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GLEANlxVGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



with new sacking (gummy sack), tamping it down 

 hard, then claj', to within one foot of the top; 

 then water-lime, made into a stiff mortar, and 

 rounded up around the pipe until it seems impossi- 

 ble for one bit of water to get in, or not until it is 

 well filtered, at all events. 



One word about sinks, slop-holes, and water- 

 closets. A sink with a drain or a pipe to it I could 

 never have about the house; the same with old 

 slop-holes; and as for the water-closet with the old- 

 fashioned pit under it, that would have to take it- 

 self off the premises with the old filthy pipe of the 

 sink and slop hole. All these three abominations 

 can be dispensed with, and are, 1 think, among our 

 most intelligent people of to-da.Y. A. W. Osburn. 



Havana, Cuba. Aug. 5, 1887. 



Thanks, friend O., for your excellent re- 

 port in regard to Cuba, and the Immense 

 yields of honey you get there. You failed, 

 however, to tell us how much yon received 

 per pound for your great crops; and that, 

 you know, would be quite an interesting 

 item in securing the •">0,000 lbs. from 100 

 colonies. — Thanks for your suggestions in 

 regard to drilling for water ; and I hope we 

 may all of us come up to your concluding 

 remarks. I don't see, however, the harm 

 that slops may do if carried into the garden, 

 even by pipes properly arranged so that the 

 roots of growing plants may absorb the fetid 

 matter. 



DOCTORING WITHOUT MEDICINE. 



A RE.MEDY FOR NERVOUS l'R()STR.\TIOX. 



T HAVE before told you something of my 

 M experience with ' nervous exliaustioh 

 ^t wlien overworked mentally ; and 1 hope, 

 ■^ dear friends, you will bear a little with 

 me in talking al)out my ailments, so 

 long as I can tell you how I have triumplied 

 over disease. When business is up to its 

 liighest notch, say just preceding or during 

 the honey months, 1 almost always break 

 down, or come pretty near it. At such times 

 there are three things that usually wind me 

 up and set me going. One is a good square 

 meal ; the second is getting out of the office 

 and going out into the open tields, and the 

 third is sleep. I have been in the liabit of 

 getting strength by either of tliese three 

 methods which is most convenient. The 

 tields cause me to neglect work, so I often 

 push through my tasks as well as I can un- ! 

 til dinner-time. If dinner does not restore! 

 me, a great many times I am oliliged to go I 

 home and take a nap to keep from breaking 

 down altogether. 



Well, I noticed a good many times that, 

 when 1 pushed ahead until dinner-time, by , 

 the time I was seated at the table I was so 

 much exhausted that I felt like grasping a 

 glass of milk, or something else nourishing, 

 much as an intemperate man would reach 

 for his morning dram before, he could steady 

 his nerves so as to dress himself. In fact, I 

 would often sit down to a meal all in a tre- 

 mor, and with a dizzy faintness. Usually 

 I felt tolerably well about the time uiy meal 

 was linished. Sometimes, however, I didn't 

 get level, if tliat is the right expression, un- 

 til half an hour afterward. At such times, 

 although I had excellent dinners, they didn't 



seem to sit just right. During the past sum- 

 mer I have felt great relief by taking a nap 

 each forenoon or each afternoon ; and final- 

 ly I began to notice that, when business 

 crowded so that these naps came just before 

 mi^al-time, I could sit down at' my meals 

 without the symptoms of exhaustion 1 haw 

 mentioned. Then it occurred to m;' that 

 Dr. Salisbury, of Cleveland, () , used to urge 

 and almost insist thatIsho:ild n 'vei' eat a 

 meal without hrst being rested thonnighh 

 for twenty minutes or half an hour on a 

 lounge or bed. lie said it was fai' better to 

 hav;' a good sleep befor;^ eating ; but if 1 

 could not sleep, lie still without sleep. My 

 vvif- has urged this very point for y.'ars"; 

 but I have usually been so busy just before 

 meal-time I could not get around to it. For 

 some time back, however. I have l)een tak- 

 ing just half an hour's sleep before dinner 

 and supper ; and if any sort of patent med- 

 icine had ever given given me such a lift in 

 the way of health, it would very likely have 

 been "boomed'' about as well as I could 

 boom it. The philosophy of it seems to be 

 this : If you want a man to do a good piece 

 of work.' he should be well fed and well 

 rested. Yes, the same is tine, even of a 

 horse. Well, Dr. S. declared it was a task 

 for a weak constitution to properly digest a 

 meal of victuals ; and he declared further, 

 that no constitution could digest food prop- 

 erly when it was exhausted and run down to 

 the very last notch ; and if anyone attem])ts 

 to get along in that way he will sooner or 

 later tind hiinself broken down entirely. 



iMow, then, ye tired liousewives. remem- 

 ber this : You are not saving time by sit- 

 ting down to your meals, so completely ex- 

 hausted and worn out that the hand trembles 

 with fatigue that raises the food to your 

 lips. You will get along faster, and ac- 

 complish more, by taking the kind of rest I 

 have told you of. If it seems to you impos- 

 sible, and yon are inclined to sniile at the 

 idea of a half-hour nap before dinner and 

 supper, then I shall direct my appeals to 

 your husbands, your sons, and your daugh- 

 ters. As you value the life and the presence 

 of this patient, hard-woiking nidtlK r, uinhr 

 her take that needful rest, just as my wife 

 and children have been making me use the 

 good common sense God has given us all. 



SHIPPING QUEENS IN THE PEET 

 CAGE. 



TROUBLE WITH THE GOOD C.\NDV. 



}HAVE ha 

 ha\e in n 



HAVE had trouble with shipping queens in the 

 with the " Good " candy, and also 

 mind the e.vpei ieiice of another breeder 

 who had similar trouble With the best of cAre, 

 sometimes a whole sliipment would arrive 

 dead. Probably only those who have had such ex- 

 perience know how discouraging it is. I now make 

 the candy pretty thin (granulated sugar will do to 

 make it with), and put a sufficient quantity of it in 

 a small piece of cheese-cloth, and i)rcss it into the 

 " feed-hole " and then i)ut a sponge filled with 

 sweetened water in the other. I do not generally 

 put more than si.\ bees into the cage and they can 

 suok all the " juice " they need, out through the 



