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GLEAmNGS IK BEE CULTUEE. 



April 



and night? move than all, are you proving 

 the words true every day of your life? Just 

 try one little point. Are you doing good, 

 and trying to do good daily to those who 

 hate you? If not, do you propose doing so, 

 or have you got a law of your own that you 

 prefer to God's law? 



You may cite me to those on l)eds of sick- 

 ness, and ask how it can be possible lor them 

 to prosper. Jesus can make even a dying 

 bed feel soft as downv pillows ; and he who 

 in sickness is meditating on God's law, and 

 putting it in practice in kind words to those 

 around the bedside, is prospering, in the tru- 

 est sense of the word. JNIoney and health 

 are good, as far as they go ; but they by no 

 means of themselves bring true joy and hap- 

 piness, such as comes to the one who has 

 God for a friend, and feels his great love, in 

 sickness or health, thrilling every fiber of his 

 being. Dear reader, are you happy? Is life 

 a great and glorious gift? If not, it is sure- 

 ly because your delight is not in God's law. 

 liead your 15ible more, and live it. 



GUEAwmc s m bee cultube. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



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Dollar queens are coming in and poing out 

 They are all right. Friend Mitchell, of Hawkins- 

 ville, Ga., puts a piece of thin red flannel over the 

 tin slide, so the bccswon'tget the toothache bj' stand- 

 ing barefooted on a cold tin tioor. 



IMEX2T3X3V.A., .^luZ=>fl.. 1, 3.332. 



The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; and to depart 

 from evil is understanding.— Job 28: 28. 



When I wrote the editorial in regard tobasswoods, 

 in our March No., I carelessly overlooked the adver- 

 tisement of friend Cheney, on page 108. 



The California Apiculturist for March was on 

 hand promptly, and is bright and lively. We can 

 club it with Gleanings for $1.75. 



From reports that come in. we judge it will be well 

 to give Mr. S. Hawley, of stingless-bee reputation, a 

 wide berth. He seems to be traveling about; so, 

 good friends, look out for him. 



On one of our advertising pages, our friend " M." 

 has given you a few specimens of our work. When 

 ordering, just mention the number of the label as 

 there given, and tell how many arc wanted. 



It is 4:238 subscribers we have this time, and it is i 

 colonies of bees that have dwindled since our last 

 visit. We saved the queen to one, and the other 3 

 we didn't. Well, <i lost out of 200 isn't von 'H(d, after 

 all. 



Business is booming in a way it never was before 

 at this season. With the aid of new and improved 

 machinery, and between 70 and 80 hands, we are do- 

 ing more and nicer work than wo ever did before 

 with a hundred hands. 



OuB enterprising friend Gates offers bees nmv for 

 a dollar a pound, as you will notice by his advertise- 

 ment. I really hope it will take the trade away 

 from us for awhile, so we can get time (and bees) to 

 raise seme honey this year. 



ALFALFA, OR LUCERNE. 



A PRETTY little pamphlet, telling all about this 

 plant, can be had free of Henry Loo, Denver, Col. 

 Our alfalfa has not as yet attracted \ory much at- 

 tention as a honp>-plant, but it has done prodigious^ly 

 as a forage producer. After being cutoff while in 

 blossom, it shoots up with a suddenness that is as- 

 tonisbing, and I think it very likely that a large 

 field would be more likely to bo visited by the bees. 



A "SQUARE man" is expected to be always able 

 to return the mimey by return mail, when asked to 

 do so, in case ho is unable to ship the goods; he la 

 also expected to pay every copper he owes anybod3% 

 when it is wanted. If ho can get longer time grant- 

 ed, well and good; hat to take time without its be- 

 ing granted, is not "scjuarc." This will necessitate 

 keeping close to the shore, it is true; but we always 

 expect to And all square men close to the shore. 



dipping-boards for FOUNDATION. 



If the dipping-boards described last month are 

 made with square edges, you will get a little strip of 

 wax on each edge, besides the regular sheet. Well, 

 if you have the edges of the board rounded ( ff to a 

 blunt knife-edge, the wax will separate on this sharp 

 edge, and you will have no narrow slip to pick off. 

 When the boards get so waxy they will not make 

 good sheets, wash them in concentrated lye, and 

 they will work like new ones again. 



Since friend Hasty's article was printed, it has oc- 

 curred to me that the phenomena he calls attention 

 to might be partially expUiincd by the fact, that 

 heavy showers always put a stop to the honey-yield, 

 and that it recovers only gradually. Well, as the 

 rain € vent iHilhj helps the secretion of honey, it would 

 take perhaps several daj's for it to get up to its max- 

 imum again. Will not this explain a part of the 

 facts he has recorded? Have our friends observed 

 it as I have stated? 



It may save a great many people trouble, to know 

 that screws are turned in by turning them in the di- 

 rection that the hands of a clock go, and out, by 

 turning them the opposite way. This applies to 

 thumb-nuts, bolts, globe-volves in steam-pipe?, and 

 machinery in general. A mechanic might smile at 

 such a piece of information ; but he should bear in 

 mind that every one is not a mechanic. Many ex- 

 pensive breakdowns might have been prevented by 

 just knowing which way to turn a nut or bolt, to 

 start it. 



Our friend J. M. Kinzie, of Doon, Ont., has been 

 published in two of the bee journals, for sending out 

 poor work in the shape of frames and sections. Mr. 

 Mason sent a complaint to us with i-equost to pub- 

 lish; but before so doing, we as usual wrote to Mr. 

 Kinzie. He replied very promptly, that he would 

 make every thing satisfactorj-, and did so at once. 

 Is it not well that every one should have a hearing, 

 before being published? Mason writes it is all set- 

 tled satisfactorily, but gives, as a reason fordoing 

 as he did, that ho wrote Kinzie repeatedly, and 

 got no answer. The moral, then, seems to be this: 

 All who deal in supplies must expect to answer all 

 complaints at least, by return mail, or they may be 

 published as swindlers before they know it. 



