1882 



GLEAI^LNGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



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FRIEND GIVEN IN CALIFORNIA. 



My health is still mending some, but I shall not be 

 able to return East this spring. The prospects in 

 Califorpia look well for a good honey crop this year. 

 I have the care of some 253 stands that are beginning 

 to swarm. D. S. Given. 



Los Angeles, Cal., Aprils, 1883. 



It is a very cold, raw, windy day. The first week 

 in April could not be improved — bees did splendid- 

 ly, and we bridged over the cold week following the 

 freeze, by feeding liberally, and continue to do so 

 every cold or stormy day. Our bees are in splendid 

 condition. Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Peoria, 111., April 33, 1882. 



spring versus winter. 



In my article, page 224, May No., I say, " If I kept 

 over 100." It should be, " If I kept many over 100." 

 I finished faking my bees out of the cellar April 30; 

 have lost one out of 141 in the cellar, and three in 

 the five days they have been out. I can winter bees, 

 but how to get them through the spring is what 

 troiMes me. Judging from my experience other 

 springs. If I have 100 the first day of June I will be 

 well satisfied. N. F. Case. 



Glensdale, Lewis Co., N. Y., May 5, 1882. 



swarming-boxes. 



There is a little mistake I see in printing my arti- 

 cle [on p. 243]. You say, ".5 or 6 boxes of different 

 lengths." It should be on pales of different lengths. 

 The reason why I think a " 5-cent basket on a pole " 

 would not be as good as a box, is, it could not be 

 handled so well, and crowded up through among the 

 limbs of a tree, as a box, if well made 



N. N. Shepard. 



Cochranton, Crawford Co., Pa., May 3, 1883. 



[To be sure, it should have been poles of different 

 lengths, friend S. How stupid in us!] 



HONEY FROM PEAS. 



After our long drought, one colony of hybrids 

 yielded me 50 lbs. extracted honey from the small 

 pea crop grown near town, making about 100 lbs. for 

 the colony. The peas arc the ordinary speckled or 

 whippoorwill peas. They are planted here in May or 

 June for cow feed. Immediately around town 10 or 

 15 acres are sown, and during the day till after sun- 

 down, the patches are in a perfect roar. As there 

 are no other sources of honey supply at that time, I 

 conclude they gather from the peas. 



Dr. T. J. Happel. 



Trenton, Gibson Co., Tenn., Mar. 30, 1883. 



[Many thanks, friend II. The pea you mention is 

 something unknown to us here. Will you be so kind 

 as to send me enough to sow about li acre? The 

 matter surely needs looking after.] 



ONE -QUART PAILS. 



I can't get 3-lb. pails made here for less than $16.00 

 per 100. Bees are nearly ready to swarm, the strong- 

 est of them. I did it by feeding. W. Malone. 



Oakley, Lucas Co., Iowa, April 37, 1883. 



[Tell your tinners, friend M., that if they wish to 

 be up with the times they can, with a little machin- 

 ery, be able to make these pails at the regular 

 prices; or they could do a nice trade on them by 

 purchasing a hundred or thousand at a time. There 

 is at present a great demand for them, and custom- 

 ers will often give 5 or 10 cents for a little pail, 

 for a single occasion, rather than to try to borrow 

 one. Our price for a covered pail to hold 3 lbs. of 

 honey is $5.35 per hundred.] 



TOBACCO COIiUMN. 



OUGHT doctors TO USE TOBACCO? ALSO THE REA- 

 SON WHY DR. TYRRELL NEVER DID. 



flOR many years I have wondered at the bad hab- 

 its of smart, educated men, and that they will 

 ' persist in using active poisons as medicines, 

 while many of them admit that the people would be 

 better off without such medicines; and nature and 

 common sense teach us better than to use them. No 

 wonder that boys and illiterate men got into the 

 habit of using whisky, tobacco, and other intoxi- 

 cants when the example is so prominently set be- 

 fore them. I taught my boys while they were young, 

 not to use tobacco, and not to use whisky, coffee, 

 nor tea, as a beverage, and not to take poisons or 

 anything that would act contrary to nature, and 

 only such as would assist nature in removing dis- 

 ease. And when they enlisted in the army I told 

 them there was more danger in the hospitals with 

 the surgeon's medicines than on the battlefield with 

 the enemy's tullets. My patients in army hospitals 

 and camps soon noticed the difference between my 

 medicines and treatment, and that of other surgeons. 

 I will not call their science of medicine " scientific 

 ignorance," nor their practice "murderous quack- 

 ery;" others may testify. When a boy, I quit the 

 use of tobacco while walking home from meeting 

 with the preacher's daughter, and have never 

 smoked nor chewed it since. Success to you in all 

 your works in every department of reformation! 

 D. Tyrrell, M. D. 

 Toulon, Stark Co., ML, April 34, 1883. 



ISTow, just look a here, friend T. We 

 think it's downright mean to leave off just 

 where you did. What became of that min- 

 ister's daughter? After she had wasted her 

 time in giving good advice to a tobacco-using 

 chap like yourself (begging pardon), if you 

 did not just set about taking good care of 

 her, and are in the same business yet, we 

 shall feel very much disappointed. May be 

 she will tell us about it; we are all listening. 

 May we beg of you to be so kind, Mrs. T.V 



Please find pay for the Clark smoker you sent last 

 fall, as I am again using tobacco. I am sorry, but 

 the flesh is weak. J. L. Mercer. 



Madoc, Ont., Can., May 8, 1883. 



Well, I declare, friend M., did tobacco re- 

 ally come out master and you the slave? In 

 any case, we know you are a " square man," 

 and a man of your word, and as such I re- 

 spect and honor you. Here is my hand, old 

 friend, and now I want to see you just 

 " buckle to it," and, with God's help, just 

 climb above that old appetite as did friend 

 Balch. Just hear him. 



March Gleanings came on time, and, as usual, 

 the first place to read was Our Homes. Being in a 

 hurry, and for what other reason I can not tell, un- 

 less it was to give me an idea what Gleanings 

 would be without the Homo Papers, I did not find 

 it. Well, I threw it down, and began to think, " Has 

 A. I. Root really backslid? if not, he would have 

 written something for the Homes." Then I began 

 to think of the many cares and trials in business; 

 and as my thoughts ran along, " You haven't prayed 

 for him lately," came into my mind. Then I picked 

 up Gleanings again, and the next thing to look for 

 important was the Tobacco Column, to see who had 

 given up the filthy habit, and, to my surprise, not 



