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“novice’s” gleanings in bee culture. 
NOVICE’S 
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A. I. ROOT & CO., 
EDITORS AND P R O PRI li T OHS. 
Published Monthly, at Medina, Ohio, , 
T^enns: 75c. per Aniiiun. 
Any on* nciid inn us & Subscriber# can retain tor. tor 
their trouble, ami in the name proportion 
for a larger numbt r. 
PRINTED ST MEDINA COUNT! GAZETTE OFFICE .! 
Medina, April 1, 1373. 
All money sent us without specifying 
definitely for what purpose, will he credit- 
ed oti “Gleanings,” and the paper will be 
sent just so long as it is paid for and no i 
longer. Wc hope our frieiids will cxcu.su 
us for making this our invariable rule to 
all. 
In ease the locality of any hive is to he 
changed after the bees are flying in the 
Spring, do it by moving, riot to exceed one 
foot at a time, If moved otherwise, un- 
less the distance exceed one mile, the 
colony is frequently injured for the 
season. 
Tin: different No’s, of “Gleanings ' are 
so intimately connected and follow each 
other in such a manner, that we hope onr 
friends will excuse us for insisting on 
having all subscriptions commence with 
the first of each year. Of course we 
shall always be prepared to furnish hack 
numbers. 
Wi: have received from Or. Jewel Davis, 
of Charlestown, 111., a queen nursery, and 
judging from what experience we have 
had with a simnlar one of our own make, 
wc think it without doubt quite valuable 
in an apiary. As he now oilers them for 
lour dollars, right included, we cannot 
call the price unreasonable. The, fifteen 
movable queen cages contained in one- 
frame are nearly worth the price alone, 
but we are somewhat doubtful as to the 
expediency of keeping your queens in 
confinement very long after they have 
been hatched. We want the most prolific 
and longest lived queens that can be had, 
and if unrestrained liberty of the hive 
and “all out doors ' too. is one of the 
essentials, “let 'em slide” by all means. 
Will some of our’ large queen raisers 
give us their opinion op liic subject, j 
Some one suggests that we make 
“Gleanings” a “Weekly which we might 
easily do if we should publish all the ex- 
pressions of approval that we receive in 
regard to its value thus far; but as we 
expect you to receive more money from 
your bees than you < rpend, we have serious 
doubts as to whether a weekly would lie 
prudent. Success is only achieved by 
hard work, and books are only to assist 
you in directing your work. Doubtless 
the money can he better invested some- 
where in the Apiary. 
J r seems wc have been so unfortunate 
in making ourselves understood, that 
several have written us asking the price 
of “individual rights” for the privilege 
using the metal corners, which is quite 
a joke on Novice, certainly. Of course 
every one is free to use them if they 
wish, and so far as wc are. concerned, to 
make them or any modification o! them 
they please for their men use. Wc only 
reserve the privilege of manufacturing 
them for sale as all valuable patented 
articles are sold, and as they are furnish- 
ed at a price but very little in advance of 
the cost of making, we presume no one 
will accuse us of charging ail extra price 
for them because they are patented. 
From the March number of Bee Aer/i- 
er's Magazine we infer that Mr. King lias 
at length n'iveu up selling “rights ’ or try- 
ing to sell them If this is the ease we 
presume the les-er “patent hive men” the 
world over will also drop, the business, 
and accordingly “my hive” and the “deed 
of individual right to make and use has 
all gone down, loo, as it could not help 
doing when the world became enlighten- 
ed. Factories for making desirable hives 
at a price below what they can be made 
al home, will lie an excellent thing, and 
there can he no objection- to having them 
patented, providing they are sold to ring 
one or to go ang trheve at one common 
price. "Novice" commenced to ask all 
bee keepers of America to swing their 
bats and give three musing cheers ter 
freedom from the thralldom of 'patent 
hives." when it occurred to him that no 
intelligent bee keeper would use any of 
the patented hives that have been paraded 
over our country, were they now laid ill 
hi- feet lisa free gift, (always excepting 
the “movable frame” feature,) so he 
stands hat, in hand and “don’t swing ii 
nor cheer either.” We may be in error 
for Mr. Kinj* talks about “trade marks,” 
but the result is inevitable in the end. 
