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GLEANINGS m BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 



first machine that we see is the automatic 

 section-machine ; and at e^ery zip, zip, zip, 

 a section drops down and is picked np by a 

 boy who paclis them in the boxes. There 

 are about 20 macliines in this room, but we 

 will not <xo into details, as we propose ere 

 long to give our readers a picture of it. We 

 now pass upstairs and enter the tin room, 

 44 X 90. Here we are greeted by the din of 

 tinners' mallets. Here are two men work- 

 ing at tbe insides of extractors. Further 

 along, the cans are being made. There 

 is a pile of wax-extractors, comb buckets, 

 honey-pails, and all sorts of tin honey-recep- 

 tacles in process of manufacture. We retrace 

 our steps, and pass down into the basement. 

 Here is a great amount of belting and shaft- 

 ing, all in full motion. There is a .")2-in. ex- 

 haust-fan, which is connected with large 

 pipes. These pipes are connected with 

 smaller ones communicating with the differ- 

 ent saw -tables. This exhaust-fan. or blow- 

 er, carries away all the shavings, sawdust, 

 and little sticks, and blows them through a 

 large main pipe, and from this l)uilding 

 (through a pipe as seen between the two 

 buildings just below the locomotive smoke) 

 directly into the shaving-vault. The saw- 

 dust is then conducted by means of another 

 pipe directly into the boiler-furnace, which 

 we have before described. Now. right op- 

 posite the exhaust-fan is the blower for blow- 

 ing cold air through a coil of steam-pipes. 

 The cold air is thus heated and carried right 

 up into the saw-room and tin-room, thus 

 giving the men an abundance of fresh air. 



We pass from this shaft-room directly in- 

 to the engine-room. You will exclaim, 

 " That is such a little thing to do such a 

 large amount of work ! " T reply, ^' The en- 

 gine looks small, but it represents 90 horse- 

 power" After looking at the engine, we pass 

 through an underground passageway lead- 

 ing to the main building into oiu* green- 

 house. 



There is lettuce, radish, pie-plant, celery- 

 plants, etc., growing as if it were warm 

 summer weather. TIark I what do we hear? 

 It is the peep of young chickens. What are 

 they for ? Why^ they are our bug-catchers. 

 We know of nothing better to keep tlie bugs 

 off the lettuce. Here we finish f)ur trip 

 through the buildings. 



Now, friends, I do not know how it seems 

 to you, but when I take a look at this scene 

 of activity it seems to me almost as if it 

 could not be reality. It was onlv a very 

 short time ago that I was a blundering boy 

 — yes, a boy who cried over his plans be- 

 cause they did not work just as he bad fig- 

 ured out they ought to work. When this 

 blundering boy, however, stopped working 

 for himself, and began working for the 

 kindom of God. and his glory, giving em- 

 ployment to those who seemed to be in sad 

 need of it, etc., then, by some strange pro. 

 cess, success seemed to crown his humble 

 efforts. It seemed as if some great and 

 mighty power had the control and manage- 

 ment; and who shall say that such has 

 not been the case while the little motto still 

 remains, cut in the solid sandstone right 

 over the arch, in the center of the main 

 building—" Jn Ood we trust " ? 



OUR p. BENSON LETTER. 



MOER BEEKKEPJN .\S A OCKYOUPASHEN. 



TF beekeepin shood be conflnd to enny I class it 

 i»|p bed ot be wimiuen. No other calling' in lite is 

 ]li so suitful for beekepiu as wiinraen. Thay air 

 ■*■ so genteel in thair moovnienis as to subdoo 

 the moast vishus hybirds. 

 Next to wimmen is milliners and dress maikers, 

 whitch is the moast appropriS of all to keep bees, 

 bekoz for the resaon thay can raise thair oan wax 

 to wax the thred to so with. .Mso slir kaii so onto 

 a bunnit while watchin for swarn)s. 





BEE-KEEPIN AS A OCKYOUPASHEN FOK MILLYNERS. 



A miller is cspeshelly sooted to keep bees, bekoz 

 he ken maik his oan tlour and meel to feed the 

 bees, and save them the trulibol of going- out to 

 gether poland off the blossums. 



A carpenter hed ot to keep bees inoar than enny- 

 buddy els in the hoal wirld. It woont cost him 

 nuthin for makin hives. 



A still moar propper pirson to keep bees is a mar- 

 rid man or wooman. Thay have plenty of childrea 

 to eet the hunny. 



In no way is enny 1 in sitch good eondishen to 

 keep bees as a old batcheller or a old maid. Thay 

 hev no children around in the way to he took care 

 of when thay want to taik up a skep of bees and 

 get the hunny from them. Then too its a g:ood plan 

 for them to get a good start in beekeepin, for if 

 thay shood ever git married, it wood be reel handy 

 to hev the childi-en a rovmd when the bees swarm, 

 to yell & holler and pound on tin pans. 



No class of peaple ken so well keep bees as con- 

 ducters, brakeraen and sitch, onto a ralerode. Thay 

 need sum employment to taik up thair spair time 

 whitch doant require enny atlOshun. and bees talks 

 cair of thairselves, and doant weed enny work. Bo- 

 sides if he bies a swarm of bees he ken taik it home 

 on the baggige car for nuthing-. 



Lawyers is pre-etnanent for keepin bees. When 

 bizness is kinda dull bees hclp.-^ to niiiik things live, 

 ly, and he ken put a swarm cloast up to the side- 

 wock soze to -Sting- peaple aa-oln alon-i- and from 

 whitch he ken eezy grit up a lawsoot to maik him 

 bizzness. 



A irishman is the proper i)irson to keep bees for 

 his pipe is always a goin and rodd3- to smoak the 

 bees. 



A wosherwoomau is also the right 1, for she ken 

 rays her own beeswax to grccze her flat ierns to 

 iern shurts. 



The yung is g-ood to keep ln-i s Tui i h;i\- knn lurn 

 babbits of gittin around livel\. and the oald is good 

 for thay ken learn to clustci- (piict nl the door a 

 doin nothin. 



Hents It is seen that all classes and condishena 

 hed ot to keep bees without regard to race, kniler, 

 or prevus kondisben of seryltood. 



P. Benson, A. B. S. 



