1890 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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BCSINE8S AT THE HOME OF THE HONEY-BEES, 

 JULY 1. 



Our saw-room reports all orders filled, with the 

 exception of 8e«tion8; and as we are now running 

 almost all our force on sections, both upstairs and 

 downstairs, still running day and night besides, we 

 hope to be up on sections by about the time this 

 reaches you; and we never mean to be caught in 

 such a predicament again, if our friends will over- 

 look our past delinquencies of the season. We do 

 not mean by this that you are to let us off "scot 

 free." Tell us what the damage has been and we 

 will try to make it satisfactory. 



SELLING SECRETS. 



It seems we have not quite finished this matter, 

 judging from the large number of letters coming 

 daily. From among them we select the following: 



Friend Root:— You may remember, perhaps, my telling 

 you, when you honored me with a visit at Niagara, of the in- 

 fluence your writings had had on me. I may say that that in- 

 tiuenee nas not waned; but there is a question concerning the 

 Wilford Hall matter that I should like to have you explain; 

 or, rather, give your views on. I, like yourself, and hundreds 

 of others, through an advertisement in Me.ssiah's Herald, of 

 Boston, and the personal indorsement of the editor, signed 

 the Pledge of Honor, and sent the $4.00; but I was considera- 

 bly taken back when I read your editorial in Gleanings of 

 May 15, characterizing Dr. Hall as a swindler; and I received a 

 further surprise when, in the next issue, you give the whole 

 ■• secret " (?) away by quoting Dr. Kellogg. Now. what I want 

 to know is thisiHave you not violated your ple'dge by pub- 

 lishing what you did? If so, why am I not at liberty to lend 

 my pamphlet to any of my friends whom I think such treat- 

 ment would benefit! Geo. Cork. 



Waterloo, Out., June 16. 



Thanks, friend C, for the kind compliment you 

 pay me. If I were you, I think I would not show 

 the little pamphlet to my friends, under the cir- 

 cumstances. You ran, however, show the copy of 

 Gleanings in which I copied from Dr. Kellogg, as 

 much as you choose. Some of the friends still in- 

 sist that I violated my pledge, and if in no other way 

 by saying to the world that Dr. Hall's secret is the 

 same as what I quoted from the doctor book. Very 

 likely there is some ground for the claim that I 

 have not kept my pledge to the strict letter. Let 

 us try making the matter plainer by an illustration : 

 A man pays you a debt, and you give him a receipt 

 in full. You afterward discover that the money 

 you received from him is counterfeit. Suppose he 

 should still flourish his receipt in full, and claim 

 that he owed you nothing because he had a receipt 

 with your signature at the bottom. In one respect 

 he is right. But you reply: "Look here, my friend, 

 that receipt was given to you with the supposition 

 that the money was genuine. You obtained it by 

 fraud." Property or papers, or any thing else, ob- 

 tained by fraud or by false pretenses, can be re- 

 covered by law. Dr. Hall obtained our signature 

 to that printed promise by false pretenses. S'ome 

 of the friends go even so far as to say that Dr. Kel- 

 logg obtained his information from Dr. Hall, and 

 that Hall is the original discoverer. But even if 

 this were true (but it is not). Dr. Hall has been tak- 

 ing $4.00 for a secret that is not a secret, for it has 

 been for ten years or more published in Kellogg's 

 book. Still others claim that Dr. Hall was the 

 original discoverer of forcing water clear to the 

 small iatestine. But those who make this claim 

 have read carelessly my extract from Dr. Kellogg's 

 book— see page 443, June 1, toward the end of the 

 long extract. I have carefully read all your letters, 

 dear friends, and tried hard to find reasonable 

 grounds for calling Hall honest; but the evidence 

 is all before us on printed pagcx. 



hind in filling orders, it is refreshing to learn that 

 we are not the only ones who have had " an un- 

 precedented rush." Messrs. Newman & Son are al- 

 ways prompt in filling orders, if any of the dealers 

 are. The American Bee. Journal, on page 411, says: 



Like all other supply-dealers we have experienced 

 an unprecedented " rush " during this season, and 

 as a result we have not been able to get some lines 

 of goods fast enough to fill orders as promptly as la 

 our custom. We are doing the best we can to satis- 

 fy all, and are shipping all the goods we can obtain, 

 the moment they come to hand. We hope to be 

 able to clean up all orders now on hand in a few 

 days, and then to resume our usual promptness, 

 for which we have a widespread reputation. 



It is indeed true that they have a "widespread 

 reputation " for promptness. In the next column 

 of the A. B. J. we find this pithy editorial on odd 

 sizes, which we are glad to reproduce: 



Odd sizes of sections, brood-frames, crates, etc., 

 are simply impossible to get made now during the 

 "rush." If people will use anything besides the 

 regular stock, they should have them made in the 

 winter, and keep them on hand ready for use when 

 needed. All dealers and manufacturers are now 

 behind with their regular orders, and none will now 

 take an order for a special size ; so those who use 

 such, and have not laid in a stock in advance, will 

 have to do without them, and learn a lesson which 

 will cost them more or less of their crop of honey. 



Again, we notice that the D. A. Jones Co., of Bee- 

 ton, Can., have been behind. In their issue of the 

 Canadian Bee Journal of June 15, they say: 



Orders still crowd us, and we are subjected at 

 times to some pretty harsh letters, when we have 

 been doing our best to get off whatever may have 

 been ordered in each case. Our trade in founda- 

 tion has been larger this year than ever before, 

 even though some of the other supply-dealers have 

 been selling it at less prices than we. At this mo- 

 ment we have about all the wax bought up which is 

 available, and we fear that our supply is going to 

 be short of our wants, especially if orders come in 

 the way they have been for the past week or two. 

 We have been very much delayed through the sick- 

 ness of the foreman of our tinshop, but we are 

 having a full force working at the present writing, 

 and we hope to catch up soon. With the exception 

 of one or two nuclei and half a dozen queens, all 

 orders for bees and queens are gone forward. 



Yes, we all get " pretty harsh letters," even when 

 we are doing the best we can. Customers should 

 not blame dealers too severely when they are urged 

 by catalogues and otherwise to send in their orders 

 early. We all try to do the best we can to antici- 

 pate trade; but on account of sickness, mentioned 

 in the editorial above, on account of fires, on ac- 

 count of a good many other things that can not be 

 anticipated, many times it is utterly impossible to 

 ship promptly. The only way out of the difficulty 

 is for customers to anticipate their needs, and order 

 early. 



^PECI^Ii ]^0TICEg. 



NEW HONfY. 



We are beginning to have calls for new honey. 

 As soon as you have any choice to sell, we should 

 be pleased to have samples of extracted, with of- 

 fers; also price on comb honey. 



ALFALFA HONEY. 



SUPPLY-DEALERS BEING BEHIND. 



Misery loves company, it is said ; and although 

 we regret to hear that other dealers have been be- 



We have in stock perhaps a ton of alfalfa extract- 

 rd honey, which we have received from Reno, 

 Ncviula. Now, the people here at our village pro- 

 nounce it equal to any clover honey that was ever 

 thrown out of the comb; and in order to show you 

 how nice it is, I would request that, in making 

 freight or express orders, you have a little alfalfa 

 honey put in as a sample. Prices exactly the same 

 as for clover honey in our catalogue. 



