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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 



and pears, which did well there; from white and 

 red clover, flax, mustard, and heather. There 

 was a sandy tract in the center of the island, which 

 belonged to the king, and here is where the heather 

 grew, sind every family was allowed one load of it 

 to kindle fires. 



Mr. Dahl showed me a bee-book in the Danish 

 language, but all I could interpret was occasionally 

 the name of Dzierzon. He says he knows one per- 

 son on the island who now uses frame hives. 



Peoria, 111. Mrs. L. Harrison. 

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MRS. HILTON'S LETTER 



( U.1FORNIA, AND SOME THINGS IN GLEANINGS. 



T FELT sure that you would not feel satisfied with 

 ,a|? the short visit that you made to our beautiful 

 W laud, so I was not surprised to read that you 

 "*■ were coming again. You would have enjoyed 

 a visit with Uncle James Gilchrist, at Monteci- 

 to. 1 know 1 did when we were at his place, and 

 may be we then can have the pleasure of seeing 

 you and your wife. I did not expect you on this 

 last trip, for I felt that you would have to be more 

 than mortal to see half you ought to in the short 

 time you allowed yourself. Don't leave Huber be- 

 hind when you come. When Mr. H. read that piece 

 where you quote "Beulah Land," I had to smile, 

 for that is what 1 sing when upon a mountain. It is 

 so appropriate, I find myself singing it before I 

 think. I do not see how that man killed those tar- 

 antulas with chloroform, for I tried my best one 

 time to dispose of one so as to have a fine dead 

 specimen. J put a tumbler over it, wet a large 

 piece of cloth with good chloroform, and shoved it 

 under the tumbler with a knife, and left it all night. 

 The next morning Mr. T. was as lively as ever. 

 Then I wet the cloth three or four times during the 

 day, but it would not give up, so I had to kill it an- 

 other way. 



Did you ever have your credit too good? Ours is, 

 or was this spring, any way. We wrote to a dealer 

 in San Francisco to know if there were any sweet 

 potatoes in market, and at what price, as we want- 

 ed 1U0 ibs. for seed. In a week our station agent in- 

 formed us that there was a sack of sweets at the 

 depot, waiting for us. Now, we had been sold once 

 before on sweet potatoes by having them shipped 

 in a sack, after paying a fancy price for them, 

 and we did not have any hot-bed ready for them; so 

 imagine our feelings. Of course, they were badly 

 bruised and rotting; so if we get 100 plants under 

 the circumstances, we shall think we are lucky. 

 The dealer thought he was doing us a favor to send 

 them immediately, and we shall not let him know 

 any thing to the contrary. But what I want to 

 make out after this long preamble is, don't ship 

 sweet potatoes in any thing that they will get bruis- 

 ed in, or customers will pay dear for their seed. 

 We enjoy the agricultural department of Glean- 

 ings very much, also Rambler's letters, and— but, 

 what is the use of specifying, for we read the whole 

 thing from beginning to end, and think each one 

 better than the other? Of course, you know by the 

 large list of subscribers that you furnish a good 

 article; but may be you are like our minister. I 

 thanked him for the excellent sermon he save us 

 last Sunday. He looked at me in surprise a mo- 

 ment, and then said, after drawing a long breath, 

 " Did you like it? Well, I am like one of our bish- 

 ops. He said he bad to have a word of praise once 



in a while, to keep going." I had to laugh a little, 

 as it is hardly decorous to clap our hands in the 

 Lord's house when the minister gives a good 

 thought. I have always felt that we should give a 

 word of praise after the sermon. But I, as well as 

 others, am something like the little girl that was 

 chided by her mamma for not saying " thank you " 

 for something she had received. She said, " I did 

 say thank you." "Why, no, my child; I did not 

 hear you." " Well, I said it, any way, down in my 

 heart." Mrs. J. Hilton. 



Los Alamos, Cal., April 11, 1889. 



Yes, Mrs. H., we have had considerable 

 of such experience as you mention, with the 

 sweet potatoes. Where a dealer is over- 

 stocked, and very anxious to get rid of his 

 stuff, he sometimes ships it to parties who 

 simply make inquiries. He should, how- 

 ever, always state that the goods are sent 

 on approval, and if, in so doing, any thing 

 is not perfectly satisfactory, he will make it 

 so. I think you should have told him just 

 the state of affairs, and let him bear at least 

 a part of the loss. We have sometimes 

 sent goods in that way, when customers 

 mentioned that they were greatly in need 

 of them ; but where goods are sent without 

 a positive order it very often makes trouble. 

 —I think your minister is exactly right in 

 the point he makes. It is words of encour- 

 agement that stimulate us to try still hard- 

 er in speaking or writing ; and without that, 

 I doubt if anybody could do his best. 

 When the work is in the line of bringing 

 souls to Christ, kind words act like inspira- 

 tion. I am glad you like " Beulah Land." 



FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS. 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLES. 



fHE Golden bee-hive man took in this county 

 last winter, and sold the right to two gentle- 

 men for $100, who, hearing I was interested 

 in bees, came to see me. It was a terrible 

 old box. I told them I should like to have 

 some to set hens in. They had a lot of circulars 

 and testimonials, among others one from Prof. A. 

 J. Cook, saying he had taken, if I remember right, 

 200 lbs of honey from a Golden hive, which I told 

 him I did not believe. Of course, I did not blame 

 these gentlemen. They were persuaded to buy the 

 right, and knew nothing of bee culture or bee- 

 hives. I think they told me they had never seen a 

 bee-journal. I gave them the names of several. 

 The man who duped them was a Tennessean. I 

 have forgotten his name. A. R Killingsworth. 

 Red Lick, Miss., April 16, 1889. 



Friend K., if you will look in Glean- 

 ings for Sept. 15, 1888, p. 693, you will find 

 that we published an extract from the cir- 

 cular you mention ; and at a later date, see 

 page 767, Oct. 1, 1888, you will notice Prof. 

 Cook's statement that he never used the 

 (Jolden hive, and never wrote any such 

 statement. It is a point-blank forgery, and 

 the men who go around distributing such 

 circulars should be arrested. I hope you 

 will show them the numbers of Gleanings 

 that I have referred to, as well as this one. 



