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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Oct. 



a. "Not if the court knows itself." b. If I have 

 boney to sell in any considerable quantity, which is 

 not a certainty yet, 1 will endeavor to find a home 

 market, in various ways. Mks. L. Harrison. 



a. I prefer to sell my honey rather than to send 

 it to commission men. T will take the best market 

 1 can find. I shipped last year to five different 

 States before 1 closed out my crop of 32,000 lbs. 



S. 1. Freeborn. 



I should always sell to him who would pay me the 

 best price. Peddling is a business, and there are 

 not many good honey - peddlers. But it will pay 

 everybody to retail his goods if he can. 



C. F. Moth. 



a. I have not decided, b. If I should get a large 

 yield, nothing would please me better than to sell it 

 all in the home market by peddling, and then crow 

 over it. Should T get a light yield, I will peddle any 

 way, but you will not hear the crow. Rambler. 



That depends on how much T get. If we have as 

 large a crop as I hope for, I may be obliged to send 

 some off to be sold on commission. I prefer to sell to 

 dealers, keeping them constantly supplied, but with 

 only a small stock, and never asking them for pay 

 until they have sold the honey. I have never tried 

 peddling, and do not think I shall. J. A. Green. 



a. Not if I can help it. There is such a terrible 

 long tail to the commission eat that T do not like it, 

 I like to realize upon the resulis of my labor some 

 time during the present generation, while 1 still 

 have the cheerful habit of residing in this world, 

 b. I will try to sell it out and out for cash to some 

 responsible dealer who buys that way. 



James Heddon. 



a. I can not say. b. I don't think I'm a born ped- 

 dler, so I shall not try that, but I'll probably try to 

 supply the groceries so far as they care to be sup- 

 plied in my home market; and then it will depend 

 on prices to be had, whether I sell in a lump to 

 some large dealer at a distance, or send to one or 

 more cities on commission. C. C. Miller. 



As my apiary is within an hour's drive of a large 

 city, I have never shipped honey on commission. I 

 do not propose to begin A. D. 1889. I take pains to 

 encourage, and have built up a considerable cus- 

 tom of persons who call and buy. I think nearly 

 every apiarist could do so if he went at it right, 

 This is the best way, so far as it will go. Next es- 

 tablish regular routes and take honey to the doors 

 ot farmers and village people every six weeks or 

 so. City people are worried by an excess of ped- 

 dlers, and do not bite well. Next try the city gro- 

 ceries. If they will take your crop on terms satis- 

 factory, very well; if not, as a last resort previous 

 to sending to distant commission men, peddle in 

 the city. E. E. Hasty. 



. The general impression seems to be in 

 favor of selling honey outright, or attending 

 to sales personally, in some way or other. I 

 suppose one might get accustomed to the 

 business of furnishing commission men so 

 as to find it perhaps the easiest way of dis- 

 posing of a very large crop ; but the com- 

 mission man should be an expert in han- 

 dling honey, and the honey-producer should 

 also be thoroughly posted, so as to be able 

 to give the commission man reasonable di- 

 rections in regard to the disposal. 



Every boy or girl, under 15 years of age, who writes a let- 

 ter for this department, containing some valuable fact, not 



GENERALLY KNOWN, ON BEES OB OTHER MATTERS, will receive 



one of David Cook's excellent five-cent Sunday-school books. 

 Many of these books contain the same matter that you And in 

 Sunday-school hooks costing from 8100 to 81-50. If you have 

 had one or more books, give us the names that we may not 

 send the same twice. We have now in stock six different 

 books, as follows; viz.: Sheer Off , Silver Keys, The Giant-Kill- 

 er; or. The Roby Family, Rescued from Egypt, Pilgrim's 

 Progress, and Ten Nights in a Bar-Roora. We have also Our 

 Homes, Part I., and Our Homes, Part II. Besides the above 

 books, you may have a photograph of our old house apiary, 

 and a photograph of our own apiary, both taken a great many 

 years ago. In the former is a picture of Novice, Blue Eyes, 

 and Caddy, and a glimpse of Ernest. We have also some pret 

 ty little colored pictures of birds, fruits, Mowers, etc., suitable 

 for framing. You can have your choice of any one of the 

 above pictures or books for every letter that gives us some 

 valuable piece of information. 



MORE ABOUT WOLVES, BEARS, AND OTHER 

 WILD ANIMALS. 



WRITTEN FOR THE .1UVENILES BY UNCLE AMOS. 



TUBE riding out with friend France, 

 over the hills, we came to a point 

 where some wonderful mounds rose 

 clear up above the surrounding 

 country. I called them mountains, 

 and I feel like sticking to it still. They are 

 really small mountains, and their height is 

 so great that, when I started on my trip to 

 Bichland County, I could catch glimpses of 

 them until we were twenty or thirty miles 

 away. The railway runs out quite near one 

 of them, and circles around it, so you can get 

 a glimpse of it on all sides. These mounds 

 are pretty near the center of the State of 

 Wisconsin, if I am correct. Well, while we 

 were riding along I kept watching the hills, 

 rocks, and the streams, and pretty soon I 

 told friend France that many of the rocks 

 looked much like those in the region of 

 Mammoth Cave, and I said I thought there 

 must be caverns in those hills. But he de- 

 clared there were no caves nor caverns, nor 

 any thing of the sort. But I did not quite 

 give up. Pretty soon we started to go over 

 toward one of his apiaries. We had to go 

 there crosslots. In the middle of a great 

 big field my eye caught sight of a hole in 

 the ground, as if a great big well had some 

 time or other caved in there. Said I : 



"Book here, friend France; I want you 

 to tell me what that hole is doing out here 

 in this lot." 



" Why," said he, " that is what we call a 

 chimney." 



" But what is a chimney doing out here ? 

 Is not that the mouth of a. cavern away 

 down under the ground ? When it rains 

 does not the rain water pour right in it and 

 go out of sight V " 



He admitted that it did, but he did not 

 believe there was any cave. My friend, if 

 you ever see the water, after a rain, pouring 

 into a hole in the ground, and disappearing, 

 you may be sure there is a cavern down 

 there ; and if it were anywhere in my vi- 



