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(ILEANINGS IN iiKK CFLTUtJE 



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(lone Ireozing- in early Spring-, prepare a good rich 

 bed, make it in rows one or two feet apart, then 

 go to where yoii buried your seeds and false them 

 up, and they will all be sprouted. Take tliem, and 

 plant and cover with loose rich dirt, and every seed 

 will be sure to firow with no more trouble, except to 

 transplant when larffe enough. 

 Parrish, 111., TJec. U, 1SS.'j. Mollie Dixox. 



We have sometimes Uiotight that t'reezmg 

 the seed was an aihantage ; at any rate, we 

 know that freezing does not hurt the seed, 

 because the spider plant is a gi'eat plant to 

 come up of its own accord wherever it is 

 sown the seascni before. We now get any 

 sort of plants to grow by simply sowing the 

 seed, by the plan recommended in our issue 

 for Jan. 1-5, page <i2, for raising seeds for 

 vegetable plants. "\V'e are going to try some 

 spider plants this year over those reservoirs. 

 Two or three feet of heavily manured soil, 

 witli water underneath it, ought to do some- 

 thing stupendous with the spider plant. 



WH.\T IS TIIK IMiOCE.'^S OF P.VCKINc; I'OHK WITH 

 HONKY? 



Afrain I am notified mj' time has e.\pired with the 

 old year. You ask me if I have found Gleanino.s 

 a good investment? T have, and I have learned 

 more by readinji' it than any other paper I take— 

 not only about lees, but about other matters in 

 flome readings, "What to Do," etc. What you said 

 about the convention gave me new ideas and some 

 good advice. As using' honey for packing- pork 

 is something new to me, please g-ive your readers 

 the process, or how to use it in packing- pork, etc. 

 My wife uses honey in place of sug-ar in making- 

 cake, etc. 1 for one like it; that is, when we have 

 it. As to bees, I have only two hives. They are do- 

 ing- well thus far. I. E. Green. 



IJnadilla, Otsego Co., N. V., Dee. 28, 1885. 



Friend G., I do not know the process of 

 packing pork with honey, only that the hon- 

 ey is made to take the place "of sugar and 

 molasses. Perhaps the substitution of hon- 

 ey where sugar and molasses are called for 

 in the recipes for making pork pickle is all 

 that is requred. Doubtless friend Muth can 

 enlighten us. 



IS JT POSSIBLE TO GET EVEN OOOD - LOOKlNCi 



HONEV BY SUGAR FEEDING, -AND AT A PRICE 



WHEHE IT COUED COMPETE WITH REAL 



HONEY? 



After reading- Mrs. Harrison's revelation and 

 Mrs. Wright's protest, T expected the editor would 

 take up the g-aunt!et and hurl back such a volume 

 of evidence as would prove, for all time to come, 

 that sugar can not be fed to bees, and get it stored 

 in sections, not even to get partly filled sections 

 completed; but he didn't "rile," worth a cent. 

 Now, why is this? Has some person demonstrated 

 that it can be done, and we wish to keep the matter 

 as quiet as possiV)le, or are we all halting between 

 two opinions? I have a notion to put (not before 

 the house, as the house is too slow), but to the edit- 

 ors of all the bee-journals, and it'is this: That they 

 appoint an investigating committee, to t)e compos- 

 ed of a number of the prominent bee-keepers of 

 the c (untry, and request them to experiment and 

 prove whether sugar can or can not be fed to be( s, 

 and have them. build comb, and store it in the sec- 

 tions in paying quantites, or in any (luantity. Tf 

 such is the ease, then the grumblers have the long 



end of the lever; but if it is impossible, and Mr. 

 Wright is aware of the fact, he can easily convince 

 tliose merchants that his honey is pure, by offering 

 them a fair price for all the honey they can seciu-e 

 in that way. Even if honey can be procured by 

 feeding, and it takes I'i lbs. of 8-cent sugar to pro- 

 duce 1 lb. of honey, he would yet be safe in otfering 

 to pay a fair price for a largo quantity, if there is 

 any way of detecting the difference. Now, if I am 

 not mistaken we need more light on this subject. 



Hrock, Neb., Feb. 13, 1880. .7. S. Johnston. 



"Why, my good friend Johnston, we had 

 the answer to this question on page lOJ, 

 where friend l^nterkircher fed hack ;5.50o 

 lbs., and it did not half pay expenses. Sure- 

 ly, feeding sugar wouldirt give any better 

 results, would itV 



BEE STING POISON AS A REMEDY FOR RHEUMA- 

 TISM. 



We take the following from the nritisli 

 Bee Journal of Jan. '21: 



Kl SigJi^i' Medico relates the following singulai- 

 case, which may ]M-ove interesting- to the bee-keep- 

 ing world : 



A woman had suttered so much from rheumatism 

 that for six months she had hardly slept. Her 

 right arm was so affected that'it was quite useless; 

 she could neither work with it, nor dress herself. 

 While in this state she heard of a countryman who 

 suttered in the same way, and who had been cured 

 by the accidental sting of a bee. As the pain 

 caused by the sting could not be worse than that 

 due to tiie rheumatism she determined to try the 

 same remedy. Three bees were obtained and made 

 to sting her on the right arm. The success of the 

 treatment was surprising and complete. On the 

 following night she was able to sleep, and the acute 

 pain had all but completely disappeared; the arm 

 was naturally a good deal swollen, owing- to the 

 stings, but the swelling quickly disappeared with 

 cold-water dressing. The use of the arm gradual- 

 ly returned, and since there have been no symp- 

 toms of rheumatism. It is reported that the same 

 remedy has been equally successful in several oth- 

 er cases. The cure no doubt was caused by coun- 

 ter irritation, and the treatment is analogous in its 

 action to blistering, and the like. Moral; Let all 

 rheumatic persons keep Cyprian bees. 



WHY NOT USE THE NATURAF^ GAS IN OUR FACTORY ? 



I have been thinking of the wonderful benellt the 

 people ol' this county are receiving from gas. It 

 has made me think of you in your business. Just 

 listen to me (though time may be precious). Think 

 of a gas-well, with the pipes turned into your fur- 

 naces, running your machinery; then with smaller 

 pipes running through all your rooms and into the 



stoves, then down to the where the "tjueen" 



lives, to warm up and light up the whole house, be- 

 sides enough left for neighbors, etc. I Such a well 

 we have in ourcounty, also an abundance of oil. 

 There are now 13 wells dug, all producing gas. One 

 well throws, on an average,'100 barrels of oil a day; 

 another throws 24 bbls. The 18th and last well is an 

 enoinious one, said to be strong enough to heal all 

 Cleveland. The gas is found at about 1~'0:) ft. in depth. 

 The last well is now burning from a pipe stand of 

 57 ft., throwing a flame of from .50 to 70 ft. T sup- 

 pose you have seen many accounts of it; don't you 

 believe you, too, can find it in Medina by going- 

 down after it ? Have you thought of it ? It's worth 

 thinking about. Or send Fa-nest here to start up a 

 shop. Many manufacUn-ers are looking this way. 

 Jnst come and see for yourself. Before the last 

 well was imder control I took a broom-handle and 

 tried to hold it over the six-inch escape-pipe (now 

 remember I mean the iMonm-handli'), and it would 

 take it to this side and that with a " Zip, hiss, sizz," 



