GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 



relieve her by being more useful and more 

 trustworthy. They will be happier by being 

 more useful, and she will be happier by be- 

 ing more " use-/ess." 



A few days ago the young man who has 

 charge of our apiary wanted to know what 

 Avages I could pay him for next year. After 

 we had talked the matter over some, he 

 named a price considerably higher than I ex- 

 pected to give. When I demurred, he asked 

 how much I would give him if he wintered 

 our 200 colonies without loss, or with the 

 loss of not to exceed half a dozen colonies. 

 I told liim if he would do that I would pay 

 him the price he wanted. He decided to do 

 it. Of course, I was to give him all the 

 gramdated sugar he wants, good hives, and 

 let him make the colonies as strong as he 

 thinks they ought to be. He has managed 

 extremely well since he has been with us, 

 and I think likely he will come out all right. 

 Do you see the point we are coming at now? 

 For the time being the responsibility of 

 wintering the apiary is lifted from my 

 shouldeis, and I am useless ; or, in other 

 words, I have more time to devote to some- 

 thing else or somebody else ; and he on his 

 part has gone to work with renewed vigor 

 and energy, because he has a new responsi- 

 bility—a powerful incentive to watchfulness 

 and painstaking. He has right hold of the 

 bees— is in close contact with them, so to 

 speak, and I am out of his way. Different 

 departments of our establishment are get- 

 ting, as the years pass on, into the hands of 

 trustworthy" and capable friends, as in the 

 case above noticed ; and don't you see this 

 is an absolute necessity, that I may get 

 around and inform myself, that I may be 

 able to give you the join-nal you ought to 

 have? Now I can go to Canada, or to New 

 Orleans, or perhaps to California, and the 

 bees are cared for by some one who has 

 shouldered the responsibility ; and by and 

 by, when God shall call me away from my 

 field of labor here, and from the friends I 

 have learned to know and love, different 

 ones will have been so accustomed to the re- 

 sponsibilities of their departments that the 

 work will go on, even though I am no longer 

 with them ; for God has helped me to make 

 myself no longer a necessity to its welfare 

 and to your welfare, and "^to that of rising 

 generations. 



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HONEY FROM THE LOCUST - BLOOM. 

 Its Excellent Quality. 



T|(j S I hav-en't troubled jou lately, I will ask you 

 ^fe to take time to scan this. I got a very good 

 jPP crop of locust-bloom honey, and a very had 

 crop of honey-dew or bug juice. The for- 

 mer is the nicest and best honey that I ever 

 saw or tasted, while the latter is, to my taste, very 

 disagreeable; yet, I have found customers for it at 

 15 cents per lb. J. Wright, Esq., a banker of this 

 place, and the Hon. J. W. F. White, of Sewickley, 

 have each purchased 50 lbs. of the dark stuff, and 

 pronounce it the finest honey they ever tasted. 



I suppose the " Home of the Honey-Bees" has 

 changed somewhat since I saw it. If your town 



had some of the advantages that ours has, you 

 might boast of progress. I was amused when I 

 went to the American House, and was lighted to 

 my room with a lamp; but this is one step further 

 than the tallow candle. We have here natural and 

 artificial gas. The people of Washington have their 

 houses heated and lighted up with the gas. They 

 also use it for fuel in their stoves. As there are nu- 

 merous wells being sunk, and plenty of it burning 

 up that is not used, I opine that gaslight ere long 

 will be as cheap as daylight. 



I was in eight counties in your State, and did not 

 see a place that saloons were not kept, while in our 

 county not a drop of any kind of liquor is permitted 

 to be retailed. I do not wonder that you are in 

 favor of prohibition. A great many send their 

 children to our town to be educated, on account of 

 the influence to evil habits being lessened by the 

 sale of strong drink being prohibited. 



Lekoy Vankikk. 



Washington, Pa., Oct. 30, 1884. 



Friend V., I am glad to know there are a few 

 who like the aphis honey, and the hint may 

 be worth something to those who may have 

 it on hand, and I ho()e they may go to work 

 so as not to lose on it.— We sliould be great- 

 ly rejoiced here in Medina if we had natural 

 gas, sufficient for hotels and other places 

 to use it ; but 1 tell you 1 should rejoice 

 more if the four saloons that hold sway 

 here were made to die a natural death by be- 

 ing made to starve out. We rejoice to know 

 there is at least one county in Pennsylvania 

 where not a drop of liquor is sold. 



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A SEASONABLE ARTICLE. 



WKAP.S. 



OOK at Lizzie Branson, with nothing around 



hei'," and thei-e she was riding gaily along 



-^ in a fierce north-west wind that chilled 



the marrow in one's bones, if not well 



wrapped up, with not a single wrap, and 



riding horseback too. 



It was just sehooltime in Ipava, and the children 

 from town and country were gathering in. and I 

 could not help noticing the different looks of the 

 children— some so blue, with chattering teeth, 

 wrapped up in a scarf, while we, who had come 

 four miles, facing the wind, were snug and warm, 

 with not a single shiver. But then, Minnie had on 

 her water-proof and her pa's thickest overcoat, and 

 a warm hood, and wo had hot bricks to our feet; 

 and as we rode leisurely along I gave out Minnie's 

 physiology lesson while she drove, and we were as 

 comfortable as if at home; and when I see childi-en 

 all blue and pinched all along the road, as I go and 

 come, I get mad— not at the children— no, indeed, 

 but at the children's mothers. Why don't they see 

 to it that their children ai-e warmly dressed and 

 well wrapped up. People with plenty of money to 

 buy farms, and put up big barns and tine houses 

 will send their children forth like shorn lambs in 

 the winter's storm, and then wonder why they get 

 sore throat and croup. It makes me feel like the 

 woman that the good brother was talking to. He 

 tried to get her to commit herself to something; 

 but she believed neither in the Trinity, the God- 

 head, nor the saving grace of Christ. " AVell, sister," 

 said he, " what do you believe, any way? " 

 I "Well," said she, "about the only things that I 



