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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



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Our California honey travels so slowly that it has 

 not yet reached us, though shipped as long ago as 

 the 8th of last November. 



The North-Eastern Bee-Keepers' Association of 

 New York, meet in annual session at Utica, Feb. 

 3, 3, and i 1881. 



We start the year with 2613 subscribers. Please 

 accept thanks for so many, my friends, after so 

 poor a honey season. Last year at this time we had 

 3444. 



No MORE premiums for subscribing early; but 

 you can secure any of the counter goods as pre" 

 miums by noting the rates to clubs, on first page of 

 reading matter. 



The Italian bees are at length introduced into 

 New Zealand! Fresh water was supplied them daily, 

 and they came through as fresh as just caged; so 

 we learn from the New Zealand Standard of Sept. 

 11th. 



As THE honey season soon opens in the South, no 

 more discounts will be made from our price list; 

 but we shall watch every opportunity of lessening 

 the price of any article in it, as soon as it is possible 

 to do so. 



THE WATERBTJRY WATCHES. 



Over two gross of these watches have now been 

 sold, and the number that have been returnpd are 

 very few indeed, compared with what would have 

 been the case with any other watch of a moderate 

 price that I have ever handled. 



I DO not know whether sections will be $5.00 per 

 thousand or more, after this month. It will depend 

 on what those who make them decide in regard to 

 the matter. As our own make can be either nailed 

 or glued, so as to make a most rigid box, for those 

 who want such, we think them rather superior to 

 those made with the V-shaped groove. 



Our friend Forncrook offers sections for $5.00 per 

 ■ thousand, during this month, and our friend Lewis, 

 of the firm of Lewis & Parks, comes on with the 

 same proposal. Now, not to be behind, we have de- 

 termined to follow suit; viz., furnish any section 

 smaller than 5x6, during the month of January, for 

 the same price. Those of you who have paid us 

 more for sections to be used next season, can have 

 the money repaid by making application. This price 

 is so extremely close that it cuts off all chance of 

 wholesale. We have an immense pile of seasoned 

 basswood, and with our new machines I think we 

 can furnish you the neatest all-in-one-piece sections 

 you ever saw. 



Our lunch room seems to be a decided success. 

 With hot steam at her command, one of our girls 

 served 32 hungry people in less than two hours, and 

 washed and put away the dishes. Our bee friends 

 who come to see us, can now, after visiting all the 

 different rooms, take a seat with us at the noon ser- 

 vice, and help to sing out of the Gospel Hymns; 

 then, if so disposed, adjourn to the lunch room, and 

 refresh the "inner man," and all without going out 

 of the building. Friend A. Froscher, of LaGrange, 

 Florida, supplies us with the most luscious Florida 

 oranges, which seem to be one of the chief attrac- 

 tions to visitors to the aforesaid lunch room. 



THE counter store, as It is now arranged by the 

 ingenuity of Mr. Gray, really reminds one of the 

 collections of curiosities from all parts of the world 



that was to be witnessed at the Centennial, and dur- 

 ing these holiday times the crowds of visitors that 

 filled the room from morning until night, has helped 

 to keep up the illusion. More than once have I 

 knelt in that room at night, after all were gone, and 

 thanked God for having blessed this project too, un- 

 til it has gone far beyond what I ever dared to hope 

 it would. One great secret of the success of it is, 

 the scrupulous neatness with which Eliza keeps 

 every thing. The floor is mopped almost every 

 morning, the counters thoroughly dusted with a 

 pair of heJloics —what do you think of that idea, 

 housekeeping sisters?— and by the time customers 

 begin to come, every one looks happy, because of 

 the order, neatness, and cleanliness found everj-- 

 where. 



My friends, I had no idea that so many orders 

 would be sent in for our little book of the Home 

 Papers; and when I said we would try to have it out 

 by Dec. 1st, I did it without thinking any one would 

 be greatly disappointed if they did not get it quite so 

 soon, [t seems I have been a little mistaken in two 

 things: All my books before have been printed 

 from types; but either elcctrotypers work slowly, or 

 ours has much work ahead. The plates of the book 

 were promised yesterday. When they come, our big 

 press will turn the books out in a hurry. My other 

 mistake was in not thinking so many would want 

 the little book by the tens and fifties, even before 

 they had seen a copy. I am really afraid you will 

 feel disappointed when you see it. M. will very soon 

 commence setting the type for Part Second. May 

 God bless the little book, and you in your separate 

 homes, as it reaches you. 



MARRIIi:!). 



FOSTER — ROCKWELL. -At the residence of the 

 bride's father, Thursday, October 28, 1880. Mr. 

 Oliver Foster, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and Miss 

 Maria Rockwell, of Caldwell county, Missouri.— 

 ]\It. Vernon Hauheye. 



May the Lord ever be with yoii and your 

 fair partner in life, friend F.I 





This <leiiaitnie!it differs from Humbugrs and Swindles, in giv- 

 intr tlie names and addresses of jjersons who. although they do 

 not advertise, olitain goods by making- promises wliieh they do 

 not Iceep, and, not only that, but they do not answer postals or 

 letters when written to. To avoid aceideiital in.iustiee, no one's 

 name will be given here before we have oursehes repeatedly 

 tried to get a reply from him. and, at the same time, have as- 

 certained from his P. M. , that he is a resident ot the iilace. and, 

 in short, have done every thing in our power to prevint this list 

 from growing; largrer. Besides all this, an additional warning 

 will be given each delinquent bv sending- him a printed copy of 

 this list, before his name comes out publiely. Those who will- 

 fully take another's proijcrty without equivalent, and who df- 

 liberatelv and purposely do wrong-, we all wish to be wamid 

 against, and it is only such we mean to include here. 



D. Berry, Mansfield, Richland Co.. O. 



J. W. Rianton. Paris, Henrv Co., Tenn. 



J. F. Kramer, Clearfield, Clearfield Co., Penn. 



A. J. Clark, Chatham Village, Columbia Co., N, Y. 



Those persons named below claim to have sent us money, 

 which we have never received. On the strength of their claim, 

 we have sent the goods, asking for half price, and after wri- 

 ting them repeatedly, they fail to settle either by sending half 

 price or returning goods at our expense. 



R. R. Higgins, Benton ville, Adams Co., O. 

 M. S. Kirby, Fredonia. Chambers Co., Ala. 

 G. Adney, Knoxville, Knox Co., Tenn. 



WANTED.— A good, sturdy, sober, industrious 

 man, who is well posted in Bee Culture, to 

 take charge of an apiary at Omaha, Nebraska. To 

 such a man, good wages will be paid. 

 1-2 ISAAC EDWARDS, M. D., Omaha, Nebraska. 



