GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Jak. 



ly if ever commence whisky. Did you ever know a 

 man to drink, who did not use tobacco first? Dr. 

 Kellojro- cn^f- that the boy who voluntarily com- 

 mences to use tobacco which he does not like will 

 surely take up with the next vice that pi-esents it- 

 self to him, that he does like. 



THE FOUNTAIN PUMP. 



The inventor and manufacturer of this beautiful 

 little implement has decided, like the publisher of 

 the Story of the Bible, that he can not let me retail 

 them any more at Tocts. ; therefore the price will 

 be, hereafter, $1.00; two for fl.75; or one-fourth 

 dozen for $3.25; so you see that you will have to 

 "chip in" as above, if you want them at the old 

 price of 75 cts. as there will be quite a saving on 

 freight and express by so doing, it will not be so bad 

 an idea, after all. 



Quite a number of the friends have written at dif- 

 ferent times, telling us to keep Gleanings going as 

 long as it is published, and when we want the pay, 

 to send in the bill. Now, we should be very glad to 

 keep right on sending it to you year after year, if we 

 are only assured that you want it; therefore our 

 subscription clerk will hereafter put a letter O on 

 the label to your journal, and this means that we 

 are not to stop it until you tell us to. We expect, of 

 course, you will send us $1.00 each year, on or about 

 the first of January. But the idea is, the paper is 

 not to be stopped until you order it stopped. 



STORY OF THE BIBLE. 



The publisher of the above book absolutely for- 

 bids my selling it at retail at the very low price of 75 

 cts. each, and is not willing to let me have the books 

 unless I sell single copies at not less than $1.25 by 

 mail, or $1.10 by freight or express. I can, however, 

 sell two copies for $1.75, or one-fourth dozen for 

 $2.25; so if you want it at the old price you will have 

 to get two of your neighbors to join in with you, 

 making a small wholesale transaction of it. Remem- 

 ber that the postage is 15 cts. in any case. As the 

 book is wonderfully cheap at even $1.25, 1 presume 

 the publisher is right in regard to the matter. I 



CHANGE IN THE PRICE OF THE BRITISH BEE 

 JOURNAL. 



The B. B. J. is now, like Gleanings, a semi-month- 

 ly. But they have advanced their price to 7 shillings, 

 which would be about $1.75 a year, of our money. 

 The best arrangement we can make with them will 

 make it necessary to charge $1.40 for it to our sub- 

 scribers. This includes postage and all. As we have 

 heretofore been exchanging the B. B. J. for Glean- 

 ings even up, we shall be out of pocket, unless the 

 friends whose subscriptions run into 1884 will make 

 it up to us at the rate of $1.40 per year. Subscrip- 

 tions may be sent us as heretofore, and we will mail 

 the journals as we receive them from England, all 

 In one package. 



DIVISION-BOARDS AND DUMMIES. 



After the article from friend Porter was in type, 

 he sent us the following: 



Another advantage in favor of the full 10-f rame 

 hives should be named. Those who winter on the 

 summer stands can leave the dummies or division- 

 boards in, or replace with a cushion on one side, and 

 give that much more protection. 



While we are about it, why not use a frame of sec- 

 tions in place of the dummy, and then the bees will 

 have room to store in on the side as well as on the 

 top of the brood; and this is exactly the way we 

 have for years managed Simplicity and chaff hives 



for side storing. If we really do not want the bees 

 to store honey at the ^de as well as above, put in the 

 chaff-cushion division-board in common use. Then 

 they will all be ready fixed for winter, as friend 

 Porter suggests. 



DECLINE IN HONEY, SUGAR, ETC. 



Our friends may read all the sugars in our price 

 list at >/2 cent lower, with the exception of the Early 

 Amber. With the decline we have had in sugar, 

 honey seems likely to come down some, and we have 

 been offered very choice honey so low lately that we 

 now offer it for an even 10 cts. per Iti., in lots of not 

 less than .50 lbs. At this low price you will have to 

 furnish or pay for the package. The most conven- 

 ient shipping-can is the iron jacket. A five-gallon 

 can is worth 08 cts., which makes the price of the 

 can, honey and all, $5.68; or a 100-pound can, can 

 and all, $11.10. It seems to me at these prices honey 

 should come into general use as an article of diet. 

 The honey we offer at this price is clover and bass- 

 wood. We can furnish you goldenrod and other fall 

 honey at one cent lower still. 



A WORD TO THOSE GETTING OUT PRICE LISTS OR 

 CIRCULARS. 



I FEAR some of the friends, in ordering circulars, 

 especially those containing considerable matter, 

 overlook the fact that it costs as much to set the 

 type for 500 as for 10,000. For instance, a price list 

 like friend Doolittle's can be made for 2 cts. each, 

 providing 5000 or more are wanted at a time; where- 

 as if somebody wanted only 500, they would cost 10 

 cts. each— $50.00. Friend Viallon also has a very 

 pretty price list, but he had only 1000, so they cost 

 him about 314 cts. each. After the type was all up, 

 and we had got it in the press, ready to print, we 

 could easily have given him another thousand for 

 not over 1'/; cts. each. Now, it seems to me when 

 you go to work to get up any thing that costs so 

 much, it would be well to have an extra thousand or 

 two, before the type is distributed. If you want to 

 increase your business, it seems to me that they 

 surely would be worth what they cost, to give away 

 to your customers, or to hand around among their 

 neighbors. 



"WHY DO I HAVE TO KEEP WRITING, TO MAKE MT 

 JOURNAL COME PROMPTLY?" 



We are sometimes severely blamed because sub- 

 scribers have to write repeatedly, to get missing 

 numbers. Now, friends, they are all mailed from 

 here promptly; that is, they all go from our office 

 wrong, or they all go right. When the address is 

 once in type, it stands, unless you order it changed, 

 and Gleanings is issued regularly. We do not skip 

 for Christmas, for Fourth of July, or any thing of 

 the kind. Now, as the trouble must be at one end 

 of the route or the other, it seems to me the fault 

 must be at your postofflce. A great many have got 

 at the mischief by interviewing the postmaster, and 

 inquiring if there were not some one else of the 

 same name, or nearly the same, who got their mail. 

 It is gratifying to us to know that people who are 

 not bee-keepers often like to read Gleanings; and 

 when it gets into their box they take it and use it, 

 even if the initials of the name are not what they 

 ought to be. Of course, we will always cheerfully 

 send another copy whenever you miss any particu- 

 lar one, and we are always glad of the opportunity 

 of furnishing extra copies for samples; so If you 

 can stand it we can. 



