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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 15. 



The Taylor coinb-leveler ought to be in every apia- 

 ry. It leaves the comb in fine shape for the bees to fill. 

 Minneapolis, Minn. Wm. Urie. 



The goods are all satisfactory. The foundation is 

 superb — the finest we ever had. The Clark smokers 

 can't be heat for maierial and workmanship. 



High Hill, Mo. John Nebel & Son. 



I think Gleanings is worth the dollar. I admire 

 your paper much for the information it contains. It 

 is easy to see you understand your business of print- 

 ing a good bee-paper. Long may it prosper. 



N. J. Steigleder. 



Highland Springs, Va., Dec. 12. 



During the past year we have used many advertis- 

 ing mediums, and the result shows Gleanings to be 

 far ahead of the other mediums used in propoition to 

 the expense. It gives us pleasure to send this unso- 

 licited testimonial. The Market Garden Co. 



Minneapolis, Minn. 



I am a natural cabinet joiner, also a ship-builder and 

 house carpenter, with as complete a set of tools as can 

 be found in the city of Buffalo. You may think 

 strange of ray giving you an order. I can only sa3% I 

 am pleased with your work without the aid of sand- 

 paper, dado fillister, hand-plow, or but-plane. 



Buffalo, N. Y. Chas. G. Irish. 



Please continue to send Gleanings and I will remit 

 soon. I have not received it for Nov. 15. Thinking 

 you had stopped it I write I must have it, for I feel 

 lost without it. It is the best gotten up of any paper on 

 bees that I ever subscribed for, and one of the neigh- 

 bors savs he alwavs likes to get it. for it interests him. 



Marion. Mass., Nov. 23, 1808. T. N. BrigGS. 



Your Weed foundation, despite a strong prejudice 

 in several quarters against it on its introduction, has 

 literally taken the foundation market by storm. It 

 has three advantages over our home-made product : 

 The bees take to it faster: there is more surface to the 

 pound, with less liability to twist, and it is literally 

 cheaper in most cases than the English foundation. 

 It is of uniform quality, and the consumer knows he 

 is getting pure beeswax with it F. Sladen. 



Ripple Court, England. 



FROM 85 TO ISO, AND 8(100 LBS. OF HONEY. 



Gleanings has, in my estimation, always been an 

 up-to-date paper, overflowing with " good things" for 

 the bee-keeper as well as the home generally. 



We have had a good season here for bees. It is near- 

 ly always the case that we have a good crop of honey 

 here in the Ottawa Valley. This spring we started 

 here with 85 colonies, increased to 180, and got 8000 

 pounds of extracted honey. h- Tompkins. 



Billing's Bridge, Out., Can., Dec. 5, 1898. 



GOOD NEWS FOR THE GREAT HEALTH RESORT AT 

 THOMASVILLE, GA. 



Our county prohibition election is just over, and we 

 carried it " against the sale " by an overwhelming ma- 

 jority. Everybody is surprised, as Thomasville (the 

 great winter resort) is the capital of this (Thomas) 

 count}-. You can inform all your friends who come 

 south during the winters, that, after March 1 next, 

 they will find there a dry, healthful climate, not mar- 

 red by har- rooms and their usual attending scenes 



Cairo, Ga., Dec. 7. Wight & Mauldin. 



[We should probably not have given place to the 

 following kind word had not the writer expressly re- 

 quested us to put it in print. He thinks it is no more 

 than fair, as somewhat of a rebuttal to the severe re- 

 flections that have been made on our ways of doing 

 business. — A. I. R.] 



I have dealt with A. I. Root since 1884. I wish to say 

 to the' public at large, that all who look for honest 

 dealings and the best of goods should give The A. I. 

 Root Co. a trial order. If a mistake occurs they are 

 always readv to correct it; and he who keeps bees for 

 profit should not be without Gleanings. 



I have now about 200 colonies of bees, all in Root's 

 one and two story chaff hives. Last summer's honey 

 crop was fair — about 3500 pounds of comb honey and 

 1000 of extracted. JNO. Schneider. 



Mclvor, Mich., Jan. 18. 



what an old uke-journal publisher thinks of 

 gleanings. 



I feel like expressing my opinion on the Feb. 1st 

 Gleanings. The first thing that took my eye when 

 the wrapper was removed was' the last page of the 

 cover. Whoever set and arranged those ad's is an ar- 

 tist of the first water. How could any one help read- 

 ing all those ad's? You are working so much good 

 humor through almost every page of your paper that it 

 all is more than interesting. Henry Alley. 



Wenham, Mass., Feb. 7. 



[In our department, Pickings, Feb. 1, reference is 

 made to a Japanese paper printed in Tokyo, Japan, 

 by Mr. J. Ikeda. Since that was written we have re- 

 ceived the following letter from Mr. Ikeda himself. 

 It is more spicy as written, hence we do not try to 

 make it conform to the English idiom except where 

 really necessary.] 



Dear Sir: — I was very much impressed with your 

 first letter to us the other day. Now, what is the mat- 

 ter why you struck my heart? you will ask. Well, 

 sir, I'll try to mention that. My first thought was that 

 your magazine is simply devoted to that line only; 

 and as I publish an agricultural magazine I asked you 

 to exchange. And for that answer you mentioned us 

 kindly, accepted our wish, and, besides this, you ask- 

 ed us to join hands for righteousness and temperance. 

 Righteousness and temperance were the matters 

 which gave me much interest I am baptized about 

 12 years ago by a Canadian minister, and after that I 

 feel that it is our duty and pleasure to let all know of 

 the gospel, and do righteousness to our country 

 friends. Especially I felt it most important to organ- 

 ize some temperance society. Perhaps some of our 

 sisters of the World's. Christian Temperance Union, of 

 Chicago, know the name of Mr. Sen Tsuda. He is an 

 eminent Christian, and is the first man who taught 

 people to be abstinent from wine, and of the impor- 

 tance to organize the society. On this opinion he 

 published a magazine purely devoted to that line. 

 The name given to that magazine was Hhioniaru (Red 

 Sun. our national flag's sign). I was the editor while 

 Mr. Tsuda was the publisher. The magazine was 

 published duly, and continued about two years, and 

 finally it was connected with the brother magazine, 

 the Yokohama Temperance Magazine. Now I am not 

 directly connected with any temperance society, but I 

 have much interest in the same Allow me to mention 

 some conditions of the temperance movement in 

 Japan. There are many- societies, but the most re- 

 maikable ones are as below : Tokyo Temperance So- 

 ciety, Yokohama Temperance Society, Hokkai Tem- 

 perance Society, Woman's Christian Temperance 

 Union. These three first are managed by men, but 

 the latter one is purely managed by women. Each of 

 them has magazines for its use. and have pretty large 

 circulations. In Japan these works are done chiefly 

 by Christians, and the societies owe very much to 

 Christianity. 



People know, sometimes, the good of Christianity, 

 but are troub ed by their drinking; and after they 

 abandon their cup they smoothly enter into the gate 

 of life. As a rule, Christianity is not welcomed by 

 some people ; but a temperance lecture is better, or 

 easier, so the ministers and believers are all interest- 

 ed, and have sympathy for it. There were some tem- 

 perance societies organized by the Buddhists, but soon 

 extinguished; and also there were some by unbelievers; 

 but these in the end were about the same We have 

 found by experience that, if we wish to let a man 

 become a Christian, it is well to let him unite with the 

 society at first. I should like to mention in our paper 

 for bee culture something for the promotion of social 

 intercourse. In all these I shall be much benefited 

 by your valuable paper. Yours trulv, 



Tokyo, Japan, Jan 2. , J. Ikeda. 



The A. I. Root Co.'s Goods At T ^ es . 



Including their discounts for goods wanted for use an- 

 other season. It will pay you to send me list of goods 

 wanted. ' M. H. HUNT, 



Cash fa*- beeswax. Bell Branch, Mich. 



PA PI IF^T QUEENS reared in U. S.; increased 

 CAI\LICol facilities for promptness; all queens 



guaranteed. 



Write for prices from half dozen to 100. 

 J. B. CASE, Port Orange, Fla. 



