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JUVENILE GLEANtKGS. 



Av&. 



have many calls for them in April; but I have given 

 your letter here because there may be friends among 

 our readers who will be very glad to have some 

 queens from you. In regard to selling imported 

 queens and taking others for pay, ve have found by 

 past experience that by far the best way is to buy 

 for cash and sell for cash, and it really amounts to 

 the same thing as swapping. I shall be very glad in- 

 deed to contract with you for May queens in the lat- 

 ter part of April or during May; for we have never 

 yet been able to supply the demand during these 

 months. 



Let me say, the things we get of you are general- 

 ly so satisfactory that I do not feel like paying any 

 attention to it, if some small thing fails to be equal 

 to what we expected. Please accept our thanks for 

 what you have been the instrument, in the hands of 

 the Lord, to help us in. 



THE "joyful" rOSTOFFlCE. 



We have just started a new postolHce at our house 

 called Joyful, and we hope we shall all so live in 

 obedience to divine laws that we shall never have 

 any more sickness; but right here in this notorious- 

 ly ague country, demonstrate the glory of God by 

 being joyous all the time. We hold that a person 

 has but little if any more right to be sick than 

 drunk. We have 5 lodges of 1. O. G. T. in the coun- 

 ty, and established a Band of Hope, which we hope 

 will d.) good work. Isaac B. Rumfokd. 



Joyful, Kern Co., Cal., July 12, 1883. 



Friend R., I should think that would be a very 

 good kind of postofflce to have. But are you not 

 just a little bit funny when you say that a man has 

 not any more right to be sick than he has to be 

 drunk? I should think that would be a very good 

 doctrine for one who is quite well. But if I should 

 happen to come some day when you had the tooth- 

 ache, what would you say then? I sincerely hope 

 you are right about it. 



MY boy's "ticket." 



I am glad you are to have an opportunity to vote 

 on the prohibition question in your State. You 

 know we thought we had settled that question by a 

 majority of nearly 30,000, which our Supreme Court 

 has set aside on small technicalties. Perhaps we 

 may not question the honesty of the judges: but 

 temperance people have their own ideas all the 

 san^e. We avoided one of the difficulties which 

 trouble friend Hasty, by having the election entirely 

 separ.ite from all election of officers, thus making it 

 purely non-partisan; and I think the result proved 

 the wisdom of the course. 



But I sat down to relate an incident which occur- 

 red in an adjoining county at that election. An old 

 toper came up to the polls, and, with unsteady 

 bands, selected two tickets — one of each kind. 

 Holding up a whisky ticket in one hand he said, 

 "That's my ticket;" then holding up a prohibition 

 ticket he added, "That's my boy's ticket. I'm going 

 to vote my boy's ticket to-day." And he did. 



Politicians generally watch eagerly for the elec- 

 tion returns from Ohio. You may be sure temper- 

 ance people will do so this fall. The W. C. T. U. 

 canvassed this State in the same manner your sister 

 speaks of. 



Since the decision of the courts, the Republican 

 party have taken it up, and the Democrats have 

 declared for free whisky, so it is driven into politics 

 in this State. Burdette Hassett. 



Howard Center, Iowa, July U, 1883. 



KIND WORDS FROM TEXAS. 



This is to inform you that my goods came, which 

 were ordered a long time ago. They came safe and 

 sound, and just as I ordered them. They came too 

 late to do me much good this season; but I am sat- 

 isfied. 1 can use the goods next year. If I had 

 known that you were so far behind on orders, I 

 would not have ordered at all; but when I read in 

 Gleanings about your troubles, and complaints 

 against you, it made me feel as if I wanted to help 

 you; therefore I can not complain about my order. 



It has been said that Texas beats the world for 

 honey ; but I hardly believe this is true every year. 

 This year has been the poorest honey season that I 



have seen here for 18 years. I have commenced to 

 keep bees with the late improvements, and people 

 make light of my business, and say that I will never 

 accomplish any thing. Well, I may not accomplish 

 any thing; but I pay no attention to their talk, and 

 work quietly and easily. G. W. Beard. 



Milano, Milam Co., Texas, July 18, 1883. 



Friend B., you are kinder than we deserve. I am 

 very much obliged to you indeed for your considera- 

 tion in overlooking the delays and damages we have 

 caused you. In your closing sentence you have 

 struck the right spirit exactly. Quiet, steady work 

 is an argument that can never be answered. If you 

 took the advice of those who find fault, and croak, if 

 that is the proper word, you certainly would never 

 amount to any thing; but if you stick to the bees, as 

 you propose, you will surely receive your reward. 

 If your friends are Interested in the matter, lend 

 them a number of Gleanings, and ask them to read 

 Reports Encouraging. If they never bring them 

 back, just let us know, and we will replace those 

 that are lost. We are altvays glad to give away 

 sample copies of Gleanings; and if our friends 

 give them away themselves, we shall be much 

 obliged for the kindness. Whenever we find we 

 have not enough for your purpose, we will just tell 

 " Barney " to print a few more next time. 



I want to return you thanks for your kind in- 

 struction in bee culture. I used my extractor last 

 week for the first lime; it works finely. I extracted 

 37 lbs. of honey. I tell you, it is nice. I sold some 

 of it for 15 cts. per lb. My bees are doing well. I 

 have 35 swarms. I shall* extract more honey this 

 week. I clipped my queen's wing, and divided the 

 bees to keep them from swarmmg. 



HOW TO MAKE AN ARTIFICIAL SWARM. 



The way I do is to take 3 or 3 frames out of one 

 hive that is full of brood, and brush all of the bees 

 off and put it in a new hive, and fill up the hive with 

 comb fdn., and then I take a hive that is full of bees, 

 and move it away 3 or 4 rods, and set the new one in 

 its place. I do it in the morning, say from 9 to 11 

 o'clock; and by 4 I have a good swarm of bees in the 

 new hive. 



STARVATION DURING THE HONEY SEASON. 



Will bees turn all their brood out of the comb 

 when they are starving? I had one this spring that 

 tore all of their young bees out. I was looking 

 through the bees, and all the rest were getting honey, 

 and had lots to live on; and when I came to this one 

 it was a sight to see. The bees had no life in them; 

 they had killed all of their young bees, and had torn 

 about half of them out of the comb, and then they 

 had not life enough to do any more. They had no 

 honey in the hive, and I fed them a week before 

 they would show any signs of work. What do you 

 think was the cause? 



MILKWEED FOR HONEY. 



We have a milkweed here that must be very good 

 for honey. The bees work on it all day; it com- 

 menced blooming two weeks ago; It is very thick 

 around here. It looks as if it would last for a month 

 longer. Malinda A. Wilkins. 



Seneca, Kan., July 15, 1883. 



My friend, it was starvation and nothing else that 

 was the matter with your bees, although it Is a little 

 hard to see how they came so near to a starving con- 

 dition in July. I would suggest that they had been 

 raising brood largely, and had taken about all the 

 food that had been gathered, when several stormy 

 days occurred, and they ran out of honey, and be- 

 came so weak they could not go after more; there- 

 fore you would see some starving when the rest 

 were storing honey. When at the last stage of star- 

 vation, they always turn upon the brood and suck 

 the juices, and this is what you saw.— Your plan of 

 making artificial swarms is a very good one, espe- 

 cially if you have a laying queen or a matured 

 queen-cell to give them. 



