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GLEANIKGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



choose, without disturbing the boes in the least. If 

 the bees cluster on C, it can bo removed, and the 

 cluster brushed into the hive. 



On the legs, little cleats may be nailed, on which 

 to place additional frames if desired. We find our 

 lice easel a handy institution, and would not be 

 without one. Moses G. Young. 



112 Yates Ave., 



Aug. 33, 1878. Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The stand will, doubtles.s, b3 much appre- 

 ciated by soiiie, while others will think it 

 too much niichinery to carry about from 

 hive to hive. If I am correct, the top is to 

 be m ide so as to be taken off to shake the 

 bees that may cluster on it, back in front of 

 their hive. It should be made so light as to 

 be easily carried in one hand, and so strong 

 that it will not easily get broken, even should 

 you be so careless as to leave it out, and then 

 run over it some dark night. 



GLEANINGS 1« BEE CULTURE. 



.A.. I- E,OOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



to send honey that long distance ; cannot friend 

 Newman or some of his pupils furnish as neat and 

 convenient a honey package and case as we do here 

 in Ohio ? Beg pardon, perhaps they do, and it was 

 only an accident, for Chicago is a great city. 



TBKOTS: $1.00 PER YEAK, POST-PAID. 



Not the hearers of the law are just before God, 

 but the doers of the law shall be justified. Rom. 

 3; 13. 



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One ton of the ABC books have already been 

 sold. 



OCR nf^xt journal will probably b3 printed on the 

 new printing press^ 



Until Jan. 1st, a discount of 5c. per lb. will be al- 

 lowed from our price list, on mH CDmb foundation 

 sold. 



The annual convention of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will be held in the Cooper Union, 

 New York City, cotmieneinj, v ^n Tuesday, the 

 8th of October, 1878. 



J. E. Moore's pasteboard caps work beautifully 

 on the 1 lb. sections. We sell them all put up at 20c. 

 per lb., just the same as we do the unglassed, the 

 glass and caps costing just about 20c. per lb. It is, 

 perhaps, the quickest way in which, glasses can be 

 put on sections. The question now comes, will cus- 

 tomers pay for pasteboard and glass, just to have 

 the package so well protected that it can be carried 

 in an overcoat pocket, or packed in a trunk, with 

 safety? They are selling tolerably in our retail 

 market. 



One of our readers complains that money is scarce, 

 that he cannot sell his bees, and so has been wthout 

 Gleanings. He offers to send me a swarm of bees, 

 if I will send it to him for i years. As I shall need a 

 great many bees next spring, for the new grounds, 

 I have decided to take bees in that way. As I shall 

 transfer theai into Simplicity hives, and give them 

 new queens, I do not oare what the hive and queen 

 is, providing they have stores enough for winter. 

 Make the package as light as possible, to save ex- 

 press charges, which I shall have to pay. 



The rubber dating stamps, such as we use for our 

 con-espondence, and mentioned a short time ago, 

 we can furnish for $3.00. This includes your narat^ 

 and residence, a set of solid rubber dating figures 

 and months, ink, pads, tweezers, and everj'thing 

 complete for putting j'our address and date, all 

 plain and neat, on everything to be sent bj- mail or 

 express; furthermore, you can stamp it on your ac- 

 count books, plainer and quicker than you can 

 make a singlo figure with a pen or pencil. The 

 whole outfit will be sent at the above price, by 

 mail. A stamp with an alphabet of letters, ink, 

 pads and all, for setting up your name only, for 1,00, 



Queens have been sent almost all this season by 



Mr. David Geer, "regular down-Easter," head- 

 quarters Boston, age seventy, is reported worth 

 S;i00,000, all made by paddling honey through New 

 England, often having eight or ten wagons on the 

 I'oad at one time. 



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The Los Amjdox Star, of Aug. 15th, reports a col- 

 ony of bees, belonging to Henry Clausen & Bro., that 

 has furnished 14 colonies of bees, and 1 ,000 lbs. of 

 extracted honey. With a powerful colony to com- 

 mence with, and a long, uninterrupted flow of hon- 

 ey, I suppose this is possible. Although not so 

 stated, I presume the honey was furnished by the 

 old stock and the increase. 



, Our irrepressible friend. Scientific, has invented a 

 very neat little box for candied honey, to be sold, 

 package and all, for 10c. Besides the honey, each 

 box contains a most ingenious piece of mechanism 

 that makes the queen, on the top of the cover, sting 

 your fingers when you pull a harmless looking 

 little string. Honey, machinery, box, and all, for 

 only 10c. See his advertisement. 



While nice comb honey was selling right along 

 at 16c, in Chicago, ours, in the 1 lb. sections, brought 

 20c.. without any trouble. It seems too bad for us 



] return mail or express, and we shall keep on send- 

 ing them through all this month at least, if the 

 I bottle cages keep them as well as they have been 

 ] doing. A friend asks, on the first page, about how 

 J to keep them over winter. If we succeed in doing 

 that, I think it will take all the skill of an old hand 

 ! to accomplish it; the great dilficulty will be to keep 

 a warm, even temperature. Perhaps a very good, 

 j dry cellar may afford this, especially if we have 

 toward a half pint of bees to keep up some animal 

 heat. Some arrangement will be needed to replen- 

 ish the candy and water, should it be required. 1 

 I should pack them in chaff cushions. I think the 

 I candy and water would keep a small cluster, where 

 honey would not. I would give them no flour or 

 pollen. 



Not a word has been received from Perrine in ref- 

 erence to his floating apiary since the article from 

 him in our April No. ; although several newspaper 

 i-eports have been received in regard to the project. 

 The principal one has been copied in the Bee KVcp- 

 er's Magazine for August. The steamer, it seems, 

 did not prove equal to the ta-sk of towingthe barges, 

 and after several expensive lii-eakdowns, they were 

 abandoned, the hives loaded on the steamer, carri- 

 ed from point to point, and then located on the laud 

 as usual. He has been reported as far up as .St. 

 Louis, but we have no definite news since then. 

 The papers say he is still sanguine, and will give it 

 another trial next season. Although he does not 

 directly say so, I infer there was a loss of bees, in 

 letting" them fly from the boats on tho river. This 

 is all I can tell you. 



