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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Nov. 



Demaree, President, and Dr. Allen, Secretary. 

 There were about 40 members there. They made me 

 a member of their society, I had a good time with 

 the members, and was at all the meetings but one, 

 and got acquainted with the most of them. I had a 

 talk with Mr. Hart, of Florida. He is a flue-looking 

 man, and was on his way to the Canada bee-meeting. 

 I saw Mr. Muth, of Cincinnati, and Mr. Pelham, 

 of Maysville, Ky., and his foundation machine. I 

 got acquainted with Mr. Di-ane, Mr. Stewart, Mr. 

 Bi'own, and Mr. Deane. I had a good time with 

 them, I was sorry to bid them good-by. 



Now, Uncle Amos (I see some call you " uncle" and 

 you must let me), I should like if all of us little bee- 

 keeping sisters and brothers could have a meeting, 

 and have some of our bees and honey to show, and 

 have you with us. We might have a good sweet 

 time (as long as the honey lasted), and a time long to 

 be remembered. 



My bees are doing very well, and I will tell you 

 about them next month, as I am afraid my letter is 

 too long already. Freddie Cbaycraft. 



Salem, Ind., Sept, 3. 1883. 



Why, Freddie, that is a tiptop description 

 of a convention. It almost made me feel as 

 if I were there to look On too. It is very in- 

 teresting, too, because we know almost all 

 the men you speak about. I wonder if they 

 really knew that a child was "amang them, 

 takin' notes." 



ALIi ABOUT BE:£-HIJ]VTING. 



BEES SO TAME THEY CAN BE RUBBED ON THE BACK. 



^NEof our neighbors lent me a Juvenile. I 

 like to read the children's letters. We have 

 found about 100 swarms of bees in the last 

 3 years, but have got only 8 swarms now. My papa 

 and eldest brother are in the southern part of the 

 State. We got a swarm of bees the 13th of July out 

 of the woods. The hive was full, and we divided it, 

 and made two. I have to tend the bees for mamma. 

 We dun't use a smoker. We have one queen that is 

 two years old. Our bees water near our door, and I 

 can rub them on the back. There is a swarm of 

 bees watering here now, and I can not find it. Our 

 bees did not do very well this year, as it was not a 

 good year for honey. The bees work on red-root, 

 the Simpson honey - plant, ladies' tobacco, plum, 

 cherry, Oregon grape -blooms, and willow-blooms; 

 and it is just funny to see the way the bees work on 

 the tiger lily. It is a deep red color, and has five 

 petals, and looks like a honey-suckle, and it has a 

 long leaf. They gather pollen off the bloom of the 

 pine-tree, and they also get water to feed their 

 larvae. We don't know what kind of water it is. 



I will tell you how we get bee-trees. We first chop 

 the tree down, for we hardly ever find a swarm in a 

 log; then we take a brace and a one-inch bit, and 

 make holes along the tree, and then you can tell 

 where the honey is. It saves chopping. 



Well, I suppose you are getting tired of my long 

 letter, so I must close. Percy A. Ddtton. 



Boulder City, Colo., Oct. 21, 1883. 



Now, what do you think of that, little 

 friends ? Have you got bees so tame you 

 can rub them on the back, and not disturb 

 them V I guess our friend Percy did not rub 

 very hard. When bees get accustomed to a 

 particular place to get water, they will, if 



treated gently, soon learn to be very tame. 

 I have told you in the ABC book how Blue 

 Eyes used to put her fingers on them when 

 they drank from the bottom of that inverted 

 crock. Well, if you go about very carefully, 

 and let them get accustomed to your pres- 

 ence, in a little time you can learn to put 

 your finger on their backs, and even stroke 

 them as you would pussy, without making 

 them fly away. I have sometimes thought 

 that they rather liked to be petted in that 

 way. It is only while they are drinking that 

 I have been able to do this with them, and [ 

 really can not tell why it is tnat they behave 

 so quietly while sipping their drink. — Your 

 suggestions in regard to tindiug where honey 

 is located in the tree is a very good one, 

 friend Percy, and I will put it in the next 

 edition of the ABC book, if I think of it. 

 Your letter is a very good one, and we did 

 not have any trouble at all in reading it. 



CLEOPATRA'S NEEDIiE. 



DOES IT DATE BACK BEFORE THE TIME OF MOSBS? 



I WONDER how many of these boys and 

 girls have an "Aunt Sarah." Well, I 

 have an Aunt Sarah and an Uncle Jo- 

 seph, and I think a great deal of them, be- 

 cause I used to live with them, years ago, 

 when I went to school at Wellsville, on the 

 Ohio River. Well, of course I am always 

 glad to have them know where I am, and 

 what I am doing, and so I send them Glean- 

 ings right along, and here is a little letter 

 which Aunt Sarah sent me to put in Glean- 

 ings : — 



My dear Nephew:— 1 write to thank you for Glean- 

 ings ; it comes flying in once a month, with its cheer- 

 ful face. Saying, "Open and read me." Now, "Uncle 

 Joe" is usually the flrst one to do that, as he has 

 more time to devote to reading than I have; but I 

 usually get through the most of it, and enjoy it very 

 much. We have no bees, as you are aware, there- 

 fore that part does not interest me so much. I think 

 no one can read Our Homes without reaping benefit 

 from it. Reading your comments on Mrs. Harrison's 

 letter, on what she saw in Central Park, in regard 

 to Moses seeing Cleopatra's needle, set me to think- 

 ing. It was a new idea to me too; but I think she is 

 in the right; for according to history it was first 

 erected at Heliopolis, in Egypt, about b. C. 1600, and 

 is, therefore, contemporary with Moses. Why it was 

 called Cleopatra's needle, I do not know, for it was 

 erected some 1550 years before her time. If any of 

 your subscribers can give me any light on that sub- 

 ject, I wish they would. It was removed to Alex- 

 andria about b. c. 23; from thence to New York in 

 1880. It has been pelted by the storms of over 3300 

 winters, and still those wonderful hierogliphics are 

 not worn away, but can be read by those who un- 

 derstand them. Since the first talk of moving this 

 wonderful curiosity to our country, I have read 

 every thing I could about it, and it always filled me 

 with wonder and reverence; but as wonderful a 

 piece of architecture as ii is, the mind and will 

 power of man who formed it is more wonderful siiJl. 

 And how infinitely greater is He who made us and 

 all things! Aunt Sarah. 



Atwater, O., Sept. 24, 1883. 



