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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Money ma.v be sent ns, and we will jrivc a 

 printed receipt for it in Gleanings each month. 

 [fMr. L's health permits, we sliall also expect 

 brief coinnuinicatious from him for Glkaninos. 

 Fellow Uee-Keepers can we not give our old 

 benefaelor a few bees to enable him to start 

 Muew':' Who will give a colony":' Those in 

 box iiives would be safest to ship and our 

 friend would in all probalnlity prefer to trans- 

 fer them to his own hives. Come now, let us 

 have a donation party, send in bees, Queens, 

 empty comb etc., etc. As he will need some 

 money to pay express charges on ail those box 

 hives you are going to send him, we will start 

 the list with !i^25.00 for that purj)ose. You can 

 send money to him or to ns as is convenient, 

 but drop lis a card telling us what and liow 

 raucli you have sent, that we nniy give proper 

 credit. A fair view may bo gathered of Mr. 

 L's candor and good sense Irom his concluding 

 remarks on page 08, Vol. 2. 



M. QuiNr.Y, St. Johnsville, Montgomery Co., 

 N. Y., although also, well on in years, is sti'l, 

 we are happy to say, strong and vigorous Iwth 

 in mind anil l)ody. As something from the pen 

 of a j)erson will many times give the readers 

 a more vivid idea of their peculiar character- 

 istics than many pages of description, we 

 shall on account of want of si)ace be obliged to 

 content ourselves with simply indicating where 

 their writings may be found in Glkanings. 

 Mr. Q"s coniuiuuicalionsmay be found on pages 

 103, and 104, Vol. 2, and 14, and 27, Vol. o. 

 .. All who have read CJuinby's and Laiigstroth's 

 books, and we hope most of our readers have, 

 we think will agree with us, that these works 

 were evidently written with a ti-ue spirit of 

 benevolence toward their fellow beings, aside 

 IVom any feeling of i)ecuiiiary gain tliat might 

 i'esult Ihe.reljy." Our warmest thanks are due 

 them both for teaching us our A, B, C's in the 

 science. Altliough tliese two pioneers struck 

 Out alone, and each wilhout any knowledge of 

 the other, we think it much 10 the credit of 

 both that they agreed so nearly. The works 

 tluU have since been compiled although de- 

 serving of merit for Iniving condensed much of 

 liie nnitter, are yet so evidently dependent on 

 these two, tliat we cannot think the writers 

 deserving ut ;i place by their side. 



At present, we have three hirge lioney pro- 

 ducers in our Country who seem to deserve 

 mention rather in advance of the rest. 



J. kS. l(.\nnisoN, of ^>an Diego, Calilornia, the 

 man who has shown him.^elf capable of mana- 

 ging someihing like 2000 colonies, and who 

 lias produced irom tiiem in one season about 

 75 tons of honey, writes as follows in answer 

 to a request for his Photo. Although his rei)ly 

 e()ntains much sound sense ami wisd(tm, we 

 must think that we did not succeed in making 

 him \nidersland that our Medley is only a 

 friendly grouping of those whose labors seem 

 to give them a jieetiliar syniiiathy for each 

 other. We are very sorry, but we suppose we 

 shall lulve to content ourselves with his letter 

 in lieu of the Piiolo. 



Vmu- liuiir canie 'hily to Ikiih!, turn arilcil lo my 

 IN!«>iiii'.;iin retrcal. To give lo llic ijuIjIIc ;il tlii.~ (■•■trly 



ri(i(l, the reMills ut' my Miccot-.-liil uiimugxiiieiil. in 



e ciillure, Wdiilil not i;i' con.-isUiit ciiher a( illi my 

 H''ll' inleri bi. ii;ivi\g' i-.xpeniU il ^o much time uwu iiioii- 

 f\ in ai)l\inj; iil tin.- lusuUs etc.. nor jutstico lo the 

 i>i\ernl younp; men who arc servinj;- an t.iiin-eiiliceeliii) 



^ 



under me, and who are surely entitled to more con- 

 plderalion than the jiublic who contrIljtit« nolliing to 

 (levelope the business. To train yountr nu 11 lo my 

 method is tlie only sure way to i)eVi)etiiate Use busi- 

 ness anil rescue it from the dishonor and odium that 

 has been brought on it in years gone by, by Bi)ecula- 

 tors, as well as by some who claim a jdace us Apiari- 

 ans. This country is different Irom any other and I 

 linil myself yet mucli at a loss lo understand ihe sea- 

 sons, as each varies from the i)r<'ce(ling. One or two 

 years of my ijcrsonal attention v\ill do much to reduce 

 the business to shaiie arid establish iirecedents lor 

 I'uture reference, t have no idiotograph suitable to 

 send you, besides my reputation as an Ajjiarian needs 

 more'years to establish before being introduced to 

 extensive })ul)!ic notice. Accept my ilianks lor your 

 consideration and suggestions as to Gi.EAMNGSasa 

 medium to answer inquiries etc. I will avail myself 

 ol your ofler at an early day. J. t^. Hakuison. 



ban IJiego, California. I'eb. 11th. '75. 



Capt. J. E. IIetiierington, Cherry Valley, 

 N. Y., .seems to come next. See liis report ou 

 page 7, Vol. 3. Now right here comes a point 

 that we cannot illustrate better than by Ma- 

 king a little extract from a private letter. 

 Will our young readers especially bear in mind 

 that it is almost out of the question, no matter 

 how good natured they may feel, for such" men 

 as Harbison, Iletherington or Grimm, to an- 

 swer all they receive. We cannot do it, even 

 while we make it our especial bu.siness to an- 

 swer in(iuiries. Many times the labor of an- 

 swering an inquiry in full is as great as writing 

 an article in full for an agricultural paper; iu 

 the former case, it is only used for (♦'■ M<'?rson, 

 in the latter it may benefit thousand*."* * 



To make a report of tliis kind is a sii> c matter, 

 wiiile 10 lake the conseciuences is quite serious. Wlih 

 my )ii(seiil notoriety 1 receive more lelUJ's than I can 

 liiid lime 10 answer, to say nothing of r.' iking a Hotel 

 of ones liou>e. When a inan says "hif .as come SCO 

 mills lo [{:in\\just Iioiv Iu iiiaiiat/'e lo gel so much 1)0X 

 lionev" one cannot do otlierwise tlian U-eat him just 

 as well as ho knows how. J. K. IL »H!C. .Slst, 1S74. 



Just exactly friend II., we niuit le neighbor- 

 ly, even if it involve niakiiig every subscriber 

 on our list wait for their paper, while we are 

 giving our attention to a .yiiif/Ie on" of them. 

 Cannot we make our JanriKilK a 7nore perfect 

 medium, for making, and answering iiuiuiriefsV 

 Ai?AM GniMM, Jeflcrson, Wis., is another il- 

 j lustration that even advanced age need be no 

 j serious impeiliment to successful bee culture; 

 I see his rep(n-ts on page bf(!. Vol. 1, and 127, Vol. 

 I 2. Friend Grimm has for years contributed, 

 [ much, both in his writings in A. JJ. ./., and by 

 importations of superior stock of Italians. 



I As we have got through with the live prin- 

 cipal characters, shall we not now arrange 

 I ourselves simply, in alphabetical order V 

 j Miss A.. ("P. G") positively declines cntrust- 

 i iiig her biography to our voluble pen, in any 

 i shape or manner, so that we shall have to con- 

 ! tent ourselves with the valuable piece of infor- 

 \ mat ion that .Miss A., is P. G., and that P. G., 

 ■■ is ]\riss A. 



' Mh. & iV[ns. AxTEi.L, of Ptoseville, Wnrren Co., 

 ' Ills. Page 21, 47, 82, 142, Vol. 2; 21, Vol. ;J. 

 \ Mautin il. Adams, Fort Ann, N. Y. 

 j (). L. Bai.laki), Malone, N. Y. 

 ! (iKoiiGE Bam-, Danbury, Conn., writes Feb. 

 1 11th, 1875: 



I r.ast siiring I had f, hives, made an extractor and 

 ; sold over SUKi.OO worlh ol honey, hicreased artificially 

 ! .-ind have now /?iirhi-iinr on suiiimer stands. 



.^Iiss 8ai:ah BAitKiat, St. Johns, Mich. A friend 



of hers writes : 

 I I recentlv purchased a few colonies of Italian bees 

 I for her wii'li money she earned giving music lessons.- 



She l:as Ktarled with a year's fuLscripticn to (ji.EAN- 



