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GLEANINGS IN liEE CULTURE. 



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• hristian raises strawberries. I go to school; we 

 liave a good teacher. We have an engine from 

 Massillon; it works well. Wo rajse poultrj-. We 

 sold some turkeys. Conu.vi> E. Weckkssku. 



Marshallville, Ohio, Nov. 27, 1S84. 



HOBERT S COMPOSITION .VHOIT HKKS. 



Tlie bee is as large as a horse-Hy: they are very 

 industrious insects. Wild bees live in hollow trees; 

 tame ones live in hives. They make honey from 

 the sweet-William, roses, columbines, dattodils, sun- 

 Howers, pinks, goldeurod, buckwheat, and linn. 

 1 hey get rid of all the drones in the fall; they do 

 not want them to eat the honey that they did not 

 help to gather. They will not sting you it' you do 

 not harm them. Bees are found in most parts of 

 the country. There is but one queen in a hive. 



(ilidden, la. Robkht l>ni;w. 



\ KOr.l.OWKJl OK THi: SAVIOK Al.TlIOIdll ttlT !l 

 VK.VRS OK A(JK. 



1 se<-' in a catalogue you sent i)apa, that you had 

 two kinds of cards you send to littk' folks free of 

 charge— one kind against 7)rofanity, and one with a 

 <-liild's prayer on. Will you please be so kind as to 

 send me some of both kinds? I am a little girl nine 

 >ears old. I know the Lord's prayer by heart, and 

 say it every night. I am very anxious to see tlie 

 little prayer jou have so kindly selected for little 

 lolks. lam trying to be a good little girl, so that 

 the Savior will be pleased with me every day. 



DoKA L. H. FtSHF.n. 



.Siilisbury, N. <'., .Tan. 2(i, IH.*-'.'). 



1884. Our best honey was sage in the comb, but 

 most of that we had was "hot." One day when we 

 were eating dinner my papa and brother Alfred 

 were not at home, and suddenly we heard a swarm 

 j of bees passing. We jumped up and followed them 

 one-fourth of a mile, and threw some dirt at them. 

 Soon they settled on a small tree; iny sister and 1 

 got a hive, and shook them into it. We had a littk' 

 trouble with them, but managed to get them home 

 early ne.vt morning, only to tind the hive empty. 

 They were a "crazy swarm," and had left. 



Lillian Hindk, age 13. 

 .\naheiui. fal.. Dec. 26. 1884. 



■IKNNIK'S l.ETTKK .VHOIT THK l'KA( tlKS. 



My papa has bought ;5 colonies of Italians and 4 

 colonies of black bees, so you see we intend to raise 

 bees, and have honey in our country home. We 

 have a great deal of fruit. Our Amsden peaches 

 get ripe June 1st. Would you like a bo.\ aliout that 

 time this year? We enjoy reading (ii,i;ANiNfis, and 

 especially the boys' and girls' (•olumii. We all go 

 l<> Sunday-school. .IknnikC. Ui<:Kn. 



HuHinan, Ala. 



To be sure, I should like a saini)le of your 

 l)eticlies. friend .lenuie. and tliey would be a 

 ureal novelty here, I tell you. at any time in 

 thenio)ith of June. Many thanks" for youi' 

 thouffhtfulness of Uncle Ainos. 



40 KINDS OF TAME STRAWBERHIKS, AND SOMK OTH- 

 KU THINGS. 



My father has 40 colonies of bees. Wc have to 

 kinds of tame strawberries, and a great many kin<ls 

 of raspberries, blackberries, and grapes. We live 

 on a farm of ISJ acres, and it is about .5 miles from 

 Meadville. 1 can not tell how old Harvey Baer is. 

 Father says there is an error in it. Papa is an old 

 teacher. I have no brothers nor sisters. Our hired 

 man's name is Jim, and he has worked for us four 

 years. Papa is secretary of the Farmer's Club, and 

 writes for i)apers, so I will write for your paper. 

 Mamma said that if I wrote for your i)aper again I 

 should tell you how many pounds of honey we got 

 this year. C'lakence H. Lekeveh, age 10. 



Hayfield, Pa., Jan. 2T, 1885. 



In Harvey's problem, he should have 

 omitted the" three lirst words, and be^nn 

 with the fraction h Of course, the whole of 

 a thiuR plus a part of it can not eijual the 

 i]nn<s, itself. His age is 12. 



KHOM 9 TO IT, AND 3.50 LUS. OK HONEV, ETC. 



We began last spring with !» colonies of bees; in- 

 creased to 17, and got about ^0 lbs. of honey. It 

 ^vas not a very good season for honej-. I'a got a 

 Holy-Land liueen of you last July, and raised a 

 i|ueen from it, and the one he raised began to lay 

 in September. We have got her in a nucleus, with 

 about a ()Uart of bees, and they have wintered well 

 so far. Pa feeds them candy. We hatched a <)ueen 

 under a hen last .«5ummer. We took a little box, and 

 put a lew small holes in it, and then lined it with 

 cotton, and then put the (lueen-cell in the l)0.\. 

 Last summer two swarms came out together; and 

 when pa tried to hive them they both went back to 

 their old hives. Ellen Yoci'm. age 12. 



Kiverton, 111., Jan. 24. 1885. 



IIAKVKV S IMtOBLE.M, AGAIN; A GOOD l(K,l'(»l{T. 



As I have worked out Harvey's e.\anji)le, which 

 gives me 12 years, which 1 think is correct, 1 will 

 send our report for last year. We increased from 

 (iO to 100 hives, and took 40:ki lbs. of honey, mostly 

 e.vtracted. The bees stored a nice lot of bitter hon- 

 ey, in the tall, which was not lit for table use, but is 

 tine for wintering bees. They are all in fine condi- 

 tioiL They were bringing in pollen from the elm 

 on the 10th of Jan. I'laude E. Uho(;don, age 12. 



Rryan, Te.xas, JaiL 2:1, 1885. 



Friend ("laude, you will .see by tlie letter 

 above this, that vour answer is correct. 



WHAT a ;)-CENT MOUSE-THAP DID AWAY OCT tX 

 CALIFOUNIA, ETC. 



\V I' got a .5-cent mouse-trap of you, and we have 

 caught twelve troublesome mice already. Califor- 

 nia is a good place for bees. They are working even 

 now in the Hower garden, on pea Howers and blu(>- 

 gtitii ilowers. Wc'iiidn't Imvc nuicli nice honey In 



$22. HO WOUTH of HONEY FHOM ONE HIVE IN ONE 

 SEASON. 



Pa is a bee-keeper, and has been keeping bees 

 since 1875. He has between 50 and 60 colonies of 

 bees, and has had as high as five swarms a day. 

 The best he ever had from one hive in one season 

 was IB large bo.xes of honey that he sold for ?;22.H0. 

 Pa has a largesi/ed extractor that he ordered from 

 Cinciiuiati. He has a shop, and he makes all of his 

 bee-hives, frames, boxes, and. does all of his paint- 

 ing. I have to watch the bees; and when they 

 swarm, and pa is not at home, I have to hive them. 

 1 have been stung hiving them but once or twice in 

 my life. One day wlien pa was gone, and I was too 

 little to hive bees, ma hived four swarms in one 

 day. Pa has a bee smoker, but he did not get it by 

 ((Uitting the use of tobacco. He smoked and chew- 

 ed seven years, and thought it was hurting him, 

 and he <iuit ten years ago last May, without a smo- 

 ker, and has not tasted it since. He neither smokes 

 nor chews, nor drinks any into.xicating liquor or 

 (•otl'ee. Hi- is ;i whole-soule(l Pj-ohibitionist. He 



