JANUARY 1, 1916 



Honey reports continued from page 2. 



St. Louis. — There is no change in the honey 

 market since our last quotations. The supply of 

 both comb and extracted honey, while not large is 

 quite sufficient for the present demand. We are still 

 quoting white comb honey in 24 sections from $3.50 

 to $3.75; amber, $2.75 to $3.00; dark and inferior, 

 less. Extracted honey in 60-lb. cans from 6 to 9, 

 and in barrels from 5V2 to 6%, according to qual- 

 ity. Beeswax is firm at 28 ^/^ for pure; inferior and 

 impure, less. R. Hartmann Produce Co. 



St. Louis, Dec. 20. 



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GLEANINGS READ BY PRISON INMATES. 



Our exchange list has grown to such an extent 

 we were sure it needed revising, so we sent out a 

 circular letter and a card to all exchanges on our 

 list of which we were at all uncertain. All they 

 have to do if they wish the exchange continued is 

 to return the card we have sent, indicating that 

 they are interested in Gleanings. 



The card below is one which came from the Star 

 of Hope, the paper published by the prisoners of 

 Sing Sing Prison. 



Star of Hope, Inmates Sing Sing Prison, 354 

 Hunter St., Ossining, N. Y. 



After the editorial office is done with the maga- 

 zine we loan it to inmates interested in the subject; 

 and after they have read it we send it successively 

 to Auburn Prison, Great Meadow Prison, and Clin- 

 ton Prison, where it is loaned to interested inmates 

 until it is worn tO' shreds. 



H. Huffman Browne, Editor-in-Chief. 



MAPLE sugar, bees, POTATOES, AND " AX-HELVE." 



A. I. Root's talks about maple syrup and sugar 

 in Our Homes made me think it would, perhaps, be 

 interesting to you to .se how we make syrup and 

 sugar each spring. I have made maple syrup about 

 40 springs out of my life of 58 years, and know 

 it is just as healthy to make it as it is to eat it. 

 I certainly enjoy both. My quarter-acre yielded 74 

 bushels of nice potatoes. This kind of potato was 

 raised from seed of the Early Rose. They are the 

 earliest potato I ever had. The bees did quite well 

 this year in spite of cool rainy weather throughout 

 the summer. I extracted 150 gallons, and had 

 about 300 lbs. of comb honey from 35 swarms, 

 spring count. 



One of my side lines is hand-shaved ax-helves. 

 This line goes well with beekeeping in my locality. 

 One winter I made 82 dozen for the Wisconsin Tim- 

 ber and Land Co., of Mattoon. There are hundreds 

 of acres of cutover lands in this locality where rasp- 

 berries abound. 



Matoon, Wis. A. V. Pollock. 



KIND WORD FROM A SOUTH AMERICAN MISSIONARY. 



Dear Bro. Root :—Yo\ir tract, "How to be Happy 

 when People Abuse You," came to me with some 

 sample tracts from California recently. I received 

 a great blessing from the tract. 



I should like to say I have known you since I 

 was a little boy, as I grew up in Chippewa Lake, 

 attended school in Medina, and saw your plant grow 

 to the proportions it is now; and I know it is be- 

 cause you were true to God. 



I learned to dance, play cards, smoke, etc., and 

 would not yield my life to the Lord, although he 

 called me many times. 



On account of smoking I became so nervous I 

 could not sleep at night — made one or two trips to 

 Chippewa to end my life by my own hand. I was 

 so nervous I could not do so, the Lord holding me 

 because of prayer. I was saved May 10, 1900, 

 since which time, excepting the first year, I have 

 been preaching the gospel, six years of the time in 

 South America. 



The Lord has wonderfully blessed me, and given 

 me many souls in this time, as my calling is that 

 of an evangelist. 



Let me say I always love to read your bee jour- 

 nal for the good religious articles you put in it; 

 and I pray that God may wonderfully bless your 

 last days. Earl W. Claek. 



Washington, D. C, Oct. 23. 



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