AD I 'ER TISERS ' DEPA R TMENT. 



DIVERS MATTERS. 



\ X esteemed lady correspondent writes us 



rf\. follows in reply to a note from us : 



Why do 1 sell colonies? Perhaps 1 shall not do so 

 after all. The answer to your "why" is this— my sala- 

 ble surplus honey will not pay the season's expenses. 

 ! like to keep the Dr. and Cr. sides of my bee-keeping 

 accounts balanced. Then it' perchance, my bees all 

 perish during the coming winter, I shall be left deso- 

 late, truly, but with no reason to regret my experiment 

 in bee-keeping. 



The spirit exactly. If wc had 10.000 Bee- 

 keepers in our nation and all of them paid out 

 more money for hives, fixtures, Bee Journals 

 etc., than they rec'd from the sales of honey, 

 wax and colonics, of how much benefit would 

 they be to our country? How many of our 

 readers belong to this class ? Perhaps we are 

 stirring up a matter that may injure the sale 

 of our implements, and even decrease the num- 

 ber of our subscribers; but if necessary, let 

 such be the case, if we can only be assured that 

 our friends are making their pursuit a paying 

 one, and one that will help to make them feel 

 independent and self sustaining. Now about 

 the coming Convention at Pittsburgh : were 

 it like our County Fairs, that each cau attend 

 with their own conveyance, at little or no ex- 

 pense, we should say, go all of you by all 

 means ; but if none were to attend except those 

 who have made a balance on the credit side 

 sufficient to more than pay all expenses, 

 how large would the attendance be? It has 



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been often urged, that 'tis by attending, that 

 novices learn to make the pursuit a paying one. 

 Does past experience show that matter has 

 been brought forward at our National Conven- 

 tions so much more valuable than any thing t<> 

 be found in our Journals ? Tis true our view- 

 may be a mistaken one, and it is the duty of 

 each to act according to his own conviction. 

 Pittsburgh is but a short distance from us ; 

 the round trip would probably not exceed 

 $25.00, and perhaps three or four days time. 

 Is it wrong for us to feel that we would far 

 rather have the money and time to devote to 

 the purpose of determining whether it be pos- 

 sible by means of a Green House, to get up 

 healthy brood-rearing in a colony at any sea- 

 son of the year? Could any thing we might 

 learn at the Convention be so valuable to us 

 as a direct experiment of our own, in settling 

 the question, whether it is possible to rear 

 bees independently of the season ? 



While endeavoring to encourage an indepen- 

 dent spirit among readers, it occurs to us to 

 mention another matter ; we beg that no one 

 will think we intend any personal allusion for 

 we should be very sorry indeed, to wound the 

 feelings of any one. 'Tis this : quite a number 

 of bee-keepers have suffered loss by fire or per- 

 haps by other misfortune. What is to be done ? 

 , Our advice would be, go to work at once and 

 I build up again as quickly and as quietly as 

 I possible. If any one is to blame 'tis most like- 

 ', ly yourself for not taking the precaution to be 

 insured. If sickness be added to 

 other trials and assistance must be 

 asked of some one, is it not far bet- 

 ter to apply to your own relatives 

 or those who are nearest and to 

 whom you are best known? The 

 idea of going into print with one's 

 private trials, and soliciting aid 

 through the Journals, we cannot, 

 think a wise one, and perhaps the 

 greatest objection is that a dishon- 

 est person would be the one above 

 all others who would not scruple to 

 profit by the kind intentions of his 

 more prudent and industrious fellow 

 men. 



'Tis seldom any invention has 

 pleased us more in actual use, than 

 the Emerson Binder. If Gleanings 

 is worth preserving — we have tried 

 to make it so — 'twill pay you to 

 have them all in a neat book, espec- 

 ially when the expense is only about 

 L5c per Vol. Each Binder holds 

 four volumes nicely and each No. 

 can be added as it comes clean and 

 new from the P. O. We will mail 

 them free of postage for 50, (iO, and 

 75c, the latter is much the neatest. 

 The No. 2 1 ., in the accompanying 

 list is the size used for Gleanings. 



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For $2.50 we will send post paid. 

 Gleanings, volumes one two and 

 . ;..' . , neatly bound in the best 

 :1< ii h ; nd I 'a1 her I iindi i so far as 

 they have beeu published a1 time of 

 receiving order. 



