1885 



GLEAN INHS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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and the other hand a hold of my ear, and 

 then he got his little moutli fip against my 

 cheek, and in a regular baby fashion showed 

 his appreciation by trying to pnt me in his 

 mouth, as if I wei-e something good. 



My little friends, that baby was to me like 

 a good big dipper full of cool spring water to 

 a thirsty laborer. Perhaps I looked my in- 

 quiry, for pretty soon the mother replied that 

 baby's pajia was dead. Poor little •' .Jules" I 

 AVas it possilile that his little mind imagined 

 that it was his real papa who hugged and 

 kissed him. and talked to him V The little 

 girl came up : and as I shook hands with 

 her, and talked with her. her mamma told 

 her to tell us wliere papa was. A sober look 

 came over her i)n'tty ehildisii face, and she 

 raised one little liaiul" above her head as she 

 replied, •' Papa gone way u]», heaven." In 

 an instant a picture came before me of little 

 ITnber pining for his i)apa, who could never 

 come back in f/z/s world. It would be no 

 harder for him than for thousands of other 

 little ones who have to go through life with- 

 out a father's love. 



Now, my little friends, if your papa is 

 where you "can see him and love him every 

 day, will you not remember to thank (iod for 

 it, and remember poor little Jules: who has 

 a mamma to love, it is true, but can never 

 see his pai)a. even though he grows to be 

 ever so old y 



A TKACIIKK WHO THKATS. 



I take tho oi)portuiiity of writinjr you a letter. 

 We sold 75 lbs. ol' honey this year. We have three 

 hives. Honey is 15 cents a pound here. It is very 

 cold today. 1 no to school. The teacher frave us 

 two weeks' holidays. He is poin? to treat his pupils 

 the last day. Euoii; Oiuikm.. 



Vernon, Ind., Feb. 8, 1885. 



tired of it. They ate whole heaps of them. Ma had 

 to make us go sometimes. We attend to them in 

 partnership. Herbert Dyke. 



Poracroy. Ohio, Feb. 2, 1885. 



:i.) LBS. PER COr.ONV KOR WINTERIXO. 



Pa has 17 colonies of bees. One hive of bees 

 swarmed twice, and he separated them each time. 

 We did not have as much honey last year as we did 

 the year before. We always winter them on their 

 summer stands. We pack them in ehafl', and they 

 live tlirough the winter. They eat about 25 lbs. of 

 honey through the winter. F. ('. Bennett, asre 11. 



Acushnet, Mass., Feb. ii, 1885. 



AN 8-YEAR-OED PARTNER. 



My Uncle Georg-e has 60 colonies of bees. He 

 calls me his partner, and I help him take off honey. 

 The bees had a nice fly last Friday, and uncle says 

 they are in fine shape. My pa is helping- him build 

 100 chaff hives for a man in Ohio. 



Geo. D. Hilton, age 8. 



Fremont, Mich., March 2, 1885. 



Well. George, that is pretty good, if you 

 have got an order for 100 chatf bee-hives 

 from a man who lives in Ohio. I admire 

 your energy and zeal. I hope Uncle George 

 will prosper. I suppose when you hang out 

 your shingle it will read. '' I'ncle George & 

 Co.," and of course you will be the •'com- 

 pany.'* 



(LAUD AND HIS MOTHER. 



I am a little boy 11 years old. My ma keeps bees; 



she has two stands. She had 4 stands last tall. 



.She has two Langstroth hives; two swarms died. 



Ma said they starved to death. They were in the 



old bo.x hives. I have a Texas pony. I ride it. 1 

 I go to school. My pa has 6 horses. We have some 

 j lambs that look like rabbits, all but the tail. This 

 { winter 1 embraced rehgion. I joined the Ihiptist 

 i Church. Claud H. Smith. 



' lloonville, [nd., Feb. £3, 1885. 



f?o. Claud, you are a member of the Daptist 



Church, ai-e you, even though you are but 



I eleven years old. Now, my young friend, 



I whatever you do, or whatever you forget, do 



\ not forget you are a church-member. Keep 



the thought constantly before you. and let 



tlie world know that you realize what it is 



to have stood up before men and profess to 



I be 11 follower of the Savior. 



counterfeitino comb honev. 

 My father has 24 swarms of bees, ^fy uncle, Ste- 

 phen Rifenberg, has 40, and makes lots of honey. 

 We have had some very cold weather, 30° below 

 zero, and deep snow. Can any one make counter- 

 feit comb, and till it with hon(\v so that it can't be 

 detected from genuine honey? 



Joseph H. Snyder. 

 Corey, Mich., Feb. 28, 1885. 



No, Josei)li, nobody can make comb honey. 

 and it is a shameful i)iece of falst-liood lor 

 the newspapers to take it up and keep pass- 

 ing it along as they do. 



TENEXINE. 



Did you know that teno.xine was good to mend 

 dishes with? Ma says that it Is the best thing to 

 mend them with she ever had. Pa's bees have been 

 confined for quite a long time without having a 

 flight. T wish it would be warm a few days, so they 

 could come out. I helped my sister gather Osage- 

 orange leaves for the silkworms. We got awful 



I A LOST PENCIL. 



j The other day Huddle l)rought some hay f lora the 

 i store to feed our old cow fiily; and as we were giv- 

 ing it to her my little sister Efhe spied this pencil. 

 I On inquiry the hay was out of a barrel that my pa 

 ; received f n>m you, in which were packed smokers, 

 I a comb-bucket, and other tinware, and we supjiosed 

 whoever put the things in the barrel lost his pencil, 

 so here it is all the way back from Texas. My pa 

 has 34 stands of bees; sister Alice one, and Buddie 

 one. They commenced bringing in pollen on the 

 1st of February (on Sundaj-); was that wrong? 



Lizzie L. Mullin, age 0. 

 I Oakland, Te-vas, Feb. 25, 1885. 

 j Many thanks, Lizzie ; and although none 

 I of our clerks can remember of having lost 

 ' such a pencil, we know you mean to be hon- 

 est. That is right. E\bn in little things we 

 siiould make it a point to keep nothing but 

 what is justly our own.— Bees are not ration- 

 al nor responsible beings, and therefore 

 j they can not do wrong, as little girls can ; 

 j and herein is the difference between human- 

 j ity and the lower animals. ''Tlie Sabbath 

 was made for man," and not for bees. 



A SHORT LETTER. 



Pa has 2 hives of bees. One bee stung him on the 

 hand when he was smoking them last summer. I 

 like honey very well. I go nearly every day to 



