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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 



elidly. K. J. Willson will send for a saw the same as 

 mine, he is so pleased with it. 



You can form no idea of how out-of-the-way this 

 country is for little home improvements. Anything 

 that is grand or big, like a steam cotton gin or cot- 

 ton press is all right, but very few raise their own 

 corn herp, or their meat, and have few of the little 

 improvements that make a convenient and pleasant 

 northern home. Our plantation makes oOO bales of 

 cotton, and I may say we live from hand to mouth; 

 but I have Boston blood in me, aiid I mean to do 

 something in the line on which I have commenced. 



St. I. T. Moore. 



Monroe, Ouachita Parish, La., Dec. 11, 1880. 



Pertaining to Bee Culture. 



[We respectfully solicit the aid of our friends in 

 conducting this department, aud 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.] 



S-5?'E have been troubled very much with patent 

 /*'/ bee hive men. A party from Tenn. sold us 

 Ihe "Golden Bee-hive," and taught us how 

 to get our honey at '2c. per lb.; but it failed and 

 caused many to say that bees arc a humbusr. Anoth- 

 er party came last fall, and said they had broken 

 Langstroth up, for infringing on their right. All 

 the harm they did was to take an old man off with 

 them, promising him $75.00 per month, and left him 

 to make his way back the best he could without pay. 

 He ought to take Gleanings. Mike Wintnger. 

 Glasgow, Ky., April C, 1880. 



We have had a goorl many letters of com- 

 plaint from the "Golden bee-hive" of late, 

 and also from the "Gould's Common-Sense 

 hive," which, it seems, has cropped out 

 again, especially in the South. Give them 

 all a wide berth, my friends, and you will 

 save your money. 



I send one new subscriber. I think when he has 

 read Gleanings six months he will want it the re- 

 mainder of the year, notwithstanding he paid N. C. 

 Mitchell $5.00 for the right to make his hive and a 

 promise to send him his own "published work" con- 

 taining full instructions how to handle and make 

 money from bees,— which "Uncle Sam" fails to 

 bring. N. Case. 



Orange ville, O., Jan. 20, 1880. 



MITCHELLISM. 



Dear Sir: -Two years ago, my friend Corneil and I 

 decided to Italianize our bees; and, as Mitchellism 

 was then all the go - here, we concluded to send to 

 him for a queen. Accordingly, $5.00 was sent for a 

 queen and honey knife. Pretty soon after, my 

 friend received a receipt for the money, and also 

 word that the queen would be on the way in proper 

 time. At two or three different times, he sent word 

 that the queen would soon be on the way. After two 

 years, we have concluded that she is a slow traveler, 

 or that Mitchell is not yet through testing her, or 

 that he wants her to swell the ranks of that army 

 of queens 10,000 strong, or, maybe, to give some one 

 a good chance to brand him as a swindler. 



Lowder, 111., April 10, 1880. F. W. Hulme. 



MITCHELL. 



I am glad to see you take such active measures in 



regard to Mitchell. Until I saw the April number of 



] Gleanings, 1 did not understand the meaning of a 



j good many letters I have received of late. I had no 



| idea that he had the assurance to claim, in a printed 



; circular, a patent covering every feature of a divis- 



: ion board. He has left Indianapolis and gone west, 



to "grow up with the country." G. P. McDougall. 



Indianapolis, Ind., April 5, 1880. 



MRS. COTTON. 



A. I. Root:— I take the Christian Leader, a paper 

 ; published in Boston, in which I saw Lizzie E. Oot- 

 ] ton's honey-bee advertisement. 1 cut it out, put it 

 on a postal card, stating that it was a humbug, and 

 giving as reference yourself and A. J. King & Co. 

 A short time ago the same advertisement came in the 

 Tribune and Farmer, published in Philadelphia, and 

 I did the same with that. The advertisement is the 

 same as you published in Gleanings of Nov. 1st, 

 1879. Yesterday I got a letter from her which reads 

 as follows: 



T.B. II 'ait:— I am advised of your slandering me 

 through the mails. I shall immediately take meas- 

 ures to bring you to justice. • 



Mrs. Lizzie E. Cotton. 



West Gorham, Me., Apr. 8, 1880. 



I don't know but I have got myself into trouble; 

 if I have, I did not do it intentionally. I notified the 

 publishers for the benefit of the public and bee-keep- 

 ers particularly, and I did not like to see a humbug 

 advertisement in a religious paper. I don't think 

 she will ever trouble me, but, if she does, I shall 

 have to look to you for the proof of what I said; viz., 

 that her advertisement is a humbug, for it was by 

 reading your Gleanings that I was led to do so. 

 Please let me know soon what you think of the mat- 

 ter. T. B. Wait. 



Mills' Mills, N. Y., April 13, 1880. 



Never fear the threat of evil doers, friend 

 W. ; you have done your duty well and 

 faithfully, and I will stand between you and 

 harm, should any come. I am rejoiced to 

 know that so many are waking up to the 

 importance of letting our religious papers 

 know that they are expected to discriminate 

 between the true and the false advertise- 

 ments. Mrs. Cotton's advertisement alone, 

 coining from any source, should condemn 

 it, and I do not see how the editor of a re- 

 ligious paper, or any other who has the good 

 of his readers at heart, could allow such a 

 statement in its columns. , Mrs. Cotton's 

 threats are about on a level with those from 

 Mitchell, given last month. 



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AM a reader of Gleanings and an A B C scholar 

 of 17. Quite young for a bee-keeper, am I not? 

 My brother has the ABC, and takes Glean- 

 ings, and I take the American Bee Journal. So I 

 get to read every number of Gleanings, and he 

 reads the A. B. J. Probably, you may not care 

 about hearing from me, as I am not one of your sub- 

 scribers; but I assure you I would be, if I were not 

 at liberty to read Gleanings whenever I desire. 

 This is my second year of bee-keeping. I com- 

 menced last season with one colony of blacks. The 

 season was so poor that I only increased it to two, 

 aud did not get any surplus. I was at that time 



