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GLEANINGS IN JJEK CULTUilE. 



May 



ble as little folks are apt to imagine. By 

 the way, if I am correct, the Ghoctaw Indi- 

 ans are the most civilized of any race of In- 

 dians in America. Missionaries are making 

 every effort to get them started in agricnl- 

 tnre. Now, can't yon do a little missionary 

 work, ;ind get the red faces interested in 

 bees? You can show them how delicious a 

 thing is honey, and perhaps induce some of 

 those who are not particularly fond of agri- 

 culture to start in bee culture. Unless I 

 miss my guess, an Indian and his papoose 

 have a sweet tooth somewhere. May we 

 hear from you again? Eunest. 



A PRAYER FOR CHII^DKEN. 



Inclosed please flud a beautiful prayer, clipped 

 from Zion's Watchman. My little brother and I 

 have learned it by heart, and repeat it every night 

 before we go to bed. Will you please print it in 

 Gleanings, so that many other children may see 

 and learn it too? 



Father, now the day is past, 

 On thy child this l)lessinK cast: 

 Near iny iiilli>\v. li.xnd in hand, 

 Kee|) thy K'lardi.an angcl-band; 

 And throughout the daikling night 

 Bless me with a cheerful light; 

 Let me rise at morn again. 

 Free from every thought of pain; 

 Pressing througli life's thorny way, 

 Keep me, Father, day by day 1 



Papa put out some rye flour for tho bees to day, 



and they worked on it quite well. My mamma does 



not think that honey is of anj' use for a cough or 



cold, where jiersons are used to eating- it ever.y day. 



Eva Gregg, ag-o 7. 



Galilee, Wayne Co., Pa., April 3, 1886. 



HONEY NOT GOOD TOR COLDS; MILK A REMEDY 

 FOR " HONEY-ACHE." 



In answer to your question, my mamma says she 

 has been doctoring- babies for 33 years, and never 

 found honey of much use for croui>. Honey is as- 

 tringent, which is contrary for either coldsorcroup, 

 and mamma says people shouLl be ver.y careful 

 in giving it to babies. She was at a neighbor's house 

 with her baby. A young woman fed it a little hon- 

 ey, and the babe soon"bcgfin to scream and cramp. As 

 soon as the girl told mamma what she liad fed it, 

 mamma poured cream down the babe, and it soon 

 got better. Mamina thinks cream will alwaj's help 

 in such cases. She alwa.ys uses maple syrup or sim- 

 ple syrup for colds. We all love honey very much, 

 but mamma won't allow us to give Huber any. He 

 is my little brother, five months old. He is very- 

 smart, but cries much with the earache.* Can .you 

 tell us of any thing in the ne.vt Gleanings that 

 would cure it'? Papa has lost only one swarm of 

 bees, but it is very cold here j'et. Wo have just 

 commenced making- sugar. Mamma sugared off 81 

 lbs. last Saturday. Tessie A. Taylor, age 10. 



Shelby, Oceana Co., Mich., Mar. 29, 18?6, 



Dear me ! when j uven He doctors disagree, 

 who shall decide? Some say honey is good 

 for croup, and some say it isn't. I am al- 

 most inclined to believe you are pretty near- 

 ly right.— Giving children nice rich milk or 

 cream is undoubtedly good for little folks 

 when they have the honey-ache (you know 

 what that is, boys), from ah overdose of hon- 

 ey. You remember father Langstroth once 

 told of his little grandchild coming to him 

 and complaining, after eating too much new 

 honey, " O grandpa ! IVe got ' stomyaclie' " 

 (honey-ache). His good grandpa at once pre- 

 scribed milk. This the child took and wag 



better. I often can not eat very much honey 

 myself, without old Dame Nature making a 

 "•howl;" but when I take milk with it I get 

 along very well. The old Bible expression, 

 " A land" flowing with milk and honey," 

 seems to imply tliiit the two should go to- 

 gether. So, little folks, when you t:ike hon- 

 ey to cure a cold, and then get the "■ stomy- 

 aclie '■ — "' out of the fiyiiiir -pan into the fire," 

 drink s,)ine jiood rich milk. — In icgard to 

 the earache, I suppose I have stiff retl from 

 it as much as most people— having had it 

 day and night for a week at a time. Miiny 

 of the remedies that are commoidy prescrib- 

 ed are worse than useless. Never tinker 

 with your ears. Soaking the feet in hot wa- 

 ter, and then taking a good sweat, beini}. 

 careful not to take cold, is the only thing 

 which I have fomid tliat will give relief. I 

 have instructed the clerks to send you a chro- 

 mo, as I think you deserve one. Ernest. 



A NIGHT RAMPAGE — BOYS STEALING A SWARM. 



Last summer some boys thought they would have 

 some honey (cainpers, I suppose), so they came 

 about 11 o'clock one night and were carrying off a 

 hive. Just as they were carrying- it to lift over the 

 fence. Cousin W^ill, who was coming- home from 

 seeing his "best girl," heard them. They dropped 

 the hive over the fence, upside down. The cover 

 flew off, and the frames fell out, one of which they 

 grabbed and ran over the road, and Will after Ihem. 

 The.v ran about 4J rods and dropped tlie frame of 

 honej-, and dodged out to the side of the road, and 

 slipped by him before he knew it, as it was ver.y 

 dark, and then he came back and told papa, and he 

 got up and went down with the lantern, but the 

 bees were all out, and h^ could do nothing- with 

 thein, and had to Ic.'.ve them thus in the road until 

 morning, then he took out the frames and put them 

 in a new hive and set them back on their stand, and 

 they arc now doing well. Skip. 



Covert, Seneca Co., N. Y. 



Thank you for your account of the steal- 

 ing, and the result.^. Although you say 

 your father could do nothing with the bees, 

 you do not mention whether the bees filled 

 the air in the dark, or only a few flew out, 

 and the rest remained in the hive in the con- 

 dition it was. If the bees swarmed out in 

 the dark, I should like to know whether 

 they all got back to the hive before daylight. 

 It would be an interesting point to know 

 whether scattered bees can in the dark clus- 

 ter in one spot, guided only by the hum of 

 their comrades. Can we hear from you 

 again? Ernest. 



DO QUEENS LAY, 3 DAYS FROM THE TIME OF HATCH- 

 ING? 



Pa put up one nucleus in 1885, and got 13.5 lbs. of 

 surplus honey that season: that was thi best yield 

 he ever got fi-om one nucleus. Perhaps you would 

 like to know how lie m;U<es a nucleus. He first puts 

 in one rack of honey; second, arack of sealed brood; 

 third, a rack of fresh eggs; fourth, a rack of sealed 

 brood, so as to leave the rack of eggs in the center, 

 from which ho expects to rear his (jueens; then he 

 lays a piece of ducking- over them, and lets it hang 

 down the empty side to keep them warm. Ten 

 queens is the most he ever got from one rack of 

 eggs. He transferred 3 of them jie fore they were 

 hatched, into other nuclei. When they hatched, 



