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GLEANI:^fGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 



KIND WOPS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



The smoker came all right. I like it first rate: 



think it is the boss. Away g-oes the tobacco for g-ood. 



Sandwich, 111., April 25, 1881. G. M. Tue.a.t. 



1 srncss all the goods ordered have been sent and 

 received. The diutionary is very nice; saws work 

 nice. >[■. A. Saunders. 



Hudson, Mich., April 19, 1881. 



The pnttj"-knife is the handiest thing I have about 

 the apiary. Jon.v C. Gillilaxd. 



Bloomlield, Ind., March 14, 1881. 



T have just received the 1.5-cent dictionary. It is a 

 " houncor" for the price, sure. Rob't Qoixn. 



Shellsburg, Benton Co., Iowa, April 15, ]8sl. 



I h.irdly see how you can sell envelopes so cheap. 

 I pnv more here lor envelopes wilhout printinq:. 

 Wiutleld, Mich., April 9, 1881. Lee S. Cobb. 



I have received my two dictionaries. 1 memoran- 

 dum-book, 1 dinner-born, and one rule— very nice 

 things for the price — wonderful for the money. 

 Please accept thanks. David Scqwahtz. 



Berne, Adams Co., Ind., April 18, 18Sl. 



I like your book best. I would not be without the 

 ABC. alter having once seen it. It looks as if a 

 child might manage the bees after studying it. 



Mks. Fred Bethe. 



Abilene, Kan., March IT, 1881. 



Please find inclosed $1.00 for the A B C book you 

 so kindly intrusted me with. I am well pleased 

 with it. I think it would be well lor every bee- 

 keeper to have one. I would not take a $5.00 gold- 

 piece for it if I could not get another one to fill its 

 place. 'KVm. Astrv. 



Franklin Square, Col. Co., O., March 15, 1881. 



A KIND WORD FOR THE RAILROAD COMPANIES. 



The extractor arrived this morning in good condi- 

 tion. Those whose hands it passed through in so 

 long a journey certainly deserve a great deal of 

 credit. Fruit and forest trees are in bloom. Bees 

 busy, drones tlying, and— now for business. 



Mason, Mason Co., Tex., Mar. 7, '81. M. C. Swan. 



I received the two little knives yesterday O. K. 

 One pleases the lady at the sewing-machine and 

 work basket; the other, the little sister with her 

 pencils at school. We think it so funny to receive 

 Things of all sorts by mail, besides letters, that I 

 think I must keep a deposit there. A. W. Bryan. 



Gadsden, Etowah Co., Ala., April 5, 188 L 



As it is rather dull without Gleanings, I thought 

 I would drop you a line with a doUir inclosed. 

 Please send from the first of the year, if you can; 

 if not, a year from now. My husbund is away, and I 

 want to happily surprise him when he comes home, 

 with Glealings. F. V. Button. 



Cob Moo Sa, Oceana Co., Mich. 



I have sometimes in life shed tears when angry; 

 again when grieved ; but a feeling of sorrow fol- 

 lowed. On reading Our Homes in your paper I have 

 shed many tears, but they were tears of joy. I keep 

 no bees. Nearly 50 years ago 1 rambled through the 

 woods in Medina. 1 am now 73 ^ ears old. Inclosed 

 please find $1.00 for G oEAMNCis. Luciu.s Bkach. 

 Port Huron, Mich., March 10, 1S81. 



If Merrybanks and John have never hit others 

 they have me. and have taught me, too, more than 

 one serious lesson. Severe dignity and intense 

 respectability have been the death of numberless 

 papers and journals, while the homely, sincere, 

 earnest periodical that tells of the ups and downs of 

 real life, as people live, prospers, for, they are al- 

 ways welcome visitors. L. M. Shumaker. 



Danville, Va., April 20, 1881. 



ABC book came to hand all right. One item In it 

 was worth more than the cost to me already. I had 

 been reading about Simpson honey-plants all winter; 

 had made up my mind to invest $iMO hard earnings, 

 and ABC let out the right name, "Carpenter's 

 Square." Just any amount all around here. I have 



seen it in several States, but it grows larger here. 

 To-day I picked up some old stalks l}i in. square, 

 and nearly 10 ft. long. W. T. Kitter. 



LincolQ, HI., April 19, 18S1. 



Every article that I sent to you for arrived here 

 promptly, and gives entire satisfaction. The mag- 

 nifyiug-glass will help me to look for eggs -in the 

 comb, as I can ni)t sec them without glasses of some 

 kind; and the smoker, I do not know; it may not be 

 so good as some others, but I would not take double 

 the money paid for it and be without it one week, 

 which is just the time from writing to you for it and 

 the time that it arrived here. With it I can tame 

 bees that are as fierce as B°ngal tigers. 



Kocheport, Mo., Apr. 10, IS'^1. Tiios. Cuapman. 



[Our friend S. Young, who wrote us last month 

 that he had given way to temptation, and got to 

 using tobacco again, has made a fresh start, and on 

 a better basis 1 trust. I have heretofore been un- 

 able to get him to attend the Sunday-school near 

 him; see what a start he has taken now:]— 



Mr. Wilson and mj'selE went to meeting to-day, 

 and we had as happy a time as F ever had. We went 

 early, and had to go into the Bible-class the first 

 thing, and you can bst we stood up to the rack, 

 read in the Bible, answer.^d all the questions 

 that were asked us, and we intend to go again. I 

 think I shall work at the blacksmith trade from this 

 on. My kind respects to you and all the shop hands. 



Samuel Young. 



Chatham Center, Ohio, March 2S, 1881. 



[To be sure, you were happv, friend Samuel. Now 

 do not let Satan coax you off the track any more, 

 but stick right to that Bible-class, and, my word for 

 it, j'ou will be one of the sti-ong pillars in a very lit- 

 tle time. Both you and your friend want to go early 

 and "stand risht up to the rack," every Sunday. 

 You have hit the nail right square on the head, and 

 may the Lord bless and prosper you in that black- 

 smith shop!] 



MAN PROPOSES, BUT GOD DISPOSES. 



[If our friends will look at pp. 141 and 141, of March 

 number, and thea read the following letter, Ihey 

 will see that I have been the innocent victim of a 

 h>ige"joak;" but for all that, God seems to have 

 taken the matter in hand, and I hope, trust, and 

 pray it may result in a huge Sunday-school. Bead:] 



Now, friend Root, many thanks for your advice, 

 and I will try not to let a swarm go. But I must 

 have your heln until the first of August; and now, 

 with the Lord's permission, I shall try my best. 



Bees have wintei-ed first rate, and every thing 

 looks as if we should have a good honey crop. 



You make me say, on page 144 of Gleanings for 

 March, " I never could get used to getting along 

 without it," when I meant to say that "1 never 

 could get MSCcJ to it." I sent to you, thinking I 

 should receive a smoker, and you have sent me two; 

 but I have sold one, and it is all right. You think 

 tobacco must be very high, $1.00 per lb.; well, I 

 know that if honey were one-fourth as high, it 

 would be very nice. 



Now for the Sunday-school. I have 21 names, but 

 have not had time to see them all. I think there 

 will be 2' or 28 in all. I hav^e said to them that it is 

 to be free to all who will come. You must send mo 

 the rule that you wish me to go by. 



I have always had to use tobacco with my bees, as 

 I coulil not find any thing that would subdue them; 

 but I was thinking that 1 shoulil have to give them 

 vip, as the use of tobacco was hurtful to me. 



Charles P. Ballow. 



Half Moon Bay, Cal., Feb. 15, 1881. 



[To be sure, you are to tell them all to come, friend 

 B. A Sunday-school that was not free to every hu- 

 man being, high, low, rich or poor, 1 would not give 

 much for. Invite them in that way, and after they 

 get there, treat them in that way; and If every one 

 who goes and helps that school along has not reason 

 to feel that God has sent them an especial blessing, 

 just set me down as lacking in wisdom. I will at 

 once send you a simple outfit to start with, and you 

 can pay me for it whenever you get contributions 

 enough. Now, friends, let us pray for friend Ballow 

 and that Sunday-school, away off there in California, 

 started under such a queer combination of circum- 

 stances. Whj% that extra smoker must have been 

 a providence, for I have no son of an idea how it 

 came to be sent. Give the money you got for it to 

 that Sunday-school.] 



