1894 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



849 



work relief society. Our object is, to give 

 relief by work. We commenced in November, 

 setting fourteen men at work on the streets. 

 At present we have eight hundred men clean- 

 ing the streets. We have also opened five tai- 

 loring shops, and recently started a whitewash 

 brigade. At present two hundred men are em- 

 ployed at whitewashing dark alley cellars and 

 dirty courts. Thirteen hundred heads of fami- 

 lies are in this way receiving $1.(K) per day. 

 This is infinitely better than giving them 

 charity. 



I believe that, if the young men who are 

 earning a comfortable living on the farm un- 

 derstood even a small part of the hardships and 

 misery the poor have to put up with in the 

 cities, they would think twice before they ex- 

 changed a rural for an urban life. My great 

 desire is, to open a farm-school where city boys, 

 too old to learn a trade, might be taught the 

 first principles of practical farming, and thus 

 get them out of the overcrowded city into the 

 better and more independent life of the country. 

 I wish that all the young men in the country, 

 who are eagerly planning to leave the farm, 

 could go up and down the Bowery with me and 

 see the eight thousand men who sleep in the 

 cheap lodging-houses every night. They find 

 it absolutely impossible to secure work at pres- 

 ent. Hundreds have not even fifteen or twenty 

 cents to pay for a night's lodging. I called on 

 the superintendent of the Bowery branch of 

 the Young Glen's Christian Association a few 

 days ago. to consult with him about opening 

 my church at night, as a shelter for homeless 

 men. He immediately asked me about our 

 bathing facilities. I informed him we had no 

 baths connected with the church. He said, 

 " Unless you can fumigate the men's clothing 

 every night, and give every man a bath, your 

 church will soon be alive with vermin." That 

 plainly shows the fearful condition which many 

 of these poor fellows are in. A few weeks ago 

 we found a young German nobleman, who had 

 diplomas from three universities, in one of these 

 Bowery lodging-houses. 



My advice to all young men is, let well enough 

 alone. If you have a rich uncle or good friend 

 in the city who will give you a chance in his 

 establishment, well and good; if not, stick to 

 your farm and take care of your bees. 



GERMAIN OR BELGIAN HARES 



NOW READY FOR 

 BREEDERS. 



EASILY RAISED IN 

 HUTCHES. 



SPLENDID MEAT. 



Write me for prices, 

 how to breed, and what 

 to feed. 



G. J. FLANSBURGH, 

 So. Bethlehem, - N. Y. 



larin responding to this advertisement mention Gleanings. 



Attention, Bee-keepers! 



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Keniember Jennie Atchley will mail you 

 untt'sted (jueens any day in tlie year for 

 $1.00. Slie is now preparing to fill your 

 ordei's t'oi' (pieens and l)ees in 1895. 



.Iaimiir\- to .liine prices: Untested, $l.tX), 

 (i for tri.oii, *(».(H) per doz. Tested. 3-banded, 

 $1.5(1; r)-l);i tided, f~'.50. Tested Carniolans. 

 k~.M. 1 will rear the leatlier-colored Ital's. 

 or 3-banded; silver-gray Carniolans, and .">- 

 banded, in separate yards at safe distance. 

 Bees by the pound. Si. 00. Nuclei, per 

 frame, $1.00. This is one of my specialties. 



Write me for i)rices on large lots and to 

 the trade. Catalog ready Jan. 1. 



J have been at this business long enough 

 to know how to ship, and please customers. 



All Bee Supplies. Dovetailed Hives, 

 Root's Goods, and Dadant's Foundation. 

 Figiu-e out what you want, and write ior 

 estimate. 



Jennie Atchley, 

 Bee Co. Beeville, Tex. 



500 YOUNG FERRETS 



Now ready to ship at only $3.00 

 ^ , , a pair. Price list of Bees and 

 ^\ Ferrets free. N. A. Knapp, 



Rochester, Lorain Co., O. 



Wants or Exchange Department. 



Notices win be inserted under tliis head at one-half our usu- 

 al rates. All advertisements intended for this department 

 must not exceed five lines, and you must sat you want your 

 adv't in this department, or we will not be responsible for er- 

 rors. You can have the notice as many lines as you please, 

 but all over five lines will cost you according to oiir re^lar 

 rates. This department is intended only for bona flde ex- 

 chanpres. Exchanges for cash or for price lists, or notices of- 

 teringr articles for sale, can not be inserted under this head. 

 For such our regular rates of 20 cts. a line will be charged, and 

 they will be put with the regular advertisements. We can not 

 be responsible for dissatisfaction arising from these "swaps." 



WANTED.— To e.vchange supplies and other goods 

 for honey. O. H. Hyatt, Shenandoah, Iowa. 20tf 



WANTED.— To exchange a Noxal 300-egg incuba- 

 tor, used 3 settings, at $15, comb foundation at 

 market price, and e.vtracted honey at 8c, for honey 

 boards, supers, and Dro' id-frames, cut to order. 



B. C. AiKiN, Loveland, Col. 



ANTED.— To exchange several good saf.ety bi- 

 cycles. Honey wanted. Send sample. 



J. A. Green, Ottawa, 111. 



ANTED— To exchange 200 colonies of bees for 

 any thing useful on plantation. 



Anthony Opp, Helena, Ark. 



WANTED.— To exchange good country store 

 (Stocked) and P.O., with 8 first-class living-rooms 

 annexed, 50 colonies bees, good honey-house and 

 barn, for village property of some kind. 



A. Carter, Walton, Mich. 



CHAS. ISRAEL & BROS., 110 Hudson St., N. Y. 



HONEY 



WHOLESALE 



LEALEKS b 



COMMISSION 



MEECHANTS. 



Established 



1S75. 



LIBERAL 

 ADVANCES 

 MADE 

 ON 



Choice evaporated or dried peaches 

 Mail small sample if you can 

 furnish any cheap. 



N. E. DOANE, Breckenridge, Gratiot Co., Mich. 



HAT have you got to exchange for new extract- 

 or, never used? Ed. Weidner, Earlville, 111. 



WANTED.- 

 and apricots. 



W 



BEESWAX. ""="'' 



MENTS. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. Unsurpassed Honey Market 

 BATTERSON & CO. Responsible, Reliable, 

 Commission Merchants, mfdh and Prompt. 



WANTED.— To exchange 18 volumes of Gleanings 

 in Bee Culture, from 1875 to 1895; 6 of the vols. 

 lacking a few Nos.; 7 vols, of Bee-keepers' Review, 

 1888 to 1895; 2 vols, of Bee-keepers' Exchange, lack- 

 ing 3 Nos.; 2 vols., V.. VI., Bee-keepers' Magazine; 

 4 vols., from 1883 to 1887, of the lllustrierte Bienen- 

 zeitung, for honey. 



Henry Otto, Independence, Iowa. 



