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answered her, that if I were able I would go right 

 to cutting cordwood, so as to be sure to have some- 

 thing to sell the next time she came to see me. I 

 expect her to visit me again this fall, and all this 

 spring 1 have been planning to give her pleasure. 

 I have planted a lot of squashes; and when we go 

 out riding next time, I intend to take out the buggy- 

 seats and pile the bed full of big squashes; and 

 when we go to get in I will invite her to a seat on a 

 mammoth squash, and, seating myself on another, 

 we will ride gaily along. Mrs. H/s head is level, 

 and so is her heart, and I like to joke with her. 



Now as you do not seem to like compliments very 

 well, I Will give you a taste of the wormwood; and 

 I say at the start, that I don't want any more bees 

 in the place of them, or to make it right ; for it is all 

 right now; that is, all but the wiinderot it. 1 womler 

 why the half-pound packages of bees that 1 got of 

 you do not build up like those that Bro. Phillips got 

 of Dixon & Dillon, of Parish, 111. I got mine first, 

 and I put a comb full of brood (in all stages) in. each 

 of mine. One of them now has two full frames, 

 and a little in two more; the other has three full 

 ones, and two partly filled, while Bro. Phillips' are 

 rushing and roaring, and in need of the section 

 boxes. He put his on empty eomVis where the bees 

 died, and they ate sour honey, too, but he did not 

 give them any brood; they had to do it all. It can 

 not be in the managmnent, for I helped him, and I 

 did just as I did with my own, with the exception of 

 the brood gi\en to mine. 



MORK SI.nWNKSS. 



When my combs were standing empty so long, 1 

 went to a neighbor's, and told them I wanted to 

 buy a swarm of bees, and would ffive two dollars 

 for one, put into my hive. There wns no one at home 

 but a young woman of sixteen. She jiromised to 

 ask her father if I could have them, and send word 

 to school by her sister, who would tell Jessie, and 

 she would tell me. Every day for ten days 1 asked 

 for news of those bees. Then I borrowed two dol- 

 lars and sent for two pounds of Oernuin l)rown 

 bees, and the very next day this neighbor's family 

 " roused itself," and the mother came over to tell 

 me that I could have as many swarms as I wanted, 

 and they would take strawberries for pay. There 

 it was; they had more bees than they wanted, and I 

 had more strawberries than I wanted, but the girl 

 " forgot to tell her ])a" until I had sent my two dol- 

 lars away, and then they had to pay the money for 

 the berries. Now, I do not believe that one of my 

 children would " forget " to tell me, if any one want- 

 ed to l)uy any thing of me; even little Harry has 

 more business principle than that. 



Vermont, 111. Mahat.a B. Chaduock. 



Mrs. C, I am vei-y glad of the turn your 

 letter lias taken, Itecause it helps to solve 

 this fjieat problem of what to do— a pioblem 

 that IS so intenst'l> iiitcit'sting to those who 

 have farms wiih mort^aues on them, jnst as 

 yon and yonr good man had w hen yon start- 

 ed. And now when bee-keeping seems a 

 little dnll, and the price of honey low, many 

 bee-keepers are wanting to know what else 

 they can do. They all have gronnd, more or 

 less" of it ; and if they have learned to sell 

 and produce honey, they will very (juickly 

 learn how to produce garden stuff. I did 

 not really suppose that you had built up a 

 big business. l)nt I knew yon would have 

 done so, if you luul kept "on. in trying to 



find something for our boys and girls to ilo 

 here, we have done a little something at this 

 kind of work ; but it is not much use to try, 

 unless you can find boys and girls who love 

 plants, and who love to work with them. 

 On a single bit of earth, covered by a glass 

 sash 3 by (5 feet, we have this season produc- 

 ed vegetables that would have sold for a 

 couple of dollars or more, had we been in- 

 clined to sell them ; and on a piece of ground, 

 perhaps not more tlian lo feet square, we 

 have, without the aid, of any sash, raised 

 and sold over ten dollars' worth of cab'bage- 

 plants. The only expense put on the ground 

 was perhaps 50 cents' worth of stable ma- 

 I nure. and may be one days work, all togeth- 

 I er. Our cabL)age-plants, celery-plants, and 

 1 plants of every kind, in fact, have all been 

 sold at good prices, and we could have sold 

 I a good many more.— In regard to the worm- 

 wood, by all means give it to us when we 

 ' need it, and it will likely do us good ; but [ 

 do not quite get at the point, why our half- 

 pound packages of bees do not biiild up like 

 j those yon g(<t from Dixon t^ Dillon. Do 

 , they give bigger half-poundsV or are their 

 ' bees younger and smarter? or did it just 

 happen soV I have observed this, that some 

 half-jtounds of bees with a (pieen will often go 

 away ahead of some other half-pounds with 

 a (lueen : but I have never seen a case where 

 I had not good reason to believe a frame of 

 brood was a very great help.— Your experi- 

 ence with little" gills is just about what I 

 should have expected of tlie average little 

 girl. And it is not the little girls onlv: but 

 that little girls and little boys, both of them, 

 grow up big and stay just tliat way. It does 

 vex me beyond any thing I can think of. to 

 intrust .son'ie iiui)iu'taut couunission to some 

 persons, and when tiicy discover they have 

 : caused much trouble ;iiid much loss of prop- 

 ' erty by their forgetfuliH'ss. to have them say 

 nothiiig, and go on without even thinking to 

 make any sort of an apohigy. When any- 

 I body has wronged me by accident or heed- 

 lessness, if he will show "his regret by a real 

 j genuine apology, and otVer to take out his 

 I pocket-book aiul make good the damage, 

 : why. of course. I always feel like letting it 

 i pas"s, and calling it stpiare. Hut 1 do like 

 ' to see i)eople wake up once in a while, and 

 I show that they have some regard or care for 

 I what is goiiig on in this world of ours.— So 

 you still raise strawberries. Mrs. C. even if 

 von have let the garden '• sass '' go. 



THE OHIO STATE BEE - KEEPERS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



SOMETHINO IN HEGAHD TO THK MATTER. 



T WANT to make an apology to our Ohio 

 i^r brethren : but before doing so I will 

 li give place to the following kind letter: 



^ Friend Ro»t: 



Vou will see that you are not forgotten, even 

 if you were not present at our convention, as 

 they have elected you president of the Ohio State 

 Bee-Keepcrs' Association. They suspended the 

 rules, and elected you by acclamation unanimous- 

 ly, which I hope you will accept as cheerfully as it 

 was tendered you. ,]. T. Martin, of TitHn, was 



