FEBRUARY 1, 1913 



Symposium on Beekeeping 40 Years Ago 



A Brief Word from Our Subscribers who were with us in the " Windmill Days " when Gleanings was 



First Started 



Please put me down as a subscriber and reader 

 of Gleanings from the start. 



Denver. Colo., Nov. 4. .J. L. Peabody. 



I have read Gleanings, I think, since 1872, and 

 have been keeping bees ever since. 



Florin, Pa.. Aug. 24. H. H. Myers. 



I have 60 colonies of bees. I am one of those 

 who read Gleanings in the windmill days. 

 Gardiner, Me., Sept. 2. O. L. Sawyer. 



I have taken Gleanings since 1872. It was when 

 it was panted by means of the windmill, and I 

 don't think I have missed a number. 



Shellsburg, la., Aug. 23. R. Qxjinn. 



Novice s paper has been in my hands ever since 

 it was published. I have a great many full volumes 

 complete, but not all. 



Groton, N. Y., Aug. 30. W. L. Coggshall. 



I was taking Gleanings when it was printed by 

 windmill power, so up goes my hand. I was 73 

 years old the 2d of this month. 



Lemore, Cal., Aug. 20. J. F. Flory. 



I noted in a recent number of Gleanings your 

 call for the names of subscribers of forty years ago. 

 This is to inform you that I was among the num- 

 ber. 



Altaraont, N. Y., Sept. 10. W. D. Wright. 



I was a subscriber to Gleanings back in the 

 windmill days. I still keep about 25 colonies of bees, 

 and still read Gleanings, but more for the Home 

 papers than for bee culture. 



Elm Grove, W. Va., June 24. Wm. Bitzer. 



I am one of the 40-year subscribers. Gleanings 

 was then a small pamphlet of two or four leaves, 

 may be. I have always had bees. For many years 

 I kept about 100 colonies. 



Bangor, Pa., Aug. 23. John H. Johnson. 



Some time ago you asked for the names of those 

 who had taken Gleanings longest. I have now read 

 Gleanings from the first number, which appeared 

 on January 1, 1873, and have the complete set of 

 volumes to date. 



Taunton, Eng., Dec. 6. Thos. Wm. Cowan. 



I am one of your windmill men. I was in Medina 

 two or three times after some bee supplies. I have 

 taken Gleanings most of the time, and I think I 

 got more good out of it than any other paper. I 

 am over 75 years old. 



Cleveland, O., Aug. 22. H. C. Green. 



I have taken Gleanings from the beginning, 

 having found my fii-st swarm of bees when a boy 

 about 45 years ago. I found it hanging on an oak 

 when I went after the cows. I have kept bees ever 

 since. I am working three yards of about 250 

 colonies. I have on the hives now about 3000 lbs. 

 of honey. I am 64 years old. I had in one season 

 10,000 pounds. 



Amity, Orange Co., N. Y., Aug. 26. J. W. Utter. 



Noticing your request for the names of those who 

 were subscribers to Gleanings in its windmill days, 

 you may count me in, as I've read it ever since its 

 first days. 



Otsego, Mich., Aug. 24. O. H. Townsend. 



Replying to the call for those who were subscrib- 

 ers 40 years ago, put my name down. I have re- 

 ceived every issue of Gleanings as soon as out, 

 and have the entire collection. 



Hamilton, 111., Sept. 2. C. P. Dadant. 



I am one of your subscribers who began reading 

 Gleanings. Vol. I., No. 1, and the writings of A. 

 I. Root in the American Bee Journal in the sixties. 

 I bought my first colony in a box hive in 1863 or 

 1864. 



Lewiston, Me., Aug. 22. Horace Libby. 



I am one of those who have read Gleanings 

 since its first issue. I don't know that I have missed 

 a single number in all that time. I also read the 

 letters of " Novice " in the old American Bee Jour- 

 nal. 



Derby, Tex., Aug. 22. I. A. King. 



I commenced taking Gleanings with the first 

 issue, when published by windmill power ; and, with 

 the exception of one or two years in the eighties, I 

 have been taking it continually from the first year of 

 its publication. 



Farmington, Pa., Sept. 5. W. L. Kemp. 



I think I must have been a subscriber to Glean- 

 ings for about forty years, for I believe I have re- 

 ceived every number from the very first, when it 

 pushed itself out into the great bustling world, 

 scarcely knowing whether to live or die. 



Middlebury, Vt. J. E. Crane. 



I commenced taking Gleanings 32 years ago, 

 and have been taking it ever since, except two or 

 three years when I first came to Colorado, as I did 

 think, from first impressions, that a bee would 

 starve here. I soon found my mistake, and went 

 into the business again. 



La Junta, Colo., Oct. 21. H. S. Shull. 



I commenced reading Gleanings in 1872, and 

 have been a subscriber ever since unless, possibly, 

 I missed one year. I do -not take the interest in 

 bees I did when I first subscribed, but take it for 

 the Home papers. I hope you, Terry, and C. C. 

 Miller may live to see your centennial. 



Monmouth, lU., Sept. 26. J. H. Reed. 



In your editorial of Aug. 15 you ask for a show 

 of hands of those who were subscribers to Glean- 

 ings 40 years ago. I think I can hold up my hand, 

 for I received Gleanings from its first number 

 until the present time, and handle bees and raise a 

 few queens. 



Council Bluflfs, la., Aug. 19. Edw. Kretchmek. 



You may place my name on the 40-year list (old 

 windmill times) ; and, besides all that, I believe I 

 have all the articles written by A. I. Root as " Nov- 

 ice " in the old American Bee Journal in Samuel 

 Wagner times. I well remember those days when 

 Gleanings was started — I think four copies the 



