1890 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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year, some years more than others. Let us go out 

 into the apiary." 



" Mr. Smith, you have a very pretty yard indeed. 

 I see you have a high tight board fence on three 

 sides, and a cedar hedge on the fourth side. Do 

 you consider this high fence beneficial to the bees 

 the year round? " 



" ^ee, I do. Before I built it I had much spring 

 dwindling; but since I put up the fence 1 have but 

 little, and the fence prevents the snow from drift- 

 ing around and over the hives; and when we have 

 a high wind, my hives are not blown over as they 

 were when unprotected. And, again, as my hives 

 can not be seen from the road, people driving past 

 are not so afraid as they would be if they could see 

 the hives. Therefore, taking all in all, I am well 

 pleased with the fence." 



Said I, " I should like to make a picture of your 

 apiary, if you have no objection." 



" How did he do it, pa? I didn't see him ; where is 

 it?" 



" I suppose," said the father, "the picture is in 

 that box sitting up there. Good-morning, Mr. Al- 

 len," said Mr. Smith; " you are just a little too late 

 to have your picture taken. Mr. Manum, this is 

 Mr. H. A. Allen, of Milton, who is also a bee-keep- 

 er." 



" Mr. Manum, I have heard so much of you that I 

 feel quite well acquainted, and perhaps you will re- 

 member that I have ordered queens of you several 

 times; and I must say that I like your strain of 

 dark Italians. In my opinion they are llie bees we 

 want for business." 



" How many colonies have you, Mr. Allen?" I 

 asked. 



'* I have 2.5, all in the Bristol hives." 



" Do either of you take Gleanings?" 



'> Yes," said Mr. Smith, " both of us, and I think 



K. L. SMITH S APIARY. 



"Certainly not. I should be pleased to have you 

 do so." 



I replied, " Very well; then you may stand out 

 here among the hives, and your little son just at 

 your right, while your daughter stands a little way 

 further, so as not to be in the shade of the trees. 

 By the way, Mr. Smith, I have been told that you 

 lost your wife some years ago, and that this 14 year- 

 old daughter does all of your housework." 



" Yes, my daughter has done our work since her 

 mother died, with what little assistance I am able 

 to render her." 



" Mr. Smith, I can truly sympathize with you, as I 

 buried my wife nearly a year ago. You are very 

 fortunate indeed in having so capable a daughter 

 to look after your housework. There, now, all re- 

 main perfectly still, as I am going to expose the 

 place. All ready! There, all is over." 



" Why, pa," said the boy, " has the man taken our 

 picture so quick?" 



" Yes, my son, I suppose he has." 



it grows better and better every year. I don't see 

 how Mr. Root can afford to publish it for f 1.00 per 

 year, and give us two copies every month. Why! 

 it is too cheap." 



" Well, gentlemen," I said, " I am glad to have 

 met you. I shall now have to bid you good by, as 

 Mr. Gillette has already waited for me a long time." 



" What do you ask for those pictures, if I should 

 want any of them?" said Mr. S. 



" My price is .*3.00 for the first six, then 25 cents 

 each." A. E. Manum. 



Bristol, Vt., Mar. 1. 



Thank you, friend M., for the compliment 

 that you and your friends pay Gleanings ; 

 and may 1 emphasize a httle moral right 

 here? Tliere is a promise in the Bible to 

 those wlio give good measure : " Give, and 

 it shall be given" unto you ; good measure, 

 shaken down, pressed together, and running 

 over."' I do not mean by this that we shall 

 give more tlian a just equivalent for the 



