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GLEANmGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



of supplies that has made us acquainted with 

 so many friends, and helped us all so much. 

 I am heavily cejisured because I did not send 

 out the note of warninp; socmer, and yet 

 Burch accuses nie of wisliin^ to break up his 

 Inisiness l)ecause I did wiien I did. My 

 friends, wh:it rule do you wish me to go l)y? 

 How prompt do you wisii me to be when one 

 does iu>t fullill his iiromisesV IJy the way. 

 liere is (me more card from Mr. Burch:— 



S(iriii Haven, Mich.. Awfi. 20. 1881, 

 Oni- publislii'il oui-ds iiuMii .jvist wh.-it llie.v say. Wi> had tliciii 

 111 vifw wln-ii xvc winti' yim. lo sci' if vcm wniild iii>t set in I'ifilil 

 liiloie tin- publir. and lint ruiii|jel us to tnkf tile step. \Ve stand 

 really to sliip l>ees to tliose wlio waul tliein; tliose who insist on 

 money, we lia\e directed to vou. .sini'O we liave rettiined all we 

 eo\ild'. ' H. A. HiKciI A- Co. 



During the present month of August, 

 I have had notice of just four shipments he 

 has made ; to two persons, four colonies of 

 bees each ; to another, some queens, or a 

 a queen, and some foundation to another. 



The following, from the paper published 

 in his own town, the South Haven Sentinel, 

 of Aug. 20, shows what his own townsmen 

 think of the present aspect of the matter:— 



Too much stress should not he put on the state- 

 ment of H. A. Bnreh, thtit he is working eighteen 

 hours per day to tiU orders, or tiny other excuse ho 

 makes. In our next issue we will give a case where 

 he has had money since June, 18"!i, two yca/v; and two 

 iHDHths, for which the remitter has not received his 

 goods, Mr. Burch making this "eighteen hours a 

 (\a.y" pleii in. Tub/ of hi^tyrdf. We presume the Ber 

 Jotirnal and the Gleanings hope his partner, (?) the 

 "Co." part of the firm, will return with wealth to 

 make good the claims of apiarists in different por- 

 tions of the country. \'our excuses are too thin, 

 master Herbert; your oul.\' excuse to be made is 

 tltoroiKjli restitution of the monen, or an acknowledg- 

 ment that you really arc what so many people con- 

 sider you. 



Just after the above was set up, the fol- 

 lowing came to hand, which has somewhat 

 the appearance of putting a better light on 

 the matter:— 



I see by August Gleanings, in speaking of H. A. 

 Burch, you say there are two parties who have 

 written to you in his favor. It may be that I am In- 

 cluded In that list. I will say that I spent two days 

 with Mr. Burch about the first of July last, and 

 bought bees and collected mone.\' of him that had 

 been sent, in all to the amount of $36:3.00. I have no 

 reason to complain of the way in which he dealt 

 with me. If Burch is financially in a tight place, as 

 he says he is, and has returned all the money he can 

 at present, would it not be better to give him a lit- 

 tle chance to get out of the difficulty, than to come 

 out every month with him in the Humbug and 

 Swindle column? When I was at South Haven I saw 

 liim send back money several times on orders for 

 fdn., because he did not have time to put it up for 

 shipping, when he had the goods just as it came 

 from the mill, then on hand. It is asking a good 

 deal of a man to hold him up in such a public place 

 and then expect him to do more than he could do un- 

 der more favorable circumstances. 



G. W. Stanley. 



Wyoming, N. Y., August 34, 1881. 



Triend S., if you Avill look you will see 

 that Mr. Burch has never been put in the 

 Humbug and Swindle department. It 

 Avould be quite inconvenient for our friends 

 to all go after their goods, as you did yours. 

 Mr. Byron Walker went twice after his, bor- 

 rowing money to make the trips: but he 

 says he could get nothing. Mr. Burch is re- 



ported worth from $1000 to $1500. Between 

 January and July, $1700 lias been sent him 

 in cash, for which he has made no returns. 

 Customers have waited patiently, and will 

 wait, almost any reasonable length of time, 

 if Mr. Burcli will secure them. Xo report 

 has reached us of liis having returned money 

 to anybody. 



GUEAWING S m BEE CULTUBE. 



EDITOR AND FUBLISHEB, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: irl.CO PER VEAR, POST-PAID. 



FOR CLUBBING RATES^, SEE FIRST PAGE 

 OF READING MATTER. 



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Evildoers shtill be cut off; but those that wait up- 

 on the T.ord, they shall inherit the earth. Ps. '.VH-.'X 



Fkiem) Faris sends us a specimen of fdn. with 

 excellent high walls, made by dipping, with copper 

 plates instead of plaster. He says his only trouble 

 now is to get his plates to match so the sheets will 

 be thin enough. 



It has been our custom to make some discount on 

 orders received in Sep., for goods to be used another 

 year; but owing to the great advances on lumber, it 

 is all we can do to hold to catalogue prices. The 

 probiibility is, that prices will have to go up by an- 

 other spring, so it will be a good investment to 

 order now, if j-ou think you wilj need the goods. 



Still no favorable reports from the rubber plates- 

 The complaint seems to be that the wax sticks to 

 them. We try every pair before sending them out, 

 but after thoroughly soaking them in soft water, 

 the wax sheets come otf as easily as we could ask; in 

 fact, after the plates have been used awhile, they al- 

 most drop olT. Has no one who purcliasedthem suc- 

 ceeded as well? 



It is always a i)leasure to me to find people who 

 excel in an >■ accomplishment; and every time I see 

 any of the handwriting of our friend M. B. Moore, of 

 Morgan, Ky., it gives me a feeling of pleasure. If 

 you want to see some of it, .iust send him an order. 

 He puts up queens for mailing almost as neatly as 

 he writes a postal card. Very, likely he will soon 

 have so much business he will get to scrawling like 

 the rest of us. _ 



INCOMPLETE ADDRESSES, AGAI.V. 



I CAN not be responsible for goods that go wrong- 

 where the writer of the order dees not give plainly 

 the town, county, and State. If you can not have 

 your address printed on your stationery, you will 

 have to take the consequences of forgetting to put 

 it on. Two letters are now before me from friends 

 whom I fear feel hard toward me because I allow 

 them to suffer the loss of a couple of dollars for so 

 trifling a matter as the omission of their county. I 

 know that I would be doing wrong to bear the con- 

 sequences of your carelessness in these little thin.gs 

 any more, as I have been doing. We have plenty of 

 postal guides, but they often fail in -what ijoii alouf 

 can give. 



