1889 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



193 



KIND WORDS FROM SWEDEN. 



After describing our ABC book, our good frieud 

 Hj. Stahlhainmer, editor of the Svensk Bibidning 

 (Swedish Bee-Journal), deposes as follows in regard 

 to the author of the book : 



Mr. Root's name alone is a guarantee for the 

 worth of this book— a man of whom it may be said, 

 " In him falsehood finds no place," and who in faith 

 and business is a Christian in the best sense of the 

 word. We can, therefore, recommend this book in 

 the highest terms, as it is fully up to the times. 



[If the above is " too good," we hope it will be ex- 

 cused by the fact that our education in the Swed- 

 ish language was somewhat neglected when we 

 went to school, and hence a "new version" might 

 modify the meaning somewhat. But we strongly 

 suspect that the "sum and substance" is about all 

 right.] 



A B C OF BEE CUIiTURE. 



"What's that?" remarked the editor as a pack- 

 age was handed him. As no one replied, he 

 thought it might be well to investigate. Was it a 

 bomb? Never! It was a copy of the "A B C of 

 Bee Culture," that pioneer book on the art of pro- 

 gressive bee-keeping, which gives its readers the 

 bee-fever so badly that sometimes they never get 

 over it— you see it's worse than a bomb (?) for the 

 bee-keeper. The book has now reached its 37th 

 thousand; beeu recently revised; many new en- 

 gravings added, and, to make it what friend Root 

 used to call a "whopper," the biographies of 21 

 "noted bee-keepers" add much to its value. The 

 great beauty of this work, it seems to us, lies in the 

 simplicity and clearness with which all the details 

 and manipulations are given; making it preem- 

 inently a book for the beginner. It is published by 

 A. I. Root, Medina, O. Price $1.25— Bee-Hive, Jan. 1. 



WHAT A. E. MANUM THINKS OF GLEANINGS. 



I can not let the year 1888 pass away without re- 

 turning to you the warmest thanks of one who is a 

 steady reader of Gleanings, for the good work you 

 have accomplished in the past few years. It has 

 been an era of great success to you, and, as I firmly 

 believe, a great benefit to the many bee-keepers of 

 this country. Although the year 1888 has been 

 somewhat disastrous to the bee-keepers of America, 

 your good and timely counsel has given courage 

 and hope that the coming year will bring prosperi- 

 ty and gladness to your many readers. You are 

 entitled to the thanks of the great body of bee- 

 keepers, and the increase of your circulation shows 

 that many of them are not unmindful of their obli- 

 gations. You have given us a bright, clean, able, 

 educational magazine at one dollar a year, which 

 shows hard work and good business management, 

 and I am pleased to notice the success which is so 

 justly your due. A. E. Manum. 



Bristol, Vt., Dec. 27, 1888. 



WHAT TO DO, AND HOW TO BE HAPPY. ETC.; 

 WHAT A READER OF THE BOOK SAYS OF IT. 



On receiving your book, " What to Do," I thought 

 I would write just a formal note, acknowledging 

 the receipt of the same. I began to read the book, 

 became interested, and put off writing, until now I 

 feel under obligations to give you my sincere 

 thanks, for the pleasure and instruction contained 

 therein. To simply say, "I like the work," seems 

 cold and expressionless; therefore I will say it pave 

 me real pleasure to read it, and I believe it will be 

 greatly to my benefit to obey its instructions. 



A great many books are written, giving instruc- 

 tions in g-arden and farm work, which are so filled 

 with technical terms it is hard to find out what 

 they mean. The language in "What to Do " is 

 very easy to understand, and its author seems each 

 time to put just the right word in just the right 

 place. In some other works of this kind (if their 

 author's plans were carried out) it would require a 

 very heavy outlay of money, which the poor farm- 

 er or gardener could in nowise afford for the pur- 

 pose. The plans in this work .do not call for any 

 very great outlay of money, but such outlay as 

 most men can afford who follow the business of 

 either farming or gardening. I speak of farming 

 and gardening both, because the reading of your 

 book would benefit both. 



I own a small farm; have lived nearly all my life 



on a farm, and am deeply in love with farming as 

 an occupation at once "the most ennobling aud 

 healthful " of any. A good garden is a great ad- 

 vantage to the farmer who gives a share of his 

 time to its culture, but by many farmers it is often 

 neglected. Of course, any book which helps in 

 gardening would also help in farming. 



There is another feature shown in your work, 

 which makes me wish I were personally acquainted 

 with its author; and that is the trustful leaving of 

 all things in the hands of "Him in whom we live 

 and move and have our being." Each chapter is 

 introduced with a text— an appropriate beginning 

 surely— and love to God aud your fellow-man seems 

 no small share of the whole work. I have derived 

 great pleasure in the reading of the work, and 

 great satisfaction in thinking its author was a child 

 of God, and that, while he was instructing some 

 how to sow seeds and cultivate them, he was him- 

 self sowing seeds of immortality which might 

 spring up and bear fruit which never would decay. 

 Now I trust I have not tired you, for less would not 

 satisfy me. I hope we may meet at some future 

 time, and may that hope become a certainty. We 

 are both striving for a crown of glory, and may we 

 botli be so blest as to win and wear it. 



James A. Field. 



Farmer, Defiance Co., O, Jan. 26, 1889. 



WHAT TO DO, 



—AND— 



How to Be Happy While Doing It. 



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 book is mainly upon market-gardening, fruit cul- 

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 well worth the price, not only to those out of em- 

 ployment, but to any one who loves home and rural 

 industries. Price in paper covers, 50 cts.; cloth, 75 

 cts. If wanted by mail, add 8 and 10c respectively. 

 A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. 



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