1885 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



639 



Every boy or girl, under 15 



years "of ape. who writes a 



-^^ letter for this department, coNTAiNixo 



-- SOMK VALUABLE FACT, NOT GENKRALLY 

 l' KNOWK. OK BEES OR OTHER MATTEBS, 



will receive one of David Cook's excel- 

 lent five - cent Sunday - school books. 

 x,|7:, Many of these hool:s contain the same mat- 

 'ii"'\ ter that you tind in Sunday-school hook: 



L'osting from 81.00 to Sl.rn. 



tK.vehad 



"'iF'Ai/' ""'' "•■"lore books, give ti« i 

 illfl^L may not send the same t"i 

 5W ^ in stock six different Ik.oW 



:ri ' KamiIv,K 

 aBar-Ronni 

 Our Homes, Part II. He . 

 photograph of our old li- 

 ago. Inltisapictiup ..t 

 triimpsc of Enif ^t w. 

 pictures of binN, trii;t 

 You can have ycui . 1., 

 or books for every Irtlri- 

 information. 



" A chiel's amang ye takin' notes: 

 An' faith, he'll prent it." 



Y little friends, we have not e:ot quite 

 so many juvenile letters Uiis tnonth 

 as usual, but lliey mc extra <;o )il. as 

 you may notice. The reason is tl,iis : 

 I have ])eeii oblit^eil to let Ernest 

 look them over, becajtsn oC my inulliliuh' of 

 cares, and he thinks a letter should not lie 

 published, even from the litllt' ones, jis a 

 rule, unless it fontains something of value. 

 1 ptesuine he is licjlit about it, l)ut it seems 

 a little hard to refuse t<» ^'ivc jilace to any 

 little letter, even thou<,di it may not be of 

 much account, or a repetition of somethin;^ 

 th:it has been written a ;;i>'h1 many limes 

 before. You will all have to learn i his les- 

 son some time or other: and jterhaps it 

 may be ms well to le;iiii it now; thiit is. 

 there is no exeellenee wilhoiil ureat labor; 

 and those who work industriously, and try 

 hard, are the ones who will succeed. And 

 to b;> consistent with my own teachings, 1 

 will sto)) ripht here and make //c/ little letter 

 (or letter to the little folks) a short one. 



.V JlOKSE STUNt; TO DEATH IJV IIKKS. 



Two years ago this suiiiiucT our bees slun^ my 

 uncle's tiorso to death. My po bought one of your 

 Italian quenns, and the ants killed it. 



liH otto. I lid., Aug., 1SS5. Ei.Lis SiMo.v. aj^e 10. 



■STUNC. THIHTKKN TIMKS. 



'Bees were first introdueed into California in lS,-)0, 

 and iiUo South America in isio. The bee is the 

 most useful insect there is. I was once stnnj; thir- 

 teen times at once. I struck the hive <inre with a 

 stick, and Ihej' swarmed upon inc. 



EUCliNK Hoi.7. LK. 



1, Wayne Co., la., Feb. 13, 1885. 



.MU 



POKING THE ENTHANCli Of A HIVE. 



Sometimes when 1 go past the hives to swin;r in 

 tho hammock, the bees sting me. 1 have been stung 

 tour or five times. Last summer I took a stick and 

 poked il into the cntnuicc of a hive, ami the bees 



came out and stung me in several places. I don't 

 think I shall do it again. A lew days ago one of my 

 little kittens scratched me on the arm. 

 Acushnet, Mass. IJehtie Bennett, age 3. 



IKJ.NEV, IJCT none TO EAT. 



My pa took some honey out of the hive Saturday. 

 The bees work very well. We have plenty of flow- 

 ers around the grove for the bees to gather honey 

 from. I like honey, but ma doesn't let me have 

 much, for she wants to sell it. We have lots of ap- 

 jjlca and plums. We have' lots of little pigs. 



HULDAII W^lLLIAM.;. 



Banks. Minn., Auar. ::;. 18S.). 



JiAKV S NEW HOME. 



My father and mother have just niovf^l to our 

 new home in the woods. My mother had to go to 

 town the other dav, and left me at home to keep 

 house all alone. 1 looked out that no cattle came 

 around to tip our bees over. We have si.\ hives of 

 bees, and want to get more. 1 like to read the 

 children's letters. I never went to school, nor to 

 Sunday-school, and 1 never had one of your books. 



Campo Seco, Cal. Maky A. Leuck, age 8. 



IIONEV, PISH, -VNU CIDEK. 



We had 2t) hives of bees when I wrote yf)U the oth- 

 er letter. We got over .5(X) lbs. of comb honey. It 

 hasn't a very good sale here. We get 1.^ to 17 cents 

 per lb. We are making a flsh-poiid now, of ~ acres. 

 There is a cider-mill going to start up pretty soon 

 near our house. Do you think the cider will hurl 

 the bees? Fki;i> W. Isuael. 



Damascus, (>., Aug. T, INs;,. 



Sec A i; C book in regard to cider-mills. 



now MY lA ( HANfiED A BOX HIVE INTO A FHA.ME 

 HIVE. 



] must tell you how my pa fl.ved his bo.\ hives 

 last spring. He look out the bo.\ above, and bored 

 live rows of holes in a straight line, and he made 

 frames to fit, and filled them with foundation; then 

 put them in the space between the holes. We got 

 plenty of honey. This way of g-etting honey from 

 box hives is something new here, but it was u real 

 success. Chahlie T. Stephenson, age 10. 



Kipley. Ohio. 



THE KITTEN, AM) HEK E.\PEKlENtE WITH HEES. 



I have a little kitten named Moose. It was play- 

 ing one warm day in front of one of pa's hives: and 

 seeing the bees crawling out, it ran and put its paw 

 on one bee, and then another. It thought it had 

 found something funny to play with; but the bees 

 got too hot for Moose; and I tell you. you would 

 have laughed to see him run and tumble and mew. 

 Poor fellow! He never went back there again. 



Boothesville, W. Va. Maggie Nuzitm. 



BEES going APTER W.\TEP.. 



There is a meadow just below our house, which is 

 rather swampy, and the day after a rain storm you 

 may see a great number of bees going to and com- 

 ing from this meadow before flic water settles into 

 the ground. Milton Bennett, age 6. 



Acushnet, Mass. 



Friend JSIilton, the bees go down into the 

 swampy ground for water. We haveafoun- 

 tain for ours, and we let on jtist water 

 enough so that il drips over the edge slowly. 

 The bees alight all aiotind the edge, and 

 seem to enjoy having a place where they can 

 get water every day. 



