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GLEAKINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mak. 



of boxes, partially filled, owing to droug-ht. Only 

 for a good run on basswood 1 should not have had 

 much honej'. Clover did not yield much honey here 

 this year. I do my bee-work all alone. I was 68 

 years old the 27th of last Oct. S. P.\rdee. 



Volga, Iowa, Jan. S, 1885. 



TeB/icce CeiiUMN. 



QUITTING TOBACCO IN THE SPRING TIME, ETC. 



N regard to smoking, I will say that I have not 

 [ got to pay for the smoker yet. I have weighed 

 23U lbs. more in the summer just past than I 

 ever weighed before. My health has been 500 

 per cent better than ever befoi-e, so you see 

 that it has been a benefit to me to let the pipe lie 

 by. The tight tor mastery was sharp and severe 

 for a short time; but by the grace of God I was en- 

 abled to conquer, and now I am a free man, and I 

 would say, for the benelit of all smokers, that when 

 you make up your mind to (luit, do it in the spring 

 of the year, for then the system is undergoing a 

 change, and the change of season from cold to 

 warm will be a great benefit to you, as a little man- 

 ual labor theu will assist you greatly in throwing 

 the vile stutt' from ycur system with the perspi- 

 ration, as the pores of the skin are open. I know 

 whereof I speak, for I have been there twice in my 

 lifetime— once for chewing, and once for smoking 

 the vile weed. And now, smokers, if you want to 

 know how your breath and clothes are perfumed, 

 leave off the use of tobacco for 6 months ; use it in no 

 form in that time, and at the end of the si.\ months, 

 smell of the breath of a confirmed smoker; and if 

 you are not satisfied to let it alone after that, then I 

 am of the opinion that you have lost all sense of 

 decency. I speak from experience and not from 

 observation. A. H. Buaym.\n. 



Waldo, Wis , Dec. 26, 1884. 



MIDNIGHT MUSINGS. 



Tt is nine o'clock of the last night of the year, and 

 memory, in her backward flight, dwells on nine 

 o'clock just four years ago, when I emptied, simul- 

 taneously, my mouth and pocket of tobacco, and 

 resolved, by God's help and the prayer of friends, 

 never to use it again. How fur I have succeeded, 

 you may decide when I tell you I have tasted the 

 weed but once, and that occurred wholly from force 

 of habit. I was receipting for money in one of our 

 drug-stores, when the editor of our town paper 

 walked in for a smoke. At the instant of writing I 

 was asked by him to take a cigar, which, without 

 thinking, I did, and was soon puffing away with all 

 the vigor of bygone days. I believe that smoke 

 made me sicker than the first of my using. I hope 

 to meet you at the Exposition in New Orleans, and 

 many other faces who, from paper association, are 

 almost already known to me. W. F. Roberts. 



Clinton, La., Dec, 31, 1884. 



WHAT A YOUNG MAN THINKS ABOUT TOB.VCCO. 



Mr. Ri)nt:—\ must write and tell you how much 

 good your Home Papers are doing me as well as 

 others. 1 read them to two old people that are so 

 situated they can not attend meeting on Sunday. 

 They say a man who can write such good sermons 

 must be a Christian. You don't begin to know 

 what good you are doing through the publication of 

 Our Homes. Go on with the good work, for great 

 must be your reward in heaven. 



I must also say a word of encouragement to you 

 about tobacco. I am pleased to think such a man 

 as you are so discourages the use of it, both by ex- 

 ample and precept. There are men I know, minis- 

 ters of the gospel too, who use it, who don't seem to 

 think they are doing much harm either. I should 

 say, if I should say as I thought, that such men had 

 either better give up the use of the filthy weed, or 

 stop preaching. It seems to me that ministers who 

 chew and smoke do more harm by the example they 

 set before others, than yood by pi-eaching. Often 

 have I heard men talk about using tobacco who 

 would say such a man uses it, and he is a minister. 

 Don't you see the point, Mr. Root? Perhaps there 

 are young men in almost every neighborhood who 

 think they can't be gentlemen unless they have a 

 cigar stuck in their mouth, if I may use the expres- 

 sion. I am 24 years old, and have never used it in 

 any form. If all 1 lack is a cigar to make me a gentle- 

 man, I never will become one. I might say a great 

 deal more about the evil resulting from the use of to- 

 bacco, but I fear I have already weai'ied your pa- 

 tience by writing you so lengthy an article. 



Eddyville, N. Y., Jan. 12, 1885. B. H. Buadlev. 



1 have quit smoking. I have used tobacco for 8 

 years. Now if I am entitled to a smoker, please 

 send me one; and if I ever use it again I will pay 

 jou for the smoker. I have 11 colonies of bees; it 

 was not a very good season for bees here. They 

 made a little honey. C. W. Bacon. 



So. Hamilton, N. Y., Dec. 8, 1884. 



-VNOTHER B'KEEMAN. 



I smoked tobacco for the last time about a year 

 ago. Now if you please I would like a smoker. We 

 have 3 hives of bees. If I begin smoking again I 

 will pay you for the cost of the smoker. 



Collamer, Ohio, Nov. 2, 1884. G. F. Cleveland. 



CIRCULARS RECEIVED. 



C. v. Gi-oss, Pullman III., sends us a 4 page list of hives and 

 poultry. 



E. T. Lewis & Co., Toledo, O., send out a 10-page Ifst of honey- 

 extractors. 



B. F. Carroll, Dresden, Texas, sends us a. 4-page list of bees, 

 supplies, etc. 



W. S Cauthen, Pleasant Hill, S. C, sends us his 8-page list of 

 bees, queens, etc. 



W. H. Proctor. Fair Haven, Vt., sends out a 4-page price list 

 of bees and queens. 



E. JI. Hayhur.-it, Kansas City, Mo., sends us a postal pi ice list 

 of queens and bees. 



J. E. Shaver. North River, Va., 'ends us a one-page list of 

 bee-keepers' supplies. 



S. P. Roddy, Mechanicstown, Md., sends us a 4-page list of 

 colonies and nuclei. 



A. B. Howe, Council Bluffs, Iowa, sends out a 20-page list of 

 hives, foundation, etc. 



J. A Humason Vienna, O., issues a neat 4-page price list of 

 chaff and Simplicity hives. 



C. W. Costellow, Waterborough, Me., sends us a supplemental 

 price list of hives, etc , for 1885. 



F. A. Snell, Mille'geville.Ill .sends us his price list for 1885. 

 Friend S. makes the Eclipse hive. 



J. W. Eckman, Richmond, Texas, sends us a 4-page list of 

 queens and bees. No supplies for sale. 



G. F. Williams, New Philadelphia. O., sends out a one-page 

 list of bees, hives, honey, poultry, etc. 



K. Valentino <V Son, Hagerstown. >ld., issue a 20-page list of 

 qu(rn>. hives, iti-. .-Vlbinos a specialty. 



Till' .\iniiii:ui Manufacturing Co., New Carlisle, O., send us a 

 IG-paKi- li^t "t hii-keepers' supplies, bees, queen«, etc. 



K. V. Perkins, .lefferson. la. has Just ordered from our job- 

 rooms a 12-page list of apiarian supplies, bees, and queens. 



J. B. La Moutagne, Montreal, Canada, sends a very nice 4- 



Page list of all kinds of apiarian supplies. It is printed in the 

 rench language. 



We have just printed for A. H. Duff. Creighton. O.. a 16-page 

 list of apiarian supplies, and have several now on hand to 

 print, which we will mention in our next. 



D. S. Given * Co., Hoopeston, Illinois, send us a 16 page cata- 

 logue relative to the Given foundation-press. Since the death 

 of friend G. his wife has given her personal attention to his 

 atfaii-s. 



