1882 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUllE. 



377 



lbs. per day for 30 days; and of honey received from 

 my 36 colonics io the spring' to date, Is not quite 5000 

 lbs. I have many hives to go thr mgh yet. 



Now, my friends, I give j'ou a biir hono5'-yield,and 

 some may doubt it; but I am rea y to produce wit- 

 nesses, or to be qualitied to the above statement. 

 This honey is all from the horsemint, which has 

 been in bloom 50 days. I began operations last 

 spring with 36 colonics, weak and strong, and have 

 to-day 111 colonics, weak and strong. Don't you 

 think I am entitled to a grand premium? and don't 

 you think every bee journal ought to give me a copy 

 a year free? The harvest is about over for this 

 year. B. F. CAUKOLii. 



Dresden, Navarro Co., Texas, July, 1883. 



P. S.— Since writing the above, I see friend Atch- 

 ley's report, and will have to give in that I expect 

 him to wear the " blue ribbon;" we'll see. After 

 reading his report we took cut Iho 18' i lbs. to make 

 ours even 709, and think we maybe able to get more. 

 The Queen is doing good work — has 18 frames full 

 of brood. Who wants this queen at fSO.OO? She is 

 worth 6100; she has made me |105 worth of honey 

 this season. Thank God, dear friends, for this enor- 

 mous yield. If I had extracted all tne stories the 

 1st and 7th of June, I could have got 100 lbs. more. 

 And again: if I had taken the honey €very five days 

 instead of seven, I could have got 200 lbs. more — a 

 clear loss of 300 lbs., bj' not being able to watch the 

 hive as I should. 1 was overrun; and so, friends, 

 you see this hire could have given half a ton of hon- 

 ey, instead of 700 los. 1 may yet get the 300. 



B. F. C. 



Why, friend C, with your great yield of 

 honey it hardly seems to me you need a 

 present. We have noticed your achieve- 

 ment in another column. 



H. A. BIRCH & CO. 



THE LAST CHAPTER (PIIOB.A.1JLY ). 



^I^UR fiiends will all remember that Mr. 

 WM ]3urch complains bitterly of the course 

 ^-^^ the bee journals have taken in regard 

 to his affairs ; and although he may not have 

 said so, there seems to be no other apparent 

 reason that he should call on me to pay his 

 debts, than that I damaged his business 

 most by being first to make it known that 

 he had no bees of that superior strain, to till 

 the orders that might be sent him. By so 

 doing, I stopped money from going to "him 

 any more. If I did wrong, I did what I hon- 

 estly supposed to lie right, and I would do 

 the same thing again now. Further, I shall 

 do the same thing again, if I have good rea- 

 son to think any of you are advertising that 

 wliich you have not got and can not get. iSIr. 

 Burch, as you know, turned all his creditors 

 to me, saying he had made arrangements 

 with me to pay his debts. The " arrange- 

 ment " was simply the fact, that I had guar- 

 anteed my advertisers to be good men. On- 

 ly a few weeks ago I received a letter from 

 an entire stranger, asking me to remit him 

 over a hundred dollars that he had sent to 

 Burch. Mr. B. had written him this present 

 season that he could not fill the order, but 

 that if he would send his claim to me I 

 would pay it. Well, the friends who were to 

 get their" pay of me, naturally wished to 



know if Mr. Burch was to make me good, if 

 I paid their claims. Several of them, as you 

 see, refuse to take any thing from me, un- 

 less I am to be made good in some way. 

 Mr. Burch has never even intimated to me 

 that he would make me good, if I paid these 

 claims. I presume he thinks I should do it 

 for damaging his business. 



Well, friends, there is a bright side to all 

 this. I have prayed many times that God 

 would guide me and bring me safely through 

 it all, and he has done so. A few may cen- 

 sure me, and say I do not live up to Avhat I 

 profess ; but they are very few, compared 

 with the number who have, not only by 

 words, but deeds, sliown their friendship, 

 yes, and even love, for your poor awkward 

 friend who has been trying to tell you, in his 

 own way, the " old, old story." The bright 

 side is. that nearly all have refused to take a 

 copper of my money under the circumstan- 

 ces, but insist it is Burch who owes them, 

 and not I. The following friends think I 

 honestly owe them the amounts mentioned, 

 and I have paid them : — 



With regard to the amount that I am willmg to 

 take in settlement of the Burch claim, I will say 

 that my claim against him amounts to $117.50. Burch 

 claims there should be deducted from this, $3.00 

 freight charges which he paid on the wax I sent 

 him; this would leave $115.50 as the amount my due, 

 and which I am willing to take in settlement of my 

 claim. It seems a large amount for you to pay out 

 without' receiving any equivalent, but I have spent 

 or lost about as much, counting the extra price I 

 have paid for bees, after failing to get them of him ; 

 the expense I incurred in my trips to South Haven, 

 and the interest on the money invested, to say noth- 

 ing of the loss caused bj' delay in getting my bees. 



Capac, Mich., Juno 6, 1883. B\'R0n Walker. 



Now in regard to H. A. Burch & Co. According to 

 your reiuest in July Gleanings, I will report the 

 amount sent him. June, 1881, $14.00, for which I 

 have not received any thing, except a few postal 

 cards that contained fair promises. I will say that I 

 would not have sent him a dollar, but for the reason 

 that you vouched for the payment of the same in 

 case he failed to send the articles purchased of him, 

 or any one else who advertised in your columns; 

 therefore I will expect payment of you ; but don't 

 understand that I intend to sue you, for I have no 

 such intention ; but what I mean is this: that, if 

 J'OU don't refund it, it is lost for ever, and that you 

 are better able to lose it, I mean the whole $3000.00, 

 than I am to lose $11.00; therefore, if you feel wil- 

 ling to refund the amount sent H. A. Burch, please 

 send 3 lbs. of comb foundation for brood-chamber, 

 worker comb of the Given make, if you have it; if 

 not, send such as you have. I am needing it now. 

 If the proposition does not suit you, send it, and I 

 will send you the amount of same as soon as I have 

 it to spare. I don't think, friend Root, that you will 

 lose any thing in the end by paying H. A. Burch's 

 indebtedness. I will do what I can for you, by 

 swelling the number of subscribers for Gleanings, 

 also the sale of any thing that you have advertised. 

 It is true, it is hard to pay another man's debts. 



W. DiCKERSON. 



Ladoga, Montgomery Co., Ind., July 5, 1883. 



You want all the Burch claims in before the Aug. 

 No. of Gleanings is out. My claim is $3.50 for bees 



