GLEANINGS IN 13EE CULTUKE. 



Feb. 



Every priil or liov, under 12 years of ng:e, who writes a letter 

 for this dcpartmeiit will receive one of David Cook's excellent 

 5-cent Sunday-?chool books. Manv of these hooks contain the 

 same matter'that you find in Sunday-school hooks costing from 

 Sl.M to $1.50. 



miifY little friends, some of the older ones 

 MjK have been saying hard things about 

 **' — ' us. They say we take up too much 

 room, and tell the same thing over again. / 

 think they had "better look to home" on 

 that last matter a little ; and about the oth- 

 er, I fear we are a little at fault. Now I 

 wall tell you: Yon write short letters, and 

 try to have them different from any of the 

 other little letters; and Avhen they are too 

 long, or tell something somebody else has 

 already told, I will cross out some. In fact, 

 I do not know but I shall have to do this 

 with a good many of the older ones too, or 

 we shall never have room to hear from you 

 all. How do you like this, for instance? — 



I shall write you a short letter, as other little girls 

 have done. I am 10. Pa has six stands of: bees, his 

 own; some others on shares. He bought 3 Italian 

 queens from you in the summer, and introduced 

 them, and they did well. Blanciie Gilmor. 



Jackson, Jackson Co., O., Jan., 1883. 



I am a boy 11 years old. I have two miles to go to 

 school, and a dreadful muddy road. I do not get to 

 go to Sabbath-school very often, because it is so far. 

 Pa has fixed his bees for wintering, by leaving the 

 upper story on and filling it with forest leaves. 

 This is the third year pa has taken Gleaninos. 



DlLLWORTH COUDON. 



Clinton, Henry Co., Mo., Dec. 29, 1881. 



Papa has been keeping bees for 27 years, and had 

 very good luck until last winter, when he saved onl/ 

 13 out of 1.30. Papa wrote you a Jetter last month. 

 I like the counter store and Our Homes very much. 

 Papa has the picture of Blue Eyes. Mamma sa3-s 

 she likes Gleanings as well as Ariliuv's Magazine. 



Hugh White, Jr. 



Broad Run Station, Va., Dee. 27, 1881. 



I am a little girl too. I am 13 years old, but I am 

 not very large. My pa has bees too; he had 4 stands 

 last spring, but he has 13 now. He got 31 gallons of 

 honey last year. 1 help pa look at them sometimes. 

 I hardly ever get stung unless they get in my hair. 

 I like to hold the smoker, so I can smoke them away 

 when they got m^td. They call me Babe, but my 

 name is Nancy Emily. Nancy E. Chapman. 



Smoky Valley, Carter Co., Ky., Jan. 9, 1883. 



My pa keeps bees too. We lost 5 out of 50 last 

 winter. We got 1000 lbs. extracted, and 1300 lbs. of 

 comb houey. We sold the extracted at 10 to 15 cts.; 

 comb, 15 to 23 cts. per lb. We now have the Italian, 

 Cyprian, and Holy-Land bees; 78 good stocks. We 

 sold 20 stocks. We take Gleanings, and I read 

 some of it; and when I can read better, then I want 

 to read all of it. I go to school. We have a mile to 

 go. This is the second winter that I have been to 

 school. I am crippled in my legs, and can not walk 

 very well . I am 10 years old, 



Joseph Yoder, 



Middiobury, Elkhart Co., Tnd., Dec. 24, 1881. 



I am a girl 13 years old. I have one hive of bees; 

 they are Italians. They made about 36 lbs. of honey 

 this year. My father has 13 hives of bees. He has 

 taken Gleanings three years, and can't do without 

 it. I want to get one of your 75-cent telephones. I 

 want it to reach three-quarters of a mile. Please 

 let me know if 75 cents and postage will be enough 

 for a telephone that length. Mary J. Hanson. 



Lockridge, Iowa., Jan. 13, 1883. 



No: it would cost 50 c. for the telephone, 

 and about $4.00 for the wire, Mary. 



Pa has 3 hives of bees this winter. He had only 

 two io the spring, and one hive of bees died. I like 

 the bees' honey very well, but I do not like the bees, 

 for they sting me. Pa has the bees put on the south 

 side of the house, and has them packed around with 

 chatf, leaving only enough room to give them air. I 

 have only two brothers and two sisters going to 

 school now, and I have to stay homo to help pa 

 work. lam 11 years tlJ. 



George E. Husband. 



Zimmerman, Oat., Can., Jan. .3, 1883. 



My pa has kept boos for about 13 years, and he gave 

 me a colony of Italian bees, and I sold honey amount- 

 ing to about $14.00 the first jear. The colony 

 swarmed twice, but both swarms died the following 

 winter; but since then I have had bad luck. The 

 old colony died also, the next year. My pa gave me 

 another colony that died too; then he gave me an- 

 other that is living. I am 11 years old. 



Freddie Green. 



Independence, O , Jan. 3, 1GS3. 



I think your pa must be pretty clever, 

 Freddie. 



I am a little boy 10 years old. I go to school at 

 Guilderland Center. I read in the Fourth Reader, 

 I have a little brother 3 years old. I live with my 

 uncle. He keeps bees. He had 25 last spring, and 

 now he has got 48, and he took 1600 lbs. comb honey 

 in sections. He winters his bees in the cellar. He 

 takes Gleanings, and has got one of your A B C 

 books. I like to look at the picture of your build- 

 ing. 1 would like to be there. When I get older I 

 am going to be a bee-keeper too. 



Newton J. Ferguson. 



Guilderland Center, Albany Co., N. Y., Dec, 1881. 



I have been reading " Mr. Merrybanks and His 

 Neighbor," and am very well pleased with it. I 

 think John was a smart boy. I would like to go to 

 his " hotel." Pa's bees all died last winter; then he 

 got some more, but he did not get them until after 

 the honey and swarming time. He got little square 

 pans, made out of tin, and put them in the tops of 

 the hives, and filled them with syrup and sugar, and 

 the bees carried it down and put it into the combs. 

 This fall ho made one end of the old bee-house into 

 a new house; it has an 8-inch wall; it has two walls 

 filled with sawdust. He thinks the bees are doing 

 very well now. I would like to see Blue Eyes. 



Florence J. Marlin. 



Bloomington, Monroe Co., Ind., Jan. 13, 1883. 



My father takes Gleanings, and likes it very 

 much. lam 11 j'ears old, and last summer 1 hived 3 

 swarms of bees. One of them father hived three 

 times, and they did not stay. But one Saturday aft- 

 ernoon, while he was at the city, they came out 

 again, and I hived them, and that time they stayed. 

 The best part of Gleanings, I think, is the Juvenile 



