GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



lent five - cent Sunday • school books. 

 Manv of these boots contain the same mat- 

 ter that you find in Sunday-school hooks 

 costing from 81.00 to S1.50. If you have had 

 one or raore books, give us the nnmes that we 

 may not send the same twice. We have now 

 in stock six different books, as follows; viz.. 

 Sheer Off, The Giant - Killer. The Roby 

 Family, Rescued from Egypt, and Ten Nights in 

 a Bar-Room. 



' A chiel's amang ye takin' notes; 

 An' faith, he'll prent it." 



ELL, little friends, for the first time 

 in a good Avhile we have nsed up the 

 last letter in that little drawer in my 

 desk, labeled '' Juvenile Letters." I 

 presume you have been so busy dur- 

 ing these vacation days with your plays and 

 pastimes that you have not had time to 

 write letters as you do in the winter time. 

 Well, all right. I suppose you have been 

 having a good time, just as I have, out in 

 the open air, so I think I won't write much 

 either this liot September morning. 



FROM GRAND-RIVER APIARY. 



My brother has 28 colonies of bees, and I watch 

 them for him in the swarming season, and he g-ives 

 me .50 cents a swarm. I am 11 years old, and I go 

 to Lyons to Sabbath-school. Jennie Kenyon. 



Lyons, Mich. 



CUTTING A BEE-TREE. 



There are lots of wild bees here in the woods. 

 Old Mr. Stanly found 7 or 8. Last summer papa 

 found a swarm of Italians in a cottonwood 60 feet 

 high. He cut the tree, but it all broke up and 

 killed the most of them and the queen, so they all 

 died. They had .3 gallons of honey. 



Glendon, Iowa. Lee Miller, age 9. 



DANNIE AND HIS PAPA S ALBINOS. 



I am a very little boy. I can not wi-ite very well, 

 but I thought I would write to you and tell you 

 about papa's bees. He is interested in the queen 

 business, and he sells a great many. He thinks his 

 albino bees are the prettiest and best bees in the 

 world. Dannie Pike. 



Smithsburg, Wash. Co., Md., Aug. 13, 1884. 



THE canary bird WITH ONLY ONE EYE, ETC. 



My papa has no bees, but I am in hopes he will 

 get some, as I am fond of honey. He buys honey 

 of Mr. Talcott. I have taken one and a half terms 

 in music, which I like very much. I live near the 

 creek, for my papa is a miller; I have a pet lamb; 

 its name is Jennie. It is six mouths old, I had a 

 canary bird which was hatched with only ope eye. 

 Lulu Pk'ttigrovi;, age 11. 

 Pwepo, N. y., Aug. 38, \m. ' 



A good report for a boy. 

 We have 7.5 swarms of bees. I caught a swarm 

 three years ago. I have 17 swarms; from one of 

 them I took 164 lbs. of honey in one season. We 

 have a vineyard, and had a good crop of grapes last 

 year, and got a good price for them. I have a 

 strawberry-bed which did well for the season. 



Chas. L. Davis, age 13. 

 Carbon Bluff, 111., Feb. 3, 1884. 



GETTING STRAWBERRY CRAZY. 



Pa has 3.5 colonics of bees. We dirt not get much 

 honey this year, and what we did get we could not 

 eat. We have a strawberry patch, but they are not 

 potted plants. Pa and the boys got strawberry 

 crazy last spring, and set out 630 plants, so by next 

 summer we expect to pick a good many berries. 

 Ella M. Lovett. 



Crestline, Ohio, Aug. 21, 1884. 



160 SWARMS, AND 6300 LBS. OF HONEY. • 



My uncle keeps about 160 swarms of bees, and has 

 taken 60001bs.of honey from them. He takes Glean- 

 ings, and I read the children's letters. Bees are . 

 working on buckwheat now. His honey is nearly all 

 extracted. He keeps it in kegs and barrels. His hon- 

 ey-house is almost full now. 



LiLLiE Cates, age 9. 



Independence, la., Aug. 35,1884. 



MOVING BEES. 



My Uncle Howard keeps bees. My papa and he 

 own a saw-mill, and so he lives here all through the 

 week. Last summer he brought part of his bees up 

 here so they could make honey otf the weeds and 

 thoroughwort. When he brought them and let 

 them out they were awful cross, and we had to keep 

 out of the way. LTncle Howard has 40 swarms. I 

 have all the honey I want. White-clover honey is 

 the best. My papa is afraid of bees, and runs every 

 time one comes near him. Inez M. Cleveland. 



Giddings, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. 



PETER AND HIS BROTHER. 



My brother has 13 bees, and he likes to talk bees. 

 My brother gets every month one of your Glean- 

 ings, and he likes to read it. This year is not very 

 good for honey. Last year my brother got some of 

 your Simpson and spider plants, and every morn- 

 ing there is a big drop of honey in it. 



Peter A. Schwartz, age 11. 



Berne, Ind., August 14, 1884. 



It seems to me, Peter, your brother is not 

 a very large bee-man, if he has only 13 bees. 

 I presume you mean he has 18 hives of bees, 

 do you not? Well, never mind, for I know 

 that is the way tliey have of talking in a 

 good many neighborhoods. I am glad you 

 saw the honey on the spider and Simpson 

 plants. 



DOES white clover MAKE WHITE HONEY-CO.MB? 



I live in Central Kentucky. The honey-comb 

 there is as white as milk, and the honey is a light 

 straw color. Here the comb is very dark, and the 

 honey is almost brown. The reason is, because the 

 bees hero have no white clover to eat, mother says. 

 John J. Dunlap, age 8. 



Lexington, Ky., Aug. 35, 1884. 



While your mother is partly right, friend 

 John, I think that there are other sources 

 that produce even whiter honey and whiter 

 comb than the wlute clover. 



