1891 



CtLeaxixct!? in bee culture. 



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to somebody at a low price. The same way 

 with the man who iiadirt any lumber, and 

 could not get it planed at the mill. The black- 

 smith who put the note in his pocket without 

 reading it should have said," Mr. Chatnberlaiu. 

 I confess I have been very heedless and care- 

 less: and if that trifling piece of stupidity has 

 put you out to the extent of a ten-dollai' bill 

 here "is the money to make you good."' Friend 

 C. would not have taken the money. I assure 

 vou. but he would have accepted the will for 

 tliede'd: and instead of going to some other 

 shop with his work, he and the blacksmith 

 would have been steadfast friends/or life, and 

 very likely friend Chamberlain would have had 

 ((unther funny story to be told in his irresistibly 

 comic way. at the fainu-rs' institutes as he goes 

 from place To place during the winter time, 

 meeting the farmers of our land. 



The tnen who run these great factories, and 

 turn out good wagons made of honest material 

 for Irss than tluM'illage workman often charges 

 for repairs, have built up their business by do- 

 ing just what I have been advising. They com- 

 menced away back years ago. by standing be- 

 tween their customers and loss. They showed 

 that they loved their neighbor as themselves by 

 saying. ""Look here, my friend, this was no 

 fault of yours at all: it wa< a blunder of mine, 

 therefore 7 and not j/ow will pay all the pen- 

 alty." 



You may remember that I once (years ago) 

 opened a shop and i)Ut up a sign when the boots 

 on my feet were not paid for. and I hadn't 

 money enough in my pocket tu \n\y for them. I 

 advertised in the papers that, when repairing 

 was not done at the tiiue promised, there would 

 be no charge. I kept ahead for quite a while: 

 but the time catue when I could not keep up 

 with itU my promises. One customer waited 

 two hours while I finished cleaning his watch. 

 When he took out his pocketbook to pay me I 

 told him there was no charge, because I had 

 failed in having it ready at the time specified. 

 He protested at once, with a remark something 

 like this: "No, no. my young friend. You 

 have done me a good nice job. and did the best 

 you could. Here: take your pay. It is true, I 

 have been hindered a little, but this world is 

 full of hindrances. Who ever heard of a me- 

 chanic undertaking to \\'ork for nothing be- 

 cause he got behind a little?" 



Now. friends, that has been my experience 

 from that day to this. Just as soon as you 

 show this spirit in deal you make friends who 

 will stand by you through thick and thin; and 

 the majority of mankind will refuse to accept 

 what you offer in a fair and generous spirit. 

 The Bible is sparkling with these texts right in 

 this line, besides the one at the head of our talk 

 to-day. Just listen to a few of them: "Give, 

 and it shall be given unto you:" " Cast thy 

 bread upon the waters:" " Do good, and lend:" 

 " He that Hndeth his life shall lose it: and he 

 that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." 

 Now. I wonder whether there is not some young 

 man just starting in business who can catch in- 

 spiration from friend Chamberlain's talk to- 

 day. Don't say you can't afford it. A young 

 man once pied a form of type in our printing- 

 office. In order to get the journal out on time 

 he worked all night to make up for his mishap. 

 When I offered to pay him for his night work 

 he refused to take any thing. Did he lose 

 money? Not at all. He was not a Christian 

 then, hut he became one nfterimrd. and died 

 trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ. Not only 

 will such a course give us success and prosperi- 

 ty in this world, but. my friend, it oftentimes 

 proves a stepping-stone ton faith in and an 

 ajipreciation of the character of Jesus Christ, 

 who first uttered the words. " He that is faith- 



ful in few things shall be made ruler over 

 manv." 



Go'id lllea^UI•e, p•es^pd down, and sliatcen ti getlier and run- 

 ning- over, stiall men give into your bo-om — Like 6: 38 



\Vk sei- h\ thp American Bee Jmtrnnl that 

 the North Aiiu-iican Bee-keepers' Association 

 is now incorporated, and a legal body, known 

 to the law. with heailquarters at Chicago. It 

 is well. 



Fho.m late experiments made in the apiary, 

 we are fast coming to the conclusion that the 

 horizontal wiring (wires drawn loose) is the 

 best plan of wiring frames. It is not only the 

 sim plest and easiest, but it gives the best combs, 

 and you can use either heavy or light founda- 

 tion, and get good results from both. 



Charlks Bi.\xc()xcim. who .sends us import- 

 ed Italian queens, writes he can not send 

 queens to this country by mail successfully. 

 About half of them, lie says, die before 

 arrival. We think if he adopts our export 

 Benton cage he will meet with general success. 

 We will send him one. with the request to re- 

 turn it with a queen in it at our risk. 



We have received samples of the Punic bees, 

 from E. L. Pratt, of Beverly, Mass., in his very 

 neat Benton mailing-cage. The bees are of a 

 shiny black, and. so far as we have been able to 

 judge from the sample sent, appear quite differ- 

 ent from the ordinary black bees of this coun- 

 try — at least, a great deal more so than the 

 Carniolans. We have ordered Mr. Pratt to 

 send us a select tested queen, so that we may 

 next year tell something about the bees and 

 their "qualities. 



It will be remembered that there was some 

 complaint on the part of the affiliated societies 

 of the N. A. B. K. A., that it. the parent society, 

 was failing to fulfill the conditions of the con- 

 stitution in not providing medals. The com- 

 mittee appointed at the last meeting, of which 

 Mr. Newman was chairman, has the matter in 

 charge, and now we see by the American Bee 

 Journal the medals are being stamped. They 

 are to be used by the local societies in bee and 

 honey departments, and at fairs and expositions. 



Hip. hip, hurrah I We are having success 

 with the Doolittle queen-cell cups. Nine-tenths 

 of the artificial cups are now accepted by the 

 bees, and built out into large handsome cells. 

 Without this plan we should be short, at this 

 time of year, of cells for queen-rearing. If 

 everybody has as good success as we are now 

 having, it is going to be a great boon to bee- 

 keepers, from the fact that we can breed all, or 

 almost all, queens from a choice mother, the 

 best queen in the whole apiary, instead of a 

 dozen or two as we were obliged to do by the 

 old methods. 



Henry Alley, in the American Bee-keeper. 

 argues that black Carniolans will very speedily 

 develop the yellow tendency in the race: and. 

 by way of proof, he urges a trial of the experi- 

 ment. He says that in-breeding of black Car- 

 niolans will develop, sooner or later, bees with 

 yellow bands. While it is true, that two of the 

 imported Carniolan queens we had showed a 



