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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 
Gleanings in Bee Culture, 
PubliNliod IHonllily, 
-A-- I. ROOT Sc CO., 
EDITORS AND P R OPRIETORS 
MEDINA, OHIO. 
Terms : 75c. Per Annum. 
For Club Rates see Last Rage. 
ZMHEHDI3XT .A., OCT. 1, 1874. 
The Bee World for Aug., was laid on our table on 
the Stli of Sept., but neither the A. B. J.. nor B. K. Af., 
were received until the loth. 
lr N. < '. Mitchell has made good his promises oflast 
spring in even a single instance we should be glad to 
publish it. Was not his pretended reformation only a 
pretense to get more victims? 
Fourteen No’s for 75c. All subscriptions rec'd 
between now and Jan. 1st, will be credited until Jan. 
1870. As we wish to be equally liberal with our old 
subscribers, to all who rene w ’before Jan. 1st, we will 
send a- a— not. a horse and wagon because they 
wouldn’t go into the post office, so we'll say a penny 
whistle or well, you’ll know what when it conics. 
Lots of trouble with the cider mill. To-day, Sept. 
25th, the owner of the mill is laying idle at our ex- 
pense. Even dampened sugar wont call the bees 
away now, and we don’t know whether the trouble is 
that we have got so many more, or that the “Imported 
grand children” have a special fancy for sweet apple 
juice. We fear bees and cider mills arc unsuited to be 
neighbors, at any rate ’tis rather an expensive joke on 
us now. We have offered to enclose the mill, and to 
furnish wft*e cloth doors and windows, but our neigh- 
bor don’t relish being shut up and wont listen to it. 
Sept. 25<h— Sunshine once more, already. After a 
visit to the scene of war (cider mill) this morning 
about sunrise. P. G. quletlv suggested cloth curtains 
as a remedy for the troubles that a dozen men had 
puzzled over in vain, and about which two had almost 
quarrelled. Some strips of pine, a few nails, 82.50 
worth of sheeting 2% y’ds wide, and two willing 
hearts and hands, (Novice and the cider man) comple- 
ted the whole in a couple of hours ; the relief we feel 
in seeing the bees completely baffled and obliged to 
return to their legitimate duties also allowing the 
eider man to return to his, is more than we can tell. 
Several have written us in regard to making 
< Cleanings larger with price to correspond, while 
thanking them we would sav, that in order to do so 
we must have a considerable larger number of sub- 
scribers, and as we have full confidence in the judg- 
ment and good sense of our American people we have 
,felt sure they will give us the necessary support as 
soon as we ’deserve it. In this age of the world real 
worth is sure to be appreciated sooner or later. Rest 
assured that when the world seemingly neglects to 
appreciate you, it is pretty certain to lie the case that 
there is nothing to appreciate, and that the fault is 
your own, and not. theirs. Is not Gleanings as it is 
how, about large enough to contain all that is really 
new and valuable? Our friends may not all be aware 
that with the close small type used in Gleanings of 
late, it actually contains more matters bv measure 
than either the ' Bee-Keepers' s Magazine or Bee World , 
and nearly if not quite as much as the American Bee 
Journal. ’The contents are also almost if not entirely 
original , and even if not always chosen with the hap- 
piest faculty of pleasing every body, we have so far 
been cheered in our labors with quite a comfortable 
amount of patronage. When we succeed in deserving 
a better one we feel sure we’ll get it. Don’t you kind 
reader ? 
We have at a considerable expense of time and 
money, had a Lithograph made of the Hexagonal 
Apiary. Of its merits we will say nothing, preferring 
that it shall speak for itself. 
Our Photo’ was very well so far as Photography 
is capable of doing, but the amount, of foliage threw 
so many shadows, as may have been observed, that a 
full representation was impossible. In the new picture 
we tear our Artist has gone to the other extreme ami 
cut down the vines so much that they hardly do jus. 
jlee; however, as he has given us a 12x16 picture- we 
have ample room for delineating all the particulars; 
> e T f • Ts 2* Walks, Feeding room, Fountain, Standi 
ard Hi ve, Standard Extractor, inside and outside view 
p* the latter etc. etc., besides a full complete view ot 
the AV ind-mill. Instead of giving an exact represent- 
ation of our own Apiary we have thought best to give 
it as we would have one were wc to lay out one anew, 
and wc trust; our efforts will meet with at least a 
tolerable show of approval. The picture will be se- 
curely put up on a roller and mailed for 30c. 
Or sent with Gleanings for $1.00 
!! \? a ”y subscriber sending one name beside his own. 
,* “ “ “ “ for either of the previous 
volumes. 
Vol’s 1, 2 and 3, including Lithograph, ordered at one- 
time $ 2.00 
The pictures are now ready for mailing. We have 
purposely omitted making any mention of them until 
they were all ready for mailing to avoid disappoint- 
ment. 
~S o’ive v’T • « i7r m rv 
f \ T the stores where I sell honey they put the 
bottles on the shelves and they are not noticed, 
““j Would not a good show hill with Pure Kxtracl- 
cd l-Ioney for Sale, printed on it he a good thing ? 
J. WiNviKi.n, Hubbard, O. Aug. 1st, 1874. 
Such a card might be a good thing-, but our 
stores and shops are so tilled up with adver- 
tisements that people nowadays have a fash- 
ion of not reading any of them. This we have 
tested by experiment. If you can get a neat 
small glass case to be set on the counter, con- 
taining a sample of each of the different jars, 
also one jar containing a nice piece of comb 
honey it will attract attention quickly, and 
will be recognized at once by every one. This 
also helps the sale of the ext’d honey, for if 
customers are informed the jar containing one 
ib. comb honey and two lbs. ext’d is worth one 
dollar, while the three lb. yar of the latter is 
only 75c, they can soon reason out the real 
state of affairs. Should the dollar jars gooff 
fastest, you can buy box honey of your neigh- 
bors and keep up the trade. 
From the Daily Times of Binghampton, N. Y. 
of Sept. 1st, we gather that Broome Co., can 
boast of quite a number of successful Scientific 
Bee Farmers. Their uniform succes in getting 
large yields of box honey, shpws that they 
either are experts in the business or that their 
locality is extraordinary ; possibly both. 
Mr. J. P. Moore’s yield is mentioned in an- 
other place. Mr. L. Beard from 22 stocks in 
the spring, has over one ton of box honey ; bis 
best colony gave about 100 lbs. Mr. J. L. Scho- 
field has 31 stands that will average 91 lbs. of 
box honey each; one stock giving over 225. 
Mr. P. J). Winn, of Port Crane, has ten stocks 
that will average 100 lbs. per colony ; best, gave 
180 lbs. The most successful yields were from 
hives in which the honey was stored in framer 
instead of boxes. The honey is sold in N. 5 . 
City at an average of from 25 to 30c per lb. 
These arc all men who take Bee Journals. 
FRIEND NOVICE:— 1 almost think I am entitled t» 
a place In tlic column of “Blasted hopes” this tall. 
From the condition my bees were In last spring. I 
expected 3 or four tons of box honey, but alas! man 
merely proposes. Owing to the loss of nearly nil the 
clover by winter killing, and drouth now, I shall have 
to content myself by reporting 3000 lbs. 
’Tis true, the breeding apartments are full of honey, 
and 1 might extract from 40 to fiO lbs. or even more, 
from each of them, and thus send inn much more 
favorable report, but the fact Is, the good people oi 
