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this: Takeout the empty combs; pour syrup over 

 them; h ing ihein back in the hive. Papa has 43 

 colonies. He has extracted once, and they are full 

 again. He sells honey at 15 cents a pound, home 

 market. We got some strong honey, described by 

 S. G. Christol, page 851, from the white-top milk 

 weed. I think the strong or hot part soon evapo 

 rates. Clay Dillehay. 



Milford, Tex. 



The grooved-board feeder is illustrated 

 and described under " Water," in the A B 

 C of Bee Culture. 



THROWING MUD, AND SHOOTING, TO BRING DOWN 

 A SWARM. 



Last tummer papa got 100 pounds of honey from 

 12 colonies, and my brother-in-law got 60 pounds 

 from only 2 colonies. Papa caught two swarms 

 when he was extracting. He heard a lot of bees 

 buzzing, and he looked up and saw a swarm. We 

 threw mud at it, but it would not come down, and 

 then papa sent me home after the gun. He tired 

 both barrels at it, and I kept throwing mud, and at 

 last it settled on a pile of brush in a ditch. Papa 

 put a hive there, and at evening they went in it. 

 My brother came down, and he, papa, and I went 

 down to the hive and carried it to the apiary. We 

 caught the other the same way. 



Daniel W. Higgins, Jr. 



South River, Md., Feb. 22, 1889. 



Well, well ! was it the mud-slinging or the 

 shooting that finally induced the swarm to 

 alight, or did the swarm settle when it got 

 a good ready, regardless of either the mud 

 or the shot '? We suspect they got a good 

 ready. 



EXTRACTED SELLING HIGHER THAN COMB HONEY ; 



HOW PA FASTENS FOUNDATION INTO WIRED 



FRAMES. 



My pa takes Gleanings, and we are glad when it 

 comes. I have a little brother, six years old. We 

 go to school every day. My pa has 85 stands of 

 bees, packed in clover chaff, outdoors. Pa says 

 that he is going to extract more honey next sum- 

 mer than he did, as it sells better than comb honey. 

 1 help pa extract honey. I have been stung only 

 two or three times in my life. Charley is afraid of 

 the bees. 



Pa fastens the brood foundation in the brood- 

 frames with the heat of a common lamp. He sets 

 the lamp on the table and lays foundation in the 

 brood-frames and holds the frame over the lamp 

 with his left hand so as to heat the tin wire and the 

 foundation. Then he passes the finger of his right 

 hand over the wire on top of the foundation so as to 

 sink the wire into the foundation; and when it is 

 finished it looks as if the wire were sew T ed through 

 the foundation. We can fasten the foundation in 

 cold weather as well as in warm. We did not get 

 much honey last year, as it was too dry. 



Dora Kunz, age 8. 

 Linkvillo, Ind., Feb. 23, 1889. 



You probably do nice work in putting in 

 the foundation ; but how your papa can heat 

 the wire so that it will sink into the wax, 

 without spoiling the foundation by too much 

 heat, we do not quite understand. Is the 

 foundation itself left as perfect after put- 

 ting iuto the frame as before V Please tell 

 us more about it in your next letter. 



PYgELF WV W ]S[EIGJIBWS. 



CONTINUED FROM ISSUE OF MAR. 1. 



Cast me not away from thy presence; and take 

 not thy Holy Spirit from me.— Psalm 51: 11. 



9 U RING the sermon that followed the 

 Sunday-school, this peace and joy I 

 have told you of still poured into my 

 soul. The closing thought of the ser- 

 mon was something like this : 

 Some people seem to imagine that it is 

 not in their power to turn to Christ, any 

 more than it would be in the power of an 

 individual who is lost in Mammoth Cave to 

 find his way out. If no guide were near to 

 direct his steps, his case would indeed be 

 hopeless ; but Christ Jesus stands ever 

 ready to lead every willing soul from dark- 

 ness" to light. In fact, he has said, "lam 

 the light of the world. He that followeth 

 me shall not walk in darkness, but shall 

 have the light of life." 



Dear friends, I had unconsciously, as it 

 were, reached the top of one mountain. 1 

 want to use here one verse and chorus of a 

 familiar little hymn that expressed my 

 state of mind at the close of that sermon : 



The Savior comes and walks with me. 

 And sweet communion here have we; 

 He gently leads me by his hand, 

 For this is heaven's border land. 



Beulah laud, sweet Beulah land, 

 As on the highest mount I stand, 



1 look away across the sea 



Where mansions are prepared for me, 

 And view the shining glory shore, 

 My heav'n, my home for ever more. 



Last Sabbath evening I listened to a min- 

 ister who made the broad declaration that 

 all humanity are seeking happiness. I 

 thought at the time that his statement was 

 open to a little question ; but perhaps he 

 was pretty nearly right. Well, if this is 

 true, dear friends, suppose w r e consider for a 

 moment human happiness. Many of you 

 besides myself have discovered that it 

 comes oftenest w T hen we are not seeking it. 

 It was a good deal against my inclination 

 that I had decided to wait until the Sab- 

 bath was passed before resuming my trav- 

 els. My reward had come unexpectedly. 

 Perhaps part of it came because I refused 

 to go with the boys who wanted to show me 

 the natural attractions of the little town, 

 but stayed inside of my room, and studied 

 God's holy word all through the bright sun- 

 shiny morning. Jesus tells us, in that beau- 

 tiful parable, that those who had been all 

 their lives busy ministering to him were not 

 aware of it at all. When he called them to 

 their reward they replied, " Lord, when saw 

 we thee a hungered or thirsty, and gave 

 thee drink ? " etc. Instead of boasting of 

 what they had done, they had not thought 

 it worth mentioning. A great blessing had 

 come to me, simply because I was doing my 

 duty, without any thought of reward. But 

 I had been vouchsafed a taste of the waters 

 of life that I presume 1 shall never forget. 



Whosoever drinketb of the water that I shall give 

 him shall never thirst; but the water that 1 shall 

 give him shall be in him a well of water springing 

 up into everlasting life— John 4: 14. 



And I here wish to leave my testimony, to 



