1897 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Gleanings is worth $35 a year. Long may it live 

 a d prosper, if you please, preaching God's word as 

 w ■!! as that of the bees. T. P. Murray. 



t'ort Collins, Colo. 



I am just finishing- putting up the 4-piece sections 

 I houjrht of you, and will i-ay tliey are ttie hest that 

 I have eser bouaht, and are away aliead of any 

 4-piece wliiie-poplar sections that I haveever seen. 



Luce, Mich., Jan 20. Wm. Craig. 



The new A B C of Bee Culture was received the 

 20th Inst., for which I thanli yi u very liindly. The 

 book is wortli twice tlie money. It is more complete 

 th;in any other I ever saw. F. A. Wade. 



Tawas City, Mich., Mar. 22. 



I am much pleased with the journal, and espe- 

 cially with tho^e talks of Uro. A. L,wliich aresoele- 

 vating in tone, .-o strengthening to Chiistians. The 

 ten cliafif hivts I purciinstd of you alunit two years 

 ago are veritable palaces, and the s^■lf-spacers are 

 quite perfection. R. C. Hugentobler. 



Miami, O., Feb. 19. 



I subscribe for 34 diff rent journals and Sfientiflc 

 papers, but I consider Glkamngs as among the 

 best; but the proper appreciation of an editor's 

 effort*, I believe, is to pay the subscription; tliere- 

 fore find enclosed $1.00. Geo. L. Vinal. 



Charlton City., Mass., Jan. 1. 



OUR SECTIONS IN ENGLAND. 



Your sections and frames have given me and my 

 customers every satisfaition, since I got them 

 throuyh Mr. Boxwell, of Ireland. 1 lilie Gi^eanings 

 anditssiory. William Hogg. 



Dalbeattie Road, Castle Douglas, Jan. 21. 



V'our talks on Christ, and other religious matters, 

 arc of great benefit to me, and art- a help to keep 

 me in the straight and narrow way. Cast your 

 bread on the water, and it will leturn after many 

 davs with God's blessing on you aud yours. 



'.Aove, N. Y. Jas. E. 'Way. 



J sold a small lot of honey that was put up in box- 

 fs which 1 bought of your house last year. The 

 packages looked fine; and when filled with white 

 ramb and clear white honey, nothing could look 

 nicer. The sale was made March 20, and I got 15 

 •.-nts per box or section, they being full weight, a 

 p :und each. All who saw the honey declared it to 

 b as fine as they ever saw. Ti.e sale was made at a 

 home mirket (our county town). 



'Juba, Kan., Mar. 24. W. H. Eagerty. 



I received the A B C of Bee Culture, and to say I 

 am very much pleased with it is expressing it light- 

 ly, as I would no', take S.'-.OO for it if 1 could noi get 

 --other copy. It certainly ought to be the first in- 



stment of every beglni er in bee-keepir)!r. I am 

 so much pleased with it ] could not help letting you 

 know what amount of gdod knowledge 1 have got 

 out of it. even if 1 have had it only six days. 



N. Chester, Vt., Mar. 8. F. H. Guild. 



HILTON'S car of GOODS. 



We unloaded and invoiced the car of goois yester- 

 day, and to say that we are all pleased with the 

 manner in which the goods aie put up is putting it 

 very mildly. The foundaton needs special men- 

 tion, and 1 am more than phased with the manner 

 In which you put up my hives and supers. My cus- 

 tomers must i e pleased with them, not only for the 

 manner In which evtry thing is put up, but for the 

 quality as well. Geo. E. Hilton. 



Fremont, Mich., Feb. 11. 



I am probably your oldest bee-keeper. I have 

 been in the business ever since Langstroth invented 

 his hive (more or less). I went ten miles to see the 

 first Langstroth hive, and I paid $8 00 to R. K. Otis, 

 of Kenoshii, Wis., for an individu.tl tight. I also 

 went ten miles to see the flist Italian queen. She 

 was purchased by Joseph Pencil, of Stephenson 

 Co., III., of M. M. Bil.lrida-e, of St. Charle.s, III. I 

 have 35 hives. Your fi lend, John Babfohd. 



Cross Keys,_De Kalb Co., Ga. 



I iim well pleased with the varictji of reading-mat- 

 ter in Gleanings. A. I. Root's travels in the 

 Southwest, Mr. France's pioneer story, and Fred 

 Andirson, all help to break the dose. When we 

 have so much bee-literature and nothing els-e It 

 gets monotonous. I am great for variety, especial- 

 ly in reading-matter. I. N. Arnold. 



Kalona, Iowa, Jan. 5. 



THE lean-meat DIET, AND WHAT IT DID WITH 

 HOME TREATMENT— NO DOCTOR. 



1 had an attack of old man's diarrhea, which last- 

 ed for several weeks last fall. 1 hunted up your de- 

 scription of the lean-meat diet, aud bought a cheap 

 sausage-grinder to prepare it The n)eat ht Iped me 

 out of the trouble, and probably added several years 

 to my life. O. B. Barrows. 



Marshalltown, la^ 



THE IGNOTUM TOMATO FOR CANNING- FACTORIES, 

 ETC. 



The Ignotum tomato seed I bought of you last 

 spring produced the b< st and largest tomatoes I 

 ever saw. Tlie proprietor, Mr. S Z. Hoffaker, of the 

 canning- factory at Belleville, said 1 brought the 

 finest tomatoes to the factory, all through the sea- 

 son, he had bought. I tell you, they were hard to 

 beat. Levi B. Yoder. 



Belleville, Mifflin Co., Pa. 



our ADVERTISING COLUMNS. 



Please find inclosed 40 cents in payment for adv't 

 in Jan. 1 Gleamngs. I have been conflneatothe 

 house for three weeks with bronchitis, or would 

 have sent the money sooner. As usual the ad. ef- 

 fected an exchange promptly. I do not remember 

 an instance in which an ad inserted in Glkamngs 

 has not brought me prompt returns— not simply an- 

 swers, but actual trade or exchanae. 



Newtown, O., Jan. 27. J. Ferris Patton. 



QUEENS TO NEW ZEALAND, ALIVE. 



Dear Sir:— I b g to inform you that, on the 6th in- 

 stant, 1 received jour card, and two tested queens. 

 The queens were all light; there were two workers 

 alive in one of ttie cages, and five or six in the other. 

 There wtis about one third of the candy teft. The 

 queens have started laying all right. I may tell 

 you that they are spendid, and 1 beg to thank jou 

 very much for standing tliem. Wm. Bikss. 



Ohinewai, N. Z., Nov. 15. 



THE NEW WEED FOUNDATION. 



Those starters you sent for the hives are the finest 

 foundation that I ever saw. It is the first Weed 

 foundation that I have seen. I have for the past 



two years bought my foundation of , with 



whom I am personally acquainted. I expected to 

 tliis year; but those samples took my eye at first 

 sight. Thad. H. Keeler. 



South Salem, N. Y., Jan. 10. 



Inclosed find 25 cents to pay for Gleanings to 

 April 1, at wliirh time please disi ontinue it, if 1 do 

 not setid another remittance before tliat time. I 

 should have stopped it at the close of 1896 had it not 

 been for Fred Anderson, of which I want to see the 

 conclu.'-ion. Though past threescore years and ten, 

 I like to read any thing written in sucli a style as to 

 recommtnd the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ; 

 and sometimes this is best done by such stories, as 

 manj will not read more solid articJes. I still like 

 Gleanings, but my sight is failing. 



Mansfield, W. Va , Jan. 20. Lucinda A. Zinn. 



Mr. Roof;— I wish to express my hearty thanks for 

 Gleani>gs; it has been a welcome messenger at my 

 table for many month<. It always revives tlie 

 pleasant memories of my boj hood days when 1 

 studied your ABC, and had my mind tilled with 

 humming visions. I shall never forgtt the early 

 impr. ssion^ made on my mind by your earnest aud 

 tender messages. They seemed meatit for me, and 

 made me hunger for a holy life: and I must say 

 thHt it is with the greatest of pleasure that I still read 

 your Home talks and expositions of the truth. I 

 have but one sentiment for Gleanings— may God 

 bless it in its twofold mission, and spare its editors 

 for many years of precious seed sowing. 



Yours fraternally, 



Dresden, O., Dec. 3. Rev. W. H. Wilson. 



