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GLEANINCJS IN JiEE CULTURE. 



Gleanings in Bee CnLTURE, 



ruhlislud Sctnl-Vonfhh/. 



^^. X. I^OOT, 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Clutbine Kite:, See First Page of Ecadh: 2:;*.'.8r. 



OPEIlA-OL.\8SES FOK BEE-HUNTINO. | 



We have ceased to keep the $3.00 opera-g-lass, be- ' 

 cause? the $.5.00 oue proves to be so much better in 

 (juality of lenses, and workmanship of the whole 

 instrument. 



I'lilCE.S I.OWEIt. 



\Vk have been enabled to reduce the price of so | 

 many commodities that perhaps it will pay you to I 

 have a new price list if you have not had one dur- | 

 iiiy the past thirty days. 



THIi .M.VIilll.i: MO.NUMENT 1 .\ NEW OHI.EA NS TO TIIK 

 MEMOKV OF MAIIOAUKT. 



Friend D. M. McKenzik inlornis r.s that the 

 marble statue to the memory of Marg-aret, inention- 

 ed in Our Ncighbois for April 15, is the only monu- 

 ment in America, to the memory of a woman. 



the a b c of carp culture. 

 The delay on this work was caused by a dilatory 

 engraver, and by the sickness of Mr. Peirce, the au- 

 thor. Of course, no one is to blame for being- sick, 

 and I did not intend to blame any one but myself, 

 in the editorial comment on this subject last month. 

 The worst part of it is, the book has not even yet 

 I)Ut in an appearance. 



HUSINESS .JUNE I. 



Wk are all up with orders, and have been for al- 

 most a month i)ast: in fact, you can have almost 

 any thing you want by return mail, freijrht. or ex- 

 press. In some respects it is a pleasant way to do 

 business; but I fear that many of the sui)ply-dcal- 

 ers will have a pretty dull time unless they keep 

 close to shore during the coming fall aTi<l winter. 



OUR CARP-POM). 



Our thanks are due to friend Kaler for some 

 beautiful specimens of German carp. They came 

 to hand bright and lively, and are now enjoying 

 themselves in our carp pond with perhaps VM or 140 

 more, in size from an inch to one foot or more 

 in length. We have not been able to make them 

 take their food yet. Perhaps the reason is, there is 

 so much rubbish in the way of water-plants, soft 

 mud, etc., that they have not yet had time to eomc 

 down to a diet of bread and water. 



CALLING THINOS BY THEIR RIGHT .NA.MKS. 



Is it any wonder that our clerks make mistakes 

 sometimes in filling orders, when people will per- 

 sist in using odd terms for what they want? Here 

 is a specimen card : 



Win you send me tlie lin„k uiiii lln- i>ii<e oftlie tin hinges 

 for tlie slats in the bee^■ l)oxes; Please send nie a list of all 

 illiollt lllc lii-c 1,'llni. .Lvo. L. SXODGR.iS.S. 



liicd-s Mill, .letr. Co., Ohio, April 7. 188.V 



Now, if anybody can tell us what friend r^, means 



by "tinned hinges for the slats in the bees' boxes," 

 we should like to have him stand up and enlighten 

 us. We sent friend S. a prospectus of the A B C 

 book, and a price list. 



WHICH EXTRE.ME SHALL WE CHOOSE--" TOO MANY 



EGGS IN ONE BASKET," OR "TOO MANY IRONS 



IN THE fire"? 



Quite a discussion has come uji, and seems bound 

 to come up, in regard to which is the better of two 

 extremes— choosing a specialty for your occupation 

 in life, or having a variety. It does not seem to me, 

 dear friends, that there is any need of wasting a 

 great amount of words over the matter. Where 

 one goes too far to one of the extremes, his friends 

 are in duty bound to urge strongly the merits of the 

 other course, and this is true in any other thing as 

 well as business. t~ome men are disposed to fall in- 

 to ruts, and get so deep into their ruts that they 

 can not see what is going on outside of their rut. 

 Others are so prone to have so many irons in the 

 fire that they need constant admonishing in regard 

 to their besetting sin— the sin of scattering ones 

 powers to so great an extent that he excels in noth- 

 ing. In regard to the way Gleanings is managed, 

 the preference of hi/ far the greater part < f its 

 readers is, that it shall notice, to a reasonable ex- 

 tent of course, the new things that come up in 

 kindred rural industries; that is, where one objects 

 to taking up such a thing as carp culture, at least a 

 dozen say, "Let us know about it; "and when some- 

 thing else comes up that farmers, professional men, 

 and even merchants, who like to get out outdoors, 

 are likely to get interested in, tell us about it. To 

 satisfy the minority, it may be that it would be well 

 if the reading on the cover should be changed to 

 " Devoted to bees and honey, and other rural in- 

 dustries;" but it seems to me Gle.aninos may look 

 over the fence occasionally, even if we don't put 

 this in its head. 



SENDING yUEENS BY MAIL FROM ( ALIKORMA IX 

 FEBRUARY. 



I o.MiTTED to mention, at the proper time, that 

 friend Norton did send usaciueen, lively and in good 

 order, all the way from Gon;.ales, Cal., during the 

 month of February. The cjueen and bees were care- 

 fully packed with woolen cloth, so as to enable the 

 cluster to keep the inside of the little cage warm, in 

 spite of frost without, .\ccident may have favored 

 the transit somewhat. ])erhaps, although a good deal 

 is due to careful preparation. Now, friend N., if you 

 can send queens safely to the States in February, 

 why can't you supply the good people west of the 

 Rocky Mountains with good (jiieens all summer 

 long'/ By getting an imported (lueen to breed from, 

 you can furnish just as good stock as we do, and it 

 is a great piece of folly for the friends in California 

 to send clear here for (|uecns by mail. May be 

 there is something in the fact that we always have 

 queens on our table, ready to go back by first mail: 

 but, bless your hearts, can't some of the other 

 brothers and sisters take advantage of this splendid 

 means of advertising, as well as A. 1. Boot? What 

 ever ails you. friends':' 



SENDING (QUEENS PRO.M PTLV . 



Just one little illustration of the trouble it makes 

 by being behindhand on so simple a thing as a 

 queen. A few days ago the orders were too nu- 

 merous for us. One friend had to wait several days 

 for an untested queen. We could not tell him just 

 when it would be sent, because we did not kn<iw 



