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“novice’s” gleanings in bee culture, 
NOVICE’S 
j^Icttmuijs in flee Culture. 
A. I. HOOT & CO., 
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. 
Published Monthly, at Medina, Ohio. 
Terms: 73c. per Annum. 
Any one sending us 5 Subscribers can retain 75c. for 
their trouble, and in the Home proportion 
for a larger number. 
(PRINTED AT MEDINA COUNTY GAZETTE OFFICE.J 
Medina, Aug. 1, 1873. 
Ol'R Qtiinby hive has again lots of Iters 
but “nary” box honey. 
In preparing to introduce Queens, re- 
member that a hive sometimes contains 
two. ■ 
Doleful. Novice’s basswood Orchard is 
being eaten up by the Grasshoppers, but 
he declares “there'll he blood shed be- 
fore they finish. If grasshoppers made 
honey what tons of it our county might 
furnish. 
A. T. Wright Chicago Ills, sells a very 
small pamphlet, recommending his patent 
hive, for 25c. He not only endorses su- 
gar syrup for wintering but leaves Novice 
far in the shade in directing that it be fed 
to bees to produce nice box honey profit- 
ably. Nice looking comb honey can be 
produced it is true as our experiments in 
feeding last fall gave us ample proof, but 
in taste 'tis sugar syrup still, and worst of 
all twould cost a dollar a pound or more. 
It may lie right for Mr. Wright to charge 
people for a "right'' to make his closed 
frame “Coming Hive,” but we don t think 
it right to charge 25c for the book. Me 
Ileekeepers work hard for our “25 eents- 
ex” Mr. TV. 
HONEY COLUMN. 
vp II. SHANE, Chatham Center, 
id/ g Center, Medina county, 0., has 
3000 lhs. nice clover honey, wants 1C cents 
for it. 
1 have 2000 lbs. (4 bbls.) of first-class 
extracted honey for sale at IS cents. Bar- 
rels not to he returned. 
K. Wilkin, Cadiz, Ohio. 
We have about 1500 lbs. for which we 
want 10 cents. ("liaised one cent, 
’cause honey’s scarce ") 
A. I. Root & Co, 
ITALIAN QUEENS FOB #1.00. 
■i: 
i J N our prospectus for “Gleanings,” 
mentioned that wo should endeavor to 
test all improved processes before recom- 
mending them, but the very plain state- 
ments made in regard to sending eggs 
successfully by mail induced us to deviate 
so far as we did. The result, as we have 
found it, is that eggs may hatch and pro- 
duce good queens when sent short dis- 
tances only, but we have in no case 
known them to retain any vitality when 
two or more days were occupied in transit. 
Now, as we wish to make amends as far 
as we can for the disappointment, we will 
credit the parties who sent us money for 
eggs, the amount on something else, or 
will return the money if they prefer, pro- 
viding the eggs were properly eared for as 
soon as received, and produced no brood. 
Novice was so unwilling to aband- 
on bis project of furnishing Italian stock 
to the mass of bee-keepers at a small ex- 
pense, that he could not give it up ; ac- 
cordingly on the 23d of July he rode 
about twenty-five miles on horseback vis- 
iting neighboring apiaries, with the follow- 
ing result: 
We, whose names arc placed below, will, 
after Aug. 1st, furnish Italian queens un- 
tested and unwarranted for $1. 00 each, for 
the balance of the season. Queens will 
be reared from the choicest mothers we 
can procure, and will be shipped by ex- 
press ns soon as they commence laying. 
.1. Shaw & Son, Chatham Center, Medi- 
na Co., O. 
W. H. Shank, Chatham Center, Medina 
Co., O. 
E. H. Parsons, Lodi, Medina Co., (). 
1. E. Daniels, Lodi, Medina Co., O. 
A. 1 Root & Co., Medina, (>. 
In regard to chances ot the queens 
meeting impure drones, we would say 
that Messrs. Shaw, Daniels and Parsons 
have almost no black bees in their locali- 
ties, and their apiaries comprise over two 
hundred colonics of choice Italians. Mr. 
Shane has not more than half a dozen 
black colonies in range of his apiary, and 
agrees to have these all Italianized it l.e 
has to do it entirely nt his own expense. 
As for our own apiary (we have now 
hut few black colonies in our own neigh- 
borhood) we are diligently at work weed- 
ing out all inferior queens, and as we pro- 
pose to roar all queens from a well tested 
queen, ours will be — well, good hybrids, 
the worst of them. Those from the first 
mentioned apiary, we think', will be near- 
ly all pure. As the Postmaster General 
lias decided that bees are not mailable, 
we recommend that queens be sent only 
by express, and many queen breeders 
think it much the best mode of transit 
tor the future welfare of the queens. In 
case more orders are received than can 
he filled this season, the money will be 
returned. To have least trouble in intro- 
ducing, orders should be sent as early a» 
possible. 
