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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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surgeons' patients after it was known that such 

 cases as were dying, day and nigiit. under " old 

 school "' Treatment, wc-i'e getting well under his 

 botanic (physio-medical) treatment. In Rome. 

 Ga.. in lSi;4. one doctoi- who belonged to the 

 regular faculty lost seven patients in one night, 

 and said to me that he thought four or five more 

 of his patients would die before tlu> next moin- 

 ing. He had only tlir<'e wards and but few 

 patients, while I had six large wards well tilled 

 with sick and wounded, and more being brought 

 in from the field and field hospitals cn'ery few 

 days, and I lost only one patient in over a 

 month. The said regular had proclaimed with 

 an oath that thei'i> ought to be a law to i)i'<'- 

 vent all doctors practicing medicine who did 

 not belong to the "regular faculty." 



One factmoi'e: I think I have saved many lives 

 by giving enemas of lobelia in plenty of warm 

 water, and frequent drinks of pleasant herb t(>a. 

 If the regulars knew how to use lobelia for in- 

 flammation of the bowels, they might save such 

 cases instead of hitting them die with o])iuni or 

 morphine. The whole svstem can be relaxed, and 

 inflammation in any pai't subdued with small 

 but frequent doses of lobcdia to stomach or 

 bowels. The addition of lobelia is better for 

 dysentery than clear hot water, which is good, 

 "Vou know." I). Tyhkell, M. D. 



Toulon, 111.. Oct. 8. 



SAWYER'S BEE -ESCAPE. 



A DIFFKP.KXT I'ltlXC'IPLE. 



I mail you to-day a model of my bee-escape. 

 I have been using it the last two weeks, taking 

 off comb honey from 7(5 stands of bees, with per- 

 fect satisfaction, not leaving more than three 

 to ten bees in the supers, even when I raise 

 two supers at a time. 



To make tlie escape, cut a slot in the honey- 

 board, 13 in. long and % wide, and bevel oiit 

 one side. The wire cloth is to be cut 14 in. long 

 and 'Z\4 wide. One side and both ends are to be 

 fringed ^^ inch, the fringe coming over the 

 beveieil side of the slot. I use a honey-board 

 I4 in. thick, with a bee-space top and bottom. 

 By having a thicker board, the escape could be 

 made within it so as not to interfere with the 

 ijee-space. by cutting some of tln^ wood away 

 in the boaid. The slot in the board must be 

 made in a line with the opening in the sections. 

 I use the same honey-board for covering the 

 brood-chamber and sections by closing the slot 

 when not in use. 



I am an A V> C scholar, and have been read- 

 ing (h.EANiNGs since 1S8.5. I have been much 

 interested in it. esiM'cially in Kees(>"s and Dib- 

 bern's bee-escapes, as 1 iiavi' been anxious to 

 get something that would work satisfacUtrily. 



I should like to have you try it before the 

 season is over: and if you think it is the best 

 out, I should like you to supply brother bee- 



keepers with models at 30 cents for one and .50 

 for Ijoth. if you can at that price, and pay me 

 what vou think rigiit. James Sawyer. 



Du Quoin, 111., .Sept. 17, 18SX). 



Friend S., something quite similar to the 

 above has been in use for years, but it was not 

 applied to a honey-board. I will explain to our 

 readers, that the engraving does not show the 

 edges of the wire cloth raveled out sufficiently. 

 The bevel in the slot should reach to the edge 

 of the fringe on the wli"e cloth; and the wire of 

 which this wire cloth is made should be so light 

 that the bee raises the end as it crawls out un- 

 der it. I discarded a similar arrangement years 

 ago, because the wires were so easily doubled 

 up if any thing touched them. Now, it occurs 

 to me. however, that a thin piece of wood or 

 tin could be so placed as to protect these fringed 

 ends from injury. Arrangements of this kind 

 work positive; that is, a bee can, under no cir- 

 curtistances, get back after he is once pushed 

 out under the points of the wires. 



ERNEST'S NOTES OF TRAVEL AMONG THE 

 BEE-KEEPERS OF YORK STATE. 



ON the catskii.e mountains. 



After romping around Shady (tUui (and it 

 seemed to me that the parts of York State I 

 visited were full of them) we rambled back to 

 the hotel — brother Charles and I. Glancing 

 back I noticed the whole front range of the 

 Catskills— a most beautiful sight to me, as it 

 was my first initiation to mountain scenery. 

 There were several gentlemen at the hotel, 

 who. I had been told, were discussing my bicy- 

 cle trii) of the day, and with doubtful heads 

 agreed that it was impossible. To settle the 

 matter, one of them was introduced to me. 

 "Why," said he, "I have been driving all day 

 with a good horse, and have gone only 30 miles; 

 and here you say you went 4.5 miles in about 

 Ave hours and a half." 



"That is easy to explain." said I. "When 

 yon are going down hill you are obliged to 

 walk the horse; and likewise in coming up the 

 hills." 



He assented. 



" Now. then." continued I, "when f go down 

 hill I coast"— that is, I let the bicycle out to 

 almost its full speed if the road is not too 

 rough; audi travel, I suppose, on an average, 

 when going down hill, at the rate of about a 

 mile in five minutes, and sometimes much fast- 

 er. If there is another hill just ahead of me, 

 with very little effort I can keep up the veloci- 

 ty acquired down; and the result is. I can as- 

 cend the next hill with very little effort. If it 

 were not for friction, by the well-known law of 

 mechanics I could ascend the next hill witiiout 

 trving at all. Now, then. I do not lose time in 

 going up and down hill, as you do with a 

 horse." ^ . ,, , . 



"Oh!" said my friend. " I see. It is all plain 



now." ,, , T 



By this time the supp(>r - bell rang, and I 

 think I managed to do am|)le justice, after the 

 exhilarating ride. Not long after. Mrs. Root 

 came back. Sh(> had received a letter from 

 O. R. Coe, of Windham, N. Y., inviting us to 

 visit him. It will be remembered that he has 

 written occasionally for the journal. He owns 

 between :.'(X) and 300 colonies, and is also pro- 

 prietor of one of the best hotels in the Catskills. 



