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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 



One friend away down south actually sent several 

 cakes of beeswax by mail. The postage on the wax 

 was It) cts. per lb., as everybody knows, and was 

 worth, when it got here, 32 cts. per lb., and so all he 

 got for hiswax wasGots. Now, if you send wax by ex- 

 press, especially where you live away off, it is pret- 

 ty much the same way. Better sell it near home for 

 what it will bring- you, or wait until you have TOO 

 lbs. or more to ship by freight. In fact, 1 can not 

 imagine any excuse for sending beeswax by ex- 

 press at all. If you say you are owing us, and are 

 anxious to pay the account, please remember we 

 are never in so much of a hurry that we want any- 

 body to pay express charges on beeswax. A great 

 many times several neighbors can club together 

 and thus got a cheap freight shipment. Another 

 thing: If you must send small lots of wax, don't, we 

 beg of you, go and put it in a great heavy box, but 

 simply tie it up in a bag. A good s-trong phosphate- 

 bag that can be bought for five cents almost any- 

 where is just as good as any thing else, and then 

 you have no express or fi eight charges to pay on a 

 box that is ol no use when it gets here. Yoii may 

 think wc are taking a good deal of space for so sim- 

 ple a matter. Dear friends, little packages of wax, 

 with large express or freight chaiges, are coming 

 to us on almost every train, and 1 hope wc arc just 

 as anxious to save you expense as we are to save 

 our own money. 



DELAYS ON ORDERS DURING THE PAST MONTH. 



The season just closed has been the heaviest in 

 the way of business ever known at the Home of the 

 Honey-Bees. Notwithstanding the new factory put 

 up last summer and fall, which we hoped would en- 

 able us to meet any possible demand for sections 

 and bee-hives, we have been perhaps as badly be- 

 hind as we ever wei'e before. We are, however, as 

 we go to press, nearly caught up. The only depart- 

 ment that has been inadequate is the wood-working 

 establishment— especially in the matter of sections. 

 Some of the friends who waited until the months of 

 May and June, and then sent in orders for odd-sized 

 goods, were obliged to wait, some of them, for as 

 much as two or three weeks. The reason for this 

 is, when we are running full blast, with every saw 

 going, we can make three or four thousand regular- 

 sized sections where we could make one that re- 

 quires us to stop and readjust the machinery. 

 Under such circumstances it does not seem fair to 

 make the friends who order regular goods suffer for 

 those who order sometting irregular. There may 

 be some who feel hard because we have not filled 

 orders in regular rotation. We have before ex- 

 plained the difficulty in doing this strictly. One of 

 you may order something that wo have an abun- 

 dance of in stock, while your neighbors order the 

 very thing we arc out of and can not furnish; and 

 as most of the orders are made up of a variety of 

 goods, a great many times an order is already to 

 ship, with the exception of one thing, and this may 

 be the state of affairs for a week. Sometimes it 

 will answer to send a part of the goods at one time, 

 and the rest at some future time; but as this makes 

 additional charges we dare not often do this, unless 

 the order is a large one. We are making prepara- 

 tions now to make up a stock of goods' this fall, in 

 order that we may not be in the same predicaihcnt 

 another season; but very likely the result is, we 

 shall have a great many things to keep over. Styles 

 may change, goods made up may be supei'seded by 



something better; but there is no other way that I 

 know of to prevent these very annoying and [)er- 

 plexing delays. Now, we distinctly state in our 

 price list, page 3, that we can not be responsible for 

 delays in orders sent in during April, May, and 

 June. We should like, however, to have those who 

 have suffered by our lack of promptness to state 

 briefly what amount will make the damage satis- 

 factory. We do not think we should stand o?l the 

 loss you are out of pocket thereby, for an extensive 

 bee-keeper who waits until May or June before 

 sending in his orders to a supply-dealer is certainly 

 at least partly to blame. We wish, however, to have 

 every thing arranged pleasantly, so far as it is in 

 our power, before commencing another season's 

 business. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, 



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