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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June: 



our customers will be bettor pleased. We intend to 

 increase our colonies up to 500, and we shall make a 

 vifrorous attempt to supply, ns far as possible, 

 queens from our own apiary. Of course, if the or- 

 ders pilj iu upon us too heavily we shall have to 

 call upon those outside of our immediate vicinity. 

 Ernest R. Root. 



Gleanincs in Bee Culture. 



Published Sctni- Monthly . 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 

 MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For ClulsMng Bates, See First Page of Beadiss Matter. 



His leaf also shall not withei'; and whatsoever he doetli 

 shall prosper.— Ps. 1: 3 



Heigh-ho! One of our Brahma hens has a ?ics< 

 full of chickens, after all. 



NUMBER OF BUBSCRinERS AT THE PRESENT DATE. 



Well, there ar3 just 5617— just 95 more than we 

 had a month ago. Mauy thanks to you all for so 

 much encouragement. 



REDUCTION IN PRICE OP DRONE - GUARDS AND 

 DAVIS BRUSHES. 



By referring to our catalogue of the last edition 

 you will see that the Jones drone - guards have 

 dropped from 10 to 5 cts. each, and the Davis brush- 

 es from 15 cts. to 10 cts. For rates by the tons and 

 hundreds, see price list. 



SUPPLIES BY THE CARLOAD. 



Goods are still going off at a pretty good rate. 

 Our freight and express shipments amount to about 

 a carload and a halt of goods daily. With ore or 

 two exceptions we have no very old orders waiting. 

 So, friends, we think we are doing pi-etty well, con- 

 sidering the loss we have sustained in our ware- 

 house. It is beginning to make our faithful old en- 

 gine look tired. 



terry's new book. 

 We shall be ready to mail the abcfve about the 

 time your order reaches us, probably. Although 

 the book is mainly in regard to the winter care of 

 horses and cattle, it touches on almost every thing 

 connected with successful farming— shelter, com- 

 fort, feeding, exercise, kindness, different sorts of 

 feed, with a full treatise on the most economical 

 way of saving manui-e. A full description of the 

 model barn is given, as shown on p. 396. Price 40 cts. 



BEAUTIFUL COMB HONEY FOR ONLY I2C. PER LB. 



As the lot of honey mentioned on page 339 of our 

 issue for April 15 does not go off very rapidly, we 

 now offer it, in order to make room for the new 

 crop, for only 13 cts. per lb. It is not only hand- 

 some, strictly white comb honey, but It is as deli- 

 cious as any honey I ever tasted. For weights of 

 the different cases, see reference above. At this 

 low price it must be sold in full cases. Two or 

 more cases, 5 per cent off; 10 or more, 10 per cent off. 



GETTING UP EARLY IN THE MORNING. 



Somehow I have great respect for the man, wo- 

 man, or child, who delights to be up during the 

 bright morning hours, and to push ahead in what- 

 ever is to bo done. Some years ago, about the first 

 of .Tune, one morning before it was quite daylight I 

 saw a couple of boys coming to meet inc. One had 

 something in his hand that I found to be a box of 

 strawberries. He was a young bee-keeper, and had 

 driven quite a good manj' miles to make us a visit, 

 and he had push and energy enough to arrange it 

 so as to get through to Medina in time to see busi- 

 ness start up in our big- establishment. He had 

 come to buy some supplies, and had brought along 

 some strawberries to trade on supplies. I traded 

 at once on the strawberries; in fact, I always buy 

 strawberries of almost everybody, especially if the 

 berries are fresh, and it is early in the morning. I 

 do not think I told the boys so, but I made up my 

 mind that they would get ahead in this world with 

 bees or strawl)erries either, and I guess I got it 

 right too. One of the boys was Christian Weekes- 

 ser, Marshallville, O. You will notice his advertise- 

 ment of queens and strawberry-plants, and I think 

 you will notice that ho is a good straight boy every 

 time — a Christian by name, and a Christian in 

 spirit. Now, I do not know that getting up early in 

 the morning has all to do with his success; but it in- 

 dicates that he has enterprise and go-ahead, and 

 that is worth a deal in this world. No one can af- 

 ford to lie abed mornings in the beautiful month of 

 June, as it seems to me. If you do not get sleep 

 enough when you get up at half-past four, go to 

 bed at half past eight at night, or sooner; but don't 

 lose the beautiful morning hours. 



FORGETTING PRESENT BLESSINGS AND PRIVILEGES. 



Last night at sundown the thermometer indicat- 

 ed 4'°; by S o'clock it indicated only 43°, and there 

 was every prospect of a sharp frost. In talking 

 with my wife I told her that the frost that we 

 should probably get would stop the flow of honey 

 from the locusts, would result in a heavy loss on 

 our strawberries, probably kill or cut down the corn 

 and potatoes, and be death to the cucumbers and 

 our 30C0 tomato-plants, many of which have toma- 

 toes on, the size of hens' eggs, besides freezing a 

 lot of other stuff. I thought of building tires, as 

 has so often been recommended, with a view of 

 saving a part of the stuff; butwe had so much of it, 

 and all of the fuel was so wet from the recent rains, 

 that it seemed almost out of the question to try it. 

 As I went to sleep 1 thought of the probable ruin I 

 should see in the morning, and it seemed to me I 

 had never appreciated the comforts that surround 

 us this season. I hadn't even thought to thank God 

 for them aSl ought to thank him; but I made up my 

 mind that, if it clouded up, or the temperature 

 changed, so that the things that had become so 

 dear to me (by watching their daily growth) were 

 saved, I should, in the morning, be ready to give 

 thanks in good earnest. Some time in the night my 

 wife made the remark, that the sky was partly 

 clouded over, and that the thermometer was rising; 

 but I was too sleepy to think much more about it 

 than to be thankful. This morning it was warmer, 

 and every thing is all right— not even a leaf wither- 

 ed; and as I look over them to-day I do prize them, 

 and feel happier in the possession of these gifts than 

 I could possibly have done without the frosty air of 

 last evening as a reminder. Then, dear friends, 



