GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



AuausT, 1918 



children go I'roiii Medina out to the onion 

 farm every morning, and back at night. 

 Well, I have just been informed that this 

 gang of boys and girls are all, or pretty 

 much all, smoking cigarettes. It is the lat- 

 est thing out, you know ; and even if they 

 are told that it is against the law of Ohio, 

 that seems so far to make it, only the 

 " more interesting," to the juveniles. Be- 

 low I submit a copy of the law : 



SjiCTiON 12965. Whoever sells, gives, or fur- 

 nishes to a peii'son under eighteen years of age a 

 cigarette, cigarette wrapper, or substitute for either, 

 or a cigar or tobacco, shall be . fined not less than 

 twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dol- 

 lars, or imprisoned not less than two days nor 

 more than thirty days, or both ; and for each sub- 

 sequent offense shall be fined not less than fifty 

 dollars nor more than three hundred dollars and, 

 imprisoned not less than five days nor more than 

 sixty day.s. 



In view of the above, " shall the State 

 of Ohio continue the business of growing a 

 crop of fools, idiots, and imbeciles'"? 



Later. — Today is July 10, and a lot of 

 kind words are coming with every mail. 

 Most of them are in regard to the electric 

 windmill. Here is one, and it comes from 

 a man who uses tobacco too. (Did you 

 ever?) This letter, I think, will do very 

 well to balance the one at the opening of 

 this Home paper. 



Dear Friend: — As it only costs three cents I 

 must tell you how I appreciate Our Home.s and 

 High-pressure Gardening. As the Lord says, " Give 

 honor to whom honor is due." If it were not for 

 your writings I would not take Gleanings, as I 

 do not have time to care for many bees. 



While I am a user of tobacco, and do not agree 

 with all your writings, yet you are a good open 

 confessor of your evil thoughts, which will in the 

 end help us all to take an account with ourselves 

 and do better. 



I am glad you have invested money in your elec- 

 tric apparatus ; for of what use is money if we do 

 not spend it? and by your doing this act (e,ven if 

 there is no profit in it for you) you have benefited 

 the world. There was no profit to Columbus nor 

 to the queen of Spain in discovering our great 

 land; but it is beyond computation what it ' has 

 profited millions of us; and the great millions that 

 will be made with eJectric devices after you and 

 the rest of us are gone would likely amaze us if we 

 were to see them. By and by tell us the cost of 

 your apparatus. The earth and the fullness thereof 

 are the Lord's, and all that we possess ; for wheJi 

 our souls are required whose then will they be? 



Thomas Harris. 



New Florence, Pa., July 8. 



The electric windmill complete, cost, I 

 think, about an even $500. The freight on 

 it from North Dakota to our Florida home, 

 added to paying the inventor to go and set 

 it up for me, made it come up close to 

 $700. This latter item of expense would 

 not ordinarily be necessary; but I felt anx- 

 ious not only to see but to have a good 

 visit with the man who planned the in- 

 vention. Further particulars can be ob- 

 tained from the Electric Windmill Cor- 

 poration, Wyndmere, S. D. 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



SOME KECOLLECTIONS in regard to HlAl. 

 Their works do follow them. — Rev. 14:1?). 



The American Bee Journal was first 

 started in January, 1861, and continued 

 one year. At the breaking-out of the war, 

 and perhaps for some other reasons, it was 

 discontinued till July, 1866. In August, 

 1865, my attention was first called to bee 

 culture, as I have mentioned many times, 

 perhaps. I have told you how I greedily 

 hunted up everything in regard to bee cul- 

 ture, ransacking old foreign periodicals, 

 hunting ujd Mr. Langstroth, and ■ finally 

 getting in touch with Samuel Wagner, the 

 editor of the American Bee Journal. After 

 procuring all of volume 1, perhaps largely 

 thru my solicitation he started the journal 

 again. From that time on I read every 

 word of it, much of it over and over, and 

 soon got in touch with the beekeepers, es- 

 pecially the successful ones, not only of 

 our own land, but as far as possible, with 

 those of the Avhole Avide world. I can not 

 tell exactly when Doolittle commenced 

 writing as well as myself for the journal. 

 Unfortunately our files are missing for the 

 last half of 1869. In that year and in 

 1870 Doolittle furnished five different ar- 

 ticles. In the same volume, under the 

 name of " Novice," I furnished 13 different 

 articles; and from that time on, until 

 Gleanings was started in 1873, Doolittle 

 and I had more or less to say in every 

 number of the American Bee Journal. In 

 order to get track I have run over those 

 old volumes; and it has freshened up my 

 memory to such an extent that it seems 

 as if I had been meeting face to face the 

 dear friends of almost fifty years ago. 

 There were Henry Alley, Charles Dadant, 

 Doolittle, Gallup, Adam Grim,Peabody, and 

 the Rev. L. L. Langsairoth. Then there 

 was a long string of others whom it would 

 take too much space to mention. 



Doolittle's first article for Gleanings 

 appeared on page 71 of our issue for Aug- 

 ust, 1873. As the report is short we give it 

 entire : 



I have got off 1600 pounds of box honey, which 

 I have sold for 25 cents per pound. Extracted sold 

 for 14 cents. I have also worked another small 

 apiary for half of the honey (box honey), from 

 which I have taken 900 pounds. I have also work- 

 ed a 150-acre farm with the help of one man, and, 

 to tell the truth, I am nearly worked out. 



G. M. POOLITTLK. 



Borodino, N. Y., August, 1873. 



You can see from the above that Doo- 

 little was a busy man away back 45 years 

 ago. From that time on I think Doolittle 

 was a regular contributor. If I remember 

 correctly none of the contributors to the 

 American Bee Journal were paid anything 



