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gives the criminally-Inclined dealer too good an opportunity to 

 fill his pockets at the expense of the overtrustful shipper. 



Right along this line, we find in last Gleanings these two 

 paragraphs, which we commend to those who contemplate 

 shipping to commission dealers : 



" A few days ago we received what we thought was quite a 

 bad complaint against one of the firms that furnish quotations 

 for Gleanings. On referring it to the firm in question we 

 learned that the bee-keeper had sent the honey without or- 

 ders, as well as some other produce ; and the firm wrote us 

 that, if their patron had simply askt for instructions, they 

 would have advised him to hold his produce until they could 

 have found for him a customer in his own vicinity. But, no ; 

 our friend, without orders, shipt the produce to the city, at a 

 distance from his own home, where the goods (apples in this 

 case) were a drug on the market, and were actually being 

 dumpt by the hundred bushels because there was no sale. 



Advice. — " Do not trust unknown firms, even if they do 

 furnish good references. Write to the references first ; and, 

 while you are about it, write to us, too, for we are on the 

 track of nearly all the honey-firms. Second, do not ship your 

 honey or anything else without first receiving orders from the 

 commission house." 



Better read the above "Advice" again, and try to remem- 

 ber it. You can write to us at any time for Information con- 

 cerning any commission firm. But members of the New 

 Union should write the General Manager, Hon. Eugene Secor, 

 at Forest City, Iowa, who will be glad to furnish reliable 

 ratings of any firm askt about. If you are not a member, just 

 send the fee of .SI. 00 along with your request, and that will 

 entitle you to all the benefits provided for in the Constitution 

 of the New Union. 



Tl?e Weekly Budget. 



Mr. J. C. Stewart, of Nodaway Co., Mo., wrote us April 

 16 : " Bees have five frames of brood per colony. I lost one 

 colony in 100, In chaflE hives." 



Rev. E. T. Abbott will hereafter have chirge of the 

 monthly Nebraska Bee-Keeper. So says e.t-Elitor Stilson in 

 the April number. Mr. Abbott will likely make things 

 " hum " — suggestive of the bee-hive. 



Mb. C. G. Leighton, of Uvalde Co., Tex., when sending 

 for a missing copy of the Bee Journal, said: "Why, I'd 

 rather do without my dinner than the ' Old Reliable.' " We 

 are glad to know that the Bee Journal satisfies bodily hunger ! 



The Northwestern Agriculturist, for April, contains 

 an illustrated symposium on bees. This Is something new for 

 a farm paper. Mrs. Effle Brown is the alert editor of the 

 bee-department of that excellent paper, and no doubt it was 

 she who " put them up to it." Good thing. Other agricultural 

 papers would do well to follow the example of the North- 

 western. 



Mr. M. H. Mendleson — one of the large bee-keepers of 

 California— " plants roses amongst the hives; being an en- 

 thusiast in rose-culture, he has nearly 100 varieties to greet 

 him with their beauty and fragrance. In an apiary with such 

 surroundings it Is a real pleasure to work, and the mind Is 

 expanded by holding communion with things of beauty." So 

 reports the Rural Californlan. 



The National Stockman and Farmer Is one of the 

 best agricultural periodicals that make their weekly visits to 

 our office. But In addition to its heretofore excellent con- 

 tents, it now presents the finest appearance of all the strictly 

 farm weeklies that we are acquainted with. It began Its 2 1st 

 volume April 15, by changing its form Into more of a maga- 

 zine style, and added a beautiful cover, making 3(3 pages in 

 all, 9x13 inches in size. Dr. Miller has had charge of the 

 apiarian department of the paper for several years, and will 

 continue to do his part to maintain the high standard which 

 the National Stockman and ITarmer has achieved. 



Mb. J. Van Deusen, of Sprout Brook, N. Y.— the senior 

 member of the firm of J. Van Deusen & Son— died March 28. 

 He was a fine old gentleman, over SO years of age, we believe. 

 We had the pleasure of meeting him at several national bee- 

 conventions. His son, J. A. Van Deusen, will continue the 

 flat-bottom comb-foundation business. We hope soon to be 

 permitted to publish a biographical sketch of Mr. Van Deusen, 

 with picture. 



Mb. W. H. Covington, of Mexico, oCTers for sale this 

 week, in the advertising columns, his home in Mexico. He 

 considers it a fine opening for any man with a small family. 

 Wax sells there at 50 cents per pound, and extracted honey 

 at 10 to 12 cents. From the fruit alone on his place he says 

 he should realize $250 to $300 this year, and his bees are 

 doing well. Better write him at once if you want a home in 

 one of " the Italies of America." 



Demorest's Magazine for May contains nearly 200 

 graphic Illustrations, and there is not a dull page in It. " Mc- 

 Klnley's Administration, Told by the Camera," is alone well 

 worth the price of the magazine. Among the contributions 

 are these: "Some Constantinople Types," " Women of the 

 Administration," " The Proper Use of Wealth," " The Recu- 

 perative Forces of Spring," and "The California Poppy in 

 Embroidery." Publisht in New York City. 



Mr. Chas. a. Goodell, of Blue Earth Co., Minn., was 

 born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., In 1856, and went to Min- 

 nesota 21 years ago. He has been in the bee-business for the 

 past 15 years, and also has a large berry plat, has always 

 been a very successful man in the business, and considers it a 

 profitable one. Last year he had 4,025 pounds of comb honey 

 and 1,400 pounds of extracted, from 98 colonies. 



Mr. Goodell has sent us photographs of his apiary and 

 crop of comb honey harvested last year. He got his first 

 swarm In the woods by lining them. Those he lost in winter- 

 ing. Then he bought two colonies, and lost them by screen- 

 ing the entrances. He afterward got more bees, sent for the 

 American Bee Journal, and then he says his success began. 

 In the last three years he has sold 10,025 pounds of comb 

 honey, and 3,000 pounds of extracted, besides thousands of 

 quarts of berries. 



Mrs. A. L. Amos, of Custer Co., Nebr., who was at the 

 Lincoln convention, sends us these kindly words about Mrs. 

 J. N. Heater and Mrs. A. L. Hallenbeck— two beloved Ne- 

 braska women and bee-keepers : 



Editor York :— It was with deep regret that I read of 

 the death of Mrs. Heater, and reading the particulars makes 

 the event seem sadder than ever. Snatcht away from her 

 busy life and an appreciative circle of friends, almost as sud- 

 denly and quite as unexpectedly as was Mrs. Hallenbeck a 

 few months ago, she leaves a blank that will not be readily 



I did not come into such close association with Mrs. 

 Heater at the convention as I aid with Mrs. Hallenbeck, but I 

 felt that she was a woman to be admired, and that I would 

 like to know her, and perhaps would some day. 



It is to be expected that the loss of these noblewomen will 

 be felt most here in Nebraska, where they have lived and 

 labored, but the bond that unites all kindred souls— the bond 

 of human brotherhood— is Independent of State lines, and we 

 know that we are not alone in our sorrow. 



The world cannot but sorrow over the passing away of 

 people who are like the poet's friend, so touchingly memorial- 

 ized in the lines — 



" None knew thee but to love thee. 

 None named thee but to praise." 



(Mrs.) a. L. Amos. 



Through the kindness of Mrs. Amos we learn that the 



large family of children left by Mrs. Hallenbeck are to be 



well taken care of by kindly relatives. The children range In 



ages from 20 down to3M years. Mrs. H. had been left a widow 



but a short time before her death, and as the children were 



thus left orphans, it was thought best that their relatives 



should help In caring for them, by distributing them around. 



It is sad thus to separate a loving family, but no doubt it was 



best so to do. We hope that all those children may grow up 



to be useful members of society, and an honor to their devoted 



parents who were called away when their care was needed so 



much. 



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