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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUETUKE. 



Nor. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Gleanings received for October. It is just splen- 

 did in the new dress; could not get along- without it. 



W. B. Griggs. 

 Suniield, Mich., Oct. 9, 1880. 



I received your ABC book last week. I am much 

 pleased with it, and think it is worth double the 

 money. Clement Perrin. 



Elma, Ont., Can , Sept. 18, 1880. 



Gleanings looks very 7 pretty in its new dress. We 

 feel mere and more as though we couldn't do with- 

 out it. W. D. Parker. 



Defiance, O., Oct. 9, 1880. 



I would not do without Gleanings for double the 

 price. Our bees have made enough honey for win- 

 ter, and some surplus where stocks were only 

 doubled. S. W. VanDorn. ' 



Eldorado, Butler Co., Kan., Oct. 12, 1880. 



The tested queens mailed on the 4rh inst. reached 

 me safely this evening in good condition. Thanks 

 for your promptness. I can get queens in less time 

 from Medina than from Atlanta, Ga., only 75 miles. 

 Of course, this i* the promptness of the shipper. 



Forsyth, Ga., Oct. 6, 1880. F. N. Wilder. 



A SUBSTANTIAL BIRTHDAY PRESENT. 



Inclosed please find f 1.25 for ABC, bound in cloth. 

 This is to be my pa's birthday present. He has long 

 b^en wishing for it, and will be greatly pleased to re- 

 ceive it, Anna Stanclift. 



Brookfield, Mo., May 24, 1880. 



The tools are all entirely satisfactory. Thanks. 

 We thought when we first "sot eyes" on that 10c G. 

 W. Hatchet that it was wrongly named— ought to 

 have been P. T. Barnum or '"Little Humbug." But 

 I tell you it is just '"boss" for sections and lathing 

 for plaster, etc. D. H. Tweedy. 



Bridgeport, Belmont Co., O., Oct. It, 1880. 



I have tripd the extractor, and am well pleased with 

 it. For strength, lightness, and beauty, it can't be 

 beat. Tell your customers those tin-lined enamel 

 sheets are not litud with tin at all, but bound on the 

 ends. That 25c tack hammer isa beauty; and, what's 

 more, it is a good tool. On the whole, I am more 

 than pleased. C. B. Thwing. 



Hamilton, Mo., Oct. 13, 1880. 



I received your postal of the 1st, stating that there 

 was no money in the letter you got from me. Now, 

 Mr. Root, I am positive that I put 50c in silver in 

 the letter. It was rather careless of me, and I do 

 not think you ought to stand the loss, and so I en- 

 close it again. D. E. Bobbins. 



Hesperia, Mich., Sept. 1", 1880. 



[Many thanks for your generosity, friend R. How 

 strange it is that people are so different in their 

 views of such matters! How cheering it is to find, 

 every now and then, one who insists on bearing not 

 only half, but the whole loss in such cases!] 



The 3 one-dollar queens bought of you are 

 hatching out bright, full-blooded Italians; that is, 

 two of them. The other, the ants killed in the cage 

 before I had time to introduce her. 



E. J. Atchley. 



Lancaster, Texas, Aug. 21, 1880. 



I was about to.give up raising bees, when I heard 

 of the Simplicity bee hive, and saw some of them, 

 and was so pleased with them, I bought several and 

 transferred my bees into them out of the old-fash- 

 ioned hive. They have been working so nicely since, 

 that I have concluded to try to make bee-raising a 

 profitable business. Milton C. Scott. 



Forsyth, Ga., Sept. 7, 1880. 



gleanings as an advertising medium. 



You ask, '• Shall I continue your ad.?" For pity's 

 sake, no, no, no! 1 have been sending back orders 

 for the last two weeks. I send back orders to-day 

 amounting to $12.90. I have never been so rushed 

 with orders in all of my experience. Such is printers' 

 in £- W. Z. Hutchinson. 



Rogersville, Genesee Co., Mich., Oct. 14, 1880. 



The smoker is just what I wished. I wanted one 

 that I could light with a match, and this is just the 

 one. And then, the seeds were put up so securely 

 there was no danger of half of them being lost in 

 the mails, as I had some do last summer. 



Mrs. E. J. Killam. 



Dunlap, Morris Co., Kan., Sept. 14, 1880. 



GLEANINGS AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 



I suppose you will not feel offended if I tell you I 

 have received more inquiries from my "ad." in 

 Gleanings, and sold more stock, than from any 

 other 1 have, and it appears in some 10 or 12 other 

 papers. 



I must also congratulate you upon the new dress 

 in which Gleanings appears. C. W. Can field. 



Athens, Pa., Oct. 15, 1880. 



I was greatly surprised, on reading "Our Homes," 

 to see how nearly alike our thoughts had been on 

 "g"od investments;" for it was just such invest- 

 ments I was thinking of while writing you. And 

 God will bless these gifts of cold water in his name, 

 as he has already blessed you in giving to the w<>rld 

 your Home Papers, your inventions, and your life. 

 I am pleased with the fresh appearance of Glean- 

 ings in its new dress. What it contains always 

 seems like a good long letter from some friend. I 

 never enjoyed any work so much as my S. S. class. 

 Walter B. House. 



Oberlin College, O., Oct. 5, 1880. 



Gleanings came swiftly to hand; in reply I would 

 say 1 am much pleased with it, I still have the Aug. 

 No for 1879, which you sent me as a sample. I have 

 almost committed it to memory; but your writings 

 from pages 321 to 323 are a treasure to me. I love to 

 to st udy the nature of the bee, and to learn his hab- 

 its; but reading the above named writing creates in 

 me a feeling whii'h makes me far more nappy than 

 bees can possibly do, or any one can dream of. I 

 hope that, while I am your subscriber, you may con- 

 tinue to write thus. It makes me feel as though you 

 were " home folks." May Almighty God, the divine 

 Ruler of the universe, speed you and keep you stead- 

 fast to the end. S. D. Rutherfokd. 



Kearneysville, Jefferson Co., W. Va., July 13, 1880. 



The book and frames came to hand, express pre- 

 paid. The book is very neat indeed. I was a little 

 surprised at you pa> ing the express on the goods. I 

 would have been willing to pay it myself, even if you 

 did not have the saw. But you will be rewarded in 

 the future for all such acts of kindness. 



J A Ware 



Reidsville, N. C, Sept. 3, 1880. 



L ¥ ou see, we have some of our heavy tools and ma- 

 chinery sent directly from the factories where made, 

 to save freieht, and our customers, not knowing 

 this, often order our goods sent with them. Well, 

 this would make our customers have two freight 

 charges to paj T instead of one; or, worse still, when 

 the articles are small they have to be sent by ex- 

 press. Now, in such cases, I have felt in duty bound 

 to pay the charges on the small articles, even though 

 it leaves us with less than their cost. I have done 

 this because no provision has been made in our list 

 for such cases. How very kindly our friend above 

 speaks, when I have done only as 1 would be done 

 by! Is this world all selfish?] 



The bees all came through all in good condition, 

 but 1 went 5 miles after them three times before I 

 got them. You started them on Monday and I didn't 

 get them until Saturday afternoon. One of them 

 was for my brother. We both think everything of 

 them. They are regular pets, and are doing well. 

 His queen produces pure Italians; but the one I kept 

 produces bees of all kinds. Some have three bands, 

 some two, some one, and some are blacker than my 

 common bees, with no bands on them at all. I am 

 very sorry, but I don't suppose I can help it now. 

 The A B C I got of you is a great help to me. I am a 

 new beginner, and didn't know mueh about bee- 

 keeping. I study it every chance I get. 1 wouldn't 

 part with it for $500 if 1 couldn't get another one. If 

 you have 15 or 20 calls from this place for bees in the 

 spring, you can lay the blame on me. When I told 

 them 1 had sent for 2 lbs. of bees and two queens, 

 they laughed at me, but since they have seen them 

 there are 15 or 20 around here who want to send for 

 some of them in the spring. 



Truly yours, James K. Gregory. 



Crooked Lake, Wyoming Co., Pa. 



