1897 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



397 



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postiiRt'. . t\ B. WuKillT. I ' Ml ntCo.,0. 



Mr. Wright may be liones) :.i ;• .-i I li.M'e ho is: 

 but I take thelihi'iiy of telliiiir Imii ihai (In- powflor 

 ho semis li;is tiotliiiip wbiili'xor to fici willi iniLldnjr 

 tlu> sawdust i>ro^crvf /i"' /un/i ?.s of ai>pk's or poi a- 

 toes. Vory likely lio has kcut ai>i)les nicely by the 

 dry sawdust plati. The nioi hod is uot l)yaii> means 

 new.* Sometimes the fruit keeps all rig-lit, and 

 sometimes it dots not: but the plan lias not been 

 sutliciently successful for anybody to continue us- 

 ing it. This man may lie honest, as T have said: 

 but. notwithstanding, his plan of taking 50 cts. from 

 our people at large, especially from our impoverish- 

 ed farming people, is a l.umluig and swindle, and I 

 apiieal to our experiment stations to back mo up in 

 what 1 say. I do not know how many other jiaijers 

 are accepting this advertisement. I know that 

 there are sone others I'osides the Farmer; but the 

 periodical that lielps to swindle tlie farmers just 

 now will lose a hundred times more tlian tlie small 

 amount it gets lor the space occupied by the adver- 

 tisement. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he 

 also reap. Instead of a dozen lines of printed mat- 

 ter on a small card, 50 cts. should pay for a consid- 

 erable htiok. with appropriate illustrations, in re- 

 gard to keeping winter apples, or any other rural 

 industry. 



KIND WORDS FROM ODR CUSTOMERS. 



Gi.E.\NiNG8, April 1, 1 consider well worth a year's 

 subscription. Alonzo Knight. 

 Plain City, Utah. 



Mr. Riiot: In regard to your footnote to article 

 on •' New Celery Culture." pages 300 and 301, we 

 will sav the author's full address is Mr. W. H. Jen- 

 kins, Sidney Centre, N. Y. 



Springfield, O. Editor Farm and Fireside. 



I like Gleanings very much. 1 especially enjoy 

 reading Mr. A. I. Roofs Notes of Travel and Home 

 Talks, especially through Arizona, as I lived there 

 for five years. Maria Phaser. 



Terminous, Cal. 



I received the barrel of potatoes yesterday. Thej^ 

 were larger and nicer than I expected to get. Tii'e 

 freight charges were 90 cts. Thank you for being 

 80 prompt in sending them. 



Giidden, Iowa. Mrs. M. E. Moffatt. 



Thanks for the very valuable assistance of adver- 

 tisement in Gi>eanings. It appears the Gleanings 

 people are a very plea«arit and pn^gressive family; 

 and the surprising thing is, there does not appear 

 to be anv other kind of people in it. 



Terre Hhu e, Ind. L. H. Mahan. 



The sections you so kindly forwarded have come 

 to hand, and are very satisfactory indeed. I am 

 .surprised to get such good sections for "creams." 

 They are even better than the No. 1 sections made 

 at a local mill or factory, and the dovetails put to- 

 gether fifty per cent better. W. J. Manley. 



Sanilac, Mich. 



The goods ordered Mar. 11 reached me April 1, all 

 right; and to say I am pleased with the manner in 

 which the goods were put up fs putting it very mild- 

 ly. I also find that 1 can get gfiods clieapef from 

 the Department Store, after paying freight, than I 

 can at home. Please accept thanks for the careful 

 attention you gave my order. A. E. Roop. 



Estey, Mich. 



The car ot goods has arrived, and I have been un- 

 packing them. I am very much pleased with the 

 improvements in the hives. Surely the Danzy cover 



* Other substances, such as bran, oats, cut straw, etc.. and 

 dry sand for potatoes, hare been used .successfully in place of 

 the sawdust. Protectincr the fruit from the air by wrapping' 

 It in tissue paper, exactly as oranges and lemons are shipped, 

 amounts to the same thinsr. It usually helps to preserve the 

 fruit, but it is not a sure thing, by any means. 



is by all moans the nicest I have ever seen. Hut 

 what surprised me most was the new Weed founda- 

 tion. I thought sure at first 1 was5(X) lbs. short on 

 foundation, but on opening a largo l)ox I found it 

 filled with nice jiaslo board bo.xes. 1 said, " What in 

 the world is this?" 1 opened one, and was I pleasedV 

 Well, 1 can not tind words to o.vpress my pleasure. 

 Surely. The A. I. Root Co. le ids in iinpiovomenis in 

 bee supplies I now fool sure that whoever gels an 

 order tilled with this foundation will lie a custonuir 

 for all time. I have never seen any t hing to com- 

 pai e wit h the packing or the fine appearance of this 

 foundation, J. B. Mason. 



Mechanic Falls, Me., Apr. 12. 



As long as there is "Our Homes" department in 

 Gleanings (1 haven't owned a colony of bees in 

 three years) I do not know how 1 can get along 

 without Gleanings. It is the only thing that 

 comes to me now which came to my once happy 

 home away back in Ohio. I then had a kind and 

 loving wife, and nearly a hundred colonies of bees. 

 But continued poor seasons and foul brood (I suc- 

 ceeded in eradicating the latter, however), drove 

 me to other business, and in May, 1893, pneumonia 

 robbed my liome of its only charm — my precious 

 darling wife; and, friend Root, Gleanings was one 

 thing that helped to make my home a happy one, 

 for it helped me to be a better man than 1 ever 

 would have been had it not been for Gleanings; 

 and my wife, too, used to enjoy the Home Papers so 

 much. 



I hope you, Bro. A. I., will be spared many years. 

 I am afraid I should lose my interest in Gleanings 

 if the time ever comes when there are no more 

 " Home Papers," and I may lose my interest in the 

 bees too; but I hope I shall neuer lose my interest 

 in the risen Lord, in whom you have helped me to 

 strengthen my faith. Basil T. Bleasdale. 



Shell Rock, Iowa. 



A KIND WORD FROM " MERRIE ENGLAND." 



My Dear Mr. Root:— 1 suppose I may call you a 

 brother, not only as a bee-keeper, but as a follower 

 of the Lord J sus Christ. 1 must express my sin- 

 cere thanks to you for Gleanings, with many val- 

 uable points, not only beewise but otherwise. I lend 

 Gleanings to my friends here who are not bee-men, 

 and they are ciiarmed with it, and look out for it as 

 anxiously as I do. I may say. also, I have your A B 

 C, 1891 edition, and con.sider it one of the rao.st valu- 

 able and helpful books I have among my bee-books, 

 and I hcve over forty V" lumes devoted to bres and 

 subjects pertaining to bees. 



r note in Gleanings several articles on founda- 

 tion with deep cells Would you kindly mail me at 

 once several samples of some? I am making up a 

 bee-cultural exhibit for our Notts County Show, in 

 June (early), and I should be grateful if you could 

 send me at once a few samples of deep-cell founda- 

 tion. I used the Weed foundation once last year, 

 and had splendid results. In this district (Notting- 

 hMm) we have had a trying spring for bees, and in 

 my own apiary spring dwindling has been greater 

 than I have ever known. If tlie fine warm days do 

 not come soon I shall not hjive my colonies strong 

 enough to take full adv;intage of the honeytlow. 



Let me also say I j.'in hands with you in'your cru- 

 sade against smoking. 1 am tplensfc tcithoiU eijolium) 

 a local preacher, Sunday school teacher, Bana of 

 Hope worker, and am anxious for any thing to lift 

 up my fellow men and women around me; and I 

 must sincerely thank you au'ain for the inspiration 

 and help I have derived from your Home Talks, etc. 

 I may not meet you on this side; but, dear brother, 

 I will meet you at "the I'ountain " by and by, in 

 God's good time. With every good wish I remain, 

 dear sir and brother, faith fullj^ yours. 



Stapleford, Eng. Peteh Scattergood, Jr. 



[Many thanks for your exceedlngl}' pleasant 

 words, my good friend S. By the way. it occurs to 

 me that you are rightly named. T have been won- 

 dering whether it is because of your name that you 

 have taken up all of this good work. If it were tlie 

 fashion nowadays to give a man a name according 

 to his haliits, we might undorstiind why they shouhi 

 call you Scattergood. 1 assure you Mrs. Root will 

 value your kind left r, for England is her old home. 

 We have been talking some of visiting the 8<-enes of 

 her childhood; and if we do we shall try to give you 

 a call, dear brother. May God bless and sustain 

 you in your good fight.— A. I. R.l 



