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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



June 



of honey from our bees last year. Will you please 

 tell me about that 75-cent telephone, and how far it 

 will articulate? Charles Tckner, age 13. 

 Hopkins, Mo. 



"FUN" IN TRANSFERRING, ETC. 



I have received your smoker on tobacco pledge. 

 I think it is beautiful. I am very much obliged to 

 you. You know I told you 1 have one hive of bees; 

 they are in an American hive. I do not like that 

 hive, so 1 thought 1 would transfer them into a 

 Langstroth. My father is afraid of a bee. If one 

 bumps against him he thinks he is stung. I got out 

 the first frame, and shook the bees into the old hive. 

 My father grabbed the frame and "lit" for the 

 house. When he got half way out of range of the 

 bees he said, "Fred, you'd better shut up the hive, 

 or you will get stung to death." I didn't have any 

 veil on. I got out three more, and shook them into 

 the old hive; but about that time one " lit " on my 

 eye, and stung me so that it shut up. It was swol- 

 len up so badly I didn't stop to pull the sting out. I 

 didn't have any time forany thing. I got them all 

 in the frames (the combs, I mean), and did the job 

 all up, then went into the house, took the sting out 

 of my eye; but the poison was all in my eye. I was 

 about half an hour transferring, so you see I got all 

 the poison in my eye. But you must remember that 

 this is the first time I ever tried transferring. I am 

 not afraid to try it again. 



Some of the bees got up my pants leg, and then I 

 had fun. Didn't I jump? well, I should " smile." 

 Fred R. Thompson. 



Quiccy, Illinois, May 4, 1883. 



VICTORIA FIELDS AND HER BEES. 



1 was out early this morning among the bees. 

 However, I must tell you that I was going to request 

 a place in " Blasted Hopes;" but since the weather 

 has got Avarm, ray hopes are getting better. You 

 recollect in my last letter I said the bees of one hive 

 spotted the snow on a warm day. Well, I commenc- 

 ed to feed them sugar sjrup, but die they would, 

 and die they did. They had about 20 lbs. of sealed 

 honey when they died. I had thought of getting a 

 pound of bees and queen this spring; but papa not 

 being able co work, I shall have to wait until some 

 other time. Myrllc, my little sister, over 3 years 

 old. will walk right up to the bees, and play among 

 them, and I have never known her to get stung yet. 

 1 always work among the bees with bare hands and 

 bare head; and in my two or three years' experience 

 I do not think I have got stung half a dozen times. 

 Did you ever know a colony of bees to die with dys- 

 entery, and have j'oung brood at the time? Ours 

 had. I noticed on one pif^co of comb several cells 

 with brood. 



I like to read "Myself and My Neighbors" in the 

 j0VENii,E. According to Mr. Hasty, Virgil, a great 

 many years ago, understood practical bcc-keeping 

 pretty well, or the theorj-, at least. We have had no 

 swarms yet this season; but the bees are building 

 up strong, considering the weather, which has been 

 cold and wet, coudy and gloomy, all spring. 



Victoria J. Fields. 



Valley Point, Pa., May 31, 1883. 



Yes, Victoria, I have known a great many 

 bees to die of spring dwintllitDg, witli brood 

 in the hives. In tact, I believe that is the 

 way they ahnost alwiiys do. I am glad you 

 are not discouraged at your bad success in 

 wintering. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



The ABC book has b3en recoivcd. The "get-up" 

 of the book is very neat. J. H. M. Barhitt. 



Criswell, Ga , March 31, 1883. 



The Waterbury watch I got with Gleanings Is a 

 little wonder, sure. Keeps good time. 

 TilBa, O., Apr. 9, 1833. MARCUS HOLTZ. 



I was going to grumble about the delay: but the 

 slulf is so nice that I am more than satisHed. 

 Holmesville, O. W. P. Coleman. 



Send me one cake of that maple sugar for a sam- 

 ple; also one of the nicest cakes ynu can pick out, 

 for somebody I know of. D. E. L'Hommedieu. 



Colo, Iowa. 



OUR 25-CENT fILVEH 'ilUMBLES. 



I have ordered three silver thimbles of j'ou before, 

 and am very much pleased with them. 

 Yankton, Dak. Ellen G. Fitch. 



I received my hives last Saturday. I found every 

 thing all right, and the lumber was much better 

 than I expected. Jka D. Krass. 



Jackson, Mich., May 24, 18S3. 



OLEAKINOS AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 



I have sold all the bees I had for sale. The last 

 lot I sold to Mr. Oatman. Dnndee, 111., 10 i coloiiie'^. 

 Jefferson, Wis., May 12, 1885. C. Grimm. 



I received the goods a few days ago. They are all 

 that could be expected for the money sent. All of 

 the household articles arc excellent. 



S. C. Frederick. 



Coal Vale, Kan , March 25, 1883. 



That fdn. mill is just splendid; all O. K., and the 

 goods gave much pleasure and ji>y, as they were so 

 neat, nice, and cheap. Hives, frames, etc , are per- 

 fection. The ground is one sheet of white clover, 

 and honey and swarms are pouring in. Please ac- 

 cept thanks. F. O. SUEPARD. 



Arrow llock, Mo., Juno 2, 1883. 



I am very much pleased with the sun-gluss. When 

 the sua shines 1 do not need a match tu light my old 

 pipe. John W. Cokbett. 



Bennettsville, S. C , March 25, lt;83. 



[Well, now, friend C, it seems to mo that is rather 

 "cool." Do J'OU suppose I am budding up a tiade 

 on sun-glasses, just to help tobacco-users light their 

 pipes a little handier?! 



QUEER "FIGGKnS." 



What kind of arithmetic do you use down there? 

 I sent 13 cts. for 1 oz. of Uussian-siinllower seed, 

 and one pair of tive-cent scissors, leaving 3 cts. for 

 postage. I received the scissors and twi oniircs of 

 seed, requiring 4 ets. postage— 1!) cents for 13. If 

 you keep on dealing that way, somebody will get 

 rich. It is worth more than 5 cts. to sec our two- 

 year-old Blue Eyes with her scissors. 



Howard Center, la. Bukdette Hasset. 



Please mail to my address as beljw, a copy of your 

 A B C of Bee Culture, cloth. I boug'it a copy two 

 years ago, paper back, and loaned it so much that it 

 is now well worn, so [ want a copy for myself, and 

 the one I now have for those unable to buy one. 

 The bee-kecpprs of this section are waking up, and 

 are adopting the Simplicity. I have made and sold, 

 since lust spring, about 150 to 200 Simplicity hives; 

 orders still coming in. lam the only one in this 

 county who has genuine Italian queens. 



Poc:)moke City, Md. it. M. Stevenson. 



A pleased ABC scholar. 



I received the smoker and fdn. to-day in good con- 

 dition. I am greatly pleased with them. There 

 were 25 persons at the postoHice when they arrived, 

 mostly old men: snnie of them had never seen nor 

 heard tell of such things. Most of them knew I had 

 the "bee-fever," as they call it; but just imagine 

 how the old gray-hearied fellows were amazed when 

 I undid the goods, and explained to them wh.tt they 

 were for, and what I could do with them. I am 

 starting up a good deal of excitement on the bee 

 business in this backwoods part of Kentucky, as 



