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nent basis fiieiully relations between Uie 

 Nortli and the Soiitli llian any tiling else 

 that has happened for many a long day V In 

 tlie languaj2,e ot our text, the gates of deatli 

 liave not been opened unto us. neither have 

 we seen the doors of the shadow of death. 

 We know but little of the machinery that 

 governs the universe in this life, and we 

 know even less of tlie great unknown eterni- 

 ty beyond it. IJut Ave do know that a kind 

 loving Father in heaven looks down upon 

 us, and that in his own good time his king- 

 dom shall come, and his will be done on 

 earth as it is done in heaven. May he give 

 us graee to say, under all eircumstances and 

 conditions, '• Blessed l)e his holy name." 



Gleanincs in Bee Culture. 



Tuhllshrd Si-ini-JfoiitJih/. 



.£^. I. I^OOT, 



EDITOR AND PUBIilSHER. 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID 



For Clotting Rates, Oco First Page of Ecadic:: Matter. 



DISCOUNT ON OUUEHS IIKCKIVED THIS FAT^T^ FOR 

 (JOOUS TO BE trSKD NKXT SKASON. 



We will, diiriiij,'' the month ol' October, allow a 

 discount of ll) pei-coiit oti g-oods ordered now, strictly 

 for ne.\t season's iii-c: that is, we allow the above 

 discount for j4'oods ordeied now that you will not 

 need to use before next spiing-. This will include 

 Simplicity hives, sections, frames, honey-extract- 

 ors, etc.; but it does not include chalf hives, glass 

 and tin receptacles for honey, and, with some ex- 

 ceptions, tools and machinery. We make the above 

 discount that we may have something- to do during- 

 the dull fall months, and to allow you somethin;j- 

 for furnishing- the money now, instead of six months 

 hence. 



OUIl C.\UP-POND. 



WF.r.f., alter all this long- time I am glad to he 

 able to say that we liave young carp in oin- pond, 

 so plentiful they look like swarms of bees. They 

 are now from luilf an inch to an inch in length. I 

 do not know why we have not been able to see the 

 little " people " before, unless it Avas on account of 

 musk-rats and mud-turtles. Ernest killed the tur- 

 tles with his gun, and one of our boys wlioni we 

 call Fred happened to be expert witli steel traps. I 

 offered him 'i:> cts. for all the musk-rats he would 

 catch. It turned out bad for the musk-rats, but it 

 came pretty near filling Fred's pockets with silver 

 quarters. 



TEllKY'S SVSTKM OV POTATO CUI.TlIlir.. 



We are just now rejoicing over great large fine 

 potatoes, and almost no small ones in a hill. Tliey 

 are the result of the teachings of the Potato Hook. 

 If you should plant a dozen stalks of corn in a hill. 



you would get a great quantity of nubbins and no 

 corn. Well, my friend, if you put a great many 

 potato-eyes in a hill you usually succeed in getting 

 a large lot of " small potatoes:" whereas by Terry's 

 system you have one large stalk and no more; at 

 the proper distance, another large stalk, and so on, 

 and the result is as j-ou might expect-— large fine 

 potatoes, and i)robably more bushels to the acre 

 than you could possibly get in the old-fasliioned 

 way. 



OIIIl NEW nuii.uiNG. 



It is now roofed and inclosed. The engine is in 

 place, set on a bod of masonry that seems as if it 

 nught stand the shock of an earth(iuake— that is, 

 if any thing could withstand such a catastrophe. 

 The shafting and pulleys are ready for their 

 places, and everything about the whole establish- 

 ment is to be the best of its kind that tlie present 

 age atl'ords. Special machinery, built expressly for 

 the ditl'erent processes of bee-hi\e making, the re- 

 sults of the experience of many busy years in the 

 work, are to take the place of our old machines 

 wherever they can be bettered. The combined area 

 of the lloor room in all the three buildings now 

 measures nearly a whole acre. Counting the barn, 

 toolhouses, and warehouses, it would nuike fully 

 an acre and a quarter of covered lloor room for oin- 

 hands to work on during stormy weather. 



MOHE SWAIiMINC. OUT. 



It did not happen in December this time, but it 

 happened to be exactly Sept. 1. It was not the 

 queen-clerk this time, and Ernest had nothing to do 

 with it. It was our daugliter Maud. The last we 

 saw of her she was going northward, and by and by 

 we heard of her over in Canada. You know, I have 

 always had a warm place in my heart for the Cana- 

 dians, and now I don't mintl telling you why. When 

 Maud started on her trip, one of our Canadian 

 boys, John T. Calvert, whom you have heard me 

 mention, went with lier, I suppose for safe keeping. 

 Years ago, wlien ores pressed, I prayed, as I had 

 often prayed before, for elHcient helpers ; and by 

 one of these wonderful providences a Christian 

 boy away oH' in Canada was praying too, for a place 

 to work where he need not hear God's holy name 

 taken in vain day liy day. T'hrough GIjEAninos he 

 heard of us and our work, and John has proved 

 himself a blessing indeed in more ways than one. 

 If he is a fair sample of Queen V^ictoria's subjects, 

 we can in real truth say from our heart, "God save 

 the queen." Ernest and John have been awaj' to- 

 gether at school. When my health threatened to 

 give way, Ernest took holdof Gr>EANiN(is, and John 

 rolled u]) his sleeves and took one of the next most 

 important i)ositions in our establishment — in fact, 

 the position which for several years I had feared 

 none lint myself could ever till — the jiosition of di- 

 recting the purchases. John has tilled the position 

 for the greater part of the present year in such a 

 way that I begin to luive more faith, pei'hai)S. in the 

 younger ones in general; more faith in Queen Vic- 

 toria's subjects, and, I ti-ust, more faitii in God. 

 May he grant that this union between one of the 

 subjects of the stars and stripes and one of Queen 

 Victoria's domain may l)e typii-al of the Iriendly 

 relations that seem fast growing up between the 

 two nations. Now, then, Hro. Jones of tlie C. D. J., 

 we extend again to you tlie rigiit liand of brother- 

 hood, and feel that we luive an additional reason to 

 claim relationship. 



