1891 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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A. N. Draper, Upper AUVm. 



S. N. Black, Clayton. 



All (itliev States sliould take similar action at 

 •once, so as to secni'c tlie approiiriations in good 

 time to command majsrnitieent e.xliibits. 



P^)i' tlie benefit of commil tees in different States, 

 who will have to present the matli-r to tlie Leg-isla- 

 tures and ask for apprt)i)rialit>ns, we will here rei>l.v 

 to a Question. wliicli lias been propounded to us and 

 to others a s -oi'e of times. Tliat question is— 



WHAT IS THE MONET NEEDED B'OR? 



Tlie answer is easy. It is needed to procui-e, trans- 

 port, org-anize. and take ffood care of exhibits, and 

 may be particularized thus: 



I.'To i)ay a competent jierson for time and dili- 

 gent work for a year or more, to procure, arrang-e, 

 and superintend an exhibit wliicli shall be a credit 

 to tlie State. 



?. He will need many assistants during- the entire 

 time of holding the Columbian Fair, to care for, and 

 pi'otect from damage or waste, the manj' articles 

 ^■xhibited, as well as to keep them clean and in 

 proper condition for thorough examination by the 

 millions of visitors. These must be efficient per- 

 sons, and will liave to be suitably paid. 



3. Products of the apiary, machinery, and appli- 

 ances, will have to he transported "to the fair- 

 grounds, and this will entail considerable expense. 



4. We do not desire a sejiaiate building for the in- 

 dustry of bee-keeping, but it will it will be neces- 

 sary to ^f up n large space in one of the principal 

 buildings devoted to agriculture, horticulture, or 

 floriculture. To make it convenient, and have it 

 attractively decorated, will co.st money; but it will 

 be well spent, nevertheless; for the general verdict 

 at all fairs is, that the "Bee and Hr)ney Depart- 

 men" is the most atti-active thing on tlie gi'ounds. 



5. At the close of the World's Fair all the goods 

 exhibited must l)e carefully packed and returned 

 to the owiiei-s. This item of expen.se for laboi-, ma- 

 terial, drayage, and railway transportation, will be 

 very large, on account of the care required in hand- 

 ling and packing, so as not to destroy tlie values. 

 Honey in the comb (in all forms and shapes imagin- 

 able) is delicate and fragile; and the utmost care 

 will be required to prevent its being damaged or 

 ruined entirely. 



6. And last, hut not least, cash prizes, medals, and 

 ■diplomas, will of necessity be required to bring out 

 an exhibit which will honor the State. This item 

 must necessarily be a large one, for upon it will de- 

 pend the success of the entire undertaking. 



These are a few of the tilings that will require 

 mone.v. and for which a liberal apiirojiiiation is de- 

 sired from the public treasury. 



"THE REASON WHY. 



On page 214 the writer of tlie above article 

 makes this remark: " Because they a le supply- 

 dealers, and because it was to their interest to 

 do so." Now. it has lately been getting to be 

 •quite fashionable to insist that large enter- 

 prises, either in ptiblishing a journal or dealing 

 in supplies, are built uj) by furthering .selfish 

 interests. No sadder blunder was ever made. 

 The publisher or supjjly-dealer who does every 

 thing for self-interest, never huilds up a busi- 

 ness. Honesty i.s the best policy: and candid, 

 honest truth, is a thousand times more profita- 

 ble than any sort of seltish, underhanded trick- 

 ery. We urge beginners to start out with the 

 standard fianie. just txactly as we would urge 

 a man who wanted to go somewhere, to drive in 

 the road, when he \\as meditating letting down 

 fences and going crosslots with his Iior.se and 

 buggy. We who have built up a business, or 

 who have control of a successful bee-journal, 

 ai'e laboring for the good of our patrons^ 

 especially for the younger ones who are just 

 starting. It is our business to save them from 

 sad mistakes and blunders: and the insinua- 

 tions that are constantly being thrown out. that 

 success in business comes only to those \\ho are 

 sharp, tricky, dishonest, and selfish, and who 

 are only after the almighty dollar, emanate 

 from the evil one himself: and it will not only 

 be the ruin of our people financially, if persist- 

 •ed in. but it will be the ruin of us as a people. 



body and soul. Hold fast to the little text. 

 '• thinketh no evil:" and for mercv's sake have 

 charity enough to oelieve that voiir neighbor is 

 at least (dmnst as good a man as yourself. 



FLORIDA AXn ORANGE lU.OSSOMS. 



A FEW moments ago a beautiful bouquet of 

 orange-blossoms, redolent of pei-fnme. cam 

 through the mails, with the following letter: 



Mr. Roof.-— Please send me an extra copy of 

 Gleanings for March 1. I think I like Gleanings 

 bettei- every cop.\- I read. I read it through from 

 one end to the other, and then look over the best 

 things again. I took theflist honey of the season 

 on the 5th. It was fi'oni orange, peach, and plum 

 blossoms. I send you some orange-blossoms by this 

 m^Jl- Sidney Smith. 



Lake Como, Fla., March 10. 



The flowers are so handsome, and the per- 

 fume so exquisite, that some of our office girls 

 are thinking of going to Florida Mhen thev are 

 ready to get married— that is. if the groom" can 

 scrajie up the stamps for such a "wedding 

 flight.'" I do not mean that they said so. but I 

 judged by their smiles and uleasant looks that 

 they were thinhing of something of the kind as 

 they passed the bouquet from one to another. 



THE PRE.SENT PRICE OF AL.SIKE. 



Perhaps noone thing occasions more jangling 

 and hard feelings than the changes in the 

 lirices of alsike clover— especially the rise that 

 almost always comes about sowing time. Illus- 

 trative of this we give below a copy of a letter 

 just at hand, from one of the large" grass and 

 clover-seed dealers in Cleveland: 



A. I. Bout, Medina. O.: Dear Sir;— Your favor of 

 the 10th inst. is received. We inclose small samples 

 of alsike. which we mark and quote f. o. b., subject 

 to prompt acceptance and unsold, as follows: 



" Frens," 4 bags, jier bushel. $9.50. 



"Lawson," No. 1, 3 bags, per bushel, $9.7.5. 



Hoping to have youi- order, which will command 

 prompt attention, we remain 

 Very truly, etc., 



H. C. Burt & Son, 

 Dealers in Wool and Grass Seeds. 



Cleveland, March 11. 



Now. fi-iends. see where you would have been 

 had you raised a big crop of alsike and kept it 

 till the present time. We have not paid the 

 above price, because it is considerably more 

 than we have been .selling at retail, and we do 

 not propose to pay it unless we are obliged to. 

 All we can promise is this— that, if you send 

 us your* orders, we will do the very best we can. 

 If we are absolutely ohViged to pav the above 

 figures, of course we can not retail it for less 

 than from .?11 to -SIS a bushel. 



THE NEW WATER CVRE, ETC. 



One thousand copies of the above little 

 liamphlet were given away in about a week. 

 We are now printing a larger edition of .5000. 

 Many of our friends who sent for ten oi' a dozen 

 disposed of them so quickly that they have or- 

 dered another lot. All right. We believe we 

 can print and mail as many as can be given 

 away where they w ill do good. Several cases 

 have already been reported where they have 

 have gone into towns where agents were can- 

 vassing, at S4 foi- each secret: but ours soon 

 wound up the $4 business. It .seems to me 

 that every good man and woman should be do- 

 ing as much as possible to discourage or stop 

 this system of defrauding people of their hard 

 earnings, by false representation and false pre- 

 tense. 



KNOWN AND I't'BLISHED IN GERMANY. OVER 40 

 YEARS AGO. 



Our pi'oof-reader has translated the following 

 from a clipping taken from a German paper, the 

 name of which we do not know: 



