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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 



timid, and it is a long time before I can get them to 

 show themselves again. Always bait two or three 

 spots if you can, so that, when the fish are alarmed 

 at one j-ou can rest it and go to another, casting in 

 a few handfuls of bait before you leave, to bring 

 them back while you are gone. Carp will take as 

 bait, worms, gentles, wasps, grubs, plain and 

 sweet paste, boiled green peas and potatoes, as 

 ground bait, but 1 have better luck surface fishing, 

 and I use bait that will swim. The great secret in 

 carp-flshing is to keep quiet and fish fine. Carp are 

 called the crafty fish, as sly as a fox. On the 

 slightest noise or jar on the banks they will go to 

 the deepest water with great rapidity. 



In conclusion, my friends, I have endeavored to 

 give a plain and comprehensive description of the 

 carp business; and if I have overlooked any points, 

 or should you wish to ask any questions in refer- 

 ence to the carp or ponds, inblose a stamp and I 

 shall be pleased to answer any thing in my power, 

 and will take great pleasure in doing so. 



Andersonville, Ind., Feb. 6, 1885. W. S. Kai.er. 



Friend K., it seems to be a disputed point 

 as to whether letting the pond freeze over 

 does harm or not ; bnt your ingenious device 

 makes it quite easy to give the carp access 

 to air at any time. Within a few yards of 

 the shore of our carp-pond is an old well. 

 built wlien our grounds were nsed for the 

 Medina fair. I can reopen this well, lay a 

 six-inch drain tile from the bottom of the 

 carp-pond, or from the deepest place, and 

 carry it into the well on a level. 'IJieflsh 

 can then go through into the well whenever 

 they like, and the well will never be frozen 

 over. ]\Ir. Peirce, the author of our book, 

 objects to trees around the carp-pond, as 

 they kee]) off the sun; and in our latitude 

 we want every bit we can possibly get ; in 

 fact, it is pretty well proven that the warmer 

 the temperature of the water, the better ; 

 and excellent results have been obtained 

 wliere the heat was carried by artihcial 

 means to a higher point than we ever get 

 during the hottest summer weather. I do 

 not believe I should want to have my fish 

 frightened by letting anybody catch "them 

 with a hook and line. 



HOW TO DO BUSINESS IN SUCH A WAY 

 AS TO AVOID COMPLAINTS. 



SKETCH, AND AN 



)UTANT MOHAt,. 



§OME years ago a merchant in the city of 

 New York took a notion to bee cultiire. 

 In furnishing him supplies, some mis- 

 takes were made. In writing alM)ut it 

 he made a remark something like this : 

 That if 1 would conu' lo New York he would 

 show me a business house that made sales to 

 the amount of sometiiiug like half a million 

 yearly, and yet they managed it all almost 

 without a mistake, or a comijlaint from a 

 single customer. I give the above from rec- 

 ollection, so I may not have got it right, but 

 I have often thought of it. Can anybody 

 conduct his business so thorougliiv, careful- 

 ly, and prudently, that nolxxly caii tind any 

 faulty Could we have l)u>ers and sellers 

 who are not liable to human weaknesses, 

 may be it could be done ; but, alas I we are 

 all human— exceedingly human, I sometimes 



think. Now, I want to give you a history of 

 a little transaction, and I do it simply to 

 point a moral in one direction. Here is the 

 story : 



January 12 we sent a customer about S2.5.00 

 worth of bee-supplies. After he had check- 

 ed them off" he writes as follows : 



I received the three packages of goods by rail- 

 road in due time; and upon counting the metal 

 corners I find that only 24 frames are supplied with 

 corners, and two parts of another frame; that is, 

 the upper corners that frame hangs on are all that 

 came with the packages. As there should be fifty, 

 thei-e is a mistake somewhere. The packages all 

 came in good order— nothing had been disturbed 

 after they were nailed up until I opened them, and 

 nobody has had any thing to do with them but my- 

 self, so I know what I am writing about. Now, T 

 can't do without the corners, and you must send 

 them by the way that they will come cheapest, 

 either by mail or express; and if you say I must 

 pay for them, send me amount by mail, and I will 

 forward whatever you s.iy. R. R. Hoag. 



Lockport, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1885. 



Yon will notice that our friend is not at all 

 complaining nor ditticult to please ; he says 

 he will pay whatever we say. From his 

 writing yoii would also decide at once that 

 he is a man of experience in such matters, 

 and one not liable to be mistaken. Inves- 

 tigation, however, showed that the goods 

 were put up by our most careful packer— a 

 man who stands at the head of our shipping 

 business, and who has been trained to it 

 from childhood. When the clerks tind a 

 complaint has been made in Ids packing, they 

 always write back, stating the case, and 

 asking that further search be made. Our 

 customer, however, insists he is right, as 

 you will see by the following postal: 



Only one ))ackage of metal corners with the goods. 

 All have been taken out; number as stated before 

 is all that there was in package. Please forward 

 the rest and oblige. K. 15. Hoag. 



Lockport, N. v., Feb. 13, 1885. 



Here are two good men, right squarely 

 against each other. I told the girls to tell 

 ''Bert" (Bert is the boss of the packing- 

 room, whom I have been telling you about) 

 he need not pay the postage on the missing 

 corners, because his mistakes were so very 

 rare that I could well afford to pay for them 

 when they liappened. But I now tind writ- 

 ten across the postal card, " Stood it in spite 

 of us," which means this : Bert said that he 

 preferred to pay the postage ; that he would 

 rather do so, as it would teach him to be 

 slill more careful. It gives me a pleasant 



i thrill to see this, because these two men, 

 each of them, agree or prefer to stand be- 

 tween me and loss. This is what I call a 

 real Christian spirit. It is a matter of only 

 a few cents ; but when we learn to dispose 

 of matters involving only a few cents, with 

 a good si)irit, we shall be able to manage 

 givater matters. I vviis quite willing to v>ay 

 the postage; friend Hoag was quite willing 

 to pay the postage; friend Bert was quite 

 willing— or, still more, he good-naturedly 

 insisted on bearing it himself, because he 

 luiyht have been at fault. Now for the se- 



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