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GLEAXtXGS IN BEE CULTUllJi:. 



Dec. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture. 



Published Semi -Month! if- 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 

 MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For ClulsbiEg Eates, See First Page of Eeidiij Matter. 



We have to-day 7144 subscribers — 13 more than 

 we ever had before since Gleanings had an ex- 

 istence, and it is Thanksgiving:-day too. Did you 

 ever ! __________ 



HONEY FOB SALE. 



Keep the sign out, and keep some on hand, if it is 

 only a little, so that if anybody comes to you for 

 honey he will learn to know that he can always find 

 it by g-oing to you for it. 



DISCOUNTS DURING DECEMBER. 



In the last few days, orders have come in pretty 

 freely ; but as there are yet some of the clerks want- 

 ing to go to work badly, we will make the discounts 

 on goods for the next season, 4 per cent until the 

 ].5th; and after that, 3 per cent from the 15th of 

 Dec. to the first of Jan. Please allude to this edi- 

 torial when you make your orders. 



PRICE OF WAX. 



As money is so close at present, I do not dare of- 

 fer more than 26 cts. cash, or 28 trade, for fair bees- 

 wax. Well, the wax-brokers refuse to sell less than 

 32; therefore our offer to sell, given on the cover of 

 this number, will be 33 instead of 31, as it reads 

 there. If any of the friends think I am making too 

 much money, suppose they try their hand at it. 



periodical business), Andovei-, Tolland Co., Ct., a 



[ pamphlet of 14 pages, giving low rates on almost all 

 periodicals. By the way, wo are better prepared 



I now than ever before to get out circulars and pi-icc 

 lists for bee-keepers, from size of postal card to any 

 size you want. All the cuts used in the ABC book, 

 price list, or Gleanings are at the disposal of those 



I who have their printing done here, without extra 



! charge for the use of said cuts. 



DULL TIMES. 



Uvi.t. times do us good, friends, if we take them 

 in the right way. Sometimes they bring hard trials ; 

 but never mind if they do, so long as you are choos- 

 ing God for your friend. You are often obliged to 

 refuse your children things they very much desire, 

 but they are in the end happier because you refuse 

 them. Pai-ents sometimes are obliged to punish 

 those they love; but if the child takes it as ho 

 should take it, that very punishment conduces to 

 his happiness. Now, it would not be at all strange 

 if some of us needed just about the kind of disci- 

 pline we are getting; and if we take it as coming 

 from a kind Father's hand, we shall be the happier 

 for it in the end. Such times ought to make us 

 more diligent and more full of energy— more deter- 

 mined to be self-sustaining, and more independent 

 of outside circumstances. If God is within, it mat- 

 ters little what is without. 



orders for SECTIONS RECEIVED DURING THIS 

 MONTH. 



For orders for 10,030 lots or more, received before 

 Dec. 15, we will make the price an even $4.00 per 

 1000, and the sections will be superior to any thing 

 ever offei-ed by us heretofore. We can furnish 

 them with V-shaped grooves or the squai-e groove, 

 as heretofore, as may be desired. Samples mailed 

 free of chai-ge on application. The above is for the 

 regular Simplicity one-piece section. Orders for 

 odd sizes will be in proportion. 



FIRST STEPS FOR LITTLE FEET. 



This is the title of a little book for quite small 

 children, by the author of the " Story of the Bible." 

 It is nicely bound, full of pictures, mostly of Bible 

 characters, for the book is mainly Bible stories in 

 very plain and simple terms. It is a splendid book 

 for a Christmas present for the little ones. Even if 

 too small to read, they will enjoy the pictures, and 

 delight in having mamma read about them, over 

 and over again. You see, it is quite a good-sized 

 book, containing 327 pages. Price .35 cts. ; by mail, 6 

 cts. extra for postage. 



CIRCULARS AND PRICE LISTS FOR 1885. 



Only one is at present at hand, and this is from 

 E. H. Cook (successor to G. M. Doolittle in the 



BACK NUMBERS OF GLEANINGS. 



We have several tons of these on hand, and we 

 can furnish reading cheap to those of our friends 

 who have not got the back numbers. In order to 

 get rid of the stock on hand, we will, until further 

 notice, sell old numbers, no two alike, for the small 



i sum of two cents each, and we can go back to 1872, 

 if you want them so old as that. Of course, we can 

 not furnish special numbers for that price, for there 

 are some we are out of, and others, the price of 

 which would not pay for the expense of hunting. 



! Volumes 1, 2, and 4, we furnish for 20 cts. a volume, 

 fastened together with brass clips. The above 

 prices ai-e where they are sent by freight or ex- 

 press, with other goods. If you want them by mail, 

 add one cent for each number, for postage. These 

 back volumes contain articles from our best writers, 

 and are also full of engravings that cost thousands 

 of dollars. If you wish, we can give you one each 

 from Vol. I. to the present time, with the exception 

 of a very few that "are out of print. As Gleanings 

 is now in its 12th volume, if you wish to order the 

 whole from its commencement up it will cost you 

 13.00, for there would be 144 numbers for the 12 

 yeai-s; and as it has been a semi-monthly for 3 

 years and 7 months, this would add h2 numbers 

 more, making 176 total. As a few numbers will be 

 missing, we will send j'ou one of each as far as we 

 can, for an even *3.00, or as many as you choose at 

 an even 2 cts. each. Now, then, friends, you who 

 want reading for winter evenings, here is a chance 

 for you. 



BROKEN COMB HONEY; WHAT TO DO WITH IT. 



Yesterday we received four cases of comb hon- 

 ey by express, from Wisconsin. They contained 80 

 sections. The express company had handled them 

 so roughly that they succeeded in knocking the 

 honey out of 49 out of the 80. Of course we wanted 

 to do the best we could for our customer and the 

 express company also; so we took the broken cakes 

 of comb honey, and put each one on a small white 



