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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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standing- in community rated. What shall we do 

 when we can not pay? One way is to say you can 

 not pay it, and let the matter drop; or, worse still, 

 make no reply when inquiries come concerning 

 your ind'.'btedness. I hardly need tell you this is a 

 very bad way. "What should a body do? "then, 

 you ask. Why, my friend, g-et an honorable release 

 from your obligation. Gettingarelease from a prom- 

 ise is next thing to keeping the promise. Before 

 the money is due which you promise to pay, write 

 to the one you are owing, and ask him if he can not 

 possibly favor you by waiting a little longer. If he 

 agrees to this, all well and good; but if he does not 

 agree to it, you arenas well off as before, an j' way, 

 and have the satisfaction of feeling that you tried 

 to arrange the matter amicably. Now, at this point 

 I would try to find somebody among my friends and 

 acquaintances who would loan me the money for 

 the sake of keepfng my name fair, if nothing more. 

 But my experience has been that it is very seldom 

 that a man who tries to be honest, and do right, is 

 not granted the time he asks, providing he is within 

 the bounds of reason with his request. Of course, 

 the most important thing in this matter, hy all odds, 

 is to be careful about going in debt. If you have 

 not the money to buy what you want, go without it; 

 and if you are one of those individuals who have 

 not friends willing to loan you money when you 

 get into a tight place, hiJ (til means avoid making 

 purchases when you can not pay cash down. "A 

 good name is rather to be chosen than great riches." 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



The two queens came through all O. K. There was 

 not a dead bee in the cages. 



D. W. Bakthoi.cjmew. 

 Bridgewater, Dakota, July 37, 1884. 



Please send me $2A(i worth of the Clark smokei-s. 

 They go off like hot cakes and 'lasses. I got them 

 Saturday night, and are all gone Tuesday. 



RutlerVille, Ind., May 21, 1884. W. S. Taylor. 



A KIND WORD FROM A DEAF MUTE. 



I felt as if I was on the " Great Desert of Sahara " 



when I stopped taking your excellent bee-papers. 



Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 12, 1884. C. E. Gregory. 



.JUST A WORD FROM FRIEND LANG.STROTH. 



Only a few days ago did I see your very kind ar- 

 ticle in Sept. 15 Gleanings. As soon as I recover 

 from an unusually sevei-e cold, I will write to you. 



< >xford, O., Oct. 20, 1884. L. L. Lanostroth. 



OUR 244-LB SCALES. 



The 244-lb. scales that I ordered of you came 

 thi-ough all right. They are better and cheaper 

 than I expected. Bees did very poorly here this 

 year; it was too dry and hot. I have 90 stands all in 

 good condition. D. Pryor. 



f-oogootee, Tils., Oct. 8, 1884. 



THE WAY IT PAYS TO BE ALWAYS READY AND 

 WILLING TO MAKE GOOD YOUR BLUNDERS. 



F/iV/id RooL— Yours of June 11 is at hand. I will 

 excuse you for the delay; it was (juite an annoy- 

 ance, not getting the fdn.: but us you pay the extra 

 freight, all right. Voiir letter gave iiif Icits of 

 pleasure, to tiiul one iiiun with honor and ( "liristiau- 

 itv enough to do what is right. 1 inclose another 

 order. N. H. Pixley. 



Wamego, Kan., June 17, 1884. 



[The friends will see from the above, that we by 

 some mistake of our own caused friend Pixley a 

 vexatious delay, and when we expi-essed a willing- 

 ness to make it all right, he replies as above. Does 

 it not really pay us to be always ready and willing 

 to make good any mischief we may have inadver- 

 tantly caused?] 



EXTK.VCTORS THAT l"HROW HONEY OVER THE CAN. 



Friend Root.— I received that crate of five smok- 

 ers, and I was really surprised to find a ring for my 

 extractor. I am very thankful, for the ring fits 

 exactly. I put it on, and have since extracted. I 

 find it just the thing. There is no more honey Hy- 

 ing over the top against my clothes. I can go from 

 the extractor as free from stickiness as before I 

 commenced. Many thanks for your kindness. It is 

 really a pleasure to do business with such a man. 



I must tell you my success this summer. We had 

 8 hives of bees in the spring in chaff' hives; we got 

 six swarms this summer. Now we have 14. We 

 got a barrel of honey this summer. One of my 

 swarms is in a box hive that did not have anj^ sur- 

 plus at all, but it gave me two large swarms of 

 bees. 



Concerning the chaff' hives, I must tell you that 

 they are well pleased with it. There is only one 

 thing that they do find fault with and that is this: 

 They claim it is not filled out as in the contract; that 

 it is'to be ready for bees, with starters— that is, comb 

 fdn. in the sections. Of course they are there. 

 But in the lower story there are none, and I think 

 they told me that the division is also lacking. Nov,-, 

 1 do not know whether you call it ready for a bee 

 without the comb fdn. starters in the lower stor.>-, 

 and division-board; if so, please explain by note or 

 through (iLEANiNGS. If only narrow strips, say 

 two inches, were in the frame;?, it would guide them 

 straight. A. H. Bau.m. 



Ashland, Ohio. 



[Friend B., I am very glad indeed to know that 

 the rim answers the purpose exactly. I thank you 

 for the kind words in regard to our way of doing- 

 business.— The hives we send out never have fdn. 

 put in the brood-frames unless they are so ordered. 

 The comb-guides that are always put in the frames 

 are all the guides needed for the straight combs, 

 and almost everybody nowadays uses full frames 

 of fdn. supported by wires, where they use fdn. at 

 all; in fact, strips such as you mention would get 

 broken off' in transit, if we put them in. Fdn. is 

 usually bought by the pound, and put in according 

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CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The next annual meeting of the Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation of Central Illinois will be held in Bloom- 

 ingt(;n on the second Wednesday in January, 188.5, 

 at it o'clock A. M. W. B. Lawrence, Sec. 



The Southern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will meet at Du Quoin, in Opera House, Thurs., Nov. 

 13, 1884. This is a new work. All are invited. 



Wm. Little, Pies. F. H. Kennedy, Sec. 



The bee-keepers of Tipton and Hamilton Coun- 

 ties will hold their next meeting at Arcadia, Ind., 

 on Thursday, Nov. 6, 1884, at 10 o'clock a. m. All are 

 respectfully invited to attend. 



John Fritz, Sec. 



The Western Michigan Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will hold a session at Fremont, Newaygo Co., Nov. 

 25, 1884. Trains arrive at 9:25 and 10: ~5 A. .m.. and 

 5: 25 and 6: 25 p. m. You are respectfully invited to 

 attend, as an iirtei-esting and profitable time is an- 

 ticipated. Geo. E. Hilton, Sec. 



The Mich. State Bee-Keepers' Association will hold 

 their next annual meeting in the Cnjiitol building 

 at Lansing, Dec. 10 and n. 1884. Coiiiniittccs are at 

 work on hotel accommodations. Hciiuec d rates on 

 railroads, etc. Full particulars next month. P'or 

 any special information, address 



Clinton, Mich. IL D. Cutting. Sec. 



A meeting of the Central California Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will lie held in Hanford, at 10 

 o'clock, on the tirst Wednesday in Dce.-uilier, where 

 we will discuss the i.resent denioralize<l state of the 

 honey market in California, and how to remedy it 

 if possible. We should be glad to see some Eastern 

 friends at our meeting. The last one was very in- 

 teresting, and I shall try to send you some items of 

 the next. George Hobler, Sec. 



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