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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



but I shall learn to think such investments 

 as these as good ones as was the watering- 

 trough. May God help you to be true to 

 your pledge, so that I shall never get any other 

 pay for smokers, except the consciousness of 

 having given you a start in a safe direction. 



You can send me one of your smokers. Away 

 goes the pipe and tobacco! Of course, if I ever re- 

 turn to the habit again, you shall have pay for your 

 smoker. J. J. Simpkins. 



Summerfleld, Ala., Oct. 21, 1880. 



I am ready to take a smoker on the terms offered 

 in last Gleanings, by throwing tobacoo and pipes 

 away. I have used them 18 years. 



D. H. Lathrop. 



Shinn, Adams Co., Iowa, Oct. 25, 1880. 



"And so you let them stand, without ever 

 looking at them ?" 



John looked troubled. As there was noth- 

 ing to be said, he thought the best thing to 

 do was to say nothing ; and so he only hung 

 his head and fumbled the leaves of his book. 



Come to think about it, I guess you had better put 

 in a ► moker, as I quit smoking tobacco, Oct. 16, 1880, 

 —50 y^ars of litre. R. H. Rhodes. 



Arvada, Jeff. Co.. Col., Oct. 19, 1880. 



May God bless and strengthen you all. 



IKU. I»13 UH.\ 1JAM4> AND HIS NEIGH- 

 BOR. 



MR. M. has had his bees all nicely packed 

 up in chaff hives, and put away for 

 some time ; but not so with his neigh- 

 bor. He kept thinking he would get at it be- 

 fore long, ad through the fall ; but as it be- 

 gan to grow cold, he finally struck upon the 

 bright idea of having the boys do it. They 

 had plenty of time, and so they would be 

 sure to do it all right. His bee journal had 

 stopped, and so one morning he determined 

 to send on 25 cents and have it started again, 

 so he might see who got into Blasted Hopes ; 

 and, as he sits down to write the letter, he re- 

 members his own bees. I shall have to ex- 

 plain, that the young people whom we saw 

 last month getting acquainted after they 

 got through discussing the flower, went over 

 to friend Merry banks', and Mary, the little 

 girl, finally loaned Freddie one of her 5- 

 cent Sunday-school books, and as soon as it 

 was brought into the house, one after an- 

 other of the family picked it up and read it 

 through, as if they were starved for such 

 bright-looking story-books. Well, John was 

 just then right in the midst of the book, 

 which happened to be " Gutta-percha Wil- 

 lie," and he was too, deeply interested about 

 that water-wheel Willie made, to wake him 

 up mornings. 



You remember John as the boy who 

 brought the bee-hive when the bees were 

 swarming. Well, all at once his father 

 looked up and said. — 



" John, did you fix those bees in a dry- 

 goods box full of chaff, as I told you,— the 

 way it said in that last bee-journal?" 



"Why, father, I didn't have time thatday." 



"Weil, then, why did you not do it the day 

 after?" 



" Whv, it rained the day after." 



"And you mean to say that nothing 

 has been done about it after all this time, 

 and the thermometer 8 degrees below zero?" 



"Why, you said if they were out of honey 

 I should give them some candy ; and mother 

 said there wasn't any sugar to" make candy 

 of." 



JOHN GOING TO FEED ME BEES. 



"Well, sir ! put down that book, and go 

 this minute and fix those bees up as they 

 should be." 



Poor John ! All his enjoyment has gone, 

 and as he buttons his scant "coat about him, 

 and prepares to brave the elements, he men- 

 tally wishes that father wouldn't be so cross, 

 but would come along with him and show 

 him how. and see if the work be well and 

 properly done this cold, freezing, stormy day 

 in November, and then write his letter for 

 the bee journal afterward. Poor father! for, 

 as he tries to write his letter, he discovers 

 that he is unhappy too. Just at this crisis, 

 friend Merrybanks"comes along. But as this 

 story is getting long. I think I shall have to 

 wait until next year before I tell you how he 

 brought sunshine— yes, sunshine, even while 

 tne wind was blowing the snow in at the 

 open door, and the thermometer below 

 zero— to both father and son, on that cold 

 wintrv morning. 



GLEANINGS !N_BEE CULTURE. 



-A„ I. BOOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



TFJUMS: Sl.OOPER YEAR, POST-PAIB. 



FOB CLUBBING BATES, SEE FIBST PAGE 

 OF BEADING HATTEB. 



TUOQIDlJNr^L. XXESO. 1, 1080. 



And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not: I will 

 lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make dark- 

 ness light before them, mid crooked things straight. These 

 things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. — ISA. HI: Hi. 



The departments of Bee Entomology and Botany, 

 though quite full, are both crowded out of this No. 



The Indiana State Bee-Keepers' Society meet in 

 annual session at Indianapolis, Jan. 13 and 14, 1881. 



P. O. stamps, any quantity, of any denomination, 

 are at present as good to us as cash. Ones preferred. 



We can furnish forks, best triple plate, on nickel 

 silver, to match knives on page 5t>4, for $1.00 per set. 

 By mail, 30c. extra. 



The following shows how the $4.00 watches please. 



I received the Waterburv wateh this evening, and think it a 

 perfect beauty. It will sell itself. It seems strong and durable. 

 Inclosed Is check for $32. Send me eleven more by express. 1 

 want them for Christmas. (■:. A. MORGAN, 



Arcadia, Wis., Nov. 'U, 1SS0. 



