1894 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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dition are known; and when, from any cause, 

 any number of tliese elements are wanting in 

 (juantity or quality, the body is diseased, and 

 we should furnish what is lacking, whether it 

 is TO be found in a pineapple, a drugstore, or in 

 a glass of milk. We thus assist nature, while 

 some one else steps in between nature and na- 

 ture's work in some other case, and does lasting 

 injury to generations yet unborn while tres- 

 passing upon nature's own. 



Milk did not make you bilious. You would 

 liave been bilious without milk, and the pine- 

 apple would have done you as much good had 

 you drank milk the same day. 



Otoe, Ok., June 8. 



[My good friend, I am not going to try to 

 ai'K'ue against you at all. I hope you are right, 

 and 1 am trying to believe you are wholly so. 

 Atler dropping the milk diet, my strength be- 

 gan to fail, just as I expected it would, and in a 

 few days 1 resumed the milk again. The bit- 

 ter, unpleasant laste in my mouth came back ; 

 but it was right in strawberry time, and I dis- 

 covered among our luscious berries one that 

 takes the place of the pineapple beautifully. It 

 is tlie Wartield. We once discarded tlie VVar- 

 tield, but this year one; of my old plantations 

 that I had intended to plow up gave such a 

 bountiful crop in the early part of the season 

 that I reversed my decision. The berries this 

 year are larger and more luscious than ever be- 

 fore; and, strange to tell. 1 discovered that the 

 sprightly sub-acid Wartield was just the thing 

 to make my mouth sweet and pleasant. Now, 

 I did not go and pick a great lot every time I 

 felt that taste: but I just took a few nice ones, 

 say a dozen. This seems to neutralize and ban- 

 ish the unpleasant taste. If I understand you 

 correctly, we do not need to abate any of the 

 milk in our diet; butwewant to tind something 

 else that nature furnishes (in the shape of lus- 

 cious fruits, for instance) to go along with the 

 milk. Just think of it, friends — the latest med- 

 icine for sweetening the breath is " Wartield 

 strawberries" 1] A. I. R. 



THE USE OF LIME-\VATEK FOR DYSPEPTIC'S. 



Dear Friend Root: — I have just finished read- 

 ing Gi-EANiNGS for June 1. I am more pleased 

 with each number. We look for it more than 

 all the other periodicals or papers we take. I 

 am much interested in your experience writ- 

 ings, and hope you may live long to continue 

 them. I too am a dyspeptic, a little nervous, 

 getting along in years. I almost live on milk, 

 and find it more agreeable with the addition of 

 a little lime-water. In fact, I can hardly eat 

 my evening meal of bread and milk without 

 about two table-spoonfuls of lime-water. 



I feel that I owe you much. Through you I 

 "keep bees," and am much benefited thereby. 

 Your sermons in Gleanings are strong and 

 helpful. May (Jod give you health and strength 

 to continue them long. A Fkiend. 



Abilene, Kan. 



[My good friend, I thank you especially for 

 your suggestion — the more so as it recalls some- 

 thing 1 have felt ought to be in CJleanings. It 

 is this: Some years ago a dear friend of mine 

 had a sudden attack of some difficulty with the 

 stomach, rendering it impossible for him to take 



any kind of food for many days. The best phy- 

 sicians were summoned, and they feared he 

 would starve to death in spite of any of the or- 

 dinary means of affording nourishment. He at 

 length got some better; but the trouble was 

 prononnci'd incurabl(% and lie was told that he 

 had not long to live. However, he slowly re- 

 covered, and now enjoys tolerably good health. 

 When I asked him what doctor, or what medi- 

 cine it was that restored him, he replied that it 

 was no doctor at all. and the remedy could hard- 

 ly be called a medicine. It was simply lime-wa- 

 ter. A lump of quii.'klimeisi)ut into a largeglass 

 jar of water, and the clear portion is poured 

 oif from time to time as needed. He says they 

 keep it constantly on the table, and a spoonful 

 or two is taken at each meal. This alone has 

 gradually restored his digestion. He says if he 

 omits the use of it very long, the old well-known 

 symptoms begin to come back. I suppose the 

 remedy is nothing particularly new, for physi- 

 cians often prescrilje it, and. in fact, you can 

 purchase lime-water, prepared for medical pur- 

 poses, of any druggist. It is often given to ba- 

 bies, I believe, where there is a tendency to fer- 

 mentation and acidity in digestion.] A. I. R. 



THE EIGHT-FRAME HIVE FOR EADIES; WINTER- 

 ING IN THE cellar; A BEE-APRON, ETC. 



I have been an interested reader of the vari- 

 ous discussions relative to the sizi'. of hives. I 

 have tried both eight and ten frame hives, and 

 have arrived at the conclusion that, for several 

 reasons, the eight-frame hive is preferable 

 where the honey season is necessarily short; at 

 least, I have found it so in Northern Wisconsin. 

 I keep only a few colonies, and have ample 

 time for observation. 



Again, in reading A. A. Rice's plan of winter- 

 ing bees I tind that he removed the covers and 

 substituted absorbing cushions; but is it really 

 necessary to use any thing if the cellar is in the 

 right condition? I will tell you of my way for 

 wintering bees, which I have tried for three 

 successive winters. I have never lost a colony. 

 I leave the bottom-board on, remove the cov- 

 ers, and tack a piece of old cotton cloth (usual- 

 ly a piece of an old sheet) over the top of the 

 hives. This prevents the bees from escaping, 

 and at the same time allows the moisture pro- 

 duced by the bees to escape. My cellar is only 

 an ordinary one under the kitchen, with a door 

 opening into the kitchen. I ventilate the cellar 

 by opening the door ; also the outside kitchen 

 door. I usually keep a few bushels of potatoes 

 in the same cellar — not as provender for the 

 bees, but I find that, while they remain sound 

 and firm, the bees are in good condition. 



I was especially pleased with the article tell- 

 ing of some one, I could not quite make out 

 who, that indulged in licking the honey from 

 his fingers while at work among the bees. 



Perhaps some of the ladies who keep bees 

 will be pleased to know of an apron that does 



