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modern appliances fixed up with all the in- 

 genuity that skill could devise, especially 

 for the comfort of farmers and their chil- 

 dren. Now, I am not very much given to 

 visiting, but I did most thoroughly enjoy 

 that visit. I did not find anybody who felt 

 hurt or had a grievance to tell. The gener- 

 al spirit seemed to be to help each other. 

 And, oh my 1 how we did laugh in compar- 

 ing notes to see how we had been uncon- 

 sciously blundering in the dark ! It seemed 

 as if we all caught hold and climbed higher 

 up just by talking over our experiences and 

 making comparisons. A great many times 

 some unexplained fact in the experience of 

 one brother would dovetail right in so as to 

 let daylight into some dark corner in the ex- 

 perience of another, and then a third one 

 would clinch the nail by something that 

 covered both points. You ought to have 

 seen the countenance brighten, of some hard 

 worker of the Experiment College, as some 

 practical farmer gave him a valuable fact 

 from experience, right where he had been 

 searching for light. As an illustration : 

 At our bee-convention we discussed pas- 

 turage and overstocking. Perhaps very 

 many of us supposed that no experiments 

 had ever been made to settle definitely any 

 thing; whereupon friend S. I. Freeborn 

 brought forward a paper, furnishing an ar- 

 ray of facts we had all long been wanting, 

 and which have, perhaps, never been in 

 print before. This paper will be found in 

 our next issue. 



Now, friends, when you are inclined to 

 stay away from farmers' institutes and such- 

 like gatherings, and say that it will not 

 pay you, and that you have no money to 

 spare in that direction, remember that your 

 old friend A. I. Root says you are making a 

 great blunder. It it a sin to stay off by your- 

 selves, and hold aloof from your fellow -men ; 

 and it is a sin that will bring its own pun- 

 ishment sooner or later. I know, for I nave 

 tried by experience, just in the way Mark 

 Twain said he knew it was a bad plan to 

 tell lies — he knew it by experience. 



FROM OUR ABC CLASS. 



ALLEY TRAP ON THE HIVES THROUGH THE SEA- 

 SON. 



C. B. C— The Alley trap can be used on the Sim- 

 plicity and portico hives, and, in fact, on any of the 

 hives we sell. We have sometimes left the trap on 

 during- the entire honey season, but we were not 

 satisfied with the result. You will find further par- 

 ticulars under " Drones," in the ABC book. 



Gleahincs in Bee Cdltdre. 



Published Senii-JilontMy . 



BEES 28 FEET FROM THE HIGHWAY. 



O. B. H.— We would advise you to put your bees 

 in the back yard, if you have one. A distance of 

 38 feet is rather too near the public highway; still, 

 if it is inconvenient for you to move them yet, a 

 section or two of nice honey {riven to the grum- 

 bling neighbors will probably adjust matters for a 

 while. Put a high board fence between them and 

 the street, if you have not already done so. 



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He hath delivered my soul In peace from the battle that was 

 against me.— Psalm 55: 18. 



MOVABLE FRAMES IN FRANCE. 



Since the death of Mr. Hamet we find the follow- 

 ing in his journal, in a department wherein a na- 

 tional frame is discussed: and it shows most un- 

 mistakably that truth is advancing, even in France: 



In France, the system of movable frames is far 

 from being as widely diffused as it ought to be. 



This is the more remarkable, as it is in direct op- 

 position to Mr. Hamet's ideas. 



A NEW BEE-JOURNAL. 



We are pleased to note the advent of Vol. I. No. 1 

 of the Apicullural Riimlnchau, published in the Ger- 

 man language, at Weixelburg, Laibaoh, Austria. 

 The pages are 9x13; it contains 14 pages, very 

 coarse print. The presswork is admirable. The 

 Observer also contains a horticultural and farming 

 department. The managers are evidently gentle- 

 men who are fully up to the times. 



FREIGHT VERSUS EXPRESS FOR HONEY, BERRIES, 

 ETC. 



In the Ohio Farmer for Jan. 25, Samuel Raw tells 

 how they shipped strawberries to Cincinnati during 

 the past season, by freight. The express company 

 charged 35 cents per 100 pounds, and persisted in 

 dumping the berries just as they pleased, because 

 they were in a hurry, as express companies usually 

 are. The strawberry-growers submitted to 36 cents 

 for a while; but when the express companies ad- 

 vanced to 40, then 45, then 50, the berry-growers held 

 an indignation meeting. Result: They clubbed to- 

 gether, sent a man with the berries, by freight. The 

 man who went with them made arrangements with 

 the commission men to meet the trains and take 

 the berries from the cars, with their own men. 

 Of 3000 bushels shipped by freight, at a cost of only 

 14^ cents per 100, all came to hand in much better 

 order, and almost as quickly. After they had got 

 the above plan in operation, the express companies 

 proposed to do it cheaper; but they were too late in 

 the day. Now, does not the above remind some of 

 us of a similar experience in shipping honey by ex- 

 press? There is a good moral to it, any way. 



OUR PROOF-READER GIVES US SOME FIGURES. 



This number of Gleanings is printed on our 

 new Campbell Oscillator press. As an example of 

 what American presses will do, we might mention 

 that the old press which we have just taken out of 

 our pressroom, a Cottrell & Ba bcock, has printed 

 about 239 numbers of Gleanings since November, 

 1878. This represents 1,833.000 copies, at an average 

 of 8000 per month, although for a long time we have 

 printed 10,000. As each copy requires about 5 ini " 



