1879 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Under this head, will be inserted tree of charge, 

 the names of all those having honey to sell, as well 

 as those wanting to buy. Please mention how 

 much, what kind, and prices, as far as possible. The 

 prices Quoted in our cities for honey are, at present, 

 too low, to make it worth while to publish them. 

 As a general thing, 1 would not advise you to send 

 your honey away, to bo sold on commission. If 

 near home, where you can look after it, it is often 

 a verv good way. By all means, develop your home 

 market. For 25cts.,' wo can furnish little boards 

 to hang up in vourdooryard, with the words "Honey 

 for Sale" neat'lv painted. If wanted by mail, 10c. 

 extra for postage. Boards saying "Bees and Queens 

 for Sale," ,-ame price. 



W HAVE 250 gal. of extracted honey which I wish 

 I! to sell to the highest bidder, and must sell to 

 s*j some one soon. Mrs. J. T. Capehart. 



Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 29, '78. No. 358 2d. St. 



I have about 2 barrels or 90 gallons of extracted 

 honey taken in the last part of June, nice and clear, 

 light "colored, all grained. Would take 10c. per lb. 

 and deliver at rail road, barrels, worth $3.00, not in- 

 cluded. Jas. Green. 



Freeport, Harrison Co., O., Dec. 9, 1878. 



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This department was suggested by one of the 

 clerks, as an opposition to the "Growlery." Ithink 

 1 shall venture to give names in full here. 



Spip RECEIVED goods on the 3d. inst., as per order 

 jll in the best possible condition, showing the 

 *-» economy of an experienced hand in packing, 

 tint sparing no pains nor expense to secure their 

 safety. Please accept thanks for the same and 

 oblige. J. H. Wyckoff. 



Simcoe, Ont., Can., Dec. 7, '78. 



You ought to have been apprised, last Monday, of 

 the receipt of the photo, but I was too ill to even 

 say "thank you"; they tell me, I have the consump- 

 tion. Really, my dear sir, you do not look like a 

 man disposed to "slam things," rather like one ef- 

 fectual in persuasion. Unless it flatters you im- 

 mensely, your wife ought to be proud of Blue 



Eyes? ( '.) she is a noble looking child. 



"Guenon" came last night. I expected a paper 

 covered pamphlet; but this is quite large and su- 

 perbly bound, printed on the best of paper, cream 

 tinted and suggestive. It seems to me, perfect in 

 "get up" and composition. You surely do your 

 readers a kindness, in calling attention to works of 

 such practical value. 



I cannot express my gratitude for each and all of 

 your favors. Hoping that your success may be 

 perfect and your life happy, I remain 



Resp. Yours, Mrs. Jennie Leete. 



West Amboy, Oswego Co., N. Y. 



Is it true. Friend Jennie, that yon, who 

 have so many times seemed the most fitting 

 one tor the Smilery, are a consumptive? Is 

 it because you. are a Christian, and have no 

 i'ear of death, that yon are thus cheerful 

 even when in poor health? I trust so, and 

 that we may all learn a lesson from you. 



It was a hard cross to confess about that 

 temper of mine, and I shudder even now, 

 when I look back and think of the time 

 when I feared neither God nor anything else. 

 I have been censured some for making such 

 a public confession of my faults, and some 

 have so far overlooked the moral I wished to 

 convey, as to think I might do the same 

 thing 'now. I wrote it, because I knew it 

 wiiu Id carry the light of a Savior's love to 

 many a heart, as it has done in the case men- 

 tioned in the following letter. 



I have taken Gleanings now one year, and have 

 learned a great deal from it. I commenced with 4 

 swarms of bees last spring, and have increased to 

 10 and from 9 of them took 400 lbs of honey in the 

 cap. My wife did the hiving, I being away from 

 home to work. 



Gleanings does me a great deal of good, not 

 alone in bee matters, but by the last pages in the 

 book. May God bless you in the work you have be- 

 gun. I used to swear a great deal, every time I got 

 stung. 1 don't think I hurt the bees, but my wife 

 used to cry, and beg of me not to swear so; till fi- 

 nally, about 3 weeks ago, I made up my mind to lead 

 a different life, God being my help. Give me an in- 

 terest in your prayers, Brother Root, and don't 

 drop the last pages of the paper for something else. 

 Keep right on, and God will be with you in the year 

 to come. C. Sevener. 



Geneseeville, Mich., Dec. 19th, 1878. 



Pertaining to Bee Culture. 



[We respectfully solicit the aid of our friends In 

 conducting this department, and would consider it a 

 favor to have them send us all circulars that have a 

 deceptive appearance. The greatest care will be at 

 all times maintained to prevent injustice being done 

 any one.] 



M 1 KS. COTTON continues to be sole can- 

 didate of this department. Mr. Wm. 

 — : Clement, of Malcolm, Iowa, sends a let- 

 ter too long for publication, detailing how he 

 sent her a swarm of bees for her hive and 

 system. After some correspondence, he re- 

 ceived an L. hive, made of hemlock boards, 

 to rough to be used even for a heirs nest. 



As for the new system for getting $50.00 

 from a hive in one season, he wrote in vain, 

 and never received so much as a scrap of 

 paper in regard to it. As he paid about $3. 

 express on the hive, he was worse off than a 

 neighbor of his, Levi Parker, of Beading, 

 Iowa, who sent her $10., and never received 

 so much as a word of reply in answer to his 

 many letters. 



READERS, BEWARE OF MRS. COTTON. 



An advertisement of practical information with 

 reference to Bee-Keeping, by Mrs. Lizzie E. Cotton, 

 West dot ham, Me., lately appeared in our columns. 

 A copv of "Gleanings in Bee Culture," a month- 

 ly, published by A. I. Root, Medina, O., is now sent 

 us, stating that this Mrs. Cotton has the disagreea- 

 ble habit of making no return for money sent her, 

 though she often makes fair promises. As she ap- 

 parently has the equally disagreeable habit of not 

 paying her advertising bills, we fear that the impu- 

 tation of our contemporary is not without founda- 

 tion. Newspaper publishers should make a note of 

 this and shun her. We have no doubt but that she 

 is trusted simply because she represents herself a 

 woman and writes so handsomely and feminine like 

 when sending her advertisements to publishers, but 

 in answer to bills for advertising, her hand writing 

 looks remarkably masculine.— Farm and Fireside. 



HONEY SCALES. 



ITER hunting up every thing in the 

 shape of scales, that will answer at all 

 for weighing honey, I have decided 

 that nothing will answer the purpose, short 

 of the scale given above. The only objection 

 is the price. They ordinarily sell for from $4 

 to $-5.00; but I have been able to make an 

 arrangement withjthe manufacturers, where- 

 by I can offer them at $3.00. This will 

 weigh a half oz., without trouble; but with 

 cheaper scales, it is difficult to weigh nearer 

 than ilh., and that is too much of a variation, 



