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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 



I can handle my bees very well, but they are 

 bound to stay in the wronp place, and won't drive 

 worth a cent: please send a smoker by mail, and 

 oblijj-e. H. F. Ft.axders, P. M. 



Nashua, Putnam Co., Fla., May IB, 18S1. 



[I guess that is the way with all of us, friend F. 

 "They are bound to stay in the wrons" (?) place."] 



The goods arrived to-day in good condition. The 

 only wonder is with me, how you can sell so nice 

 goods so cheap. The smokers are neatly made, and 

 all the5-cent articles are worth twice the money, es- 

 peciaJly the dictionary at 15c. It is cheap at ;50c. I 

 guess 1 will have to start a little novelty store, and 

 order a cart load from your counter store. Bees 

 are doing splendidly. Am increasing very nicely. 



Winchester, Ind., June, 1881. J. H. Thornbubg. 



GLEANINGS AS AN ADVEHTISIKG MEDIU.M. 



The basswood is in full blast here, and we are full 

 of business now. The two small ad's yon inserted in 

 Gleanings for me brought me more than I could 

 attend to. I have refused orders for 100 lbs. of bees, 

 or more, already; and advertisements I put in 

 Gleanings over one year ago I have not heard the 

 last of yet. When will the end be"/ 



A. W. Cheney. 



Kanawha Falls., W. Va., June 18, 1881. 



The ABC came the 31st, nicely packed with its 

 heat guard, for protection in the mail-bag. Having 

 inspected its outside, and pored several hours over 

 Its contents on various points of present interest, I 

 must express my great satisfaction at every thing in 

 it and aboTit it. it is thorough; I suppose I might 

 say it is like its source— radical. I like your plan of 

 incorporating new matter in new editions, and have 

 been interested in Mr. Doolittle's notes. 



New Castle, Pa., June 33, 1881. K. A. Browne. 



HOW IT PAYS TO AOVERTISE IN GLEANINGS. 



I am needing queens and bees now more than any 

 thing else. I received such a number of orders a 

 few daj's since for nuclei, queens, and bees, it made 

 mj- head dizzy for a few moments— am now consid- 

 erably behind, and if I have a surplus of queens and 

 bees, will most assuredly advertise in Gleanings, as 

 lam satisfied it has been an advantage to me. 



W. P. Henderson. 



Murfreesboro, Tenn.. June 18, 1881. 



The bees arrived on Thursday all O. K. The ex- 

 press charges were liberal. Our way of hiving them 

 was to open the wire cloth on one side and set them 

 in the upper story, and lift the frames out and put 

 them in place, and then shake the remaining bees in 

 front of the hive. They formed a line very soon. 1 

 examined the queens to-day, and they were both 

 laying. The bees are working on the foundation 

 flMcly. I think those chaff hives can't be beat. The 

 smoker works fiaely. Your mode of packing Is ex- 

 cellent. J. R. Tygard. 



PlttPburg, Pa., June 4, 1881. 



The "horse book" to hand at last safely; also 

 your pastal card, telling me I could send you 13c. 

 for the book, as my former remittance of 35c was 

 probably lost in the mails, etc. Do you think I could 

 have the assurance to send you only 13c for the 

 book when the l(jss of the money you had nothing to 

 do with? Not much: can I do such business? and I 

 would, in a friendly way, ad\ase you to no longer 

 keep up that system of hisinu half, where the sender 

 of money says he has sent you only such and such 

 an amount. Do you not see, my friend, that it might 

 tempt some of us? Who knows but the temptation 

 may be the first step to crime? BusinessI business! 

 business! old friend. I am truly vour well-wisher. 



Wilmington, N. C, March 5, '81. R. C. Taylor. 



I do not want Gleanings stopped. I have had 

 four times my money's worth already, and I will try 

 to keep you in " shinplasters " along. They seem to 

 be very scarce — hardly any in circulation. I am on- 

 ly amazed at your wonderful management of bees. 

 Truly, all created kind seems to be subject to man. 

 1 have saved 3 swarms out of my 15, and my neigh- 

 bor has saved 1 out of his 30, I can not fully under- 

 stand all your management. G. A. Leggett. 



Schodack Landing, Reus Co., N. Y. 



[Thanks, my good friend; but to tell the truth, I 

 do not understand "my wonderful management" 

 either, especially the part that came in last winter. 

 I presume there is a chance for us both to live and 

 learn yet. Eh?] 



THE profanity CARDS. 



You must be a queer man. I think to print Mr. A. 

 T. M.'s cards is enough for yon to do instead of fur- 

 nishing them free. Inclosed you will find two 

 stamps to pay postage on a few of those cards. 



W. T^ Williams. 



Burrsville, Caroline Co., Md., June 9, 1881. 



[Why, I just like the fun, friend W. George (our 

 job printer) has printed one big lot, and they are sold 

 (yes, sold, even if we do have to trust the Lord for the 

 pay and postage), and he is n*w at work on a larger 

 and nicer lot. 1 feel as much pleased to see them 

 go, as I do to see the well out in front patronized. 

 By the way, we have had plenty of water all the 

 time, though many other wells have gone dry. One 

 pump was worn out, but we now have a much bet- 

 ter one. Don't be backward in calling for the cards, 

 if you think you can use them; and, good friends, 

 shall we not have lots more pumps over our broad 

 land? Can we not at least use this kind of induce- 

 ment to keep our boys from drinking and swearing?] 



KIND WORDS TO OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Please, friends, let me once more beg of you not 

 to send back goods until you have first written. A 

 package of tin bars was sent one of you, with other 

 goods; but the clerk, in making the bill in a hurry 

 (as we often have to do at this season), charged $1.35 

 for them instead of 35c, the proper price. AV'ell, our 

 customer sent them right back hy c.v press, saying we 

 should give him credit for them unless we could put 

 them in at the advertised price; if we could do so, 

 send them back again. Very likely he was a little 

 angry; but why in the world could he not have ta- 

 ken a postal, and quietly written, — 



"Brother Root, you advertised those tin bars at 

 half a cent apiece, and have charged me two and a 

 half cents each. Shall I send them back, or will you 

 stick to your price list? They are subject to your 

 order." 



We should probably have replied,— 



"■Half a cent apiece, friend , of course. We 



really beg pardon for making you so much trouble, 

 and hasten to correct the blunder. Did it not occur 

 to you we could not mean to charge such a price for 

 a little strip of folded tin? We are very sorry you 

 did not go right along and use them, knowing we 

 would make it right." 



Why should we hold each other off at arm's length 

 all the time? Most of you know me by this time, 

 and you know I am ready to bear losses from the 

 consequences of misunderstandings, even when I 

 am not to blame; but it is one of my hardest trials 

 to keep from saying "won't" to those who make 

 such precipitate haste in sending things back by ex- 

 press before they have told what the trouble is. 



The Mr. Woodward, mentioned in Humbugs and 

 Swindles, page 81, Feb. No., has been found, and 

 through the influence of good, earnest friends, has 

 paid up tlie whole indebtedness, principal and inter- 

 est, and stands on his feet a true mai^ again. May 

 the Lord be praised for so much. 



MuLTUM IN Parvo.— No. of Subscribers to-day, 

 June 39, 4184. Many whose time expired with June 



have not renewed. -Orders for queens are all filled 



at this date, and orders for bees with queens, up to 

 within ten days; orders for hives and supplies of 

 every kind, up to within four or live days, and are 



constantly kept so. For new counter goods, send 



for our J uly price list. We have now a printed list 

 of over .50,000 of our customers in all parts of the 

 world, to whom a price list is sent once a year. If 

 you are not in it, drop us a postal, and you will be ; 

 and if you want a late price list before the year 

 comes around, drop us a postal any time. This list 

 has cost me over a thousand dollars, and it costs 

 g!500.00 for postage alone every time we mail them. 



HOLY -LAND 8e CYPRIAN QUEENS I 



Raised in separate apiaries 5 miles apart. L^ntest- 

 ed Queens of either race this month, $1.50. 



H. B. HARRINGTON, Medina, O. 



