GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



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ORDER EARIi^. 



Remember tliat, to avail yourselves of the h and 4 

 pel' cent discount on bee supplies (see notice else- 

 where), j'our orders must be received during the 

 present month, and that, after that, the discounts 

 stand ti and 3 per cent respectively. Don't put it 

 bff any long-er if j'ou wish to save money. 



BARGAINS IN FDN. MILLS. 



WE have to sell, the following- described fdn. 

 mills, which we consider a bargain at the prices we 

 ask. 



One twelve-inch latest improved, of our make, 

 that has made only a few pounds of foundation, 

 and was exchanged for a 14-inch mill. We offer this 

 for $25.(10. 



One 9-inch Olm mill. This mill was made a num- 

 ber of years ago, but has been used very little, and 

 has been kept in good condition. As the party who 

 owned it had so little use for it we took it in ex- 

 change for other goods, and otter it for $12. When 

 new it doubtless sold for $3."). It has double gear at 

 both ends, and a back gear besides, and is a rare 

 bargain at this price. 



A customer in Pittsfleld, Maine, after buying one 

 of our 10-inch mills to make fdn. for himself and 

 neighbors, suddenly changed his plans, and had no 

 use for the mill. It has made only about l.')0 lbs. of 

 fdn., and is virtually as good as a new mill. We 

 offer it for sale at $15.00. Who will be first to se- 

 cure this bargain? 



THE WIHTER CARE OF 



HORSES and CATTLE. 



THE MOST HUMANE AND 



-J PROFITABLE TREATJVIElMT.t- 



BY T. B. TERRY. 



Although the book is mainly in regard to the winter 



t-are of horses and cattle, it touches on almost 



every thing connected with successful 



farming— 



SHELTER, COMFOET, FEEDING, EXERCISE. KINDNESS, DIFFEE- 



FEEENT SOETS OF FEED, A FULL TEEATISE ON THE 



MOST EOONOMIOAL WAY OF SAVINO MANUEE. 



A full description of Terry's model barn is also 

 given. 



f^Xf-XC^EI: 4iO C7«s.; loy nXetil, -^3 Ots. 



A. I. ROOT, Medina, O. 



We Sugar^lie Sugar-Busti 



THIS IS A NEW BOOK BY 



AUTHOR OF THE 



HEE-KEEPEIi'S (iZTTltE, IN,rVRl(H'K T\- 



SECTS O/' MTCUTdAN, ETC. 



The name of the author is enough of itself to rec- 

 ommend any book to almost any people; but this 

 one on Maple Sugar is written in Prof. Cook's hap- 

 piest style. It is 



-« PROFUSELY « ILLUSTRATED,** 



And all the difficult points in regard to making the 

 very best quality of Maple Syrup and Maple Su- 

 gar are very fully explained. All recent inven- 

 tions in apparatus, and methods of making 

 this delicious product of the farm, are fully 

 described. 



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KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



The carpet-sweeper came Oct. ;*t. Many thanks 

 for promptness. Mother says it is a beauty, and is 

 highly pleased. C. E Jenkins. 



Bryan, Tex., Nov. 2, 1888. 



THE alley thai 



The Alley queen-trap came all right. 1 would not 

 take $1.00 for it, if I could notget another. T caught 

 a good many black drones with it. Ira R. Green. 



Unadilla. Otsego, Co., N. Y. 



gleanings bettek every year. 



I received all of my goods in first-class order. I 

 think those sections ai-e as nice as I ever saw. 

 Gleanings grows better every year. May God 

 help you in your good woi-k. S. Tompkins. 



Tarrytown, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1888. 



Mr. Boiit.— May God bless .you for what you have 

 said in Our Homes for September 15th. I always 

 find true, sweet. Christian counsel in Our Homes, 

 but never any thing that went straight to the heart 

 as that did. P.M. 



Goodluck, Te.\., Sept. 37, li'SH. 



gleanings, and its valte to the subscriber. 



Friend Rout: Send me Gleanings another year. 

 Aside from helping me to manage the bees, it has 

 been the means of helping me to sell a number of 

 swarms this summer. This is the way I do it: If a 

 person says any thing about buying bees, I give 

 him acopy of Gleanings (not one that reads like 

 Aug. 1st, page 603, nor Aug. 15, page 655, but a good 

 cheerful one), and I can make a sale every time; 

 and so it pays me many times its cost, to take 

 Gleanings. C. B. Jackson. 



Eau Claire, Wis., Aug. 27, 1888. 



gleanings. 



Gleanings has proven to be a very good invest- 

 ment—in fact, 1 could not well get along without it. 

 I find thereui a great many points of interest to a 

 person who keeps bees. I also find its contribu- 

 tors to be among the best— men who are experienc- 

 ed in bee culture, and can be relied on. We all like 

 Gleanings in all its depHrtmenis, and only wish it 

 were published weekly. 1 am one of your ABC 

 scholari;, and have been pretty successful since 1 

 adopted the movable-frame hi\es, and began tak- 

 ing your publications. E. S. Mead. 



Olivett, O., Oct. 23, 1888. 



the home papers. 



When I first began reading Gleanings (two 

 years ago) it struck me as rather odd that the edit- 

 or should speak so openly about his family affairs 

 in articles intended for public perusal, and must 

 own that I did not just fancy it. There, don't let 

 that ruffle your feathers now, for F am going to 

 say, just as quickly as I can get it written, that T 

 have changed )iiy mind, and that now T enjoy all ar- 

 ticles with A. 1. Root's name signed to them, for 

 they seem like letters from an old friend, in all of 

 whose affairs I lake an interest. 



Mrs. C. B. Haywood. 



Ypsilanti, Mich., Aug. 16, 1888. 



a kind word indeed. 



Inclosed find the pay for Gleanings one year, to 



be sent to . If Gleanings will do 



him as much good as it has myself, T shall think the 

 mone>' well spent. When I began reading the 

 Home Papers 1 was a stranger to the Lord; but I 

 became interested in them, and it caused ir.e to re- 

 flect, and 1 have changed my way of living. 1 have 

 united with the church, and am happy to-day that 1 

 can say I believe I am on my way to glory. May 

 the Lord spare you many years to go on in your good 

 work, and g've us more Home talks. 



Morristown, Ind. Mad. Talbert. 



[May the Lord be praised, friend T., for the testi- 

 mony you give us. When 1 bear such words as 

 yours, i feel overwhelmed with a sense of my un- 

 werthiness, (o think the great Master has seen fit 

 to bless, in the way he has done, such weak, fitful, 

 poor work as mine has been. May God bless you 

 for your kind words.] 



