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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



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all over the world. While I think of it, we 

 are just now commencing to build another 

 factory, or wing, rather, so ms to accommo- 

 date " Eliza " and the rest of the girls, when 

 they are putting up seeds and other goods 

 for you. It is to run out along the road 

 where you see the man just starting off with 

 a load of bee-hives, in the picture in the 

 A B C book. Now, children, 1 am going to 

 stop and let you write, for we must remem- 

 ber this is your journal, and you are not to 

 be crowded out by old folks. Don't forget 

 the garden for bee-plants. 



36 COLONIES, AND LOTS OF HONEY. 



Mi' pa has 30 swarms, and I havo one. Pa got lots 

 of honcj' ia sections. I like honey. 



J. Edward Wintf.tj, age 8. 

 Beckaell, Knox Co., [nd., Feb. 5. 18S3. 



"GUANDMAS BEES." 



Grandma bought two hives of bees in old box hives 

 last Sept. for $13.00. She says she is green, but is go- 

 ing to learn to attend them, and sow nice tiowers for 

 them this summer. They worked thick as could be 

 on seed onions and Windsor beans. 



Jennie V. Light, age 11. 



HOW THEY MAKE SWARMS ALIGHT AT EMMA'S HOl'SE 



Pa has got 16 stands of bees; 3 years ago ho had 

 only 2; they made lots of honey last summer. I had 

 to watch the bees, for when they swarmed we would 

 get tin pans, and drum on them to make them 

 alight. EMM.i QuAiN, age 12. 



McDonald, Vanburen Co., Mich., March 8, 1883. 



FROM 4 TO 10, AND 40 LBS. "CAP" HONEY. 



Mr. Kilts has 10 swarms of bees. We had 4 colonies 

 to begin with in the spring. We got 40 lbs. of " cap" 

 honey. He has them packed in straw. We looked 

 at them last week. They were all alive but one 

 swarm. I am living with Mr. Kilts. 



Willie L. Parmele, age 12. 



Sharon Center, Scho. Co., N. Y., Feb. 27, 1883. 



A SHORT STORY, WITH A PLAIN MORAL. 



Pa had 18 colonies in the fall, and it is coming 

 spring now, and several colonies are dead. The bees 

 fly out of the hive and drop on the snow, and die. A 

 stabbing aflfray took place in Indianola a few weeks 

 ago between a couple of young men. Thoy were 

 playing cards. Lor Hall. 



Indianola, Warren Co., Ia., March S, 1883. 



My pa has 27 standi of boes. They are all in good 

 condition. But we hear from all around in the cnun- 

 try, that a great many died this winter. 



Ernest Hollenbach, o.i*3 12. 



Noblesville, Ind., March 1, 1883. 



HONEY CANDY, AND CANDIED HONEY. 



Pa has 53 hives of bees; 33 are in chaff hives. Hon- 

 ey makes good candy, if you boil it down. 



Sidney Brichner, age 9. 



We have a barrel of honey, and it is all sugared 

 solid. Annie Brichner, age 11. 



Decorab, Iowa, Jan. 3, 1883. 



I can help my sister to wash the dishes. I have 

 three sisters and one brother. I like bees, and I 

 like to watch them in the summer. In the winter 

 they don't fly. Pa has bees, and he likes to watch 

 them. Sarah J. Brechbikl, ago8. 



Newburg, Cumb. Co., Pa., Feb. 26, 1883. 



-IOSEPH'S MISHAP, AND WHAT THEY DID. 



My father keeps bees. In 1882 he had 17 stands, 

 and now he has only 10 left. Last summer my 

 brother Joseph was hiving a swarm that wi-is in a 

 neighbor's tree, and he lost his hold, and all the bees 

 fell down on him, and he ran down the garden, 

 screaming, "Water, water, water!" and we got a 

 bucket full and he dipped his head in, and then we 

 pumped more on his body. I have 5 brothers and 3 

 sisters; the baby's name is Walter Thomas, and he 

 has pretty blue eyes. M \rtha Dodds, age 10. 



Lonaconing, Md., March 5. 188J. 



HOW SOPHV'S father INTRODUCES QUEENS. 



My pa has 8 swarms of bees. They are in the cel- 

 lar. Restarted with 1 lb. of bees and an Italian 

 queen. He had two swarms of black bees that he 

 got from ono of our neighbors, and he made them 

 Italians by introducing queens. One was a honey 

 queen which be got from you. My pa introduces 

 queens by cjging the black one, and leaves it in for 

 a few hours, then changes the cage, putting in the 

 Italian, and leaves it in for 24 hours, and then lets 

 her out. He has never lost a queen in introducing. 

 Sophy Seely, age 11. 



Greenville, Mich., Feb. 25, 1883. 



FROM 2 TO 8, AND 25 GALLONS OP HONEY. 



My pa has 8 stands of bees; he had two old stands 

 last spring, and ho extracted 25 gallons of honey, 

 and increased them to 8 stands. We all like honey, 

 and I think a few stands of bees will beat a sugar- 

 cane patch. I like to help work with the bees. I 

 love to see the busy bee gathering flowers to make 

 honey. Sime Cahr, age 11. 



Maysfield, Milam Co., Tex., March, 1883. 



AVhy, "Sime," do the bees really gather 

 tiowers and all, down your way? 1 never 

 heard of that before, although I have seen 

 them take out long strings from the inside 

 of tiowers. That is a pretty good report, 

 anyway. 



CHESTNUT HONEY, ETC. 



We have 24 stands of bees; nearly all in very good 

 condition. I have one stand, and papa is going to 

 give mamma and my brother Wesley one stand 

 each. Mamma says she wants to try your plan of 

 putting grapevines near the hive. Grandpa White 

 was 82 years old last January. He took 100 lbs. of 

 box honey from one of his hives. The first honey 

 we took off was very white and nice; but the last 

 was quite dark. Papa said the dark was made from 

 chestnut bloom, and the white was made frjm white 

 clover and blue thistle. Where in the Bible does it 

 say that John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey? 

 Hugh J. White. Jr. 



Broad Run Sta., Va., Feb. 21, 1883. 



FROM 3 TO 8, and the REASON WHY — NOT MUCH 

 HONEY. 



We had 3 stands of .bees last spring. They are 

 black, and they increased to 8 stands last summer. 

 We did not get as much as some others who keep 

 bees, because 3 of them were in the old-fashioned 

 box-hive. I have to watch bees in summer. I like 

 to see them swarm. When a swarm comes out, and 

 pa is not at home, mamma hives them, if they are 

 not too high in a tree. Papa wants me to thank you 

 for the bee journal you sent him. He wants to buy 

 some new hives this spring, and wants you to send 

 him a price list. He will come out to see you some 

 time this spring. Louisa A. Rindspach, ajre 11. 



N, Eldgeville, 0., Feb. 31, 1863. 



