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GLEAKINGS IK BEE CULTURE. 



EeB. 



without Gleanings, for awhile, but I would rather 

 live on half-rations for a month; and as I have a dol- 

 lar of my own, I will send for it any how, and I in- 

 tend to take in sewing and make money and send to 

 you for an Italian queen and 1 lb. of bees in the 

 spring. Mrs. A. C. Mosher. 



San Marcos, Hays Co., Texas, Jan. 11, 1881. 



BEES AND GKAPES. 



THE PREMIUM ARTICLE. 



Have those silk handkcrchiePs, of which you 

 speak, a picture of a bee on? William Folts. 



Great Valley, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Jan. 5, 1881. 



[No; but I thank you for the hint. If we ever get 

 such a one, you shall have it.] 



CALIFORNIA WHITE SAGE. 



Will the California white sage do for common use? 

 I have a few plants growing, and it seems to me to 

 have a better tlavor than the common sage. 



Chas. Kingsley. 



Greeneville, Greene Co., Tenn. 



[Who will answer friend K.? We had a plant in 

 the greenhouse, but the "big freezes" was too much 

 for it.] 



SILVERHULL BUCKWHEAT. 



I was advised to sow it on the 30th of June; but if 

 It can be sown on the 10th, or earlier yet, it is bet- 

 ter, because it will be in bloom if the basswood is 

 blossomed out, and will not bo as apt to freeze before 

 it is ripe. Honey from the silverhull is much light- 

 er than that of the black. The millers claim that 

 the silverhull gives from 10 to 15 per cent more flour 

 than the black. Ernst S. Hildeman. 



Ashippun, Dodge Co., Wis., Jan. 18, 1881. 



OR HGNEY PUHTS TO BE NAKED. 



A NEW HONEY-PLANT. 



I WILL send you some of the weed that the bees 

 are getting honey from. It commences to bloom 

 the middle of Sept., and blooms till Dec. Frost 

 don't hurt it. Nothing but a freeze will hurt it. This 

 weed we call flaxweed. It resembles the common 

 flax, but it brushes out more. You can sow the seed 

 I send you. Sow as soon as you get them. It grows 

 here all over the face of the earth. It is easily killed 

 out by cultivation. II. Devenport. 



Richland Spring, Tex., Nov. lo, 1880. 



Here is Prof. Beal's reiily:— 



I have spent an hour over it— all the time I can 

 now spare. It is not described in my books; or if it 

 is, I get on the wrong track some wa}'. It is much 

 like goldenrod of some species. With more time I 

 know I could get it straight; but 1 do not feel as 

 though I could afford to neglect my other work for 

 this. Identifying plants is mostly drudgery. 



W. J. Beal. 



Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich. 



I have published the above, that our friends 

 mtfy not trouble our kind friend by i)lants of 

 little value as honey-i^lants. I have sent him 

 a dollar for the time spent on this one, and 

 will willingly do the same with all that 

 promise to be important. Send as many to 

 us as you please, for we have time and the 

 necessary books, and can identify a great 

 number of them ourselves. 



LTHOUGH not called upon in the matter of 

 Mr. Klasen and Krock, my experience, in 

 ~^^^ pretty much the same thing, might benefit 

 both parties, and a good many others who might get 

 into the same fix. Mr. B., a real good neighbor 

 across the street, having a fine large garden and or- 

 chard, complained to me, off and on, during last 

 summer, that my bees were injuring hi3 peaches, 

 grapes, etc. I tried to explain to him that a bee can 

 not pierce the skin of fruit, and that bees are very 

 useful in fertilizing the flowers of fruit-trees and 

 even grapevines, as best I could: but finally he came 

 to me and said, " Mr. Schneider, I am trying to make 

 cider; but we hadtoquit on account of the bees an- 

 noying us; besides, I hired a man, and have to pay 

 him. I can not stand it any longer; you will have 

 toshut up your bee-hives, they are beginning to be 

 almost a nuisance." 



At this time I wa? very much tampted to give Mr. 

 B. some such answer as Mr. Klasen did to Mr. 

 Krock, when he told him to tickle the bees a little 

 behind, whereby he could tell them apart; but, 

 thank God, there w^is another voice in me that com- 

 manded, "Hell on, and be gentle now!" I therefore 

 told Mr. B. that others have bees in the neighbor- 

 hood, besides myself; but as my bees are nearest 

 him, I would do any thing he thought proper for me 

 to do, only I could not shut up my hives. I then 

 proposed to furnish screens for doors and windows, 

 but he said he Lad no vacant room to make his cider 

 in. As he hnd quite a small cider-mill, I told him 

 that if he would agree to make his cider after dark I 

 would haul him over my large mill, furnish him a 

 man, and help along myself until all the cider was 

 made. This proved to be more than satisfactory, as 

 Mr. B. accepted only of the cider-mill, but declined 

 the help; and we are to-day, if any thing, better 

 friends and neighbors than before the dilliculty 

 arose. 



Now, by this I do not mean to show what Mr. 

 Klasen and Mr. Krock should have done at the criti- 

 cal moment; but since both have made mistakes in 

 the matter, they should have a meeting, not with 

 lawyers and constables, nor with might and power, 

 but with a determination on the part of each one of 

 them to make a sacrifice, in order to regain peace 

 and good will toward each other; pay the damages 

 mutually, and listen to that voice that undoubtedly 

 exists in both, and cries, "Hold on! be gentle now; 

 go no further! bring it before disinterested friends, 

 and let their decision be final." A. Schneider. 



Louisville, Ky., Jan. 20, 1881. 



Well done, friend 8.! That is what I call 

 carrying religion into business, and that 

 kind of a spirit would get along almost any- 

 where. If you will accei)t it, I will credit 

 you with $0.00 for the al)ove article, and 

 thank God for having put it into your head 

 to send it, besides. Why ! such a monitor 

 within your heart to wani you, when anger 

 is pending, is worth more than (can't I be 

 extravagant just tliis time, dear friends? I 

 feel just like saying) ten hundred thousand 

 million dollars in the bank. Your letter 

 makes me feel that the " song the angels 

 sang" has come to pass— "peace on earth, 

 good will toward men." 



