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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



May 



many tilings that your father does would be 

 interesting to the mass of our readers. 



nUBEIl MILLEK. 



1 have tlie smartest baby-brotlior. He is 11 

 months old. He could walk when he wr.s but ^li 

 months old ; and what do you think his name is ? It 

 beats your baby's name a Un\g way. His name is 

 Huber Miller. You know that Doctor Miller is a 

 great bee-man too. My little brother Josie is near- 

 ly 6 years old. He was paralyzed when he was 5 

 years old. He is ()uito lame in his left leg". He staj's 

 in the shop with pa nearly all tho time. He makes 

 little boxes, and calls them his bee-hives. We have 

 three \»hite rabbits. Josie and Huber like to play 

 with them. Pa's bees wintered nicely for him. He 

 has 25 colonics. Rome bee-keepers lost all their 

 bees this winter. Nannie C. Siiauer. 



North River, Virginia, April ;^ 1S86. 



^EPowg ENceaR?i6iN6. 



AN A B C SCHOLAU RECEIVES 07 LBS. OF HONEY 

 PEU COLONY. 



AM an ABC scholar, and have kept bees for a 

 year now. Last year I worked for extracted 

 honey, and look 97 lbs. per hive. My bees are 

 right in the heart of the city, and I think this 

 was doing- prettj- well. Not one colony offered 

 to swarm, and I did not increase at all. I wintered 

 them in Simplicity hives, packed with chaff, as you 

 directed in the ABC. They cam? throug-h the win- 

 ter very strong— not one colonj' lost, and all are do- 

 ing' very well now. 



SHALL, WE DIVIDE OR NOT DIVIDE, IN ORDER TO 

 GET THE MOST HONEV? 



This year I decided to work for comb honey, and 

 I should like to ask you if as much conih honey can 

 be obtained if we keep the old stock in very strong 

 condition, and give plenty of room for surplus, as 

 if you divide at the beginning of clover yield and 

 have two colouies at work. I have looked this up 

 in all my works on bee culture, and can lind no sat- 

 isfactory answer to it. Percy T. Walden. 



37 Putnam Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., Apr. 23, 1880. 



Eriend W.,the question you propound is 

 an unsettled one. See what is said in re- 

 gard to it on page 271. 



AVINTEUED 108 colonies OUT OF 110. 



I am much pleased with the new df])arture in the 

 interests of horticulture. I like this mi.ving of sub- 

 jects extremely well, and would not like to see 

 Gleanings conducted on any other principles. 



I put 110 colonies in cellar, 4 of which I expected 

 to carry out dead in winter. I have 108 " alive and 

 kicking" at this date, very quiet, and apparently in 

 good condition. 



We live on the forty-lifth parallel. Last year was 

 a poor honey-season in this part— nothing but bass- 

 Avood honey, although white clover and buckwheat 

 were abundant. We took about 2.500 lbs. from 58 

 colonic.*, spring count; increased to 110. Blacks 

 gave better returns with mo last season than cither 

 Italians or Holy Lands; in fact, the latter did noth- 

 ing but swarm, as I did not get a i)onnd of honey 

 from them, and had to feed them for winter. I am 

 trying some young queens (bat are crossed; and if 

 they don't do better, off como their heads. 



Almonte, Can. J. K. Dahling. 



TeB^cce CeMMN. 



THE undersigned, have quit the use of tobacco 



in all its forms; and if I am entitled to a 



smoker, please send the same. If I over 



^ commence again, I will pay you for the 



emoker. J. L. B.\kei{. 



Hcnton. Shelby Co., 111., F.b. 2ii, n»?>. 



1 leceived m.\' smoker, and was well |)lo;i; ed «iih 

 it; and it' 1 overuse the weed again I «ill pay ynu 

 for it. I am very much obliged to you. Gle.\n- 

 INGS comes all right. We put 8 colonies of blacks 

 in the beehousc last fall, and took 8 out. T«'o 

 were robbed, leaving •) strong colonics. 



Barber's Mills, Ind. Isa.ac TiiuossiKir.L. 



A LITTLE girl's INTEREST IN HER 15R()THE:i. 



Bi-other .lohn has quit the use of tob.icco, and de- 

 sires me to say that if you see fit to send liim a 

 smoker he will pay for it if he ever uses tobacco 

 again. Laur.a M. Hobus, age 12. 



Middleport, Meigs Co., O., Mar. 22, 18i-'R. 



Well done, friend Laura. You now see how 

 much a little girl may do if she sets about it. 

 After your brother sees your letter here in 

 print I am sure he will not want to break the 

 promise he has given here before so many 

 people. You see the promise is down in 

 white and black, and it has been printed 

 more than live thousand times, and perhaps 

 ten thousand people will see it, and he Avill 

 surely stick to it before the eyes of all this 

 great company. Don't you tlsink he will? 



AVILL QUIT THIS TIME. 



My husband has left off tobacco, and I thank 

 God. If you send him a smoker, I should be glad. 

 He left off' two mouths ago, and I guess he is in 

 earnest this time. I thought so whoi I married 

 him; but he saj^s he will own up and pay for the 

 smoker if he fails again. He is too proud to own 

 his weakness. I think j'ou will get him this time; 

 because if he did use it he Avould pay up. 



MltS. D. E. CfilCKNER. 



South Allen, Hillsdale Co., Mich., Mar. C, 1886. 



I agree Avith you, my good friend, for I 

 think we liave got him this time. If he has 

 consented to let you write this letter, to be 

 published, that consent and that promise 

 Avill brace him up to hold out. 



I saw 3'our offer in Gleanings, to any one who 

 has quit the use of tobacco. Well, 1 have induced 

 a man who is living with me, and Avho has used it 

 for 30 years, to stop. He says that he Avill never use 

 it again if you will send the smoker. I will stand 

 good for him; and if he resumes the use of tobacco 

 I Avill pay for the smoker. There is another Avho 

 has quit chewing. We had a prayer-meeting the 

 last night of the old year, and prayed and sang un- 

 til the new year, and h-? set cut to (j'lit thru, and 

 has gained ten pounds. M. Si.mpson. 



Gatcsville, Coryell Co.. Texas, Feb. 27, 1880. 



Well done, friend S. And, by the way, I 

 think one of the most efficient modes of 

 Avorking against this tobacco evil is to get 

 your friends to cpiit, and also get their con- 

 sent to let you have the promise printed in 

 Gleanincjs. If you stand good for that 

 friend, Ave shall be safe, and tlie Master will 

 stand good for us all while we aretrying to 

 further the cause of purity and temperance, 



