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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1. 



in our family physician, our family dentist, or 

 the pastor of our church ; but I do not believe 

 it is his will that we should get through life 

 propped up with drugs, stimulants, etc. ; and 

 in all these things where we are in ignorance 

 I do believe, as the dear brother has said who 

 wrote that letter, that his Holy Spirit will lead 

 us if we put ourselves under his guidance. 



May be I am not giving our family physi- 

 cian sufficient credit in this matter. He at- 

 tended to the case very faithfully; asked ques- 

 tions; made suggestions; several times he in- 

 quired by telephone how I prospered. He 

 emphatically objected to both quinine and 

 whisky when I asked his opinion.* He said 

 no stimulants of any kind were needed in such 

 a case.| Of course, he gave it as his opinion 

 that the tooth would have to be out before I 

 could get relief ; but when the dentist said he 

 did not believe the tooth was the cause, the 

 doctor pleasantly and willingly said he would 

 do the best he possibly could without disturb- 

 ing the tooth. Some of the faith-cure people 

 will say I limited my faith in prayer by hold- 

 ing on to the doctors and hot water. You 

 know they often claim that an invalid must 

 show his faith by throwing away his crutches. 

 In answer to this, permit me to say I put my 

 entire case in the hands of the Great Physician 

 unreservedly. I asked him to help me out of 

 my trouble or else give me grace to bear it. I 

 swept aside all my own notions or opinions, 

 and looked to him, and to him only, for guid- 

 ance; and I kept constantly in mind that re- 

 lief for myself was a secondary matter ; the 

 first and foremost thing I begged and plead 

 for was wisdom to guide, direct, and advise 

 those who ask me almost every day what I 

 would suggest in the way of treatment for cer- 

 tain maladies. Let me add one thing more: 

 Both Dr. Dowie and Dr. Kellogg are certainly 

 making a grave mistake when they say that 

 the use of meat as food tends to develop the 

 lower and baser passions. The effect of a lean- 

 meat diet is just the contrary. Hundreds can 



* Let me give you a little instance right here, em- 

 phasizing the wisdom of consulting your family phy- 

 sician. Huber has had a siege of malarial fever. Be- 

 fore he had sufficiently recovered he went out into the 

 woods and climbed trees to put up a telegraph wire 

 over to a neighbor's Then he had a relapse. Some 

 two weeks after he had recovered from the relapse, 

 down he went again suddenly, and the fever ther- 

 mometer showed 101 degrees. Mrs. Root and I were 

 greatly worried, because we thought he was down 

 with malarial fever the third time, and it seemed to 

 us more severe and sudden than any of the previous 

 attacks. When the doctor saw him he relieved our 

 apprehensions very quickly by saying. " Yes, he has a 

 fever, and a high one, but it is" of another kind. There 

 is no malaria about him at all. This is grip fever, 

 and you need not worry about it." Sure enough, Hu- 

 ber was up and around the next dav, and the day aft- 

 er that he was attending school. It is certainly wis- 

 dom to let a physician decide in the outset whether 

 the trouble is something that may prove to be serious 

 or nothing you need worry about. 



t Among a certain class, ' quinine and whisky " has 

 become a stereotyped remedy for the grip; and there 

 is not a question in my mind but that it is an excuse 

 for taking drinks, and. may be. getting on a spree. 

 The physi ian who tells his patients indiscrimimtely 

 to take quinine and whisky, should be, bv concerted 

 public opinion, le f t without patients or practice, 

 and given to understand that he is a useless relic (or 

 worse than useless) of the past. Surely no Christian 

 physician can lend himself to any such scheme of the 

 evil one. 



attest this It is sugar and starch, especially 

 the former, that feed and inflame the lower 

 passions. There need be no argument in re- 

 gard to this. Every one who has tested the 

 lean-meat diet will have noticed this distinct- 

 ly; and after it has been followed for a month, 

 or a series of months, the tendency of the 

 diet becomes unmistakable. There are thou- 

 sands of doctors who have yet to learn this 

 fact ; but they might learn it very easily if 

 they would take a little pains. While I have 

 gone over most thoroughly all the arguments 

 of the vegetarians, I am obliged to believe 

 that not only the teachings of the Bible, but 

 experience, in modern days, indicates that it 

 is God's will that at least many of us should 

 use animal as well as vegetable food. 



SPRAYING FRUIT-TREES — WORMY APPLES. 



Prof. Slingerland, of Cornell University, has 

 just given us, in Bulletin 142, the most com- 

 plete history of the codling moth that it has 

 ever been my fortune to come across. Prof. 

 S. has followed the insect for years, has stud- 

 ied its various phases in various parts of the 

 United States, and has traced it with such 

 fidelity from the egg to the adult moth when 

 she commences laying eggs again, that there 

 can not be very much mistake in regard to 

 the matter. He has also made himself thor- 

 oughly familiar with every thing that has 

 been written on the subject. His work is 

 illustrated by the most beautiful cuts, not only 

 of the moth, larvse, and eggs, but of the 

 embryo apples at the time the eggs are laid. 

 He tells us just why we spray, when to spray 

 so as to do the most good, and also cautions 

 about spraying when it does little or no good. 

 The part that interests bee-keepers most is the 

 following, which we take from page 58. The 

 italics are original : 



Never spray a fruit-tree when it is in blossnm. — You 

 can reach the insect and fungous enemies just as 

 effectively, and in some cases more so, either just 

 before or just after the trees bloom. 



The story is so well told that I read it with 

 rare enjoyment from beginning to end, and 

 read several portions of the bulletin over 

 again. It rejoices my heart to know that the 

 world contains such faithful, indefatigable 

 students as Prof. Slingerland ; and when such 

 a man bends his whole energies, and ransacs 

 the world for facts, he ought to be remember- 

 ed gratefully; for getting rid of wormy apples 

 the whole world over is no small thing, I tell 

 you. 



COAL OR GAS TAR FOR FRUIT-TREE BORERS. 



On page 742 of our issue for Oct. 1, 1898, 

 one of our subscribers gives a very emphatic 

 recommend for gas tar. I felt a little uneasy 

 about it at the time, for fear it might kill the 

 trees ; but I have just found a report from one 

 of our experiment stations, backing up friend 



