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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 15 



arrangement of the hive can be observed. 

 There is no doubt about it, friend Root, that 

 the tongue is the only implement used in 

 packing the pollen so neatly, and you can 

 safely make a note of it for the next revision 

 of that magnificent work, the A B C of Bee 

 Culture. H. L. Jones. 



Goodna, Australia, April 11. 



WHY HONEY IN SMALL DOSES MAY BE HURT- 

 FUL WHEN IN LARGE DOSES IT IS BENEFI- 

 CIAL; AN INTERESTING AND POSSIBLE SO- 

 LUTION OF SOME OF THE QUEER PHENOM- 

 ENA OF DIGESTION. 



1 am going to explain v,'hy your lemonade 

 did not hurt you. Several years ago I was 

 keeping bees at m}' wife's father's farm. 

 He kept bees also, and loved honey, but 

 said it hurt him so he could not eat it. I 

 asked him how it hurt him. He said it 

 soured in his stomach, and caused bloat- 

 ing. I asked him how much he ate. He 

 said, "About a tablespoonful." I told him 

 his stomach was heavily charged with acid, 

 and when he ate only a spoonful of honey it 

 was overcome by the acid, and this turned 

 to acid also; but I said that, if he would 

 eat a sufficient quantity to overcome the 

 acid, it wijuld not hurt him. He scoffed at 

 the. idea; but when I persuaded him to eat 

 all he wanted, there was no bad effect 

 whatever from it; and as long as he ate 

 .enough to overcome the acid it never hurt 

 him afterward. 



In your case you carried an excess of al- 

 kali; and when you drank a glass of lem- 

 onade, and were satisfied it would hurt 

 you, you were not disappointed, for the al- 

 kali soon overpowered the acid, and thus 

 turned that to alkali, which added just that 

 much more to your misery and discomfort. 

 But just as soon as you drank the lemonade 

 in sufficient quantity to overcome the alka- 

 li, and turti it to acid, then the machine 

 was reversed, so to speak, and thus j'ou re- 

 ceived special benefit from the same acid 

 that was working the injury, because it 

 was kept under subjection by the superior 

 quantity of alkali, and not because you 

 thought the lemonade would hurt you, and 

 it did, or that you thought it would not and 

 it did not. Think of it in this light, and 

 see if you do not see it as it is. 



Elias Fox. 



Hillsboro, Wis., July 9, 1903. 



[I do not know much about the presence 

 of alkali or acid in the stomach; but if ei- 

 ther does exist in undue proportions at one 

 time and another under some conditions, 

 then your solution of the apparent paradox 

 by overpowering an alkali with an overdose 

 of acid, or the reverse, is correct. As a 

 general rule in my case, a small amount of 

 any one thing is not hurtful, while a large 

 quantity is decidedly so. Perhaps when I 

 become older I shall come to know some- 

 thing of what it is to have an excess of al- 

 kali or an excess of acid. This is a very 

 interesting theme, and I hope our brethren 

 of the medical profession, as well as the 



professors of anatomj' and hygiene in our 

 colleges, will give us something further on 

 this subject. Among our bee-keeping fra- 

 ternity we have professional men — men who 

 have taken up bees as a pastime, and yet 

 who are away up in the science of medicine 

 and anatomy. — Ed.] 



A RED-CLOVER QUEEN THAT BROUGHT IN 110 

 LBS. OF HONEY IN TEN DAYS. 



I see in Gleanings that you have a queen 

 that you marked S50, judging her by her 

 works. Now, I have a red-clover queen 

 that I received as a premium for Glean- 

 ings, whose bees brought in 110 lbs. of red- 

 raspberry honey in ten days as follows: 



May 28. 10 lbs ; M ly 29, cold, 7; xMay 30, 

 cold, 5; May 31. cold, 8; June 1, 13; June 

 2, 11; June 3. 16; June 4, i8; June 5, 11; 

 June 6, II. Total, 110 lbs. 



It has rained most of the time in June. 

 Can you go ahead of such a queen? 



R. D. HORTON. 



Blossburg, Pa., June 30. 



Bee-keepers' Picnic. 



The Ontaiio County bee-keepers will hold a picnic 

 Aug. 2H at vVillowgrove, situated on the shores of the 

 l)eauiiful Canndaigua Lake To make a round trip on 

 thi.slake i^. well worth the time and ;i,oney it costs. 

 We CO dia'.ly iuvitf- all the btekepers living within 

 easy reach of Willowgrove to attend. SLeamboats 

 leave Canadaigua and Woodville regularly. 

 F. Greixer, 

 Sec. Ont. Co., N. Y., B. K. As ociation. 



FARMERS' NATIONAL CONGRES.S. 



Arrangements are well under waj' for the 24th an- 

 nual meeting of the National Faimers' Congress, at 

 Niagara Fall.s. beginning Sept. 22. To judge from the 

 efforts put forth by the officers, an instructive and in- 

 teresting session may be expected. President Flan- 

 ders informs us that the following gentlemen have ac- 

 cepted invitations to deliver addresses: Maj. G. D. 

 Pur.'-e, Savannah, Ga., "Sugar .Supply in the Fnited 

 States." Hon. Timothy L- Woodruff. Brooklyn. 

 " Agricultural Conditions Understood to Exist in our 

 Insular Possessions, and the Possibilities in Their De- 

 velopment." O. P. Austin, chief of the Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics, Washington. D C, " Farm Products in the 

 Markets of the World " Dr. D. E -Salmon, Washing- 

 ton. D. C. "Infectious and Contagious Diseases of 

 I arm Animals and their Hffect on American Agiicul 

 ture." Prof. T. M. Webster, Urbana, 111. "Diseases 

 and Insect Pests of Plants and their Effect on Ameri- 

 can Agriculture." James Wood, Mt Kisco, N. Y., 

 '■ How Can We Enlarge Our Foreign Markets for 

 Farm Products?" Aaron Jones, South Bend, Ind., "Ex- 

 tension of the Facilities of our ]MaTl .System " 



Gov. Odell will deliver the address of welcome, and 

 the response will be made by Hon. Harvie Jordan, 

 Monticello. Ga , first vice-president of the congress. 



Twenty-four years this national body has co-operat- 

 ed with the other organizations of the United States 

 in the betterment of agriculture, and in making the 

 life of 'he farmer more pleasant, more profitable, and, 

 if possible, more honorable. You will notice by the 

 subjects chosen, and the speakers assigned, that this 

 organization is not an institute, but deals with the re- 

 lations of the agriculturists to the other profe.«.sions. 



The delegates are commissioned by the governors of 

 the several States, and any farmer is eligible to ap- 

 pointment 



For information in regard to appointment as dele- 

 gates, write to John M. Stahl, Secretary, 4328 Langley 

 Avenue. Chicago, Illinois. 



Remember the date, September 22 to October 10. 1903. 



Excursion rales on all railroads, on the certificate 

 plan. J. H. Reynolds, Treasurer. 



