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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



SENRY POWELL has quit the use of tobacco, 

 and requests you to send him a smoker. 

 You can publish his name in Gleanings, 

 and I will see that you get your pay for the 

 smoker if he uses tobacco again. 

 Mineral Point. \Vi^^ Keese Powell. 



I will promise to quit using tobacco in any form. 

 Please send me a smoker. If I ever use it again, in 

 any shape, the man I am at work for will report 

 and I will pay for the smoker, as he is a very tem- 

 perate man. HAnuv Caur. 



Goodrich, Mich., Aug. 10, 1886. 



I have in ray employ a young man 19 years old 

 who has been a constant tobacco-chewer for three 

 years. Lender my influence he has been persuaded 

 to stop. It is now nearly a month since, and the 

 hardest of it is over. I told him that, if he persever- 

 ed, and would promise never to use it again, you 

 would send him a smoker. If he ever does use it 

 ! will vouch for the price of the smoker. His name 

 is John GoodhuU. C. S. Adams. 



Williamson, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1886. 



BHEAKS HIS PLEDGE, BUT HONOKAIJLY PAYS 

 FOR THE SMOKER. 



I thought I would write to let you know that I 

 didn't ()uit chewing tol)acco, and I inclose you 70 

 cts. worth of stamps for that smoker that B. K. 

 Pa.\son sent for. Elmer Devens. 



Good Hope, O., Aug. liT, 18:-'6. 



We are very sorry to see that you have 

 gone back to tobacco, but we thank you for 

 the honorable act of paying up. We hope 

 you may yet see the error, and i)le(lge your- 

 self never to go back to tobacco again. 



the fiR.ATITUDE .AN OLD TOBACCO-USEK FEELS 

 TOWARD THIS UEPART.MENT. 



I received a smoker from you, willi the under- 

 standing that I was to refrain from the use of to- 

 bacco—a habit which I indulged in for ten years; 

 but I have now decidedly abstained from it, and 

 hope that I shall never feel a desire for it again. 

 I am well aware that my thanks are due to you, 

 and would express them here a thousand times. I 

 am convinced, that if every real Christian would 

 do as much as you to abolish such sinful fllthiness, 

 in a few years the weed would be raised no more. 

 I therefore thought to give a mite, and ask you to 

 please send me, for the inclosed, a Dose of Truth. 

 I should like to state to you yet, that I am very 

 well pleased with the smoker; it can't be beat. 



New Haven, Mo. Traugott Herzog. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



PROMPTLY TO HAND. 



The sections came promptly to hand and are very 

 nice, and I am very glad that you did not have the 

 dovetailed ones to send, as these are certainly very 

 much preferable. Albert Williams. 



Sharon, Pa. 



ONE trip to the EXPRESS OFFICE. 



The smokers came through all right, both lots of 

 them. They are nice, and 1 think that the founda- 

 tion is very nice. It pleases me to have orders 

 filled right off, so that one trip to the express office 

 will do. .1. C. McGrew. 



Mjlnersville, Ohio. 



the bee-tent INDISPENSABLE. 



Send me one of your latest improved bee-tents. I 

 have used them for two years, and find them indis- 

 pensable. W.D. Wright. 



Knowersville, 'N.Y. 



TERRY'S POTATO CULTURE. 



Please find inclosed 45 cents, for which send me 

 Terry's last book. 1 have his book on potatoes. 1 

 am raising some according to his instructions, and 

 it works tinely. though we are having a drought. I 

 am pleased with your talks on tlie " New Agricul- 

 ture " and gardening. Wm. Cox. 



Vinxjua, \Vis. 



OUR WHEELBARROW. 



I 1-cccived the goods you shipped me last month, 

 and have examined the packages, and find them to 

 be quite correct and very satisfactory. The wheel- 

 barrow is nicer in api)earance than any I ever 

 saw, and it will doubtless prove quite serviceable. 

 Its lightness is a great advantage to those who 

 have not a great reserve of physical strength. 



The brood-frames and other things in Hat are as 

 accurate in lit as could be desired, and the 1-lb. 

 sections are the best 1 have ever seen. 



Media, Del. Co., Pa^^ F. M. Potts. 



CAN not DO WITHOUT IT. 



As I am a novice in bee-keeping, I have thought 

 I could not afford to subscribe for more than one 

 bee-paper, and have been and am still taking the 

 A. li. J., and could not do without it, and so, friend 

 Koot (as all bee keepers should be friends), I have 

 come to the same conclusion as to Gleanings — I 

 can not do without it. I have only a few colonies— 

 :iO in number— at this time; 10 last spring, and .5 the 

 spring before, and I am succeeding so far (thanks 

 to bee-publications and good friends, and especially 

 my best friend, Dr. G. L. Tinker), beyond my great- 

 est expectations. I have taken this year 700 lbs. of 

 comb honey from 10, spring count, and 3 of them 

 were weak. W. S. Taggart. 



Barton, Ohio. 



"IN all thy ways acknowledge him." 

 1 have been lent some numbers of Gleanings, 

 and desire to express my gratitude to God for the 

 Christian tone and for the witness to the truth it 

 contains. May the good Lord bless you in your 

 testimony to him, and may you ever continue a 

 faithful witness for the truth as it i? in .Jesus. I 

 fail to see that, in business transactions, all allu- 

 sions to the truth should be eliminated; for does 

 not the word of God say, " In all thy ways ac- 

 knowledge him"? and in these dark, dark days it is 

 especially needful that our light should " so shine 

 before men that they may see our good works and 

 glorify our Father which is in heaven." I have 

 only lately come here from England with my wife 

 and four sons, and have settled in this country, 

 and I am indeed thankful to know that there is at 

 least one public paper whose editoris dot ashamed 

 to confess Christ. None of my sons or myself drink 

 intoxicants of any kind, nor do v/e use tobacco in 

 any form. W. Beers. 



Fayetteville, Wash. Co., Ark., June 1, 1886. 



NOT A MISTAKE OF OUR SHIPPING-CLERK. 



I appear before .vou this morning with hat in hand. 

 Your faithful packing man was correct about the 

 missing nails, hence I beg pardon of all concerned. 

 I found them snugly hidden in the sections where 

 I did not look, as 1 took the sections out only as I 

 put them in the frames; and as the rest of the nails 

 were all together in another box, I did not sup- 

 pose they would be with the separators. I do not 

 count the small pieces, only as I put them together, 

 as I believe you to be strictln reliahlr .-nid correct in 

 your dealings. 1 will be more particular hereafter. 

 At first I did not like the tin covers; but after put- 

 ting together and trying them I think them splen- 

 did. I wish I had more of them. 



Cifax, Bedford Co., Va. E. H. Hatcher. 



LMany thanks, friend, for your frank acknowl- 

 edgment that you were mistaken, and not our 

 shipping clerk." AVe hope our friends, on reading 

 this, will take note. When they receive shipments 

 of goods from us, and, upon unpacking, think they 

 have found something missing, will they kindly 

 continue the search, unpack every, thing, and. if 

 the articles are still missing, write us, and we will 

 Bet the matter right '!] 



