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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 1 



wintered without winter flights, but it pays, 

 every time, to give them one or two each 

 winter. I have had 20 years of experience 

 in this. G. Routzahn. 



Biglerville, Pa., Jan. 30. 



A SAFE WAY TO WASH OUT KEROSENE-CANS. 



Years ago A. L Root advised the use of 

 washing-ammonia for this purpose. It is 

 superior to lye or caustic potash (page 32) . 

 I can cleanse a five-gallon can with four 

 quarts of hot water. Rinse the can out first, 

 then put two tablespoonfuls of washing- 

 ammonia with a quart of hot water. Do not 

 screw the cap down tight, but shake thor- 

 oughly, then screw the cap down tight, turn 

 the top of the can down, and let it stand a 

 few minutes. Then I rinse twice with hot 

 water. Let it stand a day or so to dry. 



Morgan Hill, Gal., Jan. 21. M. Bray. 



FEEDING BEES IN WINTER. 



I have a hive of bees in a keg in which 

 they were caught, and they are dying. I 

 think that they have no honey to eat. What 

 is the proper way to feed them with sugar ? 



Rich Hill, O., Dec. 6. L. J. Page. 



[The only way to feed in winter is to give 

 the bees a frame of sealed stores or a cake 

 of hard candy made from granulated sugar ; 

 but in your case it would not be practicable 

 to give a comb, so you will have to depend 

 on the candy. Bees should not be given 

 liquid feed in winter.— Ed,] 



NEW ORLEANS MOLASSES FOR STIMULATIVE 

 FEEDING. 



How would syrup made from the sugar 

 that settles in the bottom of the barrel of 

 the best grade of New Orleans molasses do 

 for stimulative feeding in the spring ? 



M. A. AULICK, M. D. 



Bradford, Ky., Dec. 13. 



[It would answer as well as any sugar for 

 the purpose.— Ed.] 



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THE LEAN-MEAT DIET AND DR. LEWIS. 



I certainly owe you a debt of gratitude for 

 having drawn my attention to Dr. J. M. 

 Lewis, Rose Building, Cleveland, Ohio. I 

 went to him in a very bad condition physi- 

 cally. No treatment appeared to avail. I 

 found his treatment, including the lean-meat 

 diet, followed under his direction, highly 

 beneficial; and when he pronounced me cured 

 I felt better than I ever did in my life. I 

 had not a pain, no dullness, could sleep with- 

 out a break for eight hours, and awake per- 

 fectly refreshed. Neither heat nor cold ap- 

 peared to affect me. If in moving bees I 

 lost a night's sleep and worked 36 hours in 

 succession I felt it less than any one else. 

 It is seven or eight years since I took the 

 treatment, and throughout all that time I 

 have felt lasting benefit. I often advise 

 those with chronic nerve, stomach, lung, and 



other troubles, when I have no hope for them 

 anywhere else, to go to Dr. Lewis. 

 Brantford, Can. R. F. Holtermann. 



[This may sound like a patent-medicine 

 advertisement, but it is nothing of the sort. 

 It came unsolicited, and without the knowl- 

 edge of Dr. Lewis. We give it here because 

 we, too, feel grateful for what the doctor 

 has done for us. There are hundreds of 

 other patients who could say the same thing, 

 and are saying them to their friends. That 

 is why he has such a large practice. — Ed.] 



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HOMES, 



BY A. I. R O OT. 



Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they 

 toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you 

 that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 

 one of these. -Matt. 6 :28, 29. 



Our Savior loved flowers. We are sure of 

 this or he would not have said that no human 

 being, even Solomon with all the decoration 

 and fitting-out that money and tailors' skill 

 could produce, had any thing to compare 

 with the simple grace and beauty of the 

 lilies of the field. I have not said any thing 

 for some time about my automatic green- 

 house; and, to tell the truth, after I put my 

 plants nearly all outdoors last summer so 

 they did not need very much care or atten- 

 tion, I somehow lost my enthusiasm, espe- 

 cially when my time and energies were all 

 taken up with that flying-machine. I did 

 shut up the greenhouse and collect a few of 

 the most valuable plants, and made some 

 cuttings of the glittering achyranthus that 

 pleased me so much with its gorgeous color- 

 ing. But I lost a good many of my plants 

 by a lack of interest and enthusiasm until 

 we began to have winter weather and long 

 evenings. Then when I got tired of my 

 reading I thought of the many pleasant even- 

 ings I passed the winter before. When I 

 was searching through G. W. Park's catalog 

 of floral seeds which he has for sale, page 

 153, and noticed a tremendous array of seeds 

 that he had on hand at 5 cents a paper, or 3 

 cents for mixed, etc., I began to get the 

 fever to grow flowers from seeds. 



Now, I have not heretofore had very much 

 luck in growing plants from seeds that are 

 so small you could scarcely see them with 

 the naked eye. But in friend Park's catalog 

 he tells how to start the seeds in the three- 

 inch pots, putting a piece of glass over the 

 top of the pot to keep the surface moist, etc. 

 I made out an order for 16 packages of seeds 

 at 3 cents a paper. Do you want to know 

 why just 16? I will tell you. Sixteen 

 three-inch pots will just fill a box 12 inches 

 square; and a pane of glass a foot square, 

 the size I use for my greenhouse, just cov- 

 ers the box. 



In looking over another seed catalog I 

 discovered jadoo was offered in small quan- 



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