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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 
Get your bees to working on the meal now as speed- 
ily as possible. Exercise your ingenuity in securing 
a place lor it in the sun, but out of the wind, rain and 
snow. A mixture of grains seems to please them best ; 
we have just had ground up finely together, one bush- 
el of rye, two of oats, and one of wheat screenings 
composed largely of chess. For economy in using it 
we would put it on a level platform large enough to af- 
ford a foot square for each stock. But little attention 
will be paid to the meal after they get natural pollen. 
I have 40 stands of bees, (Italians) use the Gallup 
frame— bees in good order— have several ‘‘ New idea 
Hives,” did well last year — rather larfire— think I pre- 
fer 21 frame hive to 82— my long hives did better last 
vear than the standard or 12 frame hive— began last 
spring with 20 stands, purchased them mostly o Gal- 
lup— all Italians— season poor— basswood failed, sold 
less than 300 lbs.— put the hives into cellar, all but ten 
of the largest— and prepared them for winter accord- 
ing to Gallup’s mode. I think that I will make some 
of your form of hives this spring— if for nothing else 
I like them on account of there being no waste ma- 
terial. Name lost. 
Names of responsible parties will be inserted in 
cither of the following departments, at a uniform 
price of 10c. each insertion, or 81.00 per year. 
Si 1 s 0 © Q u m ®DS ® 
Names inserted in this department the first time 
without charge. 
Those whose names appear below agree to lm-nish 
Italian Queens the coming season for 81.00 each, un- 
der the following conditions: No guarantee is to be 
assumed of purity, safe delivery or any thing of the 
kind, only that the Queen be reared from a choice, 
pure mother. They also agree to return the money at 
any time when customers become Impatient of such 
delays as may be unavoidable. 
Bear in mind that he who sends the best Queens, 
put up neatest and most securely, will probably re- 
ceive the most orders. Special rates for warranted 
and tested Queens, furnished on application to any of 
the parties. 
J. Shaw & Son, Chatham Center, Medina Co., Ohio. 
I. E. Daniels, Lodi, 
U. \V. Dean, River Styx, 
E. C. Blakeslcc, Medina, 
Willis J. Phelps, " “ “ “ 
W. J. Hosmer, Janesvtllc, Minnesota. 
John L. Davis, Holt, Mich. 
James A. Buchanan, Wlntersville, Jeff. Co., O. 
Dr. J. P. H. Brown, Augusta, Georgia. 
Miss. Annie Saunders, tVoodvlllc, Miss. 
tV. J. Stundcfer, Dry Grove, Hinds Co., Miss. 
tV. D. tVrlght, Knowersvlllc, Albany Co., N. Y. 
Mi-re Hanafaetu i»e »§ . 
Who agree to make euch hives, and at the prices 
named, as those described on our circular. 
Geo. T. Wheeler, Mexico, N. Y. 
G. W. Dean, River Styx, Medina Co., O. 
i wala esa Jk: Puyiywo n al. 
Apiarist Wanted ; S. W. Grclslnger, Carlisle. Pa. 
And “Lyons,” care tV. W. Barnum, Southport. Ind. 
wants a place; can make hives or handle bees. Also: 
Situation wanted; but we have lost the applicants 
name, as we have Also the names of several who had 
empty combs for sale, etc., but If you’ll send your 
names with the respective “ ten centses” we’ll submit 
the whole matter to our readers. Advertisers should 
remember that GbEAMXOS is so small every word Is 
usually read. 
We are pleased to note that Mr. Quinby offers emp- 
ty comb for sale. At the price he has fixed— 50c. for 
Quinby frames of worker comb— we think they should 
go off rapidly. Those having empty comb in any of 
the standard frames, we think would find a ready sale 
for them by advertising. His new smoker it seems to- 
ns would be cumbrous ; ’tis worked with a little bel- 
lows. 
There are n few things in Mr. Q's circular that we 
cannot help protesting against. Por instance; 
“In consequence of the advantage which this hive 
enables us to take of the labors of the bees, by pre- 
venting their swarming, &c., it is safe in a good season 
to calculate on an average of one or two hundred 
pounds of box honey, or two or three hundred when 
the combs are emptied with a machine— which will 
sell for more in one season than the price of colony.” 
This has appeared in his circular we believe for 
three years, yet if any Bee-keeper in the V . S. has 
ever made an apiary of 50 or even 25 hfves give snch a. 
result on an average we shonld be pleased to hear of it. 
We wrote Mr. Q. when we first saw his circular con- 
taining the statement, ashing him if it was wise to put 
it so high ; even his own apiary since then, so far as 
we can gather, has given an average of considerably 
less than loo lbs. either box or ext’d honey. Should 
the hive have a great advantage over those in com- 
mon use for box honey, we can hardly think even Mr. 
Q. himself intends to intimate, his hive has any espec- 
ial advantage for extracted, yet it seems to read so 
it consists when arranged for the latter, simply of lb 
Quinby frames arranged horizontally with the en- 
trance midway at the ends of the frames. 
The new swarming arrangment can of course be ap- 
plied as well to any hive that affords them robm to 
work, but we believe it is now pretty generally con- 
ceded that a faithful use of the extractor alone, rarely 
fails to prevent an attempt at swarming, rendering 
the queen yard useless for any but box honey. 
Is it well to hold out to beginners a statement like 
the abdve? ’tis almost sure to end in “blasted hopes.” 
Would it not be better to estimate 50 lbs. on an aver- 
age ? then If they did better than that there would be 
no feeling that they had been humbugged by having 
false hopes held ftut to them. Again : 
"In giving this hive to the puolic, it Is not with the 
Idea of making it pecuniarily profitable. It is design- 
ed for our own special use and advantage in connection 
with this system of management. But being willing 
that any person who might wish to give it a trial, 
without subjecting us to the trouble of giving a de- 
tailed description of it, should have the privilege, we 
have given It publicity, and we will furnish the hive 
as a sample to work from, cheaper than to give a lull 
description, with measurements, Ac., which we can- 
not do.” 
Has he ever considered that as the hive itself is only 
a plain simple box, full directions could be published 
in the circular, or even given in the Journals at the 
trifling expense, to him, of making the measurements, 
and descriptions once. As his price for the empty 
hive with one box and Queen yard, is 8S.OO,and they 
can easily be made for 84.00, it looks as if there must 
be a “ pecuniary profit” somewhere. Such cumbrous 
hives should certainly be made near home to save the 
great expense of shipping; almost every neighbor- 
hood of Bee-keepers now affords some one who can 
make good hives, at a moderate price. The express 
charges, ( Mr. Q. recommends sending them milg by 
express) on such a hive is really “fearful,” as many 
of our friends in the Western States can testify- 
Aside from the glass In the honey boxes, there can lie 
no trouble whatever In sending the hives safely as 
freight, if a little extra time and expense be used in 
crating them. 
