1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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iiishes a still more important fact, however. 

 True, he prints his letter (mostly in capitals); 

 but still his caution about letting frogs eat 

 up the ))ees is a very valuable one. Just read 

 his letter. You see, he is only seven years 

 old, so he can not even print very well. 



fRoggS. 



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 ,'/0", A- LlittER. i. STwtH.E OtHER. LiTfLE. BOYs 

 wRitiNG. to. YoL". pA. Has. !). StaNDS- °F. BEEs. 

 AND pA. has. (Oo. \vAt:H. tHE m. EvEKv. iiiGHt. 

 To. KecP tlEaCc fRsG«s. a WaY. t HEy. jUMp. 

 RigHt. Up. -to. tllE. LiGhtixVG./^OArD. And. Sit. 

 tHEvE. UnJiLL. °Ne. co.VeS. oUt. n ND. tHEsi. 

 tHEY. s WALLOW. IIim.-4ND. tHcN. wAitE. F°K. 

 rtN^tHER. HNtiLL. He. makes. HiS. sUPpcRnFF. 

 O F. tHE- BEES. LoDA. hUnT. age. V. 



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I think I have heard before, Loda, that 

 frogs sometimes learn to eat bees. Toads, 

 we know, do very often ; but frogs are so 

 much more plentiful near marshy siKits,that 

 they might do a large amount of damage. 



WHY THE BEES WOTLD NOT WOKK IN THE SEC- 

 TIONS. 



The bees will not work in raj' sections. Will you 

 please tell me why, and also the remedy? I have 

 tried to make them work by putting some comb 

 with a little honey in the sections, but they took the 

 honey out. They have plenty of honey in the brood- 

 chambers. G. W. GitANGEK. 



Rochester, Minn., June :;3, 1881. 



I think, my friend, the main trouble is, 

 that your bees are not getting honey now. 

 If you put starters of fdn., or pieces of white 

 comb in your sections, and place tliein right 

 over the brood-nest, the V)ees will surely 

 store honev in them if they are getting any. 

 The fact that they took the honey out of the 

 starter-combs is "pretty conclusive they are 

 }iot getting much from the tield. 



BEES ON BEHMUUA GKASS. 



Siin<lay morning-, papa was walking: around the 

 apiary, and he discovered the bees working- on Ber- 

 muda grass. He was very much surprised. The 

 Bermuda grass is the finest grass that we have in 

 the South, tor grazing; it is nearly equal to the far- 

 famed blue grass of Kentucky. I will send you 

 some of the blooms of the Bermuda grass. 



Neeme Boles. 



Church Hill, Miss., June 30, 18^4. 



Now, Nellie, were the bees not getting 

 pollen only instead of honey V They get 

 pollen froin ragweed, ;iiid sometimes from 

 timothy. We have sent your specimen of 

 liermuda grass to Prof. La'zenby, asking him 

 to tell us if he ever heard of bees working 

 on it. 



WHY DID THEY SWAUM SO MUCH? 



Papa had 30 colonies of bees in the spring, and 

 now he has .'iS. I have one hive that I found. Papa 

 settled and hived them. I have a question I want to 

 ask you. Papa had two swarms on the 17th of June, 

 which he hived, both queens having their wings 

 clipped so they could not fly: they swarmed every 

 day, and some days twice, to the 22d. They swarm- 

 ed twice on that day. Papa says he never had any 

 such swarming before. He can not tell mo why, 

 and I want to know. The gums were new and nice ; 



they would sometimes both be in the air at once, 

 and now they have their brood-chamber nearly full 

 of young bees, nice comb, and honey. They still 

 have the same queens, and they would lay when- 

 ever there was room in the comb. Papa always 

 gives them a sheet of brood from the hive the swarm 

 comes out of. Noka E. Anthony. 



Tullahoma, Tcnn., June 28, 1884. 



Friend Nora, I do not know any better ex- 

 planation to give than to refer >ou to page 

 lio of our July number. 



A QUEEN THAT WOULD NOT SWAH.M, .3UST BECAU.SE 

 IT AVAS SUNDAY. 



I'apa has a hive of bees, and there was a swarm 

 hived yesterday. The bees were going to sv.-arm 

 Sunday, but the queen must have known it was 

 Sunday, because she did not come out, and they 

 had to go back. I saw a queen once. My sister was 

 at your store, and got mo a cup and saucer at your 

 5 cent counter. A good remedy for toothache is to 

 take equal parts of pulverized alum and salt, and 

 put in the hole in the tooth. Fanny Hahtman. 



Fort Wayne, Ind., June 34, 1884. 

 It seems to me, Fanny, you. are giving the 

 queen credit for an unusual amount of in- 

 telligence, as well as respect for the Sab- 

 bath. 



A CHILD that hates HONEY. 



If your little Huber were in ray house, he could 

 have all the honey, as far as my boy, about the 

 same age, is concerned. Ever since I have known 

 him (about a year and a half), he has shown the 

 greatest dislike, not only to honey, but to sugar 

 and every tiling sweet. They seem to nauseate 

 him, in fact. Queer taste, isn't it? Did you ever 

 know any thing like it? C. W. Young. 



Stratford, Out., Can., May 30, 1884. 



Yes, mv frierd, I have known children 

 Avho did 'not like sweets ; and the young 

 man who has charge of our tin-room always 

 disliked fruit, from a babe upward. I do 

 not know whetlier he has got so he can eat 

 strawberries, plums, and pears now, like 

 other folks, but I remember hearing him say 

 he did not like such things when he was just 

 about the age when the average boy is rav- 

 enous for fruit. 



FOUR AFI.VRIES AND A BEE-IIIVE PACTOUY. 



My pa has four apiaries —one at home, and three 

 away. I don't exactly know how many colonies he 

 has. I help him work with them. I read the ABC 

 book and Gleanings. We all love to read the Home 

 Papers. I have two brothers and five sisters. 1 

 have a little baby-sister three months old. I live in 

 a village of something near 300 inhabitants. J am a 

 boy 13 years old. We own a bee-hive factory. I run 

 the engine by means of a whip, using the cracker 

 for fuel. I have a seat on the engine, so that I can 

 control the steam. As for the bees, I like them bet- 

 ter in the hive than in my boots. I don't use tobacco 

 in any shape or form. Albert N. Mendenhall. 



Sylvania, Ind., June, 1881. 



I am glad to know your pa is getting to be 

 so enterprising, friend Albert; but we do 

 not quite get the hang of that idea of run- 

 ning an engine. We supposed engines be- 

 haved theinselves without whipping, and 

 that whips were only (like the law) for evil 

 doers. 



