1885 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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every tool, wagon, and carriag-e on the farm with- 

 out crowding-. The tools, etc., were measured, and 

 the building- built to fit— no waste room. It is in- 

 tended to have it join a new bank barn on the west, 

 when we are able to build the same, with a door j 

 through into horse-stable of barn, which will be on 

 same level. 



The cost of the building, all neatly finished, was 

 $400 in cash, besides what we could do ourselves, ' 

 without interfering with farm worli. To say that 

 we enjoy it greatly, and think it is one of the best 

 investments we ever made, is needless. 



The contents of building below, beginning at west 

 end, are— 2 large wagons; 1 top carriage; 1 open 

 buggy; 2 potato-diggers (new this year); 3 Acme 

 harrows; 2 Oliver chilled plows; 1 subsoil plow, 3ri- 

 nor; 1 Thomas harrow; 1 perfected pulverizer; 1 po- 

 tato-planter; i one-horse cultivators and liorse- 

 hoes; 1 two-horse sulky cultivator; 1 seeder attach- 

 ment; 1 Gaboon hand-seeder; 1 roller; 1 manure- 

 spreader; 1 low-down Buckeye twinc-biiider: 1 Eu- 

 reka mower, (l-foot cuttcr-biir: 1 one-liorsf dnmii 

 hay-rake; 1 sled. 



Up stairs are stored sleigh, :Miorse pole, side-ijoards, 

 Victor potato-covei-er, etc. It addition to the above 

 is the usual supply of little tools, stored where 

 they can be got at handily, and it is quite i)ossihle 

 some large ones which I h.n e ()\ crlookcd. 



Hudson. Ohio. T. It. Tkukv. 



Well. I liiive sDmethiii.ir more fn»m Irieiicl 

 Tevr\ yet ; and us it codciths. iiuliiei-t Iv at 

 least. t)ie tool-lioiisp wp liavc Ijecii lalkinj^ 

 about. 1 think I will piil it in lifflit liere. 

 For a head to the letter. I thiid; we will say: 



LENDING TOOLS TO NElOIl UOHS. 



Friend Tioot:— it seems I do not always make my- 

 self fully understood. I did not intend to say, or 

 have you think, that I had no ncighboi-s who would 

 use tools carefully, and return them ju-umptiy. aii<l 

 do the fair thing about paying for their usi». 1 said 

 I did not think it would answer to lend exix-nsivc 

 tools. A single illustration will perhaps explain my 

 meaning." Years ago I was fitting a piece of land 

 for Hungarian grass. A farmer came to borrow 

 my roller to roll in his Hungarian seed. He prom- 

 ised to have it back hei-c by the tinw ] got my 

 ground ready. It did not come, for he let a careless 

 man drive it (just as ho would have done his own. if 

 he had owned one, doubtless), who drove across a 

 dead furrow with a large load of stone on, and 

 smashed it all down. He got it fl.ved as soon as 

 possible, but it was too late for me to use it on my 

 crop. You see the point: My neighbor's ground 

 was rolled, while mine had to go without. I owned 

 the roller, and he got the use of it. He oH'ercd to 

 pay me, but it cost him so much to repair it that I 

 was ashamed to charge any thing. The loss to me 

 was a good nmny dollars. It seemed as though this 

 was loving my neighbor (particularly when he was 

 worth ten times as much as I) //rf^r than myself, 

 and I put my foot down then and there that I would 

 not in the future make a business of lending expen- 

 sive tools— or borrowing either. Any simple tool 

 like a fork, or even a plow, I always gladl.\- lend to 

 any one in need; and if a neighbor should have the 

 bad luck to break some expensive tool when the 

 loss of its use would be a serious damage to him, I 

 would lend him any thing, even if I had to go with 

 it to help him out. But when men pretend to be 

 farmers, and make a business of borrowing tools 

 that etvry farmer ought to jnive. it does not hurt 



my conscience any to tell them plainly that I can 

 not afford to lend to them. Such men are the ones 

 who are careless of tools, and slow to return them. 

 A young farmer just starting for himself, and un- 

 able to buy, would stand a very good chance to get 

 what he wanted of me, gratis, until he could go 

 alone. Still, it makes trouble to lend to one and 

 not to another. I should like to please all; but I 

 must look to my own interests also, and good tools 

 in good order and ready at a moment's notice are 

 necessary to success on the farm. 



There, friend Koot, am I not about sound on the 

 lending question^ At any i-ate, these ai-e about my 

 views; but if you can show me wherein they are 

 wrong I will try to change. T. B. Terkv. 



Hudson, Ohio, Sept. 2t, ISS"). 



Thank you. friend T., for your explana- 

 tion, and forgive me if 1 seemed to criticise 

 a little. If I did. 1 meant to include myself 

 in the criticism : for after the conversation 

 referred to was over. T Jiad a sort of truiltv 

 feeling for the part 1 had taken in it': th;it 

 is, we three all h;id been talking and telling 

 stories in a way tliat seemed to rellect on 

 our neighbors', and if it is hard to get along 

 irlih neighbors sometimes. God only knows 

 where we slionld be it it were not for these 

 same neighljors. I think you are soinid. 

 friend T., on the lending qil(>stion ; liut let 

 us beware of falling into not only uncharit- 

 able talk but nncharitable feelings toward 

 these same (Jod-given neighbors, shall we 

 not V 



Gleanincs in Bee Culture. 



Pllhlts/iKl ,SV 



Monihhf. 



EDITOR AND PUBIilSHER. 

 MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For ClnbfcitB Kates, Sco First Pago of Eealit- liatter. 



|{i:Mr.Miii:ii, .'> |ii 1 ccni discount on all goods or- 

 dcrr'd now lor next scanon's use. 



IlKDDON'S KXTK.\CTE1) HONKV. 



TtiE two kegs mentioned in a previous number 

 ; came to hand in good order. Not a drop of honey 

 ' had escaped to make things dauby. The quality of 

 the honey is certainly superior. Our stenographer 

 describes it exactly by saying that there is a 

 •' finish " to the flavor that we do not often find in 

 ordinai-y brands. 



MI.XING OKDEUS IX WITH " VISITIXO " LETTEUS. 



If you want your orders to be filled by first mail 

 or first train, don't put them in the middle of a long 

 letter. Our long letters are fre<iuently laid aside 

 until we can get time to go through them carefully, 

 while every thing in the shape of an order is pushed 

 ahead to the jnoper clerk the minute our eyes rest 

 upon it. You need not put the orders in a separate 

 piece of paper unless you choose, but please let 

 them come first. If they are to be made conditional, 

 piavk them so, jind say, " See particulars below." 



