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“ novice’s ” GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, 
NOVICE’S 
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A. I ROOT & CO., 
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. 
Published Quarterly, at Medina, Ohio. 
We shall, if a sufficient number 
desire, describe our machinery for 
1 making hives, windmill, buzz saw, 
{etc., etc. Several have made in- 
■ quiries already, and those caring for 
j the matter will please drop us a line. 
: We recommend every Bee keeper 
to make his own hives if possible. 
Terms: Coo. for the 4 Numbers. 
Any one sending m 5 Subscribers can retain 25c. 
for their trouble. 
[PRINTED AT MEDINA COUNTY GAZETTE OFFICE.] 
Medina,, January 1, 1873. 
As we arc only a “wee” Journal as 
yet, many things are crowded out 
that wo should have been glad to 
have used. 
Messrs. Shaw & Daniels, whose 
advertisement appears on last page, 
are men to whom we should not 
hesitate to send an order if we 
wanted Bees. 
Our readers will oblige us by call- 1 
ing the attention of their Bee keep- 
ing friends to this our first number 
“Gleanings,” if they think it worthy 
of it, but don’t otherwise. 
We have received queens from 
both Mr. Argo, of Lowell, Ky., and 
Mr. Carey, Colerain, Mass., too lato 
to judge of them, as with us a queen 
is estimated by her work, and “hand- 
some is as handsome does.” We 
hope the gentlemen will accept our 
thanks all the same. 
We have no “Associate Editors,” ! 
and are only a plain, simple “Novice,’ , 
yet we are going to try hard to earn 
the many “25 cents-es” which have 
been sent in so freely ; and the many 
kind letters of regard and approval 
of our past efforts in the American | 
Bet .Journal we have no room to 
notice further than that they are 
worth more to us than “coined gold. 
Our heartfelt thanks to you, one and 
all. 
Thanks. — “0” from lt nowhere ," you 
have given us something far superior 
to “covered wagons” with sleeves, 
strings, and wire cloth, so often 
recommended and which are in hot 
weather a greater punishment than 
stings. The veil we used when 
handling closed top frames was brief 
enough to be carried in the vest 
pocket and yet protected the face 
perfectly. We think very many 
could make, burning rotten wood, a 
sufficient “argument in all emergen- 
cies” if “they only thought so." 
A correspondent who rears queens 
for sale writes us that some of his 
neighbors arc stocking up with black 
bees, which they will neither sell 
nor pay half price for having 
Italianized, thinking he will do it 
for nothing rather than suffer so 
much damage from hosts of common 
drones. As these persons are of 
course ignorant and unskillful, lie 
suggests the probability that their 
bees may ail die during the coming 
winter. We are inclined to think 
kindness, forbearance and a friend- 
ly disposition to try and make better 
neighbors of these people, will, as 
with all other neighborhood difficul- 
ties, be found the most powerful 
weapons in the end. 
By “fixed” frames we understand 
such as are not movable laterally, but 
have a permanent position assigned 
to them, which the bees commonly 
make more fixed, still by means of 
propolis. To adopt and use such 
is to go half way back to the old box 
system. On that principle railroad 
men should abandon steam and run 
thoir locomotives by horse power!— 
J. M. Brice, in American Bee Journal. 
