1881 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



JOIN our club and get free one pound paekag'e of 

 a NF.w SEEDi.iNO, potato — the finest we ever 

 saw — or 20 Strawberry plants of varieties that sell 

 for 50e to il per do/. Particulars free. 

 1-1 P. SUTTON, Kansom, Lack'a Co., Pa. 



WANTED.— An experienced apiarist; one who 

 can do all kinds of farm work, and handle 

 tools to some extent. Single man preferred. Ap- 

 plicant must be of good habits, a "man of activity," 

 and ready and willing to take hold of whatever turns 

 up. Address immediately, W. P. CLEMENT, 

 3d Mouticello, Green Co., Wis. 



FOR Catalogue and Price List of young Sour- 

 wood, Black Locust, Buckthorn, Buckbush, 

 and other forest trees and seeds. 



Address CHAS. KINGSLEY, 

 1-3 Greeneville Greene Co , Tenn. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



I am very much pleased with the Sunday-school 

 books you sent. Austts M. Magee. 



Coopers, Chilton Co., Ala., Dec. T, 1880. 



1 received my watch to-day, Dec. 23, and It is a 

 beauty; and let mo thank you for it, for it is just 

 the watch you said it was. H. C. Kersten. 



Brooklyn, Iowa. 



The ink-powder, gauge, and file, came all right to- 

 day; ink is made, and I am writing with it. It 

 Hows well. P. D. S. Greene. 



Barry, Pike Co., TIL, Dec. 13, 1880. 



I want to say this, that the 15c coal-shovel, though 

 the handle got broke in the mail, is still worth twice 

 the money. If you only could send tongs to match 

 it! If j'ou get any tongs before my box of goods 

 leaves, put a pair in. Isaac B. Rumford. 



Bakersfield, Kern Co., Cal., Dec. 13, 1880. 



The goods came last Saturday. The charges were 

 $1.3,5. That was very reasonable, I think. The ex- 

 tractor is just splendid— much nicer than I expected 

 it to be, and the box of bee material was all packed 

 in good shape. A. Osbun. 



Spring Bluff, Wis., Nov. 23, 1880. 



Inclosed find SI. 00 for Gleanings another year. 

 Thanks for the Home Paperp. They help us in West- 

 ern Connecticut to be unselfish, and thoughtful of 

 others. May the "great Lover of us all sustain and 

 keep" you until you come to his everlasting king- 

 dom. Mrs. a. E. Jordan. 



Redding, Ct., Nov. 25, 1880. 



The ABC book came to hand. The paper, print- 

 ing, and liinding, are all that could be desired, and 

 yet $1.35 pays for it all! The minute precision of its 

 details makes it a handy book for the novice in bee 

 culture, and is a guarantee of sound information 

 and instruction. Geo. H. Waddell. M. D. 



Coronaca, Abbeville Co., S. C, Nov. 19, 1880. 



The Waterbury watch ordered on the 8th inst. ar- 

 rived safely on the 16th. Thanks. To say that 1 am 

 pleased with it, does not express the full truth of 

 the matter (I do not wish to beggar the English lan- 

 guage.) What a revolution there is in watches! 

 and they keep on revolving (?) providing we keep 

 them wound up. D. P. Lane. 



Koshkonong, Wis. 



T was much pleased with the several small arti- 

 cles. They are cheap, if they are what they appear 

 to be, and I have no doubt they are, for I have sent 

 to you several times, and was always well pleased, 

 and will risk sending to you once more. I was es- 

 pecially pleased with your ten-cent balance. Send 

 me two more. W. L. Millspaitgh, 



Catherine, Schuyler Co., N. Y., Nov. 33, 1880. 



I received the watch on the 14th inst., all safe. I 

 wound it up and started it in 2;i minutes after I got 

 it, and it has run to a minute with my clock ever 

 since. I am well pleased with it. You may look out 

 again for orders. I also received the scissors and 

 Gleanings for December. Thanks for your prompt- 

 ness. J. D. Cooper. 



Traveller's Rest, S. C„ Dec. 16, 1880. 



The ABC book is received, and ray wife and I are 

 very well pleased with it. I can hardly see how such 

 a nice book can be sold for so little money. Book- 

 keepers in these parts would charge $3.00 for just 

 such a book. All the goods that I have ordered 

 from you have been received, and give good satis- 

 faction. They were also packed in the best of order. 



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Spanish Ranch, Plumas Co , Cal.', Nov. 16, 1880. • 



BE YE TEMPERATE IN ALL THINGS. 



Inclosed find 45 cents, the price for sending 5-cent 

 Sunday-school books for 8 weeks. I think they come 

 weekly, the same as a newspaper. 1 would rather 

 tt ey would come so, even if I had to pav a little more 

 postage; for, although I think that I am strictly 

 temperate, as far as the use (or, rather, the disuse) 

 of ardent spirits is concerned, but not always so 

 when I have too much on hand at once to read. 



White House Station, MRS. Walter Smith. 



Hunterdon Co., N. J., Dec. 16, 1880. 



I can not for my life imderstand why any single 

 subscriber can ask for Gleanings at club rates, or 

 complain at you for allowing a small margin to 

 agents. If they want the profit, they should get up 

 the club. Perhaps a great many complain just for 

 the fun of a growl; if so, just let them growl on, as 

 it perhaps enables them to sleep better. Gleanings 

 is worth a dollar, without the Home Papers; and 

 they alone are worth more than a dollar a year 

 without the bee department. Enoch Arwine. 



Bean Blossom, Brown Co., Ind , Dec. 14, 1880. 



The above order I culled out of the pamphlet you 

 sent to Miss M^— list week. About bees— ahem! 

 she wants to know if you can not send her some 

 Italian queens for samples on trial!! 



N. B.— 1 am innocent if there be a joke In the mat- 

 ter. A. B. C. 



Med way, Greene Co., N. Y., Nov. 29, 1880. 



[Why, friend A. B. C, I am really sorry to refuse 

 to oblige Miss M. ; but you see it is such awful hard 

 work to raise queens, that, if we did that with ail the 

 brothers and sisters, there wouldn't be enough to go 

 round; at least I am afraid there wouldn't, and you 

 know I am of a careful turn of mind. Ahem !] 



The two Sunday-school books that you sent me of 

 late we all like very much, and are hungry for more. 

 The names of those two were "Pilgrim Street," (God 

 help us all to gain the victory as little Tom did!) and 

 "General Peg and Her Staff." I enjoy reading 

 Gleanings as much as ever — especially "Our 

 Homes." My prayer is, that God will continue to 

 bless our Christian friends in India. I felt sorry 

 for you when I read the Growlery of this month, be- 

 cause J. A. Hopkins had such bad luck with his per- 

 chases. We like our little thermometers very much, 

 and Edward Carson thinks his little 15c plane as 

 near perfect as any thing could be for the price. 



Mary E. Hartwell. 



Medora, Macoupin Co., 111., Dec. 6, 1880. 



The ABC book came to hand all right, and after 

 reading it all through once, and some of it twice, I 

 think— well, I will just tell you what I think. 



1 think, friend Root, 



You made a pretty good shoot 



When you undertook 



That A B Cbook; 



And we all should peruse. 



With joy profuse, 



A book so free 



In its knowledge of the bee. 



And long may you live. 



And happy should you be. 



In such a book to give, 



As the ABC. 



W. H. Turner. 

 Fifes, Goochland Co., Va. 



I would as soon be without an almanac for 13 

 months as to do without your bee journal. I do not 

 write for it, for I do not want to be consigned to 

 either the Growlery or Blasted Hopes. I can not 

 boast of as much as some of your people do; yet I 

 concede that I am doing far better since I adopted 

 the Simplicity hive and got the Italian bees than I 

 ever did before. But while I can not boast of as 

 much as some do, 1 love to read their reports. And 



