1883 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



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THE ONE-ntVE APIARY THAT WOULDN'T STAY SO. 



I Started with one stand, and now I've so many I 

 must either become a bee-keeper or get rid of some 

 of the bees. Which? Mrs. M. A. Shepherd. 



Barry, Pike Co., 111., Dec. 29, 1882. 



FROM 2 TO 10, AND 800 LBS. HONEY. 



Bees did well here this year. I started with two 

 stands; increased to 10; could have had 20, and 800 

 lbs. honey, mostly extracted. Wm. Hills. 



Ironton, Mo., Dec. 26, 1883. 



I have 20 colonies, mostly hybrids, of all grades. 

 Started with 6 stands iti spring, and made 250 lbs. 

 of extracted honey; all sold in town at 20 cts. per 

 lb., and call for more. Jacob Fischer. 



Elizabethtown, Ky., Dec. 30, 1882. 



My report for 1882 is as follows: 2500 lbs. comb 

 honey, sold at 20 and 25c in New York. Very little 

 increase in stocks; 84 colonies packed in chaff on 

 summer stands, constitute the number of colonies 

 that I have at present. Albert Brush. 



Susquehanna, Pa., Dec. 2", 1882. 



152?8 LBS. TO the hive, AND THREEFOLD INCREASE. 



I don't think my bees would work for me if I did 

 not do according to instructions in A B C and 

 Gleanings. My bees have done very well this sum- 

 mer. Average yield per colonj', spring count, was 

 152Vi lbs. and increased threefold. E. S. Collins. 



Cedar Lake, Mich., Dec. 28, 1882. 



My 8 stands of bees did well this year. They aver- 

 age 100 lbs. per stand. How is that for a beginner? 

 I cut off a limb of a tree with a swarm in it, and 

 took 15 lbs. of honey from them. I tried to save 

 them, but the little pets got drowned, and so I lost 

 them. Louis Werner. 



Edwardsville, 111., Dec. 28, 1882. 



My bees are mostly blacks; a few colonies are h}- 

 brids , and two Italians. I had 30 colonies last spring, 

 mostly in good condition. Increased to 45 and sold 

 :;000 lbs. of honey in section boxes, at 20 cts. per lb., 

 besides using all that a familj' of seven ^antsto eat, 

 and gave the neighbors perhaps 75 or 80 lbs., so you 

 see I still think the blacks worth caring for. 



Delaware, O., Jan. 2, 1882. W. T. Ropp. 



PJINNSYLVANI.V NOT TO BE COUNTED OUT. 



Some one says, "Cross Pennsylvania out;" they 

 had better not be so fast ; although there are better 

 places, wo shall not quit bee-keeping. It has been 

 a very bad year, but wc have some honey. I started 

 in the spring with 30 colonies; increased to 56, and 

 took 1000 lbs. of comb honey, and 1000 of extracted. 



A. W. LiNDSEY. 



West Brooklyn, Pa., Dec. 2.5, 1882. 



The like was never known before, of such a yield 

 of honey as we have had during the past season, in 

 this part of the State. In fact, it was a honey har- 

 vest all summer. It was hard work for us to give 

 our 160 colonies all the room they needed for storing. 

 Many of our colonies gave over 200 lbs. to the hive, 

 while a few did nothing; and such, I will take care 

 that their queens' heads come off in the spring. 

 Honey crop, 16,000 lbs. Jas. Spencer. 



Woodburn, Iowa, Jan. 10, 1882. 



THE first report OF HONEY IN 1883. 



The bees are working to-day on altilaree, pepper, 

 eucalyptus, lemon, lime, and orange blossoms; 

 lyitliin the past 3 \yeeks they have filled their hjveg 



so completely that I shall have to extract in order 

 to give the queens room to breed. B. Gallup. 



Santa Ana, Cal., Dec. 23, 1882. 



Well, friend Gallup, that is a big contrast 

 from our report this 8th day of January. 

 Our bees are out in the zero weather, and 

 six out of our 185 are dead already. No 

 reason could be assigned, except that they 

 had eaten the honey all around them, and 

 the cluster was too small for them to move 

 over to it. There, I declare I forgot this was 

 the department for Reports £)i-couraging. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Those circular saws are just snlendid; they are 

 not for sale. G. S. Dennison. 



Tifflne, Iowa, Jan. 1, 1883. 



Don't you see that I can not do without Glean- 

 ings? You can not get rid of me for one dollar a 

 year. Leonidas Carson. 



Frederick, Ohio, Dec. 19, 1882. 



Inclosed please And 91 cts., for which please send 

 me another telephone. This is about six I have or- 

 dered. J.\MES E. Tilman. 



Akron, Fulton Co., Ind., Dec. 22, 1882. 



Will you please send the Dec. number of Juven- 

 ile? I suppose one was sent, but was lost on the 

 way, and it is causing considerable lamentation 

 among the juveniles here. T. A. Whiteside. 



Belleville, 111., Jan. 1, 1883. 



" DO they miss me?" 



Goods arrived in splendid condition. Many thankp. 

 But oh ! the Juvenile Gleanings has not come this 

 month, and the children are almost crying about it. 



White Lick, Ind., Dsc. 27, 188.'. A. Cox. 



I had 5 stands last spring. I went to work and fed 

 them up; they went to work, and made me nearly 

 100 lbs. to the hive. I eive all the credit to the fdn. 

 I got of you. 1 have 13 stands wintering nicely so 

 far. C. M. Bennett. 



South Charleston, Clark Co., O., Jan. 1, 1883. 



the 75CENT telephones. 



The telephones have been giving splendid satis- 

 tion — so much so that most of our neighbors have 

 concluded to have one. Inclosed please find 91 cts. 

 for another one. Had I known so many were want- 

 ed, I might have inclosed all in one order. 



Akron, Ind., Jan. 1, 1883. James E. Tilman. 



My brother, do not consider your efforts vain, or 

 that they will be lost, while you are striving to ele- 

 vate the moral standard of the young; for upon 

 these the great future hope of our country depends. 

 Press home in the future, as in the past, the great 

 importance of sobriety in habits and morals, and 

 that strict honesty is essential to permanent suc- 

 cess in life. As the cii'culation of your publication 

 increases, your abilitu to do good, aoi your responsi- 

 bilitu also, increases. May the good Lord direct you 

 aright! J. Y. Kezartee. 



Ceresco, Mich., Dec. 28, 1882. 



[And may God bless you for your kind and cheery 

 words, brother K.] 



FROM A CALIFORNIA MOTHER. 



Your card of acknowledgment came three days 

 after I sent my last postal. Where I lived when a 

 girl, the boys used to come around early Christmas 

 morning, singing, 



" Wish yoii a nieiry Christmas and a happy New Year, 

 A pocicet lull of muney and a cellar full of beer." 



I wish you the same, only change the last letter of 

 the last word into s. Ernie says, " Thank Mr. Root 

 for the nice books you sent him." I also thank you, 

 for it is a help to him about learning. He reads well 

 in his school-books, but hesitates about trying other 

 books till he had one of his own sent by Mr. Root for 

 the little letter he wrote. Now I can get him to try 

 almost any thing in the shape of juvenile reading. 

 Mrs. Joel Hilton. 



Los Alamos, Cal., Dec. 29, 188?, 



