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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



possible, as much as lieth in you, live peace- 

 ably with all men. 1 ' 



The big reservior is now finished, and 

 over it the windmill spreads its wings, al- 

 most ready to commence its task of keeping 

 the great tank constantly full. It stands 

 against the sky " a thing of beauty," and I 

 hope it may prove to be ,k a joy forever " to the 

 community round about it. We have al- 

 ready been discussing placing upon it in 

 great letters, so that they may be read for 

 half a mile or more, the little text that has 

 been so much a favorite of mine for a few 

 months past: " Not to be ministered unto, 

 but to minister." One of the friends has 

 suggested another good one, if it were not 

 so long, to be written in great letters be- 

 tween the hoops : li Whoso drinketh of this 

 water shall thirst again ; but whoso drink- 

 eth of the water that I shall give him, shall 

 never thirst." 



Cleanings in Bee Culture, 



Published Semi- Monthly. 



^. I. ROOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



l*£EI3I3iT.fi- 7 OHIO. 



1ERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For Glutting Bates, See First Page of Beading Matter. 



IvCEIDIiT^., DEC. IS, 1SSQ. 



See.st thou a man diligent in Ms business! lit' shall stand be- 

 fore kings; lit- shall not stand before mean men.— Prov. 22:29. 



AN ERROR IN DISTANCE. 



Our good friend M. H. Hunt, of Bell Branch, 

 Mich., calls my attention to the fact that I stated 

 that he lived four miles from the depot, whereas he 

 is only two and a half miles away. As some of his 

 customers might think he did not tell the exact 

 truth in his catalogue, I make the correction and 

 beg pardon. 



tillinghast's floral album. 

 This is a beautiful collection of chromos of all of 

 the principal flowers in cultivation, including most 

 of the honey-plants, and all in their natural colors. 

 To those who wish to know what our honey-produc- 

 ing flowers look like, and to be able to identify 

 them at a glance, it should be worth a good deal. 

 See advertisement in this issue. 



CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. 



We present, along with this number, to all our 

 readers, with compliments of the season and our 

 best wishes for the new year, a Christmas souvenir 

 in the form of a 16-page picture-gallery. We have 

 not yet reached the 10,000 mark, and we trust this 

 souvenir will be a reminder to our many friends to 

 make an extra effort to get their share of the 

 number of names necessary to make it 10,000 by Jan. 

 1, and thus return the compliment. 



almost night and day for several weeks, and we 

 concluded that we should have to have something 

 that would do the work more rapidly, or else de- 

 crease our subscription list. The press is the latest 

 in design, and is the best book-press we could pur- 

 chase. It will cost $3600. We are aiming at the 

 highest perfection in the printer's art; and while 

 we are not at all ashamed of our past record as 

 printers, we hope to do even better. 



THE NUMBER OF PAGES IN A VOLUME OF GLEAN- 

 INGS. 



The present volume scores 1024 pages. We shall 

 probably do the same, or perhaps better, next year. 

 We call the attention of our readers to our large in- 

 dex of illustrations, and also to the topical index. 

 We have left out our usual index of correspon- 

 dents, as we thought it to be the least valuable of 

 the three. It takes an immense amount of labor 

 and painstaking care to get it out; and we believe 

 our readers will prefer the same energy expended 

 in other departments of the journal. 



FIRST-CLASS POULTRY WANTED. 



We are having quite a good many inquiries, es- 

 pecially of late, in regard to fine poultry. Letters 

 read something like this: "Mr. Root, could you 

 furnish me a nice pair of Plymouth Rocks? If not, 

 please give me the address of some good man." 

 Somebody else wants Light Brahmas, and so it is 

 with the other standard breeds. Now, if I should 

 undertake to sell poultry with all the other busi- 

 ness 1 have, I might go crazy; therefore I should 

 like to have some poultry-breeder among our bee- 

 folks keep a small standing advertisement in 

 Gleanings. It seems to me that the business 

 ought to pay, with the prices poultry ■ breeders 

 seem to be getting. I picked out a trio of Light 

 Brahmas at our county fair, that suited me very 

 well. But what do you suppose the owner wanted 

 for them? Only $6.00! 



A NEW PRESS FOR GLEANINGS. 



About the first of February, Gleanings will be 

 printed on a brand-new 16-page Campbell oscillator 

 book-press. Our old one has been obliged to run 



deluging editors with facts about comb 

 honey. 



Some time ago the Chicago Herald repeated the 

 old comb-honey slander; namely, that about comb 

 honey manufactured artificially, filled with glu- 

 cose, and capped over with appropriate machine- 

 ry. Brother Newman wrote them a very courte- 

 ous and gentlemanly letter, pointing out their mis- 

 take. We also wrote them, forwarding one of our 

 $1000 reward cards. It seems, also, that bee-keepers 

 from all points of the compass deluged the editor 

 with letters. The Herald for Saturday, Nov. 23, final- 

 ly comes out with a long article on bees and their 

 work, giving some facts in regard to the honey- 

 business, how foundation is made, etc., although it 

 clings to the idea that the liquid article is adulterat- 

 ed to a certain extent. It says, after the first state- 

 ment appeared in the Herald, in regard to adul- 

 terated or manufactured comb honey, it " was at 

 once inundated with a flood of letters from bee and 

 honey men. who declared that honey-comb can not 

 br made, filled with honey, and sealed with appro- 

 priate machinery so as to escape detection in the 

 market; and," it says, " this statement is doubtless 

 true." Right here is a very suggestive fact: There 

 is nothing in the world that will have such an ef- 

 fect upon editors who have misrepresented our 

 industry as to deluge them with letters, not from 

 editors of bee-papers alone, but from the subscrib- 

 ers themselves. A flood of letters from bee-keen- 



