1881 



GLEA^IKGS m BEE CULTUBE. 



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THE TEN-CENT SPECTACLES. I of praise. They say it is all rig-ht. The honey Pea- 



The specs you mailed me May 2d, came safely to | son has been extra g-ood in this section, with but 



hand. lam much pleased with them. It is a real ] ff>7^^?.*lM° ?5i^?5-„A!!L' y';u.it_ looked lonesome 



pleasure to do business with such a man. ' '^ "" * 



Martin J. Brown. 

 Hemphill, Sabine Co., Texas, May 10, 1881. 



I was much surprised, on g-oing'to the postoffice, to 

 find the ABC. I am delighted with it, and am un- 

 der great obligations to j on. Since receiving- it I 

 have neglected David Copperlield and every thing- 

 else. 1 think 1 have the bee fever badly. 



James Roberts. 



Cobourg, Ont., Can., Sept. 32, 1881. 



Please discontinue my advertisement in (October 

 Gleanings. Not because it is not a good advertis- 

 ing medium, but because it is too good. I want to 

 keep a few queens for my own use, you know. I 

 have had to sell too close se\eral times, trying to fill 

 orders promptly. Success to g-ood old Gleanings. 



J. P. Moore. 



Morgan, Pendleton Co., Kv., Sept. 8, 1881. 



You have credited me with eightj* cents on loss of 

 bees; now, you just cancel the credit, and then it 

 will be all right. The bees were dead, came as stated, 

 but I even then got more bees than I expected, as 

 you sent me more for the money than I looked for. 



S. C. Lybargek. 



Ganges, O., August 2.5, 1881. 



LMay God bless you for your kindness, friend L. ; T 

 am sure it does me much good to gst such a message.] 



The tested queen ordered from you in June was 

 received and placed in a queenless swarm on the 

 31st of June. To-day I have a superior colony of 

 Italians. Six frames of the golden-striped workers. 

 They are quiet, and I can handle them with so much 

 satisfaction. I have 4 other colonies, all strong 

 blacks, and cross as bees usually are, and I must 

 give them Italian queens too. H. A. Eastman. 



Ashtabula, O., Sept. U, 1881. 



an improvement in watch-pockets. 

 The last watch came, and is doing finely; the in- 

 structions are an improvement. Let mo suggest 

 that every one have- a button-hole or a slit put into 

 the bottom of the watch-pocket to let out the dvist. 



I. B. RUMFORD. 



Bakersfleld, Cal., Aug. 18, 1881. 



LAn excellent suggestion, friend R. ; but it would 

 never do to put money into such a pocket, or it 

 would lose out even faster than it does now. For 

 that matter, nothing should ever ba carried in the 

 same pocket with the watch, any way. 



DOLLAR queens ALL PURE. 



The fine queens j'ou sent me came all right, and I 

 introduced them all without any trouble; two of 

 them were very nice yellow ones; the other three 

 are very dark; their brood is just hatching now, 

 and I think thev are all pure. E. A. Emmons. 



Tampico, 111., Aug. 34, 1881. 



[We find, by referring to our books, that the above 

 were all purchased of our friend E. T. Flanagan. I 

 am very glad to give this report, for friend F. has 

 had some bad luck, and this may encourage him a 

 little.] 



Bees have done so poorly for the past three years 

 I feel too poor to afford a journal. 1 know you have 

 kindly offered to share my loss in the mails, but if 

 you should try to share everybody's losses, you 

 would soon be lost financially yourself. I wintered 

 on summer stands the past winter, 90 colonies out of 

 0,5. Now have 150 in good condition for winter. 



M. T. IlOWE. 



Grain Valley, Mo., Sept 13, 1881. 



[Many thanks for your kind words about the losses, 

 friend R. ; but I do not think that my friends will let 

 me bear all the losses, even if I wanted to. It don't 

 seem to me a man is so rtri/ pnnr, with 1.50 good col- 

 onies. Aren't you borrowing trouble a little?] 



I have worked the bees for honey this season, and 

 not lor increase, and, must say there's money in it. 

 Thanks to knowledge gained from ABC and Glean- 

 ings. I would not be without them. They should 

 be in the hands of every intelligent man and woman 

 who loves bees. I have lent the book to several 

 men who own bees, and they give itthc biggest kind 



without them this season. Acres of white clover, 

 and fields of buckwheat honey wasting, and no bees 

 to gather it. \V. C. UuiTni. 



Jordan, Out., Can., Sept. 4, 1881. 



BEES AND BEE-STINGS FOR " SICK FOLKS," AGAIN. 



I have had a hard time in the bee business this 

 summer, but it seems as if it is formy good, afterall. 

 I have had poor health for si.v years past, and 

 thought that I would go into the bee business for a 

 living; but since 1 have had all the honey that 1 

 could eat, and all the stings that I could stand, my 

 health has improved wonderfully; so much so that I 

 have done the most work in the shortest time this 

 summer that 1 ever did in my life; and I can say to 

 you, that you will please accept my greatest thanks 

 for the kind advice you gave me last winter. I now 

 have 22 colonies. I hived 4 swarms this afterHOon in 

 one hive, which made one pretty good colony. I 

 have had 7 buckwheat swarms. Bees arc suffering 

 now for want of attention, but I can't leave the 

 shop, as I have so much work to do. They are fill- 

 ing the porticos in front of the hives with nice while 

 comb, but I have no time to take the surplus honey 

 now. I have taken .59 Simplicity section boxes from 

 my chaff hive, and there are 73 in it now ready to 

 come off as soon as 1 get the crate, which I am going 

 to set right down on top of the brood frames. I 

 think in two years more I shall give up every thing 

 else and attend to my bees If I have good luck with 

 them. I have not lost a swarm this season. 



Tim Calver. 



I'nion Mills, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1881. 



The Imported queen came the next dayaftfcr being 

 shipped. She was in fine shape, and 1 introduced 

 her the next day, only requiring from mijriiing un- 

 til night to preform the job. 1 will send you a photo., 

 and I presume I will get a scolding when I tell you 

 that I am a bachelor, almost 30 years old: but I trust 

 that you will have a little mercy on us old "baches," 

 for you know that the women are almost all afraid 

 of bees. We are trying to find one that isn't. If I 

 find one I will send you her picture too. so you can 

 see how we compare. Jesse (J. Thompson. 



Pierpont, Ashtabula Co., O., Aug. 17, 1881. 



[Friend T.,I am very much obliged for the picture; 

 but allow me to observe that the other sex are not 

 all afraid of bees. Still, If such were the case I 

 should hardly feel like advising them all to learn 

 to handle bees just because they might stand a bet- 

 ter chance of getting married. Both boys and girls 

 should get acquainted, not only with bees, but with 

 cattle and horses as well, that they may be useful in 

 any emergency; and then when they become useful 

 members of society, there is always some one of 

 the opposite sex who will need their help. I have 

 sometimes been tempted to say, that the reason 

 some people can never find any thing to do, is be- 

 cause they were good for nothing; but it can't be 

 that that rule would account for your not being a 

 married man, can it, friend T.? Is it because the 

 other sex are afraid of bees, or that you are afraid 

 of the other sex?] 



THOU SHALL NOT T.\KE THE NAME OF THE LORD 

 IN VAIN ; FOR THE LORD WILL NOT HOLD HIM 

 GU^TLESS THAT TAKETH HIS NAME IN VAIN.— EXO- 

 DUS 20:4. 



Every single time I have sent to you for things 

 you have sent them promptly, and often some little 

 thing as a present; then how very unkind of me, in 

 sending the order, to write the weather was " hotter 



than ." Friend Root. I am one of the worst men 



to swear in the United States, having never heard 

 but one man as bad to swear. It was 106° in the 

 shade when I wrote, and what I wrote was nothing 

 to what I thought; so here are many thanks for 

 your kind reproof, and a promise not to write to any 

 person such language again. No change until last 

 night,— a good rain. Robert Reynolds. 



Utica, Lasalle, Co., 111., Sept. 8, 1881. 

 [You see, I wrote a rcmonstance to friend R. for 

 his profanity in a letter; but as you will observe, it 

 did not make him angry either. Now, friend (or 

 friends if you choose), profane swearing is an awful 

 thing; It is a sin against God that can not be over- 

 looked unless repented of; and, if I am right, it is 

 one that seldom goes unpunished in this world. I am 

 very glad you have promised to put no more such 



