1886 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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MAKING PRESEIJVES WITH HONEV; HOW A SEVEN- 

 VEAK-OLD HEM'S PA. 



Pa has taken Gleanings lor years, and 1 like to 

 read the little children's letters. Pa has 40 hives of 

 bees. I help extract. I carry the honey to and 

 from the extractor. Ma uncaps, and pa takes the 

 frames out and brushes otf the bees. Pa made a 

 solar wax-extractor, and it works well. Ma made 

 blackberry and apple preserves with honey, and 

 we like them. We like the apple preserves better 

 than if they had been made with honey, and it is 

 good cnou}>h for a weddiny-cake. We can not tell 

 it from sugar-cake. Allie Shumaud, age 7. 



Panacea, Mo., Aug. 4, 1880. 



Thank you, little Allie. Wi- like to hear 

 of all the different uses to which lioney can 

 be put. — When 1 was seven years old I Avas 

 "afraid of bees,"' and my pa could hardly 

 persuade me to help liim to extract. What 

 a coward 1 was, wasn't 1 ? Eknest. 



HOW TO .MAKE A QUEEN-CAGE, AS DESClilBED BY 

 A .JUVENILE. 



This is my first letter. 1 caught a bee and pulled 

 its sting out. It lived 2S hours and 33 minutes. To 

 make a cheap queen-cage, take a block of wood 1'; 

 inches high, l^.i inches wide, and 'Z inches long. 

 With an inch auger, bore a hole close to one end 

 (on the P4 side of the block) I'a inches deep. Take a 

 Vi-inch auger, bore I'rom the other end until you 

 strike the other hole. Tack a jiiece of wire cloth 

 over the large hole. Take a thin piece of wood, 

 bore a small hole in it, place it on top of the wire; 

 fill the '2-inch hole up with candy, and place a plug 

 at the end. Vihgil H. Moats, :'ge 13. 



The Bend, Defiance Co,, Ohio. 

 Your description of how to make a queen- 

 cage is pretty well done, Virgil, and I think 

 we can "catch on." Tlie cage is sometiiing 

 on the plan of the Benton cage. Ernest. 



THE FRUITS OE THE TOBACCO COLUMN. 



'ELL, Brother Hoot, I have not forgotten 

 you, although I have not thanked you for 

 the smoker you sent me last year. 1 am 

 very much obliged. I have kept my resolu- 

 tion so far. It has been over a year since I 

 quit the use of tobacco, and I have had no appetite 

 for it; and by the help of my Lord and Master I 

 never shall use the vile stuff again. 



We have had a very dry season— the dry est 1 ever 

 saw. Every thing is dried u\). We shall have but 

 little hay and oats. Bees have done poorly. They 

 have swarmed but very little. If we do not have 

 rain soon I shall have to feed for winter. Buck- 

 wheat that was sown 3 weeks ago is not up yet. We 

 had a little shower to-day that may bring it up. 

 Basswood did not bloom at all this year. I feel al- 

 most discouraged, but I put my trust in Him who is 

 able to help us in every time of need. 

 Orono, Mich., July 13, ]886. L. Reed. 



Seeing your generous ofl'er in Gleanings to 

 those who give up the use of tobacco, I have joined 

 the throng that claim the reward (the smoker). If 

 I ever resume, 1 agree to pay doul)lo price for the 

 smoker. I used the weed for over si.x years. 



Levi R, M-Vi/LKUNmi.- 



fScnv Gordo, ULs.. July 5, 18^0. . 



Please send to Elmer Divens, Good Hope, Fayette 

 Co., O., one bee-smoker, for quitting the use of to- 

 bacco. He agrees to pay cash if he fails. 



Good Hope, O.. June 33, 1886. B. R. Paxson. 



A broken pledge, but pays up. 

 Charge me with .50 cents for a smoker on tobacco 

 pledge for my brother, as he has broken his pledge. 

 Arcadia, Kan., July 8, 1886. S. C. Frederick. 



I have quit the use of tobacco. If you will send 

 me a smoker, and I ever use tobacco again, I will 

 pay you for the smoker. Bees are doing better than 

 ever before. W. J. Hester. 



Eureka Springs, Ark., July 3, 1886. 



I am an old tobacco-user, and by reading the To- 

 bacco Colunni I have resolved to quit; and as sure 

 as ever I resume, which 1 pray I never shall, I will 

 send the price of the smoker. J. C. Slocum. 



French Grove, III., June 3.5, 1886. 



Some neighbors of mine to whom 1 read Glean- 

 ings regularly, and who feel great interest in bees, 

 and who are bee-men in the old-fashioned way, 

 have, by my wish, and through my persuasion, for- 

 saken the use ot tobacco for more than one year 

 now. They have given me their word never to 

 smoke or chew again. Please send them a smoker 

 each ; and if they break faith I will pay for them. 

 Felix W. O. Schmidel. 



Fort Ogdcn, Fla., June 1.5, 1886. 



induces a friend to quit; also a kind word. 



I received the goods the 35th of May in good order. 

 I am well pleased with my frames. I have the 300 

 frames nearly full of comb and honey. I never saw 

 such a honey season as this, in all of the 1" years of 

 my bee-keeping. There is a young bee-keeper here 

 whom I induced to stop using tobacco. I told him 

 if he ^-ould never use it again you would send him 

 a smoker. Will you please send him one? I will 

 pay for it if he uses tobacco again. 



Gleanings is the best of all the papers 1 am tak- 

 ing, and I take eight different ones. Our Homes is 

 my best reading. I hope, friend Root, you will 

 have a long and happy life. May God bless all your 

 teachings. Joseph Soph. 



New Haven, Mo., June 36, 1886. 



health improved. 



I have used tobacco since I was five years old, 

 and I don't know when 1 did commence the use of 

 the we?d. I used it the day I started to school, and, 

 feeling it to be a sin against God, and knowing it in 

 no way prepared me to live a holy life, or to serve 

 God in any way, by his grace I have quit it, and am 

 in better health than I have been in for twenty 

 years, and I enjoy more of the presence and full- 

 ness of our blessed Lord; so if you have determined 

 to contribute a smoker to every one who quits, you 

 can sell the smoker and invest the amount in reli- 

 gious tracts, and distribute them for the good of 

 humanity and glory of (iod; and should I use it 

 again I will let you know, and pay you double price 

 for the smoker. L. W. Milam. 



Prescott, Ark., June l^', 1886. 



Friend M-, I htive heard it said, that in 

 the Soiitiiern States it was customary for 

 school children to use tobacco ; l)iit 1 did 

 not know bc^fore tliat they ever commenced 

 it at so early an age as live years. Tlianlt 

 jou for your kind and encouraging woj.ds. 



