1883 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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basswood honey, to mix with the granulated 

 sugar. In regard to disturbing bees in win- 

 ter, I would open the hives only when the 

 bees were coming out themselves. In the 

 cellar, if your cellar is all right, you can 

 open the hives by lamplight, and give them 

 feed at any time, although m;my good au- 

 thorities think it best not to disturb or stir 

 them up at all in the winter. Never fuss 

 with bees needlessly during the winter. It 

 will pretty surely start them to rearing 

 brood if you do, and this is seldom to be de- 

 sired in winter. If the weather is so warm 

 the bees are flying, the case is different; but 

 even then I wouldn't take out the frames, 

 unless you have some pretty good reason 

 for so doing. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Please send me by mail a copy of A B C in cloth. 

 I thoug-ht I knew mine hy hfsirr, and nuve it away, 

 but tiod I can't get along- "without it. My credit with 

 you is more than enough to pay for it. 



New Vorlt City, Nov. ~'4, 18S1. F. J). Clark. 



The nucleus arrived all safe. I don't think there 

 were a dozen dead bees in all. They appeared to be 

 very g-entl ■ bees ai first. They are pretty cross at 

 present. We have got over 100 stocks. Italians, hy- 

 brids, and common bees, at present. They are the 

 Grossest in the whole lot. E.xpressaere to Marysviile, 

 13.80; 20 cents by stage out here; $3.00. in all. 



Wii,i,iAM Thompson'. 



South Butte, Cal., Nov. 11, 18x2. 



I have sent to you several times, and I am always 

 astonished to see how you can sell so sond an article 

 for so small a price. We have several hives of bees, 

 and they increase verj' rapidlv every year. I work 

 with them mostly, as papa is always in his s:ore. I 

 like to work witn them very much, so long as they 

 doa't get mad and si ing. 1 have 2 hives myself, and 

 I sold seven dollars' worth of honey from them last 

 summer. Horace L. B.vhlow. 



Refugio, Texas, Nov. 7, 1883. 



KIND WORDS FROM NKW ZEALAND. 



This is the beyinning of the honey season here; 

 my bees are hard at work on the willows and eaily 

 fruit-blossoms just now. I find Gleanings a very 

 interesting and useful paper, and I seem to never 

 get tired of reading it, and I think that my wife has 

 got the bee fever now through reading it, for she 

 used scarcely to notice the bees before, but now she 

 takes quite an interest in them. I saw some copies 

 of labels in one number of Gleanings that quite 

 took my fancy. I should like to try some of them, if 

 they could be sent by post. We can not get any 

 thing like them out here, not for three times the 

 money. James Adamson. 



Hastings, Hawkes Bay, N. Z., Sept. 7, 1883. 



I have been borrowing Glkanings for the past 

 year, and like it verj' much. No bee-kef per can af- 

 ford to do without it. Please accept thanks for the 

 ABC, which 1 obtained of you last summer. It is 

 the best h'^lp to those engvged in bee culture T ever 

 saw. We have 30 co|(mies of bees now, all packed in 

 chaff, ready for winter. I have wintered successful- 

 ly for two winters past. 1 think there is no trouble 

 in wintering bees, if they have plent.v of young bees 

 and good honey, and are warmly packed in chaff on 

 their summer stands, with a passage over the 

 frames. I have been much pleased with the success 

 you have had in the Tobacco Column. I think it is 

 almost equal to the temperance cause. May God 

 help you in the good work you have begun, and 

 prosper ^ou in your business. O. G. RcsSell. 



Afton, N. Y., Nov. 13, 1«83. 



Now, friend Boot, I am afraid you have made a 

 mistake this time. May received her book all ritrht, 

 and the children are all so well pleased with it they 

 are all wanting to write you a letter, even the little 

 one that can scarcely talk plain. Now, what would 

 you think to get five letters from one family, all un- 



der eleven? I rather think you would wish you had 

 not made that otfer to the little folks. When Glean- 

 ings comes, the children must see it first, and they 

 invariably turn to hunt for the cartoons and Home 

 Papers. Mrs. J. A. Cochran. 



Sherman, Texas, Dec, 1883. 



[If I got five letters from one family, my good 

 friend, I should think my juvenileproject was work- 

 ing most beautifully. By all mean x, let them covae, 

 for it WHS the Master who said.— 



"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and 

 forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. 

 — Mark 10: U.] 



As God is our universal Father, I feel constrained 

 to call you " brother. " 1 he A B C and Dzierzon The- 

 ory you sent rac arrived in good i rder. I have trav- 

 elnd through the Dzierzon Theory with much plea- 

 sure and have commenced the ABC with the pros- 

 pect ot being a better man as far as bee culture is 

 concerned, to say the least, by the time 1 get through 

 with it. 1 have already perused several articles, 

 which have amply paid for the book, whether 1 may 

 see fit to keep a bee or not. It would seem by read- 

 ing your most worthv book, as thiua-h you were one 

 of the chosen to fulfill the bee mi-sion, and 1 hope 

 you may continue to be successful for all time to 

 come, as in the past, and remain steadfa>t in well- 

 doing, until you may accomplish the day when we 

 may all be able to live on milk and honey, as of old. 

 Go on, and help multiply and replenish the earth 

 with those little winged friends, and you will be the 

 better man for it. Walter S. Peck. 



Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1883. 



one's own tools. 



Nothing in Glkanings has ever interested me 

 more than your talk to boys and girls about the 

 pleasures of farm life. There was a time in my life 

 that 1 would not accept a farm as a gift, and be 

 obliged to live on and work it; but now I prefer it 

 to all other occupations. Your speaking of enjoy- 

 ing the wj)rk in the shop, and especially your own 

 tdoU, reminds me very forcibly of when I commenc- 

 ed for mjself. The very idea that the tools were 

 mine gave mc extra energy. The hor-es, cattle, and 

 hogs, crops growing, and even the farm tools, look- 

 ed so much better to me after possessing them, that 

 it seemed to fairly open up a new world to me. 



This is the first season since I commenced bee- 

 keeping that the buckwheat has failed to secrete 

 honey. Last season the drought injured it, but it 

 was not a failure. My honey is all sold, and the bees 

 paid big this year. I have 117 colonies packed in 

 chaff hives. They are all strong, and have plentv of 

 stores. M. H. Hunt. 



Bell Branch, Mich., Nov. 30, 1883. 



[And I am delighted to find it is my old friend, 

 whose name is appended to the bottom of so pleas- 

 ant a letter. Yes, I do know what it is to work with 

 one's own tools. How is the juvenile "farm" and 

 " farmers " at your house? Haven't had any letters 

 from them yet, have we, friend H.?] 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



1883. 

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time and place of meeting. 



3, .3, -i.— The New York B. K. Union, at Albany, 



in the State Agricultural rooms. 

 9.— Cortland Union Bee-Keepers' Association, 



at Cortland, N. Y. 

 9, 10. The Ohio State B K. Association, at 



Columbus, O., in Ohio State Journal rooms. 

 9, 10, 11.— The N. E. B. K. Association of New 



York, at Syracuse. 

 11. -The Nebraska State B. K. Association, at 



Wahoo, Saunders Co. 

 19. 30.— Mahoning Valley Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion at Berlin Center, Mahoning Co.. O. 

 30.— The S. E. B. K. Association of Michigan, at 



Ann Arbor, in Court-House. 



E. T. liEWIS &. CO., TOLEDO, OHIO, 



Manufacturers of the U. S. Standard Honey-Extract- 

 or (new improvements), and all other Apiarian 



Supplies. Send for circular. Itfd 



