1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



75 



Contents of this Number. 



Aster Honey Candying 102 



Bees Stiufeniig Black lO.") 



Bees on Asters 99 



Bees Near Railways 105 



Bees, Disturbing, Not Fatal. 102 



Bees, Kanfre of 101 



Bee-bait Destructive 99 



Bee-keeping, Bright Side... 77 

 Brood-chamber, Sectional.. 88 



Buckwheat. Two Crops 102 



Carpenter Bees 82 



Chapman Honey-plant 90 



Cider-mills 10.") 



Colonies per Square Mile ... 79 

 Cyclones and Electricity. . .100 



Drones 81 



Editorial Ill 



Evaporating Nectar 78 



Extracted. Changing(y.B.).106 



Fanning Honey in Hive 99 



Foul Brood, Spontaneous... 84 



Frames, Wiring S3 



Heddun ni\e. Tinker on ... 88 



Hon- iMi sill y and Bees 102 



H,.iU'V K.xjicll.'d ..n Wing... 105 



Honey li-(im 100 Nuclei 99 



Honey, Shipping by Exp 83 



Honey, Ext. v. Comb (i^.B) 105 



Honev, Price of (Q.B) lOli 



Jelly-tumblers 99 



Mice in Combs 101 



Ministers and Tobacco 101 



Moths— Old Humbug 101 



Newspapers and Chaff 104 



N. ites nnd (,)\ieries 101 



our Own A|iiary 109 



Past \u:it;i'. Artificial lOJ 



I'v.ivineon Sandv Soil 101 



r.iilcn ill .lanuui'y 10;i 



(jiiiiTii-ceils. Nunu'roiis 102 



i.uieins. Frcding 100 



(.iiicsiion i'.ox 105 



Ki'liorts IMseouraging 101 



Kipiats Kiirouraging lOS 



.Salt in Making Foundation.. 109 



Secor's Poem 100 



Sections, One-side 80 



Sections, Those, Again 79 



Sections, losing Untilled 100 



SiiiipsDn riant,Unfavor'ble.l01 



Tinkei's Kssay 88 



Ti.mato.'s al 21 Cts 102 



Tr,nisi)laiitiiig-tube, Old.... 84 

 Vciiliialioii .>f Small Rooms 85 

 Viiililatiii^;, by Boardinan.. 90 



WilVsSliaiv 80 



■Wintering Indoors 89 



Wintering, Boardman's 89 



Workers, Fertile 102 



Xylocopa 82 



KilD WORDS FROM OUR GUSTOISRS. 



I am well pleased with the ABC book and Glean- 

 ings. J should not like to bo without them. 

 Powhatan, Ark., Dec., 1887. ■ R. H. Guthrie. 



The maple syruii was received in p:ood order. It 

 is the tlnest I ever saw. D. B. Manley. 



Danbury, Conn., Jan. 2, 1888. 



I can say truly, that I have found Gleanings a 

 very good investment indeed— one that I should 

 very much dislike to do without. W. H. Ritteb. 



North Springtield, Mo , Dec. 36, 1887. 



I appreciate Gleaning.s very highly, therefore I 

 can not dispense with it. Please send it for anoth- 

 er year. D. N. Cummer. 



Florence, Out., Can., Dec. 38, 1887. 



I have taken your journal for several years, and 

 I should not like to do without it. I got ten cents' 

 worth of Japanese buckwheat from you last spring. 

 I sowed it, and got 33 lbs. of seed from it. 



Montville, O., Jan. 3, 1888. R. L. Rhodes. 



The goods I found attlie station yesterday. The 

 sugar was very fine, and ihe molasses the nicest I 

 ever tasted. I should like a dozen more cans if 

 they could be atl'orded, so that 1 could sell them at 

 abnut what you char^ied there. F. M. Norwood. 



Whiting, la., Dec. 13, 1887. 



We lake several papers and two bee-journals. I 

 must say, that we like them all; but Gleanings is 

 always the tirst sought by all the family, and it is a 

 most welcome visitor. We all are much interested 

 in youi- Home talks. May the good Lord spare you 

 for many years to continue your good works, is our 

 humble prayer. R.J.Mathews. 



Riverton, Miss., Nov. 14, 1887. 



OUR FLOUR-RECEPTACLE. 



I received the Hour-receptacle and books all right. 

 and they are all and more than I expected. I think 

 the tiour-reeeptacle is .something that every house- 

 keeper ought to have. I am delighted with the 

 book, " First Steps for Little Feet." 



Mrs. E. C. Harper. 



lantha. Mo., Dec. 9, 1887. 



THE wheelbarrow FINE INDEED. 



The bee-hive material is fine indeed, every thing 

 so smooth and nice, fitting together nicely; also the 

 counter goods. I especially like that clock you 

 sent for only *1.50, and that hack-saw is a fine tool. 

 The wheelbarrow is the finest and neatest I ever 

 saw; in fact, I am well pleased with every thing I 

 got from you. Please accept my thanks for your 

 square and upright dealings with your customers. 



San Benito, Cal., Jan. .5, 1887. A. Borgman, 



"IT is so BECAUSE MR. ROOT SAID SO." 



For amount inclosed please send me a telescope 

 mentioned in last supplement to Gleanings. Send 

 also a pair of No. 9 shears. I have bought two 

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 steel, warranted to do good work, but they proved 

 to be iron, washed over with something to make 

 them look pretty. 1 thought I would not invest 

 again, Imt sonn^how we all have confidence in A. I. 

 Root. My husband says. " If Mr. Root says a thing 

 is so, it is so." I think so too. Now, why do stran- 

 gers trust you soV I often say that you are doing 

 as much good in the world as any minister of the 

 gospel. I hope your life will lie spared for many 

 years; and when you are called to go up higher, I 

 know you will find many stars in your crown. 



Fanny E. Sanburn. 



East Thetford, Vt., Dec. 19, 1887. 



THE OLD HEN AND CHICKENS. 



I have just been reading in Gleanings about 

 that hen and her chickens. 1 did not know so much 

 could be said about so little a subject when you 

 have so much business to see to. You must have 

 more patience than I have, but it seems you can 

 seethe grace of f!od in an old heri and chickens, 

 even if she raises hob with your fine flowers and 

 nice things that you give so much care to. [am 

 one of those m^fen who get out ol' patience with my- 

 self and every thing around me; and when 1 road 

 your last Gleanings I read some things that con- 

 vinced me that we manj' times make ourselves 

 more trouble by not looking things in their face as 

 you do. and say every thing is all right if we only 

 thinlv so. Ml'. Root, give us some more of your 

 happy thoughts: I think the Lord will translatp 

 you by and by, or. at least, I hope so; but I trust 

 not until you have lived to a ripe old age and have 

 had your fill. I. F. Plummer. 



Augusta, Me. 



ONE f)F THE .lUVENILES TAKES UNCLE AMOS TO 

 TASK. 



Inclosed please find $1.00 for Gleanings the com- 

 ing \, ear. 1 very much enjoy it? visits, and I would 

 not willingly forego them, even if I did not have 

 halt' ji dozen stands of bees as an excuse for sub- 

 scribing for a bee-paper. My Ernest, who loves a 

 joke, wants to know if I or any one else should 

 send a postal card with "stop it," and not add 

 another word, M)/wse paper would you stopV 



Mrs. M. E. Brown. 



Athens, Clarke Co., Ga., Dee. 31, 1887. 



[My good friend, will you please tell Ernest that 

 we would look on the face of the postal card to see 

 where it came from; then we would look on. the 

 subscription-list, and see if we have subscribers 

 there: and finally, by means of the Postal Guide 

 and Bradstreet's commercial reports, and of our 

 great big index-book to our ledgers, which book 

 cost .175 (10, besides our files of ever so many thou- 

 sands of letters, we should probably in time find 

 out who the man was, for we hitve such v.-brk every 

 few days when somebody forgets to sign his name. 

 Ernest is all right, however, fitter all. 1 should 

 have said. " Stop it," and then sign your name.l 



THE HOME PAPERS TO ONE WHO HAD BEEN ON A 

 BED OF PAIN FIVE YEARS. 



Gleanings found us mourning for the loss of a 

 dear son. He died Sept. 33. He had been sick al- 

 most five years— had not been on a chair, nor turn- 

 ed over in bed, in four years. He was drawn all 

 out of shape with inflammatory rheumatism, and 

 was blind. You would like to know how much good 

 your Home talks did him. He would say, as soon 

 as the papers came, " Now, ma, sit down and rest 

 you and read what Mr. Root has to say to us." There 

 was nothing that did him so much "good. He was 

 always cheerful and happy. When I read what you 

 said about dying, he said, "That is just as I i'eel 

 about dying. I never have seen the time when 1 

 wanted to die, after all I have suffered." But God. 

 in his goodness, has taken him from this world of 

 pain and suffering, to a better world, I trust. Al- 

 though he never united with any church, I trust he 

 is safe in the arms of Jesus. 1 hope and pray that 

 God will spare you to a good old age, so vou can 

 carry on your good work. Mrs. A. M. Murphy. 



White Creek, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1887. 



