1887 



GI.EANINGS li\ HKE CUI-TURK. 



155 



The bolt was thrown suddenly out from un- 

 der his hand, allowing^ it to fall upon the 

 cruel knives. To prevent a rei)etitiou of 

 such a thing we told our foreman. Mi-. War- 

 ner, and our machinists, that we wanted them 

 to get up an automatic machine which would 

 preclude the possibility of an accident, and 

 the foregoing is the machine. 



We can furnish tliis macliine. when desir- 

 ed, put up complete, for ST.'i.Od. 



P. S. — By way of caution, we wish to sug- 

 gest to all of >ou who have to do with saws 

 or cutter-heads, be careful ; saws are treach- 

 erous things, rather more partial to the inex- 

 perienced. You will not api)reciate the im- 

 portance of being careful until you have 

 mutilated your fingers. Several of oui' men 

 have beeii hurt recently, and we speak 

 whereof we know. Ernest. 



Gleahihgs in Bee Coltdre, 



Published Sent i - Mo n th li/ ■ 



BDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 

 MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID 



99 dtbUaz Bates, See First Page of Beading Matter. 



Shall not the Judge of all the eavth do right!— Gen. 18: 25. 

 CONTRIBUTIONS FOR GLEANINGS. 



I BELIEVE there has never been a time before 

 when so many good articles were waiting for a 

 place. As the winter is now about past, let us drop 

 long essays, and get into practical work. Bright 

 practical thoughts, expressed in few words, seem 

 to be the demand now in journalism. 



A BEE OR A cow— WHICH? 



We clip the following from the Rural Caniulian: 

 None bvit those who have studied the subject have any idea 

 at the enormous waste of honey that goes on from want of 

 properly qualified insects to collect it. Here, for instance^ is 

 a striking fact : " (Jiven two lleUls cjf clcivcr nf equal size, side 

 by side, one of which you pasture with cows ami the other of 

 which you pasture with iiees, the one pastured l)y l>ees will 

 produce a greater weight ff honey than the Held pastured by 

 cows will of butter and cheese, and tlie cows will have eaten 

 every blade of clover that is in the field." . 



The above statement may be true, but it seems a 

 little astounding. 



TERRY AND TOBACCO. 



We are pleased to notice that the N. V. Trihunc of 

 Feb. 9 has copied the greater portion of friend Ter- 

 rj-'s article from Gleanings, and also stronglj' in- 

 dorses the position taken by your humble servant 

 and others. Maj' God be praised, that a paper hav- 

 ing the moral weight of the Tribune has thrown its 

 influence against tobacco. 



THE POTATO-BOOK— AN APPENDIX. 



By my request, friend Terry has written (juite a 

 lengthj' appendix, giving all that is valuable that 

 has come up since the book was wi-itten, two years 

 ago. This appendix will be furnished free of charge 

 to all who have purchased the book, by application 

 on a postal card, and it will be included with the 

 book to all future customers. We willfurnish the 3 

 little han(J-books— viz., Terry on the Potato, Terry 



on the Winter Care of Horses and Cattle, and Prof. 

 Cook's now book on maple-sugar making, for an 

 even dollar, postpaid. 



MR. THOMAS HORN. 



As we go to press, Feb. 1(1, we have received let- 

 ters from about fifty individuals who have sent Mr. 

 Horn money. The greater part of the fifty have 

 received no returns whatever. A few have had a 

 part of the order filled. The amount claimed foots 

 up to soraethiug like .1f37.">. Mr. Horn fears it will be 

 impossible for him to settle all claims this season. 

 It was an error of my own in so stating it in our 

 editorial last month. As the notes he proposes giv- 

 ing are paj-able in two •years, he expects to take 

 them all up before they are due. 



A honey-apiarv. 

 As soon as the weather shall permit, we propose 

 to locate a honey-apiary a few miles from the 

 home apiary, for the purpose of more carefully 

 testing some of the new appliances for producing 

 comb and extracted honey. The large number of 

 colonies in our own locality during past seasons 

 has made it almost impossible to test some of the 

 new systems of honey-production with any degree 

 of satisfaction— the nectar of our locality being 

 divided among five or six hundred colonies. None 

 of our stocks have been able to secure more than 

 enough to fill the brood-chamber, to say nothing 

 aliout going above. Should foul brood reappear 

 in the home apiary again this season, since the 

 prices have been reduced it may be necessary to 

 establish still another out-apiary. In any event 

 our friends may rest assured that all who send for 

 queens and bees will receive nothing but perfectly 

 healthy stock. 



OUR AGRICULTURAL PERIODICALS. AND DO THEY 



PAY y 

 OuH esteemed friend " Sam," in the Ohio Farmer 

 for Feb. 13, makes the following point, which was 

 gathered during the institute work during the past 

 winter in Wisconsin: There is one township in that 

 State where not an agricultural paper is taken, and 

 the average price of butter for the year was lO'.j 

 cents. In another township, ai4 agricultural papers 

 are taken, costing about $2.')0, and their butter sold 

 at an average of SSy., cts.. the same year. As the 

 anvinni sold in each townhsp was not greatly diflier- 

 ent, it shows that, by paying $250 for intelligence, 

 they received for it the dividend of $8100 over the 

 township that takes no papers. In other words, the 

 farmers who saved ^..^O by not taking farm papers 

 actually paid $SUn by being too smart to take such 

 papers. Besides the matter of butter, how much 

 benefit did the others receive in other crops ? And 

 besides the crojis, regarded from a dollars-and-cents 

 view, what has been the etfect of those 214 periodi- 

 cals on the boys and girls ? Still further, our agri- 

 cultural press, as a whole, is striking heavy blows 

 for righteousness and godliness (excepting a few of 

 them on the tobacco question, but it is only a very 

 few). The time is mostly gone by when it was fash- 

 ionable to sneer at " book farming." I hope the 

 agricultural press will pass this item around; and 

 if it shall happen to fit townships in other States as 

 well as Wisconsin, let us have it widely copied. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The Pan-Handle Bee Keepers" Association will hold its next 

 meeting at Wheeling, W. Vn.. No. 1138 Main St.. in K. of P. 

 Hall. March 3 and 4. 1887. W. L. KiNSEY, Sec. 



