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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUJ/rUKE. 



Oct. 



pretty collection. My brother takes Gleanixos, 1 

 and I li-o la rc-ii(l ilie letters from little folks. 



Nkttik H. Chaxstox, ag'e 10. 

 Woodstock, Champaign Co., ()., Sept. 19, 18!<5. 



All right, friend Nettie; but whatever 

 you do, don't be cruel to the poor butterflies 

 and bugs. If it is necessary to kill them, do 

 it with chloroform, or in some similar way, 

 so as to avoid giving them pain, or torturing 

 the poor things needlessly. Prof. Cook re- 

 cently told us how he kills bugs and insects. 



lizzie's i.etter. 



My little sister wrote you a letter today, aud I 

 thought I would try to write one; but I don't know 

 how to word a letter. Papa told me to tell you that 

 he had 156 stands of bees. He sold 31 stands for 

 $1.")6, and he sold lots of Italian queens. T am a lit- 

 tle girl, and can't do much but go to school and 

 play. LizzTE Peer, ag-e 7. 



EUismound, 111. 



SOMETHIXG from FLORIDA— fish, OYSTERS, AND 

 BEES. 



We have lots of fish and oysters down here. 1 

 think that you had better come down here and get 

 some. The bees have not done well this summer. 

 Wehave three hives of bees; we got a small barrel 

 of honey from our bees. Eva S. Olawsox. 



Hawk's Park, Florida. 



PLTTISG BEES UP STAIRS FOK WlXTEIl— RESULTS. 



My father has 15 stands of bees. I have one stand. 

 Father put one stand of bees up stairs to feed it, 

 and it got too hot for them up there, and he brought 

 it down and let them lly, and did not put it up 

 again, and it starved to death. Another one died 

 and he took out the honey and weighed it. It 

 weighed about 40 lbs. George E. Gilsox. age 12. 



Westchester, Ind^ 



HOW P.\PA AVIXTERED A SWARM ABOVK THK ( OAL- 

 STOVE. 



My papa keeps a few bees. He commenced last 

 spring with four colonies; increased to ten; we got 

 only 61 lbs. of honey. Two colonies have died dur- 

 ing the winter. My papa took one colony up stairs 

 in a room above the coal-stove, to experiment, and 

 darkened the room. They wintered very nicely, 

 and he thinks it is a good way to winter bees. 



Burlington, Pa. Edwix E. Merrix(3, age 10. 



DID OUR bees die BECAUSE OF MOLDY COMBS? 



My brothers Jasper and Philip keep bees; they 

 bought three hives of Italians last summer, and 

 they had six swarms from them; they put them 

 into the cellar after snow and frost had come. The 

 comb got moldy. They had plenty of honey. They 

 all died but two swarms. Do you think they died 

 from the comb being moldy'/ My brother takes 

 Gleanixgs. I like to read the little letters. 



Hassan, Minn. George S. Tucker. 



A LITTLE girl WHOSE SISTERS H.A.VE EACH A 

 STAXD OF BEES, BUT XONE HERSELF. 



I don't like honey very well, but I like to see the 

 bees gather it. I have five sisters, and they have a 

 stand of bees apiece, but I haven't any. Pa takes 

 your journal. I like to get it and read it. 



Glidden, la. Zella Eppert. 



I think our papas ought to give each of 

 the juveniles a swarm of bees by themselves. 

 That would enkindle a new interest, and 

 tlien what nice little letters we u-oukl have, 

 all about bees : :Mr. Ilutchinsoirs little girls. 



as he told you, have each a little swarm; 

 and JMue Eyes, you know, had the biggest 

 swarm in tlie .ipiary. When Iluber gets big 

 enough he shall have a swarm. Perhaps 

 yoin- jiapa is wailing till yon get liig enough 

 too. 



THREE HINDRKD STAXDS OF IJEES; A LITTI.K GIRL 

 WHO .MAKES HERSELF USEFUL. 



We have about 300 stands of bees. We haven't ta- 

 ken any honey since the last of July, as our honey- 

 crop is poor this year. I helped pa with the beets, 

 and liked it very well. He says he can't do without 

 me in the honey-season. W^e have Plymouth Rock 

 and Brahma chickens. Ma likes the Brahmas, and 

 pa likes the Plymouth Rocks. 



Lalla L. Martix, age 11. 



Benton, Bossier Par., La., Sept. 24, 1885. 



Well. Lalla, we have the Brahmas and 

 Plymouth Rocks too, but I rather think I 

 like the Brahmas better, so your mamma 

 and T would agree on that point. 



A PET FAWX. 



Mr. Godkins, our neighbor, has a little deer. It 

 is a year old. It wears a red ribbon with a bell on 

 it. They caught it in the lumber-woods. He gave 

 ten dollars for it, and he would not take fifty for it 

 now. They feed it cookies, cake, pie, crackers, 

 fried-cakes, bread and milk, and milk to drink. It 

 is very tame; it comes to our house, over half a 

 mile, and our dog scares it home. It is a grayish 

 color. James W. Russell, age 11. 



Gilford, Mioh. 



A SWARM OF BEES FOUXD UPOX A WIKF. FEN<K: 

 HOW THEY AVERE HIVED AXU WIXTERED. 



Two years ago my sister and I were gathering 

 llowers, and we saw a swarm of bees on the wire 

 fence. We went aud told pa, and he got an old tea- 

 box and put them in. They swarmed that summer, 

 and pa put them into a chaff hive. We wintered 

 them by turning a flfteen-bushel box down over the 

 tea-box. They wintered Avell last winter. They 

 have plenty of honey, and but few died. We had 

 over 60 lbs. of surplus honey. 



Radclifle, Iowa. Clyde Woodward, age 10. 



BREAD AND HONEY, VERSUS SKATING. 



I like to read the letters from the boys, sol thought 

 I would write one. Papa keeps about 50 swarms of 



] bees, and manufactures a chaff bee-hive, and sells a 

 good many. He buys lots of things of you. We 

 got about a ton of comb honey last year. My 

 brother and I had one swarm which we owned 

 together; but on account of the hard cold winter 

 we lost them. 



They are just finishing a roller skating-rink, 

 about 60 rods from our house; but papa has bought 

 his boys off by gi\ing us a dollar apiece, so we 

 are going to take the dollars and buy us some 

 more bees; so when the rest are breaking their 

 noses at the rink, we will eat bread and honey in 

 the parlor. Charlie B. Humason. 



! Vienna, Ohio. 



! Friend Charlie, your papa and I, I think, 

 must be about of a mind. The effect of 

 skating-rinks in our vicinity has been almost 

 altogether bad, and I dotliink parents ought 

 to try very hard to interest children in some- 

 thing at liome— at least in places where they 



, will not meet and.be on a footing with the 

 lowest and most depraved minds. 



