1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



533 



JAKE SMITH' S LETTER. 



THE MKKTIN . 



A. I. Oleenintjs — deer 

 Sir: — Since I rote yu 

 last, tilings has cum 

 to a climax into our 

 meeting house. A 

 church court ciim 

 and sot onto the case, and 

 Sok away our preecher. 

 and made the church pay 

 him *:200 extra. He preach- 

 ed a fairvvell sermon that 

 was fool of.lovin kindness, 

 tellin us to be good to the 

 next preecher we got, and 

 prayed for grate blessins 

 onto the church. He's a 

 good man if ever they was 

 Lots of them cride at 

 the thot of givin up him 

 and Missus Bond. 



In a fue days we had a 

 bizness meetin, and Wel- 

 der eggzorted evry buddy 

 to stand shoalder to shoal- 

 der and work for the good 

 of the church, and h(> seemed to be in wonder- 

 fool good yumer. When I got a chants to say 

 sumthin I got up and spoke, and sez I: 



"Ime rite glad to see sitch a spirit of loyalty 

 to the church. I wish they was more of it. I 

 wish it was a little more reglar. I beleave in 

 bein loyal to the church all the year round, 

 whether it's a preecher I like or not. When I 

 joined the church I diddeut join no preecher, 

 but I joined the church, and 1 doant beleave in 

 stayin away from meetiu or prayer-meetin jist 

 becaws I doant like the preecher. I doant cum 

 to prayer-meetin to pray to the preecher, but to 

 the Lord; and I beleave we need to pray to the 



Hf dojnt prpffh. 8rbit 

 poliUchs. into'he piupi 



word agin him. And if bruther Welder had 

 counted up the number of pocket hangkachers 

 peapel was a cryin into when Mr. Bond preech- 

 ed the fairwelf sermon he wood hardly think 

 that evry buddy was agin him excep me and a 

 fue under my influents. 



"I beleave in standln shoalder to shoalder," 

 sez I, " but if thade a bin a little more of the 

 shoalder-to-shoalder bizness when this trubble 

 1st begun it wood a bin a good thing. And I 

 beleave in peas and hariuunny too, but I doant 

 beleave in hearin peapel tock about peas and 

 harmunny, and all the time thare a goin around 

 a sturrin up strife. 



" And now," sez I, " I spose in the Lord's oan 

 good time heal send us another preecher 

 Mebby heal be as good as the last, and mebby 

 he woont. But whatever he may be, I propose 

 to stand by him jist as long as he's my paster. 

 And I want all the members to do the same. 

 Doant let nobuddy cum around a tockin agin 

 him to you. Why, if the angle Gaberell him- 

 self was our preacher, and sumbuddy went a 

 sneakin around a wliisperin to this 1 and that 

 1 that sum was dissaiislide with Gaberell, and 

 for the sake of peas we must give him up, it 

 woodent be no time till half the weak-headed 

 fools wood see sum failins into Gaberell, and 

 sum with weak backbones wood think we must 

 giv him up for the sake of havin peas. I doant 

 beleave in sitch a unpeasable sort of peas. And 

 I doant beleave in givin up to the rong for the 

 sake of peas. It haint to be all peas into this 

 life. We offen sing, shure I must tite if I wood 

 rain. And now all Ive got to say is this— stand 

 shoalder to shoalder, and the way to stand 

 shoalder to shoalder is to stand by your preech- 

 er, in peas if you can: but if you have to (ile 

 for it. still stand by your preecher; threw thick 

 and thin, stand by your preecher." 



Jake Smith. 

 The End. 





QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 



HOW TO PUT FOUNDATION IN HKOOD- 

 FRAMES; HEDDON'S SHORT WAY 

 OF TRANSFERRING. 



Lord jist as mutch if 

 \\ e hav a preecher we 

 doant like, and mebby 

 more. Yes, I like loy- 

 alty to the church. Aiid 

 it, mite a bin a good 

 ihing if bruther Welder 

 had ihot a little more 

 about loyalty a yeer 

 ■igo. I cant say I like 

 I he kind of loyalty he 

 haf'. then. I cant say I 

 ike tluit kind of loyalty 

 that goes around try in 

 to turn peapel agin the 

 preecher. And sitch a 

 preecher! They haint a 

 sole here that dast say a 



Order r30,!)57 came in good condition, 

 and I am perfectly satisfied, espe- 

 cially with the foundation, which 

 was much better than the sample. 

 The Hoffman frame is a daisy; but 

 don't you think the foundation could 

 be fastened easier if a groove were 

 cut in the place of the comb-guide, 

 large enough to receive the edge of 

 the foundation? then take a small 

 brush and apply a little wax to hold 

 it lirmly in place. This brings the 

 foundation exactly in the center. 

 I have transferred a swarm of bees 

 by Heddon's method. Two thirds of the bees 

 are in a new Dovetailed hive, and the rest are 

 in the box hive. Now, at the end of ;il days I 

 should like to drum them out and put them into 

 a new hive— not the same hive that the otiier 

 bees are in, thus making two distinct colonies 

 of the bees which wei'e in the old box hive. Can 

 this be done? Will not the bees that are left 

 in the box hive rear a queen after Ki days? 



Is there any objection to painting hives 

 white? 



Should the renuiining third of the bees left in 

 the box hive be left any longer than :.'! days in 

 making two swarms of them ? F. R. 



[As we have received a good many irKiuiries 

 of late, of a character similar to the above, wb 

 have decided to answer them all through 



