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The Clover Blossoms. 



Some sing of the lily, and daisy and rose, 

 And the pansies and pinks that the summer 



time throws 

 In the green, grassy lap of the medder that 



lays 

 Blinkin' up at the skies through the sunshiny 



days ; 

 But what is the lily and all of the rest 

 Of the flowers to a man with a heart in his 



breast 

 That has dipped brimmin' full .of the honey 



and dew 

 Of the sweet clover blossoms that his boyhood 



knew ? 



I never set heavy on a clover-fleld now, 

 Or fool round a stable, or climb in a mow, 

 But my childhood comes back just as clear 



and as plain 

 As the smell of the clover I'm sniffln' again ; 

 And I wander away in a barefooted dream. 

 Where I tangled my toes in the blossoms that 



gleam 

 With the dew of the dawn of the morning of 



love 

 Ere it wept o'er the graves that I am weeping 



above. 



And so I love clover— it seems like a part 



Of the sacredest sorrows and joys of my heart; 



And wherever it blossoms, oh, there let me 



bow 

 And thank the good God as I am thankin' Him 



now ; 

 And pray to Him still for the strength when I 



die 

 To go out in the clover and tell it good-by. 

 And lovingly nestle my face in its bloom, 

 While my soul slips away on a breath of per- 

 fume. —Selected. 



Merits of Five-Banded Bees. 



I will tell what I like about the five- 

 banded bees : 



1. They are a large, strong, healthy 

 bee. 



2. They are very industrious, and 

 can carry a good working gait, when 

 the wind blows so hard that all the 

 other species of bees that I have cannot 

 venture out. 



3. They enter the sections just as 

 soon as they are ready, and will climb 

 right up and fill all that they can get 

 the honey to do it with. 



4. They show but little disposition to 

 swarm, as only one out of the 6 colonies 



that I had, offered to swarm the past 

 season, and what they may do is to be 

 learned later. 



5. They cap their honey the whitest 

 of any bee that I own. 



6. They are as gentle as butterflies. 



7. They are perfect beauties. 



I have no interest in any particular 

 kind of bees. The bee that pays me 

 best for my labor is the bee for me. My 

 business is producing honey, and not 

 the sale of bees or queens. 



The five-banded bees did this for me 

 the past wet season: 



The first gave me 132 pounds of 

 honey ; the next best, 99 pounds ; the 

 next, 66 pounds, and the least gave me 

 50 pounds and cast a swarm. This was 

 nearly all from clover, as basswood was 

 a failure, and all was secured from June 

 20th to Aug. 1st. 



I have been so well pleased with what 

 those 6 colonies of bees have done for 

 me the past season (1892), that I 

 bought 42 this fall, and will report next 

 fall whether they are then in possession 

 of the " red card " that they so honestly 

 earned the past season in my yard. — Iba 

 Bakber, in American ApicultuHst. 



Wet Sheet Pack for Bee-Stings. 



A young man in this neighborhood 

 was stung by a bee. It made him so 

 deathly sick that a physician was called. 

 He did not recover for a week. Such 

 results from a bee-sting are rare, yet 

 they do sometimes happen, and persons 

 affected in this way should be kept away 

 from bees. 



When a person that has been stung is 

 very sick because of it, and breaks out 

 in large blotches all over, a good thing 

 to administer is a wet sheet pack with* 

 out delay. It is done thus : 



Spread two comfortables upon 

 lounge, and then wring a blanket or 

 sheet out of hot water, lay the patient 

 upon the center of it, and tuck the bed 

 clothes snugly about him, so that no air 

 can enter. Finish with a warm brick 

 at the feet, and a cool cloth upon the 

 head. The room must be dark airv 

 and very quiet, and the patient will be 

 usually relieved at once, and drop off to 

 sleep. When he awakes, which will 

 usually be in half an hour to an hour 

 he should be washed in a tub of tenid 

 water, showered with water a trifle 

 cooler, and put to bed immediately 

 This is also excellent treatment for 

 breaking up a cold or fever.— Mrs r 

 Harrison in Orange Judd Farmer ' 



