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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 



corners of the frame, alternating' from the bottom 

 corners to tbe top corners, and the frame will sink 

 down and out of the way until the separators strike 

 the two connectinfj- strips at the ends of the up- 

 rights, and leave the sections lyinfr free on top of 

 the uprii/lits, when they may be quickly picked up 

 with tlie flnt;ers arid any bees remaining- on the un- 

 d<!•^ide trri;shed off And here let me say, in par- 

 enthesis, i hat for hrushinfj- bees nothing is better 

 than a single large featlier from the wing of an 

 eHgie or a vulture, the shaft of the feather insert- 

 ed in a short piece of hroom-handle, which makes it 

 convenient to manipulate, and prevents the feath- 

 er from l)eing l)lown away and lost. 



TO REMOVE THE WIDE FRAMES. 



Place the thumbs on top of the guide-posts, and, 

 with the other fingers grasping the side pieces of 

 the frame, lift it out of its place. 



To facilitate cleaning the implement the up- 

 i-ights might be hinged at the front and fastened 

 with two iron pins at the back, but would then re- 

 quire a substantial bottom (instead of the two 

 pieces of frame-material above mentioned) to pre- 

 vent them from getting out of shape. 



The device with the above dimensions is for wide 

 frames holding " Simplicity " sections, as used in 

 the " three-quarter Langstroth " hive. By making 

 the implement one fourth longer it will answer for 

 the standard Langstroth frame. 



Independence, Cal. Wm. Muth-Rasmussen. 



THE IMPOETANCE OF GIVING YOUR 

 COUNTY. 



A I^ITTLE STORY FROM REAL, LIFE. 



TF the friends who are so careless and 

 M heedless as to send orders without giv- 

 ^t ing their county, as well as town and 

 -*- State, could see this thing as we see it, 

 it seems to me they would make the 

 dust fly until they could get the name of the 

 county in which they live, printed on their 

 stationery. Let me give you one illustra- 

 tion among many. A neighbor of ours pur- 

 chased our forty-horse-power engine, and 

 told us to load it on the cars and he would 

 send directions for shipping. When the di- 

 rections came they were simply " Osceola 

 Junction, Michigan.'" and nothing further. 

 Now, the Postal Guide, the railroad guides, 

 Bradstreet's Directory, and, in fact, every 

 thing we could hunt up on the subject, made 

 no mention whatever of such a town as Os- 

 ceola Junction ; and in despair we started 

 the car containing the engine, hoping that, 

 when it got into the vicinity of Michigan, 

 somebody would know where Osceola Junc- 

 tion was. Very soon, however, came back a 

 telegram, saying the engine was stopped un- 

 til the county could be given. Meanwhile 

 the owner of the engine had loaded up his 

 household goods and marked them the same 

 address he gave us, while he went forward 

 to make arrangements for setting up his 

 new sawmill in the town of Osceola Juno 

 tion. We could not send him any bill of 

 lading, because we did not know \vhere his 

 postoflfice was; but we finally found (from 

 the railroad guide) there was a town called 

 Osceola, in Houghton Co., Michigan ; but it 

 is a new town, and tliere is no postoffice es- 

 tablished there. To make sure, we wrote to 

 the two nearest postoffices. Pretty soon came 

 a telegram from our friend. But even this 

 telegram did not tell us the county either, 

 and it was started from a point different 

 from any of the three heretofoie tried. Fi- 

 nally our friend was obliged to take an ex- 

 pensive trip frona the center of Michigan 



back to Medina, to find out where his engine 

 and goods had gone to, only to learn that 

 they had gone away up into the northwest- 

 ern part of the State of Michigan, in the 

 Grand Traverse region, while Osceola Junc- 

 tion is really in the central part of the State. 

 It will probably cost him hundreds of dol- 

 lars before he gets his stuff where he wants 

 it. and gets his sawmill started — all for the 

 want of a county ! 



It now transpires that Osceola Junction is 

 in Osceola County, in the central part of the 

 State of Michigan, and the nearest postoffice 

 is Tustin ; but the town of Osceola is located 

 in Houghton County, in the northwestern 

 part of Michigan, about 360 miles from Os- 

 ceola Junction. 



Now, then, quite a number of you have 

 written back saucily and sometimes mad, 

 because we told you 'we could not ship goods 

 until you would tell us what county you live 

 in ; and the very worst place in the world to 

 find is some new town on a railroad. Many 

 seem to tliink, that if they give the name of 

 the railroad and station it is enough ; but if 

 you will try shipping goods as we do, you 

 will find it is not. Now, once more, inas- 

 much as the railroad companies refuse to re- 

 ceive goods unless the county is given, and 

 as there are a good many towns of the same 

 name in almost every State, we must em- 

 phatically refuse to be in any way responsi- 

 ble for errors in shipment, unless you give 

 the name of the county you live in. I pre- 

 sume you will be astonished when I tell you 

 that we have letters from people who do not 

 know what coimty they live in ; and one 

 poor friend didn't even know the name of 

 his postoffice — at least, he did not know how 

 to spell it so we could identify it. If you 

 can not do any better, ask your postmaster 

 the name of your town, county, and State ; 

 then go to the nearest printing-office and tell 

 them to print it on your envelopes and sta- 

 tionery. You can then send money without 

 loss, and write letters, and not bother your 

 head about any thing but your signature. 

 By the way, I think you had better have 

 even that printed on your envelopes and on 

 every sheet of paper. If you would only all 

 do it, it would save you hundreds of dollars 

 and ever so much vexation and disappoint- 

 ment and ill temper. 



MORAL PATENTS. 



A KIND LETTER FROM THEODORE O. PEET, THE IN- 

 VENTOR OF THE PEET CAGE. 



T SEE by April Gleanings that you have placed 

 j^ to my credit $35.00 as a deserving remunera- 

 ^l tion, in addition to the f3-5,00 paid to me some 



■*■ years ago for the privilege of making and sell- 

 ing the Peet queen-cage This is very gratify- 

 ing to me— not so much that I get the money (as at 

 present I am not particularly in need of it, although 

 we ail, and especially bee-men, can find a place for 

 all the dollars they can capture honestly), but it is a 

 satisfaction to know that ray little invention is ap- 

 preciated and spoken of in so kindly a manner. 

 You know 1 did not ask for the first f3'>.00, but of- 

 fered to allow you or any other man, who felt in- 

 clined, to use it and make and sell all he could ; but 

 as you insisted on paying for it, I consented to take 



