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GI.KANlVr,S IN BEf: CtlLTUllE. 



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yesterday afternoon at about this hour I 

 was talking with a boy of eighteen years of 

 age, wlio had been imprisoned a week under 

 a charge of horse-stealing. The open saloon 

 was at the bottom of it, as usual; and while 

 I lamented that we could not have the sa- 

 loon-keeper as well as the boy, I told him he 

 ought to tliank God for having thus brought 

 him to a standstill in his folly. While in- 

 toxicated he took a horse he found by the 

 side of the road— rode off six or eight miles, 

 and traded it for another horse, getting 

 $35.00 to boot. The amount was just suffi- 

 cient to send him to the penitentiary, for 

 obtaining money under false pretenses, aside 

 from the penitentiary crime of horse-steal- 

 ing, lie said he took the horse wliile under 

 the influence of liquor; br.t after that in- 

 fluence wore off, he was afraid to take it 

 back to the owner and ask his forgiveness; 

 so he foolishly traded it olf, and got arrested 

 almost immediately. IleVas only eighteen 

 years old, and the punishment seems terrible 

 for the work of only a few liours. liut this 

 kind of horse-stealing has got to be so com- 

 mon that it would be dangerous if not 

 wicked to let him go unpunished. We 

 lament that we dare not take llicrisksof 

 letting him off short of States luison. But 

 at the same time, the thought of that open 

 saloon, all ready to send more l)oys after 

 this one, should rouse every (Jod-fearing 

 man and woman to action.— It is often the 

 case with queens as you state, friend V. In 

 fact, we rarely lind" two of equal value in 

 every respect. 



A LITHOGKAPHIC I.ABEI> THAT DOES NOT Co'kT SO 



much; ALSO SOMETHING IN HF.GAHI) TO l.\- 



UEI.S AND CANS FOR EXTKACTEl) HONEV. 



I Struck a lubol last suiuinor that is so hatulsoiiif 

 that I mail you ono. It is the handsomest label suit- 

 able lor lioney that 1 have eve^• st^en. I have not 

 seen your extensive line oT labels, and i)erhiip8 you 

 may Jiave some that surpass it. I obtained them 

 I'roin Ouiui, Curtis & Co., color printers, HO Ilawley 

 St., Hoston, Mass. T boug-ht 10(H) for .?4.25, which 

 seems to me to be very reasonable indeed. They 

 are made to exactly cover a 1-qt. tin can, the same 

 us the common tin I'ruit-eans. 1 put iu> honey in 

 that shai)e, and letail cans at 50 cents each. I can 

 buy the cans at a cannin^r-raetory at :['» ets. each. 

 Alter beiiiK- soldei'cd it nuikcs the best packaj?e to 

 sell to country customers that I know < 1'. Ity eut- 

 tinjf the label iii.two in the middle it nuikes a very 

 fine ono for 1 or 2 qt. cans, such as Mason's, or lor 

 pails or i)ackages of any kind. A line label will al- 

 most of itself sell any merchandise. I have taken 

 much satii- faction in puttiny^ up lioncy in this neat 

 way. If any of the bee keepinu: Iriends would like 

 to see oiH^ of the labels 1 will mail them one on re- 

 ceipt of a two cent stamp. 



As there? has been a {rood deal of " spouting-" 

 lately as to how Gleanings should and should not 

 be eon<lucted, allow me to say that you furnish a 

 {?ood dollar's worth of "exclusive" bee business, 

 and it is your privileg-e to {?ive good measure and 

 running: over of that great spice of life— varietj — 

 if you desire to do so. John F. Whitmore. 



Anita, Iowa, June IS, im>. 



Thanks for the sample you send us, friend 

 W., and also for the offer to send one to bee- 

 keepers. The label is similar to the one we 



sold largely before we got the Jones labels. 

 I will explain to our readers that it is a beau- 

 tifully colored lithographic label, made with 

 proper blanks to be flUed out so it will be 

 suitable for either honey, syrup, or any oth- 

 er purpose ; that is, the pictures on the la- 

 bels have no direct reference to bee-keeping 

 or any other special industry. The sample 

 intjuestion is rilled out, evidently, at the la- 

 bel-factory ; that is, the printing is put on 

 before the varnish is put over the colors. 

 This makes a very attractive label, and yet 

 one that can not be soiled by honey or any 

 thing else, for it can be washed off like oil 

 cloth. A Jones label of similar size, printed 

 to order, will cost SH.oO per 1000. I suppose, 

 from what you say, friend W., that yovi get 

 these ready printed to order of the Arm 

 named, for only $4.li-5 for a single thousand. 

 If this is so. bee-keepers might afford to give 

 them considerable trade. Tlie prices you 

 mention on tin cans are also low, our prices 

 being for a one-quart can, S3.7o. I guess we 

 shall have to make ours $3.o0, since you have 

 told us we are above the market. 



ANTS— A CAUTION. 



I received the queen that you sent, in good order, 

 and I was well pleased with her. It was the first 

 Italian (jueen 1 ever saw. I was so afraid the bees 

 would kill her I got three hatching- combs (as you 

 directed in the A B C booki, and put them in a hive, 

 and put her in with them, but I did not let her out 

 of the cage until next morning, and I was glad I did 

 not; for when I looked at them the next morning 

 the combs were nearly covered with ants. I got 

 them off and brought the bees into the house, and 

 they are in here now. The ants killed all of them 

 that hatched that night, so you see I nearly lost my 

 queen. L. S. Cocke. 



Wards Mill, III., June 7, 188.5. 



Friend ('., where combs or queens are 

 taken away from the bees, and set down 

 carelessly, ants are liable to do considerable 

 damage. Many line queens have been killed 

 in this wav. 



KHIENU .lACOIJ'S URHOIIT. 



Here is my report for 1884, up to the present. I 

 started with II swarms in bo.\ hives; increased to 

 lit. I put all of my new swarms in frame hives. I 

 got 1:27 lbs. of honey, for which I got V2\ic. I lost 

 three swai-ms last winter. They were weak ones 

 and should have been united. The rest of them are 

 in good condition. I have one stand of Italians. 

 It sent out a fine swarm the 24th day of May; the 

 second swarm, the r>th cf June. I have had only 

 four swarms. Now I want to make bee-keeping- 

 pay. I love to work with them, but my pa and 

 neighbors say I can't. They say that there are too 

 uuiny bees in this country now. I tell theni that is 

 why I think this to be a good bee-range. We have 

 poplar, white clover, and sourwood, and lots of it 

 too. It is true, that every farmer has bees, from 

 one to ten stands, all in box hives. 



Here I had to stojt writing to hive my third swarm 

 of Italians— two (jueens in this swarm. This is 

 three swarms and three extra queens that I have 

 got from this hive, besides one that was killed in 

 the second swarm. Jacob W. Mii.lek. 



Daysville, Ky., June 7, 1885. 



