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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



JrxE 



my other letter was not printed, and I guess I shall 

 have to bo put in the Growlery. Now, TT^ncle, T am 

 not at all afraid but that you will print it if it goes 

 until next year, for I suppose you have so many you 

 have to lay some of them by for next time. 



Brother Henry's Italian swarm wintered strong 

 and well; the queen has many young- bees. Henry 

 says bethinks it will s\v'arm before long. lie hardly 

 thinks of any thing but his bees. He had good luck 

 with them through the winter, while the rest of us 

 lost one. *I had one, and chat died Ion. I want to 

 know if there can be three or four qiicns in one 

 hive, as long as there are drones. 



I gj to school. We have a lady teacher, and she is 

 a teacher, I tell you. When she speaks to the boys, 

 and words won't do, she tries something else. She 

 has one eye on her work and one on the boys, and 

 sometimes she suddenly has one of those boj'S out 

 on the floor by the collar or ears or something else. 



I bought a pet lamb this spring, which feeds from 

 a bottle, and my sister Caddie and I bought one for 

 our sister Nellie. 



Please send me a few of those cards, " Jesus, teach 

 me not to swear," etc. I want to give it to some 

 boys who come to our school, who swear; they are 

 a disgrace to the school. Minta F. Miser, age 10. 



Mantua, O., June, 1883. 



There are sometimes two queens in a hive, 

 Minta, but very rarely three, unless it is 

 j-ust about swarming-time, when a lot of 

 them happen to hatch out all at once, and go 

 out with a second swarm. As a rule, each 

 hive has one queen, and no more. 



MAKING HIVES BY HORSE-POWER. 



My pa has 10 stands of bees. I like them. My 

 brother takes Uleanings, and I like to read it. My 

 pa has a mill for making bee-hives. I like to drive 

 the horse in the mill. Mary L. Bedeli,, age 11. 



My pa has not unpacked his bees yet. They are 

 packed in chaff. He has a mill for making the slats 

 lor boxes. We have a new house, and we are build- 

 ing a barn. We keep about 20 hens. I set two, and 

 so did ma, and we are going to see which has the 

 most. If you think this is worth a book, please send 

 Rescued from Egypt. Edith Bedef.l. 



Kawkawlin, Mich., May, 1883. 



FROM 2 TO 13, AND 20D LBS. HONEY. 



Last spring my pa started with two hives, and now 

 has 13 stands out of those; he got a smoker of you. 

 He likes it very much. A bee stung me on the nose, 

 and it hurt. My pa took 200 lbs. honey from his bees 

 last fall, and left their hives full to winter on. 



Bloomiugton, 111. Roy C. Hayes. 



Well, here wc are again, just the same as ever. 

 How are the bees? Ours are all right. They are 

 gathering honey from gooseberry and cherry blos- 

 soms, etc. We have 4 canaries — 2 little ones and 2 

 big ones. We had six, but one died, and the cat 

 killed one. One of our hives of bees swarmed out 

 the other day, and they tried to go into another hive, 

 and the other bees killed the queen. 



Danforth, III. Lizzie Johnston. 



My uncle John keeps bees. He had -10 swarms, 

 and three of them died. This is the first letter I ev- 

 er wi-ote to you, and I read in the third book. My pa 

 died about six years ago, and I live with my uncle 

 John. He got some Holy-Land bees, and he think? 

 they are the best. Fanny Edith Lee, age 0. 



Bterensville, Ont., Can. 



Pa has 10 stands of bees, and ma has 2 stands. Pa 

 feeds bis bees syrup made out of granulated sugar. 

 One warm afternoon they carried in 8 lbs. of sugar 

 made into syrup, in one hour. Pa wintered his bees 

 on their summer stands, and he did not lose a stand. 

 They are all in good condition this spring. 



Mary B. Coleman, age 12. 



Kinderhook, O., March 20, 1883. 



BEES and bee-trees. 



I do not know much about bees, but pa says they 

 are awful nice to work with, if they would not sling. 

 A neighbor of ours was bragging about a bee - tree 

 on his place, but he did not brag long, for a number 

 of young men, or rascals, went and cut It down. He 

 was awful mad about it, but could not find cut who 

 did it. WlLLARD W. Lgcie. 



Consecon, Ont., Can., Mar. 7, 1883. 



Papa has 84 swarms of bees in a cave, dug in the 

 ground, and 11 out of dcors. He has had them out 

 all winter. They have got big boxes over them. He 

 wants to see which way is the best to winter bees. I 

 have two brothers, Fitz and Fred. Fitz goes to col- 

 lege, and Fred wants to be a bee-man. 



Eva Farrington. 



Strawberry Point, Ind., March 7, 1883. 



Very good, Eva; but won't you tell us 

 now which did winter best? 



My brother Charles has 16 swarms. He has one 

 Italian swarm, and is very proud of them. They are 

 such industrious and economical fellows. He has 

 one swarm of Holy-Lands, but It was late in the fall 

 when he started with them, and we can not tell 

 much about them yet, except that they do not like 

 their neighbors. If one enters their hive they seize 

 him and escort him out instantly. 



Walter H. Laurabee, age 10. 



Horton, Mich., March 21, 1883. 



BEES and tobacco. 



When any one who uses tobacco comes here to sec 

 the bees, they get cross, and will sting, so mamma 

 says. Carrie Bell Proscher, age 5. 



La Grange, Fla., May 3, 1883. 



Well, I declare, Carrie, you have given us 

 a very valuable fact in both medicine and 

 bee culture, haven't youV Now I think I can 

 guess pretty sure that your papa doesn't use 

 tobacco; am I not right? So you see I was 

 all right, wasn't I, when I decided, some 

 years ago, tliat bee-keepers ought not to use 

 tobacco. 



I live with my uncle. He has 16 hives of bees. He 

 had 20 hives, but he lost 4 in wintering. He has the 

 chaff and Simplicity hives. He got about 300 lbs. of 

 honey last summer; he extracted some. My aunt 

 and brother hited a swarm of bees a year ago last 

 summer. They made 3 lbs. of honey in sections, and 

 enough to winter them. I helped my uncle when he 

 extracted honey. We children cat the capplngs. I 

 like to help him work with the bees. 



Eva James, age 13. 



KcUseyville, Ind., Apr. 4, 1883. 



Now, Eva, I wonder if the secret of 

 your liking to help so well, about extracting- 

 time, has not something to do with those 

 same cappings. I have seen children be- 

 fore who liked cappings ; and, come to think 

 of it, I don't know but I have seen some 

 grown-up folks who had a way of getting 

 their lingers in among them. 



