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toward advanced prices. It will be policy to antici- 

 pate your needs and get yourselves supplied. We 

 arc laying in a large stock, and hope to hold our 

 prices through the season, but we maybe compelled 

 to advance. Prices in our ad. will hold till further 

 notice. 



GLEANINGS ENLARGED. 



You will notice that we have added 16 extra pages 

 to this number. We do this to enable us to utilize 

 some of the valuable articles which have been 

 waiting their turn. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



can't part with old friends. 



Of course, continue Gleanings. It has been the 

 friend of my ignorance in the management of bees 

 too long for me to discontinue it now. It is an old 

 and true friend. Send it on 



Home, La. W. F. Roberts, M. D. 



The goods ordered of you some time ago came to 

 hand all right, every thing in good shape. Nothing 

 was missing. Thanks for your promptness. 



Matthias Schneider, Jr. 



Mclvor, Mich , Mar. 18, 1889. 



Goods came in fine order. I have not had time to 

 examine them thoroughly. Strawberry-plants were 

 very fine. I have not had time to count the sepa- 

 rators, as I have just returned from the gold-mines 

 in Lower Califoruia. W. G. Baker. 



San Diego, Cal., April 4, 1889. 



SENDING TOMATO-PLANTS UV MAIL. 



Those tomato-planis came to-day by mail, and are 

 as nice and fresh as though they had just been tak- 

 en from the bed. You told in Gleanings that you 

 would send 10 for 10 cts., but I have made more out 

 of them the wav we count here. G. A. Hoffman. 

 Riverside, Wash. Co., la. 



The lawn-mower and barometer came promptly 

 on the 13th inst. Freight $1.48. The mower is an 

 excellent " institution." It does the nicest and best 

 work, with the least labor, of any thing I ever 

 handled. S. L. Greer. 



Disco, Tenn , \pril 1 i, 1889. 



I am very much pleased with Gleanings, and 

 think it a very valuable paper. I am very much in- 

 terested in Mr. Root's travels to California, and 

 think the whole of the bee literature is developing 

 and becoming more interesting. 



Horace F. Gressman. 



Water Valley, Erie Co., N. Y. 



OUR new sewing-machine. 



The sewing-machine came all right; freight, 60 

 cts. It sews as nicely as any Singer sewing-machine 

 in this place, and is as good as their $40 machines, 

 and is as nicely finished. D. C. McLeod. 



Pana, 111., Feb. 4, 1889. 



pleased customers. 



I received my goods to-day, shipped the 8th. They 

 are all in fine shape. I can not say too much in 

 their praise. It is no wonder you have a big trade, 

 if your goods are always packed with the same 

 care that I always find mine. I never looked over 

 so manj' pails before, without finding some cuts. 

 These are all perfect. My wife says that the honey- 

 knife and extractor are very nice. E. A. Pratt. 



Mvrtle, Pa., April 22, 1889. 



stop my advertisement. 



Friend Roof;— Will you please stop my advertise- 

 ment in Gleanings? Ail my stock is engaged. I 

 have used only Gleanings and Popular Gardening 

 in advertising this spring, and am better satisfied 

 with the results from both than with any papers I 

 have heretofore used. Theo. F. Longenecker. 



Dayton, Ohio, April 18, 1889. 



I Your advertisement was exceedingly well gotten 

 up, and was very attractive. I noticed it at the 

 time, and I think that those who write advertise^- 

 merits wilj do wejl to study yours a little.] 



THE LAST NUMBER ,1UST SPLENDID. 



The last number (April l> of Gleanings is just 

 splendid. 1 was sick when it came, and thought I 

 would only glance through it; but I could not lay it 

 down till I had read most that was in it. 



Mahala B. Chaddock. 



Vermont, III., April 14, 1889. 



Dear Sir:— The $1.15 worth of seeds came by mail 

 promptly, and through the customs without any 

 duty; and by figuring the same up at catalogue 

 rates from the Canadian house where I had hither- 

 to dealt it amounted to $1.90 so in that transaction I 

 nearly saved the price of Gleanings. 



Minesing, Ont., March 22, 1889. Thos. Stokes. 



BROTHERLY LOVE. 



I enjoy your talks in Our Homes very much. 

 Your description of the spirit of brotherly love 

 which you say is characteristic of Long Beach is 

 but a good illustration of the text, "By this ye 

 know that ye have passed from death unto life, be- 

 cause ye love the brethren." L. A. Duggan. 



Cuthbert, Ga., Feb. 11, 1889. 



[Friend D., what impressed me at Long Beach 

 was, that in a family where the husband was a Bap- 

 tist and the wife a Methodist, they both joined in 

 insisting that I must see one of the "very best 

 women in the world," who lived in their town; and 

 this "best woman in the world " was a Congrega- 

 tionalist; and it really seemed as if that spirit per- 

 vaded Long Beach. The members of all the dif- 

 ferent churches seemed to exhibit just that spirit 

 toward one another. The consequence was, that 

 when a union meeting was held it contained pretty 

 much all of the people in the town— men, women, 

 and children. In fact, it was a wonder how so 

 small a place could possibly furnish such a taber- 

 nacle full of pejple.] 



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|yin responding to tlii.s advertisement mention Gleanings. 



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