1887 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



819 



toniers, and assistaiior of Iripnds, I am going to 

 continue the struggle on a new basis, attenrling to 

 the mail myself, and employing none but eompe- 

 tent help in the yard. As to tiomplaintsand claims, 

 1 will pay every penny with interest, but, must 

 have time to do so. I shall pay them just as rapid- 

 ly as 1 possibly can. .\sking your patroiuige. I am 

 yours very truly. Tiios. Hohn. 



Sherburne, N. Y.. Apr. '.. 18SV. 



In a private note act'onipjuiyiiig the above 

 letter, friend H. says : 



I am preparing the notes just :is raiiidly iis possi- 

 ble, and will finish thi,« evening so as to go out in 

 to-morrow's mail. Thos. Hokn. 



We presume from the al)ove that our 

 friends have, by tlie time this readies them, 

 Mr. Horn's note for the amount dm>. 



Now, friends, there is a vahiable lesson to 

 be learned from the al)ove. IJe very earefnl 

 how you undertake to do business, or to sell 

 goods of any kind, at a less price than they 

 can be afforded. If you think you can fur- 

 nish some suitable commodity at a lower 

 price than it has been yet offered at in the 

 market, try it on a small scale first. Tut in 

 a modest advertisement, and be ver> care- 

 ful about bringing- responsibilities up<m 

 yourself that you are not able to carry. 

 There is a certain limit to what any one 

 man can do; and when this limit is passed, 

 and he is obliged to employ hired help, ex- 

 perience usually indicates he must receive 

 a larger price for his produce than where he 

 can attend to it all himself. It is indeed a 

 fearful thing to be placed where friend 

 Horn is placed just now. Instead of re- 

 ceiving pay for his produce, as the rest of us 

 do, long years must likely be spent in hard 

 labor to make up for the losses of only a few 

 months, consequent upon selling goods at a 

 price that did not pay expenses. 



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Do good to them that hate you.— M.\TT. 6:44. 

 OUR FRIEND T. S. HAUI,. 



Mi{. Hali, is now located at Corinth, Miss., and 

 wishes us to say that he is now prepared to fill his 

 orders of last season that weie not completed, and 

 that he has 200 colonies from which to take bees, 

 queens, etc. 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATK. 



We are having a larger trade now than we per- 

 haps ever have had before, at this season of the 

 year. We are pretty well up with our orders, but 

 on a few things there is necessarily some delay; 



and especially is this the case with sections. As 

 the present dry weather is, however, wonderfully 

 favorable for seasoning the contents of our lum- 

 bei'-yard, we hope very soon to be able to report 

 that we are up with orders once more. 



MARtlH WEATHEK IN FOUEION COUNTRIES. 



Fkom the Britis}! Bee Journal of March 81, we 

 take the following: 



The present March will loiitj- be remembered a.s oi f the 



most severe on reeoril. Frosts, snowstorms— snow lyinu to a 

 (leiith of eit;lit,een iuelies— ijaleN. alnicst Inii-rir.-ii 



vnileil; and 2.5dci;rees id' fi.ist liavel ii rej;is(ii id - 



we fiar.to kill in many rasi's tlic endiryo hud-- ..n i 

 trees, if not the i-ndir.\o brood in oni- hives. Bnf we li 

 neighbors' fare, since we are told that the e.xpericii 

 same '■ from Northern Denmark to Southern Sjiain.'' 



Iia 



YOUNG CARF IN APRIL. 



This 12th day of April we see hundreds of little 

 carj) in our pond, from the size of a cucumber- 

 seed up to those an inch in length. Now, I wish 

 some of the veterans would tell me where these 

 little chaps come from. The month of March was 

 altogether too cold, aceoi-ding to the books, for 

 spawning and hatching; .and the question is, Were 

 these little fellows hatched last fall, oi- have they 

 got so big already this spring? Now, please do not 

 ask me to sell some, for 1 do not know h<iw to 

 catch them. IJesides, we are ever so much too 

 busy with our regular work at this time of year. 

 There ought to be some way of sending little carj) 

 by mail. In the winter we had some of the little 

 chaps in the greenhouse, in a tank under the cen- 

 ti-al bed, and they became so tame they would eat 

 crackers out of my hands just as freely as a lot of 

 chickens. If it were not tor the trouble of catch- 

 ing them out of the pond, it seems to me they 

 could be raised and sold almost as cheap as cab- 

 bage-plants; then may be they could be mailed 

 short distances in damp moss. Suppose some of 

 the carp-journals work nut this matter. Why not 

 have little fishes by mail, as well as queen-bees? 



simplicity HIVES WITH BEVELED EDGES. 



Inasmuch as quite a number of the bee-friends 

 have complained of the beveled edges at the tops 

 and bottoms of the Simplicity hives, and have sug- 

 gested that these beveled edges were unnecessary, 

 it may be well to explain that the hives as first used 

 were used one over the other, with plain square 

 joints. Ml-. Langstroth, however, decided that 

 such a joint was defective, for he made his upper 

 stories to slip over the lower ones, resting them on 

 a strip nailed on. The principal thing that de- 

 termined me to have a better joint was the many 

 and very grievous troubles I had from robbers get- 

 ting through the ordinary square joint. So many 

 losses resulted from this cause alone that I decided, 

 cost what it would, I would have no more hives 

 with cracks that could possiblj' let a bee through, 

 even if one hive were carelessly set over another. 

 The Simplicity and chaff hive both stop this nui- 

 sance entirely. Many experiments also satisfied 

 me that rain, wind, and frost, can not be kept out 

 as they should be, with plain square joints. Of 

 course, bees will, in the fall, fill these joints with 

 propolis; but when the hives are changed about, 

 this very pro))olis makes it worse than before, un- 

 less we scrape it off laboriously. 1 do not believe 

 that those who have been in the habit of using 

 hives with the Simplicity joint will be satisfied to 

 go back to the plain square joint. In any case, I 

 would test a few before having hives made in any 

 considerable (piantity on the latter plan. 



