1883 



GLiiANlNGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



697 



Contents of this Number. 



Addressing-Machine 703 



Apiaries near water 719 



Archie's Pi-emiums 720 



Barnes' mode of Packing. . .720 



Bees 5 miles from Home 703 



Bees, Rubbing on Back 716 



Bees, A Poem 713 



Bee-Keffpers' Exchange 726 



Blue Ridge 708 



Box-hiver, Veteran 706 



Burma 701 



California White Sage 710 



Chittim-tree 715 



Cleopatra's Needle 716 



CoUais and Neck-ties 720 i 



Drone Fdn. for Sections 706 



Editorials 727 



England, Letter from 720 I 



Every Man to his Trade 705 [ 



Excursion to Medina 724 



Frames, Metal-Cornered 706 



Heddon's Plan 708 | 



Holy-Lands with Italians.. 70? 



Honej-Peas 707 



Honey Colunm 698 



Hot Springs of California. .711 



Hybrids for Honey 707 



Implements, Home-made. . .706 



Indian War dance 719 



Italians vs. Blacksi, 708 



Kind Words 697 



Louisville Exposition 7IS 



Maine 706 



Maine State Fair 706 



Myself and Neighbors 712 



Newlove's Section-Crate 710 



Reports Encouraging 725 



Report, Marvelous 712 



Sections, One-piece .709 



Slater's Section-Crate 709 



Tobacco Column 724 



Unsealed Brood 703 



Ventilation Bottom 708 



Virgil 699 



Willows for Bees 720 



Work for Women 709 



KIND W ORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



I have taken the premium at the Dallas Co. Fair 

 with the bees I boug-ht of you, which will be quite an 

 advertisement for your business. J. George. 



Buflfalo, Dallas Co., Mo., Oct. 23, 1883. 



I am very much obliged for those Sunday-school 

 cards. They help our infant class at our Sunday- 

 school concerts once a month. N. C. Tubbs. 



Exeter, Clay Co., Kan. 



The Novice honey-extractor I purchased from you 

 in July took the premium over all others at the St. 

 Joseph luter-Stale Exposition for this year. 



M. L. POTEKT. 



St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 12, 1883. 



Please send me one crate of five Clark's colii-blast 

 smokers. The one you sent me last April did so 

 well this summer that my neighbors who have bees 

 all Want one. R. R. Cobbum. 



Bluffton, Wells Co., Ind.; Sept. 3, 1883. 



Please send Gleanings and Clark's cold-blast 

 smoker. You can send me the few cents remaining 

 if you have a mind to, or give it to that jolly baby to 

 buy candy. H. O. Bhien. 



Mile Strip, N. Y. 



The ABC book came to hand all right. I am pleas- 

 ed with it, but am sorry that I did mt get it cloth. 

 But 1 did not e.xpect so big a book for f I. (JO. 1 would 

 not give it for $5.00, and do without it. 



L. M. GOCKLEY. 



Akron, Lan. Co., Pa., Oct. 1, 1883. 



The six-dollar imported queen you sent came all 

 right, 1 united two colonies of hybrids, and put her 

 in; let her stay three days and nights, then liberated 

 her all right. She is a daisy. I would nf)t take ten 

 dollars for her. M.\u. Talbekt. 



Morristown, Ind., Oct. 20, 1883. 



The Emerson binder came to hand by last mail, 

 and immediately Gleanings for 1883 was placed 

 therein. Success to all your efforts in building up a 

 journal worthy of yourself and the bee-men of 

 America; and may your reward be a happy con- 

 science, a "well done " amon.^ your brethren, and a 

 well-ailed purse. R. A. Bethune, M. D. 



Snyder, Ashley Co., Ark., Sept. 17, 1883. 



In reading over the convention notes, I find, in 

 your reference to Hanlan's Island, you say, "named 

 after the great English oarsman, instead of Camida's 

 great oarsman." 1 presume the mistake was not 

 intentional, but I fear some Canadians will feel a 

 little hurt, as they feel proud of Hanlan. Your des- 

 cription is very interesting. J. L. Calvert. 



Oberlin, O., Nov. 4, 1883. 



Thank you, John, for your correction. As I had 

 heard of Hanlan in England, I some way got it in 

 my mind he was an Englishman, and surely did not 

 intend to rob Canada of any of her laurels. I am 

 very glad to know that Mr. Hanlan is a native of our 

 American shores. 



OUR 244-LB. SCALE. 



The 244-lb. scale that you advertise gives perfect 

 satisfaction, and 1 would advise bee-keepers to buy 

 it, for it will answer the same purpose, and weigh 

 as correctly, as the high-priced scale. 1 have tested 

 mine pretty severely the past season by weighing all 

 the girls (1 am a young unmarried man, you know), 

 and some of them are pretty big ones too. tipping 

 the bram at 200 lbs. J. M. Young. 



Three Groves, Neb., Oct. 26, 1883. 



Your last shipment with the missing articles catne 

 Aug. 30. All came in very good shape; they were 

 on the road about If) days; the freight was $1.55. I 

 can maKe allowance for delays, and some poor man- 

 agement, because 1 am saiisfled that you do, or 

 mean to do, your best. The Jones wax-extractor has 

 paid for itself. 1 had lost enough wax by worms, 

 etc., to have paid for it before. Every thing that I 

 have received from you has been very cheap and 

 satisfactory. I find it much easier in wiring frames 

 to sew it through than to make nail hooks. 



Wm. Browning. 



Garden Grove, Decatur Co., la., Sept. 1, 1883. 



That Waterbury watch I got for that last club to 

 Gleanings has been running right along with a 

 $200 gold watch. 1 lost it while gathering corn one 

 evening, and found it next day, still hammering 

 away. J carry it loose in my pocket with my knife 

 and tobacco. Did 1 say tobacco? No, dear Glean- 

 ings, 1 never again expect to use the vile weed, and, 

 bless God, 1 have persuaded my better-half to quit 

 the use of snuff. My JOO colonies of bees will have 

 to be fed, to go through the winter. No rain yet; 

 dry, dry, dry. A drought of over 103 days, and, 

 stransfe to say, we have some tiowers— goldenrod 

 and cotton, with the never-failing chamomile and 

 Texas brown-weed. B. F. Carroll. 



Dresden, Texas, Sept. 25, 1883. 



a little verse in regard to observing the 



SABBATH. 



Will not the following match well the anti-pi-ofani- 

 ty cards? 



A S.ibliatli well s)irMt brings a week of content. 

 And stu'imtli fur the work of to-morrow; 

 Kut 11 Saljliaih prufaned, whate'er may be gained, 

 Is a lertain furcrunner of sorrow. 



Pellsville, 111., Sept. 13, 1883. J. R. Phillips. 



Many thanks, friend P. The little verse is exactly 

 what I want, and we will furnish these cards with 

 the others to any one who wants them, free of 

 charge. 



I have long promised myself the pleasure of send- 

 ing you a notice of our little friends, the bees, in 

 this distant quarter of the globe, but the "care of 

 all the churches ' has been too much for me to com- 

 mand the lime before to-daj% although 1 have had 

 the notes about me for some time. Perhaps the ac- 

 count may have some interest for you. Our mission 

 work is very prosperous ill every department, and 

 pays large dividends. Over 30 baptisms recently re- 

 ported from our jungle churches. 1 like your pub- 

 lication greatly, for it has got the right ring to it, 

 and you are doing what every Christian man ought 

 to do— take his religion into his business, God bless 

 and prosper you. A. Bunker. 



Toungoo, Burma, Oct. 26. 188 J. 



I wish to say just a few words in regard to friend 

 W. Z. Hutchins m's article on page 603, October num- 

 ber. 1 read it and re-read it with much interest, and 

 1 wish every bee-keeper who attends fairs where 

 there is an exhibitiou of bees and honey would give 

 a detailed account of what they saw, and in what 

 shape, how arranged, etc. I think it would be inter- 

 esting to all; and especially to those who take part 

 in the displays made at the various fairs, it would be 

 profitable. Here are a few points that I have gained 

 from his article: Mr. Hunt's pyramid of honey; 

 those full colonies of bees in glass hives on a rcvolv- 

 iiKj bottom; 1 have several times taken a colony of 

 bees to fairs, but never thought of a revolving hive. 

 Then those queens in cages, all fast on a board that 

 revolves; almost every one wants to see a queen, 

 and it is usually quite a task to find one and keep 

 sight of her so all can see, even in a one-frame hive, 

 while it could be easily done in a queen-cage. Then 

 the gilt-edged honey, and so on throughout the en- 

 tire article. W. W. Bliss. 



Duarte, Los Angeles Co., Cal., Oct. 25, 1883. 



