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MRS. 



CHADDOCK'S VIEWS ON BEE- 

 PASTURAGE. 



THE STUDENT BUSINESS. 



'HEN I began to keep bees I did it with the 



digtinct understanding- with myself that T 

 would never sow a seed of any kind to 

 raise pasturage for bees. I said, "If bees 

 don't pay with what nature furnishes 

 them, then I won't keep bees." So in reading 

 Gleanings and the other journals, when I come to 

 an article about any kind of bee-pasture I skip it. 

 When I received the ABC book I read almost eve- 

 ry thing in it. I do not remember now, but I sup- 

 pose I skipped all the bee-pasture in that too. 



Last week I took a notion to raise some alsike 

 clover, if I can be convinced that it is as good a 

 hay crop as red clover. Mr. Chaddock is willing to 

 sow an acre; but what is one arre! I want "0 acres, 

 and I am trying to persuade the farmers near me 

 to sow some of it. I will give them the seed. If it 

 only blooms at the same time that the white clover 

 docs, it will be hardly worth while to sow it, for there 

 are not half bees enough around here to gather 

 the white-clover honey. If the first crop is cut 

 while in blossom, what is to hinder the second 

 crop from bearing seed? If alsike is no better for 

 honey tlian buckwheat is here, then it is useless 

 to sow it for the bees. Th(>re has been no honey, 

 to amount to anything, in the buckwheat around 

 here, more than once in ten years. 



HOW MRS. CHAUUOCK OOT INTO THE STUDENT 

 BUSINESS. 



You ask how I came to go into the "student liusi- 

 ness." I did notao into it; it came upon me, .just 

 as other people are titHicted with boils and car- 



buncles. You know— or, rather, you don't know, 

 that I have a few dozen nieces and a few score of 

 cousins, and several hundred young woman-friends, 

 besides my own daughters, who are always coming 

 to me for advice and help. They all learned, a 

 good while ago, that I was fond of giving advice, 

 and I think they come to me a good many times to 

 tell their troubles when they care not a whit about 

 the advice. They want some one to talk it over 

 with, and so they come to me. They are nearly 

 all "school-marms;" a few are dressmakers, and 

 one or two (if them work out. One of the fairest 

 and best of them all is " my student." She is a 

 "school-marm," and a good one. She can earn 

 from .?25 to $40 a month teaching, and she likes it. 

 But every once in a while (generally during vaca- 

 tion), she takes a notion to clerk in a store, or be 

 a milliner, a farmer, or something. This vacation 

 she is going to be a beekeeper. She wears long 

 dresses that touch the ground all around, and has 

 her bangs done up most of the time. She has 

 white dresses to wash everj' week, and six white 

 skirts. I do not believe she is in earnest; and if 

 she were she has no time for it. That is the rea- 

 son I do not want to bother with her. But over 

 yonder at the back of our fields lives Mollyony 

 Jolmson. She is a Swede gii-l, 18 years old. She 

 is a little round-shouldered, has red hair, and great 

 big freckles. She is a good girl, and I like her; 

 and if she wanted to stay with me and learn bee- 

 keeping I would take her gladly. She is always 

 laughing; and when she goes to wash the windows 

 she says, " I don't think so I can do it good," but 

 she always d(*C8 do it "good." She doesn't scream 

 when a bee stings her, nor run from snakes, nor 

 wear bangs. I like Mollyony for everyday wear 



