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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTTT?E. 



Seit- 



ing of, more than that he tells himself. If any 

 one wants your honey, go to your nearest 

 banker oi- merchant, and "have hini tell yon 

 whether such a man is known. In case no 

 such person is quoted, yon can Ije pretty sure 

 that he is either a, humbug, or is doing a very 

 small business indeed. On looking we find no 

 such honey house, nor any one of the name in 

 the honey trade in Philadelphia. We are ac- 

 quainted with the habits of most of the honey 

 buyers of our cities, and will willingly advis'e 

 our readers if they wish. 



GLE/iMma$ m bee guituhe^ 



PuMisIied Montltly, 



^. I- iROOT. 

 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. 



EDINA, OHIO 



[Including Postage.l 

 For Club Bates see Last Page. 



3^E"DIlSr-A., SEI^T. 1, ISTe. 



Her ways are wnys of pleasaiilness, aiuT al! her paths 

 are peace. PfOF., 3 : 17, 



We are glad to note that friend Mnlli has made honey 

 jars a litOe lots-er. See advertisement. 



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We have never yet seen a partiele of pollen, nor a eell 

 of brood either ^yorker or drone, in the Universal seetioii 

 boxes. 



We always rejoice to see things cheaper, and if it is a 

 loss to us, we feel it is a gain to many. Our friend Albert 

 Poster now comes on the stage, with full colonies of Ital- 

 ans, in hives, for only .*o.OO. If the price is too low. they 

 will be soon bought up, that is all. Nesbit does still bet- 

 ter, but does not say jiui-e Italians, nor ready for winter. 



TnE combs used in the upper stories, for the extractor, 

 must be stored some svhere, for 6 or sei^en months in the 

 year, and it is quite a little task to care for 1.000 or more, 

 as we know by experience. We have never had ours 

 troubled with tlie inotli, when removed in October, aiid 

 stored in a tight box in the barn until wanted the follow- 

 ing May or June. 



We believe we can guarantee satisfaction on all goods, 

 except the larvse, by mail ; on this we can do no more 

 than give you some brood of the proper size, in a neat 

 wooden box, taken from the hive just before our mail is 

 made up, and our best wishes for a speedy journey. If it 

 is more than 48 hours on the route, you ha\o wasted 2Cc., 

 that is al). 



We are in i-eceipt of a very pleasant letter from Mr. 

 Langstroth, and rejoice to know that he is once more able 

 to take up bee-culture where he left off about a year ago. 

 He says the long interval seems on looking back, like 

 some troubled dream. Djwewho have the full use of 

 our mental powers every day in the j-ear, realize what a 

 l;les^i:ig it is r 



OvRl%, horse poner 17 foot Cantiaental wiml-niill, 

 just painted and in good repair, is cti'ercd for :ir-20O,0O. 

 Tiiis price includes the tower, ba'.ro.v and all, and all 

 will Ijc safely boxed and delivered on is.nnl the rnr>. 



The mitl cost irs over 5500,00 ami was only laid aside 

 on account of enlarging oar business. If the purcha- 

 ser will take it! down and box it himself, §50,00 will tie 

 dediTcteJ. 



I>. P. liARTFOBT>> Wolfboro Junction, K H., makes a ij. 

 Ibi hon«y bos for .3 cents, (without tlie glass)', that is sc^ 

 m>ic-h nicer than any vre have been able to make for 5c- 

 tbat we gi ve bim tb!« aid. gratv^ Tii-e wood work is in 

 fac^t the nejxtest we ever saw ra a Iwrey box ■, no nails an? 

 used, and any glsss can be removed at an>y time. AVe \ivi-' 

 sume fie will maii a sarapJe for 103. 



Ovis friend Rufus Morgan, has sent us soiue of the pret- 

 tiest stei'eoscopic views we have ever seen.. ^i;d the 

 Southern views, such as eotton picking etc. aa-e especially- 

 intevestsng to us here in the' nortI_ Now we are quite- 

 ansious to get np views of the differetit bee-ranches, autX 

 a good stereoscopic view is almost equal to lieing right oib 

 the sjxit. We have been taking a deal of pleasure in look- 

 ing ove-r one cf fi Jend Doolittli 's apiary, and it mriii hap- 

 pen that we shall be able to give the rest of you a chance? 

 to take a lock at it over our shouldea'. 



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On page 171 we carelessly omitted, when replying to- 

 friend Elwood, saying that we were well aware that tliw 



; paraffine fdn. was a well, hiunbug, for it hinnbugged 



us jjerhaps worse than any one else. Wo have tried to< 

 replace it all with pnre wax, and if any have been missed, 

 we hope the)" will speak oTit. We beg jjurdon friend E., 

 but if you meant to apply yom- renjarks to pure w.ix, we 

 s hall have to say as before, there is certainly now no room- 

 for argument. See the reiJOTts in this number. In try- 

 ing to give our friends fdn. at a low price we wasted a 

 good mirfy dollars, all in ali. 



OrR friend Windhorst says much of the matter \i\ our 

 Journals is not to be depended on. It is very true that tb.e 

 results of new experimeiits must not be received with the 

 confidence that one would expect to have in the matter of 

 a text book, but what then ? Shall we publish nothing- 

 that may afterward be controverted ? We are inclined to 

 think friend W's. decision that virgin queens cannot be 

 given full colonies at once, not a very safe guide, for wi- 

 have done it so often with'perfect success, that we con- 

 sider it safer than inserting queen cells. The success of 

 these operations depend very much on the yield of honey. 



Two story bee-hives are patented, and our friend 

 Montgomery of Lincoln, Term., has been sued by thi; 

 swindler Gillespie, for 11250.00 damage.s, just becai;se M. 

 had put a stop to his black mailing in that neighborhood. 

 This chap claims to have pjttented the whole idea cf 

 using hives on top of each other, in 1870, and every body 

 has got to stop or pay up. There is one excellent tbint;- 

 about this, and thp.,t is that it shovrs just what '"riglits" 

 are coming to. Shall traveling rascals and swiTidlers 

 have it all their own way, or shall hone.st men h n-e ji 

 word to say ? 



Ii' you wish to try feeding extracted honey to. get 

 boxes tilled, just set one of our 10c quart fee^Iers \t.\ 

 the portico, or just before the entrance to the hive, 

 wliere the bees are clustered out, and see how q-aickly 

 they will take a quart of thick honey. If you give it 

 them just before dark there will '>e no dang-er from 

 robbing-, and it will not interfere with their storing 

 during llie day at all. As no opening of the hive is 

 reijuircd, wc do not knov? b-at we shall have to caU 

 I Ibis the easiest way of feeding in very ivarm weather 

 when tiie.bees ra-e clustered out. Every colony shonlii 

 bo strong enough to cluster out, during the wai-m 



