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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



first 5"ear, and since I have looked for their appear- 

 ance with much regularity, and they have always 

 been very welcome. May Gleanings live another 

 40 years, and for those to come after. 



Oswego, N. Y., Aug. 25. F. H. Cybenius. 



I was one of your subscribers, or nearly so, 

 of 40 years ago. My postofBce at that time was Flat 

 Ridge, Ohio. I have never missed a number since, 

 and have never lost my enthusiasm yet for both the 

 bees and for Gleanings. I wish you all long life 

 and prosperity. 



Larned, Kans., Aug. 20. A. H. Duff. 



I believe I have taken Gleanings all of the time 

 since its beginning — surely back into the time 

 it was printed by windmill power. I am still in the 

 bee business, having bees in three yards here, in the 

 Catskill Mountains, and also in Colorado; but I am 

 not giving them very much of my own personal 

 attention. 



Windham, N. Y., Aug. 23. O. R. COE. 



I subscribed for Gleanings during the first vol- 

 ume, and have been taking it ever since, and I 

 feel proud of it. I shall be 72 years old in a few 

 days, and I am in hopes the proprietor may live to 

 see his one hundred. I have kept bees ever since 

 I commenced taking the journal, and expect to as 

 long as I live. 



Noah, Miss., Aug. 31. A. Cox. 



I commenced to keep bees in 1858, and have been 

 at it since that time. But I feel that it is about 

 time to drop some of it. I go to Florida winters, 

 and I have a few colonies of bees down there which 

 furnish us with a fine grade of honey. I am 64 

 years old; my health is good, so I think that I can 

 care for bees for ten or fifteen years or more. 



Groton, N. Y., Sept. 25. David H. Coggshall. 



I have not taken your magazine quite as long as 

 40 years, but long enough to hold up one hand, at 

 least, for I have, with the exception of three or four 

 years, been a reader and subscriber to your maga- 

 zine for 39 years, and still enjoy it fully as well as 

 ever, especially Conversations with Doolittle and the 

 Home talks, along with lots of other good things 

 with which the magazine is filled twice a month. 



Auburn, Me., Aug. 24. Mrs. Ella Stockman. 



I read Gleanings in windmill days, when you 

 printed the pages diagonally, when you had trouble 

 because the wind did not blow until dark, then came 

 with a rush. We have taken Gleanings ever since 

 when we were settled. We sent you subscribers 

 from Missouri, Oregon, and Washington. We could 

 not keep bees without it. 



Mes. Jessie W. Thornton. 



North Yakima, Wash., Oct. 11. 



I have taken Gleanings from the first issue, and 

 have had a few bees ever since, and would not like 

 to discontinue as long as I live. I shall be 76 if I 

 live till Jan. 30, 1913. I have always liked Mr. 

 A. I. Root's Home department. I think his talks 

 are very uplifting. His temperance talks are to the 

 point. I also like his gardening and his poultry 

 articles. May he live long and continue to prosper. 



Maria, Pa., Nov. 8. Samuel Keaq. 



I read Gleanings when it contained only a few 

 leaves. They were placed inside of the American 

 Bee Journal that I took. I was then keeping bees 

 in California. I have read Gleanings and kept 

 bees ever since, with the exception of eight years. 



when I lived in Dakota. I shall be 88 years old 

 next month. I was born in Germany in 1824, and 

 have lived in the United States since 1829. 

 Nerstrand, Minn., Aug. 22. J. Becklby. 



I have been looking for that list of gray heads 

 in the honey business in the 70's. I count myself 

 one of them. I think it was in 1872 that I pur- 

 chased my first swarm of bees in a box hive, and 

 subscribed for Gleanings when it first came out. 

 I remember very well the windmill days. I expect 

 to engage quite extensively in the business here, as 

 it is the best location I have found yet. 



Ulysses, Pa., Sept. 17. George A. Walrath. 



We have read your paper since about the first 

 year it started, and have been a subscriber nearly 

 every year of its publication. You signed youself 

 " Novice " then. The American beehive was about 

 the only hive used, as well as the Peabody honey- 

 extractor. We have a portion of this same old ma- 

 chine yet. We still keep bees, but we have injured 

 our bee business by dabbling in other pursuits. 



Plattsmouth, Neb., Aug. 26. J. M. YouNO. 



I note yovLT request in editorial, Aug. 15, for a 

 show of hands of those who took Gleanings in the 

 " windmill " days. If you have the old subscrip- 

 tion lists you will find my name in Vol. I., No. 1. 

 Then I missed a few months, possibly a year, and 

 have taken Gleanings ever since. I still keep bees. 

 My brother and I have 100 colonies now. I am now 

 59 years old, so you see that I was quite young 

 when I first subscribed for Gleanings. 



Ballston Spa, N. Y., Aug. 22. J. I. Parent. 



I don't know but I am a forty-year subscriber. 

 My brother and I ran a shop here in 1870. We had 

 a planer and all kinds of saws. We made a lot of 

 Mr. Gould's hives. Along in the 70's I took Glean- 

 ings. I gave away a good many copies of Glean- 

 ings to men who got the Gould hives. Mr. Gould sold 

 farm rights to farmers to make and use. We kept 

 from 25 to 50 on hand all the time. 



George Richards. 



Harpersville, N. Y., Aug. 26. 



[See copy of old bee-hive contract on an- 

 other page. — Ed.] 



I read with much interest your editorial, "Glean- 

 ings in the Windmill Days," and I wish to state 

 that I have been a subscriber since its first year of 

 publication. More than that, I have every volume 

 bound, and prize them more than any works in my 

 library. I am a five-year subscriber to Gleanings, 

 and it is about the only journal that I have the time 

 to read. I was first interested in Gleanings through 

 the Home talks by A. I. Root, and have been in the 

 honey business ever since. 



Denver, Col., Aug. 22. J. Charles Frisbee. 



I have read Gleanings most of the time since 

 its first issue, and my beekeeping antedates that 

 time some years. My first bees were purchased June 

 12, 1858, and I have been in the business more or 

 less ever since. I met A. I. Root at the first annual 

 meeting of North American Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion, held at Cleveland, O., Dec. 6-8, 1871, which 

 was presided over by the late M. Quinby. I have 

 before me the first volume of the American Bee 

 Journal, published in 1861 ; and according to my 

 recollection it is the first publication of its kind at- 

 tempted in this country. How things have changed 

 since then ! 



Hendersonville, N. C, Aug. 26. Samuel Rau. 



