1883 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



m 



when you are a big grown-up man, your 

 hand may be often in hers, and that her 

 pure love" may guide you. 



MOVINQ BEES FOR BtTTER PASTUItAGE. 



Last December my brother, W. F. Miles, moved 120 

 stands of bees over a mountain road, to a litlle town 

 about 70 miles from here, on a big- ■wagon, with 4 

 horses. We have .W stands here of our own, and 50 

 of another man. The weather is quite warm, and 

 the bees are carrying- in lots of pollen. It was not a 

 good honey season here last year, and not a i^ood 

 prospect for one this year. My brother expects to 

 be at Lompno a g-ood deal this year with his bees, 

 and so I shall have to help with the bees here. One 

 of our neighbors is a nephew of I. R. Good, the man 

 who writes so much for the Gr.EAKiNOS. 



Laitka Mile,^, age 13. 



Santa Barbara, Cal., Feb. 27, 1S85. 



Your description of moving the bees is 

 very good, Laura; Init you didn't tell us 

 whether it was a paying speculation or not. 

 Did he get lots of honey to pay for all that 

 trouble ? 



IVA'.S report. 



I assist father in watching the bees and putting 

 sections together. Four years ago father bought 

 one swarm of Italian bees. Two years ago bees did 

 tiot do well; the season was poor; they swarmed 

 much; made little honey. My father commenced 

 the first of August to put back all that came out; 

 hived them in a cap, and put them on the hive they 

 came out of. Father kept his in the cellar. They 

 came out strong and healthy in spring. When 

 weather in winter will admit, he puts them out once 

 before spring. I d > imt know the whole amount re- 

 ceived last year. Some swarms produced two more, 

 some three, and 120 lb?, of cap honey. IIo has sold 

 24: swarms; hr.s iJO now in cellar. 



A FUXXV BEE-TREE. 



Mj" uncle found bees in a lai-ge hollow sycamore- 

 tree lying on the ground. There -was more than one 

 barrel of comb well filled. Some of it was very 

 white. The bees were working in one enl. 



IVA M. Bailey, age 11. 



Shcpherdiville, Mich., Feb., 1883. 



POLLEN FROM THE ELM. 



On the 37th day of this month the bees were out in 

 force, and returned carrying in the gold-dust on 

 their legs. They gather It from the water-elm trees, 

 ■which grow on the bank of the creeks; they are 

 budding now. "Wiggins' " cold wave rolled down 

 upon us, and frozf? some of our little darlings. I 

 notice the bees bringing the dead ones out. The 

 bee-tree stands it the best, as I see less dead ones 

 about it. May be it is the best hive, after all. 



REPORT C'ROM THE GOOD CANDY. 



Pa fed the beos'last week, some Good candy mixed 

 up with white granulated sugar and honey about 

 like dough. The bees sifted the honey out, and left 

 the sugar as it was before being mi.\ed; and I nn- 

 ticed they were bringing the grains of sugar out of 

 the hive. How is this? We shall get swarms in one 

 month from now. Pa has the " Early Texas Proliflc 

 Black bee." Do you want a queen? 



TOMMIE H. MULLIN. 



Oakland, Texas, Jan. 30, 1883. 



I don't believe I do, Tommie. Many 

 thanks, nevertheless. JNlucli obliged for 

 your report about the Good candy. 



My pa has 16 swarms of bees in the cellar, doing 

 nicel}\ Last summer he got over 50 lbs. of honey 

 from them. The night they were taking the bees 

 into the cellar, they saw an owl in one of our ma- 

 ple-trees, and my brother shot it, and my mother 

 had the taxidermist stuff it. My brother has a gun 

 and a dog, and he goes a hunting when school does 

 not keep; but the dog catches almost all of the rab- 

 bits. I can rido our pony, for I have a' side-saddle. 

 I can harness our pony to the buggy. 



Nellie G. Whitney. 



Eockton, Win. Co., Wis., March 4, 1883. 



Can harness the pony to the buggy, only 

 ten years old, and a girl at that ! My sakes! 

 but aren't we getting smart ? I wonder how 

 many of the rest can do as well. I know 

 some little girls who sometimes think they 

 can't even bring the eggs. 



LOOK OCT FOR STINGS ON THE EYE, ETC. 



My father got stung on the eyelid last summer. 

 The sting worked through into the ball of the eye, 

 and the doctor had to dig it out. He was very sick 

 for along time, i am getting a collection of post- 

 age-stamps. When you get letters from foreiga 

 countries, will you please send me the stamps on 

 them, and I will pay you for your trouble? Please 

 tell what country they are from, if it Is hard to tell. 

 We have three swarms of bees here now. We have 

 sold two of them. My father has gone to Ashtabula, 

 Ohio. He thinks he will come to see you on the 

 ■way home. Bret Hopkins. 



Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 28, 1883. 



Bees do sometimes sting one In the eye- 

 lid ; but if, when a bee comes buzzing near 

 the eyes, we are careful to hold up the hand 

 a little before the eye, we can generally 

 avoid letting them get a chance to sting in 

 such a dangerous place.— I will have " Ida" 

 save the foreign envelopes for you, after 

 this.— We shall be glad to see your father; 

 but tell liim to show us this letter in the Ju- 

 venile, or we may not remember him. 



now TO GET SPIDER AND FIG-W^ORT PLANTS. 



Mamma planted some spider and Simpson seed in 

 a box. Some have their second leaves on. When 

 they get old enough she will tmnsplant them into a 

 paper box. I will tell you how she makes the boxes. 

 She takes two square pieces of newspaper, any size 

 you wish; paste together; then fold two sides to- 

 ward the center — one side, then the opposite; then 

 fold the ends the same. Cut down the folds of the 

 folded ends to where they are folded over; then 

 take the middle piece of the end; cut and fold the 

 sides over, and paste, and you have a nice box. I 

 fend you a sample one halt folded. When you wish 

 to plant in the garden, wet the paper and press the 

 dirt around and over it. I think we should have a 

 rather hard time to get the bees here if they should 

 alight on a fir-tree that is 200 feet high and 5 or C ft. 

 at the base: don't j'ou? Wilda Hose, age 14. 



Leland Vallej% Wash. Terr., Feb. 11, 1883. 



Very well done, Willa. Your ma is quite 

 ingenious. I will explain to our other little 

 friends, that these paper boxes are much 

 like a paper of carpet-tacks after the tacks 

 are used out. I know by experience that 

 these paper boxes are a nice way to fix choice 

 plants so they can be easily transplanted, 

 without setting them back a particle. 



