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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



can be ; but when the beans are ripe and 

 shelled, no one can tell a particle of differ- 

 ence. Toil know 1 profess to lie of the class 

 who "' thinketh no evil ; '' yet 1 can not 

 avoid concluding that somebody is at the 

 bottom of this whole matter of mixing gar- 

 den-seeds that are alike in apeiearance. 

 Someildng for nothing, again. Can you im- 

 agine the state of a man's heart who can sit 

 down deliberately, and contrive to cheat his 

 neighbors in garden-seedtjV He gets a few 

 paltry dollars— if liis cheat succeeds. And 

 thus tlie m;iii wlio prepares his ground by 

 the sweat of his brow, and cultivates and 

 attends to his crop, finds in tlie end tliat he 

 has got tares instead of wlieat. If it were 

 consistent with Christian character I should 

 get mad. and declare I would raise ray own 

 seeds. In thinking it over, however, 1 have 

 decided 1 will raise my own seeds, so far as 

 I can consistently, without getting mad. 

 Then I will write kind Christian-like letters 

 to the man of whom I purchased those bad 

 seeds, and we will ferret out the guilty par- 

 ty, if it is a possible thing to do. With 

 those two exceptions I have had reason to 

 feel proud of the great seedsmen of Ameri- 

 ca, so it behooves us to be slow to anger, 

 but to cultivate, rather, that virtue that 

 " suffereth long and is kind." 1 know, 

 friends, that may be you think I have got a 

 good way off from my text, but I do not be- 

 lieve I have after all. You have no right 

 to expect for a moment that '* all things will 

 work together for good "' while you are open 

 to offers of getting something for nothing. 

 God's promised blessing can not be yours 

 while you stop on the streets because some 

 confidence man offers you half a dollar (with 

 a watch-chain thrown in) for 25c.; nor when 

 you mix po.>r seeds with good ones, to sell 

 to your neighbor; nor when you put the 

 best apples on top, and the gnarly and poor 

 ones underneath ; nor when you, by your 

 actions, show that you expect to get for 

 nothing any thing that is your neighbor's ; 

 because, if you love God, you must love your 

 neighbor too. The Bible says so. See : 



If a man say, T love God, and hateth his brother, 

 he is a liar.— I. John 4: rifl. 



And you know our text says, " All things 

 shall work together for good to those who 

 love the Lord." The man wlio puts coun- 

 terfeit beans among the good seed can not 

 love God. It is impossible. He belongs to 

 the prince of darkness; for if he loved his 

 fellow-man even a little, he would give him 

 just as good beans to plant as he would 

 plant himself under like circumstances. 



Now, then, we have lately had some pret- 

 ty hard fiings at the Christian religion. Let 

 us hunt up these fellows who are adulterat- 

 ing honey, if there be any to hunt up, and 

 see whether they are professors of religion 

 or not. Let us hunt up the man who mixes 

 cheap seed with that which is scarce and 

 expensive, to defraud his brother^ and see if 

 he dare have the cheek to proress to be a 

 member of any church. Let us, who have 

 stood ui) before men, and assumed the sa- 

 cred responsibility of being followers of 

 Christ, look well to our acts and our words, 

 and to the goods we sell. May be before we 

 get through we shall discover the key to the 



mystery as to why we are short of money, 

 out of work, and have not good crops to sell. 



THE RIGHT VIEW OF THE CASE. 



tEES wintered poorly, and the spring- was very 

 late. During the last of April and the first 

 of May, I set out 29 colonies, 10 of them 

 strong-, and the other weak. Up to date 

 (Aug. 4i I have taken from the six best col- 

 onies 400 lbs. of comb honey, and there is about 200 

 lbs. nearly ready in those hives now. The others 

 have not done as well. I shall get in all about 800 

 lbs. comb, and 100 lbs. extracted honey. I have had 

 10 swarms come out. The honey is of an excellent 

 quality, and brings, comb, 20 cts.; extracted, 18 cts. 

 I find that in bee-keeping as in all other pursuits 

 we have our advantages as well as disadvantages; 

 and it is those who continue and persevere that 

 succeed. If we meet with success one year we 

 should not get too enthusiastic; and if we meet 

 with reverses we should not get discouraged, but 

 go right on from year to year, being cheerful alike 

 over succesffaud failure; and then we shall find in 

 the end as good a reward in this as in almost any 

 other work. My motto has been, "Support j'our 

 business and your business will support you." I 

 think this is, to a great degree, true. Whatever 

 work we may be doing, we should give that work 

 our watchful and prayerful attention, believing 

 that the great Father will be just with us, giving 

 us those things that he in his wisdom sees that we 

 most need. He has promised to " withhold no good 

 thing" from us. A. D. Ellinqwood. 



Milan, N. H., Aug. 4, 1888. 



AN EXTRA good SEASON. 



We have had an extra good season for clover hon- 

 ey here. Have had but one equal to it in the eleven 

 years I have been keeping bees. E. D. Howell. 



New Hampton, N. T., Aug. 2, 1888. 



SEVENTY-FIVE PER CENT OF A FULL CROP FOR 

 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 



There are about 700 colonies of bees in De Luz 

 against 1000 a year ago, a loss of about one-third last 

 winter. About 75 per cent of a full crop has been 

 taken. Only (iOO lbs. of comb honey has been sold. 

 We have been offered lOH cts. for comb, and 4'4 for 

 extracted. The following is a tabulated report for 

 this locality. 



No. colonies. Lbs. comb. Ext'd. 



J.Orvis 60 fiOO 5000 



M. Decker .58 900 3600 



A. J. Foss 185.. 12,600 



H. Root 80 5000 



H. J. Camp 90 7000 



S. Carr 80 3,600 1200 



O.A.Stewart 100 4,300 4800 



W.W.Houghton.. 70 9600 



W. W. Houghton. 



De Luz, Cat, July 31, 1888. 



FROM 69 TO 113, AND 600 LBS. OF HONEY. 



The season here so far has been poor for honey, 

 but good for increase where they were allowed 

 their own way. From 69 stands, spring count, I 

 have got about 400 lbs. extracted honey, and 200 lbs. 

 comb honey in 1-lb. sections. Increased to 113, and 

 sold 10 three-comb nuclei. I hived all new swarms 

 on old combs, so that all the brood-chambers are 

 well filled with honey. Many persons' bees here 



