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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



I hereby promise not to use tobacco in any form 

 in the future, if you will send me a smoker; and if I 

 break my pledge [ am to pay you for the smoker. 



Smithville, W. Va., May 31, 1887. S. E. Smith. 



I will promise you not to use tobacco after this 

 date, if you send me a smoker; if I do, I will send 

 you the money for it. W. A. Ladd. 



Randolph, Portag-eCo., O., June 30, 1887. 



A USEK FOR 37 YEARS. 



I used tobacco 37 years ; and on the last day of last 

 December I quit, and intend to stay quit. Send me 

 a smoker; and if I break over I will pay you for it. 



Levi S. Davis. 



Andersonville, Jnd., June 7, 1887. 



I apply for a smoker for my husband. He prom- 

 ised if he got one that he would never use tobacco to 

 smoke the bees, or any other way, again. If he 

 does I will at once send you *1.00 for the smoker. 



Barron, Wis., June 1, 1887. C. M. Hansen. 



I have given up the use of tobacco entirely. It 

 has been 33 days since I tasted any; and as I am 

 a bee-keeper I take advantage of your liberal offer. 

 If I get to smoking and chewing again, I will 

 send you pay lor the smoker. T. E. Reid. 



Greensboro, Ga., June 1, 1887. 



Below are the names of two young men who have 

 given up the use of tobacco. If they are entitled 

 to a smoker, please send them one. T. J. Webb, 

 and Jesse Sexton. I have given up the use of tobac- 

 co; if I commence its use again in any form I will 

 pay for the smoker. L. J. Webb. 



Webbville, Ky., June 19, 1887. 



I have two brethren in Christ, who, by the help of 

 God, have quit the use of tobacco, and have prom- 

 ised me if you sent them a smoker they would pay 

 for it if they used the weed again. I will stand 

 good for them. Their names are Rev. J. D. String- 

 er, Dripping Springs, Hays Co., Tex., and Thos. 

 Roundtree, same place. J. H. Morrand. 



Dripping Springs, Hays Co., Tex., May 31, 1887. 



a hard fight. 



My father has quit the use of tobacco. He is now 

 51 years old. He has not taken a chew or a smoke 

 for two years. I heard him telling a neighbor to- 

 day that it was the hardest flght he ever had, to 

 brealc off. Please send him a smoker as a pledge; 

 and if he ever takes to the use of it T will pay for 

 the smoker. W.Henderson. 



Roney's Point, W. Va., May 19, 1887. 



'•aftf:r a severe struggle." 

 I notice through Gleanings, that you make a 

 remarkable offer to those who will abandon the use 

 of the "tilthy weed." I have been a great user of 

 tobacco, but have given up the habit, after a severe 

 struggle. If you will send me a smoker I will 

 promise faithfully to pay you for the same, should 

 1 fail to " hold out." William West. 



Galena, Md., May 36, 1887. 



Mr. John Dunn, of this place, has quit the use of 

 tobacco. Mr. Dunn came to my place last fall, to 

 see me i)ut up my bees for winter; and while look- 

 ing on he said if he would have a smoker he could 

 handle his bees better too. I told him how he 

 could get one very cheap— by laying away his to- 

 bacco. He did not like to do that, but said he 

 would try, and I am glad to tell you that yesterday 



he came to my place again and told me that he had 

 not used any tobacco since he had been here in the 

 fall, and is willing now to pledge himself never to 

 use it again. He also promises, if he ever uses to- 

 bacco again, to pay you well for the smoker. Mr. 

 Dunn is a young man about 20 years old, and stands 

 high in society. J. H. Hime. 



McAlisterville, Pa., June 7, 1887. 



I have a young man in my employ who has been 

 addicted to the vile habit of using tobacco, for a 

 considerable length of time. I told him that if he 

 would discontinue the use of it you would give him 

 a smoker. By considerable persuasion I induced 

 him to leave oft' the habit. He has not now chewed 

 any for a considerable length of time, and he says 

 if ever he chews again he will pay for the smoker. 



J. G. Chaney. 



Westboro, Clinton Co., O., June 7, 1887. 



0a^ 0WN ^Pi^i^Y. 



CONDUCTED BY ERNEST R. ROOT. 



A CAUTION TO BEGINNERS. 



@l^R honev-flow began to taper off about 

 the loth of .Tnly, and on the LSth it 

 stopped abruptly. The aroma of un- 

 ripened basswood honey was strong, 

 and one could detect it quite plainly a 

 rod or two from the apiary. The sudden 

 cessation of the flow of nectar, and the 

 aforesaid aroma of new honey, made the 

 robbers so persistent that we could scarcely 

 work over the hives, even with the teut. 

 A day or so ago, as 1 sat at my desk, Mr. 

 S., one of the apiarists, came in and said : 



'' Ernest, the robbers are acting pretty 

 bad. I wish you would come and tell m'e 

 what to do. " They seem to be getting 

 worse." 



As we proceeded together, said I, " You 

 must have given the robbers a sip of hon- 

 ey." 



'■'■ Why,'" he said, '• I just took off a wide 

 frame rilled with sections of hcmey, leaving 

 one or two sections partially tilled, on top of 

 the frames. I then carried the tilled sec- 

 tions to the honey-house. When I return- 

 ed, a minute after, the robbers were boiling 

 over every thing. I immediately closed the 

 hive and threw a tent over it." 



When 1 got to the scene of operations I 

 found that there were several good handfuls 

 of bees here and there, around different por- 

 tions of the tent, tumbling over each other 

 in their vain endeavor to effect an entrance 

 through the mosipiito-netting. Not to be 

 thwarted, the little lovers of ill-gotten 

 sweets had suddenly pounced, with all the 

 energy imaginable, upon the entrances of 

 the adjacent hives. The inmates of these 

 hives, evidentlv astounded at such a pell- 

 mell invasion, did not at flrst repel tlieir 

 foe, and for a few moments a general up- 

 roar seemed imminent. Over a weaker col- 

 ony, Mr. Smith had placed another tent. 

 The stock of tents by this time had run out ; 

 and in despair, Mr. S., as before related, 

 asketl for further instructions. He had, in 

 fact, under the circumstances, done all that 



