GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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GLEANINGS INBEE CULTUBE. 



J^. I. BOOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POST-PAID. 



FOB CLUBBING RATES, SEE FIRST PAGE 

 UF READING MATTER. 



IVLZEilOIIC^^, JXT3NTI: 1, 1880. 



Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the 

 man that getteth understanding.— Prov. iii. 13. 



Please, my friends, will you make out your or- 

 ders in accordance with the price list? Remember 

 the clerks to whom your letters go, have these con- 

 stantly before them, and, in asking for things, if you 

 use the same terms there used, there will hardly be 

 a possibility of a mistake. 



I do not see but that I shall have to keep on com- 

 plaining; packages of queens and other things are 

 coming almost daily without the name of the sender 

 on them. Will you please be kind enough my 

 friends, for your own sake as well as ours, to mark 

 your name and address plainly on every thing you 

 send. If you send me papers, please mark plainly 

 the passage you wish me to read. Remember, these 

 things come so many together that I have but a lit- 

 tle time to bestow on each, and I do not wish to 

 seem neglectful of any thing you may be so kind as 

 to send me. 



WOODEN BUCKETS AS A SURPLUS HONEY RECEPTACLE. 



An enterprising patent-hive man claims a patent 

 on the idea of inverting a common wooden pail over 

 a box hive, that he may have not only a pail-f ul of 

 honey, but also a package absolutely free from drip; 

 if the pail holds water, it will of course hold honey, 

 and then you have the bail to carry it by. Where 

 honey is very cheap, it may answer a good purpose; 

 but the queen would be almost certain to make her 

 way into a common sized pail. The half-size wooden 

 buckets on our 10c counter, being smaller, would be 

 less liable to this objection. Neat wooden covers 

 would be desirable, and there would be no difficulty 

 in making them cheaply. A Simplicity hive could 

 easily be arranged to take 6 of these small buckets 

 at once. Of course, the idea of a patent on any such 

 arrangement is absurd. 



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A Dilemma.— One neighbor handed another a dol- 

 lar, asking him to send for a smoker. For accom- 

 modation's sake, our friend took the dollar and sent 

 it, and it was lost. When informed of the facts, 

 knowing that the want of a smoker is often far more 

 than the value of It, I 3ent one for half price. The 

 neighbor who so kindly sent the money could not 

 well pay the half price, for the whole matter was of 

 no sort of profit to himself, as he did it all solely to 

 accommodate. It was no profit to me, for I fur- 

 nished the smoker without receiving a copper. I 

 asked the sender of the letter to present the case to 

 his neighbor, and ask him if he thought T should not 

 have at least something for my smoker. Here is 

 his reply: 



Inclosed find 50 c. , which credit to my account for smoker, for 

 which I now have no compensation whatever. The party I or- 

 dered the smoker for says he will not give one cent more than 

 what he gave me, and which I sent to your address, and it shall 

 be the last man that I will accommodate in that way. 



Rogersville, O. . May 2J, 1880. Dr. H. J. Peteks. 



Now, shall I let friend P. lose it all? in fact, shall I 

 let him lose anything for trying to accommodate 

 both myself and his neighbor? Shall I, on the other 

 hand, lose it all myself when I was trying my best to 

 do my unlucky friends a kindness? Did I do wrong 

 in sending a smoker without first getting the money? 

 If I had not sent any, how would friend P. and his 

 neighbor have settled it? 



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Much trouble has come from exorbitant charges 

 that might have been saved by a little forethought 

 or consideration. Packages of 1 lb. or less, if maila- 

 ble, are usually cheaper by mail than by express. 

 Anything too heavy to go by mail must go by ex- 

 press or freight, but, as a general rule, I would not 

 send anything by express that weighs more than 

 about 25 lbs. Packages of 500 sections are often 

 ordered by express, but as they weigh about 50 lbs., 

 our customer is almost sure to be indignant at the 

 charges, and sometimes refuses to take them. On 

 this account, we have been in the habit of disobey- 

 ing orders, and sending goods by freight; and we 

 generally get thanks for it when the matter is ex- 

 plained. Occasionally, however, we have a custom- 

 er who knows about it, and expects to pay a large 

 price, but wants the goods in a hurry. In such 

 cases, we get severely censured for not obeying 

 orders. The most of our customers are not ac- 

 quainted with the difference between express and 

 freight, and we therefore of tenest hit their wishes, 

 by using our own judgment in the way goods are to 

 be sent. Some may say we should obey orders any 

 way; a few days ago a woman ordered 500 sections 

 by mail; the postage would have cost her twice their 

 value. Now one line from you would often save 

 both of us much trouble; say like this: "Send 

 cheapest way;" or "I know express charges will be 

 fearful, but I am in a hurry;" or "I am aware of 

 the amount of postage it will take, but we have no 

 express office near." Do you not see how this will 

 help? I am bearing a great many of these burdens 

 from misunderstanding, and I am willing to bear 

 more, but will you not help me a little in the ways I 

 have mentioned? 



OBITUARY. 



We are pained to hear of the death of an old 

 friend and contributor to Gleanings, Rufus Mor- 

 gan, of Bernardo, San Diego Co., Cal. ; formerly of 

 Raleigh, N. C. W. A. Pryal writes, "He was but a 

 new comer to this state (Cal.) and his untimely 

 death has cast a gloom over the bee-keepers of this 

 section." Mr. Morgan has been widely and favora- 

 bly known for many years. 



Since writing the above we have received, from R. 

 C. Taylor, the following, evidently clipped from aN. 

 C. paper : 



death of rufus morgan. 



We were greatly shocked on Monday by receiving 

 the sad intelligence of the sudden death of Rufus 

 Morgan, at Bernardo, San Diego Co., Cat., on the 5th 

 instant. He died from eating poisonous mushrooms. 

 Cut down in the bloom of his days, in the full vigor 

 of his manhood, ere the sun of his existence had 

 reached its meridian; just as his plans for a useful 

 and prosperous life were developing themselves 

 most nopefully; he leaves a widow and two infant 

 children to mourn their irreparable loss. His ener- 

 gy and enterprise led him to seek an El Dorado in 

 that far off region; he found an untimely grave, 

 far from his home and friends, and was buried by 

 stangers. Such is the vanity of human expecta- 

 tions! Mr. Morgan was well known, and greatly be- 

 loved in this section of the state, and many well ex- 

 claim "Alas, my brother!"— Signal. 



