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<uj':anixgs in bee culture 



Mar. 



drone In my band. I cleaned all the sections and 

 frames last fall. 1 can nail frames. I go out 

 among- the bees with bare feet and hands. I can 

 help carry a hive of bees easily. We learned quite 

 a lesson last summer in Ivee-keepiug-, that cost us a 

 g-ood hive of bees. It was a strong- swarm of bees. 

 It made a lot of honey, and swarmed three times. 

 The last swarm had four (lueens. We saw them go 

 in. The old hive was the last hive on the row, but 

 papa set the new hive right beside of it, within 

 about tive or six feet. The new hive was just like 

 the old one, and now it was the last one in the row. 

 The bees in the old hive were in the habit of flying 

 into the last hive in the row, and must have made a 

 mistake and flew intt> the new hive as they came 

 from the fields. The queens must have all gone 

 with the last swarm, and they failed to raise a 

 queen. They became so weak that the other bees 

 began to rob them. We had a fine time with rob- 

 bing in the apiary. Akthur Bossemeyer. 

 Dixon, 111. 



Many thanks, my young friend, tor your 

 good report. The "investment ceitainly was 

 a profitable one, was it not? You are not 

 only $3.00 ahead in cash, but you have a 

 good swarm of bees, and, more than all, a 

 stock of experience that will be worth some- 

 thing to you in your future investments of 

 this kind. These habits of enterprise we 

 like to encourage. We will here give notice 

 to the little folks, that our promise, as made 

 on page 317 last year, still liolds good. We 

 there agreed to send any girl or boy, who 

 coidd send in a yoocl report as the proceeds 

 of his own work, and his own bees, for the 

 past season, a beautiful panel cliromo. JJy 

 the conditions of this promise, I thinlc, 

 friend Arthur, you are fully entitled to the 

 present, and we therefore selid you one. We 

 shall be ])leased to hear froni other little 

 l)oys and girls who can give us a report of 

 what they did with their own bees ; and if you 

 sold your honey, where and how you did it. 



'FeB^cce OeMMN. 



A CHANGE OF MODI'S OPEKANDI. 



J_^ Y father-in-law, with whom I ha\e spent the 

 last month, is a bee-keei)er on a small 

 m^ scale. He never smoked bees, but often 

 smoked himself and other people with a 

 pil)e. Now, he has determined to change 

 his modus operandi by smoking bees instead of 

 people. 1 have every reason to believe he has 

 abandoned tobacco for ever, for he is persecuting 

 the weed among- his neighbors with a vim that but 

 few people can muster. Please send him a smo- 

 ker; and if he ever smokes tobacco again I will 

 pay you for a dozen bee-smokers. I am myself a 

 "great past-master smoker," an enemy to tobac- 

 co—hardly ever known to raise a Hag of truce— no. 

 never. . Anthony Johnson. 



Essex, la., Jan. :i9, 1W7. 



Many thanks, friend J. We wish there 

 were more like you. 



John Trego wants you to send him a smoker to 

 this olHce, and agrees, if he uses tobacco again, to 

 pay you for it. E. Liston. 



Virgil City, Mo., Jan. ;.'7, 1S87. 



A YOUNO FRIEND HAS QUIT. 



I have a friend addicted to the use of tobacco, 

 with whom I have been laboring to have him quit, 

 and he has finally consented to leave it off. He is 

 a fine young man, just beginning the manage- 

 ment of bees. I will see that you get your pay for 

 a smoker if he takes it up again. 



E. Van Fradenburgh 

 (Pastor Baptist Church). 

 West Fulton, Scho. Co., N. V., Jan. 13, 1887. 



HAS USED TOBACCO AI.I/ HIS LIFE. 



1 used tobacco in various forms all my life until 

 the past six months. I have now abandoned the 

 weed altogether. 1 am very willing to pay the 

 price of the smoker should I ever use tobacco 

 again. E. B. Johnson. 



Manatee, Fla., Nov. 18, 188fi. 



1 have never used tobacco to any great extent, 

 but I have smoked cigars frequently. For over 

 six months I have quit the use of tobacco; now, if 1 

 am entitled to a smoker, please send me one, and 

 if I smoke again I will pay you the price of it. 



Boscobel, Wis., Jan. 22, 1887. V. V. Main. 



I prevailed on my brother, on the 1st of Jan., to 

 quit using tobacco, telling him you would send us 

 a smoker free of cost. If he ever uses tobacco 

 again I promise to pay you for the smoker. 



Hillsdale, Mich., Jan. 7, 1887. W. L. Hunker. 



Mr. Elihu Baimbridge told me that, if you would 

 send him a smoker, he would quit smoking and 

 never use tobacco again. If be does he will pay 

 you for the smoker. A Neighbor. 



F''armington, W. Va., Feb. 5, 1887. 



Mr. M. M. Jones, one of my neighbors, has quit 

 the use of tobacco. He quit the last of September, 

 and says he never intends to use it again; and if 

 you still give a smoker, please send him one as a 

 reminder of his resolution. He has used tobacco 

 for many years. R. L. Patten. 



Cooper Sta., N. Y , Feb. 1, 1887. 



Thanks, friend P. The more neighbors 

 you induce to give up the weed, the better. 



Please send me a smoker for quitting- the use of 

 tobacco. If I ever use it again I will pay you for 

 two. Fred Bassbtt. 



Bast Kendall, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1887. 



I used tobacco for ten years, but have not used 

 any for three months and I do not think I shall 

 ever use any again, if you will send me one of 

 your smokers, and I commence using the weed 

 again, 1 will pay you for the smoker. 



Henry Keinheimek. 



Callicoon, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1887. 



1 was telling my neighbor, Mr. Green, that you 

 would give a smoker to every man who would 

 quit using tobacco. He has (juit, and promises to 

 pay for the smoker if he ever uses tobacco again, 

 and I will vouch for it. He has used tobacco for a 

 number of years, and is confident that it does him 

 a great injui-y. His old father has quit using to- 

 bacco. He has used it since he was a boy. He 

 does not ask for a smoker. His health is better 

 than it has been for a good many years. 



Fleetville, Pa., Feb. 8, 1887. C. D. Farnha.m. 



