GLEAXIXGS m BEE CULTURE. 



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true, but I do not feel hard toward them on 

 that account ; I try to think they are th-ed 

 and hiirried, and do not know that bees and 

 combs are fragile. We now fix them so they 

 cannot well be turned over, and label them 

 in large iilaih letters. All the employes 

 that I get acquainted with, very soon show 

 an interest in our business, and seem really 

 anxious to assist me. in every way tliey can. 

 Is it not because I show an interest in their 

 welfare ? As ye would that men should do 

 unto you, do ye even so unto them. 



Did you ever realize how very hard it is to 

 keep free from these selfish and sinful im- 

 pulses y If one has but little to do with 

 trade and traffic and many people, it seems 

 to me it wt)uld be easier ; but where respon- 

 sibilities are many and varied, and where 

 one has all sorts of people to try to harmon- 

 ize and all sorts of things to adjust, where 

 money must be received and ])aid out. un- 

 ceasingly, I see much in my own heart that 

 reminds me of the penny transaction of my 

 childhood. It is true I do not tell point 

 blank deliberate falsehoods as I did then, 

 but strive as I may, I cannot look back on a 

 single day, and feel that I have, in every re- 

 spect, had that clean heart that I get bright 

 visions of, now and then. I am not des- 

 pondent, nor discouraged, for often amid 

 my busy cares when I have forgotten my 

 own in trying to help some one else, or when 

 I have in my feeble way tinned the other 

 cheek also. 1 can almost hear in plain words, 

 •'Well done, thou good and mitliful ser- 

 vant.'" and as I lie down at night, how fer- 

 vently can I thank God that even though I 

 have done but poorly, there has been no set- 

 tled purpose of evil as in the old life, but 

 that I have earnestly tried all day to do right. 

 There is now none of that heavy load of 

 guilt there was then, and I am not afraid as 

 I was then, because of the awful inconsis- 

 tency, to say with bowed head, •'Create in 

 me a clean heart, O God ; and renew a right 

 spirit within me."" 



GlEAf^lIHGS m"BH£TuiTitai! 



.A.. I. K,OOT, 

 EDITOR. AND PUBLISHER. 



MEDI2n"A, OHIO. 



If you should happen to have a friend vrho would 

 like any particular No. of Gleanings, send us his 

 name, and it will be mailed him without charge. Or 

 should you g-i^e away any of your numbers to those 

 who you think might subscribe, drop us a postal, 

 and we will send you a new one in place of it. 



TERITIS: ?1. 00 PER YEAR, POST-PAIl*. 



Our neighbor Shaw, bought several barrels of 

 grape sug'ar, but the weather became cold before he 

 could get them fed. He tried lumps over the cluster, 

 as we feed candy, but they preferred their honey; 

 so he took all the honey away from a few colonies, 

 and gave them dry combs, with lumps of grape 

 sugar on top. They went up among the lumps, clus- 

 tered on them, and did not die at all. Hear what he 

 just writes: 



"Bees wintering rntircly on lumps of grape sugar 

 are all right yet. and ha^■e been flying nicely for a 

 few davs." F R. Shaw, 



Chatham Center, Medina Co., 0„ .Jan. 21th, 1878. 



Now it will not ci: st as much as 50c. to winter 

 these bees, and peihaps not overdo; but wait and see. 



Soins complaint has been made about our price, of 

 2Cc. per line for advertising. If ICc. was all right 

 when we had only about 1000 subscribers, ought we 

 not to have more when we have double the No.? I 

 fear you forget my friends, that it has cost me hun- 

 dreds of dollars to give Gleanings its present circu- 

 lation. Again; if I advertised patent hives, patent 

 medicines, electric belts and "such like,'" I presume 

 I could tike ads. at a much less rate; but if I make 

 myself personally resprnsible for my advertiseis, 

 examine and test their goods before their ads. are 

 taken, I cannot do it at a less price than present 

 rates. If it will nr t f.ay to advertise at these prices, 

 then do not. by any means, advertise, and we shall 

 have all the more room for "bee-letters." 



FiiiEND DooLiTTLE says in the Magazine, that if 

 frames of sectic^n boxes are put in the lower story 

 with nothing but the tin sepaiators next the brood, 

 the bees will store pollen in the boxes. With his 

 deep frame and large sized sections, Acrj- likely such 

 will be the case, unless he uses his wood division 

 boards, but with our small sections, and the shallow 

 L. frames, we ha\ e never setu one cell of pollen; 

 neither have we had a report of pny, so far as I can 

 rt member, vfhcn used with the separatoi-s. The 

 matter is veiy ensilj' tested by hanging a frame in 

 your hive, and if y( u should, in your locality, find 

 any pollen in the sections, you can easily put in a 

 thill wooden division board. Mr. D. admits that the 

 bees go into the sections much quicker without the 

 division board, if I have correctly understood him. 



3S^EIDI3Sr-A., FEB. 1, ISTS. 



And if ye do good to them which do good to you, 

 what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the 

 same. Luke. 6 ; 33. 



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Gr.vpe sugar. We can now furnish it here, at S'-Ac. 

 by the barrel, 4c. in boxes of 50 lbs, or 5c. for a sin- 

 gle lb. _ 



We can use postage stamps of any denomination. 

 but just now it would be a favor if our friends would 

 send us some 1 cent stamps, where they can just as 

 conveniently. Wo use many thousands, in sending 

 away sample copies. 



SojrEBODT scolds because he did not get his Dec. 

 No., and tells us to keep our books straighter; an- 

 other says we did not put as many pages in his Jour- 

 nal as in his neighbor's, and asks why such partiality. 

 Gently, good friends; sometimes the papers we mail 

 with all faithfulness, fail to get into the hands of the 

 owner, by no fault of our own, and if we left out 

 any pages, no one could be more sorry than myself, 

 for it is one of my keenest pleasures, to hand over 

 to you all, the "very best Journal I can make. No 

 matter whose fault it is, we are always ready to send 

 another just the minute we are informed of the lack. 

 In a large number of the complaints, we have found 

 that some one of the same name, has taken them out 

 of the oiBce. Do not hesitate to speak out, but re- 

 member the blame may not be ours, and speak kind- 

 ly. 1 will "scold" the folders and binders about 

 leaving anything out, just as hard as I can, and do it 

 pleasantly. 



Fret Sawing for Pleasure and Profit, is the title 

 of a very pretty little book that tells all about the 

 work, even to the making of a machine itself. Bv 

 Henry T. Williams, of N. Y. We have added it to 

 our book list. Price 50 cents. 



I wrote to N. C. Mitchell of Indianapolis. Ind. and 

 all the satisfaction I received was the answer that 

 the adjustable bee-hive was all I wanted for the 

 wintering of bees. Accordingly I purchased one of 

 his farm rights for five dollars, made six of them 

 last spring, put in six got d swarms, and followed his 

 directions strictly, to see if there was any good in the 

 hives; but they proved to be the t-'iviitost humbug I 

 ever met with, though, tit the same lime it may be a 

 good hi^■e to winter in. G. G. Morgan. 



White Mound, Wis., Jan. 10th, 1878. 



