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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Sept. 15 



ily. On all sides there are proofs of the food 

 value of honey, and it is natural then to give 

 the advice, "Eat honey." — Ed.] 



ANOTHER FAMILY THAT EATS HONEY AT 

 EVERY MEAL. 



Dear Friends: — It is 27 or 28 years that I 

 have been a reader of Gleanings. Since 

 you want photos of families who always use 

 honey at their talile, I sentl you one of my 

 family. We have five children: none of them 

 is afraid of bees. They go among them as 

 if they were chickens. The oldest, 13 years, 

 weighs 116 lbs., and stands at my side; the 

 youngest is 14 months old. and weighs 25 lbs., 

 and sits at the side of her mother. Good 

 food will make healthy children, and honey 

 is one of these good foods. 



Bechtelsville. Pa. H. M. Mover. 



[We doul)t whether it would be possilile to 

 find a picture of a more healthy-looking fam- 



(U) rouNDS OF honey in a month, the 



RECORD OF ONE FAMILY: FOUL 

 BROOD. 



On page 90 you express surprise that a 

 family of live should prol:)ably eat 300 pounds 

 of honey in a year. We should not like to 

 ])e limited to that amount. Last winter we 

 ate a 60-pound can in one month. At the 

 time, our family consisted of six members, 

 four ])eing small children. Now we have 

 another hearty honey-consumer which must 

 be reckoned with. Some uionths we may 

 considerably exceed the above rate: but it is 

 seldom convenient, when producing honey 

 by the ton, to know just how much a family 

 does eat. 



I am much interested in the Alexander 

 method of curing ])lack lirood: but. seriously, 

 I doul:)t its being a reliable cure for fo)il 

 brood. A cousin of mine, W. Hayden Gil- 

 strap, had an apiary of 140 colonies last 

 spring in which nearly or quite every colony 



ANOTHER HONEY-EATING FAMILY. 



