682 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Sept. 



Tour 10-ct " speck " are jvist such as sell here In 

 the stores for 75 cts., and they fit us exactly. 



L. C. Seaton. 

 Ellensburg, Wash. Ter., Aug. 12, 1883. 



I would not do without one of the smokers for five 

 times the price of them. S. S. Lkach. 



Quincy, O., Au«-. 13, 1883. 



I have had Thursday, the 20th, called American 

 visitor's day, in honor of our American visitors. 

 Beeton, Ont., Can. D. A. Jones. 



Juvei\ile Gleai\ii\gs. 



SEI'T- 15, 1883. 



Contents of this Number. 



Alley's Book 666 



Apiary, Whiteside 561 



Asters .''74 



Basswood Aiifr. 15 571 



Brcs to ('.ililnrnia 581 



Bees and ilaliy 556 



Bffs ( 'an-ying Flowers 569 



Bees on AVindow 570 



Bees, Cross 580 



Bees in the Ear 573 



Bees, To Ship 565 



Bees in Oregon 572 



Bible Verses 573 



Blacks vs. Italians 570 



Capons 569 



Cat, Educated 573 



Chicken Cholera '. 671 



Composition on Bees 574 



Conventions 584 



Counter Store 582 



Day Star 576 



Ducks 574 



EgRs, Bees Removing: 565 



Ernest's Notes 566 



Ext. from Brood-nest 560 



Fairies 569 



Frames, Fastening fj66 



Goldenrod..^ 500 



Goods that weren't There.. 567 



Harnden's Report 564 



Harrison, Mrs 657 



Hive, Golden 560 



How did it Happen? 658 



Hon(?y from Oak 558 



Honey from Cotton 568 



Honey Column 683 



Humbugs and Swindles 583 



Incubators 571 



Kind Words 580 



Labels for Comb Honey 556 



Lilacs 567 



Location, Choosing a .570 



Markets, Injuring 656 



Molasses of White Sugar... .574 



Money, Making 563 



My Neighbors .553 



Notes and Queries 6.59 



Orphan-boy -562 



Park's Report 561 



Partridges 674 



Paul Price 662 



Plantain 569 



Pond on the Sabbath 565 



Poplars 570 



Pro)iolis for Sealing 569 



Queens, Dried — 570 



Queens to Florida 581 



Uemtndery 6.58 



Reports Encouraging 559 



Sections, Close-topped 565 



Strawberries, 4000 Quarts. . .675 

 Swarm through a Swarm.'. .676 



Telegraphers 675 



Virgil 554 



Wax-plant 569 



White Pollen 569 



And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord.— Ps. 89:5. 



Wm. Fuller, whose name you find in another 

 place, has sent us a very nice paper-holder, made of 

 oiled walnut. 



The Nickel-Plate Railroad will issue round - trip 

 ticKets from Cleveland to Toronto, for $5.50; tickets 

 good for eight days, commencing Sept. 17. 



In consequence of more changes of clerks, several 

 advertisements were last month carelessly omitted. 

 Among them was friend Alley's, which see in this 

 number. 



Our label printer has just contrived an order-sheet 

 for honey labels which he thinks will enable you to 

 order labels with much less chance of making mis- 

 takes. It will be sent free with our label specimen- 

 book on application^ 



If, instead of having the orders crowded in on us 

 next spring, you will send them in now, we will, un- 

 til further notice, make a discount of 5 per cent on 

 all goods purchased now to be used next season^ 

 proindimj you make reference to this editorial ivhen 

 you make the order. 



SLICED SECTIONS VS. SAWED ONES. 



We saw some beautiful sections made by slicing 

 up the wood from steamed pieces of plank, instead 

 of sawing. The sections seemed every bit as nice 

 as those sawed from plank, and quite a large part 

 of the basswood may be saved by this method, as no 

 sawdust comes out. There will be one great difli- 

 culty, however; the pieces must be dried after be- 



ing steamed, or we shall have mildewed sections 

 again; and the steaming and drying, I fear, would 

 occupy more time than the lumber saved by sawing 

 is worth. If we had a slicing-machine that would 

 slice dry lumbei", it might be a great saving. 



To-DAY is the 14th day of September, and I have 

 just returned from a flying trip to the Tri-State Fair 

 and the Toledo Convention. Although I stayed but 

 a few hours, I had the pleasure of meeting friends 

 Newman, Muth, E. E. Ha&ty, J. B. Mason, and a host 

 of others, iiicJitdiJigf Mr. Forncroo/f. The display of 

 honey was most excellent, as was also the collection 

 of implements for the apiary. I saw our good friend 

 Vaudervort turning his foundation mill, while Mr. 

 Pelham was taking out the beautiful sheets. They 

 were working together as pleasantly as a couple of 

 brothers. I tell you, friends, it does our hearts good 

 to see the kind feeling that exists among bee-men 

 at our conventions, and that, too, when they are in 

 the same line of business, and, in one sense, rivals 

 for public favor. I wish the tradesmen of the world 

 in general could take an example from them. 



On page 563 there is a suggestion that the bees 

 that Samson found in the carcass of the lion might 

 have been the work of spontaneous generation from 

 the decaying flesh. I believe it is generally supposed 

 the bees found a lodging-place in a partially decayed 

 spot in the lion's body, which had dried up by the 

 arid wind of that country until it was something like 

 dried sole leather, and, in fact, was not a very bad 

 place for a swarm to cluster beneath the ribs. May 

 be they imagined the ribs were top-bars to movable- 

 frame hives. In regard to Virgil's soaring imsgina- 

 tiou, I would suggest that he must have seen a 

 swarm of bees passing over the carcass of some ani- 

 mal while it was infested with swarms of great blow 

 flies, and that he somehow got the flies and bees con- 

 fused together in his mind, and imagined they were 

 generated from such a source. If friend Hasty does 

 not like my explanation, will he please give a better 

 one? 



OUR NEW COUNTER STORE. 



Eliza is already installed in her new room, and the 

 goods are scattered over the counters. The shelves 

 are being loaded up day by day, and we are begin- 

 ning to solve the problem as to whether the new 

 store will hold the goods. One great tiouble in fill- 

 ing orders during the past mon ths was that few if any 

 clerks in the establishment knew exactly where to 

 find the right article. Now each article is to have a 

 place of its own, and the place is to be large enough 

 to hold a whole lot, even though it be a wagon-load. 

 The name of the article, as well as when it was 

 bought, and of whom, is to be written over it as a 

 guide to the one who makes the orders, to know how 

 much we shall probably need in a season. A few 

 days ago a clerk wanted some two-quart pails. He 

 first went into the counter store, and then upstairs, 

 then down to the warehouse, then into the " dark- 

 room," and lastly found them stacked up in the tin- 

 shop. As we frequently buy a thousand of these 

 pails at once, we had been obliged to put them in all 

 of these places to find room for them. Now, then, 

 friends, we have the room; and the building, so far 

 as it has gone. Is all paid for. I thank you tor your 

 past patronage, and I thank God forgiving me health 

 and strength to manage this great sea of business. 



Many of the mistakes and misunderstandings we 

 have had during the past season have been caused 

 by changing clerks. Some have been absent, on ac- 

 count of sickness; others on account of business 

 changes and various other reasons; and the best we 

 could do was to install others in their places as soon 

 as we could. In fact, I began to think that there was 

 no safe way, except to have two clerks for almost 

 every department, so that one might take the work 



