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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



May 



sometiing longer than the L. frame— one to lay over 

 the box hive. Do not drum the bees, but cut out li 

 cornners of the hive, and cut loose one side from 

 the comb, and then commence taking out the combs 

 and use the 2 boards for tacking on strips, and for 

 turning frames over with. As soon as you get one 

 or two combs in the new hive, take your board by 

 one end and slip the bees into the new hive, and re- 

 turn the board over the old hive, and continue until 

 all the combs and bees are in new hive. Take all 

 scraps and pieces of honey, and put them on top of 

 the frames; put on the quilt, and the bees will carry 

 down all the honey. In 3 or 4 days, lift the quilt; 

 clear off all pieces of comb, and take off the strips. 

 The strips are fastened with 3-oz. tacks. They are 

 the best I have ever tried. 



Hakry Griffin, age 14. 

 Shadwell, Albemarle Co., Va., Apr. 30, 1883. 



Thank you, Harry. As I understand it, 

 your improvement is principally in laying 

 one of your transferring- boards over the top 

 of the old box hive. As the bees naturally 

 crawl up, after being driven out of the 

 combs, or smoked from them, they cluster 

 on the under side of this board. And as 

 often as they cluster, you have only to lift 

 the board up and shove the bees off into the 

 new hive where you want them. We have 

 often practiced pretty nearly the same thing. 

 Your plan of laying ibroken bits of comb on 

 top of the frame until the bees have taken 

 all of the honey out is just the way we have 

 always done. When empty, the bits of 

 comb go into the wax-extractor. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



I have carried a Waterbury watch for the last 18 

 months. It has given me flrst-elass satisfaction for 

 keeping good time, it can not be surpassed. 



George H. Calvert. 



Lindsay, Ont., Can., Jan. 13, 1883. 



The fdn. more than suits me; also your way of 

 packing is No. 1. Last fall I packed 64 colonies of 

 bees on summer stands; found one queenless, and 

 one starved this spring. G. H. Denman. 



Pittsford, Mich., Apr. 17, 1883. 



The five smokers and eye-glass came promptly to 

 hand, and all in good order. There may be better 

 smokers at higher prices, but I should think your 

 Clark smokers ought to please the most fastidious. 



Lucas, Ohio, April 18, 1883. Z. Bliss. 



transferring-wires. 



Will you please send me 100 transferring-wires? 

 They are the best and handiest thing I ever used for 

 that purpose. Lkwis Metcalf. 



Reedsburg, Wayne Co., O., Apr. 33, 1883. 



This is to inform you that I have received the 

 goods, and I am satisfied. It is what I should think 

 fair and very prompt dealing. I would not take 

 $3.00 for my smoker if I could not get another one. 



April 24, 1883. Fillmore Decker. 



Find inclosed 90 cents, and please send in return 

 the Story of the Bible. I think it is one of the best 

 books for children I have ever seen. 



Dennis Shafer. 



Dawn, Darke Co., O., April 6, 1883. 



We have opened and examined every article, and 

 find all correct, and eminently satisfactory. We 

 dearly love feuch business. F. W. Jones & Bro. 



Coral Hill, Ky., March 10, 1883. 



[So do I, friend J. ; but we can't always do it so.] 



I can not accept your offer to send Gleanings for 

 1883, for half price. I knew that I was taking the 

 risk in inclosing a f 1 bill. But as I have so often 



done this T felt no uneasiness, and now I believe 

 that my $1 will turn up all right. I once had $5 go 

 astray, but it got back all right. My own fault in 

 not directing it properly. 



Shelby ville. 111., Mar. 17, 1883. J. W. Johnson. 



[Many thanks for your very kind words, friend J., 

 and for your fair and liberal way of insisting on 

 standing the whole loss. It cheers the pathway in 

 life.] 



The colony of bees I received of you in the spring 

 of 1881 has prospered finely imder the management 

 laid down in A B C. It its teachings are carried out 

 properly, there is no chance for a failure. They cast 

 the first swarm on the 37th of May last, in the midst 

 of fruit-blossoms, tollowed by three after-swarms. 

 I took 150 lbs. comb honey, and built up three colo- 

 nies (nuclei), making eight in all. They wintered 

 finely, packed in chsff, all of them coming out in 

 good condition: and if they continue to push mat- 

 ters as at present, I expect to have some swarming 

 about fruit-blossom time. They are working strong- 

 ly on the maple at present, which is quite plentiful 

 in this vicinity, being a great advantage to them. If 

 the season proves a good one, I intend to increase 

 to 40, and get some honey too. It looks a little big, 

 but nevertheless I intend to trv. C. H. Huber. 



Rural Valley, Pa., April 23, 1883. 



I received your monthly and price catalogue, and 

 am well pleased with the same. I intend to go into 

 the bee and honey business. 1 have not got the 

 money yet, b>it I think you will hear from me this 

 fall. I have had no experience. I think the best 

 thing I can do is to .ioin your ABC class, and sub- 

 scribe for Gleanings, get somp of your implements, 

 and away I go. I have read and looked your publi- 

 cations througVi. By the tone of what I read in 

 them, I take J ou to be a brother in Christ; and as 

 such I have faith in what you say. I have been 

 humbuerged some since I have been in this world. I 

 am a Pennsylvanian, 35 years old. I notice some 

 bees come on hickory stumps where I cut tlie tree. I 

 think they are wild. ' I will run a little risk, and send 

 you a little money in a letter for a bee-hunting box. 



J. w. Wise. 



Verona, Lawrence Co., Mo , March .5, 1883. 



[May God bless you for your kind words, friend W. 

 If any thinsr in our deal should ever be wrong, I 

 trust you will be kind enough to tell us so] 



HOW 1 GOT INTO IT. 



Three years ago a gentleman came to me to pur- 

 chase some bees in an old box hive; and in the con- 

 versation he spoke of A B C and Gleanings, which 

 he said taught the new system of be^ culture. I 

 asked the price, and found one hive would get both; 

 so I requested him to order them immediately, sell- 

 ine- him 3 or 4 hives. 



The hooks soon came; I glanced at Medina, O., and 

 commenced to read with suspicion, simply because 

 the idea of Yankee trickery had crept into my mind 

 like a great long old ugly snake, and coiled itself all 

 round in there, of its own accord; but, lo! when I 

 read on page — , ABC, where the engineer stopped 

 " 10 minutes of noon," etc., I " kind o' wilted," and 

 the old snake got a blow on the head which made 

 him begin to unwind and move, and he has contin- 

 ued to move until I see clearly a groat number of 

 good men all over the North, whom I have learned 

 to love, and especially a little bald-headed fellow 

 about Medina, living in a new house, hut who has 

 no new baby, like a fellow in Texas, who ought to 

 have less hair and more brains. Of course, I con- 

 tinued to read and act, shipping the first Simplicities, 

 perhaps, that came to this part of the State; and I 

 do not pretend to sny what my little apiary is worth; 

 but I would part with it more readily than with what 

 has been developed by that little incident— the man 

 coming to buy bees. 



Mr. Root, did you send him? I am inclined to be- 

 lieve you did. Strong and powerful man, who in se- 

 cret kneels down and then dispatches telegrams 

 round the world, he knows not to whom, and I am 

 in debt to somebody— who is it? Now, since I am 

 through my piece, and it don't sound well to me, you 

 may open the stove-door and put it right in the 

 flames. J. H. Roderick. 



Dodd's City, Tex., Feb. 19, 1883. 



[May God bless you for your kind words, friend 

 R. Let us try to think it was God who sent the man 

 to your house to buy the bees, and that it is God 

 who is sending us blessings every hour in the day, if 

 we will only receive them as such.] 



