1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



763 



the common gray — the color is lighter and of a glossy, 

 silvery appearance. The Japanese is larger than the 

 gray, of somewhat darker color, and there is a tendency 

 for the angles or edges of the hull to extend into a wing, 

 making the faces of the grain more concave. The plant 

 of the Japanese variety is a somewhat larger grower 

 than the others; the fresh stem has a green color, and 

 the flowers seem not to be quite so subject to blasting 

 as the others. On this account it is recommended in 

 some localities to sow the silverhull and Japanese varie- 

 ties mixed, it being said that the later and hardier Jap- 

 anese will shade and protect the others from hot sun- 

 shine, thus avoiding blasting, and securing a larger 

 zone of seed-bearing straw than is furnished by either 

 sort alone, a larger yield resulting. The silverhull va- 

 riety has a red stem, and branches more freely than the 

 others. The leaves also are smaller. 



ST. PAUL AGENCY. 



After our forms had gone to press we received fur- 

 ther particulars regarding the sudden death of Mr. 

 J. C. Acklin, our agent in St. Paul. While delivering 

 some bees to a customer in one of the St. Paul suburbs 

 he was stricken wath apoplexy and was taken to the 

 hospital, where he died next morning without regaining 

 consciousness. — 



This sudden ending of his labors in this world is a 

 crushing blow to Mrs. H. G Acklin and her daughter 

 Ethel; but they are determined to carry on the business 

 as usual. For this she is thoroughly competent, having 

 had active charge for years. Only last January was 

 the name of the manager changed from her initials to 

 his. She has a faithful helper, Robert, who has been 

 with them for years, and has taken entire charge of the 

 business for weeks at a time. All orders for bees and 

 supplies will receive their usual careful attention. 



Kind Words from our Customers. 



"in all thy ways acknowledge him. " 

 For some years past my health has been rapidly fail- 

 ing; and my occupation being that of carpenter and 

 builder I saw I was not going to be able to do hard work 

 much longer, and so my wife and I began to ask the 

 Lord if I should not make a change and try something 

 else. She spoke of bee- keeping, it being on her mind 

 for some time. At first I did not approve of it, for 

 many had tried them here and all failed. But still my 

 wife was anxious to try them, so we got one colony in 

 the fall of 1901. and laid the matter before the Lord to 

 sho n us if it was his mind that we keep them or not, 

 for neither of us knew any thing about them. I sent 

 for the Canadian Bee Journal and the ABC book, and 

 we packed the bees as well as we could outside on their 

 stand, and in the spring the box was full of bees, and 

 in August we had six good swarms, and not one got 

 away. But they were black bees, and we wanted Ital- 

 ians, so we sent $5.00 to the Root Co. for two queens, 

 and divided two of the largest colonies, making four, 

 and introduced your two queens, and you may depend 

 on it they were a matter of much prayer to the Lord. 

 I packed them outside as well as I could, giving more 

 attention to the new queens; but in the spring when I 

 examined the hives I found the rain had got into the 

 outside box of our $3.00 queen, and the stuff was all 

 wet around the hive; and when we looked at the bees 

 they were all dead but the queen and a handful of bees. 

 I don't think there were more than 100 at the outside. 

 Oh, I was so disappointed and vexed at my carelessness 

 not to notice the plan in the lid ! But all we could do 

 was to tell the Lord about it, and go on and make the 

 best of it. And, just think ! before the season was 

 over that colony cast the biggest swarm in the yard, 

 and both queens proved to be excellent breeders. 



Last spring, 1905, we started with 12 colonies— 7 good 

 ones and 5 weak ones, and they made nearly 1000 lbs. of 

 honey, and increased to 32 good ones in August, and I 

 had no trouble to sell the extracted honey at 15 cts. per 

 lb., and 20 for comb; so this spring we have 27 to start 

 with; lost 4, and sold one. The reason of our loss was, 

 two of them, I think, were queenless when put away, 

 and two were robbed. 



This spring my wife had no trouble in learning to clip 

 the queens' wings by looking at the picture in Glean- 

 ings. I must say that journal has been a great thing 

 to us. How I came by it was this: I saw an advertise- 

 ment in the Canadian Bee Journal, 1902, that if one 

 sent you the names of six bee-keepers you would send a 



copy of Gleanings six months on trial. I could not 

 send that many, for there were no bee-keepers in this 

 part of the country; but I sent the names of a number 

 who said they would like to get bees, and got it. The 

 man I sold the colony to last fall gave me his subscrip- 

 tion for it the other day, so the folks around are much 

 interested in our bees now. 



But what I want to say to my fellow Christians, 

 those who love our Lord Jesus, is this: No matter what 

 you go at, consult the Lord about it; don't be in a 

 hurry starting— just as Moses said to the Lord, "If 

 thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." 

 Then if you see he has opened the way, and made the 

 matter clear, and you have made a start, be sure you 

 honor the Lord in it. See Proverbs 3:9, 10. I have prov- 

 ed this to be true at all times and in all my business. 



While we can not lay down a straight rule in the 

 matter of giving. I believe in having a separate purse 

 for the Lord; and every time I sell anything I put so 

 much of it away in that purse for him for the poor and 

 the spreading of the gospel. The Lord does not reckon 

 from the amount that is given, but from the amount 

 that is kept back. How beautifully we see that in the 

 widow with the two mites ! and the more the Lord is 

 honored in that way, the more he will bless you. But 

 how often our gracious Father has to cut off our supply 

 like a doctor in a hospital, who gives only food enough 

 to keep the patient alive till he gets better of the dis- 

 ease. The same thing happens with us. We have a 

 loving Father who would be pleased to give us good 

 things, but our spiritual health will not stand it. For 

 my part I can look back and thank the Lord for every 

 hurt, sickness, and loss, for I know it was in love he 

 permitted these things to happen. 



Little Rapids, Ont. John Lamont. 



The Ideal Specialty Co., 141 S. Clinton St., Chicago, 

 111., have an ad. on page 776 of this issue of Gleanings. 

 This company manufactures scrap-books, photo-albums, 

 post-card albums, and invoice-books of the latest and 

 best designs. Their self-gummed Ideal scrap-books 

 same as shown in their ad., are the neatest scrap-books 

 we have ever seen. They do away with disagreeable 

 gluing, and do not make it impossible to remove a clip- 

 ping which has been preserved. It will be well worth 

 your while to send for a copy of their catalog No. 8, 

 which shows every style of these fine books. There is 

 no charge for their catalog. 



Best's Mortgage-Lifter Bees 



My bees are of a new strain, bred by careful selection 

 from the best imported and domestic stock. They are 

 the gentlest, the strongest honey - gatherers, and 

 most rapid breeders of any bees you will find. Have 

 been among bees for 35 years and never found their 

 equal. Price for immediate delivery— warranted queen, 

 $1.50; tested, $2.00: select tested, S3.00: breeding queen, 

 $5.00; select breeder. .$8.00. Purity of strain guaran- 

 teed. BEST-THE-BEE-MAN, 



tSlating'ton, Pa. 



WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE 



ALBINO BEES, 



the best in the world. If you are looking for the bee 

 that will gather the most honey, and is the gentlest of 

 all bees in handling, buy the Albino. I also furnish the 

 Italian, but orders stand fifty to one in favor of the 

 Albino. 



Prices: Select tested Albino queens for breeding, 

 $4.00; tested Albino queens as they run, $2.50; untested 

 $1.00. Italians, tested, $150: untested, $1.00. 



S. VALENTINE, 

 Rocky Ridge, - Frederick Co. - Md. 



6SC **"^ ^^ NAMES— For names and P.O. of 25 farm- 

 ^^^ ers and 15c (stamps taken) we will send for 2 

 years the Farmer's Call— regular subscription price, 

 40c a year. F. C. is a weekly, 25 years old; 1300 pages a 

 year; sample free. Farmer's Call, Quincy, III. 



