1877 



CfLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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on, for just as surely as they were shown two 

 •different pieees at once, Just so sure were they 

 to get something mixed. It is quite probable 

 these frequent misanderstandings were not all 

 the fault of one party, but both ; for a really 

 valuable business person will give * very care- 

 less person a message so plain and brief, that 

 lie can hardly make a mistake. Many people 

 9n giving their orders say too much, and 

 clothe their directions in such a mass of un- 

 important matter, that they are almost sure of 

 l>eing misunderstood. 



If you have directions that you wish to give 

 a child, or any one who will be pretty sure to 

 he careless or forgetful, first decide in your 

 own mind the very simplest way in which you 

 ■can p«t it, and then make them repeat it over 

 after yon to be sure you are not misunder- 

 stood. If they then make a mistake, blame 

 yourself, and not the child. 



It may be a heroic thing to stand before a 

 cannon's mouth in battle, but my friends there 

 is a great demand for the kind of heroism that 

 is required to enable you to bear the blame 

 yourself, of many of these little vexations of 

 every day life. When something is amiss, and 

 everybody is ready to exclaim *'It was not I," 

 give me the one who is manly enough to take 

 all his share and a little more, without a word 

 of attempt to put it on some other person's 

 shoulders. Take opon yourself more hard la- 

 bor, and give freely of your hard earnings if 

 need be, but do not show yourself cowardly, 

 or selfish, where some one must suffer. 



Now a word to employers ; it struck me the 

 other day that the familiar lines we have many 

 of us learned in our childhood, showed just 

 about the spirit that an employer needed. 



"Let love through all your actions rup. 

 And all your words be mild." 



How far, O how very far, does my own life 

 fall short of this. And yet I know perfectly 

 well, that love and mildness would be the j 

 most powerful arguments that could possibly , 

 be used, for carrying on a manufacturing es- ■ 

 tablishment profitably. Why is it, that we j 

 can not follow in that straight and narrow 

 path, when we know it is so much safer, bet- 1 

 ter in every way, and even more profitable. i 



An employer can be firm and decided, can i 

 insist on a faithful performance of the work as 

 he directs, can reprove heedlessness, dishon- 

 esty, untruthfulness, outbreaks of temper, &c., 

 and all with mildness, nay, even with a kindly 

 look, but it is one of the hardest tasks to do, 

 of any thing I ever tried in all my life. Noth- 

 ing but earnest fervent prayer for strength, 

 patience and courage, has enabled me to do 

 this work as I feel it should be done, and as a 

 reward for even my humble efforts, I have 

 about me earnest and faithful friends, instead 

 of those who otherwise might have been ene- 

 mies, or something akin to it. Nay, farther, 

 not a single hand has been discharged, since 

 the new light began to dawn on my own life, 

 and may God grant that no such unpleasant 

 occurrence may ever take place in our peace- 

 ful workshop. 



Conliniied next month. 



ITIAKING SECTION BOXES. 



SAM much pleased with your section boxes, I am 

 the better prepared to appreciate the fine work- 

 — , matiship displayed, alter my own efforts at making 

 them. I am bothered somewhat by cuttInK grooves of 

 unequal depths across the ends. 1 think I fhall have 

 to clamp the bimdles more firmly than wltli paper 

 bands alone. 



There is another question or problem that I would 

 like to have solved, viz., do bees work well in vour 

 upper tier of sections when you use the tin separators / 

 I had fears that two tiers of sections as you use them, 

 with separators, would not be a success. I have been 

 fitting up a few hives wUIi one tier of sections. 



Our honey harvest Is yet to come in this locality. 

 I smart weed and Spanish needle being our main de- 

 nendance. I have about 100 colonies of Italians an<l 

 hybrids In L. lilves. Have been using 4 lb. boxes 

 mostly. If you find the sections as you use them O K. 

 I shall probably "go for" the Simplicities. I make 

 my own hives. Run saws by horse power. I will sav 

 in this connection that I find a « Inch emery wheel 13( 

 inches thick used on the mandrel a very useful tool 

 for gumming saws when the teeth are % inches or 

 more between points. T. I'. Andrews. 



Farina, Ills., July Sth, 1877. 



We formerly used clamps made of wood to 

 hold the pieces of the section boxes while they 

 were being grooved, besides the paper bands 

 that keep them in bundles, but we have recent- 

 ly had some made of iron by our blacksmith. 

 We gi%-e a cut of them for they are very con- 

 venient for a great variety of purposes, with 

 circular saws. 



Now I know you will many of you be disapiiolnted 

 in not finding your communications in this Xo.; in 

 fact I am disappointed mvself, to find Gleanings 

 will hold no more, for I have many items that 

 I had decided must go in. 



We use the bands of paper also, that our 

 work may be nicely bundled ready to ship or 

 lay away. It requires practice to do nice 

 work, and if the stuff is to be very exact, it 

 can be planed after it is sawed out ; as a little 

 difference in the thickness of the stuff makes 

 no difference at all in the size of the finished 

 boxes, we think it will be unnecessary to go 

 to this expense, especially as one who is ex- 

 pert with saws, will do sawing that differs 

 very little indeed, in appearance, from work 

 finished with a planer. We prefer a saw with 

 a wide set, to the grooving tool furnished with 

 the Barnes' saws. One groove at a time is all 

 that can be done profitably with a foot power. 

 To cut the whole 5) at once rapidly, needs 

 about a ten horse power engine. 



To be sure the bees work in the upper tier 

 of sections. We were well satisfied on that 

 point, before making such hives largely. The 

 tier next the brood frames, is perhaps as a gen- 

 eral thing filled a little first, but by no 

 means invariably ; after these are removed, 

 the upper ones are sealed while they are filling 

 the lower ones again, thus keeping them con- 

 tinuously at work. 



You are not the only one who is going for 

 the Simplicities since it has been demonstrated 

 that they give just as much honey — if we ex- 

 cept the chaff hive — as any other, and are far 

 cheaper and easier to handle than the most ex- 

 pensive and complicated ones. 



We have used an emery wheel, but as ours 

 are all very fine toothed, we find files the most 

 convenient. The half round files we advertise, 

 are the best we have found. 



In regard to the 4 lb. boxes ; we have some 



