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gLea^i:ngs in bee cultuke. 



Sept. 



You ask If I have omitted to meution the folks 

 who stood back and gave the others a chance. Well, 

 I did not notice any one particularly who was 

 standing back to set a good example. There might 

 have been many; but where there is such a crowd, 

 with people coming and going, passing and repass- 

 ing, and raising a cloud of dust all the time that 

 drifted in on the speakers and hearers, we can't 

 see very well, and a man standing alone would 

 hardly be noticed. 



I think your wife did right to remonstrate with 

 you about the refreshments at the camp-meeting. 

 It seems to me when you and your wife have a dif- 

 ference of opinion, she is generally in the right. 

 You say I did not say any thing about the sermon. 

 The meeting in the afternoon was a children's 

 meeting, lead by two women. They gave very good 

 advice about raising children, but they Iny too 

 much stress against /rts7(ioji. I claim that there are 

 vices a thousand times more injurious to children's 

 bodies and souls than a low ribbons and rufides 

 can possibly be. "We heard afterward that they 

 had a rousing good sermon at night, but we did not 

 stay to hear it. We went home to get a drink ! 



Mahala B. Chaddock. 



Vermont, 111., Sept. 6, 1887. 



I believe you me right about using lioney 

 for preserves, Mrs. C; in fact, I believe I 

 have mentioned the sauoe thing before. 

 There is too much water in it to take the 

 place of sugar, and this seems to be some- 

 what the case witli even very dry candied 

 lioney. — Now, in regard to tlie caimp-meet- 

 ing. I shall have to think, my good friend, 

 that you have not the faculty of noticing 

 the good qualities of the great world at 

 large as much as you do the weaknesses and 

 the comicalities, if that is the word, or else 

 I shall have to conclude that our real good 

 faithful Christians do not go to camp-meet- 

 ing very often. I do not believe in any 

 thing on Sunday that savors of money- 

 making, or that gets people interested in 

 any kind of trade or traffic. Think of some 

 good Christian brother saying that he did 

 splendidly with a load of watermelons 

 which he took to camp-raeeting last Sunday ! 

 I do think something ought to be done with 

 that young man with the cigar; but I be- 

 lieve I would rather risk having the good 

 brothers armed with CInist's words than 

 with the clubs you mention. — I believe as 

 you do, that we- should be careful how we 

 make a fuss about ribbons and ruffles. The 

 excessive use of them may be bad, but it is 

 not to be compared to late hours and many 

 other things. 



OUE p. BENSON LETTER. 



PRISE LIST & CATTLELOG OF P. BENSON A. B. S. 



TN order to save so menney inkuiries I have kind- 

 j^^ ly gave mi consent to publish a list of hives & 

 ^i uther things whitch mi numerus admirers will 

 ■*■ be glad to see. Them whitch cums on a wheel- 

 barro to get things will please hitch thare 

 wheeibarro whare it will not upset & bark peaple's 

 shins. 



The quallityof my goods is in all cases as lo as 

 consistent with the price. Terms, invariable in ad- 



vance. Drafts, munny orders or postidge stamps. 



Five per sent off for cash. 



Hexagony Hive complete ---.--.- $5.00. 



This hive gets B times the hunny & has took 1st 

 premyem wharever eggzibbated. I hev skewered 

 letters pattent on to this hive. 



Material for the same flattened - - - . $4.75. 

 As this hive gits 6 times the hunney it makes it less 

 than $1.00 a hive. 

 Pattent Yourecky Feeder, 



The cheepest feeder noan. 

 Kite to use each feeder, - 



10 cts. 



$1 00 



AFTER. 



Abuv shows the elfex of yusin the 

 Youreeky feeder. 



P. Benson's electriek loshen 50 cents a vile. 



This sellybrated loshen is fed to bees to increase 

 egg produxyen. Also to hens, poletry & silkwurms. 

 P. Brazillyon bee sting preventative f 125 a bottle. 



This indispensable adjunk of the aperry consists 

 of equall parts ohpium, lodnum & parrygorrick, 

 combined by a seacret prossess noan oanly to me. 

 If enny wun takes 10 table spoonfools before breck- 

 f list, not a bee will sting you that day. 

 P. Benson's exsellsir moth miller trap - - $ 50. 



Thisyouneak device lit on the neck of a bottle 

 fool of sweetened woter &-is then hung in the aper- 

 ry. It will altrack moth millers whitch kant git 

 out. 



Hunny plants and seeds of every descripshen. 

 Prises on applekashen. 



Beleavin that artaflshell pastyourage is the she 

 tanker of sucksess in bee keepin, I hev dovoated a 

 feeled of 10 achers to the excloosiv produckshen of 

 hunny plants A seeds so that my customers ken 

 rely on a pewer artickel. 



P. S. It will be purceeved that this is the 1st ^ of 

 my cattlelog. Tne last Yi (half) was printed two (3) 

 weeks ago. Sum peeple is so shiffless thay never 

 finish up onnything thay begin. I me not that sort, 

 so 1 was I ound ido liov this cattlelog linished if I 

 never begun it. Orders is cummin in in a noomer- 

 ous manner. 



BEING IMPOSED UPON. 



A (iOOD-NATURED COMPr.AiNT. 



}SEE by Gleanings how many people you let 

 impose upon you, and so I am going to try it a 

 little. I bought a swarm of bees last spring; 

 and, as you know, this is a very poor year for 

 a beginner. I have so far paid out fl5.0;l for 

 them, and shall get little return this season. Now, 

 I want your ABC book very much, but haven't the 

 dollar to pay for it, and I am going to tell you the 

 reasons why you may send it to me for nothing, if 

 you want to: 



1. Because you let other people impose upon you, 

 and I don't see why I can't. 

 3. I take Gleanings, and hope to right along. 

 3. I sent to you for half a bushel of alsike seed 



