1881 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



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ih Year— 65 First-Premium 

 Medals and Dinlomas. 



Send postal card with name and address lor my 

 new illustrated Circular and Price List containing- 

 valuable information to all bee-keepers. Sent free. 

 CHAS. H. LAKE, 

 Successor to the late Richard Colvin, 

 2-4d 96 West Pratt St., Baltimore, Md. 



SUCCESS IN BUSINESS! 



THE SECRET OF A LIBERAL USE OF PRINT- 

 ERS' INK. 



BUSINESS CARDS, Border Bristol, assorted 

 tints, 100, 6oc;:.>r)0, $l.:ir>. White Bristol, 100, BOc; 250, $1. 



NOTE HEAUS, g-ood stock, 100, 65c; 250, .fl.25. 



ENVEliOPES, ffood heavy stock, white or col- 

 ored, 100, 60c; 250, $1.00,— all postpaid. Sat isfactlm 

 guaranteed or monen refunded. Samples free. Ad- 

 dress S. P. YoDER & Co., Vistula, Elkhart Co., Ind. 



RAISING TURKEYS 



AND CHICKENS. 



Send 15 cents to NATIONAL. FAKMER CO., 



CInoiniiati, and get by mail "Wl»at 20 Persons 

 (noted lV>r their lireat Success In Raising 

 Turlteys and Cliickens) Have to say." Read- 

 ing' what these experienced persons have to say will 

 give one more information how to be successful 

 than the reading of any Dollar Poultry Book. 2-4 



HEAD(iUARTERS FOR 



Pure Albino and Italian Queens and Colonies 

 for 1881. As I make queen-rearing a specialty, I 

 guarantee to those ordering from me just what they 

 bargain for. Circulars free. Address D. A. Pike, 

 2-4d Box 19, Smithsburg, Washington Co., Md. 



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ONEY-RACKS, NEW KIND. Circular free. 

 ,2-3d E. A. Thomas, Colerain, Franklin Co., Mass. 



1881 ITALIAN (QUEENS! 1881 



Tested Queens $1 50 



■\Varranted Queens.. 1 00 



Cyprian Queens, untested 1 00 

 As most all the Dollar queens 



I sold last year were pure, I 



will warrant them this year. 

 J. T. Wilson, Mortonsville, 



2-Vd Woodford Co., Ky. 



FDN.! NEW MOLDED FDN.! 



Best in the market. Only trv it. Samples free. 

 New machines, |5.C0. OLIVER FOSTER, 



2d Mt. Vernon, Linn Co., Iowa. 



/^^OMB Foundation Machines from $1.00 to $5.00. 

 Kj Comb Fdn., less thau 5 lbs., 40c; over 5 lbs., 35c; 

 over 50 lbs., 34c; over 100 lbs., 33iiic. Price list free. 

 Italian queens from Imp. mothers, fl. ready in April. 

 2tfd JOHN PARIS, Chilhowie, Smyth Co., Va. 



KIOT WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



My nippers came all right. They look to me cheap 

 at a quarter, when only 5c is the price. 



G. H. O'Bannon. 

 Dresden, Green Co , Tnd., Dec. 28, 1880. 



I was fairly delighted when I opened the box. Oh 

 that nice little rule, only 10 cents! and the plane, 

 spring balance,— in fact, every thing was more than 

 I expected for the money. J. M. Engle. 



Morristown, Shelby Co., Ind. 



The watch is at hand, and a very nice little watch 

 it is. It is a real nice, neat, and clean little time- 

 piece. Thanks for promptness. The watch pleases 

 and suits the boy exactly. E. J. Atchley. 



Lancaster, Texas, Dec. 28, 1880, 



I bought your ABCafew months ago. I have 

 read and re-read it until I have it all, or nearly all, 

 by heart. John G. Fox. 



Middle River, Madison Co., Iowa, Jan. 7, 1881. 



One word for the Home Papers: We are without 

 a pastor at our church, and you have no idea how 

 far they go toward tilling the blank. 



Moberly, Mo., Jau. 10, 1881. J. M. Epperson. 



You beat the world sending things nice. I wish 

 you were a little nearer, so that we (that is, wife and 

 1) could order of you all that we have to buy. 



Peru, 111., Jau. 18, 1881. Geo. Perry. 



Please send us another 15-cent thermometer, 

 wife claims this one for her flowers. 



A. P. Hartwell. 

 Medora, Macoupin Co., 111., Nov. 2", 1880. 



My 



Gleanings and goods came to hand much sooner 

 than we expected, and were more than satisfactory. 

 How they can be gotten up so cheaply, and sent 1200 

 miles by rail and 100 by stage in five days, is yet a 

 mystery. M. C. Swan. 



Mason, Mason Co., Tex., Jan. 6, 1881. 



Since I wrote you, I have been visited by a scien- 

 tific friend, who has used one of your Water buiy 

 watches for more than a year, and likes it first rate. 

 That principle of winding up without the bother of a 

 key is nothing less than splendid. Sel \hammah. 



Fall River, Mass., Jan. 7, 1881. 



I presented to my little cimsin the watch you sent, 

 and he thinks with myself that it is quite a treasure 

 for so little money; he and his father compare their 

 timepieces every morning and night, and his is al- 

 ways just right. His father's may be a little too fast 

 or too slow, but his Waterbury, as he calls it, is just 

 right. Austin M. Magee. 



Cooper's, Chilton Co., Ala., Jan. 17, 1881. 



Please find inclosed one dollar for Gleanings for 

 1881. The house has got so accustomed to the ring of 

 your voice, we couldn't well do without it now. The 

 children all talk of Mr. Root as if they knew him. 

 The good wife joins me in wishing yourself and fam- 

 ily tlie compliments of the season. 



A. B. Harrison. 



Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., Cal , Dec. 11, '80. 



[May God bless the good wife and children, friend 

 H., and yourself too, for your very kind words, 

 which I can not but feel are certainly not more than 

 half deserved.] 



The "knifes" arrived in good condition, and one 

 "childer" has been made happy with one of them. 

 I once bought a pair of "specs" for 25 cents, which I 

 thought was "'mazing" cheap; and, not believing 

 you obtained yours on the ready-made, " stoleu- 

 broom" principle, I can hardly conceive how or 

 where you find them to sell for a single dime. Topsy, 

 of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," when she declared that she 

 never was born, on being inquired of to know where 

 she came from, said that she " spect she growed;" 

 and perhaps you grow "specs" out there on the 

 banks of the pleasant Ohio. Selahammah. 



Fall River, Mass. 



I have been carefully examining the contents of 

 j'our ABC book, and find that in it is comprehended 

 the whole alphabet of bee culture. During half a 

 century I have had a practical knowledge of bee- 

 keeping, and I have sturiied about all of the bee- 

 books by American authors,f romthatof J. M. Weeks, 

 of Vermont, to the most modern works; besides, I 

 am acquainted with most of the European books 

 that treat on honey-bees. Were I now to select a 

 treatise on bee culture to put into the hand of anew 

 beginner in that branch of husbandry, I should un- 

 hesitatingly take a copy of the ABC 



C. J. Robinson. 



Richford, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1881. 



religion and business. 

 I wish to say, I like Gleanings, and especially 

 your Home Papers. I fully approve of mixing re- 

 ligion with all our business matters. I do not be- 

 lieve that we have any right to engage in any busi- 

 ness in which we can not sincerely ask God's bless- 

 ing upon it. And now, friend Root, I want to say 



