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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 



TELEPHONE. 



The little telephone does the work. J. B. CoOL. 

 Ked River, Darke Co., O. 



Poultry netting arrived on the 8th all O. K. 

 Thanks for promptness. J. M. Hyne. 



Stewartsville, Ind., Dec. 11, 1885. 



OUR EXTRACTORS. 



The honey-extractor I bought of you works to a 

 charm. I am well pleased with it. It is well worth 

 the money. I took 30 lbs. of honey in 6 days from 

 one colony of Italians. C. D. Farnham. 



Fleetville, Pa. 



I am well pleased with the extractor you sent me 

 last week. It does its work up to the handle, and 

 the knife gives good satisfaction. It came to hand 

 in good trim. W. F. Matzdorff. 



Goshen, Ind. 



HOW IT P.iVS TO ADVERTISE IN GLEANINGS. 



By advertising in Gleanings my honey is all 

 sold; and as I am still getting orders, please tell the 

 public my honey is all sold. J. B. Murray'. 



Ada, O., Dec. .5, 18S5. 



Please find small advertisement inclosed. By ad- 

 vertising lust fall you sold for me 339 colonies of 

 bees, and I hope your printer's ink will do as well 

 for me this winter and spring. Anthony Opp. 



Helena, Ark., Oct. 39, 1885. 



The A B C of Bee Culture came to me yesterday 

 in good shape and condition. Many thanks for your 

 very prompt attention and kindness. You shall 

 hear from me again of tener in the future. 



Dayton, O., Dec. 13, 1885. Leo P. Dhein. 



never stop gleanings. 



Inclosed find one dollar. Stop Gleanings? Nev- 

 er! Too many good things in it for one dollar, so 

 send it>long. Wm. Battles. 



Blairsville, Pa. 



GROWLER Y NO MORE. 



Goods received in good shape. No wonder the 

 Growlery has died out in Gleanings. Many 

 thanks. The order was filled perfectly, though it 

 was so badly mixed. A. L. Light. 



Pastoria, Ark. 



The advance in apiculture knows no bounds. The 

 ice chains, wrought by November storms, did not 

 prevent the sate arrival of the tested queen sent 

 by you Nov. 3;3d. Bees and queen were as lively as 

 though there were no snow. J. F. Michael. 



German, O., Nov. 25, 1885. 



The'queen was received in good order, and is bet- 

 ter marked than one I have seen which was very 

 black. Thanks. I shall cross some of her drones 

 next season on some of my Syrio-albino queens, 

 and see the result. I think she is safely introduced. 



New Philadelphia, O., Oct. 23. G. L. Tinker. 



20-cent shears. 



I sent to you last fall and got a pajr of your 30- 

 cent shears, and I must say that I was surprised, 

 when I untied the package, to find such a nice pair 

 for so small a sum of money. They are as good as 

 we could find at any price, as far as 1 can see, and 

 they cut nicely. I want 7 more pair just like them, 

 to supply my neighbors. Adelbert Cook. 



Norwich, N. Y. 



The three tested queens I bought of you in May 

 did well; also the other queens — that is, the $1.25 

 queens. I bought three of you, but I did not get 

 the queen-cage fastened rightly on the comb of one 

 of them, and she got out too soon; and during the 

 same night some time, the bees killed her; but I 

 have two skeps from the other two queens that are 

 the nicest- marked Italians I ever saw, and fine 

 workers. They are now, I think, my last queens. 



Loudonville, O. J. P. Reed. 



While I have been away from home nearly all 

 svimmer, in the discharge of official duties, and 

 have seen but little of Gleanings, 1 have lost none 

 of my love tor the business, and hope I may now 

 have time in the coming months to read all you 

 may have to say, for I have become interested in 

 what you say outside of the question of bees and 

 honey. Although you are peculiar, I can't help 

 admiring your very frank, honest, and earnest 



ways. I intend sending for your book on cai-p cul- 

 tul'e. Ed. R. Allen. 



Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 19, 1885. 



OUR carload OF CALIFORNIA HONEY; MELTING 

 CLOVER HONEY, ETC. 



My order for honey has brought it in good time, 

 and with very reasonable freight chai'ges. It was 

 received in best condition on the 18th, and the Cali- 

 fornia honey is simply magnificent. I wish my or- 

 der for it had been much larger. The clover is can- 

 died, aiyl stays white and slushy, even when put in- 

 to hot water. Can it be perfectly thawed and clear- 

 ed? F. M. Potts. 



Media, Pa., Dec. 24. 1885. 



[Friend P., your clover honey has not been warm- 

 ed enough, or you have not waited long enough. It 

 will surely become perfectly clear and transparent, 

 vi-hen melted, as you have pi'obably found out by 

 this time.] 



KIND WORDS FROM THE AUTHOR OF "THE STORY 

 OF THE BIBLE." 



[After the very favorable notice I gave "Fables 

 and Allegories "was submitted to the author I re- 

 ceived from him the following kind letter, which he 

 doubtless did not ititend for publication; but 1 want 

 to give it to you, as it illustrates so fully the point 

 that there is no great excellence withovit great la- 

 bor. Friend Foster tells us of the long, faithful, 

 and earnest work required to get up such a book, 

 and the world is just beginning to appreciate it.] 

 My Dear Sir: 



Anybody who undertakes to get up a book full oS 

 new pictures, 350 of them, to have them drawn first, 

 then engraved, then printed (not to speak of the 

 money laid out), finds he has big job on hand, and it 

 is a long one. Good things can't be done in a day. 

 Your good artist wants time, so does your engrav- 

 er, and so does your printer. But there is such a 

 thing as fighting through it, and getting it all done, 

 and done handsomely. Well, then to have it appre- 

 ciated does come good. There is something about 

 that, that pays a man (in a certain sense) better 

 than the money profit. Now, my friend, I want to 

 thank you for the appreciation you have shown of 

 the pictures in the " Fables," by your advertise- 

 ment. Numbers of pleasant things have been said, 

 but I don't remember that a single customer has 

 seemed to feel the beauty of the "get-up " of that 

 book as you have. I am also delighted that you 

 can conscientiously recommend so strongly the fa- 

 bles themselves. They have all come out of my 

 own experience and my own heart, where the best 

 things of all of us come from. My son generally 

 writes the letters; but I told him I would reply to 

 yours received this morning, and we both thought 

 that your handsome notice deserved a gilt-edge 

 copy, which we send by mail, with wishes for a 

 happy Christmas. Charles Foster. 



Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 21, 188.5. 



OUR supplies "JUST SUPERB." 



It is with a troubled conscience I inform you at 

 this late date, of the safe arrival of goods ordered 

 Oct. 27. The fact that I have been pretty busy at 

 the office, left me little or no spare time to write; 

 and when I got home in the evening 1 was so impa- 

 tient to go to ray work-room, and start nailing those 

 nice hives, frames, etc., that I have entirely neg- 

 lected to let you know how delighted and highly 

 pleased I am with every thing you sent; and al- 

 though there are ten two-story hives, and all the 

 frames and accessories in the flat, to make them 

 complete, every part fits so nicely, it is a real plea- 

 sure to piit them together; and. by the way, those 

 iron frames are just the thing for nailing hives; 

 they keep the four sides together splendidly, and 

 each hive must fit the other. I advise every one 

 who has only a few hives to nail to get them; they 

 will pay for "themselves, in having a good fit, and 

 saving time. 



The sections are very pretty indeed— beautiful, to 

 say the least. They bend up and are driven togeth- 

 er so nicely and easily, while the Gray fdn. fastener 

 caps the climax, by fastening the starters in those 

 snow white sections very quickly, and without soil- 

 ing them in the least, for you hardly need touch 

 them, and that by one simple motion of the foot on 

 the treadle. I was surprised, how you can sell a 

 machine, so perfect in its working, and so neatly 

 and strongly made, for the remarkably small sum of 

 75 cents. 



