1883 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



355 



"My ma is dead." Think of it, ye living 

 mothers. The time may soon come when 

 your darling, too, may echo these words. 

 Are you sure that, in such an event, they 

 will turn to Ilim v/ho has said, " Suffer little 

 children to come unto me"? Are you sure 

 their teaching has been such that they 

 would, in that case, turn to (rOfl the Father 

 as the only hope of meeting with you again 

 on that far-off shore? Little one, we did 

 send your book, even if you did skip your 

 name, childlike. " Lu," the mailing clerk, 

 loves little girls, espscially those who have 

 lost their mammas, and she caught iit vvhat 

 you said about your aunt being postmistress, 

 and sent the book to you, in her care. Did 

 you get it, and will you not tell us next time 

 what your name is? 



A CELLAR FULL OF «EES, ETC. 



My papa has 8 stands of tees; nil of thcni win- 

 tered well. He took off about 400 lbs. of honey, and 

 sold and gave away about 200 lbs. Yesterday, when 

 we came home from Sunday-school and chureh, we 

 found the cellar was just swarming with bees. We 

 could not walk around without stepping on them. 

 One corner of the window-screen was torn off, and 

 they got in there; but none of us got stung. What 

 a time we had getting them out! We darkened up 

 the cellar, and left the door ajar. 



A HINT IN REGARD TO CEIURNING. 



May be some little girl has to churn for her mam- 

 ma as I do. ]f she will put a half-pound oyster-can 

 over the handle, so it will just cover the hole, it will 

 not spatter at all, hardly. 



Myrtle Hartavell, age 10. 



Very good. Myrtle ; but you didn't tell us 

 what made the bees go into the cellar so ; 

 but if you didn't, I think I can. I think 

 some of you left some honey, or some other 

 sweet, that some stray bees got a taste of, 

 and then there was fun. When they get 

 into any room in that way, just get the hon- 

 ey away from them, the "first thing. Sliake 

 it, and get every bee off, and then take it 

 into some close room, or tie it up in a bag ; 

 and if you don't want to lose your bees, go 

 and open wide every door and window, and 

 let them examine (he premises well, to see 

 that there isn't another drop of honey to be 

 liad, and they will then very soon go home 

 satisfied. 



evalena's questions. 



My pa keeps bees. He has lost one swarm this 

 winter. His bees swarmed last summer, and went 

 to the woods. Pa followed them to a tree in aneigh- 

 bor'i tim'jor. The man cut the tree and burned the 

 bees, after giving pa consent to cut it and save 

 them. What do you think of a church - elder who 

 would do sucb a thing as that? Our school was out 

 yesterday. I worked through Ray's Third Part 

 Arithmetic, and reviewed it, in four months. Pa 

 has two more trees with bees in them that have win- 

 tered so far. What time would be the best to cut 

 and transfer them to movable-comb hives? Is the 

 Simplicity as good as the chaff hive? Do the frames 

 of one fit in the other? Evalena Ch vpman. 



Kilbuck, Ohio, March 12, 1883. 



Why, Evalena, I should think that a 

 church-elder who would do as you say, had 

 got a little backslidden, or that his religion 

 had grown rather cold. You don't want to 



have any man let his religion grow cold, 

 do you, my little friend ? It always makes 

 me feel sad when a church-member forgets 

 his religion, or seems to forget it.— I think 

 the best time to cut a bee-tree would ha 

 about fruit-blossom time, for then the combs 

 would not be very heavy with honey, nor 

 would other bees be very apt to rob.— The 

 inside, both of the Simplicity and chaff 

 hives, are exactly alike, and so the same 

 frame fits all. The chaff hive is better, be- 

 cause the walls .ire protected both from the 

 winter frosts and the summer sun. 



glatfelter's dee- feeder. 



I have been reading the Juvenile andGLEAMNiis 

 for some time, to tlnd out something about that bee- 

 fccdcr I sent you. It tiniilly came, pictured in May 

 Gleanings, page 2Cr;, called "Tho:Boy'6 nec-fecder." 

 I wish you would change the old name, if j ou please, 

 and call it "Glatfelter's Bee-foedcr, of New Phila- 

 delphia, Ohio." My papa has been trying ail kinds 

 of feeders, and threw them all aw.iy, except this 

 one; it's just "boss;" can be used on any hive. 



Tills is a bad spring for bees, it is so wet and cold ; 

 but the white clover is coming up tinely,and I think 

 wo shall have a fine honey season. Pap.i went into 

 winter (quarters with 20 stands, and lost 6 in April. 

 The reason, papa thinks, is that he commenced to 

 feed them too soon. Some of them swarmed out, 

 and some of the queens died. Oh! pa got a pound 

 of bees in a little box, and a queen with them, from 

 Alabama, and he is looking for some every day from 

 Tennessee. Pa tried an experiment with one strong 

 colony last fall. He gave them no upper ventila- 

 tion, and they died. Pa's hives are all double-walled- 

 James A. Glatfelter. 



New Philadelphia, O., May 23, 1883. 



All right, James. I should have given 

 your name before, but you did not write it 

 on the bee-feeder, so I could tell what it was 

 when I got ready to use it. I will cheerfully 

 change the name, liut are you not giving 

 the invention all to your father, wlien it 

 really was yours? ()r are you and your 

 father in company, like Wiby Dellis and 

 his father, on p. 352? Your father's experi- 

 ment, of wintering bees without ventilation, 

 gave a very decided result ; don't you think 

 so, James? Your idea suggested, that feed- 

 ing bees too early in the spring may some- 

 times kill them, is no doubt correct, and I 

 am strongly inclined to think that by far the 

 better way is to do the feeding in the fall, 

 and then disturb the bees as little as possi- 

 ble, until they can fly freely. 



HOW CHARLIE GOT HIS SWARM OF BEES. 



Father has 7 colonics of bees. He got 3 just one 

 year ago, and increased them to 6. We have one 

 Italian stand of bers. Last fall pa found one hy- 

 brid swarm on a bush, and we had only one extra 

 hive. Don't you think the bees knew we had that 

 one hive? Pa has got his bees in the Langstroth 

 hives, except one colony. One time when pi went 

 away he told mc every swarm that came off and I 

 put into a hive I could have ; so one swarm came off 

 and settled on the cellar-door, and I put them into a 

 hivo. I have hived two or three since then. We 

 have a feed-mill, and when we are grinding the feed 

 the bees swarm all around and gather lots of pollen 

 from the meal, to feed tho young bees. We got lots 



