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JDTEiJlLE GLEANINGS. 



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nVCXSXDIIO'.^k., 3DX20. 15,1883. 



My meat is to do the will of him that sent me.— Johm 4: 31. 



AN ERROR. 



Page 620 of this vol. was accidentally printed 530; 

 hence 100 should be added till you get to 584, at 

 which place the proper paging begins. 



"We will pay 10 cents each for Gleanings for 

 March, 1881. If we can not find them at that price, 

 we will give 15 cents each. If that does not do, I 

 suppose we shall have to offer more than that. We 

 will also pay the same for May, 1875. 



In the Blasted Hopes department, friend Gibbs 

 tells us about increasing from 80 to 116 good swarms 

 in the cellar— or, at least, it looks that way, and he 

 says anybody can do it. Very likely they could, if 

 they had money to buy some of their neighbors. 

 But if that is not what he means, we hope he will 

 stand up and explain, and not keep us juveniles in 

 suspense in the matter. 



In my comments on page 745, in last number, in 

 regard to "Olefogy" owning up, I unconsciously fell 

 into an error. "Olefogy's" hobby was, that a natural 

 swarm seldom or never comes off without cluster- 

 ing, and the part relating to restraining them with a 

 comb of unsealed brood was my own hobby. Of 

 course, I have had to own up long ago that unseal- 

 ed brood docs not always answer, Avhile "Olefogy" 

 owns up that natural swarms do sometimes go off 

 without clustering. 



There have been so many calls for a larger engine 

 than the 4-horse power we have been selling, men- 

 tioned in our price list, we have selected a 6-horse 

 power engine and boiler which we can furnish at 

 $425 net. The boiler is wrought iron, tubular, and is 

 a splendid machine for the money. This engine will 

 run a pretty good-sized factory for making bee- 

 hives, and will, if necessary, run all the machines to- 

 gether, including a planer large enough to plane 

 Simplicity-hive co vers. 



I shall have to remind some of the friends, since 

 we are having so many diEcounts, that 5 per cent off 

 and 3 per cent off does not make 8 per cent. I know 

 very well that 3 and 5 make 8, but that is another 

 thing. You see, friends, if you take 20 per cent off 

 from one dollar, we shall have 80 cents left; and if 

 we take out an additional 10 per cent from the 80 

 cents, it leaves 72 cents as the result of taking 20 

 and 10 off;. .but the straight 30 would leave only 70 

 cents. Sometimes onlarge orders this makes a very 

 important item. Considerable wrangles have resulted 

 from not keeping this fact in mind. 



this season of the year. It is true, it might have 

 been avoided by putting more force on to the work ; 

 but as we think we have given you pretty nearly 

 a dollar's worth without this number, we consider 

 ourselves in one sense as a sort of privileged char-s 

 acter, and that if we do run behind a little on these 

 extra issues, none of you will bo likely to complain 

 very much. 



BEES ON shares. 



Many are inquiring the proper way to let bees out 

 on shares, so as to have both parties satisfied. 

 I do not know any such way, friends, for the most 1 

 have known in regard to letting bees out on shares 

 resulted in both parties being dissatisfied. I have 

 told you what I could about it in the ABC book, 

 but it all depends on what the agreement is; and 

 perhaps you had better have it down in writing. 

 One case I have recently heard of, the agreement 

 was to divide the profits. Well, it so happened that 

 there was no profit, but there was a pretty big loss; 

 and as no provision had been made for this state of. 

 affairs, each one felt disposed to put the loss on to 

 the shoulders of the o'.her. I decided it would be 

 about fair to divide the loss; but very likely circum- 

 stances might make this not the right way after all. 



OtJRlfriendsIhave no doubt discovered before this 

 time that this issue of the Juvenile is rather late 

 in making its appearance. The reason for it is, the 

 labor on small type required by the contents, and 

 also the amount of job work usually received about 



KIND WORDS. 



After reading the proof-sheet of the " Kind 

 Words" page, and finding so many enthusiastic let- 

 ters of thanks, all grouped together, I confess to a 

 feeling that I do not half deserve it. Another thing: 

 I am afraid that it gives an impression that our cus- 

 tomers are all pleased with their purchases, which is 

 by no means true, although as a general thing I try 

 to have them pleased eventually. To tell the truth, 

 that page makes me feel guilty. It may do some 

 good, though, in this way: When any of ycu find I 

 am not up to the "picture," you will just speak right 

 out and say, " Look here. Brother Hoot, remember 

 that page of kind words." And, may be, it will 

 have the effect of stirring me up to a sense of my 

 duty; for it is a fact, de?.r friends, that I do need 

 pricking up and helping up, over and over again; 

 and it is with sadness and sorrow that I say it. I 

 hardly know why 1 have found so many such very 

 earnest friends, for I am sure that I have done noth- 

 ing to deserve thena^ 



nomenclature in bee culture. 

 Tde a. B. J. for Nov. has an excellent article on 

 calling things by their right names, and gives a list 

 of the terms ordinarily used in bee culture. I would 

 suggest one change, however, and that is, on a frame 

 for holding sections they call it "broad frame" 

 which was the name I originally gave when we first 

 commenced making them; but finding it so often 

 confounded with "brood frame," we changed it to 

 " wide frame," and now invariably say " wide 

 frame " in our price list. You will notice that a 

 single letter would have to be depended on to dis- 

 tinguish between "broad frame" and "brood 

 frame;" and an a is so often made like an o, there is 

 much danger of confusion. For instance, a cus- 

 tomer orders "ICO broad frames," and his a might 

 be either a or o. After studying over it, we do the 

 best we can, and Eend them along; and it soon 

 transpires that he is in a great strait for lack of 

 something that he has not got, and has a lot of 

 frames he did not want. Now, you seo if we 

 name them "brood frames" and "wide frames," 

 both short names, too, there is not much danger of 

 confusion. 



