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GLEANINGS IN liEE CULTUllK. 



June 



these daj's that boy will regret those hours were so 

 idled away. The general principle, in short, is to 

 follow the line as nearly as possible, in every thing 

 in which you wish to succeed. It is not genius that 

 accomplishes great things in this world, although 

 genius is Godgivcn, and is a gift by no means to be 

 despised; but it is a patient, earnest, exact work; 

 it is following the line, right straight along its edge, 

 doing the will of God from the heart; that is the 

 true way to work; put your lioail into it, not in the 

 way of cyo-sorvicc. Ai'.nt \jc. 



Rockton. 111. 



Kvery boy or Kii'l, "ii'lf i" IS 



vears of agre, who writes a 



letter for this department, containing 



SOME VALUABLE FACT, NOT GENERALLY 

 KNOWN, ON BEES OR OTHER; MATTEHS, 



will receive one ot David Cook's excel- 

 lent five- cent Sundav - school books. 

 r-|(,-^j Many of these bool:s contain the same mat- 

 f'\ ter that vou lind In Sunday-school hooks 



$1.0(1 to 81.50. If you have had 

 ks, trive us the names that we 

 Jjlfi#j^ may not send the same twice. We have now 

 5'v .'t in stock six different books, as follows; viz.: 

 '"■,> i Sheer Off. The Uiant - Killer. The Roby 

 • F.amily, Rescued from Egypt, and Ten Nights in 



a Bar-Room. We have also Our Homes, Part I.,and 

 Homes, Part II. Besides the above books, you may have a 



glimpse of Ernest. We have also some 

 liictures of birds, fruits, flowers, etc., suit:il> 

 You can have your choice of anyone of thi 

 or books for every letter that gives us some v 



nice coop made with wire netting over the 

 front, so the old hen could see and be seen, 

 and Ave just put her right down by those 

 cal)bage-plants. Sure enough, away went 

 the lleas ; and now we have lifteen oV twen- 

 ty thousand of the handsomest Jersey Wake- 

 fields and Winningstadts you ever saw. 

 As the weather got warm, Mr. Weed raised 

 up the sliort sasli to the greenhouse, and 

 the chickens hopped in and just " chuckled" 

 when they saw thosp green Hits on the to- 

 matoes, radishes, and lettuce. They just 

 went right in among the plants, and workeil 

 like little beavers, and pretty soon there 

 was not a green lly anywhere.' AVhen they 

 had liiiished one bed they woulil hop across 

 the walk to the other side, and sometimes 

 they would miss and get down the path. 

 Then the engineer would help them np. 

 Hut one day one little white chick (they are 

 light Brahmas, you know) met a mishap, and 

 went into the water-barrel. The engineer 

 foiuid him when he was apparently all dead ; 

 but he took him before the great lire under 

 the boiler, warmed him up and dried him. 

 and pretty soon lie moved a little. After a 

 while he got up and looked around, and in 

 the afternoon he was chasing fleas and hunt- 

 ing flies as glibly as if he had not had that 

 short but sad experience in regard to the 

 vicissitudes of life. 



One of our neighbors had oa -swarms of bees last 

 summer, and 2000 lbs. of honey. I like to see bees 

 swarm. G. H. Swartwood. age !». 



Tracy Ci-cek. N. Y.. Feb. 27, 188,j. 



' A chiel's amang ye takin' notes: 

 An' faith, he'll prent it." 



UK strawberries ripe at your house? 

 The> are not at ours, but we liave 

 great wliopping green ones tiiat Iluber 

 and I like to look at and admire al- 

 most every day. It keeps us (piite 

 liiisy pici<iiig the runners off nowadays. 

 They are sucii great big strong ones that it 

 almost makes me feel bad. It wt)ul(l be 

 such fun to let them root into pots and get 

 potted i)lants right oft now, instead of wait- 

 ing until .\ugust. Hut the old iieads in the 

 strawberr> business say if yon want nice 

 hirge berries you mtisl clip off the riumers. 

 One of our small boys does this with a pair 

 of scissors and a basket. I have him put 

 the runners in the liasket, because I want to 

 iiave him learn to be tidy and neat. 



How are the chickens by this time? We 

 make our chickens work. Do you want to 

 know how? A while ago Mr. AVeed was in 

 real trouble liecause of the little green flies 

 that got on his jtlants in the greenhouse, 

 and we had more trouble outside of the 

 grecMihouse witli litth^ black tieas on the cab- 

 bage-plants. Well, Mr. Tillinghast said 

 that a lot of little cliickens among the cab- 

 bage-phmts would chase and scare the black 

 fleas clear olT, every " last one " of them. 

 Well, some chickens liatched. and we had a 



PAPA S HELPER. 



Paj)a has ;i5 swarms of bees; 3 of them died this 

 winter. Wc watch the bees to see them swarm. 

 Papa gives us .5 cents if we see a bee swarm. He 

 makes bee-hives to sell. I help him all I can. 



.TOHN I. Emig. age ;>. 



Daudsburg, Pa., Mar. 2!), 1885. 



A LETTER FROM RED RlVEIi, I.\. 



I put up 7T of those frames pa got from you. I 

 I like to |)ut up frames, but 1 don't like lo w(n-k with 

 I bees, because they sting. I would rather raise 

 chickens and ducks. Ma has l."i:) little cliickens and 

 S little (lucks. We live on Hed Ki\er, an<I it is ris- 

 ing very fast. Florence A. Hauiiisox, age !i. 

 (•olliiisluir-;-, I. a., April 30, ISS.",. 



I'lUiM ONE OK oil! Sl.\-VEAli-OLIi ( ( ) Nl Kl lUTTOHS. 



I am a little girl si.v years old, and have a little 

 brother five years old, and he has been sick. I have 

 a little sister one year old. Now 1 will tell you 

 something about the bees. My pa had some bees, 

 and they all wanted to hatch, so I went out there 

 where they were, and one stung me right awaj' on 

 the aim. Florence Wiseheart. 



Tula, III. 



TflE KliSCRUECTHU IlKES. 



Papa opened a stand of bees a few days ago, and 

 there was apparently no life in them, and there was 

 no honey in the hive. Returning about an hour 

 afterward, he found there was some life in them. 

 He wanned plenty of honey, i\m\ poured it on the 

 bees. He then heated a brick and laid it on the 

 cloth, and now they are as lively as any of the bees. 

 He calls it rci^uircctuiu them. 



KsTA Williams, age 13. 



Maysville, Ky., Feb. 11, ISSj. 



