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ROBERT'S REPORT. 



We have wintered 11 stands of bees. We have 

 lost 3. We are feeding- the rest syrup. As cold as 

 it has been, I have been to school every day. I 

 drive the hay-loader and harrow, and drive the rol- 

 ler. Robert McCuRDY, age 11. 



Horniby, Ont., March 9, 1885. 



GaTS AA'y ThINg WItH A Hole In iT hE WiLL 

 S.\y "TeeK" for peek He is 15 a^oNtHs olD. iF 

 woRtH a Book pLeAse Senq teN NiGHTs ix A 

 Bar room. DwIGhT FRexch age 10 



AVil'LER.S CORNERS, N. Y. 



BAD NEWS IN REGARD TO THE BEES. 



Pa says everybody around here is losing- most of 

 their bees this winter. Pa has eight in the cellar; 

 they are all right; he left four on their summer 

 stands; two of these died. Does it disturb bees to 

 have much noise in a room over a cellar? Pa says 

 it doesn't. We saw the eclipse of the sun'yestcrday; 

 it looked like the new moon. 



Nellie A. A. Dickman. 



Defiance, Ohio, March 17, 1885. 



A .JUVENILE REPORT FROJI CANAD.\. 



This is the village where the Fenians fought our 

 soldiers in 1866. Ma was a little girl then, but she 

 helped nurse the wounded. We keep bees, and pa 

 got lots of honey last year. I heai-d pa siiy he 

 doesn't allow any loafing, but he works them for all 

 they are worth. A good many bees died around 

 here, but ours are all alive so far. We pack our 

 cushions with sawdust. I like, to help pa with the 

 bees. I shall be 10 years old ne.xt June. 



Ridgeway, Ont. Sperry Dunn. 



8-YEAROLD LITTLE BLR'JIL'S LMTER. 



Uncle Joseph told uie if I would write you a letter 

 you would send me a book. I love to read story- 

 books. 1 have a large kite, and it is real fun to fly 

 it. I have a large ball of cord for my kite. 



Bertie Briggs, age^. 



AND AVHAT MIS SISTKK MABEL THINKS ABOUT HIM. 



My brother is all " kite. " He wants papa to get 

 him some red muslin to cover his kite. Wc have a 

 cow. Her name is Flossy, and wc have nice milk to 

 drink. I am si.v years old. This is my first letter 

 to any one. Mabel Uuiggs. 



Cornwall on (he Hudson, N. V., March 'T.i, 1885. 



a COUPLE OF LETTERS FROM THE REED CHILDREN. 



My father put in the cellar 32 swarms of bees, and 

 two of them died. My pa is feeding a few swarms. 

 I got stung on the lip once, and it swelled nearly as 

 thick as my foot, and I had hard Avork to find my 

 mouth. I like bees pretty well, even if they do sting 

 mo once in a while. 1 have been going to school all 

 winter, and 1 go to Sabbath school too. M'c have a 

 nice place to make a carp-pond. Pa siiid he would 

 get some for us as soon as he can. 



Glyue Reed, age 12. 



My father keeps bees, and he has lost a gi-cat 

 many for the last two years. I have a colt, and his 

 name is Prince. We keep some nice Plymouth-Rock 

 chickens. The snow is two feet deep, and it is still 

 snowing. Charlie Reed, age 10. 



Orono, Mich., March 1, 1885. 



ALVA'S LETTER, AND THE REASON HE WROTE IT. 



We have four stands 'of bees, and two of thcui 

 died. They had plenty of honey to eat, so we took 

 the honey ourselves and ate it. Last year I went to 

 school for eight months, and missed only half a day. 

 I am writing this letter to earn a book. 



Harlem, la., March 6, 1885. Alva Gooding, age'.). 



I Well, Alva, j'our concluding sentence is 

 ' very frank and honest. The book was what 

 j you were after, was ity The bees died, and 

 you ate the honey. Well, now, I believe I 

 "should have got some more bees and put 

 j right on to those combs, instead of doing the 

 I way you did. 



A HILL DEVICE MADE OF GLASS, IN THE LAKE VIEW 

 ! ORCHARD APIARY. 



I am boarding at Mr. Piatt's, and he takes Glean- 

 ings. He keeps bees too, and his bees make the 

 best honey I ever tasted. He has black bees, hy- 

 brids, and Italians. 



To make an upper passage for the bees to go over 

 from one frame to another, he makes a frame 

 about 'i of an inch high, and lays on it a pane of 

 glass !> by 12 inches. At the edges of the ends of 

 the glass are small open spaces lor ventilation. He 

 says that most bee-men say that is not the right way, 

 but he finds it is a good plan. 

 Summer before last I spent my vacation in Kan- 

 j sas, and I found gum-weeds on the prairie. The 

 ! flower looks something like a small sunflower. 

 I Mr. Piatt's Lapiary is called the Lake View Or- 

 j chard Apiary. Chester Edmonds, age 12. 



White Plains, N. V., March 23, 188.5. 



How pa UnItEd A SwARm oF BeES. 

 He TnoK ThE QuEEiV AA'D onE WoRKER Br.E 

 To ThK QuEeA'LeS HiVE WHe.Y HE LeT tHE 

 QuEE.Y Out o.V Top oF ThK FRaMEs The 

 QuEEiVwENT DowAALl Right but ThKWorIv- 

 eR bee Flew bAcK Ho.wE. iN AaVT A IIaLF An 

 Hour The BeES ca.ue ouT Anu W^At i.s; ThE 

 Hive WheRE He i)uT ThE QueeN pa H.IS A'ov- 

 icES Extractor i hAVE 4 BRoThers Anq sis- 

 tErS. lItTlE BabV BuoThr HAg BluE EyES. 

 He can TeLi. WmEkE HiS Toe is aNd WhEn he 



WINTERING BEES OVER THE KITCHEN. 



1 am a little boy ten years old. My pa has si.v 

 stands of bees; he put them up over the kitchen 

 this winter; sometimes they come down in the 

 kitchen, and bother us; do you think that it is a 

 very good place to keep them'/ My grandpa hail 107 

 stands last fall, but they are pretty nearly all dead. 

 I am at my grandpa's now. I like to stay out in the 

 co\intiy. Eldon S. R. Hayes. 



Wilmington. Ohio, March 30, 1885. 



AVliy. Willie, it does not seem to ine that 

 it woiild 1)6 a very good place to winter the 

 bees ; but if your papa got them out all 

 right, while your grandpa, who did not put 

 them over thb kitchen, had tliein die so bad- 

 ly, the evidence seems to be rather in your 

 favor. I do not think 1 should want to win- 

 ter bees anywhere where they would be get- 

 ting out of their hives in winter. 



PAPA'S HOUSEKEEPER. 



I take pleasure in writing to you. I have a little 

 sister; her name is Matta. Our mother is dead- 

 been dead ten years. I am papa's housekeeper. F 

 help papa with the bees. I can sew on the ma- 

 chine, 1 can make shirts and pants, and my dresses, 

 and I can cook. We have had some very cold 

 weather. Pa is planting Irish potatoes today, and 

 bedded sweet potatoes also. I raise a great many 

 chickens. We live close to the railroad; the cars. 

 pass on one side of us, the boats on the other side 

 We live on a nice little farm on Red River. Pa 



