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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



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present advise our readers to use only granulated 

 sugar for feeding. Dr. Kellogg, in his very able ad- 

 dress at the Michigan convention, told us that the 

 successful adulteration of granulated sugar by any 

 of these substances is an impossibilit j-. When asked 

 in regard to the difference belweon grape sugar 

 and glucose, he said although he was unacciuainted 

 with the two substances as they appear in com- 

 merce, he supposed glucose contained a larger per 

 cent of dextrine, which so effectu'.Uy prevents it 

 from becoming a solid at any temperature. This 

 agrees exactly with what you were told in G lean- 

 ings several years ago. 



Ai.TnouGn the Watcrbury watches arc having a 

 sale never before perhaps known in timepieces, our 

 friends should bear iu mind that watches subjected 

 to the rough usage of the mail-bags are quite often 

 received out of order, no matter how carefully they 

 have been carried and tested by us. A Watcrbury 

 watch in order has no more business stopping than 

 aaj' other watch; but if you get one that docs stop, 

 don't be cross and say you do not believe any of them 

 go, nor need you write a loi g letter about it. Just 

 eay, on a postal card, "it stops," and send it back. 

 One man says, when he moved the minute-hand, the 

 hour-hand "just stood still;" but hal h^ read the lit- 

 tle book we send with each watch, he would have 

 known that nothing was broken. Will you not bear 

 in mind how small an n mount of money you paid for 

 it, and make our task of keeping them all going as 

 light a one as you can? If the watch has had un- 

 fair usage, or you have had it over 30 days, send it 

 to the factor!!, and nut to ut<, for they all go to the 

 factory eventually. 



likely; but so has a patent been granted on the fdn. 

 we are using; on putting it on to wires; on division- 

 boards for bee-hives, and also on the very tin sepa- 

 rators we are using, anci have been using for years. 

 The Patent-Office supposed all these things were 

 new, and are doubtless honest; but, friends, is it in 

 any way likely they have a man in the whole Patent- 

 Office corps who has an idea of modern bee culture? 

 A proposal was started, at the convention, to raise a 

 fund for mutual protection, if any of our number 

 should be subjected to expense; but I trust nothing 

 of this kind may bo ever necessarj'. Mr. Forncrook 

 proposes to make all bee-keepers pay .16.00 per thou- 

 sand, instead of the established price of $1 50. 



TO ODU CONTHIBUTOUS. 



It seems, dear friends, Glf.\.nings is to have a 

 boom this year, and I have been already devising 

 ways and means to make it more pleasing and valu- 

 able to you all, in return for your kind words and — 

 dollars. At the convention it was suggested wc 

 have the matter arranged in a more orderly man- 

 ner, using more small-cap heads to the dilTerent 

 thoughts expressed. Now, will those who write for 

 it please head their letters with a caption, then stick 

 to your text till you wish to talk about something 

 else, then take a new head, say all on that subject, 

 and so on. Some of you do this already; but there 

 are others, who write for print, too, whose letters 

 can not be straightened out, without altering the 

 wording to such an extent it would be really saying 

 something they did not say. I think it would pay 

 all round if some of you would re-write it for us. If 

 you are short of paper, I will send you some station- 

 ery. Nice paper to write on, with ink or the Auto- 

 matic pencil, will be furnished in strips 7x27 inches, 

 at 15c per lb. Automatic pencils, 3 for 50c. 



SOME GOOD BOOKS. 



I I DO not know but that snm=! of the friends at Bat- 



1 tie Creek were a little amused at the almost childish 

 wonder with which I g;izpd (very likely with open 

 mouth) at those wonderful structures, the Sanitari- 

 um and Tabernacle. When I passed through them 



I I was still more astonished, and especially was I 

 pleased with that great printing-ollice. Boys and 

 girls as neat and clean-looking as our own at home, 

 did the work; and when I was told that no tobacco 



I or swearing was allowed iuside the walls, I felt a 

 great feeling of thaukfulness that I stood not quite 

 alone in what has so often been thought one of mj^ 

 eccentricities. I won't hurt anybody's feelings, will 

 I, to say this latter institution also showed their good 

 sense in having a ivoinan handle all the money of the 

 establishment? Well, you know I couldn'tvest with- 

 out knowing something of what kind of books they 



! make, so I kept " kind o' peeking" into things, and 



I pretty soon 1 opened a book and read about one 



■page of it. 



i " Look here, friend S., I want that book, and I do 

 not f^are what it costs." 



" Why, that is Dr. Kellogg's new book. Plain Facts^ 

 ahnut Common Things, and here is his new doctor 

 book." 



I read a page in the doctor book, and told him I 

 wanted that too, and now I am happy. No, I'm not 

 happy, cither, for [ wish everv one of our readers 

 who loves good health and God's laws could have 

 these books. Dr. Kellogg's especial forte seems to 

 be the study of the causes of crime; and his strong 

 earnest talks-seem to supplompnt the Homo Papers 

 of this number in a way that is tr ily wondertul. 

 These books will not onlv save doctors' bills and 

 give life here, but they may be the means of giving 

 eternal life to the inno.'-ent children who are uow 

 growing up in our homes, and going out into the 

 world May God's blessings rest upon the labors of 

 Dr. Kellogg! 



inARRIAGES. 



FOUNCROOK'S PATENT ONE-PIECE SECTIONS. 



OOT of respect to friend Forncrook we have per- 

 mitted the advertisement to go in as you see it, al- 

 though it does seem as if he were getting very close 

 to our friend Mitchell, in claiming all section boxes 

 made of one piece of wood. I have pointed him to a 

 letter in Gleanings, describing one-piece sections, 

 made and used several years ago; but his reply was to 

 the effect, that sections made of strawberry-box stuff 

 are quite another thing. This amounts to saying, 

 as I see it, that a rowjli box is not patented; but if 

 you plane it, or sandpaper it, you are infringing. Do 

 you say that a patent has beeq granted him? Very 



^XE of our oflice girls, whom a great 

 many of yoit will remember as "•Bess," 

 has " gone and got married." Here 

 are the particulars : — 



Married— In Medina, Thursday, Dec. 15,1881, Miss 

 Bess Johnston and Mr. It. H. Zimmerman, of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, by the Rev. Jas. St^owden, of Huron, O. 



And here are some af the parting adieus 

 from a few of the clerks : — 



Our good Queen Bess has left us. 



In another hive to reign; 

 O Bob! you have bereft us 

 Of our pleasure and our pain. — Lu. 



As a last losing token. 



We ati]{ for both this boon: 

 Bo their happiness vmbroken 

 In a lifelong honej moon. —Carrie. 

 The archer-boy drove from Bess' mind 



The thought of England's virgin queen. 

 And, like a chansring, ruthless wind. 

 In haste she changed her name, I ween. 



—Ten. 



For men will court, and maidens will trust, 



" Tho' the harbor bar be moaning." — Ellen M. 



May he who has had the good fortune to win "our 



Bess," love, prize, and ch»rish her, as she was loved 



and prized in tUe Home of the Honey-Bees! "Boss." 



