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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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thing to do was to trust his papa, and wait 

 till he came back in liis own good time ; for 

 he knew it was an utter 'impossibility that he 

 sliould ever leave liim where tliere was a 

 cliance of liarni. Do you see the figure? 

 ••Consider tlie lilies, liow tliey grow.'' Wlien 

 voii are doing all you can. and all that (iod 

 can iu reason expect you to do, why should 

 you doubt him, or lose faitli? 



Fear not. little Hock: tor it is your Fatlifrs yood 

 pleasure to g-ive you the king-doiu. 



DISCOUNTS FOU THE ItKST OF FEBRUARY. 



As we have recently purchased quite a large lot 

 of wa,\', at prices almost as low as it was ottered in 

 the fall, we will continue our discount of ten per 

 cent on foundation until March 1st, and may be 

 longer. Although sections are moving- off quite 

 rapidly, we have concluded to extend the diseouiats 

 we have been giving- on them, and on foundation 

 mills also, until our next issue. 



Gleanings in Bee Cultdre, 



J'nMlshed Simi-MotUlilif. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISKER. 

 MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POST.=AID. 



For CluttiEg Eates, Ceo First Page of Eeadhj llitter. 



Behold. I give unto vou power to tri-ad on si-rpi-nts nntl 

 scorpious, ami over all the power ol the eni-my; anJ nothing 

 shall by any means hurt yuu.— LuKK 10:19. 



A BOOK ON SILK CUIvTUIIE FOll TEN CENTS. 



We have one more book for the ten-cent library, 

 and this time it is on silk culture. By mail, one 

 cent more. 



OUR BEES AT THIS DATE, FEB. ti. 



DUHING the recent warm spell, our apiarist care- 

 fully examined our VM colonies, and I'ound them all 

 in good trim except one. This one had almost en- 

 tirely natural stores last fall, so it was fed very lit- 

 tle sugar syrup. Almost all the rest were fed 

 quite heavily. 



DECKEASI'. IN THE KATES OF FRKIC.HT. 



There has one good thing resulted from the gen- 

 eral depression in business; and that is, that the 

 railroads have, most of them, given us better rates 

 of freight. Our friends will discover that, as a rule, 

 freights are much less, and the late issues of our 

 price list make mention of the reihict ions w.- have 

 secured. 



VEKV LONCi LETTERS. 



I AM sori-y to say it, hut a vt'ry large heap of long- 

 letters is piled up waiting for me to get time to read 

 them, and it will be nothing strange if I never get 

 time in the world. Very likely some things of much 

 value are among them, but I do not know that it 

 can be helped, unless you eoine to the i)oint at once, 

 and niak/f your communications brief. 



wrii I'K roi'i.Ait SECTio.NS. i>ovF.TAiLi;n Ar.i. 



AROUND. 



Wk have been at some expense in gtUting the cel- 

 ebrated white-poplar lumber, :uid are now prepared 

 to furnish sandpapered sections, equal to those 

 made anywhere, we think, at the following prices: 

 lOlX), i*(i.O ) ; tlve or more thousand, $■'). 75; and ten or 

 more thousand, $5.53. Sections made so that 7 fill a 

 foot of space, sams price as above. If made of 

 basswood instead of poplar, 53 cts. per 1030 less. 

 Packed in lioxe.* of 53) each. Less than 503. ■"., t)f a 

 et-nt t'licli. 



ADVANCE IN TH"E TRICE OF PEA-VINE, OH .MAM- 

 MOTH RED CLOVER. 



Tt seems to me there is some difficulty in getting 

 the genuine. On one occasion we sent to a noted 

 seedsman for seed for a couple of acres; b\it when 

 it came up it was common red clover. We lunc 

 some that we know to be genuine, because it wtis 

 raised by Neiglibor H.; but instead of the prices in 

 our price list, read S8.00 per bushel; $3.1'5 per peck, 

 or -0 cts. per lb. If wanted by mail, IS cts. extra for 

 postage. 



NICE HONEY Al A LOW I'RICE. IN fONVENIENT 

 PACKAGES. 



In friend Heddon's circular and jjrice list, we 

 noticed honey in 5)-lb. kegs, at ?-t.G(» per keg. As 

 the price is low, 1, just to see what it is like, ordered 

 a keg. The honey emptied out 53 lbs. 12 oz., and 

 proves to be a very nice article of remarkably flnt> 

 clover honey. Friend H. says in his price list he has 

 4030 lbs.; and if it is not already gone, it ought to 

 go very quickly at the price quoted. We have been 

 a little prejudiced against kegs for extracted 

 honey; but this came to hand perfectly clean, and 

 without a bit of leakage. It began to leak some, 

 however, after it had stood in a warm room tliree 

 or four days. 



SELLING INTOXIC.VTIN(! LIQUORS AT OUK STATE 

 AND COUNTY FAIRS. 



We are pleased to extract the following from the 

 Farm and Fireside: 



The Annual AKricuUural Convention of Ohio, held in Colum 

 V)ns on the 14th of .laninrv. re-olved hy n vote of fllty-eiKht to 

 two. out of sixtvone i-mintu-' v«'iirM<..nt..rl, •• That the time ha-s 

 arri'vi'il wlicTi tin- putilic ^.iiiiiiiiii ^i i h.' -^talr demanU* that 

 the State and Conntv n.n;. i \ .: i i i niir -licmld exclude 



In the wle.le .'.MiveMtiMij ,.■! ,-■!■. .- ■ i\M .Tie voting rtele- 



"Mt. - and I lai';re nnrnlier ..i n..n' i '^' n i! ..■ is. hut three 



r,,.. , - u le li.ard in ,.|,i.-.Mti..n i ■ • . ;- m.Mn.aiid their 

 ,,,,i,..Ml.. - >. 1- ni ide ..Tdv on I., .1 _■- linl-: while ol 



Not only an Ohio farmer, but it seems to me 

 every loyal citizen residing in Ohio ought to 

 feel proud of the stand just taken. May God grant 

 that this regulation shall never be reversed. 



IIKDDON S SLATTED HONEY-BOARDS. 



Afier my remarks on page 98, last issue, had 

 gone to i>rint, it occurred to me that E. Kretchmer. 

 of Coburg, Iowa, did, a great many years ago. have 

 an arrangement for a sort of honey-hoard with 

 slats to break the spaces made by the brood-frames: 

 and as soon as the article in iiucstion met the eyes 

 of friend K., he sent me an article giving the de- 

 tails of a patent, granted July 23, 1868. The article 

 is too long for publication, and. in fact, I do not 

 know tlnit it matters much after all, only it is 

 pretty evident that the device alluded to is not new. 

 At present. Gleanings will not contain one-fourth 

 of the matter sent in for publication. The trouble 

 is, so mtiny of the brethren make long stories of 

 what ought to be told in a few words. We are will- 

 ing to give space to matters uf general importance 



