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GLKANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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dark pineries and into the lives of burdened men 

 depends on the amount of help received. Showers 

 of fragment dimes and nickels and pennies wonid 

 bring' "sliowersof blessings." 

 Can you help our winter camp-nieeting's ? 

 In his name, 



Emma r. Nason. 

 Blodgett Mills. N. Y. 

 Chairman of the Lumbermen's and Miners' Mission 

 of the King-'s Daughters and Sons. 



REPORTS ENCOURAGING. 



I can report 2:.'.000 lbs. of extracted honey 

 from my 110 colonies the past season. 

 Riverside, Cai., Aug. 19. H. E. Wii.dek. 



The honey crop in this section Is the largest 

 we have had in some years — white clover most- 

 ly. My 4.^ colonies gave l.'iOO lbs. comb honey, 

 .500 lbs. extracted. It is dry now, and they are 

 at a standstill. Chestei; Belding. 



Middletown. N. Y.. Aug. 12. 



I see ill (iLEANiNfis Some Very bad reports 

 from our State, so I will report my success, 

 which I think is good. I had 13 colonies, spring 

 count, and goc 764 lbs. of comb honey (white 

 clover and alsike), mostly in 1-lb. sections. I 

 increased to '.'7 colonies, and went through the 

 hives S days after swarming, and cut out queen- 

 cells, but got an after-swarm from one hive, as 

 I must have missed a queen-cell in it. Bees 

 rested through August, but have been doing a 

 land-oftire business on smartweed, that grows 

 on low land. All my honey last year was from 

 smartweed. and I got 47 lbs. per colony surplus 

 from that source. I use the 8-frame Dove- 

 tailed hive. J. W. Cook. 



Poneto, Ind., Sept. Kl 



Ourselves and our neighbors. 



Charity vauntetli not itself: is not puffed up; 

 dotli not bi'have itself un.seeml.v.— T. Coh. 13:4, .") 



writes as follows 



Only one sentenct' in friend Austin's letter trou- 

 bles me. He says: " Mr. Terry, in a iate article in 

 the P. F., does not g'ive the name of the farmer wlio 

 wroti' him about potato-bugs, very considei'att'ly, 

 tliinking- hi' had just laid him out." May God take 

 away tlie strength from my right hand when I use 

 my experience with the pen to simi)ly " lay out" 

 a bi'oiher-farmer wliose jjractici's are different from 

 mine; and may he help me to always try to show 

 friends in a simple and kindly way liow it seems to 

 niethey can Improve. 



Now. I do not know that, among all of friend 

 Terry's utterances, there is any tiling that has 

 pleased ine so much as the point made in the 

 above. In newspaper controversyfand we have 

 a good deal of it) it has long been a custom for 

 the readers to take , sides with different promi- 

 nent writers, and to -set them on. by couns(!l 

 and encouragement, as it were, in order that 

 they may get the upper hand, or demolish one 

 another. The strife or contest seems to be like 

 a couple of boys wn^stling. Each bends all his 

 energies to get the other do\\ ii under, while he 

 keeps above him. In a newspaper contest the 

 aim of each party seems to be to show how 

 smart he is, how much experience he has had, 



what great crops he has grown, and how able a 

 teacher he may be compared with the other. 

 Then the friends on either side will send in 

 encouraging epistles of congratulations — 

 "Didn't you lay him out most beautifully?'" 

 etc. The matter has been brought prom.inent- 

 ly before my mind in my recent replies to 

 friend Dadant. Several would say, " Brother 

 Root, you can not tell how much it pleased us 

 to have you lay out Dadant so beautifully." 

 Now please notice that some of the friends on 

 the other side have said, at just about the 

 same time, *' Brother Root, I rather think that 

 Dadant laid you out pretty well in your dis- 

 cussion. Why, you didn't even answer him at 

 all." Perhaps ihey meant these communica- 

 tions as kind and friendly, but yet they gave 

 me pain. I surely did not want to"layoixt" 

 friend Dadant, and I do not think he wanted to 

 lay me out: yet in spite of our good intentions 

 the thing got quite a start in the way of laying 

 each other out. 1 judge so because of the 

 great number of communications that came in 

 on both sides, and by the urgent requests that 

 are made to have me publish more on the sub- 

 ject. I am sui'e. however, it is not best. I 

 have seen this thing go on and on through dif- 

 ferent periodicals for months, and it has always 

 grown worse. The good editor several times 

 protested and urged both parties to give up, 

 but they persisted so strongly on having just 

 one more reply, to make it even on both sides, 

 or to set themselves right before the public, 

 that the editor would reluctantly give way, 

 hoping there would be a better time to stop it 

 further on. But the better time never came. 

 If permitted to go on, all rules of courtesy were 

 soon violated, hard words came out, and person- 

 al and private matters were pretty soon push- 

 ed out before the world in a way that must be 

 painful to every one who had not become en- 

 snared in the strife. Our text tells us that true 

 Christian charity, or love, " vaunteth not 

 itself" (the margin says, "or is not rash"): 

 " is not puffed up: doth not behave itself un- 

 seemly:" that is. if we have the rule of love in 

 our hearts for our fellow-men (or, what 

 amounts to the same thing, the spirit shown by 

 Christ Jesus when he was here on earth), we 

 shall not want to get above anybody nor <ihend 

 of him: we shall not want the best of the bar- 

 gain: we shall not even wish to have the world 

 know how smart we are; and we surely shall 

 have no desire to become raltiicmaires at the 

 expense of keeping thousands in poverty. 



I suppose likely friend Terry reads these 

 Home Pap<'rs of mine — at least, a good part of 

 them. Now, 1 wish he would stop reading 

 right here, and skip on. say, till the next page. 

 I say this because I am afraid that what I have 

 to sav will give him pain. I do not believe 

 that his wife and children will particularly 

 object to what I .say. and so they can read on; 

 but even at the risk of giving him pain I want 

 to speak of and comment upon the spirit he 

 has shown — at least in the greater part of his 

 newspaper writings. Friend Terry is just now 

 one of the brightest and most able agricultural 

 writers we have in the world. His articles are 

 picked out and read lirst: his books are having 

 a run that lew books of a similar character 

 have ever had. And now perhaps I am saying 

 something that I liardly ought to say, for we 

 are the putilishers of all his books but one. 

 There are thousands of writers for the agri- 

 cultural papers who would give almost any 

 thing if they could write like friend Terry, or 

 in as able and helpful a way as he does. What 

 is th(^ secret of if.' Why, it seemsto me the 

 great secret lies in the fact that what he says 

 in that newspaper extract I have made is liter- 

 ally true. He has no desire in his heart to 



