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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Aug. 



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Pertaining to Bee Culture. 



We respectfully soliell the aid of our friends in conducting 

 this department, and would consider it a favor to have them 

 send us all circulars thai have a deceptive appearance. The 

 greatest care "ill be at all times maintained to prevent injustice 

 being done any one. 



fjjRIEND Harrison, of the Hone;/ Bee, has 

 a letter from Mitchell, in which he 

 makes his old stereotyped excuses for 

 receiving money and making no returns. 

 He has been swindled by some one else, and 

 been sick, etc., but is now going to pay up 

 everything satisfactorily. The only trouble 

 with this story is that Mitchell is still send- 

 ing out circulars, and has been doing so all 

 the time, that he may get more money to 

 put in his pocket without any thought of 

 rendering any equivalent of any kind. He 

 is now located in Smithliekl, Jasper Co., Mo., 

 where he says he can raise 400 queens per 

 month, if need be. If any of our readers are 

 located near there, will they please report 

 what sort of an apiary or establishment he 

 has there. The suit alluded to in June No. 

 never came off, for the very good reason 

 that Mitchell never appeared. A great 

 amount of evidence was brought up against 

 him. For the present, I hope all of our 

 readers will take pains to caution everybody, 

 against sending any money in answer to any 

 of his advertisements and circulars, and to 

 brand every one who has the audacity to 

 style himself one of Mitchell's agents as a 

 swindler and a thief. There is abundant ev- 

 idence now in print to back you up. 



You may thank N. C. Mitchell for one more sub- 

 scriber. I can thank him for your journal, as it was 

 through him I got track of Gleanings. You saved 

 me $5.00, for I was about sending to him for a queen 

 when Gleanings came and spoilt his bargain. 



John S. King. 



San Jose, Santa Clara Co., Cal., July 13, 1880. 



MITCHELL. 



I hope, if I send you money, you will not do as 

 Mitchell of Indianapolis did a year since, with me. 

 I sent him $5.00; he acknowledged the receipt, but 

 forgot to send the bees. Robert Taylor. 



Lawrence, Kan., June 28, 1880. 



Your money is lost, friend T., but if you 

 had taken a bee journal, you would have 

 been too well posted to have sent Mitchell 

 any money, during the past five years or 

 more, and this would have paid for the jour- 

 nal, and you would have had all of the rest 

 of the information free. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



WILL tell you what good luck I had with the 

 fjueen I got last July. It was six days on the 

 road, and some of the bees were dead: but the 

 queen was all right. I put the cage, for 2-i hours, in 

 a box hive where there was no queen, when she went 

 to laying. As it was late, I gave them a cap of hon- 

 ey for winter, which was plenty, and they have in- 

 creased so that I am looking every day for a swarm. 

 They are large, yellow, nice bees, and work well. 

 Italian bees are a curiosity here. People have come 

 from all around to see them. Saml. W. LE^Ch. 

 Cromwell, Ohio Co., Ky., June 12, 1880. 



The ABC book is worth $5 to any bee-keeper. 



E. A. Beach. 



Dysart, Tama Co., Iowa, July IT, 1880. 



ABC at hand. I like it. I lost five queens by not 

 sending earlier. I showed it to a neighbor, and he 

 wants one. Find inclosed F. G. Miller. 



Bonn, Neb., July 8, 1880. 



I can assure you that the arc book is worth ten 

 times its value to any bee-keeper. 



Horace Parish. 



Weston's Mills, Catta. Co., N. Y., July 12, 1880. 



QUICK TIME. 



I got the queen all right, all the way from Medina, 

 in just two days from the time I mailed tl>c order. 

 Thanks for promptness. W. A. Sniffin. 



Spencer, Tioga Co., N. Y., July 16, 1880. 



Queen received all right. I left her in the cage, 

 on top of the frames, two nights and a day, in- 

 troduced her in the morning, and she commenced 

 laying the same day. Thomas J. Stinson. 



Pawnee City, Neb., July 8, 1880. 



Your smoker arrived in due time, and works 

 splendidly. Thanks for your promptness. My bees 

 are doing first-rate, and bringing in lots of honey. 



Delos Post. 



Barbour's Mills, Pa., July 12, 1880. 



Your package of queen, bees, and frame, so 

 nicely packed, is received in good order, and is al- 

 ready on its stand, with the bees going in and out at 

 work. This is undoubtedly the very best and safest 

 way of sending 1 out queens. M. L. Thomas. 



Tacony, Philadelphia, Pa., July 13, 1880. 



1 received my bees all right, on the 10th, and put 

 them in the hive the same day. They are at work. 

 I put in 3 frames of combs. My hives are nearly 

 like your Simplicity hives. Accept my thanks for 

 the brood vou sent me. Jesse Hooser. 



Hubbardstown, W. Va., June 26, 1880. 



I received the dollar queen this evening about 

 dark, all right; only one dead bee in cage. I took a 

 lantern, hunted out an old Italian queen, and caged 

 the new comer on a comb. C. Kendig. 



Naperville, 111., July 16, 1880. 



[Well done, friend K.] 



A. I. Root:— A B C came all right. You were 

 right in thinking I needed it, and I was glad you 

 sent it. I have appropriated every spare moment I 

 have had for 8 days to the study or that valuable 

 book, and am now very well acquainted with the 

 theory of bee culture, but am lacking in experience. 



Kobt. C. Sibley. 



Fort Jessup, Sabine Parish, La., June 19, 1880. 



The goods I ordered of you two months ago, I re- 

 ceived about a week ago, all right except the fdn. 

 You sent V-A lbs. and charged me for 2 lbs. in the 

 bill. J. B. BROGAN. 



Oak Hill, Pa., June 26, 1880. 



[The clerks wrote they knew the fdn. was put in, 

 and told just where it was. Here is a second card:] 



1 found that \i lb. of fdn. just where you said I 

 would. Had I not got it at all, I do not think I 

 would have had such a dream as Mr. Kress had. 



Oak Hill, Pa., J uly T. 1880. J. B. Brogan. 



My smoker is loaned out to a neighbor, and oh, 

 how I need it just now to conquer a colony of un- 

 ruly blacks! After showing my "cold-blast Sim- 

 plicity" to a neighbor who has kept bees for years 

 on the old, old plan, and always refused to be com- 

 forted by modern appliances in bee culture, he said 

 he must have one of the little " smoke squirters" to 

 use when he " robbed" his bees. 



Millard Berry. 



Duck Creek, Dallas Co., Texas, July 13, 1880. 



I received the goods in due time, and am very 

 much pleased with the same. The fdn. works per- 

 fectly in my hives. It is a great boon to bee-keep- 

 ers to be able to get so tine an article for so little 

 money. The Alsike clover seed is also a splendid 

 article. It is a pleasure to do business with so 

 prompt a firm. I am only a beginner in the busi- 

 ness of bee-keeping, but I hope to be better posted 

 soon. G. W. Williams. 



Attica, Micfh., July 8, 1880. 



