1883 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



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you tell of it. Then, you see, I shouldn't 

 have any great big factory to look after, and 

 so many things that we have all the time 

 getting '' out of fix," if I didn't happen to 

 be around just in time. Do you see I have 

 got the word '■'■ responsibilities " at the head 

 of your letter V 1 wonder if you know what 

 "responsibilities" means. I do, if you 

 don't. 



BIBLE QUESTIONS, BY CHARLEY MILLER. 



You ask if any one can tell where in the Bible the 

 verse beginning: with " Be not weary in well doing- " 

 is to be found. It is in Gal. 6:9. The rest of it is, 

 "And let us not be weary in well doing-, for in due 

 season we shall reap if we faint not." 



In answer to Lucy Clark's question, I would say 

 that I can not find any answer to her question. Did 

 she take it from Judg-es 14:18? if so, she will notice 

 that there is no answer to it, as she will find it is the 

 answer to the riddle in the 12th verse of the same 

 chapter. 



Father is feeding sugar at the rate of over EO lbs. 

 per day. He also feeds '•ye meal. 



Marengo, III., April, 1883. Charles Miller. 



Lucy's question is answered in another 

 place, as Charles will see by reading Psalm 

 119:103. 



OtTTDOOR feeding AND ROBBING. 



My pa wants me to write a letter to you, to ask 

 you a few questions about bees and queens. He 

 was feeding his bees on the 10th of April, outdoors, 

 and when he came from his work, about noon, to fill 

 up his feeder, he walked in front of each hive to see 

 how thej' work. When he came to one hive they 

 were so cross that a dozen or more went for him, 

 and stung him in the face. They were hopping and 

 running around the entrance, and when a bee came 

 near they would catch her on the wing. Pa stood 

 a while there, and then he saw a queen flying around 

 In front of the hive, and was trying to get in ; but 

 they wouldn't let her. They sometimes chased her 

 on the wing. Pa opened the hive in the evening, 

 and found no queen and no eggs — only two or three 

 hatching bees. What was the cause of that? Is 

 that wheelbarrow full of books yet? 



Caroline D. Fausnight. 



Middle Branch, O., April 11, 1883. 



It was the outdoor feeding, Caroline, that 

 made the trouble. No one should undertake 

 this who is not an old practiced hand. In 

 the case you mention, the bees got so crazy 

 about the" feed that they forgot to leave senti- 

 nels, as they usually do, at the entrance of the 

 hives, and the bees from some other hive 

 (juickly discovering the fact, walked right 

 in and carried off all their honey. After 

 they did this, the poor queen, not knowing 

 what to do, got crowded out ol doors in the 

 general melee. Pretty soon the colony was 

 all broken up, and nothing was left except 

 the few bees just hatching. Your father 

 might have saved the queen, if he had caged 

 her when he found her outside. I have seen 

 the same thing happen a great many times 

 when feeding bees out of doors. Every col- 

 ony should be carefully watched to discover 

 any attempt at robbing, at the very outset. 

 One who is not a practiced hand might tind 

 this difficult to do; therefore I w^otild say, 

 be very careful while feeding in the open 

 air. — The wheelbarrow is yet full, and more 

 too. 



HOW THEY hive THE BEES AT BERTHA'S HOUSE. 



I have not seen any description of the way father 

 hives bees, either in Juvenile or mother Gleanings. 

 It is this: When we hear the bees swarming we ring 

 a bell, which we keep for that purpose, to call one of 

 the men. Mamma and I try to find where the bees 

 come from, because father overhauls them about a 

 week after they swarm, and removes all but one of 

 the queen-cells to keep them from swarming again. 



THE " DISH-PAN " HIVER. 



When father or Edgar arrives he gets a hive, nine 

 frames, also one comb from the old hive, which must 

 have unsealed brood in it, a large tin dish-pan, for 

 which we have a cover a little wider than the top of 

 the pan, made by sewing cloth on to a wire hoop 

 which is two inches wider than the pan. We think a 

 pan preferable to a sack or basket, because the bees 

 do not stick to it. When the bees have settled they 

 are shaken into the pan, which is. held in the left 

 hand, and covered with the cloth: and when they 

 become quiet, which they do in a few minutes, they 

 are poured out on a large sheet of zinc, in front of 

 the hive, and they crawl in. 



The verse, "Be not wearj' in well doing,'' is found 

 in Gal. 6:9, and in II. Thes. 3: 13. 



How many of the Israelites went into the land of 

 promise? Bertha Hallett. 



Galena, 111., April 25, 1883. 



FASTENING THE BEES IN THEIR HIVES WHILE IN 

 the CELLAR. 



I have been reading the Juvenile, and I found 

 ouc how old you are. You are 43 years old; am I 

 right? Can you guess how I found out? Papa took 

 his bees out of the cellar the 3d of April— 43 hives; 

 they were all alive. He thinks it isn't a good plan 

 to take the wire cloth away from the entrance, as 

 many bees crawled out on the cellar bottom and 

 died. 



We have kept bees now six years; never lost more 

 than one swarm in cellar, and this died for want of 

 feed. We have kept entrances closed with wire 

 cloth, and never had any trouble melting comb. We 

 put our bees in the cellar the 1st of Nov. ; took them 

 out for a fly the 3d of April. An old bee-keeper told 

 me a while ago that no bees would leave their hive 

 if the cellar was dark. I opened mine for a while, 

 and so many bees have come out that some are 

 weak; 43 were in the cellar, and 43 out. 



Edith M. Hall. 



Northfleld, Rice Co., Minn., Apr. 8, 1883. 



You are right, Edith ; I am just 43 years 

 old. I believe I agree with you about fas- 

 tening bees in while in the cellar. Few 

 things annoy me more than having dead 

 bees around on the floor, ready to be stepped 

 on when anybody passes along. While we 

 had our bees in our bee-house, we had them 

 fastened in with wire cloth over the whole 

 top of the hive, and, so far as I can recollect, 

 no unpleasant consequences followed. I 

 know they will sometimes stay in their liives 

 by simply keeping the cellar dark ; but as at 

 other times they won't stay, I think I pre- 

 fer the wire cloth. 



A hint on transferring, by a 14-year-old bee- 

 man. 

 I will give you my plan for transferring, after try- 

 ing every plan I ever heard of. James Heddon'S 

 plan is very good at swarming time, but will not an-" 

 swer very well any other time. Take 3 smooth boards, 



