1883 



JUVEKILE GLEANINGS. 



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ADVANTAGES OF FARM LIFE. 



We have turkeys, chicken?, ducks, sheep, bees, 

 horses, cows, and little "bossies." I like to live on a 

 farm, for we have egg:s, milk, apples, and honey. 



HOW TO MAKE HONEY WHITE. 



When papa has comb honey that looks very yel- 

 low, he puts it on shelves by the window, and it gets 

 very white. He belongs to the G. A. R. He was a 

 soldier. I have two little sisters and a baby brother. 

 I would like to have a book. I like books and pic- 

 tures. Forrest E. Ruger, age 7. 



Conklin Station, N. Y., April 28, 1883. 



THE FAMILY OF BEE-KEEPERS. 



My papa has four hives; my mamma has three; 

 my brother Joe has one; my brother Churchill has 

 two; I have one. We are all bee-keepers, except 

 baby Blue Eyes. Our bees are Palestine bees. We 

 like them best, because they build up sooner in the 

 spring, and are ready to work earlier than other 

 bees, and are better comb-builders. I have two ca- 

 nary birds. I have been going to school, and we 

 start again in a f e v weeks. I go to Sunday-school. 

 Maggie Willis, age T. 



Nevada, Ky., April 21, 1883. 



THE FLOUR-MILLS OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



I live near Minneapolis, which manufactures more 

 flour than any other city in the world. It has 27 

 flouring-mills, and in one day can make 27,580 barrels 

 of flour. The mills are run by water power, which is 

 furnished by a fall of 82 feet in the Mississippi. The 

 mills furnish employment for 1200 men. I think 

 that that much flour could feed a good many mouths 

 in one day. Ruth M. Hynes. 



Shingle Creek, Minn., April 27, 1883. 



That is certainly a flourishing city, friend 

 Ruth. Florida may be the land of tlowers, 

 but Minnesota is the land of of flours. See V 



BEES AND POULTRY. 



Pa keeps Italian bees, but has had some bad luck 

 with them this winter. He has lost several swarms. 

 I keep hens, and they lay eggs every day. 1 have all 

 the eggs I get from them. I want to make money 

 enough from them to buy a swarm of bees. I feed 

 them hot peas. 1 go to school every day. I have 

 not missed a day since New Year's. I should like to 

 get a setting of brown Leghorn hen's eggs. Can you 

 tell me where to get them? 



Byron Buckley, age 11. 



Cheapside, Ont., Can., April 23, 1883. 

 Who will tell Byron where to get the 

 brown Leghorns? 



CORA, AND HER TURKEYS A'SU CHICKENS. 



My papa is raising Italian queens. Mother has got 

 some little turkc.vs and chickens. How many bee- 

 hives have you, and how many chickens? 



Cora F. Steger, age 13. 



Payne's Station, Va., May 2, 1883. 



How many bee-hives, is it, Cora ? Why, I 

 Piil)pose I must have a thousand or two, but 

 J i)resume we have only about a hundred 

 lliat have bees in them. We have only 

 Ihiee voung chickens, but we have got oO or 

 4U grown-up ones, and they lay lots of eggs, 

 too. Only to-day noon, the man who takes 

 care of the horses found a nest in the man- 

 ger ; and the funny part of it was, that 

 there was a hole in the bottom of the man- 

 ger, and the eggs ran down into the straw ; 



and although he had gathered the eggs every 

 day for some time, he found in this hole in 

 the straw over 20 eggs, and all good ones. 



FROM 12 TO 46, AND 500 LBS. OF HONEY. 



My papa had twelve box hives last spring, and 

 transferred them to nice hives; increased to 46; 

 lost four through the winter; extracted about 500 

 lbs., besides taking a great deal in the comb. We 

 don't have to use chaff hives here; our bees sit in 

 the yard all winter. Papa has a bee-hat made of 

 wire that he wears when he works with the bees. 



A NOVEL BEE-HIVE. 



Mamma hived a swarm in a pillow-case. Papa 

 was gone, and she did not have anj' hive to put them 

 in. She drove four sticks in the ground and stretched 

 the case over them and put the bees in and kept them 

 until next morning. I should love to have a book if 

 you think this will do. I have done the best I could, 

 Johnnie Simpson, age 9. 



Dodd City, Fannin Co., Texas, April, 1883. 



Very good, Johnnie. I think your mother 

 deserves a medal for originality. Why. 

 this hive will be an improvement on friend 

 Hasty 's idea some little time ago of having 

 hives with a cloth case to go over them; 

 and further, it did extremely well indeed. 



MARY'S STORY. 



We commenced with two hives, and now we have 

 ten. We all love honey here, and papa says that he 

 intends to work until he gets a hundred. The pigs 

 got into the garden one day and turned over the 

 hive, and mj^ eldest sister tried to set up the hive, 

 and they stung her so badly chat she could not see 

 for several days. One day we went up in the or- 

 chard, and on one of the trees was about a foot of 

 comb the bees had made; and when they were put 

 into the hive they did not like it, and went away. 

 Mary L. Washington. 



Nashville, Davidson Co., Tenn., Jan. 2, 1883. 



Why, Mary, you had as much trouble, al- 

 most, with the pigs and the bees as did Mr. 

 Merrybanks' neighbor a long time ago when 

 we first got acquainted with them. Did you 

 see the picture? I am glad you told us 

 about the comb the bees made in a tree. I 

 suppose it was among the limbs, was it not V 

 Perhaps the bees did it from a sort of old in- 

 stinct that prompts them to do it the way 

 they did when they lived in a warmer cli- 

 mate. 



A "bee" story. 



I did not see the picture of the twins in the Juve- 

 nile. Papa has 35 bees. Ma has one bee. Pa got 

 about 400 lbs. of honey this summer from 13. It was 

 comb honey. Ma says that pa keeps all her honey. 

 But she has it in a yard by itself now, and intends to 

 keep all the bees and honey herself. She gave It 

 some syrup j'esterday. Pa's bees wintered well, 

 and are all alive and strong. 



Nellie Nicholas, age 9. 



Etters, York Co., Pa., March 13, 1883. 



AVell, the fact is, Nellie, our engravers 

 have not yet sent the picture of the twins. 

 Perhaps they can't make pictures of children 

 as well as they can of old men. Don't you 

 think it may be so V You see, they want to 

 make a child look childish ; and as our en- 

 gravers are grown-up men, probably they 

 can't do it so well. I suppose you mean by 

 the expression " bee," a hive of bees. Of 



