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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 



lence that walketh in darkness, or the destruction 

 that wasteth at noonday. Thou mayst torture, but 

 thou canst not destroy; thou mayst afflict, but thou 

 canst not kill. I may shudder, but I shall not sink; 

 I may groan, but I shall rejoice; I may b'> wounded, 

 but I shall be conqueror. Though I die, 1 live. Be- 

 cause I have ever died in living, I know I shall live in 

 dying. To thee only, do I die: to supernal joys, to a 

 better life, I live." 



_ Tremblinpr, hoping:, lingeiinj?, flying,— 



• Oh the pain — the bliss of flying ! 



O dear hearer, whosoever thou art, may you and I 



so live, so pass through all other crises, that, when 



this last great earthly crisis Fhall come we may say,— 



The world recedes; it disappears; 

 Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears 



With sotinds serai>hic rin;;; 

 Lend, lend your wiiiHs! 1 iimunt, I flyl 

 O Grave! where is thv vietory; 



O Death ! where is thy sting* 



Once more, dear friends, I commend to 

 you the opening text, — 



For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 

 begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 

 should not perish, but have everlasting life— John 

 3:16. 



Read it over and over again, and when you 

 begin to drinli in this great promise, read 

 the whole chapter and the whole book ; then 

 ask yourself what would be the consequence 

 of making your life conform to the ruling 

 spirit of that book. 



I love thee, because thoii hast first loved me. 

 And purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree; 

 I love thee for wearing the thorns on thy brow; 

 If ever 1 loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now. 



I will love thee in life, I'll love thee in death. 

 And praise thee as long as thou lendest me breath; 

 And when the death-dew lies cold on my brow. 

 If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now. 



ClEANmC S m BEE CULTtinE. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



* MEDINA, O. 



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Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom 

 shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.— 

 John 6:68. 



Kemember that fdn. is now 5c per lb. more than 

 quoted in any price list you may have received prior 

 to June 1st. 



Order queens and bees from some one near you. 

 Don'thave them shipped long distances, if you can 

 possibly avoid it. 



We have now about 300 colonies of bees, and 4,785 

 subscribers, and a business that amounts to from 

 one to two hundred orders a day. 



A GREAT trade has sprung up in the Jones bee- 

 guards, to put before the entrance. Price, each, 10c; 

 by mail, 12c; 90c for 10, or S8.00 per hundred. 



Can not some friend in Oregon advertise and fur- 

 nish queens? We can ship them thus far, but the 

 losses are so great that it is, as a whole, a losing bus- 

 iness. As it will be a very great accommodation all 

 round, we will give such an advertisement free, from 

 some responsible party. 



Just see how the papers go on: " Some sage Ohio 

 legislator wants it declared felony for a man to 

 break into a bee-house. Why not make it a crime 

 to sit down on a hornet's nest?" 



As no one has sent in any thing for the " Kemind- 

 ery," we leave out that department this mouth; but 

 I tell you to look out for robbing and starvation, in 

 localities whe:e clover is not yet out. 



Everybody now seems prospering in the bee bus- 

 iness, and I hope this season to see nice honey offered 

 at so low a price that it may come more into general 

 use than it has ever done any season before. 



It seems to me as if our reporters were a little 

 sleepy, some of them, in regard to the condition of 

 the wax markets. The New York quotations sound 

 as if they knew what wns going on, and were ready 

 for business; but how about the rest? 



Prices of goods change unavoidab'y, and, what is 

 still worse, it is a hard matter to get the clerks to 

 explain these changes, as we would like to have them 

 do. Please bear in mind, dear friends, we can not 

 write very long letters about a 5 or 10-ccnt article, 

 but we do alw.nys put in your package a late price 

 list, informing you of the change in prices. 



Some idea may be obtained of the favor with 

 which our 50c Clark smoker is being received, when 

 I tell you we purchased one bill of leather for them, 

 amounting to S180.00, This will make about 5000 

 smokers, and they will hardly last us through the 

 present season. Those made now are a great im- 

 provement over those of a f- w months ago. 



Wi£ shall pay, during this month, 75c each for dol- 

 lar queens, from reliable breeders. We shall sell 

 them for J1.35. I do not suppose they will be any bet- 

 ter than those you buy of other parties, only wc pro- 

 pose to send them, in all case?, by return mail. We 

 can not undertake to deliver queens alive to Ore- 

 gon, and other like remote points. If these distant 

 friends will take the risk, we will do the best we can. 



Our good friend Mrs. Lowe has again this spring 

 sent us more queens, and in nicer order, than any 

 other queen-rearer in the South, man or woman. I 

 feel a degree of pride in telling this, because it dem- 

 onstrates pretty conclusively that women are equal 

 to men in one more department of the useful indus- 

 tries. May be her husband does the work, and she 

 gets all the credit, which, you know, is often the 

 case (?). How is it, friend L.? 



Fruit-blossoms are over, and wc are now feeding 

 our bees on soft-maple sugar, laid right on top of 

 the frames, under the enameled sheet. Any kind 

 of sugar will do to feed now that they tvill eat, and 

 it is a great mistake to let brood-rearing stop for the 

 want of a pound of maple sugar. If you haven't 

 maple, stir up any sugar with a very little water, 

 until it makes a sort of dough. When you get 

 through, you haven't any feeders to gather up and 

 stow awaj'. 



We hope to be able to fill orders for our regular- 

 sized Simplicitysections; but to stop our machinery 

 now, and adjust it over for each 500 or 5000 sections, 

 is almost an impossibility. Another drawback is, 

 that we find it 'nipossibliJ to make odd sizes without 

 much waste cfe 'umber, aside from the delay. lam 

 very sorry to 's«em so disobliging, but for these rea- 



