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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



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■ A chiel's aniang ye takin' notes; 

 An' faith, he'll prent it." 



T rilESFME, little friends, you have all 

 M been so liiisy duriiiff this nice summer 

 li' weather that yon have not had as much 

 "^ time to write "letters as you did in the 

 winter; tlierefore I have used yoxu- re- 

 cent letters all up, and I have beeii getting 

 down to the bottom of my drawer for .I'uve- 

 nile letters, where we have some still re- 

 maining that were sent in the winter. That 

 accounts for some of the letters appearing 

 in this number that were written some time 

 ago. I think I won't occupy very much 

 space here, because I took so much room in 

 " My Neighbors '' for this month, but I think 

 if you will turn over and read tliat, you will 

 lin'd it a real good letter— good in two senses 

 of the word: interesting and protital)le ; for 

 any letter that tells ns how to raise things 

 for ourselves, instead of buying them, and 

 how to earn money right at our own homes, 

 is making us richer than we should be if 

 somebody were to yu'c us large siuns of 

 money. 



eiOO LBS. FROM 30 STANDS OF BEES. 



My pa has 30 stands of bees. We have extracted 

 about 6C0 lbs. of honey. Aeice Gough, age 10. 



Rock Spring, Mo., July 23, 1884. 



Not a very big yield, is it, friend Alice? 

 But then, perhaps you have got more by this 

 time. 



A SWARM THAT DIDN'T SETTLE. 



My brother keeps bees. June 10, a swarm came 

 out and did not settle, but went into a big hollow 

 tree. Do you think they had picked out that tree? 

 Mary Stanton, age 11. 



Hutchinson, Minn., June 13, 1884. 



FROM 3 TO 16, AND 400 LBS. OF HONEY, IN THREE 

 YEARS. 



Pa bought three stands a year ago last fall, and 

 he went with them all right. Ho left them outdoors, 

 packed in chatt', and they came out well in the 

 spring. We had three stands from the three. We 

 went to 16, all by natural swarming. Pa says he 

 sold over 400 lbs. of honey, besides what we used in 

 the house. I^iNPA Mawst. 



New London, Wis., Feb. 2, 1P84. 



130 LBS. OF (HONEY-DEW) COMB HONEY. 



We have taken off about 120 lbs. of comb honey. 

 Most of it is honey-dew. We have not extracted any 

 honey this year. Fred A. Pease, age 11. 



Kingsville, O., July 22, 1884. 



THREE SWARMS IN THREE DAYS FROM ONE HIVE. 



My pa has got 30 stands of bees; we had three 

 swarms out of one hive in three days. What do 

 you reckon made them swarm so often? My brother- 

 in-law has three stands of bees, and my brother has 

 one. Katie Gough. 



Rock Spring, Mo., July 23, 1884. 



1200 LBS. OV HONEY FROM 3.5 COLONIES. 



My papa keeps 35 colonies of bees. He took 1300 

 lbs. of section honey; about 200 lbs. of it is dark. 

 Papa thinks a great deal of his bees. 1 have one 

 stand; it is a very good one. 



Edgar W. Hibbs, age 13. 



Sewcllsville, O., July 28, 1884. 



ANOTHER WORD FOR MOTHERWORT AS A HONEY- 

 PLANT. 



My uncle has lots of bees. My uncle Judson says, 

 that if he were going to raise any plants on purpose 

 for honey, he would plant motherwort, and lots of 

 it, for his bees work on it every day, nearly all sum- 

 mer. I come up to see them every summei-, and eat 

 some honey; and while I am out here I go to Sun- 

 day-school. Myrtis E. Hyde. 



Pomfret Landing, Ct., July, 1884. 



FROM 1 TO 37. 



When my i)a began to keep bees he had only one 

 hive of bees; now he has 37. They look like a great 

 man.y. We have all the honey we can eat. Pa took 

 out about 100 lbs. a short time ago; it makes the 

 bees very angry to have their honey taken from 

 them. I can't very well blame them, iifter they 

 work so hard to gather it. 



Charlie W. Wheelock, age 10. 



Tanipico, 111., July 37, 1884. 



DO humming-birds get honey? 

 I have a tiower-bed, and there is a humming-bird 

 liying around the flowei-s; do you think he gathers 

 honey from the flowers? My brother has 39 swarms 

 of bees; ho would have had a good many more, but 

 he lost more than half of his bees last winter. 



Mary S. Ehlers, age 13. 

 Pleasant Valley, Iowa, July 31, 1884. 



I think the honey is exactly what he is aft- 

 er, Mary; and if you will watch him carefully 

 you can see him put his long tongue away 

 down into the tlower, to get it. 



A verbatim letter from the president of a 

 misskjnary society. 



DeaRlJNcle Amos We haVea bee hiVE but no 

 bEEs. We hAVc A miSsionA/Y sOciEtY, aNb i a.M 

 pResiDeNt. We HarE a suNDAy gcHo01,a/hoME 

 siNce OUR HoRge dlEJ3,I wANt TeNiVigHtS7n bAR 

 fioOm gEOrygE aGE 9. 



RoDDiNg 



Well, friend George, that is a pretty good 

 letter for a boy of nine. But 1 shouldn't 

 wonder if a good many of the boys and girls 

 would laugh to think of your being president. 

 Never mind; let them laugh. The letter is 

 a good one, and may be some day your so- 

 ciety will grow big, ajid you will grow big 

 with it. 



