188 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Mar. 



Juvei\il e Gle ai\ii\gs. 



ISjmj^Ti. IS, 1883. 



Contents of this Number. 



Bees, when Cross 183 



Mccs bot. Floor and Ceil'i?. .isj 



BePtroe 183, 1X7 



BeOS, Moving ISfi 



Bricks, Toy 177 



( 'and V, Sticky 18f. 



C'lu'stnut Honey 179 



C'uttun-fiekls. l«l 



Jiilitorials ISS 



Hen Business 183 



Honey Candy ...179 



Horse-talk 178 



Joseph's Mishap 179 



Juv. Department 178 



Kind Words 



Letter troni Bess 



Letter from an Orphan 



Myself and NeiRlibors 



Pollen f loni Ehn 



Premiums 



Red Lights 



Stabbing Affray 



Stings in Ej'C 



Stone Covers 



Transplanting 



Victoria Fields' Letter 



Virgil 



" With what Measure," etc. 



I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it.— 

 John 17:26. 



Although our boj-^s have hitched the steam- 

 engine to their machinery for making tdn. mills, 

 and are turning them out at the rate of nearly two 

 a day, still we are behind about 25 orders. 



A CLERK is now employed to receipt all your 

 orders the day they come; but this receipt does not 

 imply that we have found your prices and orders 

 correct. Very often the errors in prices are not 

 discovered until the goods are ready to ship several 

 days after. 



The call for sample copies has been so great that 

 wo have run out twice this year, and are now out 

 again, and our only way is to send those who ask for 

 them, some as far back as 1880. It is too bad, but I 

 don't know how we can help it. All who want "fresh 

 ones" will have to send us 10 cts., or else a whole 

 dollar for a whole j'ear. 



I SHALL have to remind our friends again, that it 

 is a penalty to send letters in any package they do 

 not pay letter postage on. To-day we have received 

 four watches, with a letter sent in the box with each 

 one. It would cost you ten dollars each, friends, if 

 we should report you. You have a right to say 

 whom the package is from, but nothing more. 



We have finally secured, we think, all the alsike 

 that will be wanted, and a nice article it is too; but 

 we shall have to charge you 30 cts. per lb., $4.00 per 

 peck, $7.75 per half-bushel, or $15.00 for a whole 

 bushel. You see if we don't raise some alsike " our 

 own selves," after this. We have clerks enough 

 now to give it to you by return mail, express, or 

 freight. 



Quite a good many of the friends are giving me 

 long descriptions of the hives they have, asking 

 what I would advise under the circumstances. With 

 the present crowded state of our business, it is real- 

 ly out of my power to look into these things as I 

 once did; and I am not sure but that If I could, I 

 should advise, in every case, that you get rid of 

 them all as soon as possible, and adopt the regulnr 

 standard goods. The real honey-raisers are now all 

 going pretty nearly in a beaten path; and if you are 

 out of this path, the sooner you get into it the bet- 

 ter; and then the A B C and our price lists will 

 guide you at every step. 



The new maple sugar brought in this season so 

 far has been of a nicer quality than any I ever saw 

 before. The farmers explain it by saying the 

 weather has been so cold there has not been the 

 least tendency in the sap toward souring. We have 

 quite a quantity in little c^kcs, very white and nice, 



that I can furnish you at 3 cts. each, or three cents 

 more for postage, if wanted by mail. We have at 

 present no new sugar in largo cakes, that we can 

 sell for less than 13 cts. It is so nice, I have paid 13 

 for most of it. Last-year's sugar, ordinary quality, 

 we can sell you at 10 cts., or 9 by the barrel. As I 

 have said before, our best sugar always sells first. 

 Nice molasses, yirst run, $1.00 per can of oli qts. 



Remember, friends, that the price of fdn. changed 

 at 13 o'clock at midnight, the 14th day of March. We 

 sent to the postolfice and got the last night's mail, 

 and marked all at old prices; but to-day all orders 

 are to be filled at the adv^anced figures, according to 

 our notice in Feb. Gleanings. One of our wax- 

 deslers writes that dealers are getting wild about the 

 advance on wax. We have secured a plenty for the 

 present, but paid, in one instance, as high as 43 cts. 

 to get it. Until further notice we will pay 35 cts. in 

 cash, or 37 trade, for good fair wax. As I don't know 

 how high it may run yet before the season is over, 

 I would not dare to offer it for less than 43 at pres- 

 ent, or 47 for selected wax. 



Do you know that I am a great talker? Well, I 

 am ; and, what is more, next Monday we are to have 

 in our olScea short-hand writer who thinks she can 

 write about as fast as I ordinarily talk. Of course, 

 she will catch the words with her crooked marks 

 only enough to get the matter down so she can read 

 it; but after that she writes it out in full on a new 

 type-writer of her own. Just think of it, children; 

 instead of this laborious work of trying to scratch 

 down what I would say to you (and I tell you the 

 scratching, a great deal of it, is awful, as our girls 

 can tell you), I shall only have to talk to this little 

 woman, and, lo and behold! the talk comes out 

 presently, nicely printed, and in good grammar. Do 

 you see what education and skill will do? 



After very much trial and tribulation our artist 

 has succeeded in getting a very good cabinet-size 

 photo of your humble servant. My wife says it 

 shows the wrinkles of mucii care and anxiety; but 

 it seems to me it looks a great deal better than I 

 ever did, so I feel very well satisfied with it. Well, I 

 should be very glad to give you one apiece all round; 

 but you see I some way happen to have such a 

 host of friends, if I undertook the job, I am afraid I 

 should not have money enough to build the new 

 factory, just starting. I think we will' fix it this 

 way: Every subscriber to Gleanings who gets 

 somebody else to subscribe may have one; or if you 

 are too busy to hunt up one, just send us your own 

 sub.scription for next year. 



I SUPPOSE this is a bu^' world everywhere, and 

 that it is quite a task to take the time to call things 

 by their right names; but, friends, it would save a 

 deal of trouble if you would, in ordering goods, call 

 them by the names we have given them in the price 

 list. Yesterday a man ordered some "pierced cov- 

 ers." What do you suppose it was he wanted? Why, 

 after none of the clerks could tell, I suggested it 

 was perforated zinc honey-boards; and as the price 

 he gave agreed with this, we sent them alocg. Re- 

 member, your order may fall into the hands of some 

 clerk who does not know bees veiy much, and has 

 only his price list to depend on. If you call things 

 by the same names they are called by in LETTERS 

 LIKE THIS, In the price list, he can turn to them at 

 once, and will know just what you want. 



