1886 



GLEANINGS IN JJEE CULTURE. 



iX)9 



Jimmy's mother made no reply ; but it 

 was quite evident that all her husband had 

 said to the cont"rar\ had not altered her 

 opinion one whit. 



We will tell you more about Ted and Jim- 

 my next month ; but now we must give way 

 tor the juvenile letters. KuxKsr. 



BEES IN TEXAS. 



Our bt'os gather honey from ctiteluw. luesiiuite, 

 horseniiut, aud luany otlier small plants. It is so 

 warm that our bees are left on their summer 

 stands all winter, and they never think of freezing-. 

 Papa's bees are mostly Italians. Ada .NrcPiiAii,. 



(iallinas, Te.vas. 



THE HEDDOX HIVE. 



I'apa likes the new Heddon hive, but he says 

 your chaft' hive would be better for bees so far 

 north. Last year we got 250U lbs. of extracted hon- 

 ey from ;]0 colonies. One swarm put in <)5 lbs. in 

 three days when basswood was in bloom. This 

 year it was very di\v, and pa thinks the frost killed 

 the basswood-blossoms. We did not get nuich hon- 

 ey this summer. I like to work and go to school. 

 Manceloua, Mich. Enois Springer. 



I believe that Mr. Ileddon does not elaim 

 that his new hive is adapted to outdoor 

 wintering, but that as it is so light it can 

 easily be carried into a cellar (h* other repos- 

 itory. Its lightness, togetlier with the fact 

 that its frames are fixed, so as not to shuck 

 around, he says makes it comparatively easy 

 to carry it to and from the cellar. For out- 

 door wintering there is nothing better than 

 the chatf hive, or at least chalf packing of 

 some sort. Eunkst. 



HUBER, AND WHAT HE IS DOING. 



We have had no cold weather yet this fall, but 

 we are expecting- it all the time. How is Huber 

 now? He must be a big-boy by this time. 



Decorah, la , Oct. 30, 188B. Anna Brii-hner. 



Iluber is getting to be (juite a big fellow 

 now, and he grows so fast that sometimes I 

 think it can't be Iluber any more. Lately 

 he has taken a great liking to machinery, 

 and especially to onr new big engine. If 

 you were to come here I think he would tell 

 you all about how these big wheels go round. 

 He likes to see the new machinery so well 

 that we have been afraid he might get hurt, 

 and so we have told him that he musn't go 

 near the wheels except when his papa, his 

 l)ig brother Ernest, or his brother-in-law 

 Jolm goes with him. lie and the engineer 

 have big times together: and when it is time 

 for our big steam-whistle to blow, if Iluber 

 happens to be around, the engineer lets him 

 blow it. and my! he toots so loud that it is 

 an actual fact you can hear him toot all 

 over town. " Ehnest. 



A GOOD REPORT FROM .MINNESOTA. 



We had o2 swarms last spring. We lia\e '>'^ 

 swarms now; they are all nice Italians. We have 

 extracted :i.5() gallons of honey, and havetidO lbs. of 

 comb honey. 



One colony, which did iiol send out a swarm, 

 filled 4;i one-pound sections and three boxes of 

 frames. We never had such nice honey, nor so 

 much. The season has been so dry that honey is 

 so thick it is slow work to dip it. Oui- l)ees made 

 much honcv I'T-oni red clover, which we thought 



extra, but it was not iiuite so white as from white 

 clover, but very rich and nice. 



Ma has made ginger cake of lioney, but she likes 

 sugar best. I will give you the recipe; 



;> cups of honey; 1 cup of butter; 1 teaspooiiful of 

 soda; 1 teaspoonful of einnanion; 1 tsiblespoonful 

 of ginger. 



I came very near having a swarm of my own this 

 summer. J was feeding- my chickens, auff I heard 

 a swarm over my head. I ran to call ija, who was 

 putting hay in the barn; and when he got to th<' 

 yard, exiK'cting to titid them settled, ready t(j hi\e, 

 they had "gone west." Pa followed them a mile 

 and a half, but they did not alight. Lvuv HisitEK. 



r.yle, ISIowcr Co., Minn., Oct. 1.5, 188S. 



My experience is, that cakes made witli 

 honey instead of other sweetening are not as 

 good, though I never saw tlie day wiien I 

 didn't like iioney-junibles. i'!i;xi:sr. 



(JLADDYS M.VUD. 



The following little piece of poetry Mabel 

 has just laid on my desk. Who is 'Mabel V 

 Why. d(_)n"t you remember when she wrote a 

 letter for Glkaninos. telling about her 

 papa's bees, about a year ago y Who is 

 lier i)apa':' Why. he is Neighbor II.. that 

 great big "Uncle lieu.'' as the children 

 all call him. He it was who fui'uished us so 

 many and so nice queens for our trade lasl 

 summer, aftei" foul brood bioke out in our 

 own apiary. Who is Gladdys Maud? That 

 blue-eyed little chick over across the way. 

 The lines below describe her exactly, far 

 better than I could if I should try. 



cousin .MABEL'S BABY-SISTER. 



I have a little sister. 



Her name is Gladdys Maud; 

 Hut papa sometimes calls her 



His little " tiny fraud." 

 And this darling little sister 



Weighs all of eighteen pounds; 

 Her eyes are blue as violets. 



And her hair is short aud bi-own. 

 This precious little girlie 



Is only six months old; 

 Although her hair's not curlj". 



She's worth her weight in gold. 



Mabel Harrington, age 8. 

 There, now; don't you wish j/oic had a 

 blue-eyed sister like Gladdys Maud V 



t^KXKsr. 

 t'ARNIOL.^NS THE CROSSEST BEES. 



My i)apa has three kinds of bees— big brown, Ital- 

 ian, and Carniolans. The Carniolans are the Gross- 

 est bees he has. Papa sa.\s that they are probably 

 a cross between'the albino and brown Germans; at 

 least, he thinks that they must be hybrids of some 

 sort. Papa thinks that you and Prof. Cook and 

 some other wise men make some grand mistakes, 

 such as bees producing- wax by eating honey; bees 

 gathering- cotton and other fibrous matter to cap 

 their brood: the rjueen changing the sex of her 

 eggs at will; froth-bugs ami leal-hopiicrs, and your 

 idea of a strain of queens that will not fight each 

 othei-. Papa says he would not give a cent a thou- 

 sand lor such queens. Sallie MORROW. 



Wallaceburg. Ark., <»et. li, isSti. 



It seems to me, friend Sallie, your papa is 

 a little hasty, is he not? Prof. Cook dem- 

 onstrates pretty thoroughly, by experience 

 and experiment, every thing he puts in 

 l)rint : ;ni(l I do not think either of us write 



