1877 



GLEANIJ^GS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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hard to make them pay for all such, it is really 

 a kind thinj; to do, for it very soon makes 

 tliem careful in a way that nothinfj else would. 

 Now, if I have omitted to do this jnst because 

 I was weak, smd hated to give pain, and then 

 got cross and scolded when I found everybody 

 was careless and heedless, I was simply suffer- 

 ing the consequences of my own slack and 

 cowardly way of doing things. 



One can be pleasant by being loose and easy 

 about every thing, shifting all responsibility 

 to other people's shoulders, and not troubling 

 themselves about any thins. But are such 

 really ple:\sant people after all? I have seen 

 some who would reply with childish indiflfer- 

 euce and unconcern, when asked for money 

 they had faithfully promised by a certain time. 

 If you are going to try to do as you would be 

 done by, a heavy responsibility rests upon you, 

 that you cannot shake ofl"; and if you are do- 

 ing a business that requires the aid of many 

 Lands, a serious and sokmn responsibility rests 

 upon you, if you have a desire to do justice 

 to all. You are going to make your customers 

 "good" every time, if you succeed in business, 

 and unless your hands make you good in the 

 same way, you will fail pecuniarily. You are 

 obliged to insist on this; it may give pain, and 

 you may feel that you would rather lose the 

 money yourself, but it will be far kinder to 

 give the pain, and have it done with, than to 

 <lrop it because you are cowardly, and then 

 "growl" because everybody is robbing you. 



Suppose you hang a basket out in the street, 

 containing 50 nice apples. Attach a card, ask- 

 ing every body who takes one, to leave a penny 

 iu its place. When the apples are gone, you 

 *' ought to have" 50 pennies in their stead. If 

 you do not ti;:d the exact amount, abuse every 

 body you meet. That is just about the way 

 1 do when I scold. 



God has given us all a basket of apples to 

 take care of. Hf has promised if we are faith- 

 ful w ilh a few, lie will give us more ; and I tell 

 you my friends never was a premise given, 

 that was more faithfully fulfilled. We are not 

 to go ofl" and let. everybcdy make free with our 

 apples as they choose, ror are v,e to go for 

 everybody with a "pitchfork" who, human 

 like, forgets to leave the penny ; but we are to 

 be faithful. We are to recognize that it is hu- 

 man '.o Ijc selfish — especially when we are tired 

 and thirsty — and that we therefore should 

 <lea! gently with the erring. While we must 

 be firm with those who want to get away with- 

 out paying the penny, it is just as much a duty 

 to be kind. May God give us all, that golden 

 mean. May He show us how to be wise as 

 serpents, yet harmless as doves. 



This is the last number of the year dear 

 friends, and I can but feel that I have taken 

 care of my basket of apples but poorly. You 

 have handed in your pennies very liberally, 

 but many times the apples were not as fair as 

 they might have been; I fear I have underta- 

 ken the care of almost too many, a part of the 

 time. I do desire to please you, and to have 

 them all fair and free from dust and specks, 

 but " O dear me!" what a task it is to have 

 every thing just as you feel it or.ght to be. A 

 part of this very Journal, the last of the year, 

 is very badly printed. We tried every way we 

 could, but it was a damp rainy time, and we 



could not make " it" print any l)ett(r. If it is 

 God's will, I will try to be satisfied with a 

 smaller l)asket. Before we can be made " ruler 

 over many " we must learn to be " faithful over 

 a few." May that kind Father forgive t/« all, as 

 ine hope to be forgiven. 



ONONDAGA COUNTY HONEY. 



^E clip the following from the Syracuse 



Journal : 



At thfi rerent Nationpl Bee-kfepers' Association 

 Convention held In New Yorlc city, MtssrH. Tliurber 

 & Co. ofl'ertii a gold medal vatiitd at ^50 lor ilic I'fst 

 honey, in the mos^t niarketabie thape. As tbl3 ofl'er 

 was the lirst ol the kir.il ever made ly 8»ich ar. afsoci- 

 ation, the ilisplavs of Loriey vicro spli^ndid. Tliomas 

 G. NewnKin. editor ol the American Bee Journal, A. 

 J. King, editrir ol the BeeKeej^ers'' Magazine, frj<i Mr. 

 Fieicher, of Now York city, were ai jxintcd judges. 

 Alter ;'. carcliil examination of the numerous san^iiles 

 exhibited, tlie medal was awarded to Mr. G. M. Doo- 

 little, ot'Boicflino, in this C' unty. thus paying that 

 Onondaga county iiroduccs the finest honey ot any 

 countv in the United Slates. 



Speaking of Mr. Doolittlu's honey, the Kew York 

 Times sayi- :— "Mr. Doolittle's honey is m^de irom 

 teasel blotsoms ard brings four cents more per pound 

 than any ether honey in the r^arket." 



Mr. Duolittle took to New Yoik city nearly twenty 

 thousand pounds of hontv this season, which lie sold 

 at 20 cts. per i^ound to H. K. & F. B. Thurber & Co., of 

 that place. The above twenty thousand pounds was 

 pronounced the best lot of'honty that was ever 

 brought, into New York city. 



The meilal awarded to Mr. Doolittle is valuable and 

 elegant and well-deserved. 



ABOUT HIVES. 



E fee that some of your correspondents seem 

 think that large yields of hcney are owing 



rely to the style of hive used. Tliisisnot 



the case ; and in order that the readers of Gleanings 

 should not get the idea that the hivrs u.'ed 1 y us 

 would give (hem tiiousands of lbs. of hcney, without 

 work, we bave prill, in concluf ion of our itpoit. that 

 if any ore could not spend ihe time on bees which 

 thev lequireil. they had bitter keep <int of the busi- 

 Dcs-s. We l.nov.- of no hive with \- hich a man can se- 

 cure larec results, by timply loldirg hi? hands and 

 letting ;lie bccG work. We work licm eaily dawn till 

 latent night, averaging rbeut 15 bonis v(,rk each 

 dav, Sunc;a\s excepted, arcl our crly ! usinef s is keep- 

 ing bees. Wc with it undcrFtecd thft large yields of 

 honey can only be secuicd where there are large num- 

 bers of Ijces in a hive; Mid teeuiirg said bees in lime 

 for the hotiey harvest, is all the sco et ot our success. 

 That more bees can be oblair.td by the use of the Gal- 

 lup frame than any other, is cnly ene of cur preler- 

 ences; and we must be excused lor prelenirg said 

 frame in tins iccality. We hfve done nearly as well 

 with the L. frame, and r.s we have said before, in 

 Gleam? GS, if we hed 20 swarms of bees in any kind 

 of simple movable frame hive, v,e weu'd not change 

 to trv anv other. The reason of cur writing as we 

 have' about the hive we use. was that Novice has 

 claimed a superiority for the L. Iramc, over any oth- 

 er, and this we are unwlllirg to admit. Neither have 

 we written as wc have, hopinf, to sell hives, for we 

 can make no such wrge.s raarnficlujing hive s, as we 

 can at work amcrg cur bees. We only advertised our 

 hives in Gleamngs to stop the voluminous corres- 

 pondence brought to bef r on us aboxit hives. That 

 we have any better Iccalitv Irr bees than the majority 

 of apiarists, we think a mistake; fcr there are many 

 places, even in this county, which we jjreler to our 

 own, and cnly consented to settle down where we are, 

 on account of our aged father art! mother. Thus the 

 readeis of Gleaivings will sec that it is not the hive 

 we use, nor Ihe Iccality, that prodttces these large 

 yields ot honey, Vut a thorough knowledge of the In- 

 side of a bee hive at all times, and En untiring energy 

 in the prosecution of cur business. In short, as we 

 have said" before, in Gleanings, "Do things at the 

 right time, and in the right place, and leave no stone 

 unturned that will prc(htce a single ounce more of 

 honey." G. M. Dooliitle. 



Borodinc, N. Y., Kcv. 13th, 1877. 



