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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1. 



From a private letter we learn with regret 

 that Dr. Miller has been in "bad shape," so far 

 as his health was concerned, and that "the 

 doctor threatened to stop all mental labor, from 

 danger of brain trouble." This is unwelcome 

 news to us, and we are sure it will be to our 

 readers. We are glad to learn, however, that 

 he is on the "up grade," and we trust his 

 wonted activities through the journals will 

 continue. Dr. Miller has been doing a large 

 amount of work In Sunday-school and other 

 religious lines, besides his general correspon- 

 dence relating to bees. Say, doctor, prescribe 

 for yourself a bicycle, and get, along with it, a 

 new lease of life. 



DEATH OF .T. M. SMITH, GREEN BAY, WIS. 



We learn from the Ohio Farmer that the 

 great gardener — in fact, one of the greatest gar- 

 deners the world has ever produced — departed 

 this life on the 20th of last E'ebruary. He died 

 in the harness, although his death was rather 

 sudden. Several questions in regard to his fa- 

 vorite industry were left unanswered on his ta- 

 ble. While we lament the loss of one of our 

 great teachers, we rejoice that he left a family 

 of boys (I do not know how many) who are al- 

 most if not quite able to carry on hi** gardening 

 operations as well as the father himself. God 

 grant that they may be able to teach and write 

 intensive gardening as did their father. 



but that he will soon speak and talk readily. 

 He is very much interested in making garden, 

 and he watches with most intense delight 

 some peas which he planted. He waters them 

 and takes care of them. Ju.-^t think of it 

 friends — how should he know the weeds frono 

 the plants? When the peas were grown h( 

 gathered them, and ate them after they wen 

 cooked, with a delight, no doubt, that you anc 

 I can hardly understand. So far as I can 

 gather, there is still need of help in the way ol 

 funds to finish his education. Here is some^ 

 thing I want to quote, from the Simday Schoo 

 Times, that has a bearing on this matter ol 

 child-training: 



Says Dr. Stanley Hall: " The most honest and un 

 embarrassed child's tirst answer to a direct question 

 as, for exiimple. whether it lias seen a cow, sheep 

 etc., must rarely or never be taken without carefu 

 cross-questloniiis-." Nor must such cross-question 

 ing lead tlie child to suppose tliat he is mistrustec 

 The questioner— teacher, patent, companion— nius 

 rather mistrust liis own power of iiiterpretatioi 

 He must sharpen his wits and quicken his symp£ 

 thies in order to do justice to his most delicate o 

 subjects— a child's soul. 



HEDDON S HONEY'. 



In the closing paragraph on page 335 we by 

 no means intimated that Mr. Heddon could not 

 occupy further space if he had important testi- 

 mony to bring forward; and right in this line 

 we are pleased to announce that he has finally 

 submitted to us the "original manuscript " of 

 testimonials from men who purchased his hon- 

 ey, nearly all of whom speak well of it. These 

 testimonials are filled out on printed blanks that 

 Mr. Heddon placed before his customers, and are 

 in answer to a series of questions. 



Now, it seems to us we have given Mr. Hed- 

 don not only a fair hearing, but the advantage 

 of his strongest points in rebuttal of the analy- 

 ses; but if Mr. H. thinks we have not, we have 

 decided we will go one step further: We will 

 allow him the space of one page of Gleanings 

 to bring up any other or new points (i. e., any 

 thing that will explain how that large amount 

 of glucose got into the honey he sold to us and 

 to his customers), over his own signatui'e. Cer- 

 tainly Mr. Heddon could not ask more than 

 this. After this we hope it will not be necessa- 

 ry to prolong this matter further. 



TOMMY stringer. 



The items regarding Tommy Stringer, in this 

 issue, were taken from the Seventh Annual 

 Report of the Kindergarten for the Blind, locat- 

 ed at Jamaica Plains, Mass. I omitted to 

 mention that Tommy speaks some words and a 

 few sentences quite distinctly. The toups of 

 his voice are pleasing, and there is no doubt 



A FEW FIGURES SHOAVING THE AMOUNT O 

 GLUCOSE USED IN THE UNITED STATES. 



On the night of April 12 there occurred on 

 of the great'St fires that ever took place i 

 Buffalo, involving a lo?s of about a million c 

 dollars. It was none other than the extensiv 

 glucose works of that city.* Several years ag 

 the extent of this Buffalo glucose-factory wf 

 measured by the daily consumption of 5( 

 bushels of corn; but just prior to the fire tl 

 capacity of the works involved the daily coi 

 sumption of over 20.000 bushels, in Buffa 

 alone. Employment was furnished to upwai 

 of 400 men, who received annually in wagi 

 over i?200,000. The enormous steam-plant i 

 run the factories consumed 150 tons of co; 

 daily, and the product of the works average 

 70 loaded freight-cars, or 840 tons of freigh 

 The company had invested a million and a ha 

 of dollars, in part represented by four othi 

 factories, located in Peoria. 111., Leavenwort 

 Kan., Iowa City, la., and Tippecanoe City, < 

 While the Buffalo concern represents the larj 

 est, there are other independent glucose-fai 

 tories all over the United States. 



While it is no doubt true that glucose is us( 

 principally for adulterating syrups, it would 1 

 folly for bee-keepers to go on the assumptic 

 that there is so little of it used in honey thi 

 we had better keep still, because, forsooth, 

 might prejudice our pursuit. If glucose is n( 

 used for any thing but adulteration, then w 

 shall always use what little influence we hav 

 toward bringing about the time when glucosi 

 factories shall be considered illegal becau: 

 inimical to the public health. If it were 

 wholesome product— if it actually added somi 

 thing valuable to our food products, that won 



* We get these facts fi'om the Buffalo Expie.is 

 April 13.— El). 



