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GLEAKINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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I am a girl of 11. I don't like honey. My papa 

 teaches school in the winter, and farms and tends 

 his bees la the summer. I help him tend his bees. 

 He has 8 colonies. I don't like them very well, for 

 they stiuff. Maky E. Sutton'. 



Adamsville, O., Feb. 8, 1883. 



I am a little girl 11 years old. Papa keeps bees, 

 but my brother Russell takes care of them. He has 

 Ifi hives. Russeli made a honey-extractor. I signed 

 the temperance pledge. Papa don't use tobacco at 

 all, nor do any of my brothers. 



Jennie L. Fletcher. 



Deposit, N. Y., Feb. C, 1883. 



I am a little girl of 10. 1 thought I would write 

 too. My pa takes Gleanings, and thinks he could 

 not do without it. He has nine hives, and we have 

 plenty of good nice honey all the time. I would like 

 very much to see Blue Eyes, as I have two little 

 sisters with blue eyes. Delia Larkin. 



Hunt's Sta., Franklin Co., Tenn., Jan. 38, 1882. 



Papa keeps bees. He has 17 hives. I have one 

 little sister. We call her Mary. We call our farm 

 Willow Bloom. The bees sting me very badly, be- 

 cause I have black hair. We had a black rooster. 

 He had to stay upon the hillside because the bees 

 stung him. Jesse E. E.ari^le. 



Greenca?tlo, Tnd., Feb. 13, 1883. 



I am a little girl 10 years old. My pa has 13 swarms 

 of bees, and he takes Gleanings. I read the Juve- 

 nile Department and Merrybanks. I do not like 

 bees, for they sting; but I like the honey they 

 make. I should like to see Blue Eyes. 



VlNNIE HARTMAN. 



Clarksburg, Ont., Can., Feb. 9, 1883. 



I am a little girl 9 years old. Hive with my uncle 

 and aunt. I have two cousins, named Charley and 

 Douglas, but both are in California. I like to watch 

 our bees when they are at work. I don't like to get 

 stung by them, but I like the honey. Uncle King 

 has 85 colonies. Flora May Hildretei. 



Dent, Hamilton Co., O , Feb. 5, 1883. 



I am 10 years old. Pa has 38 swarms; 9 of them 

 in chaff hives of his own make. Last fall, a year 

 ago, he had 30, but. 17 died. Pa has made 33 chaff 

 hives this winter. I would go to Sunday-school, but 

 it is too far in the winter. Pa has been a bee-keeper 

 for 5 years ; he is 44 years old, and he could tell a good 

 many things about them. Callie Routzon. 



Findlay, O., Feb. 11, 1883. 



I am 10 years old. I can not write very well. My 

 pa keeps bees. We had s colonies last winter. All 

 died but two. One was strong, and the other weak; 

 the strong one robbed the weak one. Pa changed 

 the hives, and when the robbers came home they all 

 tlew into the weak hive, and made them both strong. 

 They did not swarm, but made two boxes of honey, 

 or about 35 lbs. Susie C. Bernheisel. 



Green Park, Perry Co., Pa., Dec. 15, 1881. 



I am a boy 8 years old. Papa, my sister, and I, 

 have each a swarm of bees. Papa's and mine are 

 Italians, and my sister's are black bees. I have two 

 brothers and two sisters. My papa's name is Wil- 

 liam. Ho is a carpenter. My sister and I go to 

 Sunday-school at Smyrna. The Sunday-school li- 

 brary has 161 books. My eyes are blue. 



Lynn W. T«acy. 



Sherburne, Chen. Co., N. Y., Jan. 9, 1883. 



I am a little boy of 13. Pa has 11 hives of bees, 

 and they are in good order. We all go to Sabbath- 

 school. It is one mile from our house. Pa is super- 

 intendent, and my ma is the teacher of the infant 

 class. Casper Asbry. 



Franklin Square, O., Feb. 14, 1883. 



[I think, Casper, you ought to be a very good boy 

 indeed, and make a good "square man."] 



When we kept bees I thought I would look into a 

 cross hive; and the first thing, several bees dived 

 into my face; but they did not happen to sting me. 

 The king-birds would catch the bees; and when 

 they got a big wad of bees they would " spit them 

 out." We had about 37 swarms of bees last spring, 

 and when the fruit-trees were in bloom it was a 

 busy time for them. James D. Seaton. 



Utica, Seward Co., Neb., Feb. 9, 1883. 



My father keeps bees. I have some that my uncle 

 I. R. Good gave me for helping him in his apiary. I 

 am now going to school. Father and 1 desire to go 

 and see you and your great factory. Father takes 

 Gle.anings now, and I like to read it. I am 13 years 

 old. John Good. 



Nappanee, Ind., Jan. 16, 1883. 



[Come along, John; and when you come, bring 

 along that " big uncle," too. We think a good deal 

 of him out here.] 



I believe it is about a year since I wrote to you. I 

 promised to let you know in the spring how our 

 bees wintered. Well, I failed to do so, and I guess 

 papa did not care about sending his report. As 

 nearly as I can find out by papa, my bees are all 

 dead. It will save me putting my name on the rest 

 of the hives as I intended to. Out of the 77 swarms, 

 he had only 10 left. He has increased to 30; has 

 them in chaff hives, all but three, and they are on 

 summer stands. Cora Sawdey. 



Pooiville, N. Y., Jan. 9, 1883. 



Pa had bad luck last wiutcr. He lost all his bees 

 but one hive, and that was weak in spring; but it 

 got strong, and it swarmed once. Pa bought one 

 from a neighbor in June. It swarmed once; that 

 made him 4. They got good and strong. Pa sent to 

 New York State and got a little colony of Holy-Land 

 bees. He fed them up and made them strong for 

 winter. He gave me that one in place of one of 

 mine that died last winter. 



Mary A. Baker. 



Saxonburgh, Pa., Jan. II, 1882. 



[Most of our little friends write and spell very 

 well; but we have a few letters that have to be fixed 

 a little. Will anybody tell us what is wrong with 

 this one? We omit name and address.] 



I received those sewing machine needles and my 

 maw likes them very much. And my paw received 

 the Gleanings Friday evening. I enclose 03 cents 

 for two nickle plated Shears. And 7 cents for a little 

 doll cradle, for my little Sister. My paw will renew 

 his perscriptlon for the Gleanings, again the first 

 of April. . 



I am a little girl of 11. Pa bought two hives of 

 bees last fall. We never had any bees before, and 

 we don't know much about them. I hope they will 

 make a lot of honey next summer, because I like it. 

 I should like to see Blue Eyes. I think the best part 

 of Gleanings is the Juvenile Department. 



Emma Knightly. 



East Waterford, Maine, Feb. 10, 1883. 



[No doubt you do, friend Emma; but we must try 



