GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



I'liblihhcd JTfontUly, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



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And if thy rkht hand offend tliee. cut it off ; it is better 

 for thee to enter into life maimed, thnn havitifi- two hards 

 to so into he)l, into the tire that never shall be quenched. 

 —Mark <J: 43. 



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If you are interested in ■windmills, either for rnnninjr 



saws for hive making, or other purposes, \¥Tite to V. S. 



Windmill Co., and be sure to tell them we desired you to 



do so. 



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The 'N. Y. honey house is shut up, and Mrs. Spaids is 

 not to be found. The matter is especially interesting to 

 those who have sent her honey for which she has never 

 paid. 



We have to-day — Feb. 27th— 1,339 subscribers ; this 

 loots very fair, were it not for the fact that we have piven 

 a,way and paid postage on full as many sample copies since 



Jan. 1st. 



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We take ])leasure in offering the BriHsh Bee-Jonriial 



for the very low i>rice of SI .50. postpaid. Whatever may 



1)0 said of implements the price of this JournaJ is very 



low indeed. 



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We hai'G received a sample of friend Lane's Basswood 

 seed, and shcnld judge by the appearance of the germs 

 that every seed would grow. It is quite difficult to collect 

 and prcFcne such seeds in such excellent order. 



Our next No. will have to be about half "Notes and 

 Quei-ies,' judging from the jiile of unanswered questions 

 now on the table; but be patient, we will give them all, 

 even if we have to put in stUl another leaf or two. 



Wk fear we shall have to stale in cvci-y No. that no one 

 need buy a right to make any hive or anything else that 

 we ofl'er for sale. If jou can make them cheaper than we 

 do, do so by all means ; and it is the business of Glean- 

 ings, to give you all the instxnction that lies in our power 

 for so doing. 



It ?■« a shame to make blunders in adverlisements; yet 

 that is just what we have been doing. We quoted friend 

 Lane's buckwheat at 73c. ]icr packet instead of peck, last 

 month; and still v.orse. Dr. Larchs' Italian bees at $t.00 

 instead of Sl4.«0, just because we didn't see that a very 

 little figure one had by some means dropped out. 



Geo. NjciGnnoK* Soxs, of London, send a neat cata- 

 logue of bee-hives and fixtures, a copy of which is just at 

 hand. They too have offered covers for hives generally, 

 but while they charge :ibout 1(2.2.'), ours i«st only the mod- 

 est .sum of 30 cents and the prices of the English imple- 

 ments ail through, arc nearly in the same i-a(io. The only 

 extractor (l)cy give, is (he Peabody, at a price of 7)early 

 $20.00. 



If you drop a. nailed frame on ono of its corners, it in 

 cornci-s, it is either spoiled or injured ; the metal cornoi - 

 cd frames in the bivc-i at the time we tumbled them off 

 the shelf, were not hnrt at all, although .some of the combs 

 needed (luitc aTmmber of transferring clasps to enable the 

 bees to n)iTi<l theia. 



'SiiK I'riiirh- Fainter anil (''ncntry Oentlcmaii.secm 

 to have got the idea that the York State Convention gave 

 the extractor a iirettv genei".il condeirination ; ,vet the re- 

 port contained in the Syracuse Daily Courier of Feb. 4tli. 

 that .wnio kind friend sent us, does not give to lis such an 

 idea by any means. The following question and answin- 

 which we clip, it seems to us covers the whole ground : 



"<■}. Wlii«;h i:^ advisable, to produce Iwx or extracieiS 

 honey':' A. The market should be supplied with Ixjth." 



\l SIS. TuiTEii is to lie pitied, as should every one bo wlio 

 has yielded to temptation step by step. Yet she has takcji 

 the motley of our readers without giving an equivalent, 

 long enough ; and ^i-ow at least, some provision should lie 

 made for safely returning the money that Simoeent parlies 

 ha^t; been sending her, and perhaps are still. The ambi- 

 tion to handle a business beyond our means, and to make 

 the world thitik we arc what we ani not, is one of the sins 

 of the age, and one that must bring sorrow and suffering. 

 Can we ni>t be w.^rned in time ? 



TiiKitK, '. we can see through it all now, as plainly as 

 can be- as the woman said when the bottom dropjied 

 out or her tub- the whole trouble with the thin wat- 

 ery lioney, was caused by not having our hives ma^le 

 of straw or like the— our compositors will set it up, 

 "University Hive.'' There can be no doubt about it, 

 for Mv. Miith., and Mr. Quinby, and Mr. L. C. Root, say 

 — we can't remember just what they do say alter all, 

 but whatever it was, we I'col qv.ite sure they are right- 



P3:i:srM]X<; you are all interested in anything pertaiii- 

 taining to our kind friend Mr. L.angstroth, we give the fol- 

 lowing just received from his son-m-law, Mr. Cowan : 

 OsroHD, O., Feb. 22d, 187t;. 



Mn. A. 1. nOOT—Dcar .S'-r ;— Mr. Lanirstroth requests 

 mc to iicknowli'dge t\io receipt of money from Mr. Hast- 

 ings sent liiiu liy you, and to thank you and Mr. Hastings- 

 for your kindiicss. Mr. L. has been very poorly this win- 

 ter, being confined to his bed much of the time, and very 

 gloomy aivd depressed. Yours, very truly, 



H. C. Cow.\s. 



This is the month for meal fv<'ding with most of our 

 reader.^ : the Itcst is rye and oats groinid finely together 

 without si'tiiig or bolting. To get the bees started, give 

 them some pieces of comb honey, and when thoy gel 

 quite busy on it. take it away and put some meal in it.s 

 stead. They will learn it in a day or two, to your full 

 satisfaction. If ,vou have no rye and oats, common Hour 

 or c\en corn meal will answer. We do not think it jiossi- 

 ble for them to take too much. 



Mk. Ql'INBY I'ecoiamendetl as a remedy for the .spring 

 dwindling, that the bees be kept in the cellar until natural 

 pollen was to be found, as many of you are wtll aware ; 

 the following from L. C. Boot in regard to the matter is of 

 interest. At ijresent we hardly dare advise eiiher way, 

 but would be glad if those having good cellars would try 

 keeping o part of them in until quite late and then 

 report : 



The following is the result of my last season's wintering. 

 I put 121 stocks in the cellar the 11th of Nov., lH7t. April 

 27th, 187r,. 1 took out 120 swarms. One lia.d haen disturb- 

 ed and swarmed out during fii-st flighi . I had reared sev- 

 eral queens in OcA. and had several" di- 'tie laying queens. 

 I reduced the ajjiary by doubling, (o II t slocks. From the 

 fact that the loss was so general, the n^sult wasgiivtifyinu'. 

 No loss that could not be accounted for. L. G. Konr. 



Mohawk Valli;y, N. Y., Feb. 22d, 1870. 



