1881 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



any queeu-cells, and the Hist thing that met my as- 

 tonished gaze was my runaway queen. I had 

 marked her "sold" on the slate, so no mistake 

 about it. V. W. Keenev. 



Shirland, 111.. July 11, ls#l. 



Your last case was just what I sliould ex- 

 pect, friend K. llie queen, after taking- 

 ^vin^^ saw familiar objects, noted when she 

 took her wedding trip, shortly before, and 

 went back to lier old home. It might have 

 been in the very direction you carried her. 

 that she met tlie drone wlien fertiUzed. 

 AVhen a queen Hies away. I always look for 

 her to come hack to the" hive in which she 

 was raised, if it is any where in tlie neigh- 

 borhood. 



r^nUnikz §^jiai4in(inh 



«gp AM a little boy ten years old. Last year was 

 J«||_ the first that we kept bees. My pa bought two 

 ' swarms. They swarmed once, and then we 

 had three. Pa and I packed them in chaff. One of 

 them died. They have swarmed, so we have seven: 

 but one of them has been fighting- until there are 

 but a few left. AVe sent and got your A B C book. 

 We think it a great help. Wo take Glea.vixos. and 

 think it is a good journal. I l.ke to read the letters 

 from the boys and girls. I have one sister. Slie is 

 15 years old: I have no brothers. We go to ehurch 

 and Sunday-schof.l at Hudson, which is four miles 

 away. Now I will give you my address. 



OSC-VR J. ANDEliSON. 



Hudson, Lenawee Co., Mich., July tJ, 1S81. 



Very good, friend Oscar. Yon ate cer- 

 tainly ahead of some of the older ones in one 

 point at least : you give, full and plain, your 

 name and address. Xow, please help your 

 pa to keep those 7 safely through the winter. 



I am a little girl 13 .vears old. I go to school, and 

 -tudj' reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geogra- 

 phy, and grammar. School will be out in one week. 

 I am a Sabbath-school scholar. I get a nice paper 

 every Sdtibath. 1 have a little sister 5 years old, and 

 a brother 3 years old. I belong to the Methodist 

 Church. Emma Eckley. 



Lincoln, Cass Co., Ind., June It, 1881. 



May (lOd bless you, your little brother and 

 sister, that r^Iethodist Church, and your wee 

 little letter, friend Emma ! 



I could not go to school this morning. Pa divided 

 the bees, and made four more swarms of them. 1 

 havcTi't been stung this summer. Pa gets stung, 

 but it don't hurt him much. I have got a sister and 

 two brothers. One of my brothers will be four 

 years old the last day of June, and he likes bread 

 and honey. We hnve got some buckwheat in blos- 

 som. We have lots of blossoms, and the bees work 

 at them. Elizabeth Edgmanh. 



Columbus, Cherokee Co., Kan., June S;J, 1881. 



'• Lizzie has a brother, and, what is very 

 funny, though he is only four years old, he 

 likes his bread and honey.'" AVhy, it almost 

 takes my breath away to see that I came so 

 near making a verse of poetry. Don't you 

 think it might be called poetry by some 

 folks, Liz/iey 



I am a little boy 11 years old. My pa bought 13 

 hives of bees a year ago. The moths killed one of 

 them and now he has got 11 hives. Our bees win- 

 tered all right, and we never lost a hive. Pa has got 

 two numbers of Gleanings. I like to read, very 

 much. Eddie Beelemey. 



Vienna, Johnson Co., .Mo., June 33, 1881. 



First rate. Eddie : we want to see you and 

 your father keep up that excellent reputa- 

 tion for Ijeing hee-fca jn r,>-. 



I am 10 years old, and I am a Sunday-school schol 

 ar. 1 love to go to Sunday-school, and I love to at- 

 tend religious worship. My pa keeps bees. I don't 

 work with them much, but I like the honey. He 

 kept 11 hives over last winter. They have been 

 swarming and have increased to 18. 



' M.\rietta Sperhv. 



Lincoln, Cass Co., Ind.. June 13, 1881. 



A'ery good, ^larietta. 



I thought I would write you a letter. My pa keeps 

 bees; he had 7 swarms, but he wintered through 

 with only one. I go to school, and s-tudy geography, 

 arithmetic, and read in the Fourth Reader. I am 

 only nine years old, and cati not write very well. 

 My name is Katie McCRoitv. 



Jerome, Union Co., Ohio, June 9, 1881. 



Pretty good for you, Katie, and you did 

 right to tell the truth right out, how many 

 your father lost. We think you write very 

 well indeed for nine years old. 



I send a dollar for Gleanings fori year, and .'> cts. 

 for another mat chromo, because I think they are 

 so pretty. I am going to give the other to my teach- 

 er. Our school is out this week. Last fall I had 31 

 stands of bees and all died but i stands; irow they 

 have swarmed until I have 23 stands. Our whole 

 apiary consists of 36 stands. Pa has 4 stands. Aunt 

 Clara 4, besides some nuclei. Most little girls say 

 that it was their pa who gave them their bees, but I 

 gave pa his. I will be 13 years old on the 30th of 

 June. 1 have read the New Testament nearly 

 through. LiLLiE A. (iANiiv. 



Churubusco, Whitley Co., Ind., June 30, 1881. 



Well, I tell you what it is, Lillie, that is 

 pretty well for only 12 years old. So you 

 gave your jja his beesV UU bet he is a pret- 

 ty good pa, even if you did, and I guess he 

 must have helped a little, a good many times. 

 Eh? _J 



I am a little girl nine years old. T go to school. 

 My pa keeps bees. He had only 30 swarms last fall, 

 19 in the spring. He has sold and has 38 now. 

 Most of them are in chaff hives. I help him put the 

 starters in the sections, and foundation in the wired 

 frames. He had a great deal of trouble to make it 

 stick to them till Mr. \\hite told him how. He put a 

 long handle on a five-cent piece that had a crease 

 filed around the outer edge, and I run that o\er the 

 little wires and press them into the wax. Ma fas- 

 tens the top with melted wax. 1 will make a picture 

 of the roller. My" pa's name is E. D. Gillett. He 

 bought one of your little dictionaries for me, and I 

 am learning to use it. Martha Gillett. 



Brighton, Lorain Co., Ohio, June 14, 1881. . 



AVell done indeed, my nine-year-old little 

 bee-woman, both in writing the letter and 

 making the picture: and to encourage such 

 work and letters, we, besides sending you 



