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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 



way;" but I tell you, a five-cent deal ought to be as 

 straight and square as a deal of $5001). Yes, they 

 had worse work than selling brass for German sil- 

 ver. Our " boss of the counter store" (Eliza as we 

 called her) went and got married last fall; and aft- 

 er that, things got sort o' mixed, and one or two, at 

 least, got brass thimbles in place of coin silver. By 

 way of apology for the blunder, it was urged that 

 the brass ones, when t>rand nru\ were really hand- 

 somer than the silver ones. There is one thing that 

 pleases me, however, in the above: Not one of the 

 friends, so far as I can remember, accused us of 

 purposely sending out a brass thimble; at least, all 

 have been polite enough to suggest that somebody 

 had made a blunder somewhere, when the outside 

 came to be worn off. Well, what I wanted to say is, 

 that we have got a splendid stock of all sorts and 

 sizes, closed end and open end, even the big ones, 

 of genuine first-class German silver, the very best 

 that can be found, and they are only 5 cents apiece. 

 If wanted by mail, add 2 cts. extra for postage and 

 packing. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Smokers received. I like the large blast-tube 

 very much. J. Gregg. 



Visalia, Cal., May 7, 1889. 



The 10 Dovetailed hives that I ordered of you are 

 at hand. I have put a part of them together. I am 

 pleased with them. R. Bostwick. 



Bedding, Cal., April 19, 1889. 



THE DOVETAILED HIVE LONG WANTED. 



1 am more than pleased with the Dovetailed hive. 

 It is the hive I long have wanted, and in the future 

 I shall use only that. F. P. Strager. 



Bremen, O., Apr. 8, 1889. 



THE DOVETAILED HIVE EASY TO PUT TOGETHER. 



The Dovetailed hives came to-day. They are so 

 simple I can put them together easily, although 1 

 am not a carpenter. Your new ABC book is splen- 

 did. B. J. Thompson. 



Waverly, Wis., Apr. 36, 1889. 



COULD NOT BETTER THE DOVETAILED HIVE. 



1 think you could not better the Dovetailed hive, 

 especially the surplus arrangement, which will 

 save much time and labor in handling and cleaning 

 boxes. The lawn-mower is a first-class machine; it 

 docs excellent work, and much cheaper than I 

 could have purchased one here for. 



Brink Hill, Pa., May 13, 1889. O. S. Rogers. 



WHAT C. C. MILLER SAYS OF THE WORKMANSHIP 

 OF THE DOVETAILED HIVE. 



1 have received and carefully inspected the Dove- 

 tailed hive; and if it is a fair specimen of the work 

 you will send out, then the Dovetailed hive is a real 

 acquisition. It does me good, just to look at it— so 

 close and exact— no chance to get together any way 

 but the right way. C. C. Miller. 



Marengo, 111., May 1, 1889. 



THE DOVETAILED HIVE THE NEAREST TO PERFEC- 

 TION ; .A SUGGESTION. 



Eureka! The Dovetailed hive is the nearest to 

 perfection you have struck, including fixtures. 

 Now make the brood apartment the same size as 

 section cases, with open-top section-holders, and 

 you will have every part the same size, and inter- 

 changeable. Bees work as well and winter bettrr 

 in a double brood-chamber than in a single cham- 

 ber with solid comb full depth. The passageway 

 of % inch in the middle of the brood-nest is appar- 

 ently just what the colony needs to shift about 

 without going around outside. My bees came out 

 stronger and better in spring in double brood- 

 chambers than in single, wintered chaff packed out 

 of doors. The double brood-chamber makes a large 

 hive to breed up in in the spring, and can be re- 

 tained its full size if large brood hives are prefer- 

 red. Try the Uniform hive, and I am sure you will 

 find it more simpie than the Simplicity, and better 

 than the best. E. E. Ewing. 



Rising Sun, Md. 



The hive material and other goods came in nice 

 order. I was never better pleased with hive mate- 

 rial. Mrs. W. says that the tinware and the mold- 

 ing-board beat any thing she ever knew of for the 

 money. J. C. Wheeler. 



Piano, 111., Apr. 29, 1889. 



We think the carpet-sweeper very nice. My wife 

 says she is almost sorry (not quite) that we got it; 

 for now when she is sewing she will have no excuse 

 for leaving little bits of clippings around on the 

 carpet, they arc so easily picked up with the sweep- 

 er. John Langley. 



Widnoon, Pa., April 25, 1889. 



The Waterbury watch you sent in place of the 

 one I told you would not run, I received. I would 

 have sent back the first one; but since I wrote it 

 runs all right. 1 have two now, and both run very 

 well. 1 don't know which one to send back, and so 

 I think I will keep both of them. C. Hofmann. 



Harrisburg, Ark. 



Brother Root:—] call you brother, as I am trying 

 to serve the same Lord and Master. I can not tell 

 you how much your sermons have helped me the 

 past year, and I hope and pray that you may be 

 spared to continue doing good. L. L. Howe. 



Harrisville, N. H. 



Friend Root: — I most heartily agree with you in 

 your concluding sentence in " Myself and Neigh- 

 bors," for April 15th. May your God-inspired papers 

 be instrumental in bringing hundreds— yes, thou- 

 sands—to God's heavenly throne, is my earnest and 

 prayerful wish. W. M. Barnum. 



Angelica, N. Y., April 23, 1889. 



About five years ago I saw one of your adver- 

 tisements in some paper I now forget, which induc- 

 ed me to raise bees, and to this day I have had no rea- 

 son to regret the step, not only on account of the 

 bees that afford me pleasure as well as profit, but 

 princially because I was induced to have dealings 

 with a man strictly honest, who wishes to be meas- 

 ured to by the same measure he gives to otheis. I 

 would not hesitate to pay 11.00 out of my pocket for 

 Gleanings, when I sometimes read one article 

 worth the price. I always read Gleanings from 

 first to last, though 1 take five other papers, and 

 have ray hands full besides. W. W. Jones. 



Hubbardston, Vt , April 21, 1889. 



god's work and man's work. 



That 28 cents my due. you may apply on my re- 

 newal, if you please. I had forgotten it. Now, 

 brother Root. I believe God made you au honest 

 man. and I will tell you when I think he did it. 1 

 think somewhere about 43 vears ago. 



Mulliken, Mich., Feb. 15, 1889. H. M. Brown. 



LFriend B., God made us all honest, There is cer- 

 tainly no fault on his part. The dishonesty comes 

 because we resist not, but give way to selfish im- 

 pulses. I was vividly reminded of this yesterday 

 when mamma had a long pull with our six-year-old 

 Huber. He did not want to go to church nor to Sun- 

 day-school. Mamma pulled him through, however, 

 and after Sunday-school was over he came up to 

 me saying, "Papa, I am awful glad I was a good 

 boy, and went to Sunday-school. I feel ever so 

 much better now."] 



WHAT AN ADVERTISEMENT IN GLEANINGS WILL 

 DO SOMETIMES. 



I just got myself in business when I put that ad- 

 vertisement in Gleanings. Letters come from all 

 directions. Some come personally to see me, and I 

 think I shall have no trouble in finding- the right 

 man; and, by the way, they were neailyall Chris- 

 tians, and temperate, and anti-tobacco. Bio. Root, 

 I think your readers are the best crowd 1 ever 

 came across. I see now how much I have missed 

 by dropping out of their company. 



Geo. M. Kellogg. 



Pleasant Hill, Mo., March 13, 1889. 



[Thanks for the compliment you pay us all, friend 

 K. I have sometimes wondered if it were not true 

 that godly and temperate people were rallying 

 around Gleanings. If so. then we, perhaps, in 

 our separate neighborhoods, may be the means of 

 influencing a good many, who are standing unde- 

 cided by the way, to turn the scale in the right 

 direction.] 



