1886 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



417 



and were three days old, he round, in each nu- 

 eleiis, iv space as hirge as his hand, with Iresh digs. 

 That was the earliest he ever bad them lay, or ever 

 heard of. It' you ever heard of any thing- like that, 

 let nie know. 



I have been to sjliocl iilioiit r<)iir.\(ars. 1 like to 

 goto school very much, and I like in :te a nice 

 dish of honey on llie I able. 



Mahv Jank Wai.tkh, age 11. 



Wahoo, Saundeis Co., Nebraska, Mar. I~, 188j. 



1 think Mary Jm\i\ there must bo some 

 mistake somewhere, either in your recoixl or 

 ill your father's experiments. Did he not 

 by mistake get the old (jiieens from the hive 

 and take them along to form a nucleus ? 

 I have done the same" thing several times. 

 I do not think it possible for a queen to com- 

 mence to lay when only three days old, and 

 they must have commenced a little sooner 

 than that, even, or they would not have had 

 a patch of eggs as large as you state. 



THE RESURRECTION PIvANT. 



One day I g-ave papa ten cents (he was going to 

 Lincoln), and asked him to tnij' nie a licop or else a 

 flower. He noticed a man at a street corner, who 

 was standing by a little stand with a curious plant 

 to sell. He culled it '• Mexican moss." Papa 

 bought one for me. It was all dried up, and teemed 

 to have no Lfo in it. I put some water into a teacuj), 

 and then put in the pliint. It began to slowly open, 

 and soon the cup was too small for it. 1 then put 

 it in a saucer, and it continued to open, growing- 

 green at the same time, until it was nearly as large 

 as the saucer. In about three days I laid it away, 

 and it dried up the same as before. When dried up 

 it is about as large as a hen's egg-, and of a light 

 brown colcr. Once in about two months I take it 

 out, put it in water for aboi;t three days, and then 

 put it away. It has a small Lutich of thrcallike 

 roots, and, when di-y, the,\- fortn about one third the 

 bulk of th3 whoL'. K vr i ;•; .M k M c :c a^-u 11. 



Waverly, Neb , March ;;o, 1880. 



Friend Katie, I li;ive seen these resurrec- 

 tion plants, ami have l)een (luile curious in 

 regard to them. Are y<ui sure the plant 

 comes to life agaiiiV Will it grow and pro- 

 duce more of its kind, if keptconstautly wetV 

 I do not believe it will, but may be I am mis- 

 taken. May be somebody else can tell us 

 about it. 



HONEY, AND OTHER REMEDIES FOR COLDS AND 

 CROUP. 



In answer to your (juestion in Gleanings, March 

 15, in regard to lioney as a remedy for colds, ma 

 says it is a good one. Sage, steeped and sweetened 

 with honey, is good, and I guess this is th? reason 

 California honey, which is gathered from wild sage 

 flowers, is better than our basswood. I am sorry 

 that Arthur had the croup, for I ha\e had It sever- 

 al times. Take goose-oil oi' soft lard, add a few 

 drops of spirits of turi):^ntinc; with tliis, bathe the 

 throat and chest, then apply a hot cloth; this gives 

 immediate relief. I am 12 years old, so I do not 

 have croup any more. 



There are a gocd many lice-keepers around here, 

 and I think we shall stand a better chance this 

 year than la;t, as we all lest heavili'— some till. 

 The bees arc coming out well this spring. I think 

 snow is a good thing for wintering. Oui-s were 

 covered comjik-tely. When we topk iiway the 



snow in March the ([voens we got of Oliver P\ister 

 had brood in all stages. (Jkokge W. Hear. 



U.xbridg-.^, Out., Canadti. 



Thanks, little friend, for the fact in re- 

 gard to the sag(^ It is possible that tlie 

 flavor of the s igc" in almost all California 

 lioney may account for its being better for 

 colils ai!(i croup. Mountain-sage honey, 

 j from my own experience, dc^es seem to have 

 I curalivt^ properties that other honey does 

 not have. 1 should very much like to hear 

 1 from the other little girls and boys who may 

 I have compared s ige honey with that from 

 other sources and its effect on colds. — Ar- 

 ] tliur has now gone h:)ine to his parents, but 

 to my knowledge he has not had the croup 

 since he took that ''dose of cheese-rinds," 

 and afterward the honey. 



You have given us one more fact of inter- 

 est. You say your bees were completely 

 covered with snow, and that they wintered 

 well. J. B. Mason, in a recent number of 

 Gleanings, you remember, thought snow 

 quite detrimental to successful wintering. 

 Eknest. 



removing propolis WITH COAL OIL. 



Our little 

 friend Arthur 

 Hemphill is 

 too small to 

 write his let- 

 ter, so he has 

 printed it, and 

 sent it to us. 

 We were a lit- 

 tle afraid if 

 we simply set 

 the letter up 

 in type that it 

 would lose a, 

 great part of 

 its originality, 

 so our engrav- 

 er has here re- 

 produced it 

 just exactly as 

 Arthur sent it 

 to us. This is 

 what big folks 

 call a fac -simile. What's a fac-simileV 

 Well, ask your mamma, if you don't under- 

 stand from the above. Eknest. 



A LITTLE GIRL WHOSE FATHER HAP THREE APIA- 

 RIES. 



M.v papa has kept bees for eight years. He runs 

 two other yards, one six the other eight miles from 

 our home apiarj-, where we (that is, mamma and I) 

 work the bees. We gather all our honey on carts, 

 with springs under them, so there is no jar. Pa 

 makes all of our fl.xtures by water-power, improved 

 for the express purpose. He has invented a bee- 

 feeder, made from a square oyster-can. He thinks 

 it beats them all for cheapness and adaptability. It 

 looks to me like a cigar-box with a sliding cover. 



There is, about a mile from us, a spring said to bo 

 the largest in Minnesota. Wc live on this S})ring 

 branch, in which are sjicckled trout. Pa caught 

 one weighing ;S lbs. 1.5 oz. 



Grace KLECiii-EU, age i;S. 



Spring Valley, Minp.. ,laiL 12, ISHO. 



Very good, Grace ; but we should be very 

 glad of a longer letter. Perhaps a great 



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