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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



AUGf. 



that Virgil avoids saying that he believes the doc- 

 trines as he recounts them. It is but just to remark 

 that there are two forms of this doctrine. The 

 milder and less objectionable ones tries to press rve 

 some personality to God by considering him as the 

 Boul of the universe, and all things else as different 

 idembers of his body; but, unless I am sadly astray, 

 both forms tend inevitably to slide down into athi?- 

 ism. 



(14) That is to say, when a snake is hatched from 

 the egg, a small portion of God becomes an ingredi- 

 ent of him; and when a chilJ is born, a larger por- 

 tion of God becomes an ingredient of him. When 

 the snake dies, the divine portion goes back again 

 to its former place, as an atom of vapor goes back 

 to the ocean; and when the child dies, the divine 

 portion of him goes back, as a raindrop to the oc-an. 

 The ancients were inclined to speculate on man's 

 having more than one soul, which probably ac- 

 counts for the curious plural here. 



LAST MONTH'S COMMENTS. 



I did not for a moment mean lo deny, or even ig- 

 nore the method of reducing thiif honey cited from 

 ABC. 1 thought of it at the time, and was on the 

 point of mentioning it. 1 wiss restrained by the 

 thought that Virgil had mentioned only the fan- 

 ning, and that, as commentator, I had best not 

 branch off and talk all over the subject. 



The reduction of thin hmey to a cooditiori in 

 which it will keep is one of the mo it dilficult parts 

 of their work, although this particular difficulty is 

 seldom thought of Witness the fact that ihousanfls 

 of species of insects visit flowers and gather nectar; 

 and yet the hive-bee stands almost alone in the abil- 

 ity to keep it in any quantity. Several means are 

 resorted to. First, the nectar of many species of 

 flowers, for having poor keeping qualities, or for be- 

 ing too thin, is left to bugs and flies, except wiien 

 there is a dearth and they want a little for present use. 

 Second comes the means you mention. The bee, 

 having filled his sac with the best nectar within his 

 range, the urinary tubes commence drawing off the 

 water of his blood, and throwing it away, while the 

 water of the nectar in the sac passes through and 

 makes good the loss. I judge from the plate in 

 Cook's Manual that the urinary tubts of the bee are 

 quite large compared with the size of the insect. 

 For obvious reasons this process must come to a full 

 stop at nightfall. To take its place comes the third 

 means which I spoke of last month, — evaporation 

 from their bodies, percolation from the sac going on 

 as in the previous method. Fourth, the liquid is put 

 in open cells that some more of the water may evap- 

 orate. A fifih means is also claimed. The principles 

 of attraction, they say, draw the heavier portions 

 to the bottom of the cell, while the more watery por- 

 tion occupies the mouth, and is taken off by drones 

 and others for current use. With all the means in 

 operation they often get some of their precious 

 sweets damaged, as one may readily notic-i by tast- 

 ing of their unsealed honey after a few days of 

 showery weather. Fresh rain water seems to be one 

 of the greatest provocatives to fermentation. 



I do not wish to be dogmatic, although, to save 

 verbiage, I have left out qualifying terms in the 

 above. Let the reader sprinkle in the perhapses 

 and may-bes to suit himself. E. E. Hasty. 



Richards, O., Aug. 8, 1883. 



Friend JL, I follow you without trouble, 

 and indorse all you say until you come to 

 number ten. I do not quite understand 



about the bees raising their queen "oft on 

 high." I know that bees sometimes press 

 Hround their queen and raise her up from the 

 comb in a bunch or cluster. Perhaps this is 

 what you and Virgil mean. And in the 

 same connection I can answer your query at 

 theendofNo.il. I have seen bees, after 

 the honey-ttow had ceased, seem furious 

 when I attempted to take hold of their 

 queen. She would run and try to hide, and 

 great droves of them would follow after her 

 and cover her up ; and when I did finally 

 get her out I was rewarded by getting my 

 hand covered with stings. Colonies having 

 a dash of black blood are most apt to do this; 

 and if 1 remembsr correctly, full-blooded 

 blacks sometimes resent any attempt to cap- 

 ture their queen. — In regard to my comments, 

 no apology is needed at all. Your explana- 

 tory notes are all right just as they are, and 

 we do not want any "verbiage.'' We know 

 you, friend Hasty, and know that you are an 

 honest worker to dig out the truth ; and we 

 feel so thankful for what you did get out, 

 that we have no disposition to find fault 

 with what you did not get ; and if you did 

 not get hold of the wrong thing now and 

 then, you would be more than human ; and 

 if that were the case, a lot of us would be 

 jealous of you. So go on. and do not forget 

 that you are among a crowd of good, kind 

 friends. 



SOmETHINC JTIORE ABOUT ONE-PIECE 



SECTIONS. 



HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN PRACTICALLY IN USE? 



BINGE Our Homes was written I have 

 seen my attorney, and he has furnished 

 -— me the following letter from friend 

 Fiddes, for publication : 



J. A. O-'borne:— As you request me to give par- 

 ticulars regarding section honey-boxes made of one 

 piece of wood, I will say that I gave a description in 

 Gleanings for April, 1876, of a box that I then 

 made. I know that it was the first that I ever heard 

 of made of one piece of wood. I inclose you 3 p.U- 



ONE-PIECE SECTIONS MADE IN 1873, 18713, AND 1877. 



terns of boxes that I made of one piece. You will 

 flad them No. 1, 3, and 3; No. 1 1 had used for three 

 years before 1876; No. 2 I had used for one year be- 

 fore 1876; No. 3 I made in 1877. Nos. 1 and 2 are 

 made of strawberry-case covers, ripped into narrow 

 strips, and sawed at the corners half through, as de- 

 scribed in Gleanings, much the same, or so near 

 that it would take a smart man to tell the difference 

 between the ones now made and patented by Jas. 

 Forncrook and others; for when ray little girl saw 

 in the bee magazines the one-piece sections she 

 said, "Oh pa! they are making yourframes for hon- 

 ey now." The No. 3 is made of strawberry boxes, of 

 one piece also, but much thinner stuff, which I now 

 almost entirely make, as they please much better. 



I do not know of any one in this place using the 

 same one-piece sections but the Rev. Mrs. Cotton. 



