1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



173 



I SUPPOSE many of the boys and girls who take 

 Gleanings are fond of magazines, like Blue Eyes 

 and Caddie. What magazine ought a wise parent to 

 give them? My wife asked me that question, and I 

 replied, "■Arthur'n Home Magazine, by all means." 

 Every time I pick up a number I feel more satisfled 

 I was right about it. For more than thirty years I 

 have found pleasure and profit in looking over its 

 bright pages. 



ONE THOUSAND SIMPLICITy BEEHIVES AT A SINGLE 

 ORDER. 



OUH enterprising friend C. M. Dixon, of Parrish, 

 111., has just sent us an order for 1000 Simplicity bee- 

 hives, with other things to match. The goods were 

 dispatched in less than a week. Little did I think, 

 when I first invented the Simplicity hive, that we 

 should manufacture them at such a rate as to sell 

 1000 at a single order. 



CHEAP INK. 



I WAS just led to smile by noticing that our proof- 

 reader used for his shorthand writing a bottle of 

 Oldroyd's bhiing. When I asked him about it he 

 said it was better for his work than any ink he could 

 find, because it does not spread on the paper as most 

 ink does. As we sell a great big bottle for only five 

 cents, it has the merit of cheapness, besides the oth- 

 er quality. Friend O., what is the reason you never 

 said before, that your bluing makes the best kind of 

 ink? 



CHEAP PAPER. 



While speaking of cheap ink, I am reminded that 

 we have also some very cheap writing-paper, used in 

 the various departments of our factory, as well as 

 by the shorthand writers. It is simply the Glean- 

 ings paper which we advertise elsewhere at 15 cents 

 per lb. In order to have it ruled just as we want it, 

 we do the ruling on the printing-press, and we can 

 furnish it to you in sheets the size of this page, or a 

 little larger, already ruled on one side, for 20 cts. by 

 the single pound; 18 cts. in lOlb. lots, or 15 cts. in 

 lots of 100 lbs. In quantities of from 10 to 100 lbs., 

 we will print on a letter-head, without any addition- 

 al charge. 



CHEAP MATCHES. 



Next to a good smoker is a good match to light it 

 with. As the largest match-factories in the world 

 are in the neighboring city of Akron, we are enabled 

 to give special rates. We have now the best drawing- 

 room or parlor matches in boxes of 200 each, for only 

 3 cts. per box. The box is a neat little case arranged 

 so as to hang nicely against the wall. On counting 

 the matches we found 210 in a box, instead of 200. 

 We can send you one gross of these boxes, packed in 

 a neat case, for an even $3.00, which will be only a 

 trifle over 2 cents per box. If you can not use the 

 whole case, your neighbors will probably be glad to 

 take a part of them at this extremely low figure. 



PUT ON YOUR COUNTT. 



We are now receiving so many letters without the 

 county, that we are obliged to employ a clerk to 

 take the letters as fast as they are received, and 

 hunt up the county from the Postal Guide. Even 

 with all the helps we can get, we are liable to make 

 a mistake, because no one knows what county you 

 live in, as well as you do. No one can put on the 

 county as easily as you can. Will you not try to 

 help us, friends, by having it written in, or printed 

 in, especially where you order goods by freight or 

 express. 



SENDING MONEY. 



You may think it is strange when I tell you that a 

 great many people, when they inclose money, neg- 

 lect to say how much they inclose. Now, if you don't 

 say so, how are we to notify you promptly that it 

 was not all there? Quite a number of jangles are 

 now under way on account of this very omission. 

 Always tell how much you send; and I would rec- 

 ommend a postal order or a draft where you can 

 get it. Even with registered letter, or money by ex- 

 press, we have had quite a few troubles, because the 

 amount claimed to have been inclosed was not all 

 there when the package reached us. 



In speaking of Mrs. Cotton's book, I omitted one 

 important point, I notice. It is this: You pay her 

 a dollar for a very small-sized book on bees— much 

 smaller than any of the bee-books before the public, 

 for the money. Now, when we buy a bee-book we 

 expect to find in it full directions for making the 

 hive the author recommends. Not so with this, 

 however. The book gives a picture of the hive, it is 

 true, but informs you that you must send $12.00 for 

 a complete hive I But you can have diagrams and 

 measurements for $1.00. As the book is " thrown 

 in " for $4.00, her real charge is about $3.00 for 

 "diagrams." 



TESTED, OR DOLLAR QUEENS. 



Orders are already coming in for these, and there 

 are friends in the South who want to furnish.them, 

 but I am afraid to undertake mailing them so early 

 in the season. Now, friends, please listen to reason 

 a little. Why not send directly to those in the South 

 who are advertising them, instead of sending to me, 

 to have them-go through two shipments? I know, 

 with our facilities, and the experience we have had, 

 we can oftentimes get them to you more promptly, 

 even if they have to go double or treble the distance. 

 But still, it seems too bad to send the poor little in- 

 sects away up North, and then right back South 

 again, as we often do. If anybody in the Southern 

 States has dollar queens ready to ship now, please 

 tell us so on a card, and we will give his name in our 

 next issue, free of charge. 



REVERSIBLE- FRAMES. 



Our friends may be aware that we send out nuclei 

 and frames of brood in little boxes having the ends 

 of the boxes grooved like the spacing-board shown 

 in the price list. They are made just right for 1, 2, 

 or 3 L. frames to slide down into the grooves. We 

 have sometimes used them in the apiary in this way; 

 and although it is a little more trouble to slide the 

 frames out of these nucleus hives, where the grooves 

 fit about the frames pretty loosely it is not so very 

 hard after all. Well, now, if you leave off the pro- 

 jecting arms of the frame, they will g® in one side 

 up just as well as the other. To prevent them going 

 clear down to the bottom, a nail may be driven part 

 way into the bottom-board at each end of the frame. 

 This stops it, and supports it with scarcely any dan- 

 ger of killing a bee. The objection is, of course, 

 that the bees would, during a heavy honey-flow, wax 

 the frame so fast in the grooves it could hardly be 

 moved. And besides this, the frames could not be 

 moved sidewise; in other words, we should have 

 them fixed at the exact distances, which, I believe, 

 would be tolerated by very few apiarists. For all 

 that, the idea keeps haunting me that the coming 

 frame is to be all alike all around, with no project- 

 ing arms. 



