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GLEANINGS IN J13EE CULTURE. 



May 



sonal orders, I would suggest that the party making 

 the order be afterward i-equired to read the copy, 

 and then say whether it is correct. 



REDUCTION ON BEES AND QUEENS. 



Owing to the very favorable season, we are pleas- 

 ed to state that wo are now ready to fill orders for 

 any thing- in the lino of bees, queens, or full colo- 

 nies, at June prices. 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATE, MAY 15. 



Although our trade has been as large as it ever 

 was before, we are filling- orders, with but few ex- 

 ceptions, quite promptly. Strikes have made us 

 trouble in some lines of goods by the stoppage of 

 freight. But few if any of our oi-ders are more than 

 a week old. 



THE WESTERN PLOWMAN AND TOBACCO. 



We are pleased to note that the editor of the 

 Western Plowman, of Moline, 111., has fallen into 

 line, and is going to send his paper free one year, to 

 tobacco-users who give up the weed in every form 

 for a period of one year. The name is to be print- 

 ed, attached to the pledge given in the first number 

 of the Plowman; and if the signer "goes back " on 

 his pledge he is to pay 50 cts. for the paper — that is 

 all. The bright feature of this is, that the man who 

 promises to quit, publishes said promise in black 

 and white; and who would go back on his signed 

 contract, published in a paper, for a paltry 50 cts.? 



THE BEE-KEEPER'S LAWN-MOWER. 



Those lawn-mowers have exceeded our expecta- 

 tions. Around home the lawn had been neglected, 

 and the grass had grown to a height of six and sev- 

 en inches, and was of a heavy growth. But one of 

 those little mowers cut it all down. In a few places 

 the grass was eight and nine inches high, but the 

 mower leveled down even this; however, when 

 grass reaches this height it requires considerable 

 strength to run the machine, and to make the job 

 complete the ground must be gone over again. 

 Our boys have experimented with several diUerent 

 mowers, but never found one that, for ease of run- 

 ning and good work, would anywhere i}car com- 

 pare with this. For prices see advertising columns 

 of this isiue. 



ORDEKS for odd-sized GOODS, CONSIDERED 

 ONCE MORE. 



We always try hard to do "all wo agree to do," 

 and the regular-sized goods in our price list we at 

 least indirectly, if not directly, agree to keep on 

 hand in readiness for shipment. Now with the 

 crowd on our factory, it is, without question, our 

 duty to till orders for regular goods first; and orders 

 for odd-sized stuff, that we do not advertise, and do 

 not agree to furnish, must come afterward. This 

 is but justice in several ways. We can generally 

 fill half a dozen orders for regular goods, where the 

 machinery is all fixed, where we could fill only one 

 or two that required delays for a new arrangement, 

 to make something special to order. In nuvking 

 your orders, please keep this in mind: The things 

 we advertise can usually go at once, or i)retty near- 

 ly so; but things that have to be made specially for 

 j'ou must await their turn. 



REASONS FOB BEING THANKFUL. 



The weather thus far has been most beautiful. 

 At the present writing, May 13, wc have had no 

 frost to do any damage, since the early part of 

 April. During April a spell of beautifnl warm dry 

 weather, just exactly as farmers waijted it to get 



ahead with their work, continued so long that some, 

 who might be in a little hurry to complain, just be- 

 gan to talk about the drought. Since then, beauti- 

 ful summer showers have blessed us just about as 

 fast as thej' were wanted; and any one who works 

 outdoors (or indoors either, for that matter) and 

 has not felt a spark [of gratitude welling up from 

 his heart, must be, it seems to me, a little hard to 

 please. 



KIND WORDS FROM OURXUSTOMERS. 



THE PrtlNTINO AND BINDING OV THE ABU. 



I must compliment .>nu on the iiresent edition of 

 your A B C of Mee Culture. The fine grade of ink 

 used, fogetlier with tlie quality f/f the pa)ier, 

 "bring out" the engravings and typo wiih a woii- 

 derliil cleai-ness and distinclness. It is a sample of 

 work that would lie a endit to any ininting and 

 book-binding estalilishment. J. H. \Vhitl(jck. 



Eufauhi, Ala., May 4, 1886. 



NONE MORE WELCOME THAN GLEANINGS. 



T wish to say something in favor of Gleanings. 

 I take several journals of another kind, but none 

 are more welcome to my fable than bright and hap- 

 py Gleanings, with " What to Do and How to Be 

 Happy Avhilc Doing If." I was very fired when [ 

 took your issue for .Ian. 15th, but after reading it 

 half an hour I felt like a new man. Wishing you 

 unbounded success I remain resp'y yours, 



Brockway, Mich. W. H. Gowan, M. D. 



GLEANINGS "A LAMP TO THE FEET OF THE YOUNG." 



My children inquire of me every day. "When ai"C 

 you going to get Gleanings? We can't do without 

 it; do get it again." In fact, I have felt as if I were 

 getting a little lonesome too, for we all have a de- 

 sire to see it first among our other papers. It is a 

 safe journal for a faraily to read, and a lamp to the 

 feet of young and old. Would that the children 

 would read Gleanings, and practice its teachings, 

 in place of reading novels and attending dances 

 and such like. O. P. Wright. 



Millerstown, Perry Co., Pa., Apr. 26, 1886. 



GOOD GOODS AT A LOW PRICE. 



My goods, which were shipped March 5, have 

 arrived. They were delayed a long time on account 

 of the great strike. One of the ends of the l)arrel 

 was out except one small piece. Nothing had lost 

 out. The railroad men must liave been very care- 

 ful not to lose anything out of the barrel. Those 

 culled sections are much better than I expected. 

 They arc* good enough for me. Every thing you sent 

 is cheap. Those ten-cent screw-drivers are the 

 cheapest goods I ever saw. You must buy cheai), 

 or you could not sell so cheap; but how can man- 

 ufacturers make a living at such low figures ? 



G. W. Beard. 



Milano, Milam Co., Tex., April 29, 1880. 



TROUBLE TEACHES US HOW TO SYMPATHIZE WITH 

 EACH OTHER. 



I received my second lot of goods all riglit. I 

 think those 'j-lb. tumblers are "lioss." Every ar- 

 ticle was found just as ordered. I am well pleased 

 Avith every thing. I nuide quite a lot of hives and 

 sections this spring for myself and neighbors. Bees 

 are doing very well at present. They commenced 

 on fruit-blossom this morning. Friend R., will you 

 send me a lot of sample copies of Gleanings, es- 

 pecially of Mar. 15 ? You ask why that date. This 

 is a Christi.anlike neighljorliood. and a great many 

 of them are keeping l)ees, and 1 thought to present 

 some of them with a copy, and perhaps by the opei'a- 

 tion I might receive some subscriptions for the 

 same. The one particular feature abovit that issue 

 is in Our Homes. I have lost considoi-able stock 

 this winter, and from causes for which I can not 

 account, nor can any one else whom I have seen. 

 I have worried over it considerably; but when I 

 read Our Homes, I took to quite a dilferent notion, 

 and have quit worrying and troubling myself about 

 things which I can not help. I hear some of my 

 neighbors arc losing in the same way, and perhaps 

 those numbers will help them. It has h-elped me 

 wonderfully. S. B. Miller. 



Amish, Iowa, Apr. 33, 1886. 



