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GLEANIKGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Sept. 



his will that I should go on with this great 

 amount of work, that I seemed breaking 

 down under. It seemed to be his will that I 

 should go on ; but, like Paul's thorn in the 

 flesh, tbere seemed to come a promise that 

 he would guide, if I kept on and did the best 

 I could. I remember soliloquizing aloud, at 

 the time, to the effect that, if I came through 

 with all these cares and trials successfully, 

 no one ever need despair, who is pvittiug his 

 whole trust in God. I can look back now, 

 and review these answers as they came, one 

 by one. The building is completed, and now 

 no mortgage rests on it or on anj; of the 

 property I own. Theapiaryof 500 hives, for 

 queen-rearing, which was then one of my 

 perplexing problems, is finished, and in 

 working order, and succeeds beyond what I 

 scarcely dared hope for. The economy of 

 labor is such that a single man can attend 

 to the whole, the greater part of the year. 

 The ABC book is finished, and now goes 

 almost daily to every part of the Avorld, 

 where the English language is spoken. My 

 health, that so many times threatened to 

 give away, is now better than it ever was be- 

 fore in the world, and I not only keep up 

 the Gleanings, but, through God's mercy, 

 have, during this past summer, been ena- 

 bled to give the children a bee journal too, 

 at the middle of every month. As often as 

 health seemed to give away, I have prayed 

 for wisdom in the care of it, and a pathway 

 has been opened. Although I do a large 

 amount of writing, besides reading all your 

 letters, I am almost every hour out in the 

 open air, among the honey-plants, and fruits 

 and vegetables. Last, but not least, God 

 has led me through the tangled and perplex- 

 ing matter as to what was the path of duty 

 in regard to friend J5urch"s failure. All 

 claims have been settled except one, if I am 

 correct, and in a way that few, if any, can 

 find a word of fault. I have lost some mon- 

 ey, but the money belonged to God all the 

 time, and I am not afraid to let it all rest in 

 his hands, or, if he wills, to hold it to be 

 used as he directs. He has sent me difficul- 

 ties and trials, but he has led me through 

 them. Would it have been better for me if 

 he had, in answer to my prayers, taken these 

 difficulties away, instead of having helped 

 me to fight my way through themV Would 

 I have been better prepared to help ?/ou, my 

 friends, through the difliculties you come to 

 me with almost daily? 

 Blessed be the name of the Lord ! 



But let all those that put their trust in thee re- 

 joice: let them ever shout for joj% because thou de- 

 lendest them: let them also that love thy name be 

 joyful in thee. For thou, Lord, wilt bless the right- 

 eous; with favor wilt thou compass him as icitha 

 shield.— Psalm 5: 11, 12. 



Or Dcpartiuent for duties 1o bo attended to 

 tliiis niontli. 



l|r||,URING this month, beginners had bet- 

 fW) ter get their stocks in wintering trim. 

 Old hands may wait a month later, if 

 they choose. What I mean by wintering 

 trim, is to unite, or, by other means, make 



every hive a full colony. At the same time, 

 feed until they have their combs bulged with 

 sealed stores. JSTo colony that is to be winter- 

 ed ought to be queenless this month. If you 

 wish to sell queens this month, unite the 

 colony that was rearing queens, with one 

 that had a queen during the month, that the 

 wintered colony may have no break in hav- 

 ing bees of all ages. For instance, it is well 

 agreed that colonies made up of queen-rear- 

 ing nuclei do not winter as well as one that 

 has had a queen, producing young bees right 

 along day after day, through the whole fall. 

 The united nuclei having been, many or 

 all of them, without a laying queen for a 

 considerable part of the time, will have plen- 

 ty of bees, perha])s, but the ages do not 

 come right along like the normal colony, and 

 therefore we may find them, say next April, 

 with a few bees of so near an age that they 

 die off all so near the same time, the bees 

 seem to be gone all at once. Avoid such a 

 contingency, by having young bees hatching 

 out every day during this month and the 

 next, in all colonies that are to be wintered. 

 If honey is coming from the fields to keep up 

 this brood-rearing, well and good ; but if it 

 isn't, feed. Feed granulated sugar; and at 

 present I know of no simpler and cheaper 

 plan of feeding than the bread-pan feeder 

 described and illustrated about a year ago. 

 The general advice I would give would be to 

 winter in chaff hives, on their summer 

 stands, and I would put them in these chaff 

 hives now. If you make your own chaff 

 hives, now is a good time to save up nice 

 clean soft chaff'. Pack it in large sacks of 

 burlap, and put overhead in the barn, where 

 it can be kept clean and nice until wanted. 

 Have your bees, hives, and every thing else, 

 ready for winter long before frost comes, 

 and have them not only in fair order, but 

 have every colony extra good, and then you 

 can take the weather as it comes, expected 

 or unexpected. It may be well to keep in 

 mind that we always have some weather we 

 didn't expect ; therefore, be ready for it. 



GlEAWmC S m BEE CULTUnE. 



EDITOB. AND FUBLISHEB, 



MEDINA, O. 



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We have now on our 10-cent counter, rope halters, 

 surprisingly good, and well made for the money. If 

 a sample is wanted by mail, the postage will be 8 c. 



The smoker-spring, illustrated in the Aug. Jdve- 

 NiLE, should be oiled when it is first put on; and, in 

 fact, any smoker-spring should be kept well oiled if 

 you wish it to woi'k nicely, and not break. 



