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ULEA.Ni^'US l-N BEE CLLTLKE. 



Feu. 



■HD butter-dishes. When we came to weigh 

 it all up we found we had something over 

 600 lbs. to market. We sent some of it up 

 town to the stores, and told them to sell it 

 for 2 cents less per lb. They were retailing 

 comb honey at 18 cents, consequently they 

 sold the broken combs in the butter-dishes 

 for 16. Calling around a few days after- 

 ward we found that it was all gone, and 

 someuf the grocerymen sent down for more. 

 The result is, that it is now nearly all sold. 

 People have a great liking for chunk honey. 

 They say it is like the honey of their fathers. 

 They imagine that it tastes l^eiter. Now, 

 it would not be at all surpri^ing if sections 

 partly tilled, cut out and put into butter- 

 bowls, would sell better than if put on the 

 market left in the sections. We should be 

 glad to have our readers try the experiment, 

 and report how it works. E. R. 



SAVING SOULS AS WELL AS MAKING MONEY. 



How Often have I thanked God that 1 started in 

 the bee-business! for by so doing I have learned 

 that it is not only to make money, but to win souls 

 for Christ, which is far better. How I wish that all 

 employers would set apart ten minutes of ten hours 

 to the worship of God, and have over their doors 

 that grand motto, " In God we trust" ! This morn- 

 ing as I sat in prayer-meeting and class-meeting, 

 my mind was carried back two years when our 

 little church in the grove w;i8 rejoicing because the 

 Lord was answering our prayers by bringing in the 

 young of our Sunday-school to his blessed fold. 

 Eleven young workers were added to the church. 

 How my heart rejoiced to see nine of that number 

 in class this morning, and hear the testimony of 

 these young Christians! My mind is also carried 

 back to the time when a father steps off the cars 

 •and is met by his son, who says, " Father, if you 

 could have only one wish granted, what would that 

 be?" Almost staggered by such a question, the 

 father's mind runs over many different things; but 

 in a moment he responds, " Connie!" Yes, Connie, 

 ■or Blue Eyes, was converted. Why, I read that num- 

 ber of Gleanings with tears of joy. I do not know 

 why, unless it was because there is a " blue eyes " 

 here in Paxinos as well as In Ohio, of almost the 

 same age, who at the same time threw off the man- 

 tle of sin and put on the armor of the Lord; and 

 may God grant that Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes, and all 

 others may " love righteousness and hate iniquity." 

 I am one of your ABC scholars only fuur years o!d, 

 but twenty-five in length of life. Geo. W. CO(jk. 



Paxinos, Pa., Jan. 19. 



Amen, Bro. Cook ; and may the Lord help 

 us to remember that, after these loved ones 

 have been started in the way of righteous- 

 ness, they need to be looked after and pray- 

 ed for, that they may be kept going, and 

 that they may hate iniquity, until the time 

 shall come for them to be called home with 

 all the rest of those who love righteousness. 



on a lot of goods, also no name attached. The 

 writers of these letters no doubt blamed every one 

 but themselves. Every one makes mistakes; and 

 knowing this we should take advantage of all rea- 

 sonable means lending to lessen them. Getting 

 three to five hundred sheets of paper at once, with 

 address printed on, is much cheaper than the same 

 amount with no printing, when purchased a few 

 sheets at a time. Almost every village has a print- 

 ing-oflicc where they will be glad to give you prices 

 so low as to astonish those who have not tried it. 

 It is not necessary to have a large showy letter- 

 head. Just have your address in small type, on the 

 upper left-hand corner. Try it, and save money 

 and vexatious mistakes'. M. H. Hunt. 



B.U Branch, IMich., Jan. 25. 



We indor»t) every thing you say, friend 

 Hunt. The man who can not afford to have 

 his correct address printed somewhere, just 

 as it ought to be, on his stationery, deserves 

 to have trouble. In our ofhce there is an 

 unceasing amount of trouble, and many 

 quarrels coming up, just because we can 

 not, even by the aid of our experts, read the 

 writing. Of course, you can not all well 

 have type-writers with which to print your 

 letters; but you surely can, even the juve- 

 niles, afford the few cents needed to have 

 your full name and postoffice printed on 

 your writing-materials. If your freight and 

 express office are different from your post- 

 office, just one line will tell us that ; and, oh 

 my ! what an amount of trouble it will save 

 on both sides, if we can always have these 

 things absolutely settled by hunting up any 

 letter we have had from you ! 



We solicit for this department short items and questions of 

 a practical nature; but all questions, if accompanied by oth- 

 er matter, must be put upon a separate slip of paper with 

 name and address. 



What is the usual price charged for transferring 

 bees from box hives? C. G. S. 



Atoka, Tenn., Jan. 2b. 



[The usual price charged for transferring is f 1.00 

 for a single colony. If you can get a job of 10 or 

 more, 50 cts. might be enough.] 



having your name printed on your paper 



AND envelopes. 



Friend Root;— I wish I could say something that 

 would induce every one who writes letters, to get 

 their address printed on either paper or envelopes. 

 We get a number of letters every year without sig- 

 natures, or so poorly written that they can not be 

 made out. One letter came containing f 14.00, and 

 no signature; and another, requesting an estimate 



open-side sections, or not. 



Do you use the open-all-around section? If jjpu 

 do not, could you produce as large or larger crops 

 of honey by using sections open all around? 



[This question was answered in the Question-box. 

 Those who used the open-all-around sections liked 

 them; and those who had not used them were prej- 

 udiced against them, as a rule. At the Michigan 

 State Bee-Keepers' association last month, some 

 very conclusive testimony was brought forward, 

 showing that the open-side sections were better 

 filled. Some very pretty samples were shown in 

 proof of it.— E. R.] 



A comparison of the JAPANESE AND COMMON 



BUCKWHEAT, WITH THE DIFFERENCE GREATLY 



IN FAVOR OF THE .JAPANESE. 



I sent for one bushel of Japanese buckwheat, and 

 sowed it the 37th day of June, and cut it Sept. 2d. I 

 sowed lYi bushels of common buckwheat the same 

 day. The Japanese made 42 bushels, and the com- 

 mon only 18. If I had sown all Japanese I should 

 have had 100 bushels in place of 60. The Japanese 

 was two weeks earlier than the common. 



Salamonia, Ind., Jan. 30. D. K. Knoll. 



