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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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right." This man was superintendent of 

 the Sunday school where I attended church. 

 I told him, as he knew me, to write such a 

 notice as he thought right. He did so, and 

 ended it by saying, "Mr. IPs success as a 

 public lecturer has been very great," al- 

 though this was the first attempt at giving a 

 public lecture, I had ever made in my life. 

 I grew up a skeptic, and this editor grew (V) 

 into a traveling doctor. 



The N. Y. Christian Weekly, after being- 

 notified several months ago, as to her char- 

 acter, stopped her advertisement, but, if I 

 am correct, gave its readers no note of warn- 

 ing, to undo the mischief they had made. 

 In a recent issue, they gave the advertise- 

 ment again, and when remonstrated with, 

 by one of our subscribers, they write as fol- 

 lows : 



You seem to take for granted two thing's and infer j 

 a third, which may not be true. 1st. You suppose 

 that we have not inquired. The advertiser would be 

 glad to have the name of our informer, that she 

 may have redress at law in an action for libel. The 

 postmaster and the express agent at West Gorham 

 send affidavits as to her honesty and reliability, in- 

 cluding truthfulness. 2nd. The journals you men- 

 tion, it is alleged, are interested in certain bee hives, 

 and are therefore interested witnesses. Our com- i 

 mittee has made, and is enfoi-cing, rigid rules on 

 this subject. It refuses many advertisements which 

 appear in other religious papers, even in those of 

 the most conservative character; but it does not \ 

 claim infallibility, and cannot be beyond deception. 1 



Having this second letter from you, we will make 

 further inquiries in West Gorham, and if you have | 

 disinterested evidence, in addition to your own, and 

 send it here, it will have careful consideration. I 

 While we wish to discriminate so as to protect our 

 subscribers, we at the same time must not be unjust 

 to our advertisers. 



Your letters of information or kindly criticism 

 are not unwelcome, but please hereafter to reserve 

 your inferences and imputations of wrong until you 

 know the facts in the case. 



Very truly yours, G. L. Shearer. 



NewYork, Oct. 11, 1&79. 



As they had copies of both Gleanings 

 and American Bee Journal, it would seem 

 that they want letters directly from the 

 parties who have been swindled. Will our 

 readers please give them such evidence. 

 Send to Rev. G. L. Shearer, 150 Nassau St., 

 New York City. 



I have letters from both the post master 

 and express agent of West Gorham, Me., 

 and the affidavits given in her circular are 

 far from being a straight transaction. 



Now I do not like fault finding with the 

 religious papers, and I do not wonder that 

 so many of them have been misled by a 

 woman's words and hand writing; but the 

 thing to do now is to undo the wrong. 

 There is one religious paper (the Sunday 

 /School Times) which, I am glad to say, I can 

 hold up to you for an example, and I dare 

 say, you will all agree with me. This is the 

 way in which they fix the matter in their is- 

 sue of Oct. 25th : 



A WARNING. 



The readers of this paper are here warned against 

 responding further to the "Honey Bee" advertise- 

 ment of Mrs. Lizzie E. Cotton that appeared in the 

 issues for October 11 and 18. Information has been 

 received which justifies this notice. If any sub- 

 scriber to this paper has failed to get returns for 

 money sent to her, the loss will be made good by the 

 publisher, upon notification. 



Again, several months ago, they advertised 

 a mocking bird for some one down south, 

 which would be sent for a stated sum, by 



mail. When they found out how they had 

 been imposed upon, they made correction as 

 follows : 



The fact that he pays for a given space in our col- 

 umns gives a man no right to utter a falsehood, or to 

 affirm what would tend to the injury of our readers. 

 Of course we are liable to be deceived. What we 

 suppose to be true may be false, whether it is utter- 

 ed by ourselves, our contributors, orouradvertisers. 

 When, however, we find that we have been deceived, 

 we not only regret the fact, but we do our best to re- 

 pair any injury thereby incurred. Here, for in- 

 stance, is the case of a man down in Florida adver- 

 tising to send mocking-birds by mail on receipt of a 

 specified sum. He gave what seemed satisfactory 

 references, and we had reason for thinking his pro- 

 posal an honest one. Rut we have asceitained that 

 he is a fraud; that he himself is a mocking-bird. In 

 every instance where we have become satisfied that 

 any of our subscribers sent money to him on the 

 strength of the advertisement in our columns we 

 have refunded to them the money; and we shall con- 

 tinue to do this even though it takes all the profits 

 of the entire establishment for the year. We want 

 those who read our paper to feel that its every state- 

 ment can be depended on; and we are doing our 

 utmost to have them feel so. 



Does not this look like "faith and works" 

 going together V Long may the Sunday 

 School Times "wave." and may their faith in 

 God never grow less. 



A few years ago the Scientific American 

 advertised music boxes playing 10 tunes, for 

 only $1.00. (Jreat numbers sent in their dol- 

 lars, and got a cheap harmonica, with ten 

 holes in it. The editors, when notified, stop- 

 ped the ad., and consoled those who lost, by 

 saying they supposed any man of common 

 sense ought to know they could not get a 

 music box for a dollar. It struck me that 

 "any man of common sense" (who had lost 

 a dollar) ought to know better than to have 

 faith in the advertisements in the Scientific 

 American after that. 



Where a paper comes out and takes the 

 stand that the Sunday School Times does, it 

 seems to me they ought to be patronized ; 

 what do you say, boys V The paper will be 

 sent 3 months on trial, to new subscribers, 

 for only 25c. Let us astonish them, by show- 

 ing them that the readers of Gleanings 

 know what true Christianity is, and can 

 appreciate it. Address Sunday School Times, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



We have a Symphoricarpus vulnaris "too." Are 

 you not glad? 



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I forgot to say that we have about 450 raspberry 

 plants set out on our honey farm, of varieties es- 

 pecially recommended as honey plants. 



We have honey plants to be named, almost enough 

 to fill a journal. The worst of it is, a great part of 

 them are plants we have named, and so it will be 

 mostly a useless repetition to have it all in the jour- 

 nal. W T e will try to combine them in some way, for 

 the next issue. 



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ADVANCE OF GRAPE SUGAR. 



In consequence of the advance in the price of 

 corn, the price of grape sugar has risen at the fac- 

 tory, so that I am unable to furnish it without abso- 

 lute loss at less than the following prices: 



For any quantity less than a barrel, 5^0 per lb. ; 

 by the barrel, of about 425 lbs., 4?ic. 



Above is for prices on beard the cars here at 

 Medina. 



I will ship full barrels from New York City, for 

 i l ic per lb. This is for the best quality of grape or 

 corn sugar for feeding bees. 



