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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



April 



The goods canic all right. Every thing you sent 

 was nice and cheap. You will have to enlarge your 

 factory, or quit selling so low. Many thanks. 



Glasgow, Ky., Feb. 1«, 1H82. M. Winniger. 



That watch you sent me was duly received, and is 

 a heauty. I was offered $3.50 for it, but refused; 

 you see that would leave me Gleanings 4 years for 

 50 cents. J.B.Wise. 



Nappanec, Ind., Jan. 16, 1882. 



The lO-cent 2+-lb. spring balance T got from you 

 proved, by fair test, as you recommended them; 

 they are a cheap and good article. 



James H. Goouloe. 



Calvert Citj', Ky., Jan. 1(5, 18><2. 



The goods you sent came all right. The watch is 

 just " boss." It keeps time first rate so far. I was 

 disappointed in getting so many sections for the 

 amount. J as. J. Church. 



Waterford, Ont., March 6, 1S83. 



Don't give up the Hotne Papers. Your every-day 

 experiences and trials and t-hortcomings are worth 

 more to me than long sermons on theology. 



F. A. Rlake. 



Rochdale, Worcester Co., Mass., Feb. 20, 1882. 



The Waterbury watch that I ordered of you came 

 to hand all right. I am much pleased with it. It 

 keeps better time than half of the $10.00 watches 

 about this place. E.T.Anthony. 



Normandy, Tenu., March 11, 1882. 



I received the watch you sent me by mail, in due 

 time. To say that I am much pleased with it, does 

 U'lt express my appreciation of it; it keeps excellent 

 time. How you can afford to give them away as 

 you do, " muddles" me. W. J. Stewart. 



Seaford, Del!, Jan. 14, 1883. 



We can truly say, that Gleanings has been the 

 bpst advertising medium we have yet iried. Since 

 the Jan. number came out we have had hundreds of 

 calls for samples, and our order-book shows a long- 

 list of orders from those who want their fdu. and 

 other goods in time for the season's work. 



G. W. SrANLEY & Bno. 



Wyoming, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1882. 



When I wrote to you I was in a great hurry, and I 

 did not tell you how to send the hive; in fact, after I 

 sent the letter it came to me that I did not write the 

 town I five in. It does seem to me you must be a 

 Christian man or you could not be ^o calm when you 

 have such letters written to you. for I know you 

 have a great number. Henry D. Ainsworth. 



Westboro, Mass., Feb. C, 1882. 



WORTH ITS weight IN GOLD. 



I agree with you about the "Christian's Secret of 

 a Happy Life," and would love to order ten copies, 

 but we have just come to a uew country, and are 

 trying to get a start. Mrs. W. L. Helm. 



Ocala, Fia., Jan. 3, 1882. 



Goods received all satisfactory, especially the A B 

 C book, in which I am much interested. Mrs. B. 

 says that she can not get me interested in any other 

 reading, t am now wintering 3U swarms; but if I 

 had had the book last summer I should have had 

 them in better shape than they are. 



Ellington, N. Y., Feb. 11, ISSi. O. P. Barber. 



The ABC received, and I have just finished an at- 

 tentive examination of your most valuable work on 

 bee culture, and can not wonder, after a careful 

 reading,thatit is meeting so large a sale. The world 

 is greatly indebted to you for presenting in such an 

 attractive form the amount of useful information 

 you have collected within its pages. 



Tom M. Hardwick. 



Strickler, Ark., Feb. 11, 1S83. 



THE FIVE-CENT NIPPERS. 



The .5-cent nippers give perfect, satisfaction. I 

 can cut lead with them, and have cut brass and cop- 

 per wire too. And those other tools you sent me 

 were worth twice what they cost me. I have 4 hives 

 of b^es, and li6 lbs. of box honpy, and 80 lbs. of ex- 

 tracted. The latter brought me 10 cents, and the 

 comb 13 cents. L. F. Williams. 



Bast Berkshire, N. Y., Feb. 3S; 1883. 



The Waterbury watch is just at hand. Accept my 

 sincere thanks. How in the world can the Water- 

 bury Co. afford to sell such a beauty of a watch to 

 you so that you can afford to give it as a premium 

 for 0)i7.i/ five subscribers? Do they work for noth- 

 ing and board themselves? As 1 already have two 

 watches, I intend making my cousin the happiest 

 boy in town by giving him the Waterbury. Again, 

 please accept my thanks. W. S. Boyd. 



Hamilton, O., March 14, 1882. 



THE re-CENT telephone. 



Telephone up and works well; but that No. 25 cop- 

 per wire j'ou sent is too small — it won't stand pull- 

 ing. Fortunately, there was enough of the large to 

 reach. C. B. Thwing. 



Hamilton, Mo., Feb. 4, 1S81. 



[We know it, friend T., and we will replace the 

 copper wire by the annealed brass wire we use now, 

 to you or any others who h^d the copper, if they 

 will mention it.] 



HOW friend w. came to be pleased "all over." 

 As I examined the various articles,! was pleased 

 " all over;" but you have made a very bad mistake; 

 you have sent what I did not order; namely, two 

 watches instead of c?i ". One came by mall a few 

 days after my order was sent; the other was packed 

 in the box with the other goods; but I sold one the 

 vcrj' first time I showed it and said it was for sale. 



S. M. Wallacjs. 

 Cassville, Harrison Co., O., Feb. 7, 1883. 



The clock "Fairy Queen" goes beaulifuUy. The 

 makers of this clock have aptly named it, and it is 

 very beautf ul Indeed. I bouarht it mostly on account 

 of the alarm attachment: wife and I are both sleepy- 

 headed, especially in the morning, and our sitting- 

 room clock generally failed to awaken us, away otf 

 up stairs in our bed room. The "Fairy Queen" 

 alarm is just right; it awakens Mrs. Taylor, and — 

 and — Jeaues me asleep along with the baby "black 

 eyes," who is not much of a baby either, as he is 

 nearly 2 years old. R. C. Taylor. 



Wilmington, N. C, Feb. 17, 1883. 



The third and last Waterbury watch sent by you 

 to lill my order (the two former not giving satisfac- 

 tion, having been injured in the mails) was received 

 safe and sound, and it keeps excellent time. It was 

 wound up as soon as received, and has not stopped 

 one minute since. I confess that I was somewhat 

 disappointed after receiving the second watch, and 

 not being able to start it; and had it not been for 

 the implicit confidence that I placed in your word, 

 coupled with your fair dealings with me in the past, 

 you most certainly would have received an article 

 for the Growlerv. J. D. Brands. 



Delaware Station, Warren Co., N. J., Feb. 6, 1882. 



The goods have arrived in good condition, and are 

 entirely satisfactory. I like to see good workman- 

 ship: and when it is furnished at so low a price as 

 the 3401b. scales and the3.5-cent dividers, it gives me 

 still greater pleasure. Bees are wintering finely in 

 their chaff' hives. The winter has been mild so far. 

 My neighbor who lost two-thirds last winter, has 

 protected his bees this; but 1 presume by the time 

 we have another cold winter he will have forgotten 

 his losses and lost his zeal. " Our Homes," Part II., 

 has done me much good, and has been read and 

 praised by the rest ot the family. I pray for you 

 dai y. C. B. Thwing. 



Hamilton, Caldwell Co., Mo., Jan. 28, 1882. 



My time was out in Dec, and although but a short 

 time has elapsed since I read its interesting pages, I 

 can feel a sad and lonely feeling "stealing " over 

 me because I have not had the opportunity of pe- 

 rusing this month's Gleanings. Our little "pets", 

 are now placed within their little beds, being sur- 

 rounded by dry wheat chaff, which keeps them 

 warm and healthy. Oh how it fills the apiarist with 

 enthusiasm, to know that his industrious little 

 " friends " are safely housed amid the cold and 

 storms of winter! and when summer comes, what a 

 joy he feels as the myriads of little " fellows," from 

 early morn to eventide, endeavor to repay Dim for 

 his little trouble in preparing for them a beautiful 

 home in which to live, and plentiful covering under 

 which to sleep during the severe winter. 



E. J. HiNSHAW. 



Lynn, Randolph Co., Ind., Jan. 24, 1883. 



