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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 1. 



SDME EXTRACTS FROM FOWLER & WELLS' 

 WATER-CURE MANUAL. 



THE GREAT " SECKET." OK '' DISCOVERY."' COPY 



rightp:i) IX 1847, and printed in 18.50. 



I wish all readers of Geeanings and the Ml- 

 crocosvi would i)\it your articles on the subject, 

 and this reply of Dr. Hall's, side by side, and 

 then decide which shows the spirit of an honest, 

 Christian gentleman. 



My symijathies are with you, because I be- 

 lieve the principle on which you acted in this 

 matter is right, and that your motive was pure- 

 ly unselfish: so I take great picasui-c in sending 

 you some extracts copied verbatim fi'om an old 

 water-cure inmnuil. The book referred to is 

 *• The Water-cure Manual," by Joel Shew. 

 M. D., copyrighted in 1847. printed by Fowler 

 & Wells III 1S50. Speaking of these injections 

 Dr. Shew writes: 



" They may be repeated again and again, in 

 as great quantity as is desired. ... A good 

 mode. too. is to take a small injection, a tum- 

 blerful, moreor less, that is i-ctaincd pernument- 

 1 y, without a movement Ix't'ore morning. This is 

 vary soothing to the nervous system; aids in 

 securing sound sleep, and, by its absorption in 

 the coats of the bowels, dilutes acrid matters 

 therein, tonifying and strengthening likewise 

 those parts, and aiding materially in bringing 

 about natui'al movements." 



After naming various diseases foi- which this 

 remedy is invaluable, he says: 



'•This statement will cause sneering, I know: 

 but it is no fancy sketch. The thorough wash- 

 ing out. so to say, of the lower bowels, by which 

 the peristaltic, or downward, action of the 

 whole alimentary canal, is promoted, and by 

 the absorption or transudation of water its con- 

 tents are moistened and diluted, and the whole 

 of the abdominal circulation completely suffus- 

 ed by that blandest and most soothing of all 

 fluids, pure water. Whoever understands well 

 the sympathies and tendencies of these parts of 

 the human system will at once perceive th(> 

 truth of what I aitirm."' 



Let me add: Whoever reads this can at 

 once perceive the truth of what you affirm: 

 viz., that Dr. Hall has simply revised one of th(> 

 old methods of water cure, and has no business 

 to call it a "secret"" or "discovery,"' or to sell it 

 as such. E. J. Eairi). 



Island. Pa.. Sept. 11. 



]\Iany thanks, my good friend B. Since you 

 mention it, I remember now that water cure 

 was one of my hobbies wlum I was only eleven 

 years old. vSoon after, I bought the book you 

 mention, of Fowler & Wells; and when I first 

 saw Dr. Hall's discovery there was something 

 strangely familiar to me about it; but as it was 

 toward forty years ago, it is not much wonder 

 that I had forgotten where I obtained my in- 

 formation. When about ten years of age I was 

 a very weak, puny, feeble child; and a travel- 

 ing lecturer on phrenology and water cure gave 

 me my first ideas, and started me in daily bath- 

 ing. I distinctly remember this: That in two or 

 three months I astonished the whole family by 

 taking a pail of water from outdoors, breaking 

 the ice, then washing all over in the ice water, 

 without feeling any more unpleasant than you 

 do, my friends, when you wash your face in ice- 

 cold water. After my bath, the new doctor 

 Ijrescribetl walking a mile before breakfast. 

 Luckily we had a cow past\ire just half a mile 



away, and that fixed it just right. I was ap- 

 pointed to fill the post of di'iving the cow home 

 before breakfast. I haixlly ne(>d tell you that, 

 under the influence of the daily baths and 

 morning walk. I soon developed a degree of 

 health and vigoi' that I had never known be- 

 fore in my life. I think I read the book through 

 several times; but, of course, I did not pay 

 very much attention then tothenuitter (tf water 

 cure by injections. 



MAMMOTH PEAVINE CLOVER. 



AEI, OTHER SOURCES OF NECTAR PRACTICALLY 

 A FAILURE DURING THE PAST SEASON. 



The honey harvest is ovei'. My ci't)p is 

 gathered and marketed. I have sold my comb 

 honey at Kicts. and my extracted at 1?>. "Nearly 

 all my comb honey, 20l)() lbs., was obtained from 

 my lironson apiary, numbering (50 colonies. 

 That apiary is located where the bees have access 

 to probably bet\\'een 300 and 400 acres of mam- 

 moth clover, and the honey wasnearly all obtain- 

 ed from that source. Every year furnishes me 

 with additional proof that the mammoth, or 

 ])eavlne clover, is the best honey-])lant w(> have 

 on the Western Reserve. ]\Iy Injme apiary, 

 which is located about n miles north of my 

 Uronson apiary, did not average 5 lbs. to the 

 colony — only ^--g as much as the Kronson apiary. 



I wish to call your attention to an invention 

 of my friend H. R. Boardman, which I think is 

 of more value to the bee-keeper than any other 

 invention pertaining to our business which I 

 have seen or heard of in a long time; and that is. 

 a solar wax-extractor. I ])urchase(l one of him 

 about six weeks ago, and it does the \\ork per- 

 fectly for which it was intended. The wax is 

 extracted from old combs readily, and without 

 any waste what(>ver, with less trouble than it 

 would be possible to extract it any other way. 



BOARDMAN'S solar WAX-EXTRACTOR, AND ITS 

 EFFICIENCY. 



I think any man who has 50 lbs. of wax to 

 extract, a year, would save the price of the ex- 

 tractor in two or three years by using one. I 

 think you will do the bee-keepers of this coun- 

 try a great favor if you will get of friend lioard- 

 man a complete description of his extractor, and 

 publish it in Gleanings. I don't know wheth- 

 er he intended to have his invention patented 

 or not, but I think not. 



My whole crop of honey, both comb and ex- 

 tracted, will amount to over 4000 lbs. — not a very 

 heavy crop, but pretty fair for this year. If I 

 had not sold, I could now sell my comb honey 

 at 18 cts. S. F. Newman. 



Norwalk, O., Sept. 19, 1890. 



Friend N., you have given us just the kind of 

 report in regard to the peavine clover we hav<' 

 wanted. Now, then. It is pretty certain that 

 bee-keeping can be made to pay wherever this 

 clover can be introduced by the hundred acres; 

 and that is the way to raise any honey-plant st) 

 as to make it really practicable. Another thing, 

 the quality of the honey will be equal to any in 

 the world. All that is necessary is to introduce 

 it and furnish a sufficient inducement to the 

 farmers round about you to grow it largely. 

 Terry's teachings will probably dovetail in, to 

 the mutual advantage of both the bee-keeper 

 and farmer; and, to sum it u]), we may say 

 clover is the rock-bottom of success, whether 



