1879 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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momentary impulse for the one, that I 

 would not "have for the other. Nay farther ; 

 that I should he inclined to take just as 

 much pains to he polite and attentive to the 

 young men as I pass them, as I would to the 

 young women. When this prayer began to 

 be answered, and when I could really feel 

 the same pleasure in passing a well behaved 

 and well dressed young man, as in passing a 

 young lady, I felt like kneeling down in the 

 street, and thanking God for his mercies to 

 such a poor sinner as myself. Farther still ; 

 this newly revived love of God in my heart 

 toward my fellows, since those two months, 

 has been widening and deepening, and tak- 

 ing in all humanity, young and old, and en- 

 abling me to see the human soul, as it were, 

 irrespective of age and sex, and to rejoice in 

 any chance that offers of helping or advising 

 any one, young or old. 



During this siege of temptation, I received 

 great help from breathing a simple prayer 

 day and night, even when walking along in 

 the streets. It was something like this: 

 "Let thine image, O my Saviour, take the 

 place of all and every thing on the face of 

 this earth. Help me, O Lord, to choose thee 

 in place of every thing Satan may offer or 

 present, and may the inmost thoughts of my 

 heart be of things eternal, that do not pass 

 away, and not of the foolish baubles of this 

 earth." 



Some of you will doubtless imagine this an 

 easy task, if you have not known what it is 

 to say with the Psalmist, — 



Save me, O God; for the waters have come in unto 

 my soul. 



I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I 

 am come into deep waters, where the floods over- 

 flow me.— Ps. lxix. i, 2. 



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PRISON LITERATURE,— RULES FOR SEND- 

 ING. 



Bro. Matthews gives the following hints 

 to those having reading matter to send to 

 prisoners : 



1st.— Do it up in 201b. packages; if over 201b. are in 

 one package, it will not come free. 



2d.— Label each package, Prison Dept., Western 

 Seaman's Friend Soc, Onarga or Oilman, Ills, If to 

 come by Am. or Adam's Express, Onarga; if by 

 TJ. S. F,x., Oilman. 



3d.— Never send a package, until you have first 

 dropped me a postal, telling me how many packages 

 you have to send, the name of your Ex. Co., and the 

 name of the town where package is to be sent from. 

 Hi member, if package is to come by Am. Ex., it can 

 not come till you receive a frank to bring it free; if 

 by Adam's or U. S. Ex., I will have to give directions 

 as to where it is to be billed, so as to come free. 



If these 3 rules are carefully followed all will go 

 right. W. D. A. Matthews. 



Bro. Matthews further says. 



I have often felt that, if mistakes keep occurring, 

 after all the precautions taken, the express compan- 

 ies will cancel all my favors, and then I will be crip- 

 pled in my mission. So please impress on every one, 

 to conform closely to my requests. 



Let us see to it, my friends, that our care- 

 lessness does not hinder and seriously crip- 

 ple the very work we are trying to aid. 



A lb. of young Italians, with a dollar queen, turn- 

 ed loose on three or four empty combs, make a pret- 

 ty fair little swarm, and they will go to work at once, 

 like little heroes. If started this month and kept 

 constantly rearing brood up to the highest notch, by 

 feeding, if they are getting no honey, they should 

 make a good colony before winter. Price $ 2.60. 



Under this head, will be inserted free 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, I would not advise you to send 

 your honey away, to be sold on commission. If 

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

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

 market. For 25cts., we can furnish little boards 

 to hang up in your door yard, with the words "Honey 

 for Sale" neatly painted. If wanted by mail, 10c. 

 extra for postage. Boards saying "Bees and Queens 

 for Sale," same price. 



fHAVE 2,000 lbs. of nice clover and basswood, ex- 

 tracted honey that I will sell for 8 cts. by the 

 .. barrel or keg, the purchaser to pay for barrel 

 and freight. 1 have 2,000 lbs. of nice, light, comb 

 honey which I will sell, in 100 lb. lots, at 15 cts. It is 

 in 2 lb. sections. I will sell bees at $1.00 per lb., up 

 to 200 lbs., or perhaps more. I suppose no queens 

 are furnished. I will furnish hybrids or dollar 

 queens at 50 cts. R. S. Becktell. 



New Buffalo, Berrien Co., Mich. 



Wanted one barrel, thick, white, clover honey. 

 Write me, with lowest cash pi'iee. 



J. M. Brooks, Box 64. 

 Columbus, Ind., July 3, 1879. 



I have 15 bbls. of honey that I will sell at 8 cts. per 

 pound, and throw in the bbls. Paul L. Viallon. 

 Bayou Goula, La., July 23, '79. 



Chicago.— Honey— Choice, in single comb boxes, 

 9@13c. Extracted, 6@9c. 



Bees-wax.— Choice, yellow, 24@26c. Darker grades, 

 15@20c. 



New York.— Honey— Best comb, ll@13c. Extract- 

 ed, 7®8c. 



Bees-wax.— Choice, 25c. 



Cincinnati.— Honey— Best, in single comb boxes, 

 10® 12c. Extracted, 8@10c. 



California.— Honey— Comb, 6@7c. Extracted, 

 4@5c. 



Bees-wax.— Best, 30@31c. For darker colored, 

 20(522 1 / 2 c. 



The sweet pepper is almost in bloom, in our honey 

 garden. 



Do not send me any more queens until I give you 

 further notice. 



I have to-day, July 29th, 4416 subscribers, for 

 which 1 know I ought to be happy. 



I will pay in trade, 25cts. for wax; but, as I have 

 several tons now on hand, I cannot pay more than 

 22cts., the advertised price, in cash. 



In our next, will appear an engraving of R. Wil- 

 kins' California apiary, with a description by "Gal- 

 lup." See if we do not show you that there is, at 

 least, one nice apiary in Cal. 



We have had several importations of imported 

 queens, but not quite enough to fill all orders. Of 

 the last lot, only 4 were alive. We have now sent 

 orders to three other persons in Italy, besides Tre- 

 montani, and hope soon to have some on hand all 

 the time, if it be a possible thing. 



All experiments with the metal electrotypes for 

 dipping fdn., I am obliged to pronounce a failure. I 

 can make fdn. that the bees will use, it is true, but 

 the process is slow, and the work not nice. Our 

 $22.00 fdn. mill, both in rapidity and quality of the 

 work, far excels anything I have been able to get 

 hold of, and I have* wasted a groat many dollars in 

 experiments. To prevent sagging of both the fdn. 

 and frame, the thin board base mentioned on page 

 317 is far ahead of anything I have before seen, but 

 it takes too much wax for flat bottomed cells, and I 

 have not yet devised a satisfactory method of in* 

 denting the thin board just right. 



