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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Oct. 



peaches. I have a hive of bees. I have taken off 

 52 boxes of honey from my hive so far. My brother 

 is a station agent, and I can telegraph some too. I 

 have another brother at Philadelphia Dental College. 

 George H. Deuell,, age 10. 

 Bangall, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1883. 



REPORT FROM AN ITALIAN NUCLEUS, ETC. 



My pa has been keeping bees for several years. 

 and I help him. We bought a three-frame nucleus 

 of Italian bees the 29th of May. We built it up to 20 

 frames, and extracted 134 lbs. from it. We took 2 

 colonies out to our vineyard, half a mile from home. 

 I watched them during the swarming season. I 

 found several swarms hanging in shrubs. We in- 

 creased those 2 to 10, but one went to the woods, 

 which would make 11. John V. Nebel. 



High Hill, Mo. 



T have a writing-desk, and this is the first time I 

 have used it. When papa comes home at night we 

 put on our veils and go to see the bees; and when 

 he opens a hive I can find the queen. Papa had six 

 hives last spring, and 13 this fall. Grandpa and I 

 went to sell honey, and we sold 60 boxes. I made 

 my veil. I feed the chickens nights and morning, so 

 papa can tend to his bees. I have another black- 

 eyed sister. She can just stand alone. Will you 

 send me a bunch of those envelopes on the three- 

 cent counter, in place of the book? 



Washington, Ct., Oct. 1, 1883. Lena D. Fenn. 



LETTERS FROM THE HAYES CHILDREN. 



Pa had 13 stands of bees. I like honey. We have 

 a fine locality for bees. We had a fine basswood 

 harvest. You say a good deal about that baby at 

 your house. Our baby can walk. Its name is Con- 

 nie. Tell Blue Eyes that I have a little sister whom 

 we call Blue Eyes, but her name is Lettie. 1 should 

 like to see your baby. Launa Hayes, age 11. 



Our bees are doing very well. I like to work with 

 them. Uncle Amos, you said you had a pretty baby 

 at your house. Please name him Caradene; that is 

 my name. You wanted to know which you were to 

 have — the letter or the black hat; you may have 

 the hat, if you will come after it. Many thanks for 

 that book. Henry C. Hayes, age 8. 



Sands, N. C, Aug. 30, 1883. 



what happened at MAUDE'S HOUSE. 



My pa has 50 swarms of bees. He took some hon- 

 ey from them to-day. Our house burned down four 

 weeks ago last Thursday, and all of its contents. 

 We saved only a little clothing, and Ave are living in 

 the granary now. My ma has an uncle here living 

 with us. He is 83 years old; and he drew the plan, 

 and is overseeing it. Maude B. Lathrop, age 11. 



Marshall, Mich., Sept. 8, 1883. 



Well. Maude, that is a rather sad story you 

 tell. But I believe I admire your indepen- 

 deuce in going into the granary to live, 

 rather than to trespass on the kindness of 

 one of your neighbors. The granary will do 

 very well in warm weather ; but I hope you 

 will have a good warm house by the time 

 winter comes. 



a good report from the swarming-box, etc. 



My pa keeps bees. We have 13 stands; we had 

 20, but seven got foul brood, and pa killed seven of 

 them. Pa is a carpenter, and so when the bees 

 Bwarm, when he is away at work, ma tends to them. 

 We have a swarming-box, and we can pick them off 

 from the trees nicely. Ma had a bed of French 



pinks, and the bees worked on them at the east end 

 of the house, and did not work at the west end at 

 all. We had lots of honey last year, and we have 

 milk and honey all the time. Harry Smith. 



Two years ago my papa bought one swarm of bees. 

 He transferred them into a Langstroth hive, and the 

 next spring they swarmed once, and pa gave them 

 to me, because I watched them; and in the fall we 

 put them Into two chaff hives, and put an Italian 

 queen In the new swarm, and last summer my little 

 sister Mamie watched them, and the blacks swarm- 

 ed once and the Italians three times. This Is my first 

 letter. Do you send boys books for their first letter? 



Grafton, O. Leon E. Mathews. 



how to move an APIARY, ETC. 



Last Oct. papa moved his apiary of 80 colonies 

 about a hundred yards; he was perplexed at first as 

 to moving them; but finally he hit upon a plan. He 

 made a sort of a litter, and, placing the hive upon 

 the center of it, I took hold of the longest handles, 

 and papa the shortest, and away we went. 



WHAT ONE FRAME OF BROOD AND A QUKEN-CELL 

 DID. 



I have a colony of bees that I built up from a 

 frame of brood with a queen-cell in It, and 3 lbs. of 

 honey. It was in 1881 when papa gave me the frame 

 of brood, and last fall I took out 5 lbs. of extracted 

 honey, and 35 lbs. of comb honey, making 5 lbs. of 

 extracted honey at 10 cts. per lb., 50 c, and 35 lbs. at 

 15 c. per lb., $5.25, and the total, f5.75 worth of 

 honey. C. M. Morris. 



Rantoul, 111. 



NORA'S BEES AND HONEY. 



I should like to see your little boy Peter; but I 

 live loo far off to come and see him. We have a 

 little girl eight months old. Pa calls her Queen. I 

 have one stand of bees that my pa gave me this 

 summer; we have taken 669 lbs. of honey from it. 

 Please send me a book. Nora Sheneman, age 9. 



Pharisburgh, Ohio. 



Thank you, Nora, for your kind words in 

 regard to little Peter. — You do not make 

 your figures very plain about your honey. 

 If it was 669 lbs. of honey from that stand of 

 bees your pa gave you, your crop must have 

 been a regular "stunner," as the boys say ; 

 but if it was only 69 without the 100, it was 

 pretty fair, after all. 



honey sources of TEXAS. 



Well, uncle, this evening finds me trying to write 

 to you about bees, and what they make honey of in 

 this part of Texas. They have made the most of 

 their honey from cotton bloom this year, but they 

 do make honey from black-jack and post-oak, prick- 

 ly pear, wild locust, and elm. Pa bought two stands 

 of bees about the first of February. They have 

 never swarmed, but he separated them, and made 

 4 hives ; but one did not do much, so we put them 

 back, and then we had three stands. We extracted 

 125 lbs. from them. For a good while they did not 

 do much good. Our bees are Italians. We got a 

 queen from Mr. Arwine, and she was part black, so 

 some of our bees are black. 



Fannie G. Bobo, age 8. 



Bedford, Tex., Aug. 31, 1883. 



We were looking over the hives a few days ago, 

 and taking the frames out of the upper stories, to 

 pack for winter. I had intended to make a regular 



