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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



June 



Juvei\ile Gleai\ii\gs. 



J"XJISrE 15, 188S. 



Contents of this Number. 



Bees, Hiving 3(8 



Cat and Horse Story 349 



Caution about Hot Wax 352 



ChieUen Cholera SIS 



Combs, Knintv , ?58 



Fuel fur Siiinkers 318 



(flatfelter's Feeder 355 



(Jourd Hives 347 



Hone.v, Removing 349 



Honey. Candied ,".5 ) 



Honev-Loeust ^i7 



Kind'Words 3.5R 



Loeust-tree.s .347 



Myself and Neiglibors .343 



Nettie's Letter 34C 



Orders, Filling 3.58 



Prisoners 357 



Koeky-JIountain Plant 35! 



Sub-ventilation 352 



Swarm in Rain 349 



Swaimin^-boxes 353 



Transferring 35B 



Victoria's Bees 3.5fi 



Virtril 3i5 



Wax has dropped, and wo have such a stock on 

 hani that wc c^m pay ouly 30c cash, or S'i c trade, tor 

 all shipped us after this date. 



W. A. Sander.s. Oak Bower, Hart Co.. Cla.. has 1,5 

 lilack queens, ih'Vt he will send to anybody who 

 wants thera, tor 31 cents each. 



Ouii friend Oeorg-e, the label and job printer, 

 wishes rae to say that a nice little hook of ,«Hmpk'S 

 <1' libels, with prices of all kinds of job printing-, is 

 now ready to mail. Mailed free to anybody who 

 wants it. 



To-day is the 14th, and as the fearful blocisade vvo 

 have hstd in the office is hardly yet straij^htened out, 

 the book-keeper suggests that, if you give the num- 

 ber of your l>^dg-er page when writing-, it will often 

 enable us to answer you one mail sooner. 



Ohders for fdn. mills are all filled; and by the 

 time this reaches you, we shall be prepared to ship 

 10-inch mills by next train. In fact, we have quite a 

 number almost done, and we shall now keep them 

 boxed up ahead, ready to ship. Other sizes can be 

 put up on very short notice. 



As it is much more important to get goods off for 

 waiting customers than to look up complaints and 

 misunderstandings, I hope those who don't hear 

 from us in regard to the latter will bear our silence 

 patiently. Come right to the point, and say what it 

 is you want, and we will send it, and accounts can 

 be straightened up after the rush. If you get your 

 goods twice, dispose of for us what .vou don't need, if 

 you can; and if not, we will direct in regard to their 

 return or disposal. 



Do not, T pray you, friends, he in haste to write 

 back that some of your goods have been omitted. 

 Open every package, no matter if you do think it 

 can't be there. Over and over again, some one of 

 you says a part of your goods was left out, and our 

 overworked, tired, worn-out clerks take a laborious 

 hunt over books and letters, and then go home with 

 sad hearts and weary bodies, and the next day comes 

 a postal c*i'd, very quietly saying it was a mistake; 

 he " hadn't opened all the boxes," or "didn't think 

 of their being in the center of a crate of hives," etc. 



EMPTY (?OMBS. 



A Gr{E.\T many arestill asking what to do with the 

 ompty combs from hives where the bees have died. 

 Put more bees on them, friends. If you are going to 

 work for extracted honey, give each colony 30 or 40 

 of them, and they will store an immense crop of 

 honey in a hive four stories high. If you want to 

 divide them at any time, take off one, two, or three 

 of these upper stories, and give a queen to each, 

 and they are a nice swarm almost at once. Don't 

 let the worms get at them, even if you have to brim- 

 stone them, according to directions in the ABC. 



We have now all kinds of queens on hand, ready 

 to ship by return mail, except black<^ and hybrids. 

 When ordering either of these, be sure to tell us 

 what to do. in case we have none on hand. I was 

 somewhat surprised, after our last journal went out, 

 to receive so m«ny orders just as soon as we made it 

 known we had 30 or 40 black queens on hand. Two 

 or three telegrams came for them the minute the 

 journal was received, and orders have been coming 

 daily almost ever since. Would it not be well for 

 those having blacks and hybrids for sale to let it be 

 known? 



One of the juveniles (page 356) inquire^i about the 

 distance our 75cent telephones will work. He will 

 see by our price list that we furnish with them 20a 

 feet of wire, and one-eighth of a mile is about as fai* 

 as ihev work real saiisfnctorily; still, with all the 

 conditions just*right, they answer ver.v well for a 

 quarter of a mile, and even perhaps half a mile. 

 When the distance is so long, the rooms whore they 

 are located must be perfectlv still and quiet, and 

 the wire must be drawn very tight. 



FILLING ORDEliS. 



Wk are still considerably behind on o»ders by 

 freight; and. a lew days luck, on some of the orders 

 by express; and the mailing clt^rks have a rather 

 l;irger heap ot letters before them than is usually 

 the case. But as ordprs am slacking quite p^rcepii- 

 bl.v, we shall not be .lilig. d to delay anyliudy much 

 longer. 1 know qtiiii^ ;i miiuher of the friend.s have 

 felr hard at)oiit the d''U\ s nn 1 roigbt shipinents, and 

 that many think we hnvL! no loisiness having iiion; 

 '■ business " than we (uin ;ittend to in a h.tibicxs-Ukc. 

 way; but I think that, if you inquire, you will find 

 such a state of affairs is n'd very utiusu..! in the 

 growth of any business. More help we have h id hs 

 fast as it could be iis.'d, and more machinery has 

 been purchased, untd there ii reallv u it standing- 

 )-oum for it: and to remedy this last trouble \v>i 

 started the new fact'iry. pven when it s>-Hmed al- 

 most un'.visf> to do s". '^I'his new t'actorv is now up 

 to the first tioor, and the expanse of sleepers that 

 the tloor is soon to be 1 lid on l')oks aim tsi as if it 

 were more fitting for n nHStnre lot than f'>r n Luilri- 

 Ing; yet I daresay we shall fl.l it completely, almost 

 as 'oon as it is rendy. F know mv leontatiou has 

 siitfered. Mild I >'m sorry for il ; for I kn 'W verv 

 well the liest advertisement in the worhl is (jnod 

 fifoods hy the very first trxin after the order is re- 

 ceived. 1 enjiy " hugely," sending folks goods be- 

 fore they exp- ct them, and I feel dismal when I have 

 to make anybody wait. We are planning hard on 

 facilities for giving you almost any thing in our 

 price list the minute >our order is handed us from 

 the postofJice, and I have little fear but that we shall 

 find enough to do, when we truly deserve it. The 

 girls are already feeling happy at the prospect of an 

 office carpeted, with h^rd-wood finish, inside blinds, 

 and a little outside of the roar of the machinery that 

 is now right under us. You will come and sec us 

 then, will you not? 



WHAT TO DO WHEN GOOD3 ARE NOT AS YOU OR- 

 DERED OR EXPECTED. 



As most of my life has been spent in buving as 

 well as selling goods, and as I believe [ am generally 

 considered a desirable customer. I think perhaps a, 

 few words from me here m-iy be helpful. When you 

 order, make your order plain; and when you order 

 from a catalogue, copy the n;tme of the article from 

 the catalogue, in the Den/ u'ord.s used by the cata- 

 logue, and give price. B^ especially Ciireful to give 

 the price, ns the price often gives the clew to what 

 is wanted, when the writing is so bad or so brief that 

 it could not be guessed at otherwise. If you use the 

 same terms the maker of the goods uses, any mis- 

 take made must surely be his fault. Well, after you 

 get your goods, if they are not satisfactory, write at 

 once to the shipper, and tell plainly what the trouble 

 i.s, also stating just how much rebate you think you 

 ought to have, to make it all fair, if he is a fair 

 man, and you yourself are a fair man, the matter 

 canusuillv' be closed np at once; wherea^. if you 

 make a long story of it, without stating definiteiv 

 what is wanted, he may conclude your custom is 

 more bother than profit, and pay no attention to it. 

 Largf business houses, as a rule, do not olten write 

 long letters. Many times, when time is valuable, it 

 is cheaper to hand over 2.5 or 50 cents, or even a dol- 

 lar, than to gi> through with a long list of particulars. 

 Mav I say. in closing, that it always pays best in thu 

 end to help the man you buy of. out of any mistake 

 or misfortune, the best you can? i have a gre^c 

 many times kept goods sent roe b.v mistake, rather 

 than put to trouble and expense the one who sent 

 them, and 1 have never found a case where a maif 

 forft-ot such a kindness. Sooner or later I had m.v 

 rewaid. The man you trade with is your neighbor, 

 and you are ever bound to love him, and to lo ik out^ 

 for his interests, as well as your own. It may grati- 

 fy your feelings a little to talk back harshly to him. 

 when be has made a blunder, and to put him to 

 needless expense, when you are provoked; but it 

 never brings lasting happiness, nor puts money in 

 your pocket. 



