1883 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



267 



ClEA«t«G S m BEE CULTURE. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



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 OF READING MATTER. 



]VnE3T3X3\r..A., l!k/ljAJ^r 1, 1883. 



But unto you that fear uiy name shall the Suu of righteous- 

 ness arise with healing in his wings. — Mal. 1: 2. 



We are out of the sea-shells we had on the 5 and 10 

 ct. counier, and don't know where to find any more. 

 Can anybody who reads Gleanings furnish them for 

 us? You will see by our price list the dimensions 

 and prices of those we had. 



The old Quinby smokers we advertised in the last 

 Juvenile are all gone; but we havequite a number 

 of discarded smokers of various makes that we can 

 sell you for 25 cts. each, but the postage on them 

 will be -5 cts. more. Perhaps these latter, if you 

 want them, had better be sent with other goods by 

 freight or express. 



So.ME of the friends are already sending queens 

 without any card with them to tell what they are, or 

 whom they are from. Whenever you send a queen, 

 send a postal card in the same mail, or one mail be- 

 fore It. Unless you do this, I shall have to refuse to 

 be responsible for them. You see, we want to dis- 

 pose of them within one hour after thej' are receiv- 

 ed, if possible. 



MISREPRESENTATlbNS IN PRICE LIST. 



In spite of the best we can do, our price list is 

 sometimes misleading. One i-eason of this is, per- 

 haps, because we are so cramped for room, and the 

 description must necessarily be brief. Dear friends, 

 we do not wish this to be so, and should be very sor- 

 ry to mislead anybody, even though we are anxious 

 to sell our goods; and we shall be thankful to have 

 any of you tell us wherein our price list may mis- 

 lead, and we promise you it shall be corrected 

 promptly, so far as lies in our power. 



STARTERS OF FRESH COMB. 



Although some trouble to do so, I think it will 

 pay those who have time, to prepare their starters 

 of new comb exclusively; and I should not be sur- 

 prised if they would find it as Mr. House says on p. 

 247, especially if the result proved that they could 

 see a whole colony that had been hived in the morn- 

 ing at work in all the sections in the afternoon. In 

 fact, I am not at all surprised at his yield after 

 knowing he paid so much attention to just these two 

 ideas. Now let us see who will profit by these sea- 

 sonable hints. 



Will you pardon me, my friends, if I ask you 

 once more to call goods by the same names they are 

 called in the price list? Some of you are very bad 

 in this mitter. A friend, a few days ago, made an 

 order for "frame straps." Now, what do j'ou sup- 

 pose he meant? After a good deal of "ciphering" 

 all around, we made out that the man wanted sepi- 

 rator's! Cases almost similar are coming up almost 

 constantly; and when our poor clerks don't happen 

 to hit it, our friends sometimes writeback "awful- 

 ly." Lest the latter might give you a wrong im- 



pression, I want to say that, as a rule, our customers 

 have been very kind and considerate. It is only a 

 few who get angry, and say that my business prac 

 tices do not agree with the teachings in the Homo 

 Papers. 



Every little while somebody asks for carp3t-tacks 

 from our counter. Well, while Mrs. Root was put- 

 ting down her new carpets I made her tell what 

 kind of tacks were best. She says she wants them 

 blue, and not tinned. She also wants the heads 

 round, so they won't pull off when they are to be 

 drawn out of the hard boards. And she wants them 

 good and stout so thej' will hold. We have had 

 some manufactured to order on purpose, and can 

 furnish them for 5 cts. per oz., or £0 cts. per pound. 

 There are about 50 tacks in an oz. If wanted by mail, 

 add 3 cts. per oz., or 18 cts. per pound. 



Until further notice we will still pay 35 cts. cash 

 for good wax, or 3" cts. in trade. Please remember, 

 friends, what I have said about sending wax by ex- 

 press. Last evening we got a small box of 5J4 lbs. 

 b}' express, on which the charges were $1.05; so you 

 see our friend had to lose over half of bis wax in 

 payment of the express charges. Another friend 

 sent us some wax by mail to pay his subscription to 

 Gleanings. The wax amounted to over a dollar, 

 but the postage on it was 54 cts. Had he sent us the 

 54 cts. in stamps, he would have had his Gleanings 

 for over six mouths, and his wax too. 



PUT ON YOUR COUNTY. 



My friends, do you know that every letter that 

 leaves our office (unless it be directed to some large 

 city) has the name of your county written in the ad- 

 dress? I have been thinking that if you did know it, 

 and that every time you neglect to give us your 

 countj', the clerk who sJwuld be busilj' answering 

 your question has to stop all other work to hunt up 

 your place of residence, that you would at least be a 

 little more thoughtful. For a Ithough it seems a tri- 

 fling matter, it assumes quite large proportions in 

 answering 150 or 200 letters a day, and costs us not 

 only lots of patience, but, in the course of a j-ear, a 

 considerable sum of money. 



In another column our good friend Mrs. Axtell 

 seems to be borrowing trouble for fear I have given 

 her name a little too much prominence. Why, bless 

 your heart, Mrs. A., we all know how it is, and I 

 don't believe any reader of Gleanings ever for a 

 moment thought you meant to take more than your 

 share of the work which you and your good hus- 

 band have done. God has given you an especial tal- 

 ent for telling your brothers and sisters how you do 

 things, and we think you have improved that talent 

 well. You could never have managed the bees with- 

 out your husband, and I believe it is equally true he 

 could never have made the success you two have, 

 did he have it all to do alone; and he certainly 

 would not have had time to tell it to us all in the 

 pleasant way you have done. "And they twain 

 shall be one flesh."— Matt. 19 : 5. 



changes in prices. 

 This season has perhaps been the worst for ad- 

 vance in prices (alsike clover and fdn., for instance) 

 of any previous one; and while most of the friends 

 have taken into consideration the state of affairs, 

 and have paid the advance without complaining, a 

 few have been very much displeased, and one or two 

 quite bitter and abusive. Bear in mind, friends, 



