1887 



GLEANINGS IN HRK CVLTVlUi. 



335 



Contents of this Number. 



Alsikc for Hiini'v IffiS 



Am moil ia lor SiiriK>^ :i48 



Aiiimonia vs. I'lopulis 3iC> 



Apiarv. Oak (irove HSO 



Arlick's, Tiinclv SSS 



Axtfli's Hom-y-bourd S46 



Bi'rs Torn to Pieces X>:> 



Bei's ill Florida 352 



Bees, Pay for Keeping 355 



Boy Bee-keeper 356 



Buzz-saw , To Make 365 



("nrp in April, Young- 341 



Chickens. Dione-eatinpr 357 



Oittoii, Mrs 359 



Ciller for Wintering 357 



Drone Coiiih 345 



Drone, The I'-irst 357 



Eilitoitals ....364 



Exhibition. Colonial 356 



Florida 352 



Frames, Wide 358 



Fruit Preserved in Honey.. 351) 



Grape-.jam 3.50 



Growler.v 3411 



Hibernation Established... .343 



Honev-Poisonin« 357 



HonevCake :m 



Honey Column 366 



Honey Boards 346 



Honey. Low Prices 349 



Hone\ , .Soon Sonieil. 3.58 



Honey, To I'se a50 



.346 



I Honey from Alsike... 



Housc-\variiiin(r 



Hui-kli'ljcirv. I'oison. 



! Hutchinsoiis Book 350 



I Mesiiiiitc Honi-v 359 



I Myself a lie! Neighbors 361 



\ No Foul lii I 363 



Notes .,n(\ queries 360 



Durdwn .Vinary 363 



P. liensou Letter, Our 342 



I'ropolis.To Remove.. ..345 

 ' Queen Kulinn- the Colony... 347 



Reports Discour.itciuK 360 



Reports KneouraK'iii« 358 



Sections. Spai-inn' at Top.. ..344 

 Honu-iiiade Saw-table ... 3.59 



Siniplicitv Simplified .355 



Smith For<c I'ump 3.38 



Spiilcis vs. Bees 341 



Stings, Efleet of 348 



Strawberries, Terry on .35:f 



Swanning-box, A Novel 3.58 



Swarms, Easing Down ;i56 



T Super Feeder, The 337 



Tinware. To Mend 346 



T Super 344 



T Stiper, Emptying the 342 



WaKoirhcil, Cheap 347 



Wax from ( Hil Combs .351 



Wintering in Cellar 344 



Wiuterinu' Without Stores. 343 

 Wintering- Question Solved..3l8 



KIND mm FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



I received the goods all right; thanks for prompt- 

 ness. Wife is well pleased with her poultry-book. 

 Blaine, Ohio. L. C. Seabkiqht. 



1 got an A H C from you about six or seven years 

 ago, and i like it better every time 1 look at it; in 

 fact, it suits me the beet of any thing on bee culture 

 that 1 have seen yet. W. Atkinson. 



Cheapside. Ont., Can., April 7, 1887. 



can't BE BEAT. 



(ioods received all right. Many thanks. My wife 

 thinks the thimble is just a daisy. The boy is de- 

 lighted with the knife, and I think the saws can't 

 be beat. .J. Bari..ow. 



Sac City, Iowa. 



. orK CARPET-SWEEPERS. 



(ioods arrived in good order. The carpet-sweep- 

 ers are beautiful, and very cheap. The price of a 

 similar machine here is f3..50. Every thing is satis- 

 factory, as usual with goods ordered of A. I. Root. 



Middletown, Conn. C. H. Lewis. 



FIVE CONCORD GRAPEVINES. 



From live Concords, four years old, last season, 1 

 got 3110 lbs. of grapes. 1 think your A B C is a very 

 nice book. It i.s interesting; anyhow, it is a book 

 whose merits one can judge of by experience. 



Buffalo, N. Y., Mar. 9, 18.S7. James Robinson. 



aOIJ LBS. OF WAX FROM ONE OF OUR MACHINES 

 IN HATjF a day. 



I received the foundation machine the 80th of 

 March, all completed. It gives good satisfaction. 

 I have rolled out 200 lbs. of wax in half a day. 



John Thilb. 



Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co., Cal., Apr. 9, 1887. 



stekeoscopic views. 



The goods arrived all right. The children say 1 

 must write you and tell you how pleased we all are 

 with the stereoscopic views. All the goods gave en- 

 tire satisfaction as usual. My Ijees are doing well. 

 I am trying to he ready to fill your order for queens 

 by. return mail. J. I). Fooshe. 



Coroiiaca, S. C, Mar. 8, 1887. 



A KIND WOHU FROM .1. E. POND. 



My son, 17 '2 years old, has accepted (Jhrist for 

 his Savior, and I do think that Gleanings and you 

 had much to do with it. The Home Papers drew 

 his attention to the matter; at any rate, he is to- 

 day a Christian, aiiU I know that you will rejoice 

 with me thereat. 1 tell you, Mr. Root, you don't 

 know the good vou are doing, and will never know 

 it till the last day. J. E. Pond. 



Foxboro. Mass.. Apr. 7, 1881. 



" MAPLE SYRUP decidedly RICH." 



Sections und maple syrup came to hand all right. 

 The mapli; syrup is decidedly rich. 



J. F. MiCHAI.L. 



German, Darke Co., O., Apr. 7, 1887. 



The 



frames, nicest ever seen. 

 box that did not come with the others has 

 arrived with every thing satisfactory. The frames 

 are the nicest 1 ever saw. My bees all answer to 

 roll call, and in fine condition. M. C. Vouno. 



Centertown, Pa., Apr. 9, 1887. 



PLEASED. 



The goods ordered of you some time back arrived 

 here all right. Let me exin-ess my heartiest thanks 

 to you for always filling my orders so promptly. 

 That brood fdn. is, 1 think, just the thing. The 

 reversible frames, I think, will just answer to the 

 roll. Matthias Schineider. .Ir. 



Mclvor, Mich., Apr. 20, 1887. 



GOOD MEASURE. 



1 received my goods the l.'jth of this month. 

 Ever3' thing came in good shape, and as it was or- 

 dered. Your goods have always been satisfactory 

 since we have l)een dealing with you, which, I 

 think, is ten years. You have a bigger bushel to 

 measure your potatoes in than any seedsman 1 

 ever bought potatoes of yet. Your goods will rec- 

 ommend themselves. They are always put up 

 neatly, and tit exactly. G. Gase. 



Berwick, O. 



[Friend G., the reason why we give good bushels 

 is because we sell our potatoes by weight, 60 lbs. 

 to the bushel. 1 have been trying to buy them by 

 weight from those who advertise choice potatoe> 

 for sale, but 1 am sorry to say they don't hold out. 

 A barrel is called three bushels, and most of us 

 know to our sorrow that our barrels iireol every 

 imaginable size, and especially smallish when jou 

 are bu.ving expensive varieties of pottUoes by the 

 barrel. Can't we have a reform in this matteri'] 



a FRANK APOLOGY. 



Please find inclosed the amount for Terry's ABC 

 of Potato Culture, which, if it is as .ucod iis its 

 namesake on bee culture, should be in all fann- 

 ers' hands. 1 o.. cyou an apology which s-hould 

 have been made long ere this, but was negkcted. 

 About a ;sear ago 1 sent to you foraijiieen. Siic 

 came maiked " untested Italian," but was, as 1 sup- 

 posed from her appearaiK^e, black. I sent again tor 

 2, which came all right; but 1 was ignorant enough 

 to supitosc all queens should be banded; and as this 

 one was black 1 wrote you a rather severe letter, 

 which 1 have regretted ever since, as she is the best 

 queen 1 have. Her brood are all pure, and workers 

 too. 1 sometimes think, when i see you getting 

 " blown up " in Gleanings, that fully one halt of 

 the mistakes are through the stupidity of such peo- 

 ple as mj'self who are too prone to let the old nature 

 assert itself instead of following the example of 

 Him who, when he was re\iled, reviled not aj^ain, 

 letting his Spirit conduct and guide our every wet. 

 Now, brother Root, for though we shall never, in 

 all probabilitj', meet on this side of the great river, 

 still 1 can claim you as a brother in Christ. 1 hope 

 you will not weary in well doing, for eternity iilone 

 will reveal the number of those who have been en- 

 couraged and comforted thi'ough your iustrumeu- 

 taliiy. W. J. KiNCADE. 



Kerwood, Ont.. Can., Apr. 4, 1887. 



[Very many thanks, friend K., for your kind ex- 

 pressions of me and mj- work, and especially for 

 your very frank, straightforward apolog.y. These 

 kind apologies, after it is all over and perhaps for- 

 gotten, do us more good, sometines. than kind 

 words from a pleased customer. We hope all wtio 

 read your letter will take a second thought belore 

 they enter any complaint. 



AVe hope that all who have complained because 

 the queens we sent out are not as yellow as many 

 of the home-bred ones, will remember that the 

 progeui' of queens from Ittily are not, as a rule, 

 light-colored, some of them "being almost black. 

 The workers, however, are usually finely marked; 

 and as ht)ney-gatherers ] do not know that there 

 are any bees on the face of the earth any better 

 than the progeny of Italians freshly imported from 

 Italy.] 



