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JUVEKILE GLEANINGS. 



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583 LBS. FROM A COLONY, REPORTED BY A JUVENILE. 



My papa has 100 stands of bees. My brother and I 

 help to extract. We have 3 tons of extracted hon- 

 ey, and about one ton of comb honey. We have a 

 handy tank that holds a ton and a quarter. A few 

 days ago my papa got 3 queens from Mr. Heddon; 

 but if they are any better than one of ours they will 

 have to "git up and git," for one of ours has made 

 583 lbs. already, and the season is not nearly over. 

 Andrew Flory, age 9. 



Lemoore, Cal., July 3, 1883. 



FOR VALUE RECEIVED. 



My pa keeps bees. He has got 38 stands. Pa sold 

 333 dollars' worth of bees and honey last year. He 

 had 30 stands last spring. I have got a note like the 

 one in your book, only it has a " Post " instead of a 

 " Root " on it. It is worth 13 dollars. 



Fred Gillett, age T. 



Brighton, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1883. 



iSow, friend Fred, that is a pretty big joke 

 for a boy only 7 years old, wliere you talk 

 about Posts and Roots. If anybody should 

 ask which were more substantial, I do not 

 know but that I should have claimed that 

 the Root would be best on the end of a note. 

 Roots are generally the hardest to get out, 

 are they not V But did you ever think, Fred, 

 that Roots and Posts, and every thing else, 

 and everybody else, for that matter, must 

 pass away V There is only one thing in this 

 whole universe that shall not pass away. 

 Who can repeat that little text that tells 

 what it is V 



CLARA'S bees, AND SOME SUGGESTIONS FROM HER 

 IN REGARD TO BEE-KEEPERS' IMPLEMENTS. 



Five years ago papa bought a swarm of black bees 

 of our neighbor. We now have bees In 123 hives. 

 Last summer papa gave me a hive of bees. He is to 

 have the increase for taking care of them, and I am 

 to have the honey for helping him take care of his. 

 I now have 106 lbs. My! don't I feel big, though? 

 We've taken off 1040 lbs. altogether. 1 think that 

 Charley Scherf (that is our hired man's eldest son) 

 and I look something like the picture in the Juve- 

 nile, only we do not wear veils, and our smokers 

 are Bingham's. Charley is 14, and I am 11. We 

 have taken off two or three hundred lbs., and hived 

 several swarms alone. A swarm came out and 

 alighted on the top of a maple about 30 ft. high. The 

 worst of it was, they were scattered along a limb 

 at least six feet long. Papa climbed the tree and 

 sawed it off without getting a single sting. We like 

 a turkey feather with the edge clipped off, much 

 better than a yucca brush, for brushing bees off the 

 combs. Clara Jones. 



West Bend, Wash. Co., Wis., Aug. 3, 1883. 



a boy's TESTIMONY, AND SOME OF HIS IDEAS IN RE- 

 GARD TO SWARMING. 



Tell "Old Fogy," who states on page 342, May 

 number, that he has never seen or heard of a swarm 

 going off to the woods without first clustering, that 

 he is mistaken, for I had one that did. Father 

 bought 2 colonies the first of June, and I commeuced 

 my first lessons in bee culture. Last Sunday one of 

 them swarmed and started for the woods as soon as 

 they all got out of the hive, without alighting on 

 any thing. Father and I started after them with 

 the looking-glass, and followed them about halt a 

 mile, when the sun came out bright, and I threw its 

 rays through them with the looking-glass, and they 



came down and alighted on the top of a dead hem- 

 lock-tree that had been blown over. We hived them 

 and got them home all right, and they have filled 

 their hives nearly full already. This is the first time 

 I ever saw bees swarm; and if they all act like this 

 one, my bees will never swarm again, if I can pre- 

 vent it. H. L. Hutchinson. 



P. S.— They swarmed again, just as I had signed 

 my name, and alighted on a plum-tree in the garden; 

 we hived them all right. I guess swarming is not as 

 bad as I thought it was. H. L. H. 



May, Mich., July 31, 1883. 



We have 10 hives of bees. We had only two hives 

 last summer. We have a garden, and pa is so busy 

 that mamma and 1 have to take care of the bees. I 

 help papa pick strawberries, but they are all gone 

 now. 1 help him pick beans and pears for market. 

 Mamma said she could not do without your smoker 

 and Gleanings, and I think ever so much of your 

 Juvenile. 



Mamma found a wild plant the other day, and the 

 bees were thicker on it than she ever saw them on 

 any other plant. I will send you one of the flowers. 

 Do you know what it is? They work on one of our 

 tame flowers a good deal; it is the sweet scabious, 

 or mourning-bride. Do you know of It as a bee- 

 plaat? Addie Kendrick, age 9. 



Boulder City, Colo., Aug. 1, 1883. 



We can't tell the name of your flower, 

 Addie, because you did not give us auy 

 leaves. W^e always want leaves as well as 

 " posies " when we undertake to name a 

 flower. I'll explain to the friends that it is 

 a good-sized bright yellow flower, that tastes 

 awful bitter. You see, I always taste of 

 every thing when I can't liiid out any thing 

 about it any other way. 



GRACIE FOSTER AND HER FATHER'S " DAY STAR." 



Pa visited you Ave or six years ago, but you were 

 so busy he said that he dido't get much time to talk. 

 He visited you when we were on our way to New 

 York in a horse and wagon. We have the horse yet. 

 It is about 30 years old, and we call her Flora. She 

 is so gentle that we children can go up to her any 

 time or anywhere. I take drawing lessons every 

 afternoon for IY2 hours. Papa wants me to be an 

 artist or engraver. 1 like to draw pretty well. When 

 I am not tired, I set type for our little paper. I be- 

 gan when I was six or seven years old, but never 

 set much until I was eight. I am now 12. I am go- 

 ing to try to get a library. I have two or three books 

 now — a very small begioning, but they will help. 



Mt. Vernon, la., Aug. 6, 1883. Grace Foster. 



Why, Gracie, I did not know that your 

 father paid me a visit. Why did he not say, 

 when he came up, that he was A. F. Foster, 

 editor of the Day Star ? I want to explain 

 to the juveniles'that the Day Star is a queer 

 little paper, published about "Peace," and 

 the funniest thing about it is that friend 

 Foster sends it everywhere without any pay. 

 Any of the children can have it right along 

 if they Avill just send friend Foster their 

 names. If you want to put in some postage- 

 stamps, no doubt but that they would come 

 very handy, for friend Foster sends it free 

 and pays postage. This is the paper that 

 Gracie sets type on. If you write her, I sup- 

 pose it will do just as well. May God bless 

 you and your father, my good little friend. 



