1883 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



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My father has ten swarms of bees. They did not 

 swarm at all last summer. One summer a swarm 

 came out and alighted on one of our little trees. 

 Father was gone, so mother and I hived it. 



Maky E. Gould, age 10. 



Lisbon, Androscoggin Co., Maine. 



THE YOUNG FARMER. 



I will write you a letter, and let you know what I 

 can do. I can do up all of the chores when papa is 

 away from home. I harrowed in wheat last week 

 for the first time. I will be ten years old the 13th 

 day of next June. Charles F. Sadler. 



Creston, Union Co., Iowa, March 24, 1883. 



Very good, Charley. 



THE BOT WHO IS GOING TO MAKE A STEAM-ENGINE. 



Inclosed please find one dollar to pay for your sol- 

 dering: outfit. 1 am going to make me a steam- 

 engine, and I want the outfit to use for it. Ma lent 

 me the dollar, but she says I must solder for the 

 neighbors, and pay her back. Geo. R. Philp. 



Your ma is right, George. Pay for your 

 tools as you go, and make your work self- 

 sustaining. 



now ALBERT SWARMED THE BEES, AND GOT INTO 

 TROUBLE. 



Mrs. Hall has been reading the Juvenile. Mr. 

 Hall has 45 swarms. Mj- business in swarmiiig-time 

 is to blow the horn. I tried to hive a swarm once, 

 and they got down my pants legs, so I let them go, 

 and called Mr. Hall. Two swarms went ofl' to the 

 woods. He has ready sale for all of his honey at 20 

 and 25 cents. Albert S. Woodville. 



Northfleld, Minn., Nov. 27, 1883. 



A CAUTION ABOUT EXTRACTING TOO LATE. 



My father keeps bees. He extracted the honey all 

 out of the upper story, supposing that thej' had 

 made honej' in f ho lower to live on; but he found 

 that some of them had nothing but bee-bread and 

 drone-comb in the lower story. Another bee-kteper 

 near here had some weak swarms, and pa gave him 

 some bees to strengthen them. 



Harlan B. Glazier, age 10. 



Virgil, Cortland Co., N. Y. 



FROM 5 TO 14, AND 18 GALLONS CF HONEY, ETC. 



Pa had 5 hives of Italian bees last spring. They 

 increased to 14, and all lived through the winter but 

 two. He keeps them in chaff hives. Pa and ma ex- 

 tracted 18 gallons of honey, and had some comb 

 honey left. Pa likes the extractor you sent him. I 

 go to Sunday-school, and at the close of the quarter 

 I could recite all the golden texts. 



Ralph McReynolds, age 9. 



Topeka, Mason Co., Illinois, March 23, 18S3. 



We have no bees at our house, but we have a sweet 

 little baby. I help my ma wash dishes. I like to 

 work. I go to see my aunt. They keep lots of 

 bees. I help them look for the queen. They have 

 an Incubator they made out of what they hatch 

 queens with, and we are going to try to hatch lots of 

 little chickens at one time. Please print mj' letter. 

 I want to surprise them. They take your book. I 

 go to Sunday-school. Getty Lawson, age 6. 



Staunton, Clay Co., Ind., March 26, 188.3. 



To be sure, we will surprise them, Getty. 

 I am real glad you told us about the incu- 

 bator. Let us know how many chickens it 

 hatches. 



A LITTLE orphan's LETTER. 



My father and mother are both dead, and I am liv- 

 ing with my brother, and he has ten stands of bees. 

 He sent off for some of your Simplicity hives, and I 

 like to be about when the bees swarm; but I don't 

 like to be stung. Bees are a strange kind of insect, 

 but are very useful to make honey, which is nice to 

 put on the table. Uriah G. Inghram, age 13. 



Waynesburg, Green Co., Pa., March 21, 1883. 



I saw in the Juvenile where the question is fesk- 

 ed, " Where in the Bible does it say it is not good to 

 eat much honey?" and you wanted to know how 

 many of our little friends can tell where the passage 

 quoted can be found. I can tell for one. It is Prov. 

 25:37. Also what two men in the Bible were re- 

 freshed by eating considerable honey. I can not 

 find where it says there were two men thus refresh- 

 ed, unless it was David an 1 the men in the wilder- 

 ness. I should like to have our little friends an- 

 swer this question: What is sweeter to the mouth 

 than honey? Lucy Clark. 



Lenox, Macomb Co., Mich., Jan. 8, 1883. 



A nine-year-old boy's STORY. 



You sent mamma a copy of your journal and Ju- 

 venile, and I saw the little folks' letters. I thought 

 I would write one too, as I am a little boy. Papa 

 has three hives of bees, and I like to see them work. 

 Last summer there was one swarm that came off 

 three times before we got t hived. It went back in 

 the same hive twice. The second time it came off, 

 but in about an hour after it went in the hive, there 

 was a swarm of bees that came across the creek, 

 and it went in with them too, and then in about a 

 week they came off aga n, and papa and mamma 

 hived them in another hive that time. 



J. P. McKarney. 



Leesburg Station, Pa., March 29, 18 3. 



THE FOURTH-OFJULY BEES. 



I wish I could come with my little birds to say 

 good-morning to you. We all think you are a real 

 nice man. My papa sent to you in June, 1881, for 

 3 three-frame nuclei. He has increased it from 

 that to 11 nice swarms, besides taking 100 lbs. of 

 honey. 



Last 4th of July one swarm came out and alighted 

 on a grapevine stake. My papa pulled up the stake 

 and carried it to the hive. We called t our fourth- 

 of-July banner. Our bees are republ' cans. 



My papa raises a great deal of small fruit, and the 

 blossoms are nice for the bees. 



Ada, Mich. Una LaBaroe, age 8. 



"hot corn," to make hens lay. 



I have just been reading some of the juvenile let- 

 ters, and some are very interesting; so I thought I 

 would write and see if anybody would be interested 

 in mine. We keep Italian bees and Leghorn hens, 

 and get eggs every day. We warm the corn in the 

 oven before giving it to them, which makes them 

 lay much better. We live on a bank about forty 

 yards from Long Point Bay. I go skating In winter, 

 and swimming in summer. The steamer comes in 

 twice a week. We have a boat in which we go fish- 

 ing. George Mason, age 8. 



Port Rowan, Ont., Can., March 26, 1883. 



I like hens too, George. We got 17 eggs 

 yesterday, and a few days ago we sold a lot 

 of roosters, and they brought about 40 cts. 

 apiece. Don't vou think we are doing pret- 

 ty well V 



