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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Mak. 



stop the " hen cholera," unless it is to keep 

 them dean. 



PROM ONE OF OUR CANADA JUVENILKS. 



My pa has two stands of bees; he bought a stand 

 last spring. Thoy swarmed once; we packed them 

 in sawdust last fall. We take Gleanings. I like 

 to read the children's letters in the Juvenile. We 

 live on the farm adjoining Mr. John Calvert's. We 

 knew Albert, and were verj' sorry when we heard of 

 his death. He was a nice, quiet boy. This is ray 

 first letter. Edwin Fleming. 



Heaboro, Canada, Feb. 0, 188:!. 



We do not take Gleanings, but my uncle does, 

 and I get the Juvenile to read. 1 like it very much. 

 We have four f tands now. AVe did have 7, but 3 

 died during the wiiitor. ( go to school at the White 

 Sulphur Spring!. I siuJy grammar, U. S. history, 

 etc. I like to go to school. I have one little sister 

 three years old. We have been keeping bees for 

 three years, and I have been stung but once. I like 

 bees, and honey also. Our bees suck the spider 

 plant. John W. Caldwell, age 11. 



White Sulphur Springs, Ga. 



ERNEST'S report. 



Papa bought two queens and 3 lbs. of Italian bees 

 from you last June, and now we have 10 hives of 

 Italians. He has them all nicely packed in chaff. I 

 think chaff and foundation are pood things for bees. 

 Our bees have wintered well, and on the 3d day of 

 February, they worked all day and cleaned up their 

 houses for spring, and on the 1.5th they were gather- 

 ing pollen; but I do not know where they found it. 

 Ernest B. D.^venport, age 11. 



Hodgenville, Ky., Feb. 35, 1883. 



only 33 LEFT, out O? 37. 



Out of 37 hives of bees we have 33 left. For the 

 last few days they have been flyinff almost as in 

 Bwarming time, bringing in pollen. Papa says they 

 get it from maple aud other tlowers. We have been 

 feeding them on sug'ar made from sugar-cane. 

 They like it very much. From the other bees that 

 died we got only 3'/i lbs. of wax. We had a swarm 

 last October. They are living, and doing as well as 

 the others. Nettie Miller, ajje 13. 



Minden, La., Feb. 16. 1883. 



"chub" and her father, "little ben." 

 My pa has kept bees for the last 35 years. He has 

 79 swarms now, all packed in chaff. I helped him 

 pack them. We have lots of honey and sell it in Al- 

 b(jny. I am a big boy; my pa calls himself "Little 

 Ben." He weighs 330 lbs. I have a little blue-eyed 

 sister about a year old, and I think she is pretty. 

 Her name is Myra, but we call her " Chub." Pa is 

 going to send for one of your scales, and then I will 

 weigh her. Earl Auchampaugh, age 8. 



West Township, N. Y., Feb. 37, 1883. 



HOW the bees were saved from brimstoning. 



One of our neighbors last fall was going to brim- 

 stone one of his colonies. Pa told him that he would 

 take the honey for him if he would let him have the 

 bees. The 3d of November he took the honey and 

 brought the bees home, and fed them up, and they 

 are now in good condition. Pa gave mc one colony, 

 but it has become queenless this winter. Can you 

 furnish me a queen by April 1, and at what price? 

 My Simpson plant did well last summer. Pa has 13 

 stands. J. A. Sheneman. 



Pharisburg, O., March, 1883. 



a nONEY-HOUSE WITH LEGS TO IT. 



Pa has 100 colonies. He has a honey-house with 

 legs under it. The- legs stond in small pans, and in 

 the summer we fill the p^uia with water, so the ants 

 can't get in and bother pa and eat the honc}'. I 

 have a brother 10 years old. His name is AVillie. 

 JlENNiE Morehouse, aye IS. 



Mombaccuj, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1883. 



Very good, Rennie. 1 suppose your pa 

 p;ets lip into that house and just puts his 

 thumb against the side of his uose, and then 

 wiggles his fingers at the ants, doesn't he? 

 Very likely the ants look up at him '••dis- 

 couraged like," and don"t eay a word back. 



A nUMBLE-BEE STORY. 



My Uncle Edwin keeps bees; my Uncle Harry 

 keeps bees too, and my papa raises tl!)wer.-=. ! go to 

 school and Sunday-school and church. I lifted up a 

 board and saw a lot of bumble-bees, and one stuDgr 

 me. I like the bees that m;ike honey. I like the 

 honey better than the bees. The bees got honey 

 from clover and mint. I wrote the best I could. 



Ada GR.\NiGEa, age 9. 



Peer Park, Ont., Can.. Feb. 33, 1883. 



I d re say you did write the bestyou could, 

 Ada, and it is very well indeed for a ^-year- 

 old "■ chick." Somebody has said, that 

 when we do the best we "can, '"angels can 

 do no more." 



FROM rO TO 5'3, AND 3000 LBS. OF HONEY. 



Pa has 53 colonies, and I have one. They are on 

 their summer stands, all covered with straw about 

 a foot deep, and are all ri<rht po far as we know. 

 Feb. 19th being a nice daj , p.i opened 8 or 10, and 

 they had a flight, and to-day pa and I cpened all, and 

 they flew lively. He received from his 30 colonies, 

 spring count, 3300 lbs. of extracted honey and 500 

 lbs. of comb honey; and I, from my nuclei of four 

 sash, 47 lbs. of comb honey and .53 lbs. of extracted 

 honey. r,?wis H. Tr.Es«TEr!, age 14. 



Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. 31, 1883. 



.TOHNNY'S HONEY CROP. AND HOW HE DISPOSED 

 OV IT. 



I have only one swarm of bee?, and I won't have 

 them unless they come out all right in the spring. 

 They are a second swarm. My papa gave them to 

 me for tending his bees in swarming-time. They 

 made 30 lbs. of surplus honey in one-pound sec- 

 tions, besides filling their hive. I sold the honey in 

 London for 33 cts. a lb., and bought a stem-winding 

 watch at Ave dollars so you see when I am tending 

 bees the coming season I can tell exactly the minute 

 they swarm. It has been very deep snow here; tho 

 thermometer has been as low as 14° below zero. 



Johnny Coleman, age 13. 



D3vizes, Out, Can., March, 1883. 



JOSEPH'S LETTER, AND HOW HE WROTE TT. 



Brother Jimmie wrote you a letter, and got a 

 book. Ma said I might, for I wanted a book so bad. 

 Ma holds my band while I write. Ma said she did 

 not know whether you would .send a book or not, 

 but I might try. P.ipai3 going to send to you for 

 some goods before lorg. His bees are doing nicely, 

 and flying lots to-day. Joseph H. Wallace, age 6. 



Wheatland. Jnd.. March, 1883. 



Such a letter will do tiptop, Jo.seph, and I 

 hope that it will be not only while you are 

 learning to write that you let your mother 

 hold your hand and guide you, but that even 



