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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Mak. 



Avith yon, in thinkinjj that, as a general 

 Uiiiiff, but little immediate benefit can come 

 from sowing- seeds of bee-plants. If after 

 you had. secured bees enough to gather all 

 the Iioney that now goes to waste, yoii had 

 facilities for raising honey;i)lants by the acre, 

 it might pay, especially if you could sell the 

 seeds, as we do with buckwheat, alsike, 

 rape, and other plants. Tell us about the 

 linden-pulp wood you mention. Is it for 

 making paper'? Give my respects to your 

 good old father. I presume the dysentery 

 has not materially harmed your bees. 



" HORSE-TALiK" — A SEQUlSli. 



ET occurred co my mind, quite a wliile before that 

 article appeared, why something- of the kind could 

 not be carried on in the lower back corner of the 

 JuA'ENiLE. But I was afraid to suggest it. Almost 

 all bee-keepers own horses, cows, etc., and would be 

 glad to read short articles of this kiud. When I was 

 a boy eight or nine years old, my father owned a 

 Sue large horse, black in color. He was noted for 

 his many good qualities in the art of breaking colts. 

 If we hitched a giddy-headed colt beside " old Bill " 

 (for that was his name), and it did not seem inclined 

 to draw, old Bill would walk leisurely along and pull 

 the colt after him. Did colty get stubborn or head- 

 strong, and run ahead. Bill would give him a nip in 

 the neck or ear, and set him back. The colt would 

 worry along for a while, and finally begin to pull. 

 Our old friend became diseased in a few years. Vet- 

 erinarians were called in, medicine given, but still 

 It was the same. He was excused from work; we 

 fed him moistened oats, and on this diet he lived for 

 three or four years. 



IJE KIND TO THE OLD HORSES. 



Friend Hoot, you certainly showed some wisdom 

 when you selected oats for a feed for your old serv- 

 ant. " As they stand at the head of the list of the 

 articles for the horse's feed, thrashed oats contain 

 about 740 parts of nutritive matter to 1000, while 

 corn has 650 to 1000." Corn is more heating than 

 oats, which makes it more or less objectionable as a 

 summer feed. Albert Kkall. 



Ovid, Ind., Deo. 23, 1883, 



THE " KEI> lilGHTS." 



WILLIE S HIVE WITH NO DRONE COMB IN IT. 



^|OMEdays since, I began to write to you; and 

 ^)) after having my letter nearly completed i 

 '"^ stopped awhile, and picked up the Feb. Juve- 

 nile, and was reading some of the little letters, and 

 finally came to " Red Light No. 1." That did not af- 

 fect me; but when I came to " Red Light No. 3," I 

 found it fit me closer than my boot; which, by the 

 way, is a pretty jieatfit, so I stopped, and put it on. 



Now, here I am, and I dare not tell you my pa 

 takes Gleanings, but you must suppose we borrow. 

 I did not want you to think that, for I do not believe 

 in borrowing even a bee journal. 



And then, again, I must not tell you " my pakoops 

 beeg." Well, I'll tell you I have a stand of my own. 

 A natqral swarm issued ono morning about the mid- 

 dle of last June, and pa put thorn in a hlvo and wont 

 to his work on the farm; after ho had been gone 

 awJjUa tlioy oarai out again, and then I pyt Jhew 



into a Harbison hive, and they remained and went 

 to work, and during the summer filled their hive 

 with comb and honey; but not a cell of drone comb 

 did they build. Now, what am I to do next summer 

 tor adrone oj- two, when 'my bees swarm? Shall I 

 bori'ow a few, or buy some drone foundation, and 

 coax them to raise some? I do not believe I'd like 

 to borrow tljoucs either. My bees are beautiful Ital- 

 ians; and if I borrow drones I might get a bad mix. 

 I might venture to tell you, " my pa" uses the Sim- 

 plicity hive, and that mine is just a little odd. 



Willie Hardin, age i;J. 

 Keith's, Oh'.o, March 6, 1883. 



I am glad to know, Willie, that you have 

 got your eye on the "Red Lights," even if 

 you don't quite see them as I do. If I were 

 you I should be very glad my hive didn't 

 have any drone comb in it, for you don't 

 want to raise drones in the same hive you 

 raise your queens, "no how." If you have 

 not already done so, just "read up" the 

 whole matter in the A 13 C. 



Every pirl or boy, under iri years of 

 ape, who writes a letter for this depart- 

 nient. containing sc>me valtable faot, 



NOT OKXKKALLY KN'OWX, ON BEES O • OTIIKR 

 MATTERS, will receive one of David Cook's 

 eveellent five-cent Sunday-sehool book?. 

 Many of these books (contain tlio same 

 matter that you find in Sunday-school 

 hooks costing from 31.00 to S1.50, If you 

 have had one or more books, irlve us the 

 names that we may not send the same 

 twice. We have now in stock, six different 

 books, as follows: Silver Keys, Sheer Oft. 

 The Giant Killer, The Robv-'Family, Res- 

 cued from Egypt, and Ton- Nights in a Bar- 

 Room. 



" A chiel's amans: ye takin' notes. 

 An faith, I'll prent it. " 



MOW many of the children are going to 

 have a garden this spring? I think 



' it is real fun to have a little garden, 



and have it nice and clean. When I am 

 real tired, and worn out with cares, if I can 

 get outdoors and hoe in the dirt with a nice 

 clean sharp hoe, it rests me amazingly. I 

 don't know whether we shall have roots of 

 the figwort enough to sell this spring or not, 

 for they are not up yet; but I think likely 

 we shall see them as soon as the frost is out 

 of the ground. If any of the children want 

 something to do right at their homes, so as 

 to earn some money for themselves, I don't 

 know of any thing nicer than raising seeds 

 of honey-plants. The spider-plant seed is 

 very easy to raise and gather; and at the 

 price we have had to pay this season, one 

 ought to get rich raising it. It seems won- 

 derful to think of it, how so many of you are 

 sending us seeds from all over our country, 

 and at the same time others are sending to 

 U3 for the seeds which we send daily, almost 



