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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



Every boy or girl, under IB years of age, who writes a let- 

 ter for this department, containing some valuablk fact, not 



GENERALLY KNOWN, ON BEES OB OTHER MATTERS, will receive 

 one of David Cook's excellent five-cent Sunday-school books. 

 Many of these books contain the same matter that you And in 

 Sunday-school hooks costing from $1.00 to $1.50. If you have 

 had one or more books, give us the names that we may not 

 send the same twice. We have now in stock six different 

 books, as follows; viz.: Sheer Off , Silver Keys, The Giant-Kill- 

 er; or. The Roby Family, Rescued from Egypt, Pilgrim's 

 Progress, and Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. We have also Our 

 Homes, Part I., and Our Homes, Part II. Besides the above 

 books, you may have a photograph of our old house apiary, 

 and a photograph of our own apiary, both taken a great many 

 years ago. In the former is a picture of Novice, Blue Eyes, 

 and Caddy, and a glimpse of Ernest. We have also some pret 

 ty little colored pictures of birds, fruits. Mowers, etc.. suitable 

 for framing. You can have your choice of any one of the 

 above pictures or books for every letter that gives us some 

 valuable piece of information. 



HOW ALBERT MADE A NUCLEUS. 



I had one stand of bees myself. When papa was 

 extracting honey he would cut off the queen-cells 

 and throw them away. I picked them up. leath- 

 ered young bees off the ground, and put them in a 

 box, and the queen hatched out and became fer- 

 tile. Papa extracted 120 lbs. of honey from my 

 bees last year. Albert Deglandon, age 9. 



McDade, Tex. 



BIKDS AND DUCKS. 



I do not know much about bees, so I will write 

 about birds and ducks. There are many different 

 kinds of birds. A little speckled bird has a nest in 

 a small tree in our yard. There are four little birds 

 in the nest. The old bird is very tame, and comes 

 close to the door and eats the crumbs we throw out. 

 We often throw crumbs out for them. Several 

 years ago we had some ducks and a fish-pond. In 

 the summer the water got low, and the ducks wor- 

 ried the fish to death. We sold the ducks and have 

 raised none since. Ida Hower, age 13. 



Macy, Ind., July", 1889. 



WHAT A LITTLE GIRL THINKS OF THE SERMON OF 

 ILTLY 15. 



I think the sermon of July 15 is good. 1 think 

 that Christians ought to join the church as soon as 

 they are converted. I joined the church when 1 

 was II years old, and I never have regretted it and 

 never shall. I intend to live for Christ as long as I 

 live. A protracted meeting begins at Dyer to-night, 

 and I hope we shall have a revival of religion at 

 this place. The county Sunday-school convention 

 will be held at Dyer this month. I am very much 

 interested in Sunday-schools, and I wish to attend 

 and learn something if I can. 



Dyer, Ark. Rosa Manuel, age 14. 



BEE-KEEPING IN FILLMORE CO., MINN. 



Six years ago my father got two colonies of bees, 

 and now we have 115. Mr. Shaw, one of our neigh- 

 bors, hail a colony of bees that swarmed three 

 times in three days. Did you ever hear of such a 

 thing? People say they never saw so much white 

 clove as there is this year. There is a large number 

 of runaway bees this year. One of our neighbors 

 had a swarm of bees go into his barn, and another 

 swarm went down the chimney of his house, Do 



you think bees are deaf? Most people think bees 

 can hear, but father says they can not. My broth- 

 er found a swarm of bees at one of the neighbors'. 

 He helped put it in a box, for they had no hive, and 

 the last we heard from them they were doing nice- 

 ly. Peter H. Sevey, age 12. 

 Preston, Minn., July 22, 1889. 



Yes, friend Peter, bees will swarm three 

 times in three successive days ; and it' the 

 queen's wings are defective this is nothing 

 unusual. Tell your papa that those compe- 

 tent to know think bees can hear. We all 

 have good evidences of it. 



THROWING WATER AT SWARMS. 



When our bees swarm we throw water at them, 

 and they settle. We put salt water in the hive, and 

 they go in. Hattie Forrey. 



Harrison, Kan., Mar. 39, 1889. 

 Water is a good thing to bring down 

 swarms, but salt water, we feel sure, has 

 little to do with making the swarm accept 

 the hive. 



PAPA'S BEES; THE NICE WniTE SECTIONS, ETC. 



Papa has about 50 stands. We have had about 9 

 swarms this summer, and could have had more if 

 we had wanted them; but papa cuts out the queen- 

 cells, and that stops the swarming. He uses the 

 Simplicity hive, and he thinks it is the best. He 

 also uses the yucca brush when extracting. I like 

 the little white sections you send us, when they 

 come out of the hive, full of nice white honey. 



Papa has taken the premium at the fair, and 

 everywhere he has exhibited. He took out about 

 4000 lbs. of nice honey last season. He has the A B 

 C book, and I like to read it very much. 



Reno, Nevada. Flossie Moohe, age 10. 



PAPA'S BEE-CELLAH. 



Pa moved all his bees, about sixty hives, two 

 miles, a year ago last December, and put them in a 

 new cellar under our new house, which looked nice 

 and clean, with a cement floor. During the winter 

 the cellar got awful damp and cold, nearly freezing. 

 We did not move to the new house until March. 

 About two-thirds of the hives were dead by the 

 middle of May. We had no honey last year. Pa 

 fed the bees on white sugar syrup last fall. We 

 have a furnace in the cellar where the bees are this 

 winter. Pa has a thermometer hanging on one 

 hive, which stands about 47° or 4S°. 



Florence M. Hartman, age 10. 



Woodbridge, Ont., Can. 



BEES IN GERMANY. 



The last report I have had from Germany, bees 

 are doing well. They are gathering heather honey 

 at present. Heather honey is about the best, and it 

 blooms for a long time. This honey is sold in the 

 comb, as it can not be extracted. The hives papa 

 sent out with mamma are now tilled with bees. 

 Bee-keepers from all around have been looking at 

 our hives, etc., in our German apiary. 



To-day papa bought a large swarm. It cost about 

 $2 00; but he gave a smoker and an A B C book for 

 it. Do you think it is worth it? Our bees are Ail- 

 ing up boxes very fast. We had a lot of weak 

 stocks which we united, and papa thiuks that hon- 

 ey will bring a large price next fall. In Gleanings 

 of July 15 I noticed that the price of extracted hon- 

 ey was 7 ets. per pound. We sell all our honey at 



