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GLEA5iiNGS IN BEE CULTtlRE. 



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She had scratched the new paint off the window-sill, 

 .and barked the arm of the chair that had the blue 

 ribbons on. I heard Mrf«. Harrison say, in a laug-h- 

 ing- way, " Mrs. Ohaddock thinks she can manage 

 [iucy, but T guess she'll And she has her hands tuU." 

 ^ stooped down and whispered m Lucy's ear, " I'll 

 uive you a penny when we get home, if you'll give 

 iiic the stick." 



•'Give it to me nowl" she answered, as quick as a 

 Hash. 



1 gave it to her, and took the stick, and she did no 

 olher mischief than to upset the chair with the blue 

 (ibbons, and bang iton the tloor. When we got out 

 (il ihe phaeton at Mr.s. Harrison's door, Lucy came 

 up to me and said. 



'• \ieve, you take this penny back; you don't need 

 to pay 1 lie tor that." I told her to keep it. This 

 child is live years old; and if 1 had her and could 

 give her a little manatje treatment now and then, 

 Mhe would be a most lovable child. 



Mr. Harrison had been out to the fai-ni, and he 

 came home with a load of apples. He is a man who 

 tells anecdotes. He said at the breakfast-table that 

 the old Dutchman who lives on his farm has a son 

 wlio is a young man, and that, one Sunday morning, 

 the son said to his father. 



" Fadder, I goin' to pring home a vife purty 

 soon." 



" All right," said his father; "pring home a vife 

 if you wants to, put don't pring no vomen here 

 vhat has a puzzle on her pack." 



'Oh! put, fadder," replied the young man, "day 

 all have 'em, und if I doan get one mit a puzzle, I 

 can't get no vife at all." 



" V'ery well; you shall stay single den, for I won't 

 have no vimmins mit puzzles about me." 



Mrs. H. has 600 lbs. of honey stacked up in her 



THE ALABAMA STATE BEE-KEEPEK8' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



FRIEND .1ENKIN8 REPORT. 



.MU.S. UAKUJSON'S HONKV-KOOM. 



honey-house. She sells extracted honey at 20 cents 

 a pound— just the same price that she gets for that 

 in the comb. If Mrs. H. sells her extracted honey 

 for as much as comb honey is worth, then e.xtract- 

 ed honey is worth just as much as comb honey. 

 Any article is worth all that it will bring; and if she 

 sells extracted honey for that price, it must be 

 worth it. Does anybody see any other answer to 

 this problem':' 1 want to say some more, but I fear 

 you will think this too long already. 

 Vermont, III. Mahai.a li. Chaddock. 



T INCLOSE a copy of a "piece" 1 wrote for 

 Btt the edification of the members (and others) at- 

 ^t tending the third annual conclave of the Ala- 

 ■*■ bama State Hee-Keepers' Ass'n. Hut it rained 

 and rained the day and night before the date 

 of meeting, and I guess the ardor of most of said 

 members Was not only dampened but drowned, for 

 none but the secretary and treasurer and three oth- 

 ers got there, so we had no meeting. But the secre- 

 tary and treasurer (that's " me ") thought it would 

 be a pity to deprive the world of such a good 

 " piece," if anybody would print it. They wouldn't 

 come to Montgomery to hear it, so possibly they 

 will read it if it goes to them in Gleanings. But 

 it isn't much after all; and if you think it would 

 best adorn a corner in the waste-basket, let it so 

 adorn, and the secretary and treasurer won't care 

 a bit. I send you a tissue copy, so that it won't 

 take up much room in the basket. It would prob- 

 ably pi-efer a southerly location in the same— south- 

 west corner lot, for instance. 



THE VALUE OK APICULTUKAL LITEKATIKE. WJUT- 



TEN BY .1. M. .IENK1N8, FOR THE AL.\BAM.\ 



STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASS0f'I.\T10N. 



The science of apiculture has received the earn- 

 est consideration of philosophers, professors, 

 statesmen, and others— men of every station and 

 calling in life, from the most ancient periods of his- 

 tory to the present day; and there have been thou- 

 sands of volumes of books and periodicals publish- 

 ed in the past relating to apiculture. But as the 

 practical movable-frame hive is a modern inven- 

 tion (only about 40 years old), its manipulation and 

 successful use for honey production will be de- 

 scribed only in the publications of the present age. 

 For the same reason these books cover the whole 

 ground more completely, their authors having, in 

 addition to previous knowledge of the subject, this 

 grand invention to aid them in their lesearch and 

 experiments. There are several excellent text- 

 books, of recent date and moderate price, before 

 the public, and no one attempting to keep bees 

 can afford to blunder along in the dark without one 

 or more of them. 



What would you think of a young man, who, no 

 matter how lavishly endowed by nature with brains 

 and reason, should start out, without study or prep- 

 aration, to make a physician of himself on prac- 

 tice and e.vperience alone! That is precisely what 

 a great many bee-keepers ('r) do! If he lives long 

 enough, and the stock of patients or bees, or of 

 medicine or money, does not become exhausted, he 

 may in time make a passable doctor or bee-keeper. 

 But, my friends, what a long life he will need I No, 

 we can not afford to start at the bottom and set 

 at naught what has re(iuired thousands of earn- 

 est thinking men. and thousands of years, to a<- 

 complibh, whether in medicine, api(>ulture, or oth- 

 er problem of life. 



But some one says, " I don't believe in book-f»i»"ai- 

 ing." Very likelj the same person scorns the idea 

 of himself learning any thing from books about 

 bees. He will probably intimate that what he doesn't 

 know about bees isn't worth knowing, for his pap 

 and his grandpap before him all kept bees, " but 

 the worms got amongst 'em a few years ago and 

 killed em all out!" He will also inform you that 



