1883 



GLEANLNGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



561 



Contents of this Number. 



INDEX OF DEPARTMENTS. 



Bee Botany — I Ladies' Depai-tment -iin 



Bee Entomology — | Remindei-y 5SX 



Blasted Hopes 5S7 i Smilei-y — 



Editorials 581 I The Growlery — 



Forgettei-y 579 Honey Column 562 



Heads of Grain 580 I Notes and Queries 580 



INDEX OF HEADS OF GRAIN, NOTES AND QUERIES, 

 AND OTHER SHORT ARTICLES. 



Apis Dorsata 571 



Banner Apiary 5B3 



Bees Cannibals 584 



Bees, Facts (?) about 581 



Bees, Pai-king 580 



Bees in India 585 



Bees, Uniting 588 



Bees in the South 568 



Bees in a Pound 584 



Bees Reoognizing the other577 



Bees in Trees 581 



Bee -tree. Finding a 565 



Blacks and Italians 582 



Combs to Bottom-bar 581 



Combs and Comb-building..581 

 Combs, Value of Empty — 589 



Cyprians in a Drought 582 



Dog-fennel 583 



Doolittle 573 



Drought vs. Bees 680 



Feeder, Bread-pan 576 



Feeder, A Good 589 



Florida 579 



Foul Brood and Italians 565 



Frames, Metal-cornered — 580 



Gough's Report 584 



Gums, 14 Swarms, etc 571 



Hasty 574 



Hive, The Controllable 585 



Hives. Home-made 589 



Holy-Lands 580 



Honey, Aster 572 



Honey-dew, Crystallized... .570 



Honey, To Sell .576 



Honey, Candying 580 



Honey from Banansi 585 



Honey, Bitter 583 



Hives and Frames 568 



House Apiary 584 



Hunt's Report .584 



Int. to Queenless Colony... 583 



Invalid's Reijort, An .570 



Kennedy's Fire 584 



Malone's Report .5,80 



Mississippi 578 



North Cfarolina .575 



Oak-balls 589 



Peaches 569 



Queen-cells, Cuttinji: 576 



Queens, Young, Laying Dr'e 



Eggs 580 



Robbers .580 



Rocky-Mountain Bee-Plant..569 



Rose, Macartney 583 



Sections, Closed-top .590 



Sections, One-piece 573, 589 



Sections, Shrunken 570 



Shepard S warming-box 582 



Skunks .570 



Society for Bee-keepers — 585 



Starters of Drone Fdn 589 



Sugar Syrup tor Honey 590 



Sumac .589 



Swarms, Controlling 576 



Swarms on Sunday 579 



Swarm 40 Years old 585 



Swindles, etc 567 



Ventilation, Upward 583 



Vermont 582 



Virgin Queens, Introducing565 



Wax-extractor, Solar 569 



What to Feed in Noveniber..588 



Whv do thev Leave? 564 



Wiiigs, Clipping ,586 



ITALIAN BEES AND QUEENS 



COMB FOUNDATION AND APIARIAN SUPPLIES. 



Send for Catalogue. 



D. B. BROWN, Des Moines, Iowa. 



CALIFORNIA WHITE-SA&E SEED 



May be had from W. A. Pryal, North Temeseal, 

 Cal., as long as his present supply lasts, at 10 cents a 

 packet. It is of this year's crop. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR 



Imported and home-bred; nuclei and full colo- 

 nies. For quality and purity, my stock of bees can 

 not be excelled in the United States. I make a 

 specialty of manufacturing the Dunham foundation. 

 Try it. If you wish to purchase Bees or Supplies, 

 send for my new Circular, containing directions for 

 introducing queens, remarks on the new races ol 

 Bees, &c. Address 

 Itfd DR. J. P. H. BROWN, Augusta, Ga. 



MUTH'S 

 HOFEY EXTRACTOR, 



SQUARE GLASS HONEY JARS, 



TIN BUCKETS, BEE HIVES, 

 HONE¥ SECTIONS, &c., &c. 



Apply to CHAS. F. MUTH, Cincinnati, O. 

 P. S.— Send Stamp of 10c for "Practical Hints to 

 Bee-keepers." Itfd 



FliAT - BOTTOM COITIB FOUN- 



dation.— High side-walls, 4 to 14 square 

 feet to the lb.» Circular and samples 

 free. J. VAN^DEUSEN & SONS, 



Sole Manufacturers, 

 .4tfd Sprout Brool^»Iont. Co., N. Y. 



Names of responsible parties will be inserted in 

 any of the following departments, at a uniform 

 price of 30 cents each insertion, or $2.00 per year. 



$1.00 Queens. 



Names inserted in this department the first time with- 

 out charge. After^ 30c each insertion, or $2,00 per i/eor. 



Those whose names appear below agree to furnish 

 Italian queens for $1,00 each, under the following 

 conditions : No guarantee is to be assumed of purity, 

 or anything of the kind, only that the queen be reared 

 from a choice, pure mother, and had commenced to 

 lay when they were shipped. They also agree to re- 

 turn the money at any time when customers become 

 impatient of such delay as may be unavoidable. 



Bear in mind that he who sends the best queens, 

 put up most neatly and most securely, will probably 

 receive the most orders. Special rates for warranted 

 and tested queens, furnisned on application to any 

 of the parties. Names with *, use an imported queen 

 mother. If the queen arrives dead, notify us and 

 we will send you another. Probably none will be 

 sent for $1.00 before July 1st, or after Nov. If want- 

 ed sooner, or later, see rates in price list. 



*A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



*H. H. Brown, Light Street, Columbia Co 



*Paul L. Viallon, Bayou Goula, La. 



*S. F. Newman, Norwalk, Huron Co., O. 



*Wm. Ballantine. Sago, Musk. Co., O. 



*D. A. McCord, Oxford, Butler Co., O. 



Pa. lOtf 



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*J. S. Tadlock, box 43, Luling, Caldwell Co., Texas. 



2-13 

 *Jas. O. Pacey. New Hamburg, Ont., Can. lOtfd 

 *J. H. Reed, Orleans, Orange Co., Ind. lOtfd 



*D. G. Edmiston, Adrian, Len. Co., Mich. 8tfd 



*F. G. Cartland, High Point, Guilford Co.,N.C. lOtfd 

 *Jas. A. Nelson, L.box 83, Wyandott, Wy. Co., Kan. 



6-5 

 ♦James P. Sterritt, Sheakleyville, Mercer Co., Pa. 



10-3 



Hive Manufacturers. 



Who agree to make such hives, and at the prices 

 named, as those described on our circular, 



A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



P. L. Viallon, Bayou Goula, Iberville Par., La.lOtf d 



L. E. Mercer, Lenox, Taylor Co., Iowa. 4-3 



XjOOXS.! 



A Perfect MOUSE Telegraph Instrument for 



beerinners. Send for catalogue. 



5-12d P. B. EINGSLE7, Greeneville, Greene Co., Tenn. 



CANADA ONLY. 



Summer Rape Seed For Sale by 



H. SMITH, Eoz 102, ITew Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. 8tfd 



GEORGE W. BAKER, 



— OF— 



Lewisville, Henry Co., Ind. 



Has 3000 New Illustrated Cir- 

 culars (to give away) of 



ITALIAN BEES, QUEENS, 



Plymouth Eock & Brown Leghorn Fowls. 

 EGGS FOR HATCHING. 



Also Extractors, Honey - Knives, = 

 Smokers, etc., etc. 3-3d 



JUST PROM BOLOGNA, ITALY, ONLY $5.00. 



Select tested queens, young and proliflc, - - $3 00 

 Tested queens, young and proliflc, - - - - - 3 50 

 No more " dollar " on hand this year. 



J. S. TADLOCK, Luling, Caldwell Co., Texas, 



