1881 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



51? 



HONEY FROM RED CLOVER. 



Neighbor Dean has just been in, and now gives 

 liis honey crop at 1000 lbs., instead of three or four 

 hundred, as I gave it last month. About 350 of it is 

 comb honey, and the rest is extracted. He said his 

 bees filled sections right along in August, from the 

 red-clover blossoms. Bees gather honey from red 

 clover In Medina County, if they don't in other 

 places. 



All who are intending to attend the National 

 Convention, at Lexington Ky., Oct. 5, 6, and 7, will 

 need to set about it as soon as this is in their hands. 

 1 see by the A. B. J. that Mrs. Lucinda Harrison 

 proposes an impromptu meeting to be held 

 in the Mammoth Cave, after the discussions are 

 over. I should be very glad indeed to attend, but I 

 have been absent so much this fall that it seems 

 next to impossible, and we are now just in the 

 midst of preparing our 300 colonies for winter. 



May God bless the kind friends who have written 

 they would take nothing from mfi for the money 

 they sent Burch. I do not want to ask release from 

 any promise I have made; but such expressions 

 seem to say that my attempts to reform existing 

 e\'ils have been approved by both God and my fel- 

 low-men. Truly can I say with David, "For he shall 

 give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all 

 thy ways. They shall bear thee up in thrir hands, 

 lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." 



Once in a while, when things do not please, some- 

 body throws it up to me about the pretensions I 

 make. My friends, if I have made pretensions I did 

 not mean to; for in truth I am selfish, cross, and at 

 times, I fear, crooked and hard to get along with. If 

 there bo anj' merit in being grievously sorry for 

 these faults and failings, when I look back and see 

 them, I do not know but that I have that merit- 

 Sometimes it seems to me that I must give up in de- 

 spaii-, were it not for the comforting promise, " The 

 blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin." 



bees to be killed. 

 Is there anybody near friend P. who can take the 

 poor bees and save them from death? Read:— 



I have .')0 stands of bees that I expect to kill. Tliey are in 

 Diehl patent hives. If vou want them you ean have the comb 

 and honey at Iftc per lb.', and pay me 83.00 for my hives. I will 

 give vou the bees. Write at once. ((. N. Pil.iRES. 



Keiiipton, Ind., Sept. 24, 1881. 



Friend P., if you would leave out those patent 

 hives, and give us just the bees and combs, we would 

 be better pleased ; but even then the express charges 

 would be a serious obstacle with us. Can not some 

 of our readers near there save them? Bees will be 

 " cash money " next spring. 



It were no more than just, to let our friends in 

 Canada know they are indebted to Mr. Geo. O. Good- 

 hue, Danville, Quebec, Canada, that we are enabled 

 to use all Canada money and postage-stamps, at par. 

 He has simply, for the sake of serving his country 

 men, been doing quite u little banking business with 

 us for over a year past, making no charge for his 

 services. I presume he will scold at my making this 

 mention, but I do not wish to receive credit for what 

 belongs to another. If Queen Victoria's subjects are 

 all like our bee friends in Canada, I could, with a 

 whole heart, say with them, " God save the Queen!'' 



THE MICHIGAN SCFFEREBS. 



I PRESUME most of you have, before this time, 

 done something for these friends. In our town, we 

 have sent several large boxes of clothing, etc., and 

 also some money. A few of our bae-folksare among 

 the sufferers, and one letter is at hand, telling of a 

 little boy who burned. May God help the parents in 

 this great afHietion, and may he show us how best to 

 manifest our sympathy. It seems these fierce flres 

 are not alone confined to Michigan. See the follow- 

 ing:— 



A terrible prairie fire swept away my apiary- Sept. 6tlt. Chaff 

 hives burned lively. The apparent resources are cut off. but the 



unseen are still ainiiulanHiod is ■-de to trust in. --Althouyrh 

 the figr-treeshall not blossom, neither -^hall f r\iit be on the vines; 

 the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no 

 meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be 

 no herd in the stalls; yet I will rejoice in the Lord."' 

 Baxter Sprinfcs. Kan., Sept. S."!, 1881. C. D. Wright. 



I hope, friend W., it was not a great many chaff 

 hives that were burned, and that you have not lost 

 all your bees. Truly, the unseen resources of the 

 great Giver are never cut off. 



PREMIUMS FOR EARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. | 



Everybody who sends $1.00 for Gleanings for i 

 the year 1883, during this present month, may have • 

 any article on the 15-cent counter as a premium for 

 so doing, providing he comply with the following 

 conditions: You are to state the dollar was sent in 

 accordance with this notice, tell what article you 

 want, and the amount of postage. Those who have 

 remitted before this reaches them, for 1882, can 

 have the premium by calling our attention to it, 

 and sending the postage. The l.'> cents can be used 

 for articles on any other counter, if you choose; 

 but if wanted by mail, be sure to send the postage. 

 In November, the premium will be from the 10-cent 

 counter, and In December, from the 5-cent counter. 



Friends, when you order honey-labels, please 

 write out exactly what you want, or send us a sam- 

 ple label of what you had fixed in your mind. We 

 will send you package of samples free of charge to 

 select from. If you do not take the trouble to do 

 this, but say simply, "Send me some honey-labels," 

 you will have to take whatever the printers see fit 

 to give you. One friend, in complaining, says he 

 should think we might have known he didn't want 

 labels for extracted honey, and I presume we should, 

 had we recollected all his correspondence. At the 

 very low prices we furnisli them, the best I can do is 

 to hand your letters to the printers; and if you do 

 not tell them just what you want, I do not know 

 how 1 can take them back. We are your servants, 

 and are, also, really anxious to please; but I do not 

 see how we can, unless you give full and plain or- 

 ders. Cut out the size you wish, then write out 

 with a pen every word and figure you want on it, 

 and I assure you we can please, in quality of work 

 as well as promptness. 



THE OHIO STATE FAIR. 



As our Ohio people saw tit to appoint me one of 

 the judges on honey and apiarian supplies at the 

 State Fair, I thought best to attend. 1 am happy to 

 say that the exhibits were very fair, and I enjoyed 

 very much the duties assigned me, more especially 

 as my co-worker was the Rev. Mr. Ballantine, who 

 gives us the excellent letter in Our Homes for this 

 month. The third one on the committee being ab- 

 sent, we picked up a bee -man to assist. The pleas- 

 ant part of the whole of it was, that all parties, so 

 far as we knew, were perfectly salisfled and pleased 

 with the awards. I met and made many new friends 

 at our capital, and came away feeling happy, be- 

 cause I had known and seen more of Ohio and our 



