1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULl*tTRE. 



boxes. The boxes, as usual, were (after the covers 

 had been nailed on) piled up in a storeroom. A few 

 days since, I was able to be up, and took my box- 

 chisel and hatchet, and opened the boxes. In one 

 corner, at the bottom, I found the vise, and, lying 

 on the bottom, the honey-stand. Brother Root, it 

 was almost enough to give me a relapse; but I went 

 to bed without finding the nails. I do not say that 

 the nails were omitted, but I have not been able to 

 find them. It seems strange that so small a thing 

 as the queen-cell knife, pocket tool-chest, etc., could 

 be found, and an iron vise and honey-stand be left 

 in the box. Mr. — — is honest, industrious, and will 

 tell the truth every time; but if he can't find a vise 

 or honey-stand, in a small box, how is it possible for 

 him to become a successful apiarist? Rut I will 

 hope for better things in future. With oi-dinary 

 sense, and truth to build on, I will not despair. 



A. M. H. 



Frieiul II., there is a big lesson liere for a 

 good luaiiy of us. Tlie ScunUifir .liiierlcan 

 recently published an article, giving replies 

 from a great number of eminent men, in re- 

 gard to the (juestion, " Why do men fail in 

 business?" Among the answers furnished, 

 quite a number struck on this very point. 

 A great many men fail in business because 

 they are not thorougli. They are honest 

 and industrious, but tliey lack just where 

 tlie above strikes. Thousands of men, and 

 women too, are out of employment, and I 

 have sometimes tliought the very reason 

 why they are out of employment was just 

 because"^ they made nu)re Iroiible by such lit- 

 tle acts of lleedlessness than all their woik 

 amounted to. I am sorry to say it. but there 

 is only about one pei-son in a hundred who 

 comes to me for employment who is not 

 guilty of cai-eless acts like these. Sometimes 

 I have been uncharitable enougli to think 

 that, if they were handling their own money, 

 or their own property, they would do better; 

 but, alasl tliey waste, lose, and destroy 

 things of their own in the same way. AVhat 

 shall be done for people of tliis class V I 

 have wondered sometimes if college training 

 would do it, but it does not seem to. 



In my daily round over our establishment, 

 and over the grounds belonging to it, 1 meet 

 constantly with wastes and losses; and I 

 long and "pray fen- men and boys who will be 

 constantly asking themselves the question, 

 "Is the work I am doing now, counting in 

 such a way that tliere is a proiit on every 

 hour's labor for which I receive pay?" 

 Once in a while I find a man who llatly"de- 

 clines to receive pay for work. \\ hen that 

 work by some blunder of his own is a dead 

 loss, or does not amount to any tiling. And 

 such men always improve ; sooner or later 

 they command large salaries, wliile those 

 who go along lieedlessly. witli their eyes ap- 

 parently S(miewheie else tlian on their work, 

 never make any progress. 



Not many years ago I received a second 

 letter from one who had been formerly in 

 my employ, begging piteously, almost, for 

 Avork. When he was here last he went to 

 draw some quite expensive machine oil. As 

 the weather was cold, it ran very slowly ; 

 and as he didn't like to waste time waiting 

 for it, he left it running until he could attend 

 to some other little duty. Then he forgot it. 



and went to dinner. While he was at dinner, 

 Ernest discoverd tlie oil in puddles on the 

 floor, and went to gathering it up ss best lie 

 could. Wlien told what he had done, the 

 man let the matter dro]), by a simple explan- 

 ation of liow he hap])cned to fcrgtt it ; but 

 never, at that time or any other, vohniteered 

 to bear any part of the loss. Now. this 

 friend has many good qualities ; but I de- 

 cided then, and I decide now. tiiat I can not 

 furnish emiiloyment to any one wlio i)ropos- 

 es to go Ihrougii the world" after tliat sort of 

 fashion, especially without making any i>i-(>- 

 posal to bear any part of the expense c'ar.s; d 

 l)y his forget fulliess. 



Friend 11.. the man you ref.-r to will never 

 V)ecome a successful apiarist, or anv thing 

 else, I fear, until he overcomes this mcst 

 grievous deformity of his character. 1 have 

 taken this much "space, friends, in dwelling 

 on this point, because it is one of the most 

 grievous troubles that beset humanity. A 

 man who is careful, and makes every move- 

 ment count, is worth I'O cents an hour, even 

 though he may be comparatively slow and 

 awkward ; while one who blunders through 

 life would have hard work to find a steady 

 job at 10 cents ill) hour. 



THE NEW NESTED PAILS. 



PAILS FOR HONEY, AND PAILS FOR OTHER 

 PURPOSES. 



'r\ ELOW we give an engraving of the new 

 pr honey-pails recently ?poken of. You 

 M will observe, that they are made with 

 '■■^ the intention of nesting one in the 

 other. This saves transportation, for 

 tliey go by freight, when thus nested, at 

 about the price of stamped ware. The whole 

 nest complete is nO cts.; 10 nests. So. 75, or 

 100 nests for S3-3.(;0. AVe can sell ro nests for 

 S17.50, as the pails are bo.xed by the manu- 

 facturer, •'30 nests in a box. Pricfs singly 

 will be as underneath the cut shown below. 

 Where our friends at a great distance want 

 to see a nest, they can be sent for .'0 cts. ex- 

 tra for postage. 



We can not break packages of /iO, un- 

 less we charge tens rates for them, f(n- they 

 are boxed u)) 100 in a box: and to open th'e 

 boxes and make a new one is (luite a task. 

 It is not possible to make i)ails like.tluse at 

 these prices, without very'expensive machin- 

 ery, as you can very easily determine by get- 

 ting ])rices at your tinsliops; but wlieii the 

 expensive madiinerv is once ready to run, it 

 I can just as well make pails day after day as 

 j do nothing, and therefore the rhanufacturers 

 have given us these very low figures. It is 

 going to be a damper onthe attempts of any 



