1884 



GLEAKINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Contents of this Number. 



Baby of Household 128 



Bees, Who Should Keep ?.... 121 



Bees, Fiery 126 



Bee-book, Old 125 



Bee-Tree 130, 132 



Blasted Hopes 139 



Circulars Ill 



Clover, Pea-Vine 120 



Compositions on Bees 125 



Conventions 141 



Crouch's Report 122 



Cut ot Factory 117 



Diligence in Business 124 



Editorials •. . . ..140 



Ext. vs. Comb Honev 120 



Factory, New 114 



Growlery 122 



Harrison. Mrs 121 



Harry "s Problem 133 



Hives, Cracked 134 



Honev Column 112 



Honey, Selling Extracted. . .n» 



Japan 127 



Kind Words Ill 



Mola«ses 131 



Myself and Neighbors 123 



Napkin Rings 124 



Oil-Well 134 



Palanquin 127 



Pollen in Janu^y i:i3 



Kat in a Hive 130 



Silk Culture 12fi 



Smokers, A Caution 1.32 



Sumac 129 



Tobacco Column 138 



Ventilation, Sub earth 131 



Wax, Producing 113 



Zinc Honey-Boards 119 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



The 10-c specs fit exactly, and the shears are excel- 

 lent for the price. A. Dewey. 

 Marshfleld, Pa., Feb. 1, 1884. 



The A B C is a beauty, and I am well pleased with 

 it. Henry M. Keller. 



Burlington, Ind., Jan., 1884. 



The A B C is a better book than I expected for 

 the money, and that Clark smoker is "just boss." 

 H. J. Shapley. 

 Copapa, Lorain Co., O., Jan. 35, 1884. 



I received the 50-cent back saw I sent for in due 

 time. I was surprised to get one so good for the 

 money. J. J- Wilson. 



Hamilton, Ohio, Jan. 35, 1884. 



I like Gleanings ever so much. I always feel 

 more like doing as I should like to be done bv after 

 reading it. J. S. Cumminos. 



Brooklyn, Iowa, Jan. 31, 1884. 



mark about the reason why you gave up tobacco, I 

 felt like saying, " Thank God, friend R. We be most 

 truly brethren indeed."] 



FRIEND WORTH'S BASSWOOD-TREES AT LOW PRICES. 



Allow me to say in Gleanings, that I purchased a 

 large lot of basswood-trees of Mr. Worth, of Borodi- 

 no. They came in excellent order, and gave the 

 best of satisfaction. J. Vandehvort. 



Laceyville, Pa., Feb. 5. 1H84. 



[I am glad indeed to hear that friend W. under- 

 stands taking up and shippinar basswoods, for no one 

 can confer a much greater boon on the bee-keeping 

 world just now than he who encotirages and helps to 

 make the business of basswood planting a success.] 



The Clark smoker and seeds rfceived all right. 

 Goods received from your house are the best pack- 

 ed I ever saw. I wish 1 lived rearer, so T could get 

 all the modern appliances in bee culture. But at 

 the present hi^h rates in freight, it will n'>t pay me 

 to do so. Freight on mv extractor to Cincinnati, 

 $1.03, and from there to Lake Weir station, $1.43. 

 Gleanings comes promptly, and every number gets 

 more interesting and instructive. Wishing yourself 

 and that baby-boy— for whom 1 have quite an inter- 

 est, mine is some older— a happy new ypar, I re- 

 main,— Mrs. Belle McMahan. 



South Lake Weir, Marion Co., Fia., Jan. 3, 1884. 



our 3.5-cent bee-keeper's hammer. 



Hammer is received all right; am more than 

 pleased with it. I do not know but 1 shall send for 

 another. G. H. Hoyt. 



Otisco, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1884. 



I sent you the names of four new subscribers for 

 1884, and you sent them the Dec. No. It is all right, 

 but it is more than I expected. 1 have received the 

 A B C as premium, and am more than pleased with 

 it. The 11 cents my due I intended as postage on the 

 book. W. E. Turner. 



Ulysses,Pa., Jan. 6, 1884. 



The A B C came all O. K. It is certainly Ihe best 

 work on bee culture for beginners and the experi- 

 enced that ever was published. Although I have 

 had eight years' experience in handling bees, I find 

 something new almost every time I peruse its pages. 

 It should be in the hands of every bee-keeper. 



Three Groves, Neb., Jan. 30, '84. J. M. Young. 



CLEAN SEEDS. 



I received the alsike seed all in good order and 

 full weight. I was surprised to find it so clean and 

 free from weeds— something uncommon, in this 

 part of the country at least. It is a pleasure to give 

 an order when it is filled so promptly. 



A. J. Hayneb. 



[Friend H., we are trying hard to have our seeds, 

 all of them, always like what you got. But it is a 

 pretty hard matter. We are now talkinsr about a 

 seed-house with the latest improved machinery for 

 cleaning our seeds, and proper arrangements for 

 testing them.] 



I am pleased with the moral tone of your periodi- 

 cal. " We be brethren." I quitsmoking Sept.,1881; 

 quit for conscience' sake. Yours in Christ. 



Joseph K. Rankin. 



Charlotte. N. C, Jan. 8, 1884. 



[Friend R., may God bless you for your kind 

 words. Your text, "We be brethren," awoke a 

 pleasant thrill, although it was some little time be- 

 fore 1 recognized it with the help of the proof-read- 

 er. I am quite sure it would not hurt us to use such 

 words oftener ; and then when you came to that re- 



I have kept bees for over 30 years in very many 

 kinds of hives, and have never found one that suited 

 me until I srot the Simplicity. I am pleased with 

 that, and alMts fixings. I have used them for ovpr 

 two years. My bees have done well in them. We 

 took from thphn, last summer and fall, 4(J0 lbs. box 

 honey, and l.")0 of extracted, and might have got 

 much more if we could have attended to it as we 

 ought. My son-in-law, Hiram Denton, lives with me, 

 and has the eareof the bees mostly. We have taken 

 Gleanings for over two years. We watch for it as 

 a cat does for a mouse, and it is read from begin- 

 ning to end. It is all right — just what we want. 



Nicholville, N. Y., Jan. 14. Hosea Carr. 



- A HOPEFUL LETTER. 



The two glass cutters are replacpd to Mr. Alden. 

 I am glad vou did it, for I am anxious that your 

 reputation shall be just what you want it to be, and 

 I am satisfied j our clerks are trying to do right too. 

 If every one I deal « ith would treat me as you have 

 done. I should be a happier man; but I have found 

 everybee-man whom I have had dealings with, will- 

 ing to do right. Some of them have offered to over- 

 step thetapunds rf justice to themselvps. Bee-keep- 

 ing is calculated to moralize any one who will en- 

 gage in it. if not Christianize them. 



Vanceburg, Ky., Jan. 9,1884. M. L. Williams. 



[Friend W., I had to laugh when I read your kind 

 letter, and remarked to the proof-reader that you 

 must be like the chap who always got among such 

 good neighbors, that I have been telling the chil- 

 dren about a few pages back.] 



I admire the business part of Gleanings, and 

 like Our Homes very much, and pray God they may 

 be seed sown on good ground, as I think there is 

 great need for the spread of the good news, and 

 many will read Our Homes who would neither at- 

 tend worship nor take a religious periodical. I am 

 away off in North-western Iowa, on a new place, and 

 am short for means, but in good cheer. I am a one- 

 handed man. and make my own hives, frames, etc. 

 I built the house I live in — a frame, 13-ft. posts. 

 How many one armed patrons have you? 



Corrcctionvillc, la., Jan., U84. J. M. Porter. 



[Friend P., I can not say how many, but T know 

 there are several, for I remember hearing them tell 

 how they managed bees with onp arm. Friend Rob- 

 ertson, of Pewamo, Mich., one of the most success- 

 ful bee-men among us, is a one-armed man, and it is 

 said he does more work than most men do with two 

 good hands. He opens hives, handles bees, and does 

 every thing.] 



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