1881 



GLEAXIXGS IX BEE CULTURE. 



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so pleasant to be out of the business. I also found 

 that I needed the recreation, the exercise, and the 

 pocket-money my bees gave me. I am now trying 

 to winter 50 colonies. 



4. I have other experiences, which I can not put in 

 this article. 



Wishing a happy New Year and a prosperous busi- 

 ness for 1881 to you and all your readers, I remain,— 



Milroy, Pa., Jan., 1831. John W. White. 



Many thanks, friend W., for your valuable 

 experience, especially in regard to wintering 

 and foul brood. I have no doubt but that 

 many of us could furnish facts corroborative 

 of the point you have brought out so strong- 

 ly — the ■ importance of care and thoughtf ul- 

 ness, year after year, if we would make a 

 continued success of the business. 



TOBACCO COIiVMiV. 



ESEE you offer to give one of your smokers to any 

 one who has been an inveterate slave to the 

 use of tobacco, who will pledge to abstain from 

 the use of it. I, perhaps, have been as much a slave 

 to the use of it as any one, and if you will send me 

 one of your smokers, I will pledge myself never to 

 chew or smoke it again, or forfeit fourfold. 



Jas. H. p. Henderson. 

 Co\-ington, Ga , Dec. IT, 1880. 



I have noticed your offer in Gleanings, to give a 

 smoker to any person giving up the use of tobacco. 

 I have smoked tobacco for 11 years, more or less; 

 the last 4 or 5 years regularly. I am 27 years old; 

 have been discussing in my own mind lately whether 

 "to quit or not to quit," and have about concluded 

 to quit. Send along that smoker, and away goes 

 pipe, tobacco, aud cigars for good. 



L. E. BrssELL. 



Ridgeway, Osage Co., Kansas, Jan. 6, 1881. 



You sent me, by request last week, a sample copy 

 of Gleanings, and in it I found a singular offer. To 

 any one who will leave off using tobacco, you offer 

 to furnish, free of charge, one of your smokers— he 

 to have his choice. Now, I have been a slave to the 

 weed for 18 years, although I am only 34 now; but I 

 am going to take you at your word. I am not pre- 

 pare! at present: but if the smoker comes all right, 

 I will subscribe for Gleanings. I want the large 

 size Cold Blast. I am just commencing in the bee 

 business. I am going into it more for the pleasure I 

 may get out of it than for the profit. I shall want a 

 queen in the spring. My wife says that the minute 

 I begin the use of tobacco again, she will write and 

 tell you of it: but I guess I have honor enough left 

 to pay if I fail. E. A. Em.mons. 



Tampico, Whiteside Co., 111., Dec. 30, 1880. 



I have got into my old path again, and have for- 

 gotten the many kind words you spoke to me while 

 I was in Medina jail. Mr. Root, I wish I could be 

 with you and leai'n to be a Christian ; but I never 

 can be a servant of the Lord as long as I live where 

 I am. I have left off chewing tobacco, but still 

 smoke some, and I hope you will forgive me for 

 breaking my promise to you on the smokers, and I 

 am willing to pay you for your smoker, as it has 

 done me a great deal of good. Perhaps you have 

 heard of my smoking the pipe; if not, this will let 

 you know that bad company will do almost aHy 

 thing. I shotild like very well to work for you in 



the spring, so I could get away from the comrades I 

 have in this town. Samuel Young. 



Chatham, Medina Co., O , Jan. 20, 1881. 



I am very sorry, friend Y., that you have 

 gone back to smoking again, but I am very 

 glad that you have come rigcht out, and con- 

 fessed it like a man. I should be very glad 

 to give you work, and may be able to do so ; 

 but, friend Y., can I not impress on you that 

 it is not to me you must look for help V I am 

 but a poor weak erriug mortal, and if you 

 should depend on me alone, it would be like 

 the blind leading the blind. Take your Sav- 

 ior as your friend, and you are sure to win 

 immortal life in the end. If I am not mis- 

 taken, you have good Christian people all 

 around "you. friend Y., and you are holding 

 a little aloof from them. Xow, as you value 

 my advice, friendship, or wisdom, go right 

 straight next Sunday morning to your near- 

 est church. Tell the minister, and the su- 

 perintendent of the Sabbath-school that you 

 are coming right along, and want to help in 

 the Lord's work ; and if you do not tind it 

 one of the happiest Sundays you ever spent, 

 I do not know any thing about it. I know it 

 will be hard work, and that you would rather 

 do almost any thing in the world ; but I tell 

 you, we shall never get that golden crown 

 unless we do some hard things. Just read 

 this promise: — 



He that overcometh, Ihe same shall be clothed in 

 white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out 

 of the book of life, but I will confess his name before 

 my Father, and before his angels.— Rev. 3: 5. 



I am sorry, very sorry, but I fear I shall 

 have to charge you with that smoker until 

 you write me tliatyou have broken off again. 

 D. is just breaking off tobacco too ; and if 

 he sees you with a pipe in your mouth after 

 you have once tried, do you not see how it may 

 hinder instead of helping him in his new 

 life. By referring to p. 571 of last year's 

 volume, I see you were the first to accept my 

 offer of a smoker ; and now I am sorry you 

 are the first one to be called on for payment 

 for one. 



Or lietters from Those AVho have ITIade 

 Bee Culture a Failuvc. 



^j;(^S) EES were almost a total failure in this part of 

 /[jaj ) the country this year; no increase, and 

 " — scarcely any surplus, and a good many light 

 swarms went into winter-quarters. 



John Xoblb. 

 Eureka, Winnebago Co., Wis., Dec. 12, 1880. 



I have lost 3 out of 7 swarms, and if this cold 

 weather continues I shall lose all; then what shall I 

 do? Nobody was looking for such a winter as this. 



A. BiXBV. 



Foristell, St. Charles Co., Mo., Jan. 12, 1881. 



Our clover and other flowers utterly failed last 

 summer, so that we had to feed our bees in July and 

 Augvst, to keep them alive. You may set down a 

 large section of Illinois, under the recent terrible 

 drought, among the growlers; I suspect you could 

 buy out their bees for a tin whistle, if they have any 

 still alive. J. B. Turner. 



Jacksonville, Morgan Co., 111., Jan. 13, 1881. 



