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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUBE. 



Aug. 



in the bottom, serve as hives, and that, when honey 

 is wanted, a stick is juit through a hole, and the 

 comb broken so that the honey drops down, and is 

 secured without killing the bees. I am told, also, 

 that the bees will thus stay several years in one 

 place. As the little fellows have come to us, I think 

 we will try to keep them; and if you will kindly 

 send me an A B C book I shall be greatly oblig:ed. 



Yj3U may be interested to know how our little col- 

 ony g-ets on; and if so, I will report progress 

 1)y and by. God be thanked for the grand work 

 you are doing- for him. I wish all our business men 

 would serve God in their business, as I lielieve you 

 are doing:; then his name would have more honor 

 from his people, as it ought to have. 



Rev. a. Bi'xkkr. 



Toung'oo, Burniah, May 4, 1884. 



REMEDIES FOR ANTS, CUTTING A 

 BEE-TEEE, ETC. 



AT,SO SOME GENERAL, REMARKS IN HEOARD TO 

 COMMENCING BEE CULTURE. 



Tro S remedies for ants are in order, I will give 

 ^l|^i mine. Strong- alum water; proportion, 4 lb. 

 jPl to y^ gallon water, boiled until it dissolves. 

 "^^ Apply to shelves with a brush or cloth; 

 have it either cold or hot. It will also keep 

 away roaches, bedbugs, and other insects. 



I have been taking Gleanings nearly a year. 

 With a view to engaging- in the bee business. My 

 husband's health failed several years ago, and T 

 have had to supplement the family support by 

 teaching-. We moved here last year from Arkansas, 

 and this new country is yet too thinly settled to sup- 

 port a school. There are no bees kept by any one 

 near us, and I am anxious to get some wild ones. 

 The children found a bee-tree last week, and came 

 home delighted, knowing how pleased I would be. 

 Mr. Redding- went to see the man whose land it was 

 on, but he was not at home; so he got a neighbor, 

 and the neighbor's wagon and mule, made a hive, 

 and, after reading carefully your directions in A B 

 C, they started with pans, pails, saws, etc., in high 

 glee. They thought the man could have no objec- 

 tion, for no one in this country has ever heard of 

 any one refusing- one a bee-tree. They got the tree 

 cut about half down, and the owner came up and 

 stopped them. He said he didn't love honey, didn't 

 want the bees nor the timber (it was a dead pine), 

 but they should not cut it down. You see, he just 

 wanted to exercise his power. Mr. R. quietly got 

 into the wagon, and came home. Our neighbor was 

 indignant, and wanted to take the tree anj-how. 

 The children were dreadfully disappointed, and so 

 was I. 'The man is an old bachelor, and an infidel. 

 Do yoti suppose the latter circumstance influenced 

 him to act as he did"? 



We 'have just lost a valuable horse, our only one, 

 and sickness and other troubles incident to new 

 comers in a new country have made the year a 

 hard one with us. We enjoy your Home Papers, 

 and wish you may live long to continue them. I 

 wish I lived near Medina, or in Medina, so as to get 

 work from you. I wish you every success in your 

 business. Daisy and George, the children, are anx- 

 ious for me to keep bees, so they can write and 

 get a book. Mrs. V. A. Redding. 



Stanton, Fla., July 26, 1884. 



I am sorry to hear, my friend, that you had 



trouble with the owner of the tree ; but it 

 seems to me that you did very wrong in go- 

 ing to worlv Avithout first consulting him. I 

 should hope that the fact of your neighbor 

 being a bachelor and an intidel would not 

 make liim uncourteous with his neighbors. 

 Of course, we who profess to be Christians 

 claim to love our neighbors better than those 

 who make no profession ; but the great 

 point is, to let our lives prove it, rather than 

 any profession we may make in words. I 

 am sorry for your troubles, and I fear it 

 may be some time Ijefore you get mucli of 

 an income from bee-keeping. There are a 

 gi'eat many people liere in Medina wanting a 

 place to work in otir factory, but yet there is no 

 room now. If you Avill excuse me, my friend, 

 I do not think it makes so very much differ- 

 ence ivhere we are as mhat we are. My re- 

 spects to George and Daisy. Tell them if 

 they will write me a letter I will send them 

 a book, even if they are not as yet bee-keep- 

 ers. May l)e you have made ari'angements 

 so as to get the bees out of that tree by this 

 time. 



STOPPING RUNAWAY SWARMS. 



ALSO SOME REMARKS IN REGARD TO THE I'SE OF 

 BUZZ-SAWS IN HIVE-MAKING. 



"Tar. FEW weeks ago we had a large swarm issue, 

 ifv* which settled on a small maple. I hived 



jp«r them, or supposed I had, and went to dinner. 

 '•■ ^ On going out after dinner I noticed a greater 

 part of them on outside of hive. I began 

 carefully scraping them down to make them go in, 

 when they began to take wing, and I knew imme- 

 diately what they intended to do by the loud hollow 

 roar. I made quick steps for the bee-hive tent, 

 clapped it over the hive, and said to those inside, 

 " Stop a leetle 1" I carried them to the honej'-house, 

 turned up the tent, and they wei-e on the window. 

 As luck would have it, the queen was in the tent, 

 although the greater part of the swarm had got in 

 the air. They started right ott', went about I4 of a 

 mile, found they had no queen, and returned and 

 entered the hive they first came from. I hived the 

 prisoners by themselves, and neither part tried 

 running away again. 



We haven't had any honey all summer, only 

 enough to keep brood-rearing going; but the last 

 few days they have been doing first rate. 



HOW TO STOP BLEEDING. 



Can any one tell a sure way to stop bleeding, with- 

 out going to a physician? I cut one of my fingers 

 oft' with a buzz-saw a few days ago, and had consid- 

 erable trouble in getting the blood stopped. It bled 

 steadily for eight hours. A. B. Osbun. 



Spring Bluff, Wis., July 28, 1884. 



Eriend O., the idea has been advanced, I 

 believe, of stopping swarms with a bee-hive 

 tent. If you can get it on the spot and on 

 the hive quick enough, it is certainly a sure 

 thing, and no mistake.— In regard to stop- 

 ping blood, if it were a finger cut, I should 

 wind a string around the finger until it is 

 stopped, or until a physician can be called. 

 Where the wound is such that it can not be 

 tied up, I think binding linen cloths, or 

 cloths of any kind over the Avound, Avill hold 

 it until nature can arrest it. AVill some of 

 our M. D.'s straighten us up on this point, if 



