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empty hive. I then took a stronj? colony of bees, 

 and, after sociiriiifr the queen, shook all the bees 

 (except a few) In the liivc I had prepared, and re- 

 leased the queen in the old hive. I thei: removed 

 tiie n3\v hive some distance and let it remain over 

 ni^ht. The next day the workers nearly all return- 

 ed to the parent hive, leaving a fair colony of bees 

 with but few workcr.s and a hive full of brood, with 

 nothing- to feed it. Now is the time to give them a 

 (lueen and put on the boxes containing: the honey- 

 dew. The young bees carried it down, as 1 expect- 

 ed they would, to feed the bi-ood and stoie it iu the 

 combs below. The object of leaving- the queen 

 with the parent colony is, that worker-bees will 

 have less inducement to remain Avith the new colo- 

 ny. Of course, they will empty the boxes, and we 

 lose what white-clover honey had leen deposited in 

 them. 



Tile lionej-dfw honey is not so dark, nor does it 

 have such a strong, sliarp, unpleasant taste its in 

 the year 1W4, when it was so remarkal)ly abundant. 

 It will be remcmliered, that the winter following- 

 there was great mortality among bees, which some 

 accounted for by feeding- this dark honey for win- 

 ter stores. Whether it is a secretion from a differ- 

 ent insect from that of 1884, 1 am not able to say; 

 but I incline to the opinion it is the same insect, 

 and that bees worked on white clover at the same 

 time they were gathering it, which causes a mix- 

 ture of the two vai ieties, and accounts for its not 

 being so dark as it was in that year. If this was 

 the cause of the great mortality of the winter of 

 1884-'8,"i, liee-keepers may expect the same result the 

 coming winter, unless some jjrecautions arc taken 

 in excluding it from winter stores. But as I then 

 wintered one colony successfully on that secretion 

 alone, I feel like trying some more the coming 

 winter. 



Bees are now working on a siieeies of smartweed 

 which usually begins to bloom about the ~d or ;3d of 

 July, but which bloomed this season about ten days 

 earlier. Gko. Wisf^iiEAUT. 



lola, Ills., .Tuly lli, isso. 



Friend W., your i)Iaii of gettius honey- 

 dew out of the "sections is quite ingenious in- 

 deed. It seems too bad to lose the white 

 lioney also wheie a great i)()rlioii of it is 

 light. Would it not oe possible, by keeping 

 careful watch of the liees while they are 

 bringing it in, to get them to take out the 

 honey-dew before it is s-ealed up, without 

 disturbing the capped honey? 



PBIEND TERRY TALKS TO US ABOUT 

 HOME INFLUENCES. 



ALSO A HINT TO TIIE WOMEN-KOI.KS JN ItEGAHD 

 TO SPRINKLING CLOTHKS b'OIl lUONlNG-DAY. 



flilEXD ROOT: — I have been thinking for some 

 days, while at work, about an idea thrown 

 out by you in GLicANiNCis lor June 1, about 

 little things shaping the future lives of our 

 boys and girls. I am perfectly sure that they 

 do. The simplest thing, done in a neat and tid.\- 

 maiiner, before the children, will have its effect on 

 their future lives, and it will be the same also if 

 there is no attempt at order or neatness. A crook- 

 ed stovepipe is an educator to the little ones as 

 surely as the schoolteacher, or a door that won't 

 shut, or a g.ate off the hinge,s, or ajShUtless-looking 



dooryard; all such matters will leave an impress on 

 the children's minds that will make it seem natural 

 for them to have similar surroundings when they 

 grow up. We parents ought to think of this. When 

 I was a small boy I thought, boylike, that father 

 was over-particular about many things. I used to 

 say to him, " Father, what is the use of spending so 

 much time to get those potato-rows so straight (in 

 the gai'den)y" Or. "What is the use of doing so 

 much work in that dooryard?" You see, I was a boy- 

 then, and thought more of play; but father was 

 looking ahead, and brouglit me up surrounded by 

 such an atmosphere that 1 am necessarily as partic- 

 ular, if not more so, than he was; and many a time 

 have I felt thankful for it. 



When I see every thing at loose ends around a 

 farmer's home, I can not help luit think the chances 

 are nearly all in favor of tiie children being just 

 like him. If there is a nice lawn, and walks and 

 flowers, and neatly painted buildings, and jiretty 

 trees, and every thing looks neat and tasty, I can 

 tell almost to a certainty how things will look 

 around the children's homes when they get some of 

 their own, the surroundings of childhood have so 

 much to do with the future grown person. A 

 shiftless man -whom I once knew, was being reprov- 

 ed for his conduct by a friend, when he broke out 

 in defense with: "You know my father and my 

 Uncle James and my Uncle Henry, don't youV" 



" Yes." 



" Well, then, what more could you expect of mv'^" 



To be honest, one had no business to expect any 

 thing very much better of him. Now, 1 want to say 

 to every reader of Gleanings, Think twice before 

 you say " no" when the good wife wants you to Hx 

 things up a little— to mow the dooryard. to get her 

 some flowers to make home beautiful. 1 know a 

 man who is worth .f.5O,tO0 at least, who grumbled 

 about it because his wife Avantcd him to get her a 

 few flowers at cents apiece. Ah ! money is the 

 only thing worth living for, in his eyes. 



You may say that the love of the beautiful and of 

 order and neatness are not so important as good 

 moral training. Perhaps not ; but the former will 

 strengthen the latter. They are sorts of sugar- 

 coated i)ills that will do good without being hard to 

 take. At any rate, the children can not refer to 

 your failings in future years, and say, " What more 

 could you expect of me?" 



Now, friend Hoot, I want to tell you about some- 

 thing that I found going on in my dooryard the oth- 

 er day. You may remember we got some wire 

 clothes-line and a Whitnuiii'sfountain pumj) of you, 

 among other things, last spring. Well, I found one 

 of my daughters sprinkling the clothes, on the line, 

 with the pump, after which they were rolled up and 

 put in the basket ready for ironing. It was (juite a 

 saving in time over the old way; and with a little 

 care it can be done very nicely. This is a use for 

 the pump that I do not believe you ever tliought of. 

 To be sure, it is a little matter; but I am glad al- 

 ways to do what I can to make the work of the la- 

 dies, nei.'essarily (piite too nu)noton()us, as pleasant 

 and easy as i)ossible. In my next letter 1 want to 

 talk to the husbands and fathers a little about some 

 imiirovements indoors. T. B. Tehuv. 



Hudscin, Ohio, July, 18S(i. 



Thanks, friend Terry. Your idea is cer- 

 tainly novel, in regard to sprinkling clotlies, 

 and i am going to have my wife make a test 

 of it at once. The cheap Smitli i)ump, which 



