1884 



GLEANING^ In iBfiE CULTUttE. 



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F.vci-\ trill or boy. under 15 years of 

 a;;e. who « i ite- a letter tor this dejiart- 

 ment, tontaimno somk valuable fact, 



NOT (>•• Nl RALLY KNOWN. ON BEES O OTHER 



MATTERS, will 1 e<-eive one of David Cook's 

 fX(.-ellent (i\e lent Sunday-school books. 

 M.iiiv ot tlit-e books contain the same 

 iii.itlei til It >ou Hnd in Sunday-school 

 book^ i-.,stiMtJ:"liom Sl.OO to $1.50. If you 

 h He had one or more books, give us the 

 n lines that we may not send the same 

 twu-e. We have now in stock, six different 

 books, as follows: Silver Keys, Sheer Oft, 

 The Giant Killer, The Roby Family, Res- 

 cued'f rom Egypt, and Ten Nights in a Bar- 

 lioom. 



' A chiel's araang ye takin' notes; 

 An' faith, he'll prent it." 



irp GOOD many messages for Huber come 



^K in these littl<^ letters, and one little 

 ill girl asks me to tell more about him. 

 -^^ Well, he is now almost a year old, as 

 you may remember, and "he goes all 

 over the house, and would go up stairs if not 

 watched and stopped. He soils his clothes 

 so much that liis mother has made him a 

 creeping-skirt. i)ut I call it his '' overalls.'' 

 It is lucky he has overalls, too ; for a few 

 days ago lie slipped off and crept into the 

 pantry. As his mother was very busy, and 

 as she thou.ght she had put every thin.g away 

 lip high, slie concluded to risk him there 

 awhile. lie was very (luiet and still for 

 some time, and tinally she thought she heard 

 something that sounded like eggs. What do 

 you think V lie had got the egg-basket and 

 "picked out the eggs one by one admiringly, 

 and put them in liis lap. Then lie tliought 

 he would put tlieni liack in the basket again: 

 l)ut as laying them in carefully was too slow 

 business," he just tossed them in. We had 

 plenty of eggs for sui)i)er. and mamma didn't 

 have "to go to the trouble of breaking them. 

 He daulied eggs all over his face and hair, 

 and all over his clotlies. When found, he 

 lie was gazing at his fat lingers daul)ed with 

 white and yellow, and then he tried in vain 

 to pick up the yellow and ])ut it in liis .iuicy 

 little mouth. 



Next day he got a plate of comb honey ; 

 and after he had fed iiimself, baby fashon, 

 he experimented liy getting a liandful of 

 honey, and then oi)eiiing anil closing his lit- 

 tle list. Yesterday he made aiiotlier voyage 

 into the pantry, and managed to reacli tlie 

 coffee-mill. lie pulled the drawer out ; and 

 when his mother found him lie had .just liii- 

 ished sifting tlie ground coffee pretty evenly 

 all over the tloor. He can neither talk nor 

 walk yet ; Imt if you should see him when 

 lie first gets sight of his papa, you would 

 readily believe me wlien I tell .vou that he 

 succeeds pretty thorouglily in making every- 

 body understand what his" wishes are. 



He already loves the honey-bees, and I can 

 not tell which would set him wild (luickest 

 —to say to him, ''Go see bees with papaV" 

 or ''Go see the great big engine, and see 

 wheels go roinid. round, round T' 



Now, then, little friends, I have told my 

 st(n-y, you go and tell yours. 



KITTYS REPORT OF HER PAPA'S WINTERINO. 



My pupa keeps bees. Last winter he put away 70^ 

 and lost about one-third of them. 



KiTTIE M. Barqar. 

 Border Plains, Webster Co., Iowa, April 15, 1884, 



3000 LBS. OF HONEY FROM 3T HIVES. 



Papa has 37 hives of bees. We got over 3909 IbS; 

 of hone.v last summer. I have a little brother three 

 years old. He got stung last summer under his eye. 

 Carrie Sheeres. 



Clarksburg. Out., Can., March 15, 1884. 



CHARLEY'S LETTER. 



The willows are in bloom, but it is so cold that the 

 bees can't gather any thing. It is raining all the 

 time out here. Pa led the bees rye flour, and they 

 gathered it up in a hurry. Charley Nelsox. 



Dauforth, 111., April -M, 1884. 



HOW TO iMAKE RUSTIC BEE-HIVES. 



My brother keeps bees. He has three swarms. 

 He lost two this winter. He made two hives; they 

 look like log houses. They are rustic work, and look 

 very nice. He buys his goods of E. T. Flanagan, 

 and he says he would buy from no other. 



Webster Grove, Mo., Apr. 33, '84. Maky Stahl. 



FROM 1 SKIP to 10 " SKIPS." 



My grandpa gave me a skip of bees, and they in- 

 creased to 10; they make a good deal of honey from 

 basswood. I help make wide frames. Mamma says 

 God says he gave six days to labor, and the seventh 

 day to rest. Tho.m.\s H. Willi.\mson. age 10. 



Covert, Seneca Co., N. Y., March 17, 1SS4. ' 



.joe s report. 

 My inothoi- has l.'i hives of bees, and has sold two, 

 11(1 1 lia\-e two of my own, but have had no swarms 

 et- My father doesn't like to have any thing to do 

 •ith bees, but likes the hone.v mighty well. 



.Toe B. Greexe, age 14. 

 Bii'ininghain, Ala., Apr. 30, 1884. 



THE WAY CHARLEY EARNED HIS SWAH.M OF liEES, 



T promised to let you know how I got m.v colon.\' 

 of bees. They belonged to mamma. Slie gave them 

 to me for helping her last summer. I help her 

 wash dishes, mind my little brother, and many other 

 things. Charley A. Seabright. 



Blaine, Ohio, April 25, 1884. 



the way rose's papa MAKES X SWARMING-POLE. 



T wrote to you once before. Mj' father takes a 

 long stick, and then some hemlock boughs, and fas- 

 tens them upon the stick, and then takes some mul- 

 lein-stalks, puts them in with the hemlock, and it 

 looks like bees, and the swarm m'oos there. 



New Milford, Pa., Apr. 23, 1884. Rose Smith. 



ALICE'S SECOND LETTER. 



I write to let you know how our bees are doing. 

 They all got through the winter but four hives, and 

 they died. We have 18 hives left. I help my ma 

 milk. We have two little calves and one little chick- 

 en. I help m.v sister Katie wash the dishes. This is 

 my second letter. Alice Goitoh, age 10. 



Bock Spring, Mo., April 17, 1884. 



