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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



ordered for a neighbor, not for myself. If you feel 

 like sending me an A B C book I will furnish the 

 neighbor the bees free, and call it settled all round, 

 as I have (i colonies from 1 lb. from Hayhurst, 1881. 

 Webster, Tnd., July 7, 1883. I. P. C. Steddom. 



Most ftladly will I send the A B (', friend 

 S., and may God bless you for letting me oft' 

 so easily. It will be remembered that I 

 asked, last month, to know just what amount 

 1 must pay, to have the whole matter droj)- 

 ped pleasantly. The three above have told, 

 and I liave paid their claims. The three fol- 

 lowing have written, but have not stated 

 what amount they would be willing to take. 



May 8, 1881, 1 sent H. A. Burch & Co. fSS 00; some 

 weeks before, I had sent an order for 13 nuclei, and 

 Inclosed f .j.CO, which I agreed to forfeit if I did not 

 send the rest. When they acknowledged the receipt 

 of draft of $35.00, they proposed to fill my order for 

 13 more at the same price, which shows that they in- 

 tended to defraud, as they knew the condition of 

 their bees at that date. R.Johnson. 



Tiffin, Johnson Co., Iowa, July 20, 1883. 



1 sent to II. M. Burch & Co., |;10.50 May 0th, 1881, 

 for bees, on the strength of their advertisement in 

 Gleanings, for which I was a subscriber, and am 

 now, supposing they were honest. I do not like to 

 lose my monej^ I lost all my bees, 13 colonies, and 

 had bad luck with what I had left, and got through 

 with 3; and if you are willing to stand a part of the 

 loss, it will be thankfully received by one not able 

 to begin anew in the world, being 73 years old the 

 13th of July. I would make an order on H. A. Burch 

 & Co. for $10.50, and if you could got it in time it 

 would be a satisfaction to me. I think that they are 

 <lishonest, and meant to be, for they wrote me that 

 they could fill my order if I sent the money April 35, 

 1881, and they received it May 9, 1881, and you know 

 how it stands now, and why 1 sent it, and let us 

 have no ill will toward each other by my taking you 

 at your offer. My circumstances are such that I am 

 not able to lose it. R. H. Gayek. 



White's Vallej', Wayne Co., Pa., July 5, 1881. 



The July number of Gleanings is at hand, and I 

 have just read your article on Burch. 1 am unable 

 to decide what is right. I sent the money to H. A. 

 Burch because you said you would be responsible 

 for your advertisers. I did not trust the man ever 

 since he charged you $.50.00 for damages on that 

 I'ovmdation ; but having lost my bees, I wrote to Mr. 

 Burch and others for prices and time of sending. 

 Mr. Burch was lower in price, and could send bees 

 sooner than any of the others, and consequently got 

 my money, against the wishes of my brother, who 

 said Burch would surely not send the bees as per 

 contract. Now, I will make affidavit to the follow- 

 ing facts, and also have witnesses to the same: That 

 I sent money to Burch on your guarantee, and that 

 I would not have sent it without that guarantee. 

 But now comes the point: Shall I receive the money 

 from you, without yoa getting value received? It 

 does not seem right; neither does it seem right for 

 me to lose it under the circumstances. I don't know 

 what to say, and will leave the whole matter for 

 you to decide whichever way you think is right, and 

 I will be satisfied. But I think Mr. Burch should be 

 reached somehow and punished. 



Sterling, III., July 6, 1883. A. F. Stauffer. 



I hope you will excuse me, friends, for 

 preferring you should decide yourselves 



what amount of money I owe you. Will 

 you not name the amount, and let us have 

 it ended ? 



Now when you read the kind letters be- 

 low, dear friends, let us have a broad chari- 

 ty for those who may think differently. 

 Every man has a right to his own opinion, 

 you know. 



My loss by Burch was $6.65; and although Gi>eAn. 

 iNGs was the cause, I don't want you to pay it. I 

 think your magnanimous heart swerved your judg- 

 ment, and I hope that those, at least with such small 

 accounts as mine, will be charitable enough not to 

 take advantage of your mistake. 



LaGrange, Ind., July 5, 1883. G. K. Hubbard. 



In July Gleanings j'ou have renewed the Burch 

 subject again; and as I wrote you once before on 

 the matter, I thought. I want to say I think you are 

 in no way responsible for any loss I may have sus- 

 tained in my deal with Burch. His advertisement 

 in Gleanings had nothing to do in the matter, but 

 his circular did the work. I wrote him the other 

 day, asking him to send me 2 queens and one pound 

 of bees, and I would drop the subject. No answer 

 yet; not time yet; if he responds favorably, will let 

 you know. J. R. M. Allen. 



Grcencastle, Ind., July 18, 1883. 



In July No. of Gleanings you wished to hear 

 from as many as you could, how the matter stands 

 on the (goose) or, rather, Burch question. Now, 

 honestly, I was led to send to H. A. B. & Co., by see- 

 ing his glowing advertisement in Gleanings. After 

 losing all my bees, and reading how wonderful, hardy, 

 docile, and prolific his strain of bees were, I fell in 

 love with them at once. The result was and is, no 

 bees nor money as yet; $11.50, borrowed at that. 

 Now, understand me, I do not ask you to pay any of 

 B.'s liabilities; after I decided that his bees were 

 " boss," I sent for his circular. I have been waiting 

 and hoping to hear from the justice to whom I gave 

 the account last fall. A few weeks since I offered to 

 sell out to him; have not yet heard. I am "spiling" 

 to write my experience with apiarian supply dealers. 



Clio, Mich., July 19, 1883. JAS. A. Shelden. 



Good-morning, Brother Hoot ! It rained last night. 

 Come to tell you, we got too much Burch. You 

 have whitewashed him till it won't stick on, even in 

 your own eyes. The best thing you can do is to 

 drop Burch from Gleanings; next, pay those you 

 know will never quit grumbling. In '81 I had no 

 bees; sent him $13.00 so as to get them early for a 

 start; said he would do it; ain't started yet; haveto 

 eat sorghum and glucose. Boses says Burch had 343 

 stands. Drop him, drop him. J.E.J. 



West Point, Iowa, July 18, 1883. 



It is letters like these from my fellow-men 

 that give me faith in humanity, and it is the 

 thought of the good, kind, and fair spirit 

 that we shall always find in humanity, wher- J 

 ever we go, that makes me feel that I shall ^ 

 never suffer very much, so long as I am try- 

 ing to do right. I guess the advice given by 

 our last brother, to drop friend Burch for the 

 ])resent, is about the best thing that we can 

 do. May be he will feel uncomfortable 

 about it, if we don't say any more, and per- 

 haps we shall all get it all back. Is that too 

 much faith in humanity again V It surely 

 is not too much faith in God ; and if he is 

 looking to God for guidance, it will surely 

 be all made right. 



