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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



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to make them. He did not get much honey the fol- 

 lowing year; but last year they did better. He got 

 150 lbs. of surplus honey, and has eight swarms in 

 the cellar, doing well. He sent and got an Italian 

 queen and a pound of bees last summer, and his bees 

 arc half hybrids or Italians. The poor little blacks 

 are getting crowded out, just as we white people 

 have crowded out the poor Indians. Pa is very fond 

 of bees. He is in hope's to have better luck next 

 time. He thinks a great deal of Gleanings, and 

 reads it out loud to us. This will be a surprise to pa. 

 Bertha E. Nelson, age 1:1. 

 West Stockholm, St. Law. Co., N. Y., Jan. 20, 1883. 



drones from worker eggs; by a 14 -year old 

 .juvenile. 



Will you allow a little girl fourteen years old, who 

 has done much work about the apiary, to speak of 

 what has come under her own observation relative 

 to the workers changing the sex of the egg? For 

 five or more years my father and I have raised m.any 

 queens for our own use and that of our neighbors. 

 Last year we bought about 1.5 hives of black bees, 

 with the object of seeing how many Cyprian hives 

 we could make from them ; and in order to do it we 

 proceeded in the following manner: The black queen 

 and unsealed brood were pi-eviously removed, and 

 in their place we put f dn. Then Cyprian worker 

 eggs, about one day old, were placed in the center of 

 about one-half bushel of bees. Now listen to the re- 

 sult: In almost every case, where no Italian drones 

 or drone brood was placed, and after the queens and 

 workers were hatched out, there were Cyprian 

 drones to hatch; and in order to satisfy myself that 

 no mistake was made, I pulled them from the cells 

 and examined. Say to Mrs. Harrison that I can do 

 more hard work in the apiary than lazy men. If I 

 am entitled to a book, please send Ten Nights in a 

 Bar-Room. Is.\bella Wieh. 



South River, A. A. Co., Md., Jan. 31,1883. 



We are very glad of your testimony, 

 friend Isabella, and I am very glad indeed 

 to know that you are not only reading, but 

 working understandingly. Go on, and let 

 us hear from you more. 



The following I copy from the Christian Advocate 

 of Jan. 4, 18o3: — 



Tobacco is an evil weed. 

 And from the* devil did proceed; 

 It spoils your breath and soils your clothes. 

 And makes a chimney of your nose. 

 Would you give me a book, if you think I deserve 

 it? I try to be a good little girl. Send me Pilgrim's 

 Progress. Jessie S. Wier, age 8. 



South River, Md., Feb. 1, 1883. 



May God bless you, my staunch little friend 

 Jessie, for your little verse. If yon don't 

 deserve Pilgrim's Progress, I don't know 

 who does. 



and more honey by doing that way. Don't you 

 think so? Mother thinks honey is just as good 

 as sugar for sweetening a great many things, and 

 even for sweetening tea and coffee. The bees are 

 all in the cellar now, and they seem quite happy. 

 The thermometer has been 24' below zero twice. I 

 rather think they enjoy 40 above rather than 24 be- 

 low, out in the snow. There was an owl frozen in 

 our school coalhouse, and two little quails under the 

 schoolhouse. The teacher took the wings to put on 

 her hat. There was a freight train wrecked by a 

 broken rail half a mile south of our house; eight 

 cars were thrown from the track, and badly broken 

 up, and corn and wheat thrown out among the snow, 

 but no one hurt. A. May Provan, age 11. 



Traer, Tama Co., la., Jan. 25, 1883. 



A LETTER FROM IOWA, WITH A GREAT DEAL OF 

 NEW8 IN IT. 



My father has 19 swarmsof bees. They made over 

 lOCOlbs. last summer. My brother has two of them. 

 One made 176 lbs. They would have done much bet- 

 ter if the spring had not been so hard on them. We 

 extracted considerable in the busiest time of the 

 honey harvest. It kept us busy to keep them busy. 

 We thought it best, seeing they were so weakened 

 by the cold wet spring. When they swarmed we 

 would go to the hive and cut out the queen-cells and 

 put the new swarm right back where it came 

 from. We thought we would have stronger colonies 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



The Story of the Bible came to hand all i-ight, and 

 the children are well pleased with it. 

 Barbour's Mills, Pa., Jan. 5, 1883. Ann Scaife. 



The hives have come to hand. I think they are 

 about right. That is the way my mind runs at pres- 

 ent. W. W. Turner. 



Oak Hill, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1883. 



OUR .JOB PRINTING. 



The circulars and envelopes just came to hand, 

 and 1 must say they were very nicely done. 

 Linden, Mich., Jan. 24, 1883. L. E. Welch, 



"Waterbury" received, and Gleanings started 

 for a year, according to your offer for fl.OO. 

 Thanks ; the watch is worth the money alone. It 

 seems to be as good a time-keeper as the best. 



H. Kingsbury. 



Lockport, Niagara Co., N. Y., Feb. 3, 1883. 



This March journal has got so dirty that I am 

 ashamed to send it. I have two small children who 

 have to read my journals after I do. 



Nelson Hubbard. 



South Strafford, Vermont, Jan., 1883. 



[Never mind the dirt, friend H., if you can only 

 get the children to reading them.] 



I can say, that I have always had better satisfac- 

 tion in getting goods from you than from any other 

 place. Those 244-lb. scales I purchased of you are 

 reliable, and will stand the test by the side of high- 

 priced scales here in the stores. 'They were going to 

 charge me $5.00 at the hardware store here for sec- 

 ond-hand scales weighing only 10 lbs., but I could 

 not see the point, when new ones weighing 24t lbs. 

 cost me here only $5.33. Geo. P. Howards. 



Marion, Wayne Co., N. Y., Jan. 20, 1883. 



STORY OF THE BIBLE. 



lam well pleased with "Story of the Bible." I 

 would much rather place it in the hands of a child 

 than any of the books filled with made-up stories. 

 It makes a first-rate Christmas present for any child 

 who can read in one syllable. Cyms Goss. 



Belimore, Ind., Dec. 25, 1882. 



[I believe your opinion is the general one, friend 

 G. We have had a very large trade on the book, 

 and one customer sent right back for another just 

 as soon as he saw what a very large nice book it was 

 for so small a sum of money.] 



I shall try to do without Gleanings this year, and 

 we will be good friends still; of course, we will; if 

 not, why not? C. W. Leah. 



Spanish Fork, Utah, Jan. 23, 1883. 



[I really hope that nothing will happen to prevent 

 our being good friends still, friend Ll; but I am go- 

 ing to try to have so much that is good in Glean- 

 ings, that you will hear your neighbors tell about it, 

 until you can't stand it without it; and then I hope, 

 too, that the children may all take such a fancy to 

 this little bee journal that they may all be telling 

 about it. And, by the way, friend L., don't you have 

 some little folks around t/our house too?] 



