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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



Every boy or girl, tinder 15 



years of age, who writes a 



' letter forthls department, containing 



SOME VALUABLE) FACT, NOT GENERALLY 

 KNOWN, ON BEES OR OTHER MATTEHS, 



will receive one of David Cook's excel- 

 lent five -Jcent Sunday - school-books. 

 Many of these boolis contain the pame mat- 

 ter that you find in Sunday-school books 

 costing from $1.00 to 81.50. If you have had 

 one or more books, give us the names that we 

 m»y not send the same twice. We have, now 

 in stocks 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." 



WONDER how many of the children who 

 read this juvenile bee journal are really 

 liappy children. Do you enjoy life ? Is 

 it tun for you to get up in the morning 

 and do your allotted work? or do you 

 repine and complain, and wish you did not 

 have to work ? I hope there are not many 

 of this latter class, for one can by no means 

 have a good time in this world when he does 

 what is to be done, grudgingly and complain- 

 ingly. And another thing, you can never be 

 happy if you are always at work for yourself 

 or thinking of yourself, and never at work 

 for others and flunking of others. Strange, 

 is it not ? but yet it is so. People who are 

 working for the general good of others are 

 happy ; but those who are all the while try- 

 ing to get all they can for themselves with 

 the least exertion, end in being very, very 

 unhappy, if they are not unhappy and dis- 

 contented in the outset. 



Pa had 1.5 swarms of bees last fall, and all died but 

 3. They all were in patent hives except 3, which 

 were in L. hives. They had plenty of honey. 



Sitka, Mich., Aug. 30, 1884. J. C. Crawford. 



LEARNING VERSES. 



My uncle has 26 stands of bees. We moved 12 of 

 them 200 miles. I go to Sunday-school every Sun- 

 day. I took the first premium for learning verses. 

 JiMMIE LOCKARD, age 8. 



Sears, Osceola Co., Mich., Sept. 21, 1884. 



THE LOST BEES. 



My father hunts bees, and has found four swarms. 

 Mr. Hyde has just lost a swarm of Italian bees, and 

 my father has been hunting for them. 



Nettie M. Watson, age 9. 



Pomfret Landing, Conn., Aug. 37, 1884. 



MINNIE'S letter. 



My father has six swarms of bees. He has made 

 some American hives for his bees this year. I go 

 to school now, and study reading, spelling, arith- 

 metic, geography, and grammar. I have written 

 two letters before, but haven't seen either in print. 

 Minnie Forbes, age 13. 



Macedonia, O., Sept. 20, 1884. 



Pa has 6 swarms of bees, and he has not got 30 lbs. 

 of honey in all summer. What do you think is the 

 reason? Perrin Crawford, age 6. 



Sitka, Mich., Aug. 30, 1884. 



I guess, friend Perrin, the principal reason 

 is the dry weather in the latter part of the 

 season : "but may be your father did not take 

 care of them right, and get what he might 

 have done. 



cleaning old hives. 



I am a German boy 8 years old. I like to write. 

 My brother George had been writing, so I thought I 

 had better write a letter. I had to help in the apia- 

 ry. I had to clean old hives. I like honey, but I do 

 not like to clean old hives, and I hope we shall not 

 have such a winter as we had 3 years ago, when the 

 bees stopped up their hives so bad, and left the hives 

 for me to clean. Fred Hillenbrand. 



Sun Prairie, Wis., Jan. 38, 1884. 



letter from a lame girl. 

 I am a little lame girl. I have been lame for three 

 years. We live in the Coast Range of mountains, 

 30 miles from the ocean. It rains very much this 

 summer. We came from Minnesota two years ago. 

 I never saw any bees till we came here. I never 

 saw any comb honey either. I have three sisters 

 and two brothers. I have never been to school. I 

 read in the Second Reader. 



Annie A. Nash, age 13. 



NETTIE'S letter. 



My pa keeps bees. He has 23 stands. They did 

 not gather much honey this year, there was so much 

 rain. There was no honey-dew this year, so we 

 have to feed the bees. I have been to school only 

 five months. I read in the Second Reader. My 

 mother teaches me at home. I have a little brother 

 named Ernest Clyde. Nettie M. Nash, age 10. 



Willemina, Yam Hill Co., Oregon. 



AGNES' LETTER. 



My pa keeps bees, but he is going to sell them. I 

 and one of my schoolmates are going to write to 

 you. I wrote to you once before, and got the good 

 book of the Roby Family. I do not like to get stung 

 very well. I like to go to school. My teacher gives 

 a prize, and I am going to try for it. What do you 

 think is best to put on a sting? Agnes Dunlap. 



Dwight, Neb., Sept. 33, 1884. 



don't kill queens too soon. 



I have 7 colonies of bees, all Italians, in Simplicity 

 hives. I had one colony that was too weak to keep 

 all of the eggs warm that the queen laid. When I 

 first found this out I thought she was a fertile 

 worker. I did not kill her, but instead I reinforced 

 her with more bees; then I awaited the results. In 

 a few days I looked at her again, and she was laying 

 all right. Alonzo Rusk, age 13. 



Mllwaukie, Oregon, Aug. 35, 1884. 



That was a great joke you got off on me, calling 

 the bees "skips;" for now all my folks call me 

 " Skip," and so I think I shall have to call the bees 

 skips of bees. My brother gave me the skip of bees, 

 and they increased to two, and they were not very 

 large, so papa put them into one hive and they 

 made 35 lbs. of honey this summer. How I should 

 like to see little Huber! 



Georgia May Williamson, age 9, 



Covert, N. y., Sept. 33, 1884, 



