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JUVEKILE GLEAKINGS. 



Jan. 



MOKE ABOUT OUR FRIEND HANNAH. 



I got the book some months ag-o, and thought it a 

 tip-top one. It is a nicer one than the other. Han- 

 nah is not bothered yet with honey, but she has 

 enough of syrup. My cats and rabbits are getting 

 along well. For a while Hannah owned the rabbits. 

 Mother had five birds, and four of them died. 



KosEY E. Smith. 



New Hamburg, Ont., Can., Nov. 10, 1883. 



I thought I would write you a letter. I love to 

 read the Juvenile. Pa has 17 hives of bees, and he 

 takes Gleanings. I don't believe pa could do with- 

 out it. He has two Holy-Land queens, which are 

 very nice. I love to watch the bees work, but I am 

 afraid of them. They don't like me very much. Pa 

 took off some honey in section boxes, which was 

 nice. This is my first letter. Will you please send 

 me Ten Nig ts in a Bar-Room? 



Addie Wiseheart, nge 11. 



Graveland, Ind., Nov. 13, 1883. 



Mamma has 11 hives of bees. She started with 

 one in the spring. I am going to have a swarm next 

 spring, if mamma's live. She has them all filled with 

 chaff cushions. I am going to help her take care of 

 the bees. I love to watch them work, and I like 

 honey too. I have a colt, and I am going to break 

 him to ride. I have a duck and turkey and rooster. 

 Please send me a book. Louis March. 



Tecumseh, Johnson Co., Neb., Nov. 3, 1883. 



A LETTER FROM THE SEA-SHORE. 



It has been so dry that papa's bees didn't make 

 much honey this year. They like sumac the best, 

 but that doesn't yield much. Papa's farm is on the 

 sea-shore, on a neck of land, and we have a nice 

 bathing-beach. I should like to send Blue Eyes 

 some cunning shells. Mabel L. PoTXERr age '.K 



Fairhaven, Mass., Dec. 1, 1883. 

 Many thanks, Mabel. We should like very 

 much to see the shells when it gets warm 

 enough so you can gather them. 



LETTER FROM A YOUNG 9-YEAR-OLD PRINTER. 



My pa used to keep bees when he lived on the 

 farm. Now he prints a paper called the Chautauqua 

 News. When I am out of school I set type. When I 

 get hungry for honey I come up to Uncle's and stay 

 awhile. Nellie Sheldon. 



Summerdale, Chaut. Co., N. Y., Jan. 3, 1883. 



Only nine years old, and a girl too, and 

 setting type ! Nellie, please mark a place 

 in your paper where you set, and send it to 

 me. 



My pa had 14 hives In the spring; they have in- 

 creased to 38 by natural swarming. He has S3 in 

 chaff hives, and the rest in American hives, but he 

 wants to get them all into chaff hives. Pa dreamed 

 that he orderd a lot of the Jones honey-pails, and 

 they all came together on a string. I have two 

 sisters and one brother. I go to school week days, 

 but we have no Sunday-school. My pa takes the 

 Juvenile, and he likes it very much. My pa's name 

 Is J. T. Powell, and my ma's name is Hannah Powell. 

 I should like Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. 



Cora Powell, age 13. 



Sand Hill, Mo., Dec, 1883. 



A funny dream, sure enough, Cora. But 

 can't some of you folks start a .Sunday- 

 school in your place V I believe you could 

 make a grand success of one. 



HOW TO SET A BEE-HIVE IN A TREE. 



My pa has 19 stands of bees. They are placed un- 

 der a shed, which is covered with a grapevine. Pa 

 trianed it so it hangs over the front, and it makes a 

 nice shade for them in the summer. We also gath- 

 ered some nice grapes from the vines. We have one 

 stand in a cedar-tree. A big limb in the center is 

 sawn off, and a plank nailed on to set the hive on. 

 The limbs come up on each side, which make a nice 

 shade and shelter for them. 



Jessie Alverson, age 14. 



(iosport, Owen Co., Ind., Sept. 36, 1883. 



BEES NEAR LARGE RIVERS. 



As my pa has all he can do without working with 

 bees, 1 have undertaken the joD, and will try to see 

 if I can make them pay. We live on the Ohio River, 

 and our bees go over to get stores; and when it is 

 chilly, and they are coming back loaded they fall 

 into the liver by thousands, and are drowned. 



John M. Hobbs. 



Middleport, Meigs Co., O., Dec. 30, 1883. 



You have made a good point, John ; and 

 that is, that bee-men should avoid locating 

 too near large rivers. 



Ma had two swarms of bees last spring, and my 

 brother, who is ten, only one. One of ma's colonies 

 swarmed. She Las 4 now, and my brother had six 

 ne;/ ones. lie now has 16. Our bees did not make 

 so much honey as we read of in Gleanings. A 

 good many keep bees around here. Ma sent and 

 got alsike clover to sow for the bees to work on. 



WickliUc, O., Dec. 29, 1883. Ida Field. 



If she had two and had only 1 swarm. I 

 don't see how she has /our now ? llow is it, 

 friend Ida? 



don't LET THE BEES BE KILLED. 



Papa has 38 colonies of bees. A man gave him one 

 for robbing them. He was going to kill them, and 

 take their honey. Papa told him it was wicked to 

 do so. He told pa if he could do any thing with them 

 he might have them. Pa fetched them home and 

 gave them honey, and they are all right. I think 

 that was better than to kill them; don't you? 



JiMMiE Jones. 



Cowden, Shelby Co., 111., Dec. 25, 1883. 



To be sure, I do, Jimmie ; and I am glad 

 to hear you papa is humane as well as enter- 

 prising. 



Papa has kept bees 7 years. He has 75 stands— 35 

 in chaff, and 40 in the cellar. 1 put together lOOO 

 sections last summer. The bees made most of the 

 honey from the basswood-trees. I went to school 

 one term. I had the mumps, and had to stay out of 

 school this winter. Bertie A. Gillette, age 8. 



Le Roy, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1883. 



There, I guess I know you, Bertie. Isn't 

 your father the man who makes lin points V 

 So he has half of his bees in the celler, has 

 he ? I almost wish I had fixed ours so, and 

 then may be six wouldn't have been dead. 



HOW ANNIE EARNED HER BEES. 



My mamma keeps bees. We had two hives last 

 spring, and they swarmed three times; they are all 

 full of honey. We winter our bees in a bee-house, 

 so as to keep them from the weather. I like to go 

 to the bees, and see them comG in loaded, they look 

 so nice. One day all the rest of the family were 

 awa from home, and the bees swarmed, and I made 



