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GLEANINGS IK BEE CULTURE. 



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BENNY'S KEPOKT. 



My papa bejfaii the year 1883 with 3 colonies of 

 bees, and increased them to 15, and wintered 14, and 

 increased them to 45, and then wintered 38. 



Benny Moses, age 10. 



Dupont, Mipn., Apr. 25, 1885. 



HEPORT FROM A MISSISSIPPI .JUVENILE. 



1 am a boy of 13 years old, and work in the field 

 every day, and go to Sabbath-school every Sunday. 

 We have about 15 acres of corn, and about 13 acres 

 of cotton. We are g-oin}< to get some bees as soon 

 as possible. H. D. Bootiie. 



CaseyvlUe, Miss.. Jlay 25, 1885. 



ALICE'S REPORT. 



This has been a very hard winter on our bees. 

 We have 13 stands, and three of them died. We 

 had five in the cellar. We led them most of the 

 winter. Some of them are very strong, and have a 

 };-ood bit of honey and brood. I am terribly afraid 

 of them. Sometimes they come in on our porch 

 and sting- us. They never bother us when we make 

 eider. My grandpa Stephens gave me a iiivo of 

 bees, but I was so afraid of them that I sold them. 



rokeville. Pa., May 8, 188.5. .\[,i( e .M( Uaine. 



am now fearless when well protected by bee-hat 

 and gloves. Our bees are now " booming," and we 

 hope to take a good surplus. Gleanings comes 

 regularly, and is eagerly read and much liked. 

 Augusta, Ga., May 21, 1885. Bertie Norrell. 



WHISTLING down A SWARM ()!' ItEKS. 



I have one sister aild two brothers. We live on a 

 farm one mile and a (juarter from town and school. 

 I'ai)a has five colonies of bcos. Ii;:st summer as he 

 was working' in the f,'arden he heard a buzzing 

 n(jise, and looking up he saw a swarm of bees. He 

 whistled, and thci' alifjrhted in a tree near liy. He 

 hived tliem, and brought them home in the cvcni;ig. 

 My uncle, Mr. Sheldon, takes Oleanin(js. I am 

 reading Our Homes. 1 think it is a very nice piece. 

 My uncle has abo\it si.xty colonies of bees. 



lixlepcndence. Iowa. Liz/.IE Wihtnkv. 



( MAIILEV'S PAP.V'S "BEE-MILL." 



My papa has about .5!t bee-hives, and has lost 12 

 of th<"m. I am a ;;(>od little boy, 8 years old. I help 

 my papa to tend to the bees. I go to school when it 

 is trood weatlier in winter, and help jia^a with the 

 b('es in sununer lime, and I fro to Sunday-school 

 every Sunday. Papa has ;rot a bee-mill; he makes 

 his own hives. I turn the bee-mill for papa. He 

 says he is «oin;r to nuike a bee-man out of me. 1 

 help him bend the section bo.ves he gets of you. 



Ellis Mound, 111.. Jfarch 1. 1885. (^h.vrlev Hall. 



Very jjood, Cliarley ; but. how about that 

 bee-mill':' I think it nnist be some kind of a 

 mill to make bee-hives, only 1 do not see 

 how a l)oy as young as you could tinii very 

 much. I am slad that yt)u are a cjood little 

 boy. 



REPDHT EUOM "HOLLYWOOD" APIAUV. 



Sister Lillie began to keep bees with one snuill 

 stock of Italians in the spring of 1883: later in the 

 summer she bought a full stock of l)laek bees. 

 Next spring she increased to five; sold about eight 

 dollars' worth of section honey. Brother nuide, at 

 a small outlay, a good large cvtractor. This spriu/r 

 another sister bought a strong Italian stock, and 

 the si.v increased to fifteen good-sized ones and two 

 small ones. I hived the first three swarms during 

 the absence of sister L., and she gave me the first 

 swarm for my trouble. I was quite timid about 

 them at first, as the stings do not agree with mc at 

 all; but the responsibility being thrown entirely 

 upon me, I shouldered it as bravely us 1 could, auU 



LETTER FROM A YOl'NG CANADIAN ,\BOUT SWARM- 

 ING. 



I will tell you what I think about swarming bees. 

 I would watch until they come out, and then follow 

 them, keeping far enough behind them so as to be 

 able to keep track of them ; and when you see them 

 settling upon something, stop and keep very quiet 

 until they alight, then retrace your steps, and bring 

 back where the bees are a small hive, then take a 

 stick and shake them into the hive (this to be done 

 very carefully); then cover up the hive with a 

 white sheet, and leave it standing in the place un- 

 til the bees that did not go in come back. Th n 

 carry the hive back to its usual place, and your bees 

 are hived, and you have now one more hive of l)ees. 

 Fred Tuhnkr, age 12. 



.larvis. Out., Canada, April :J0, 18,^5. 



A'ery f?ocd. master Fred. 



El'LA'S LETTER. 



My papa keeps bees. He has nine stands. We 

 don't use any tobacco here, only mamma dips snutt. 

 1 go to Sunday-school every Sunday. I have two 

 little sisters; one's name is Maggie; she is four 

 years old. The other's name is Love; she is two 

 years old. Kcla .Johnson, age 13. 



Cajee. Ky. 



That is a luetty tiood letter. Kula : but I 

 am sorry to hear tliat y(uu' manuna dii)s 

 snutT. fdo not suppose tliat many of our 

 boys and girls know what dipping snuff 

 means, and I do iu)t rememlx'r that I ever 

 saw anybody who did use it in that way. 

 only I have heard of it. It is a tobacc-o hab- 

 it, like chewing and smoking, but I believe 

 it is conhned mostly to women rather than 

 men. and mostly to what we call "down 

 South." I said." it is conlined mostly to 

 Mv;y/// //. bi^cause ! am pretty sure that <uir 

 girls nowadays arc not tobacco-users. .\m 

 I not right. Hula':' Tell your mother, that 

 if she feels that using tobacco is a bad habit, 

 and is willing to gi\e it \^]^. with the cus- 

 tomary promise. I will semi her a smoker. 

 If she does not work with bees, she can give 

 it to your papa. I supitose. of cotu'se, youi- 

 l)apa does not use tobacco, from what you 

 say. 1 should think your mamma's breath 

 wotdd smell bad when she goes to kiss you. 

 does it not? 



OSC.VR .VNI) HIS COTTON PATCH. 



I li\c with n)y grandpa, B. D. Kimball. 1 follow 

 the farming business. I have a cotton patch, and 

 it is coming uii finely. I help my gratKli)a hive 

 bees. I climb up in the top of trees, about "27 feet 

 high, and saw them off, and let swarms down with a 

 rope. They sting me sometimes. (Jrandpa gave 

 me a hive. He received the crate <.f ten hives you 

 sent him, in due time. We have eight hives from 

 the one we received of you in 1883. 



My school is out now. I have never been at 

 school much. I learn at home. Grandpa takes 

 your journal, and I like to read it very much. I 

 like to read about your trip to New Orleans, and 

 the cotton you saw and thought was some kind of 

 weed. We have fine prospects for good crops. We 



