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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1. 



and in reply to yonr inquiry I am pleased to make the 

 following statement : 



The American Board and its officials have consented 

 to receive all sums sent to it for India Famine Relief, 

 and such sums are being acknowledged in detail in 

 the Cone^iegationaliit. from week to week. As the 

 Board makes no charge whatever for receiving and 

 forwaiditig this money, to s-ave expense for postage 

 and clerical assistance, unless specially requested, re- 

 ceipts are not sent to individual donors, as the public 

 acknowledgment in the Congregaliotialist is deemed 

 sufficient. 



With the exception of a few dollars paid to the cable 

 com pan}' for dispatches making the relief more speed- 

 ily available, every cent of what has been contributed 

 has been forwarded to India, and this money is all 

 being used bj- a committee of American missionaries 

 for the relief of the famine-stricken — these mission- 

 aries, as I understand it, giving their services without 

 charge. In this way all that has been contributed, 

 save what has been paid to the cable company for 

 messages, goes directly to the suffering natives of 

 India. Fbank H. Wiggin, Treasurer. 



Boston, Mass., April 11. 



In regard to the amount that is being sub- 

 scribed and sent in from America, you have 

 doubtless seen statements in most of the pa- 

 pers. Great sums are being forwarded from 

 all over our land ; and so far as I can learn a 

 great deal of the destitution is being relieved. 

 Competent authorities are already doing vphat 

 I sugge.sted — employing the people to work on 

 canals and reservoirs for furnishing irrigation 

 in order that they may, in a little time, begin 

 to feed themselves. All nations recognize 

 that it is better to set the people at work for 

 moderate pay than to give them supplies or 

 money outright. Heedless giving encourages 

 shifllessness and pauperism ; while setting 

 people at work for regular pay helps them to 

 help themselves. I still think all money had 

 better be sent to the American Board as per 

 the address given in the letter above ; but I 

 will undertake to forward it for tho,se who find 

 it inconvenient to send it there, and we will al- 

 so make public mention of all sums sent, as 

 other periodicals are doing, through our pages. 



As we go to press the following sums have 

 been received up to date : 



Total sent in previous to this issue, !B33.00. 



Amount sent in during the last of April : 



Edw. Smith, Carpenter, 111., $1.00. 



Mrs. Ellis. New Martinsburg, Ohio, SI. 00. 



E. Pickup, Limerick, 111.. 85.00. 



Geo F. Leslie, Braeburn, Pa , ffl 30. 



W. E. Flower, Ashbourne, Pa., $1 00. 



Please notice the American Board have ar- 

 rangements so the money can go by cable ; 

 therefore it gets to the spot, and helps the 

 starving, almost the very minute y^u put it in 

 the hands of the American Board. 



KANSAS' GIFT OF ONE MILLION BUSHELS OF 

 CORN TO THE STARVING IN INDIA. 



The thing is going along, I conclude, from 

 the following which I clip from the Topeka 

 Daily Press : 



A commit' ee, of which Gov. Stanley is chairman, 

 •will meet and arrange for a systematic canvass of the 

 State for lunr's. Fifteen hundred dollars and a c ir- 

 load of corn we' e pledged at the meeting to-night. 



KIND WORDS FOR THE FAULTLESS SPRAYER 



I fhall have something interesting to write you 

 about the sprayeis before long. The (two dozen) lit- 

 tle things have saved us hundreds of dollars on our 

 crops this year. Udo Toepperwein. 



Leon Springs, Tex., April 9. 



Books for Bee=keepers and Others. 



Any of these books on which po.stage is not given 

 will be forwarded by mail, postpaid on receipt of price. 



In buying books, as every thing else, we are liable 

 to disappointment if we make a purchase without see- 

 ing the article. Admitting that the book-seller could 

 read all the books he offers, as he has them for sale, it 

 were hardly to be expected he would be the one to 

 mention all the faults, as well as good things about 

 a book. We very much desire that those who favor us 

 with their patronage shall not be disappointed and 

 therefore we are g'-ing to try to prevent it by mention- 

 ing all the fault-i, so far as we can, that the purchaser 

 may know what he is getting. In the following li.st, 

 books that we approve we have marked with -a * ; 

 tho.se we especially approve, ** ; those that are not up 

 to times, t ; books that contain but little matter for 

 the price, large tj'pe, and much space between the 

 lines, X ; foreign, §. The bee-books are all good. 



As many of the bee-books are .sent with other goods 

 by freight or express, incurring no postage, we give 

 prices separately. You will notice that you can judge 

 of the size of the books very well by the amount re- 

 quired for postage on each. 



bibles, hymn-books, and other good books. 

 Postage.] [Price without postage. 



8 I Bible, good print, neatly bound 20 



10 I Bunvan's Pilgrim's Progress** 50 



I Christian's Secret of a Hnppy Lite.** 50c; cloth 1 00 

 3 I John Ploughman's Talks and Pictures, t>y Rev. 



C. H. Spurgeon* 10 



1 I Gospel Hymns, consolidated, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and i, 



words only; cloth, 10c; paper 5 



2 Same, board covers 20 



5 Same, words and music, small type, board cov. 45 



10 Same, words and mu.sic, board covers 75 



3 I New Testament in pretty flexible covers 05 



5 I New Testament, new version, paper covers 10 



4 I Stepping Heavenward** 18 



5 I Tobacco Manual** 45 



This is a nice book that will be sure to be read, if left 



around where the boys get hold of it, and any boy who 

 reads it will be pretty safe from the tobacco habit. 



books especially for bee-keepers. 



15 ABC of Bee Culture, cloth 1 10 



Advanced Bee Culture, by W. Z. Hutchinson ... 50 

 3 Amateur Bee-keeper, by J. W. Rouse...... 22 



14 Bees and Bee-keeping, by Frank Che.shire, 



England, Vol. I., § 2 36 



21 ,Same, Vol. II., § 2 79 



Same, Vols. I. and II., postpaid 5 25 



10 Bees and Honey, by T. G. Newman 90 



10 Cook's New Manual, cloth 1 15 



5 Doolittle on Queen-rearing 95 



2 Dzierzon Theory 10 



3 Foul Brood; Its Natural History and Rational 



Treatment 22 



1 Honey as Food and Medicine 05 



15 Langstrolh Revi.sed by Chas. Dadant & Son 1 10 



15 Quinby's New Bee-keeping 1 40 



Thirty Years Among the Bees, by H AUej- 50 



Bee-keeping for Profit, by Dr. G. L. Tinker 25 



The Honev-bee. bv Thns William Onwqn 95 



I British Bee-keeper's Guide-book, by Thomas 



William Cowan, England ? ; 40 



3 I Merrybanks and His Neighbor, by A. I. Root... 15 



4 Winter Problem in Bee-keepirg, bj' Pierce 46 



I Bienenzucht und Honigpewinnung 50 



Or "Bee Culture and the Securing of Honey," a Ger- 

 man bee-book by J. F. Eggers, of Grand Island, Neb. 

 Postage free. 



miscellaneous hand- books. 



5 I A B C of Carp Culture, by Geo. Finlev 25 



5 I A B C of .Strawberry Culture,** by T. B. Terry.. 35 



Probably the leading book of the world on straw- 

 qerries. 



3 I A B C of Potato Cnlture, Terry** 35 



This is T. B. Terry's fir.st and most masterly work. 



I Barn Plans and Out-buildings* 1 50 



Canary birds, paper 50 



2 I Celery for Profit, by T. Greiner** 25 



The first really full and complete book on celery 



culture, at a moderate price, that we have had. It is 

 full of pictures, and the whule thing is made so plain 

 that a schoolboy ought to be able to grow paying 

 crops at once without any assistance except from the 

 hook. 



15 I Draining for Profit and Health, Warring 1 35 



10 Fuller's Grape Culturist** 1 15 



8 1 Domestic Economy, by I. H. Mayer, M D.** ... 30 



This book ought. to save at least the money it costs, 



each year, in every household. It was written by a 



