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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



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THE SECRET OF GOOD LUCK WITH BEES. 



We Couldn't do without our bees. I have a sister 

 and a little brother, and we are very fond of honey. 

 We huve all the honey we want. My pa always has 

 good luck with his bees, because he takes care of 

 tbem. He traded two hives for a load of hay this 

 fall, and he has 13 left. He sells some every year. 

 Charlie Palmer, age 10. 



Fremont, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1883. 



maud's report. 



1 thought I would tell you how papa is getting 

 along with his bees. We have 33, some packed in 

 chaff, some in corn fodder. He took about POO lbs. 

 off. I should like to see your picture in Gleanings. 

 I go to school; I have only one sister; she is larger 

 than I am. I play the organ. Maud A. Rhoads. 



Lovsville, Perry Co., Pa., Nov., 1883. 



Why. friend Maud, my picture is already 

 in the A B C book, and we have a photograph, 

 cabinet size, which we mail to all who send 

 us a new subscription, after they have sub- 

 scribed themselves. Isn't that enough ? 



BERTHA'S PET QUEEN. 



My pa wintered out 4 swarms last winter, and 

 from these 4 swarms he has 12 now. The other day 

 pa and I were transferring one of the light swarms 

 to another light swarm, and in Ihe old hive I saw a 

 queen-bee. I tried to catch it, but it rushed in 

 among the other bees, and I called pa, and he helped 

 me catch it. I got a glass, and he put it in, and I 

 got a piece of honey and put in the glass, and the 

 bee is living yet. Pa was at the bee-keepers' con- 

 vention at Toronto, and saw you up there. He has 

 sent for an A B C book, and I shall be glad when it 

 comes, to see what he mfeant by the A B C book. 



Bertha C Morrison, age 11. 



Frelighsburg, Can., Nov. 9, 1883. 



which are the best BRES, and WHICH IS THE 

 BEST HONEY ? 



My brothers have 30 stands of bees; they have 3 

 kinds of bees— Italians, Holy Lands, and Cyprians. 

 For mv part, I think that the Cyprians are the croFs- 

 est. The honey crop wasn't very good this year. 

 The frost killed the buckwheat in full bloom. I 

 think the white clover is the best; don't you? I am 

 going to school, and to Sabbath-school, and I like to 

 go. Augustus F. Mack, age 10. 



Mount Cobb, Lackawanna Co., Pa., Nov. 15, 1883. 



I guess we pi'etty much all agree that the 

 Cyprians are the crossest, friend Augustus ; 

 and I guess we pretty much all agree, too, 

 that there is no finer honey in the world than 

 white-clover — that is, there is nothingfiner 

 as a steady diet. 



BELLA'S LETTER, AND HER CONCLUDING POEM. 



My pa has 3 swarms of bees now; he got them this 

 fall, and they worked hard. Thev are now packed 

 away for winter. I go to school. Our Sabbath-school 

 has closed. I should like to see the baby that I read 

 about in the Juvenile. I inclose a card for the 

 baby. 



Tlifi bees are busy. 



Bright little things: 

 We can be so. 

 Though we have no winffs. 



Brlla Fraser. 

 Cnmpbellville, Ont., Canada, Nov. 24, 1883. 



That is a tiptop letter, friend Bella, and I 

 admire especially the card it contains. I 

 wonder if you are a busy little body, and al- 

 ways busy at something good. 



THE LITTLE GIRL WHO DOESN'T KNOW ANY THING 

 ABOUT bees, and DOES NOT LIKE HONEY. 



I have seen so many little girls and boys writing 

 for the Juvenile, I have put it in my head to cor- 

 respond also. My ma has plenty bees, but I can not 

 tell you any thing about them, but that they sting 

 awfully. Ma has had her bees three or four years, 

 and T never saw so much as the inside of a hive. My 

 little brother is braver than I; he goes about them 

 without veils or any thing on his face, and he helps 

 mamma to catch new swarms, and he does not care 

 if they do sting him; sometimes there are about 

 half a dozen on him, and he doesn't mind them, and 

 they go on about thrir way; but I could not stand 

 still with that many bees on me; I think I should go 

 crazy. I don't like honey anyhow, and the bees 

 don't like me. 



EsTELLE H. Blaize, age 10. 



Bay St. Louis, Miss., Nov. 23. 1883. 



FLORENCE'S LETTER, WRITTEN BY HER PAPA. 



I have a bright little girl five years of age and she 

 used to claim the Juvenile Gleanings until you 

 got its mother's cover on, and to-day she said, tell 

 Mr. Root to send her a little book all pictures and 

 not so much print, as she can not read yet. She on- 

 ly knows a few letters, but she insisted on writing a 

 letter like the other children. Below is her letter. 



" My name is Florence May Shaver. My pa keeps 

 bees. I helped him sow some Rocky Mountain bee- 

 plant last fall, and this summer the bees worked on 

 it. We had a flower garden and had lots of flowers, 

 but the bees liked the poppies the best of all. I 

 have no brothers or sisters but 1 have a little wagon 

 and a doll. My ma wears spectacles. Pa has a pair 

 too. Send me a nice book, if you please." 



The above are her words. She is a fcMrful talker, 

 and I had to write her letter. J. H. Shaver. 



Sloan, Iowa, Oct. 3^ 1883. 



BITTER HONEY, ETC. 



Pa received Gleanings, and I read in it about the 

 marriage of '"Toka," and I am writing to wish her 

 much joy; also to thank you very much for the book 

 you sent me. Our bees gathered bitter honey, and 

 we don't know what they gathered it from, unless 

 they got it from the dog-fennel. And now I want to 

 ask you a nuestion: Will the honey from the flower 

 of the garden sage be bitter? Chas. H. Kyle. 



Houston, Mo., Nov. 17. 1883. 



As bitter honey has already been mention- 

 ed as coming from dog -fennel, I should 

 think it very likely, friend Charles, that was 

 where yours came from. I do not think the 

 honey from garden sage would be bitter; in 

 fact, the finest honey in the world comes 

 from the California sage, or mountain thvme. 

 It might possibly have a sagey flavor when 

 first gathered; but if thoroughly ripened in 

 the hive, I am quite certain you would per- 

 ceive no objectionable flavor. 



how LAURA GOT HER HYBRID BEES. 



I thought I would write you a letter abotit my 

 bees. I can't write very well, but I will soon learn, 

 for I am going to school. I have got one stand of 

 bees. Papa gave it to me. He has 30 stands: he 

 had 100 last year; they nearly all died last spring, 

 but none have died this winter. I'll tell you how 

 papa happened to give me my bees. He and [ were 

 out in the apiary in February, looking at the bees, 



