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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



I write to you to make acknowledgment, and to 

 restoi-e to you what I supposed you had left out in 

 ray order to you several weeks ago. You will re- 

 member that I supposed I was short 25 metal-cor- 

 ner sets for frames in bee-hives. I have just dis- 

 covered that one package of corners, as I took them 

 out of packing-box and put them in a toolcbest, 

 got shoved under the till of the chest, rut of sight. 

 It was some time after I unpacked goods before I 

 discovered that I was short; but before I wrote you 

 I made search to be sure, but I could not make out 

 that I had the goods. I of course wrote you in 

 good faith. Now I have found the package by 

 overhauling and looking after something else. 

 Now I send you for corners, 50 cts., and 25 cts. post- 

 age, and I also ask your pardon for the blundering 

 way 1 have done this business. I did it all myself , 

 without laying it to boys or agents. R. B. Ho.\G. 



Lockport, N. Y., March 16, 1885. 



Now, one lesson from the above is, tliat it 

 shows how very easy it is for even the Ijej^t 

 of lis to be mistaken. Anotlier point: IIow 

 can I, with a clear cnnsrifucr. insist that 

 any clerk shall pay ht';i\ > pDstane or express 

 charges on goods our customer declares the 

 clerk did not put in ? Tliiiik of taking a 

 poor hard-working l)()y"s or girl's money 

 when neither of them is in the least lo 

 blame; and yet I fear I have done that in 

 times past. Last, bnt not least, may not the 

 above prove a lesson to every one' who re- 

 ceives goods and nnpacks them V Why, I 

 have sometimes thought I would give almost 

 any thing for a clerk who would do exactly 

 as I told him in this respect. "With the 

 years of experience I have had in the l)nsi- 

 ness I will say to them. — 



" My friend, before you open that pacj<age. 

 get a clean table, without any thing on it, 

 and be sure you do not place a single article 

 anywhere else than on that talile. Don't 

 take your box or barrel away until you are 

 perfectly sure every article has l;een care- 

 fully and i)laiu]y checked. If the jiackage 

 is so large that ii must be spread out on tlie 

 tloor, get a clean lloor ; do not have any rub- 

 bish anywhere near you." 



Now, in spite of all these instructions, 

 young ])e()i)le and old ix'ople. day after day. 

 keep saying sucli a thing is ■■all gone," 

 '• wasn't in tli(^ package," etc. Oiir children 

 learn it in youth by coming downstairs, and 

 saying, ".Mother, 1 can not liiid it any- 

 where; [ looked everywhere you told me. 

 and it is not there at all." .\bither takes 

 tlie child by the hand, leads it upstairs, 

 und points to the article. •• Where can your 

 eyes have been wiien you came up liere V" 

 Did you ever sec; children do that way ? 

 Well,' now, my friend, you want to get that i 

 child out of that heedless, shiftless way of 

 doing, or it will be the curse of its life. 

 Drill these Jittle ones to be careful and 

 thoughtfid by line upon line and precei)t up- 

 on precept Abike them understand and 

 comprehend that a careful boy or girl, and 

 an accurate, reliable boy or girl, is worth her 

 weight in gold; whereas the blundering 

 kind that have eyes and see not, ears and 

 liear not, are a clog and a hindrance to 

 themselves and everybody else. I once 

 heard of a little girl who "said she had an 

 excellent " forgettery."' Poor child ! There 

 are whole families just like her. Now. then, 

 friends, old and young, who among us is go- 

 ing to excel in this line of being careful V 1 



SIMPLICITY CRATE, MOORE'S STYLE. 

 Made to go Inside of a Simplicity Hive. 



FULL INSTKUCTIONh 



HIS crate, which might also be called 

 ''^y^^' tlie Heddon crate adapted to the Sim- 

 plicity hive, is shown in the cut be- 

 low. This crate is exactly ]4i inches 

 Avideby. 181 long. The sides are rab- 

 beted in so as to make room for the three 

 partitions as well as the end-boards. All of 

 the partitions are i inch thick: the end- 

 pieces o-l(i thick. The sections are support- 

 ed by a strip of tin tacked along the bottom 

 edge of each partition. These strips of tin 

 are i inch wide by lot long. Tiie end ones 

 are folded in the middle at a right angle, and 

 these are tacked against the lower ends of 

 the end-boards, as will be seen bv tlie cut. 



The end-loards are -J^ wide, while the cen- 

 tral partitions are only 'M. The partitions 

 are nailed at such height as will bring the 

 sections even with the top of the case. Tliis 

 brings tlieir bottoms the regular bee-space 

 cf I etween i and ii of the bottom edge of tlie 

 crate. We i»refer th.e liee-spaces under the 

 sections ; because if any one should make a 

 blunder, and set the cases right on top of 

 the brood- frames, the bee-spaces would be 

 all right. If yon want to use llie IleiUlon 

 honey-board, or one maite Ileddon style, to 

 lit the Simplicity hive, the honey-board lies 

 on to]) of the i)rood-frames. and the crate 

 goes on top of the honey-board. 



You will notice, we do not use a sioik hon- 

 ey-board. The reason of this is, that the 

 side-brtards of our Simplicity hive rise above 

 the tops of the brood-fiames far enough so 

 that a sink is uiini cessary in the honey- 

 board. If you want to tier up these case's, 

 one can be placed right on toj) of tiie other, 

 as high as you choose, and Simplicity hives 

 slip right over them, protecting them from 

 being chilled cold nights, and from the ex- 

 treme heat of the sun doring sultry days. 

 To get tiie sections out, turn a case over on 

 a table, then strike it gently on a couple of 

 strips of wood (two top-bars of a frame, for 

 instance), having these top-bars placed so as 

 to strike each on the edge of the crate. As 

 I have explained before, this crate holds 28 

 H sections, or 32 seven-to-the-foot sections. 

 For nailing these crates together, we need 

 K) 4-incli wire njiils ; 2i |-incli wire nails, 18 

 1-inch, and IG H-inch. 



DIUECTIOXS FOK NAILING UP TIILS CRATE. 



You will notice that one edge of the sides 

 and ends is smooth. * This edge goes up. 



