it come. D. H. Tweedy. 



Smithfleld, 0., Aug. 24, 1883. 



I suppose yon omitted "Our Homes" in last 

 Gleamings, to find out how it is appreciated. That 

 is too practical for me. Great was my disappoint- 

 ment when, on Sunday evening last, I took up 

 Gle.^nings, looking for " Our Homes," for a sort of 

 recreative reading after my duties of that day, not 

 to find a shadow of it. Now, curtail Gleanings if 

 you will, or anywhere you have a mind to; but give 

 us " Our Home^s; " it is the best part of it. 



Alfred Motlaz. 



Ottawa, III., Sept. 0, 1883. 



[Friend M., you have not read "your book" care- 

 fully, or you would have seen that Our Homes is now 

 put in Juvenile. I am glad to know that you 

 noticed it; and I can assure you that Our Homes 

 will be kept up so long as I have strength to edit 

 Gleanings; and when I am obliged to lay it down i 

 Ernest will probably take it in hand. In fact, he is 

 now being educated for that very purpose.] 



T have read your journal for years, though I have 

 not been a bee-keeper. Especially have 1 been in- 

 terested in your Home department. I watched with 

 much interest, and I can say truthfully with some 

 8' licitude, the stand you took in the tirst introduc- 

 tion of this into your journal. It did seem to be 

 revolutionary, if I miy be allowed the expression. 

 I had been a subscriber and correspondent for years 

 for poultry papers: and could understand what 

 amount of moral stamina it required to introduce 

 an entirely new feature into a bee journal, and one 

 so many people would consider so foreign to the in- 

 terests of bee-keepers. Yet I am one who fully be- 

 lieves in carrying our religion into our business; 

 and if we do, both must thrive, as we have the 

 promise of the life that now is as well as the life to 

 come. T am certain that God has blessed you in 

 your efforts to honor him in connection with your 

 work, and I have no doubt but that he will continue 

 to bless you. I hope you will not think I am making 

 too free on so short acquaintance, but I have felt 

 for years like writing to you and bidding you God 

 speed. Stanley Spillett. 



Lefroy, Ont., Can., Aug. 7, 1883. 



SOMETHING MORE ABOUT " J. R." 



I wrote you a few lines last spring, " How J. R. 

 Transfers Bees," and requested you to send J. R. a 

 smoker, because he needed one so badly, and did not 

 seem to have the money to spare to buy one, and I 

 mentioned the fact that he had quit the use of to- 

 bacco, and I received one so promptly that it made 

 me think still more of the bee-man, A. I. Root. I 

 just felt like writing a few lines more to let you 

 know that I bad not forgotten you yet. I stayed 

 with J. R. until only a few days ago; while there I 

 learned to like the bees, and 1 was sorry to leave; 

 but it seemed that duty called me away. 



I said T learned to like the bees; and why should 

 I not? During all the time I was there I did not get 

 the first sting, and they pushed out early in the 

 mnming too. Bee-boys, did you ever notice that? 

 Now, was there not something wonderful about the 

 bees not stinging me? It may be that I shall be- 

 come a regular bee-man. I have thought sometimes 

 (if it were the Lord's will) that I should like to go to 

 Medina, and work for Bro. Root, since there is so 

 much to do, and that is the part that I like. Where 

 all hands are so busily at work, we don't have time 

 for things that are wrong and mean. Yes, if I were 

 there I could run that powerful engine. I am. an 

 engineer. Men write on paper, and sign their names 

 to it, that I am a good engineer, and a good hand, 

 and easy to get nlong with, and it just strikes me 

 that all of Bro. Root's hands are agreeable, because 

 the superintendent says, or repeats, "Not by might 

 nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." 

 Now, if I am agreeable, I ought not to have any 

 credit for it, for it is because I am yoked with 

 Christ, and he leadeth me, and hekeepsth me. Pray 

 on, V)rethren: don't lay thy "armor down." nor 

 think the " victory won;" thy work will ne'er be 

 done till thou obtain the crown. 



J. R. has sold over 2000 lbs. of honey. He started 

 some three years ago with 3 stands, and has pulled 

 through much discouragement from his neighbors. 

 If be keeps on at that rate, even in a few years he 

 will need that little blue-eyed boy of his whom he 

 calls Sammy, to help him. This will be my first let- 

 ter with 2 CtS. C. V. LiNDLEY. 



Indianapolis, lud., Sept. 29, 1883. 



