1881 



GLEANINGS IK BEE CULTUKE. 



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to two swarms, and did not swarm this year. I like 

 father and mother very much. I like to read and 

 sing. I go to Sunday-school. I like to go to school. 

 I try to obey my teacher. Mamma has no swarm of 

 bees, but would like to ha%-e ons very much. They 

 are very nice. I am seven years old. I himt bees 

 with father. I got stung on the finger. Bees gather 

 honey on flowers; we hare sweet flowers. L. O. 

 Lindsey is my father. He keeps bees, and they 

 sting very hard, but not so hard as some. Some 

 bees arc very tame, and some are wild. The ones 

 that live in the woods are wild, and the ones that 

 live in hives are tame, and don't sting so much as 

 those that live in the woods. The swarm that came 

 out and alighted in the grass is in a red hive. I have 

 two big brothers, and they have one swarm apiece. 

 Papa has more than any; they have plenty of hon- 

 ey; he packs them in chaff : he put two swarms in 

 a dry-goods box, and heaped snow around it. The 

 lightning struck our house on the 6th of November. 

 We were all in the kitchen, but no one was hurt. 

 My brothers had just got home from school. It ran 

 down the rod, and four other places on the house. 

 It tore the rods and eavc-?p()uts off the house, and a 

 stone out of the woodhouse wall, about four feet. 

 Louie M. Lindsey. 

 Corry, Eric Co., Pa., Jan. 1, 1881. 



Well done, Lottiel Why, that is a tip-to]) 

 letter, and I will go right this minute, and 

 tell Stella to send yon one of the best of 

 those Sunday-school books, and you can 

 show it to your Sunday-school teacher, and 

 tell her your friend A. I. lioot made you a 

 present of it. Let me see— I guess 1 will 

 send you theone about the-'Buttoned Boots.'' 

 See if you don"t think it funny about the 

 little girl that lost her uncle's watch, and 

 then found it in such a queer place a long 

 while after. Xow. if I read your letter to 

 Blue Eyes, I wouldn't wonder if she w^ould 

 write one to you. What do you think about 

 itV Every time you write me a letter telling 

 about your father's bees, I will send you an- 

 other book (just as I offered Freddie in Dec. 

 No.), and I would like one every month. 



I have nothing of interest for you this month. 

 We are having extremely cold weather here, which 

 will be very hard on what bees are left. The major- 

 ity of the colonics over the country are dead already, 

 and reports coming in of others dying. W^e do not 

 know what condition our bees are in, for papa will 

 not let us go near the apiary, or disturb them in the 

 least. We had a Chrietmas-tree at our church. I 

 got a sack of candy and an orange. The candy was 

 this cheap 'stuff, painted in all the colors of the rain- 

 bow, and not fit to eat. Freddie L. Craycraft. 



Salem, Ind., Jan. 11, 1881. 



Yery good. Freddie, and we have sent you 

 your book. I think your father is just about 

 right in refusing to let you disturb your bees 

 during cold weather. "By the way,' my little 

 friend, I am almost afraid you are in danger 

 of getting into a way of fault-finding. Some- 

 times grown-up folks And fault with what 

 God sees fit to send them, and I know a man 

 real iceU, who gets into such ways of think- 

 ing and talking sometimes. You see, the 

 candy was a present, and we should be care- 

 ful how we find fault with presents. If vou 

 buy some candy, and it is not Avorth "the 

 money you paid for it, then just "go for" 



the man of whom you bought it, "lively"; 

 but always make the best of every thing you 

 find on the Christmas-tree. Isn't that the 

 best way':* 



GIVEN 'S DEVICE FOR PUTTING AVIRES 

 INTO BROOD FRAMES. 



|q?lRIEND GIYEN has invented, as an ad- 



^' jnncttohis machine for making fdn. 

 ' right in the frames, a machine for ])ut- 

 tiug the wires in also. The plan of it seems 

 to be to draw the wires into the top and bot- 

 tom bars before the frame is made up. The 

 cut below, and the explanation he gives to 

 follow, will, I think, make the general fea- 

 tures of the apparatus plain. 



GIVEN'S FRAME-WIRING MACHINE. 



The two arms above the seat-board are separated 

 by springs. They are made to open 13 inches, but 

 the machine can be set any distance under that. 

 They are pulled together by the foot-lever. The up- 

 per and lower bars of the frame fit in these arms, 

 and are held by springs on the outside and two pegs 

 and a groove in the inside. When pulled together, 

 these bars are just Va inch apart. The wire is run 

 through both holes in the pieces at once, bj' using a 

 harness needle. 



First, draw one arm's length through; press the 

 needle back, catching the slack on the other thumb; 

 draw in the slack, and with the other thumb draw 

 in another arm's length; this arm's length is 

 dropped over a very light spring, scarcely seen, 

 djwn by seat board. This spring will easily pull 

 up, and the wire slips off it, when it's too short to 

 kink. We go on with the first arm's length, and 

 _C^sew back, placing the other thumb in the 

 slack, and pull in the wire off first spring, 

 and put it on another spring on the oth- 

 er side; then we proceed and sew back 

 ind forward, leaving slack each time, 

 ind fasten the last end with a small tack. 

 The wire is seen about thus: Now, the 

 two thumbs are placed in A, and it slacks ; 

 the foot-spring lever is let up, and the 

 long slack is pulled in by the thumbs, 

 and left on the last thumb; this la the 



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