728 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE Nov. 15 



A THREE-WHEELED HIVE-CART, BEE-KEEPING AN AID TO HEALTH. 



BY R. V. COX. 



BY DR. A. F. BONNEY. 



The engraving shows the kind of cart I 

 use in my bee-yard. I like it better tha^ 

 any thing I have ever tried, and it is away 

 ahead of any sort of wheelbarrow. 



The upper view shows it loaded with ten- 

 frame supers, the third wheel taking the 

 weight off the arms. There is a brake on 

 the large wheels that can be set so as to 

 hold the crate anywhere. With such an 

 apparatus as this there is no skinning of 

 knuckles on a swinging honey-house door 

 when taking supers in to be extracted. 



The lower view shows the long comb-box 

 which is provided with a cloth cover. 



Sloansville. X. Y. 



(OX'S THREE-WHEELED HIVE-CART. 



Some small knowledge of medicine, cou- 

 pled with a habit of observation, has shown 

 the writer that when the average person be- 

 gins to lose health he also parts with hope, 

 and dies all the quicker on account of it. I 

 have done surgery without an anaesthetic 

 for Indians which would have almost killed 

 a white man from shock, yet under other 

 circumstances the red man would die. Let 

 one of them contract tuberculosis, or have 

 a severe pain which he does not understand, 

 and, covering his head with his blanket, he 

 will sit for hours. It is a demon that has 

 possession of him. The medicine man of 

 the tribe was nnt able to drive it out, even 

 by the aid of the skin 

 of the serpent, and 

 hope left him. 



The white man is 

 wiser only in degree. 

 He will not, it is true, 

 cover his eyes from 

 the light, fearing, 

 even in daytime, to 

 catch a glimpse of 

 the spirit which has 

 possession of him, but 

 I have seen tubercu- 

 lar patients who wer^ 

 well able to ride, walk, 

 and row, sit and mope, 

 hopeless of recovery. 

 Had they adopted 

 sanitary methods 

 they would, very like- 

 ly, have recovered. 

 Some others, men, 

 devoted their waking 

 hours to dissipation, 

 seemingly believing 

 that King Alcohol 

 would burn out the 

 other evil. They died, 

 of course, while a sane 

 life, one of exercise 

 and diet, might, and 

 in many cases surely 

 would, have aided 

 them in shaking off 

 the disease. 



The beginning of 

 my bee-keeping ca- 

 reer found me weigh- 

 ing 110 i^ounds heavi- 

 ly dressed. To-day I 

 weigh 165 in fighting 

 clothes, and they 

 weigh no more than 

 the bees compel. 

 While I still have 

 some asthma, I am 

 a comparatively well 

 man, and able to 

 work all day in the 

 yard. 



