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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



Since I last wrote to you I have tried the founda- 

 tion-machine, and it works well. I can turn out 

 foundation with higher side-walls than any I have 

 seen here; and several other bee-keepers about 

 here have remarked the same thing-. 



Hastings, Hawks Bay, N. Z. James Adamson. 



My Novice extractor arrived O. K. from your fac- 

 tory, and works like a top. Every thing I get from 

 you always gives me pleasure. Said one of my bee- 

 friends the other day, " A. I. Root is a good man; 

 what you get from him will be all right." "Amen !" 

 said I. and so it is, niv friends. W. E. H. Searcv. 



Griffin, Ga., Aug. 34, 1885. 



THE BLISS TELEPHONE. 



I received the telephone all right, and it is a little 

 "daisy." It works better than one here which 

 cost $16..50. I think 1 can sell quite a good many of 

 them here. There are ever so many who tried 

 mine, and like it so well, they say tliey must have 

 one. .Tas. K. Wueelek. 



Waterlord, Pa. 



Gleahincs in Bee Cdltdre. 



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For Clutbing Bates, See first Page of Eeadbs Matter. 



The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear! 

 tho Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 

 — HSAI,M 27: 1. 



THE BEST GIFTS. 



Those God gives us every day, and which we 

 shall forget to be thankful for if we don't look out. 



PHICES OF SUGAR AND HONEV. 



There has been a recent advance on sugar, of 

 'about a cent a pound, which will probably help the 

 prices on honey as much as that, or more. 



THE SIZE OF OUR FAMILY AT THIS TIME. 



It looks some as if we should not get u^ to 7000 

 again this year; but we are thankful, anyhow, for 

 the 0544 wnich we number to-day, Aug. 38. 



REMEMBER THE MEETING OF THE OHIO BEEKEEP- 

 ERS. 



We want every bee-man, who can affoi-d the time 

 and expense, to be on hand Thursday and Friday, to 

 keep up the reputation of our fair State in honey 

 matters as well as in other things. 



STEEL CARPET-TACKS. 



These are now made on the plan of the wire 

 nails, and we can furnish them in two-ounce pack- 

 ages at 5c per package; or in half-pound packages 

 at 15c per package. If wanted by mail, add Ic per 

 ounce extra for jiostage. 



STOPPING THE BEES FROM ROBBING, EVEN IF IT 

 IS SUNDAY. 



One of the friends takes me to task for setting 

 the apiarist at work stoiipibg the bees from robbing, 

 while I went to church. He is mistaken. We all 

 went to church, and wc always do all go to church 

 —that is, so far as the bees arerconcerned; but if I 

 should discover the bees were robbing badly, just 

 as it was church time, I should by all means stay at 



home as long as it might be necessary to stop rob- 

 bing, but not any longer. 



SABBATH-BREAKING AND FALSIFYING. 



You will notice that the bee-man who slandered 

 friend Muth (mentioned on page .589) says he exam- 

 ined his bees on " Sunday." May be that is one 

 reason why he has got to be so awfully untruthful; 

 for Sabbath-breaking, as a rule, opens the way to 

 other grievous sins. 



CALADIUM ESCULENTUM. 



After the letter on page 49*5, in regard to this 

 plant, was printed, we sent to James Vick and got 

 one of the bulbs. To-day, although it has only 

 two leaves, they are both exuding what seems 

 to lie pure water. The water forms in a large 

 globule in the center of the leaf, and once in a 

 while drips from the point of the leaf, just as Mary 

 said it would. The plant is a wonderfully rapid 

 grower, and is a great curiosity in the center of our 

 coleus bed on our front lawn. 



OUR thirty-five-cent wax-extractor. 

 This has been improved recently, by using a re- 

 tinned wire-cloth sieve, making it much less liable 

 to rust, and more durable. Small bee-keepers who 

 have only a limited amount of wax to render, will 

 probably find this the cheapest, cleanest, and most 

 economical arrangement they can use. Just throw 

 your bits of refuse wax into the sieve, packing it 

 down if you choose, or squeezing it up into a ball. 

 When you get a sieve full, set it into the dish-pan, 

 which pan should be about half full of boiling wa- 

 ter. Set the whole into the oven until the wax is 

 all melted out and gone through the sieve; then 

 lift out the arrangement and set it away to cool. 

 Tho wax will be found in a nice cake on top of the 

 water. 



AN improvement ON THE GLASS HONEY-PAlLS. 



More than one of the friends have been annoyed 

 to find that when oue of these pails has been used 

 for honey, that the honey will leak out where the 

 bail is attached, when the pail is thoughtlessly turn- 

 ed over. I presume the manufacturers made thorn 

 this way because they were primarily intended for 

 jelly, and articles that do not run readily. This dif- 

 ficulty is now entirely removed, however, and the 

 pails are very much improved in other respects, be- 

 sides the following reduction in prices: 



Price of the half-pound, oc; 10, 43c; 100, $4.00; 

 1000, $35.00. 



One-pound, 5c; 10, 48c; 100, $4.50; lOOO, $43.50. 



One and-a half pound, 10c; 10, 7.5c; 100, $7.00; 1000, 

 *«5.00. 



Please ordei- only in the above (|uantities, as they 

 are packed in boxes of 10 and boxes of 100. We are 

 now buying these in such immense quantities that 

 we are enabled to give the above greatly reduced 

 rates. The 3-lb. Muth honey-jars are also reduced 

 to $6.50, instead of S7.00 as given in our price list. 



A carpenter's saw for only five cents. 

 Since the low price of iron and steel, t/iols of 

 many kinds have cheapened wonderfully. When I 

 was enabled to get a nice little saw for the women- 

 folks for only 35 cts., I thought I had accomplished 

 wonders; but now a firm in the east have sent me 

 samples of a little saw, intended for juveniles, but 

 made of so good a quality of steel that they may be. 

 put in order so as to do a great many kinds of light 

 work with wonderful facility. I first saw our boy 



