1880 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



565 



take all the risks, T will make any watch 25c cheaper, 

 except those s< Id by the dozen or half-dozen F<'i 

 every wateh wanted by mail, you must Bend 15c ex- 

 tra, for postage and rtgistering. A watch w id b< 

 sent free to any one sending us $12. 01) for 12 sub- 

 scribers, and asking no other premium. 



FOR $9.50. 



We have once more in Block, good strong" 2-ounce 

 case American Silver Watches, nil regulated and in 

 running order, that I will mail to any add resa forib< 

 above price: and if it does not please you, you maj 

 return it within ten days and get your money. Or i 

 will send you the watch for 20 subset ibers, at $l.0i 

 each. You can have either burning or open face, 

 and such a watch, lor a present, ought to make auj 

 boy (or man either) happy. 



The above as well as (he $4.00 watches will regu- 

 late so as to run wbhin 2 or 3 minutes per week; it 

 you want greater accuracy than this, it will cost you 

 more. Say for a watch running to a minute a week, 

 $20.00, and for a minute a mouth, $10 Of, iu the pock- 

 et. 



A. I. ROOT, Medina, O. 



KIND WORDS FROMJUR CUSTOMERS 



The 10c pocket-level I could not have bought at 

 our hardware store for less than 25c. 

 Liuden, Genesee Co., Mich. L. E. Welch. 



Inclosed find for Gleanings another year. It 



is of more benefit to me than 5 colonies of bees. 



J. S. Dewey. 

 Spring Lake, Ottawa Co., Mich., Oct. 20, 1&80. 



I find Gleanings in Bee Culture is ju«t as essen- 

 tial, in taking care of bees, as the pendulum of a 

 clock to keep its machinery moving properly. 



Burlington, la., Oct. 22, 1HS0. K. Bulmer. 



I could not get along without Gleanings. Your 

 A B C is worth $10 (0 to any bee-keeper. How can 

 you get them up so cheap? A. S. Myers. 



West Woodstock, Windham Co., Conn. 



The goods you sent came ail right, and I must say 

 that I am more than pleased with them, the only 

 surprise is, how you can sell them so cheap. 



H. D. Norwood. 



Dundas, Rice Co., Minn., May 15, 1880. 



I wish to thank you for promptness in sending 

 queens. The order left here at 8:10 p.m. on Thurs- 

 day, and the queen was here on Saturday morning, 

 and is now safely introduced. C. H. Hoyt. 



Norwalk, Huron Co., O., Nov. 8, 1880. 



Find enclosed $1 for Gleanings for the year 1881. 

 Bees are a failure. I don't take Gleanings lor bee 

 reading, but for the Home Papers. 



John S. McCormick. 



Columbus, Cherokee Co., Kan., Oct. 13, 1880. 



I was much pleased with those Simplicity hives 

 you sent me last spring, although they were very 

 slow getting here. I transferred my bees as soon as 

 I got the hives, and from one hive sold over 11 dollars 

 worth of honev. Prettvgood lor a beginner, I think. 



Sabatha, Kan., Oct. 17, 1880. Wes MoNary. 



I feel somewhat lonesome; here, as my 'better 

 hal " and babies are in Ohio. 1 miss them very 

 much, and miss Sunday-school too. as it has been my 

 hiuli privih go to superintend one for some years. 

 But Our Homes, affords me a great source of enjoy- 

 ment. Go on, brother, and in the '"morning" we 

 shall meet in one great family. G. W. Caskey. 



Parsons, Labette Co., Kan., May 11, 1880. 



The queen you s«nt rre last came all right in good 

 order, dry and nice, and 1 got her introduced all 

 right, and 1 am well pleased and very thankful that 

 you did not yet out of patience. 1 intended to let 

 you know ab< nt the result sooner, but it slipped my 

 mind after I got her introduced. D. Bailey. 



Chester. O., Oct. .29, 18K). 



[And I, friend B., am thankful that you did not get 

 out of patience ] 



I have given up the idea of keeping bees without 

 Glkantnc.s. It is like cooking without a stove — very 

 poorly done. The first copy I saw was two years 



ago. I could not wait to read it through until I sub- 

 -eribed lor one for m.\ self, und expictto lake it as 

 long as I live. 1 like to see Ihose cartoons, they are 

 ■•<> laughable; and the Home Papers,! call my ser- 

 mons. They are just splendid. 



Mrs. Julia A. CoCHRAN. 

 Macon, Macon Co., 111., Oct. U5, 1880. 



For the inclosed, send Gleanings another year 

 I have huilt up my whole apiary from GlkaninuS 

 uid would not do without it noli' f.'r half my apiary 

 >vould amount to yearlj ; so, you see, it is a fixture, 

 so to speak. I am at work on a picture of my apiary, 

 >vhii h I will send you, as soon as complete. 



Hanover, Mich., Nov. 5, '80. Frank P. Greiner. 



I owe you a warm thank for your kindness in send- 

 ing me your A B C book, which is a reullj valuable 

 one. 1 do not know how a bee-man, pariieulaily a 

 beginner, can get along without it. 



Last fall 1 received a dollar queen from you: add- 

 ed it to a very weak black- bee swarm, with an 

 abundant store of h >ney. This summer they gave 

 me the most honey 1 ever received from the beax i"St 

 iliek-bee swarm; but hereafter I want n- in ire 

 black bees. G.N Harc*,M.D. 



Bcllevue, Huron Co., O., Oct. 11, 1880. 



T am very much pleased with your counter store, 

 where we can get so many useful articles at about 

 one-half the price we have to pay at any retail store, 

 where such enormous profits are filched from the 

 people. The time is not far distant when the, labor- 

 ing classes will be alive to their own interests— will 

 think and investigate, and will buy so as to save 

 much of their hard-earned money that now goes to 

 make nabobs of the merchants. By the way, don't 

 jou think that, by buying a gross of eight-day per- 

 petual calendar cf cks, giving the hour of the day, 

 day of the week, day of the mouth, and month of the 

 >ear, that jo" could furnish >our subscribers with a 

 real, good, substantial, and pretty article for not ex- 

 ceeding $5.00? You might give notice in Gleanings 

 for all who would take one, to give you notice by 

 postal card. They would be a nice present to make 

 our wives at Christmas time. J. S. Dkwh-y. 



Spring Lake, Mich., Nov. 1, 1880. 



[An excellent idea, friend D., and we tender you 

 thanks for the suggestion. Those wives will please 

 take notice, that thev must not be surprised to see a 

 calendar clock, if one should come. 1 will write at 

 once to the manufacturers, and see what they will do 

 on a gross. A gross of real good Seth Thomas clocks 



will cost, I fear, not less than a thousand dollars. 



lie not too seA r ere on your friends, the merchants, 

 friend D. ; with their sales, and their high rents, they 

 often have to pay, they often can not well do much 

 better.] 



I think, if T had been in your place, I would have 

 sent the thimble to an engraver to oblige a sub- 

 scriber who has alwajs paid his dues. I offered to 

 pay for it, but I suppose such ttifles are beneath 

 your dignity. Inclosed find one cent for postal with 

 statement of account, and one cent for postal to re- 

 turn receipt at once. Don't make me wait as usual. 



Leesport, Pa., Nov. 3, 1880. Owen H. Wily. 



[Now, I assure you, friend W., I had not hought of 

 being unkind or unaccommodating. You will see 

 by the list, that we make only about 3c each on our 

 thimbles, in selling them at" 25c. Jewelers usually 

 get 5Uc for the same; but they are obliged to charge 

 this profit to cover expense of engraving. Itistrue, 

 I could have sent the thimble to an engraver, but he 

 would charge 2*4c per lett-r; and. if your name 

 happened to be a long one, you would think it exor- 

 bitant; or, at least, people usualh do, until it has 

 b' on explained to them. I should have had to send 

 a boy with it, and before it was done I would likely 

 have to send several time-, judging from past expe- 

 tience. Do you nut see that such things would ruin 

 my project of selling things to you close? Again, 

 should I attempt to have a clerk explain all this to 

 you by letter, tbe time of the clerk would more than 

 absorb the 3 cents protit. To make the counter 

 store a success, I am obliiged to watch constantly, 

 and renress every leak and loss of this kind; and I 

 am obliged, too, to omit explanations, many times, 

 because the profit on the an iole will not admit of it. 

 Now, as a rule, will it not be best, in many of the af- 

 fairs of lite, to have charity enough for those with 



