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GLEANINGS IN I3EE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



I thought I dill not need bee things enonsrh this 

 year to pay for sending away for them, so T bargain- 

 ed for some nearer home, and my husband, accord- 

 ing to agreement, went eight miles after them to- 

 day, and came home disgusted, not having found 

 any hi\'ps, nor the maker at home, and he said, " Now 

 you will have to send to Korvt and have alL the things 

 sent by express." Until this year I have alwavs sent 

 to you with neighbor Guild for articles, and have 

 been delighted with them, because they wen; so nice. 

 Mrs. C. a. Greei.ev. 



Chester, Windsor Co., Vt., June 22, 1881. 



After another hard day's labor I am spending a 

 little time reading Gleanings, and studying my 

 Sunday-school lesson. They both open up a little 

 world of pleasure to me. It seems that I never had 

 so much to do — busy from -i A.M. until 9 P.M., Sun- 

 days included. I have been app tinted teacher in 

 two Sabbath-schools. I walk nearlv 12 miles every 

 Sabbath, and en.ioy it very much. We have organ- 

 ized a Sabbath-sehbol about three miles distant, in a 

 school house. We are having a very interesting 

 school; have over fifty scholars— some who have 

 not been to Sabbath-school for twenty years. 



F. .T. Wahdell. 



Uhrichsville, Tusc. Co., O., June 3, 1881. 



OUR HOUSEHOLD ('ONVEXIENCE.S IN IT.\LV. 



The cry in the hou.^e is. " We want more of them." 

 More of them mean more of the same kind of 

 needles you sent me in January. Please send me 

 twenty papers, and three glass-cntter-s. I send you 

 a post-olfice order for Uii cents: if it does not cover 

 expense, [ will remit balance when advised. There 

 is a question that has arisen since I received the 5- 

 cent nippers; that is, what are they good for? They 

 are too soft to cut with, and too hard to draw with. 

 Are they like Pindar's razors, made only to sell? 



M. S. WlCKERSH.\M. 



Perrara, Italy, J une 3, 1881. 



[t am very glad to know you like the needles, 

 friend W., and heg to assure you that we try to have 

 all our goods .last like them; viz., to use, rather 

 than to sell. There seems to be much trouble with 

 the friends all around in deciding what the 5-cent 

 nippsrs are for; they look so much as if they would 

 cut, almost everybody tries them on some thing 

 hard, and snap go the jaws, for five cents is not 

 enough to pay for making a pair of cutting-plier«. 

 They are to "nip" hold of things you could not 

 reach and hold with the fingers alone, always re- 

 membering they are a five-cent tool. Thanks for re- 

 porting from so far away, friend W.] 



Inclosed please find $1.75, for which please send 

 me a smoker, the best in the market — a larse one, 

 and one that [ will not have to light every half-hour. 

 I am standing in the door waiting for it, standing 

 first on one leg and then on the other. One year 

 ago 1 got Benny Judson, of Salt Lake City, to send 

 to you for th^ ABC book. 1 confess I like the book, 

 and am taking GLEAMNfis. There is one thing I 

 learned there in the ABC book worth more to me 

 than many times the price of the book; that is, I 

 read on page 275 how vou learned chaff packing of 

 J. H. Townley. 



I had experience previous to this in bee-keeping, 

 but would have given it up if I had not got some 

 such idea from some source. I thank you again for 

 your works on bees; and those metal-corners and 

 metal rabbets ! how nicely they work ! 



Wm. C. Bills. 



South Jordan, Utah, June 4, 1881. 



[Many thanks for kind words, friend B. ; but real- 

 ly, if I were you I would stand squarely on both feet 

 and go out and work with the bees, or do some thing 

 else useful until the smoker comes. I know how it 

 is mysolf; for when I want a thing /inni"; if ; Imt I 

 have always found it most profitable to get right to 

 work and do some thing meanwhile.] 



THE FARIS PLATES, ETC. 



I received your wrapper on Gleanings, notifying 

 me that my subscription was run out, and that if I 

 thought it a good investment, to renew. Well, I 

 think it is a good investment, and on looking over 

 the past year I think there is not any thing in read- 

 ing matter, that has paid me so well as Gle.^nings. 

 In the first place, it was worth all the price to find 

 out how to make those plaster plates of friend Paris*. 

 I made a pair, and have made all the foundation I 



shall need this season, besides selling quite a lot. 

 Then there were Doolittle's articles, well worth the 

 subscription, especially those two on page 320, July 

 No., 188J, about the care of empty combs, and the 

 other, on page 232, May, 1881, on sido and top stor- 

 ing, is a splendid article, which I know from this 

 season's experience; and I could name a lot of other 

 good articles from different writers, which are fine. 

 Then there is the pleasure of having not only fi 

 smile, but a good hearty laugh every month at Mer- 

 rybanks, "old Zac," and such like. Then there is 

 the Home reading, which is worth double the price 

 of Gleanings; and mav God bless you in trying to 

 do good in this way. Well, I think Gleanings is a 

 good investment, and inclosed you will find the 

 money for another year's subscription, and also one 

 year's subscription for a friend. My bees are doing 

 very well so far this season. I had three colonies to 

 start with — two very weak, and one very strong. 

 One has swarmed, and the other two areabout to. 

 We have had a steady yield of honey from white clo- 

 ver for the last two weeks; but it has been too cold 

 nights to be a heavy yield, but we can't complain so 

 far. John Myers. 



Stratford, Out., Can., June 27, 1881. 



KIND WORDS TO OUR CUSTOMERS. 

 Of late there seem to be a good many complaints 

 that goods are not in the packages, even when they 

 were put in all right, and overlooked by the person 

 who unpacks them. Now, about opening goods: 

 Do not trust to anyboly else; but, bill in hand, open 

 and tak'e out the goods yourself. Eo not unpack 

 them among a lot of other stuff, or where any thing 

 might get out of sight and be lost. Also be sure you 

 have the full number of packages from the R. R. 

 or express comp.iny that your bill calls for. The 

 following illustrates the point: — 



I wrote vou a few days ago, stating the bottoms 

 and ^ ends of the broad section frames were want- 

 ing. I now find that my man misplaced them, and 

 forgot all about it. It seems they were put in a 

 small box by themselves, and he set them in an out- 

 of-the-way pi ice. , I regret very much the mistake, 

 and will do whatever is riglit in the matter. If you 

 have shipped the parts, please send me your bill, and 

 I will remit; and if you have been to any trouble 

 put that in. W.W. Reynolds. 



Penn, Cass Co., Mich., Jane 16, 18S1. 



Our friend apologizes and offers to recompense us 

 in a manly way, and we can not think of taking any 

 thing for trouble; but it took quite a search among 

 the clerks before we could write him that the goofls 

 were all sent him orrectly. Of course, we sent 

 them on again, which makes him trouble and ex- 

 pense. Another friend wrote us his spring balance 

 was missing, for he had looked the goods all over, 

 but next mail he said he found it safely tied in his 

 extractor. So many cases of this kind are turning, 

 up, I have thought best "to tell you to look very 

 carefully, before asking us to replace what is miss- 

 ing, for I assure you our clerks are more careful 

 here than you, the average of humanity, wlio have 

 not had the drill and discipline they have. 



OUB, $175.00 STEAM-ENGINE. 



One of our customers asks a number of questions 

 which may interest many of our readers in regard 

 to the small engines we sell. As Mr. Washburn 

 runs his machine shop with one of them, we have 

 asked him to answer the questions. 



How much water to till boiler when empty !— Can start on five 

 pails to fill. 



Has it a (;l«ss water- gausre?— Yes. 



Has it three Kaug-e-foclcs? -Only two. 



Has it a steani-whistle!— Xoije. 



Is its cylinder eonvenient to get at lor piiokingrf— Yes: cylm- 

 der is easily prut at. 



How thick is the plate iir boiler!— Do not know: it is east-iron, 

 tested tu :iO0 lbs. 



How many pipes in boilea'?— N'onc- 

 How many poinuls ol' steam to run scroll saw?— Not many, 

 perhaps 20 lbs. 



Is it .simple, and easy to operate?— Yes. 



In short, is it an engrfne to be depended on for scroll saw and 

 wood lathef— Yes-: I can run fi'.< feet iron planer. 3 iron lathes, 

 uprijirht ilrill, and a-rindstone. all at om-e. I carry stcani fi-ora 

 10 to 100 lbs. I'se SO to 00 Ills, coal, and Oil to 70 gallons of water 

 per day; it has automatic cut-off, and is a koo<1 little machine. 



Medina. O . .lidy 1. 1881. .\. W.vshdik.n-. 



