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GLEANINGS IN BEE (CULTURE. 



Sept. 



above has been given us before — possibly 

 some years ago ; and it is quite interesting, 

 to me at least, to know that you have made 

 no material change in your "manner. Very 

 likely no change is needed, especially if it is 

 successful. I think I should prefer the slates 

 to the pieces of secti<ms and little stones you 

 use. Perhaps tlie plan is the best one for 

 you, however. Ernest suggests, while I am 

 dictating this, that the stones have an ad- 

 vantage over the slates, inasmuch as they 

 can be seen quite a distance away, and this 

 surely is a valuable point. In case of your 

 sickness or absence, however, it might be a 

 little difficult for a new hand to get the hang 

 of the meaning of the stones placed in dif- 

 ferent positions. Doesn't a heavy wind 

 tumble them off sometimes? — Your plan of 

 uniting colonies is similar to the one we 

 have used for many years, only I should 

 make the attempt to put, in some colony 

 near by, the old bees wliich are left, because 

 [ felt sorry for them if for no other reason. 



OUB P. BENSON LETTER. 



P. Benson A. B. S. H/s CattUloy & Prise List 

 Kontinude. 



HUNNV STRAINERS— $1.3.5. 



fHESE air made of table cloths kairfoolly wore 

 to the rite thickness, soze to strain the bun- 

 ny throo and leave the dead bees & bee bred 

 in the cloth. This is less than the cost of 

 mateerial, without cliarg-in enny thing- for 

 the trubbel of havin them wore down, but thay ar 

 offered at this low prise for a short time to intro- 

 juice them. 



HUN NY BOXES— 5 CtS. 



Flattened by the 100 $5.35. 



COBM EXTRACTERS. 



Cobm extractors, per pair . - - - $ ..50. 

 These extracters is yused to lift the cobms out of 

 the hive, soze not to git stung-. By taking- it at nite, 

 when the bees kant see to tiy, the most timmid ken 

 extrack the cobms out of the hive without a sting. 



TIN PANS FOR SWARMING— $ ..50. 



These pans is construckted ackordin to the latest 

 improovements of moddern sighents, with thair 

 acowstick propperties intensyfide & condenst, soze 

 to maik a moast outra.ils nois whareby the bees is 

 in.iuiced to lite moar promp than enny other nois. 



3-PI.V' BEE-MITTENS— $1.30. 



These mittens has never bin noan to f ale. Thay 

 ar made of three thickness of sheepswool, & giv 

 curridge to the opperrater so he ken go at the bees 

 with undanted bravery. 



RESEAT POK HUNNY— $3.00. 



This reseat ken maik the finest hunny out of 

 harmless mateerials to be found in evry fammaly, 

 sitch as shooger, wotter, glew, starch, & so forth. 

 The ingrediences doant cost to eckseed 5 sents a 

 pound, makin the prophet grate. If this is soled at 

 (35) twenty-flve sents its a clean prophet of 30 sents. 

 You ken eezy maik 300 pounds in a day besides 

 dooin the chores, and this wood be forty ($40) dol- 

 lers a day, or neerly fifteen thousand a yeer. The 



e.xack amount is $14,(500 dollars. As 1 have oanly a 

 fue of these reseats s'ou better send soon. 



WUR.M ANNIGHHIGHLATEH. — $ .75. 



Next to the moth miller the wax wunn is the 

 wurst ennemy on the subject to the bee. When a 

 swarm is took up the wax wurm jfits info the cobms 

 and eats them up, and it's so hard to find and pick 

 them out that I have devised a implement entitled 

 the wurm anni^hhighlater whitch is automatic in 

 its axion, and gits out the last wunn. 



p. BENSON'S WURM ANNIGHHIGHLATER. 

 DRIED TANZY, PER PACKIUGE.— $ .25. 



To rub on hives to maik swarms stay. 



Olways send a little more than the prise, to allow 

 for liucktuashen in the market. If enny of my 

 customers is dissatisflde the munny ken be cheer- 

 foolly refunded to me. 



In riting letters of inquiry, inclose yure real 

 name, not nesserly for publickashen but as a garn- 

 tea of good faith. Also a postidge stamp. 



P. Benson, A. B. S. 



ON THE RIGHT PLATFORM. 



OUR FRIEND .1. M. .JENKINS ON THE SUPPLY-BUSI- 

 NESS. 



fRIEND KOOT:—The honey season has proven 

 a failure for surplus with me, but I think the 

 bees will have plenty for winter. We had a 

 drought 'in April and May, and that is when 

 our best honey is gathered, and it is the 

 main crop. They are doing as well in summer as 

 usual, but they can't make any surplus of it, and it 

 is not much good any way. But " the harvest " 

 with me in the supplj'-business has been fair, and I 

 am satisfied. I have taken in about $1,500, or about 

 double what 1 did last year, and I think my pros- 

 pects for doubting it again next year are good. I 

 am now building an addition to my factory, that 1 

 may have more room. 



My business here is small and insignificant com- 

 pared to yours and probably others' ; but I feel sure 

 of success after two seasons' experience, and I am 

 willing- to put more into it. I have learned how to 

 greatly reduce expenses and thus increase the 

 nroflts, and the end is not yet. I might also say, 

 that I have made only one enemy that I know of 

 among- my customers, and I don't know whether he 

 failed to answer my last letter for shame or anger, 

 and I don't know how he feels now. 1 always do 

 my best to please, and give satisfaction, and if dif- 

 ferences arise (as they surely will) I do any thing, or 

 offer an.v thiiig, to satisfy the customer. I am sim- 

 ply trying to follow the teachings of A. I Root, and 

 of Him who said, " Do unto others as you would 

 have others do unto you." I never want any man 

 to feel that he didn't get his money's worth of me. 

 or that I got the best of him in a bargain. I make 

 as pi'ompt shipments us possible; and if I have to 

 delay the shipment more than 34 hours, T explain at 



