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GLEAKINGS IN BlJE CtJLttJEE. 



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now it was near lo 8. Surely the boy must 

 be at play somewhere, and he will liave to 

 be looked after. I did not say it, but only 

 thought it. I was tempted to scold ; but a 

 better spirit has been telling me, lately, to 

 try to put myself in people's places when I 

 am inclined to tind fault, and so I decided 

 to say not a word until 1 had put myself in 

 the boy "s place. The way I did it was to 

 go and pick peas with him, right by his side. 

 True enough, he had not picked his basket 

 half full ; but before I had picked a great 

 while, I found where the trouble was. 

 " Wliy, L., there are no peas here to pick." 



" I know there ain't many, but you said 1 

 should commence at the hrst row and pick 

 them clean as I went, and that is what I liave 

 been doing." 



In obedience to my orders, the poor child 

 had, childlike, been all the morning going 

 over the very ground the women had picked 

 over the night before. 



" Look here, L., let us go over to the other 

 side and see if we can't do better." We did, 

 and in a few minutes the basket was full, 

 and I hadn't scolded a bit either. Don't 

 you think I thanked God that I had listened 

 to that better voice V Suppose I had hastily 

 decided he was lazy, and had been idling 

 away his time. Did you ever think what a 

 very wicked thing it is to scold children 

 when they are in no way at fault ? Just put 

 yourself in their places ; go sit down beside 

 them, and do the same work they do; win 

 their confidence, and encourage them to 

 talk freely, and tell you their reasons for do- 

 ing thus and so. They have reasons (queer 

 reasons though they seem to you and me, 

 sometimes) ; and although they do err in 

 judgment many times, still they think they 

 are doing right oftener than we know. May 

 God help us to be slow about judging even 

 the children. 



Now, then, friends, when next you feel 

 like judging harshly, just go and sit down by 

 the side of the one who seems selfish and 

 unscrupulous ; help him along with his work 

 a little while, just as I helped to pick peas ; 

 and if you don't see things in a different 

 light pretty soon, I shall be very much mis- 

 taken. 



For even the Son of man came not to be minister- 

 ed unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ran- 

 som for many. 



Or Letters from TIiosc AVho have lYIade 

 Bee Culture a. Failure. 



^DjgyjfONEY' crop a f otal failure here. Not one pound 

 J'ln'|[ of honey jet. Had to feed all through May. 

 Our only hope is fall flowers; and if weather 

 remains as it has been, we fhall have to feed for 

 winter. - T. H. Ki.geh. 



Tcrre Haute, Ind., July 18, 1883. 



ONCE "BUSTED HOPES." TWICE " HUSTEI) HOPES." 



I have 65 stands of bees, and no honey. 



Los Angeles, Cal., June 25, 1882. W . W. Bliss. 



Short but plaintive. Try " three times," 

 brother Bliss. 



GLEANtNGSJNBEE CULTURE. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



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IVE3E3X>XISr.^^, .^\.XTGIr. 1, 1882. 



Be of good comfort; rise, he calleth thee.— 



Makk 10:49. 



We can still pay 10 cts. each for January and Feb- 

 ruary numbers of this year. 



The Cortland Union Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held in Cortland, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1883. 



A SWINO FOH A DIME. 



One of our 10c clothes-lines has been doing service 

 as a children's swing, for some time, under our ma- 

 ple-trees. It nnt only holds the children, but even 

 their mother. Who wouldn't invest 10 cents to give 

 the little " chicks " a swing? 



Since our mention of the bee-stiug extractor, 

 Ernest informs me that he uses, with much satisfac- 

 tion, a pair of twec/.ers he got from the 5-cent coun- 

 ter, and which he keeps slipped on his suspender 

 buckle. With this, a sting can be plucked out en- 

 tire, without even compressing the poison-bag in 

 the least. 



WIEI, MOTH-WORMS WOUK IN FOUNDATION? 



I HAVE always supposed, until now, that no kind 

 of worms or insects would touch fdn. We are just 

 in receipt of a box, however, where the worms had 

 cut it up pretty badly, and the work looks exactly 

 like that of the moth -miller. We preaume, of 

 course, it was left ex poood — unboxed, may be, near 

 old combs containing moth-worms. 



HONEY-OATES. 



We have just succeeded in getting a honey or mo- 

 lasses gate, such as are used to screw into a barrel, 

 for an even 2')C. It is just the same as we have been 

 selling for ;55c. Postage will be as much more if 

 wanted by mail. The bore is ?». Our extractor 

 honey-gates will hereafter be tinned all over, inside 

 and out, but the price will be the same, 50c. Extra- 

 large size tinned gates, T5c., as usual. 



FII-r.INO TIN BOTTLES FOR QUEEN-CAGES, ETC. 



We now fill our bottles for queen-cages and pounds 

 of bees by means of a pall of water set on a shelf 

 overhead, and a tube leading down from it, ending 

 in asmallorittco, exactly like that of an oil-can. The 

 pressure of the water makes a jet that will shoot 

 into the bottles, and fill them instantly. Of course, 

 an oil-can will answer for a few; but where one has 

 many to do, an apparatus as above is a great saving 

 of time. W^e use a tin pail, and a tin tube soldered 

 in the bottom. Tin bottles for queen-cages are now 

 12c for 10, or $1.00 per hundred. 



OVERSTOCKINr.. 



For the first time In my life I have seen bees 

 enough to gather all the basswood honey, and our 

 four hundred colonies do it up clean, and long be- 

 fore night too. They fall around the entrances at 5 

 o'clock in the morning, very much as they used to 



