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Aug. 



and rearing- brood, but must be carried over winter 

 by feeding. G. C. Stokei.y. 



Arnoldville, Indian Ter., Aug. 2, 1888. 



LITTLE honey; PROSPECTS POOR. 



The honey crop is very poor liere this season. 

 From 35 extra-strong colonies I have got so far only 

 16 gallons extracted honey, not a pound of comb. 

 Five built-out sections from last year; some had a 

 little honey in when put on, but have not a drop 

 to-day. Foundation has not been touched. We 

 had a great deal of rain this month. It is getting 

 very dry at present, and dusty, but heavy dew at 

 nights. I expect good fall pasture. We had no 

 white clover at all; but plenty of dog-fennel In 

 place, which had for years past been rare. 1 am 

 afraid we shall have little white clover next year, 

 as I can see no young among the grass, and no old 

 to bear seed for next crop. A Mr. Mansford, four 

 miles southeast of here, reports 30 gallons extract- 

 ed and 180 one-pound sections from 8 stands; but 

 he had 31 acres of alsike clover inside of half a mile 

 of him. Geo. L. Hollenbach. 



Noblesville, Ind., July 26, 1888. 



Friend H., your concluding sentence 

 seems to be a pretty strong testimony in fa- 

 vor of alsike clover, and I do believe that 31 

 acres of it might make all the difference be- 

 tween success and failure to any moderate- 

 sized apiary in its vicinity. 



successive years of failure not encourag- 

 ing. 



As for the bees, no good. Basswood and 'white 

 clover are gone, and no honey. Fall prospects are 

 not bright. Much swarming has weakened our 

 stocks; from 33 to 63 increase. How can successive 

 years of failure inspire indomitable zeal in the pur- 

 suit of emoluments growing out of the top of a 

 bee-hive? I feel disgusted and chagrined. Instruc- 

 tions are chaff. Read and practice, and, lo! you 

 are no better off than the old box man across the 

 way. It seems that the fools in this business are 

 the hive-openers and bell-ringers, while the mer- 

 chant of supplies is truly the nabob whose insides 

 shake with the accumulated fat taken fi-om the 

 tired and almost empty corner of the poor fool's 

 pocket-book who is talking beeology to his neigh- 

 bors and friends. No reflection on the integrity of 

 friend Root. O. D. Oberlin. 



Peters, 111., July 13, 1888. 



Friend O., I am a little afraid that you 

 are inclined to be prejudiced against capital. 

 There may be naljobs in the supply-busi- 

 ness, but I do not know of any. So far as I 

 do know, supply-dealers are at present feel- 

 ing about as blue as the honey-raisers. God 

 has given some of us talents in one direc- 

 tion, and some in another; and although 

 our lines of work are different, I think we 

 should be careful about thinking evil of any 

 particular class of people. Shall we not re- 

 member that capital would be of little use 

 without labor, and also that labor would be 

 of little use, comparatively, without capital. 

 When both capital and labor go hand in 

 hand, each glad of the privilege of helping 

 the other, then each'' f nltills the purpose for 

 which God created both ; and in that way 

 we glorify his holy name. 



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the date of the next national convention. 

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NOT JUST exactly AS I MEANT IT. 



On page 610, Aug. 1, 1 tried to say, "Even the 

 garden of Eden itself;" but by some awful blunder 

 somewhere it was made to read, "Even a weed in 

 the garden itself." I think everybody must have 

 been off on a vacation when the above was perpe- 

 trated, and may be the compositor, was more experi- 

 enced in weedy gardens than in the garden of Eden. 



BOOKS ON CARP CULTURE, AND CARP IN GENERAL. 



There are three things I want to notice in regard 

 to carp. The first is, that I have succeeded in get- 

 ting our carp so tame that I can take them out of 

 the water with ray hands— that is, while feeding 

 them, admire their beauty, and put them back with- 

 out alarming them very greatly either; and I real- 

 ly believe our carp-pond is worth all it costs, for the 

 enjoyment it affords in playing with my fish. Sec- 

 ondly, our old friend John W. White, whom most of 

 you remember, probably, has recovered so far from 

 the orders that were poured in upon him a year 

 ago that he is now ready to send out fish again at 

 low prices. His address is Chatham Center, Medina 

 Co., O. Last, but not least, our good friend L. B. 

 Logan, editor of the Carp Journal, Youngstown, O., 

 has just sent out the best book on carp culture ever 

 before put in print; and I am feeling considerably 

 troubled because it is a better book than my own is 

 likely to be very soon. In fact, it is a great deal 

 better book than I had expected to get from any 

 source whatever. We are told, however, in the in- 

 troductory, that friend Logan got his wife to help 

 him, and I suppose this accounts for it all. The 

 book has 130 pages, entirely devoted to carp culture, 

 and it is full of nice pictures to make every thing 

 plain. Friend L. did not study it ail U]) himself, 

 however, but the book embodies contributions and 

 bright thoughts from different contributors to the 

 Carp Journal, written at different times for two or 

 three years back. The price is, by mail, postpaid, 

 65 cents. Our own book has got as far along as 38 

 pages. One reason why I have been so slow about 

 it is, that I want to experiment and test a great 

 many different matters before I put them into book 

 form. My book will probably cover different 

 ground from friend Logan's; l>ut I believe it will 

 pay every man, who has a carp-pond, to have both 

 books. If you can not get more than one, buy 

 friend Logan's. Mailed from here at price stated. 



