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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jui,Y 15 



JAKE SMITH'S LETTEKS. 

 THAT PALLUS HIVE A FAILURE. 



A. I. Gleanings— deer 

 Sir: — You know that 

 bee pa] his I got. Last 

 yeer it diddent do 

 uolhin, but then it 

 was a bad yeer. I 

 took hart when I see 

 how the white clover 



was a boom in evry- 



•g*a[K<^^^^l^|^^^;gZ where this yeer, and 

 "v^^l^^v .«3te^^!^?>cS3^,^vry little while I 

 lookt into it to see if 

 ihe bees were a bildin 

 down into it from the 

 hive a sittin onto it. 

 ^ Finelly 1 day I see 



the bees a hangin down into it a little, and my 

 hopes begun to raise. You know the agent sed 

 how the bees wood fill it fool of combs, and 

 hunny, and never swarm. And he was a reel 

 nice-appearin man. 



Books that have' helped HE 



(iiM THE HoiMEY Business.) 



Well, it wazzent but a phue days after that 

 when out cums a swarm. I hived it into a skep 

 washed out with salt water. They say the 

 bees likes that. Then in a week or so annther 

 swarm cum out. And. wood you beleave it? 



they was anuther still. That left the old hive 

 so week it wazzent no good hardly, and I jist 

 took it off from the pallus and sot it down on 

 the ground. Ime dun with that pallus. I haint 

 no faith into it. For at the rate it has gone so 

 far, it wood take 100 yeers to git it filled. 



Now what I want to know is what use I can 

 make out a that pallus. Wood it be good to 

 raze your chickens in, or to raze sellery ? Glass 

 mite be poot on top. Mebby you cood tell, Mr 

 Gleenings, in them pages of your magazeen 

 where you tell about razin stroberries and cab- 

 bidges. 



That magazeen of yourn is a rite good book. 

 Zed is wonderfully took with it. And my old 

 woman she likes them eggzortations of yourn. 

 But I doant see that you and R. H. Randall 

 makes out right clear how evil cum into the 

 world. Also I doant see how it makes so much 

 difference. Around here we are a good eel 

 more interested to know how to git it out than 

 to know how it cum in. The uther day the old 

 sow got into the garden, and we diddent stop 

 to argy how she got in, but jist all of us set to 

 and druv her out. If we had stopt to argy if 

 she got in the gate or under the fence before we 

 jined forces to git her out, we mite hed more 

 nollidge, and agin we mitent, but wede a hed a 

 good bit less garden sass. 



That ABC book of yourn is tiptop. Do you 

 have a First Reader that cums after it? If it 

 keeps on to the Fourth Reader they must be a 

 good deal to lurn about keepin bees. But your 

 way of keepin bees is a good eel different from 

 ours. Seems to me if you never took up no bees 

 in the fall but jist kept them all, that the whole 

 farm would git cuvvered with bees. But I 

 must say it always did look kind a tuff to 

 smuther the poor little insecks after thade 

 worked hard all summer long to git sumthing 

 ahed for winter. 



Zed says we must adop the new methods, but 

 it seems kind a queer like to think you can git 

 more hunny by leavin the bees to eat it up in 

 the winter. 



I see a peace in a paper rit by a man In 

 Cleveland tellln how he had been grately help- 

 ed in gittin hunny by a number of books. Zed 

 thot it wood be a good thing after we got threw 

 the A B C to have some more books, so we sent 

 to the Cleveland man for a list of the books 

 that had helped him. He diddent send no list, 

 but sent us this pickter a showing how the 

 books had helped him in the youthful period of 

 his childhood. He got the joke onto us pirty 

 good, diddent he? Jake Smith. 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLES. 



The United States Department of Agriculture 

 has seen fit to send out an extra bulletin, cau- 

 tioning farmers against 



NOSTRUMS FOR INCREASING THE YIELD OF 

 MILK. 



The bulletin is by Prof. H. W. Wiley, Chief 

 Chemist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 The principal swindle is the black-pepsin fraud; 

 and the whole thing seems to emanate from the 

 man Bain, hailing from the vicinity of Zanes- 

 ville, O. This Bain seems to be not only the 

 hane of our State, but if we do not get him into 

 the penitentiary speedily he will be the bane of 

 the whole United States; and although the 

 black pepsin has been shown up again and 

 again by almost all of our agricultural papers, 

 it seems that thousands upon thousands of 

 dollars are still being paid by the farmers and 

 druggists into the pockets of this Bain. We 



