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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Feb! 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR GUSTOMIIRS. 



I just opened Gleanings for Dec. ]5. Jt is a 

 " daisy " number. Those pictures would make al- 

 most anybody feel like going into the bee-business. 



O'Quinn, Tex., Dec. 23. J. C. Melcher. 



LEADER SHEARS. 



I like those Leader shears so well that I want my 

 friends to have some like them. Please send me 

 three pairs more. I. N. Pearson. 



Normandy, Tenn^ 



I received the 4 boxes yesterday. The hives are 

 fine. I sold two of them before I got them togeth- 

 er. I think I can sell several of them. I charge 

 $4.00 for them complete. J. B. Cougill. 



McArthur, O., Dec. 19, 1889. 



DOVETAILED HIVES BEST AND SIMPLEST. 



The goods I ordered of you came all right. The 

 Dovetailed hives are the simplest and he.st I ever 

 saw. Willie Douglass. 



Lexington, Texas, Jan. 25. 



grand RAPIDS LETTUCE-PLANTS. 



Those lettuce plants ordered about a month ago 

 came to hand verij promptly, and in the best of con- 

 dition. Every plant grew, and many are now about 

 6 inches tall. S. F. Herman. 



Tuscaloosa, Ala.,. Dee. 31. 



OUR *13 00 SEWING-MACHINE AS GOOD AS A $50.00 

 MACHINE. 



We received the machine last Monday in good 

 order. We are pleased with it, and glad to speak of 

 you as an honest Christian man. My neighbors 

 were here to look at the machine. They think it is 

 as good as a fifty-dollar machine. 



Gehrton Sta., Pa., Jan. 23. De Forest Truax. 



OUR CHRISTMAS NUMBER. 



I drop you a few lines to thank you for those 

 beautiful pictures of different apiaries, for there is 

 a good lesson in every one of them, already ex- 

 plained in Gleanings. The December 15th issue is 

 the best Christmas present 1 ever received; and 

 those goods I ordered came all in good shape. 

 Thanks. Seth Nelson. 



Wistar, Pa., Jan. 1. 



gleanings as an ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 



Afr. Root:— Please say to the friends, that I re- 

 ceived more communications in answer to myad't 

 in Gleanings, Nov. 1, than I caa reply to. S. W. 

 White, of Missouri, has taken the position as as- 

 sistant in Rattlesnake apiary; Thomas H. Mills, of 

 Sarnia, Canada, will take charge of my apiary No. 3. 



Cameron, Texas. E. Y. Terkal. 

 Judge of Milam Co. 



WHAT AN artist THINKS OF OUR PICTURE GAL- 

 LERY. 



I desire by these few lines to extend to you my 

 most hearty thanks for the Picture Gallery, as per 

 supplement. I appreciate it very much indeed; 

 first, because it not only sugerests to us various 

 ideas of bee-keepers, but it presents to us one of 

 the first albums of apiaries, perhaps, published in 

 the world, and not only so, but they are engravings 

 of a high grade of excellence. 



Reinersville, O., Dec. 23. J. A. Golden, Artist. 



BUSINESS AND RELIGION. 



You seem to mix your religion in with your busi- 

 ness. 1 like the mixture. Josh Billines said a man 

 needed as much religion when he measured his 

 onions as he did when he " hollered glory hallelu- 

 yer!" I think he needs a little more. If there 

 were a little religion mixed in all business transac- 

 tions, it would be better for all parties concerned. 

 I owe you a debt of gratitude for what I have 

 learned from Gleanings and your ABC book. 1 

 am sorry 1 did not get hold of them years ago. I 

 have a fine herd of cattle here; and if I succeed 

 with the bees 1 shall have my old cotton plantation 

 flowing with milk and honey, on a small scale. 

 Bees gather honey very rapidly in the spring and 

 early summer from white clover, poplar (or tulip) 



tree, and bas.swood. When these fail there is noth- 

 ing for them to gather. T. N. Bedford. 

 Fayette, Mius., Dec. 30. 



gleanings GROWING BETTER ; TOBACCO COLUMN. 



I believe Gleanings is growing better from 

 year to year, and from month to month, and it 

 comes to us away here in the Rocky Mountains so 

 regularly that we always know in just what mail to 

 look for it. 1 read it with great interest, particular- 

 ly Our Homes; and your Tobacco Column is doing 

 a great deal of good. I hope no criticism of your 

 course will dampen your ardor in that line. 1 veri- 

 ly believe that the remarks of Dr. Mason, at the In- 

 ternational Convention, on hobby-riding, as re- 

 ported by Ernest, resounded more to the glory of 

 God than any tobacco-smoking ever indulged in by 

 man. Mrs. Laura A. Nevins. 



Silver Cliff, Col., Dec 25. 1889. 



TWO HONEY QUEENS IN A BENTON CAGE TO 

 CALIFORNIA. 



I received the two honey queens ordered from 

 .^ou Oct. 22d. in the midst of a very rainy spell. 

 They were only 8 dajs in transit, (jpo cage had 

 one dead bef>; the other, none that I could see. The 

 queens are lively, but \ had to wait till next day to 

 introduce, on account of rain. I christened the 

 queens "Medina" and "Alice." I caged Medina 

 Oct. 23, on brood and honey, 24 hours after remov- 

 ing queen. Oct. 25 I released her. Returning in an 

 hour I found her "balled." and took her out. Oct. 

 26 I caged her in another hive, immediately after 

 removing queen; released her Nov. ]. She is doing 

 well. I had less trouble with Alice. I caged her 

 the 24th, as soon as the other queen was removed, 

 and released her the 26th. She has quite a show of 

 progeny now, and they have certainly stored some 

 honey this month in recently vacated brood cells. 

 The weather here is extremely wet. 



I am specially pleased with the religious tone of 

 Gleanings, and don't want to miss a single num- 

 ber. I want to encourage you to persevere, as the 

 Lord may lead, in your warfare airainst tobacco. 



Whittier, Cal., Dec. 24. Allen Barnett. 



KIND WORDS FROM A BROTHER IN TEXAS. 



Brother Roof .-—I love to read the pieces you write, 

 under the head of Myself and My Neighbors. It is 

 about the first thing I read, when Gleanings 

 comes in with such a bright smiling face. I should 

 just about as soon do without my breakfast as to 

 fail to get Gleanings. You may wonder why I 

 call you "brother." It is because Christ, in his in- 

 finite love and mercy, has found me, a wanderer, 

 and has been pleased to turn my steps heavenward. 

 It has been about three months since I became a 

 member of a church. I am now 40 years old. I 

 have been afflicted a good deal, and have been near 

 death's door several times, and it has always been 

 a mystery to me why I was spared. But since I 

 have become a Christian, and, as I hope and be- 

 lieve, a better man. it seems plainer why I was 

 spared; and if I could be the happy means of in- 

 ducing some other mortal to come to Christ, then I 

 should have lived to some purpose. And you, Bro. 

 Root, in your writings in Gleanings, have exerted 

 an influence for good, not only in my case, but I 

 hope in many others; and may God spare you and 

 yours many long years, to cast bread, as it were, 

 upon the waters, that may return after many days. 



Crowley, Tex., Dec 14. W. A. Cartmell. 



SOME KIND WORDS FROM AUSTRALIA. 



In a price list of apiarian goods published by 

 Walters & Co.. of Adelaide, Australia, we find the 

 followinsrin regard to our A B C book and Glean- 

 ings. The kind word-* are the more appreciated 

 because they come unsolicited from our unknown 

 friends in the southern part of the globe. 



" As a text-book, the A B C of Be^ Culture stands 

 unrivaled, beinff a cyclopedia of 400 pages and 250 

 illustrations. It is arranered in alphabetical form, 

 so that any subject it is desired to refer to may be 

 quickly and readily found. This alone is a great 

 recommenation." 



Of Gleanings they say: 



" Gleanings is one of the greatest helps in the 

 apiary procurable, besides containing a lot of other 

 useful matter on various home subjects. It is nice- 

 ly printed on toned paper, and contains many illus- 

 trations." 



