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GLEANIKGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



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make the hives, I could have had ten'more swarms. 

 I had to double them up a good deal to get them into 

 the hives that I had, and I also lost several swarms 

 that went to the woods. By their swarming so much 

 I got very little honey; hut I am not a bit discour- 

 aged, for the increase will more than twice pay me 

 for my little bother with them, and it is quite a 

 pleasure to me to work with the little fellows, even 

 if they do use their stings on me once in a while. 



SETTING THE CHILDREN AT WORK. 



I received those saws and the mandrel, and I am 

 well pleased with them. I have got my rig fixed up 

 to run by horse-power, and it is almost play for me 

 and the boys to cut up lumber for hives. I have six 

 boys and three girls, and I feel that there is a good 

 deal of responsibility resting on me to lead those lit- 

 tle ones, with whom God has blest me, in the right 

 direction. My oldest child is 16, and he has already 

 embarked on the old ship of Zion. Friend Hoot, I 

 feel bound, by the assistance of the good Being, to 

 set a good example before them, that they, too, with 

 me, may meet their mother who has passed on be- 

 fore us. Oh what comfort it is, when we have to 

 part with loved ones here, to think chat, if we are 

 only faithful, we shall again meet ,vhere Jesus is, 

 never to part again I I'. P. Hubbakd. 



Graysville, Monroe Co., O., March 5, 1883. 



OUR OLD FRIEND I. R. GOOD. 



WHAT HAPPENED, "WHAT HE DID, AND 

 WHERE HE IS NOW. 



M BOUT the first of March we got a letter 

 y^\ from friend G'., and it read something 

 ' like this:— 



I have lost about 100 colonies of tees; every one 

 that I used for queen-rearing last season is dead. 

 My hopes are not blasted, but 1 am thinking very 

 strongly of emigrating to Tennessee or Alabama. 



Napanee, Ind., March 0, 1883. I. R. Good. 



In reply to the above, I wrote as below: — 



Don't do it, friend G. You haven't got 

 fairly initiated yet. 



To which he replied:— 



You say I haven't got initiated yet. How many 

 degrees are there in bee-keeping? I have taken 

 several degrees; but if there are as many as there 

 are in Masonry, then I will acknowledge that I am 

 on one of the lowest rounds of the ladder. I pur- 

 chased a colony of bees with the first $1.00 I ever 

 owned. I start for Tennessee and Alabama this 

 week ; am going to see the Sunny South. 



Napanee, Ind., March 11, 1883. I. R. Good. 



And now we get this from him to-day:— 



1 wish you were here with me for a little while to 

 enjoy the scenery here. Coming up this mountain 

 Is as a Christian's journey should be — a continual 

 going-up until the eternal city is reached. I like 

 Tennessee, what I have seen of it, so far, and like 

 its people. Peaches are out in bloom, and every 

 thing looks lovely. I can see J. H. Thornburn's 

 apiary, about 1000 feet below. I am going down to 

 see him. I. K. Good. 



Roper's Rock, Lookout Mt., Tenn., March 15, 1883. 



That is right, old friend. You just keep 

 on sending us notes of travel like the above, 

 and we shall soon have you for a special 

 correspondent; and who "knows but that 



some day we may be able to pay you as 

 much for it as all the bees you have lost are 

 worth ? May God be with you in all your 

 journeyings, and may they ever be onward 

 and upward, toward the eternal city. 



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>■'■' INASMUCH AS YE HAVE BONE IT UN- 

 TO THE LEAST OF ONE OF THESE, 

 YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME." 



MRS. HARRISON PLEADS FOR THE HOMELESS CHIL- 

 DREN. 



LTHOUGH j-ou have started out a litt e in 

 that direction." How many, many times 

 I've revolved those words over and over 

 again in my mind, since the receipt of the last 

 Gleanings! I started over twenty years ago, and 

 never looked back long at a time. I've no desire to 

 parade my domestic affairs before the public, but 

 will put in a word, since that remark in Gleanings, 

 "Started a little." 



We've had six proteges in our family, and half of 

 them are in good homes, and have families of thicr 

 own. I have found homos for seventeen poor chil- 

 dren, most of them in the country, and I now have 

 in my closet, clothing that I have repaired to dress a 

 boy comfortably to take him with me to a home in 

 the country next week. Last Sabbath, as I took this 

 boy's starved, thin hand in mine, there were very 

 queer sensations running up and down my spinal 

 column. I am very sorry to say it, but the 

 boys have done better, as a class, than the girls. 

 Some of them did not remain very long, but yet 

 thej' were made better by it, for it is impossible for 

 a child who has never known what a good home is, 

 to remain in one six months or a year, and not be 

 benefited by it. Three boys for whom we got places 

 in the country several years ago, and who, while 

 here, were the terror of the neighborhood, playing 

 truant, throwing stones at street-lamps, robbing 

 vineyards, etc., are now well behaved when they 

 visit the city, an are well liked where they live in 

 the country. 



Work is one of the very best reformatory measures ; 

 nothing is equal to it under the sun. If our lady 

 bee-keepers can not obtain girls as helpers, why not 

 try boys? In a city it is easier to obtain a home for 

 a girl than a boy. It does not hurt a boy a particle 

 to do housework, or lower his manliness cither. 

 The city bakers and confectioners are all men. 

 Peoria, 111., March, 1883. Mrs. L. Harrison. 



FROM 23 TO 50, AND 4000 liBS. HONEY. 



A HEAVY testimonial IN FAVOR OP FEEDING 



THROUGH A DEARTH, AND EXTRACTING 



THROUGH A FLOOD OP HONEY. 



f HERE WITH send in my report for 1882, although 

 rather late. I commenced the season with 23 

 — ' swarms: V of them were mere nuclei; the rest 

 were fair average swarms, all in Simplicity hives. I 

 increased to 50 by artificial and natural swarming, 

 and took 4000 Ibs. of honey — 3600 extracted, and 500 

 comb honey, with an average of 30 or 35 lbs. to the 

 hive, for winter stores. 



The honey season began very late; cold and wet 

 until the first of July; fed up to July lOih. At that 

 time I do not think there was half a pound of feed 

 in any of the hives. 



