1876. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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100 lbs. without injury. Tliere is a chance to 

 wet hold of the sections after all, and since you 

 have spoken of it, we think we shall put glass 

 in the ends of sections just to keep the bees all 

 inside. Cutting paper and pasting on is deci- 

 dedlj'^ too much bother in our opinion. Our 

 improved sections are already in one long box, 

 and yet they can be separated in an instant. 

 Thanks for your many valuable suggestions. 



March 1th — The following from our friend 

 Geo. T. Wheeler, who is excellent authority, is 

 just at hand : 



(.Vfter reading (.ii-EANiNGS, page .'iG). Bees will not 

 build combs true enough to glass up in one comb box- 

 es, if the guide combs da fill the box. Will send you a 

 case arranged as ■we use them, which will secure true 

 combs. G. T. W., Mexico, N. Y. 



Now as we certainly don't want our honey 

 put on the sections so crooked that it will get 

 broken and be daubing when the sections are 

 separated, it well behooves us to look carefully 

 into the matter. We feel thankful we have so 

 many kind friends who are ready to see that 

 we make no i)ery big blunder in our comb hon- 

 ey arrangements. 



A NEW PROPOSAL,. 



bee-keepers! lo ! all hail! 



a most welcome offer and glorious enterprise for 



Modern— AriciiLTiT RE'S— Needed 



IlEFORMATION. 



Cleaning our Temple from all humbug, errors, prej- 

 nilicial drawbacks, and irom the manifold artificial 

 cruelties, miseries and failures. This reform will now 

 come by establisliing ^'■Best Examxiles^'' in Bee-Keeper's 

 Academies or 



BEE MISSIONS, with MODEL APIARIES 

 for natural or congenial— humane— therefore blessed 



BEE-KEEPING in BEE-TEMPLES, 

 introducing this best invention, the coming apiaries 

 (liive house system, etc.) for a new, most agreeable, 

 comfortable and soon permanently 



FASHIONABLE STYLE OF HEE-CULTUUE, 



which unfailinglj^ will make a {/eneral sensation I will 

 attract into our noble fraternity thouands of GENIAL 

 bee friends, rich and poor. 



Ladies and Gene's, 

 and will render this our iconderfal occupation to them 

 all a paying fascinating, noble siJOirt ! y^a, linsiness .' a 

 God-send, purest, richest source of 



HEALTH, WEALTH AND I'LEASUKE ! 

 MY CREDENTIALS AND CONDITIONS OK TERMS. 



This needed reformation will soon bring at issue : 

 our three burning questions or problems for best bee- 

 keeping : 1, the best hive,— 2, the best arrangement,— 

 3, tiie best system,— and will so "clear our field'' from 

 weeds ! Now hear I 



These problems can not be well solved if done in the 

 wrong order and witliout regard to the "lligliest 

 Idea" of bee-keeping. 



According to this we have next lo find out : 1 : the 

 only one reliable, most profitable and all-comfortable— 



TIIE HUMANE SYSTEM, 

 2 : for this .system the best arranr/ement for the hives— 

 this leads to the ''hive-wall— halV^ or "hec-wall-Jtalh"' 

 as the best of the very different classes of house ai)ia- 

 ries {a, the repositories, b, the hive-wall -halls ; a, built 

 /or hives, 6, built &,(/ hives or out of liiyca, either by 

 piling or by compnr(mcnling) and for this latter, as 

 the best method, we have, now at last, (not first!) to 



find out "the best hive" its hull, si/.c, shape, interior, 

 etc., modified and so classified to the different notions, 

 wants, purposes, climates, circumstances, etc. of bee- 

 keepers. 



To solve well these problems and to fmd out the very 

 best of all the variations, combijiations, and manifold 

 possibilities (!) in our vast field of investigation, no 

 doubt— we must first know and consider them all, awl 

 therefore first -*«• all (the wliole and full assembly 

 or as^ortment in r/ood order) at least in their idea, for 

 a "■spiritual review,'''' yes,— like a seer— and then be 

 practical and experiment upon, what seems doubtful 

 and— the prejudices down— and so select the best one, 

 by trying finally tlie good ones in their— working ! 

 O dear ! What shall become of me ! 



Who did or may do this big Job for himself (and so 

 —perhaps— for us)? Wlio has the time and stamp- 

 head, hand and heart— to do it, or to sliow it already 

 done for us, and— at least by " words and ilrawings^'' 

 will teach us, what we want to learn, to know ?— so 

 saving us the time, big costs, and hardest work of 

 "racking our hrAins,— dear experimenting ixnd— fail- 

 ing (!) or repenting"' not to have known this all beforeC) 

 building and spending tlie money for the "next best" 

 invention! ?— He will be welcome and shall find us 

 reasonable and not expecting him to work for iiotliing 

 or for— being laughed at. If needed, we may get him 

 a macen, (or a situation in a wealthy bee friend's ser- 

 vice) or a partner, publislier, or a subscription for his 

 "illustrated book, pami)lilf t, circular or series of 

 LETTERS in our jonrnaP''— so, he may come to tlie 

 front and we will listen to him, not refute him, if even 

 he may have (like most inventors !) next nothing else 

 to offer, for inspiring and winning confidence — but to 

 permit us:— a glanct into tlie "stores in his brain"' 

 about the matter in question. 



Well then ! may be, I am your man ? and the follow- 

 ing may suflice you as my credentials ? 



Fifty years being, and TWENTY- I'lVE YEARS BEE-ING 

 I am, and so out of a treasury of long studies, large ex- 

 periments and dear paid experience (in the Old 

 World) 1 can and will tell you all about the best house, 

 hive and system for finest bee-keeping— in following 

 chapters : 



1 : The Ideals for bee-keeping ? the highest ? 2 : the 

 various ways and systems. 3 : The manifold arrange- 

 ments. 4: The very different sorts of bee liouses for 

 house apiaries and their hives: classification. 5: Se- 

 lection. 6: Pleasant s('7//e.'} : huts, cells, cell's and cab- 

 ins, hermitages, pavilions, (inside crystal— or glass 

 palaces). 7: The best and cheajtest, finest and fairest : 

 "OUR JEWEL," the "BEE-TEMPLE"— THE gem F0I{ 

 country seats, tlie "crown for apiculture."' Descrip- 

 tion : I'uprovements— construction— outfits — qualities 

 and advantages— costs. 8: The large experiences in 

 mine and others— in dear old Switzerland— 1860-'70 ! 

 U: Precautions, pvejnd'iccs and warnings. 10: Expe- 

 riences with the comb foundations largely tried in 

 house apiaries. 11 : Tlie bee-houses (bee-cabins) as 

 ''Inhalation Jiooms'''' for balsaming the lungs — liygiean 

 homes. 12: Tlie house apiaries as bee friend^s homes, 

 combinations of bee's and men's dwellings. 13 : The 

 house apiary for all climates ! Its temperature most 

 simply regulated, also swarming and wo?i-swarniing. 

 14 : minxjing and the bee house ! operated most easily, 

 —comb tongues. 1.") : The house apiary — no valid pat- 

 ent i)0ssible such as to "cover the housi:,"— and 

 thc]jatent men ! only poor hopes left for them— this 

 "our"' field and crop. IIow to get rid of the wrong 

 ones, of their too broad claims and their arrogance. 

 1(! : The jiast and future of this invention. Its history. 

 17: Etc., etc. ;Add"s: -The comb-tongue— the /jvn.'ier'i- 

 mould— the best place for the fly-holes, etc.) 



