312 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



Contents of this Number. 



Bee-Huntinar in Texas 315 



Lazy Bees, What to do with them 315 



Hiving Bees, A New Bee-Bob 315 



Italians ; Their Markinq-s 315 



Queen s Duplicating- Themselves 316 



Movable Koofs For Hives 316 



Fixed or Stationary Upper Stories 316 



Foundation for Comb Honey 317 



Climbing' Vines for Honey Plants 317 



Bitter Honey, and where it comes from 318 



Medicated Honey ; a Suggestion 318 



Sweet Clover and Lucerne 318 



Grape Sugar 318 



Too Much Honey 318 



Wintering Bees in Hay 319 



Report from Michigan 319 



Drones, Fdn., and Separators 319 



Bees on Shares, Borage 320 



Candied Honey, How to Pr event it 320. .339 



Figwort 322 



Simpson's Honey Plant, Illustrated 322 



Clover 333 



Comb Fdn. all about making 333 



Italians, how to Distinguish from Hybrids 335 



Comb Honey 335 



Pollen, Illustrated 338 



Bees Tongue and Leg, Illustrated 338 



Candy for Bees. How to Make it 320. .329 



How I Cured Foul Brood 329 



Catnip Seed Again 329 



Cross Bees and what made them so 339 



Enameled Cloth for Covering the Frames 3-30 



Drones Reai-ed in Queen Cells 330 



Wintering the Italians 331 



Bee-Hunting in the Mountains 331 



Contrary Bees 331 



Imported Queens 337. .331 



Turnips for Bees 3:32 



Embossed Honev. How to do it 333 



A Plea for the Toads 332 



Poisonous Properties of Zinc 333 



Teasel Honey 335 



About Hives 336 



Honey from Cotton, Honey Dew, Transferring etc. 336 



Capt. Hethei'ington's Honey Crop 336 



Weight of Ho ney per Gallon 336 



Trials and Tribulations and 336 



This 26th day of Nov., 1877, we have 2£13 subscri- 

 bers. Now comes the tumble, for next month we 

 must comfnence almost at the foot of the ladder, and 

 slowly climb up again. All right, we are getting our 

 " climbers " in " i-ig " a'fe fast as we can, and — confi- 

 dentially—that dollar you are thinking of sending us 

 will help "amazingly." 



I B * »<» ■ €*— 



A good sized colony of bees that were taken from 

 the woods in Sept., destitute of honey, were fed up 

 to good condition on common brown sugar. It re- 

 quired just 35 lbs., but considerable of it was con- 

 sumed in comb-building, and brood rearing. The 

 colony seems so bright and healthy in a chaff hive, 

 that we have given them an imported queeen to cai'e 

 for. 



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TEASEL BLOSSOMS. 



Teasel blossoms at the same time bass-wood does, 

 which makes it diflicult to tell just what part of our 

 honey was Teasel ; probably H. The honey is very 

 white, Avhitest of anything in the honey line. You 

 will see that a portion (see page 335) was taken fi'om 

 the N. Y., times, and Thurber and Co. was the origin- 

 ator of it. If you wish I will give the mode of Teasel 

 culture in Gleanings. G. M. Doolittle. 



Borodino, N. Y., Nov. 16th, '77. 



The above was i-eceived in answer to an inquiry. 

 Please tell us about cultivating and marketing the 

 crop, by all means, friend D., 



As you were recently out on a bee hunt I send you 

 the following ; A good way to catch absconding 

 swarms is to place several box hives, or better still, 

 log gums, in the woods round about your apiary. Bees 

 in hunting for a new home are sure to find them and 

 appropriate them, if they succeed in getting away. 

 We have seen this tried, and it was a success ; even if 

 your own bees do not get away, there are plenty of 



bee keeper? crjund you, that are so csrelejs as to le"; 

 hidi' their rew swar.ns go to the woods. 

 IlAiTi'OKD, N. Y. .1. II. Martin, 



Langstroth Bee Hives cut ready to nail including 

 10 frames and 6 honey boxes or two story hives of 

 20 or 21 frames. Price 80c to $1.50 each according to 

 quantity and quality. 



Address R. R. MURPHY, 

 13-2 Garden Plain, or Fulton, Whiteside Co., 111. 



. Tr3]noiitaiii, Cremone, Italy. 



April, May and June 13 francs in gold. 



July and August 10 " " 



Sept. and Oct 7 " '' 



No order for less than 8 queens is accepted. If 

 any queens die in the ti'ip, thej' must be sent back in 

 a letter to have the right to an invoice of compensa- 

 tion. If anyone should refuse to accept the invoice, 

 all right to a compensation shall be lost. [The value 

 of a franc is 189i cents, gold. — Ed.] 



D. TREMONTANI, Cremone, Italy. 



CLASS HOI^EY ^ARS. 



1 lb. Round Honey Jars, Corks included, per srross.. ?5 00 



2 ft. " '• '• ' " "... 7 25 



t^ONEY Tliii¥ieLEeS. 



NO COVER. 

 33 Pint, plain or ribbed 40 doz. 



(■) dozen in a pnckaee' Packing; boxes 40 each. 



K Pint, plain or ribbed .'iO doz. 



6 dozen in a package. Packing boxes 45 eich. 



HOi^EY TFJI^BLERS. 



TIN TOPS. 



>^ Pint 65 doz. 



6 dozen in a package. Packing boxes « . . .40 each. 



'A Pint 75 doz. 



6 dozen in a package. Packing boxes 45 each. 



Also, Window Glass, Lnmp Chiranevs and elassware of 

 all kinds, for sale bv B. L. FAHNESTOCK, Late B. L. 

 Fahnestock, Fortune Co., 76 Wood St., Pittsburgh. Pa. 

 10-l-2d ^^___ 



(ARNES' FOOT POWER MA- 

 • CHINERY. 



different machines with which 

 Builders, Cabinet Makers, Wagon 

 Makers, and Jobbers in miscella- 

 ncous work -an compete as to Quali- 

 ty and Peice with steam power man- 

 ufacturing; also Amateurs' supplies, 

 saw blides, fancy woods and designs. 

 Say where you read this and send for 

 catalosrne and prices. 



AV. F. & .JOHN BARNES, 

 Gtfd Rockford. Wmnebairo Co.. 111. 



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