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5. When the animal is but half-fattened a deduction of 14 in every 
280 Ib., or 1 stone in every 20 stone, should be made; but if very fat 1 stone 
for every 20 should be added. 
6. Suppose it is desired to ascertain the weight of an animal whose girth 
is 6 feet 4 inches and length 5 feet 3 inches. 
7. Seventy-six inches girth by 63 inches length = 4,788; 4,788 + 144 
= 33°25 superficial feet. Multiply this result by 238, and you will have 
764:75 lb., or 54+ stones. 
8. The deduction or addition mentioned in paragraph 5 should then be 
made, according as to whether the animal may be in ordinary or in very fat 
condition.—Journal of the Jamaica Agricultural Society. 
REMEDIES FOR THE STING OF BEES. 
Bers are not apt to use their weapons against anyone unless enraged by some 
cause. ‘There is only one period of the year when they are disposed to sting 
without provocation, and that is at the end of the clover honey harvest, and 
just before the massacre of the drones. If they are accustomed to a human 
presence, very little danger need be apprehended from walking gently about 
among the hives. But those who are timid and unacquainted with the nature 
and habits of bees should use a veil for protection when going amongst 
them and performing operations. The consciousness of being secure: will 
give them confidence, and, as their information increases, their timidity will 
diminish. 
No one, however, who engages in apiarian pursuits, though using every 
precaution, can calculate with certainty on enjoying absolute immunity. Bees 
will use their stings at times against both friends and foes, but the pain 
thereby occasioned is by no means so severe as has sometimes been represented. 
In many cases it lasts only a few seconds, and causes very little annoyance. 
The more frequently people are stung, the more insensible do they become 
to the poisonous influence. But with people of a highly nervous tempera- 
ment it is different, and the effects of a single sting in their case are often 
serious. When the action of the heart is weak, the shock, though slight, 
sometimes proves too great for the system. Fortunately, such very delicate 
constitutions are rare, and it would be the height of imprudence for 
those so afflicted to put themselves in a situation of danger. Still, the 
very sensitive, by a strong act of will, might greatly mitigate conse- 
quences that are always aggravated by giving way to excited feelings. 
They should try, on being stung, to suppress any tendency to agitation, 
and to aid them in this, as well as to allay pain and relieve the tension 
of swelling, a half-glass of brandy, or even a whole glass if need be, may 
be administered. When parties are distracted and fevered, and almost 
thrown into fits through the influence of the poison of either wasps or 
bees, there is no better prescription; and in the case of a young woman 
dying from syncope, induced by the sting of bees, a doctor connected with the 
case remarked that in such cases, where syncope set in, the best remedy was a 
little brandy or ammonia. Amongst the various cures recommended for bee 
stings, and to be applied to the part, are olive oil, vitriol, laudanum, vinegar, 
honey, saleratus and water, salt and water, raw onion, tobacco juice, or the 
expressed juice of any green leaf. As animal poisons deoxidise the blood, 
their antidotes will be anything that contains much oxygen. The poison of the 
bee being an acid, an alkali must be employed to neutralise it. One great 
essential is, if heated, to get: cooled as soon as possible, and to avoid becoming 
heated again for at least two days. Nothing tends so much to make the poison 
active as heat, and nothing favours its activity less than cold. Let the body be 
kept cool, and at rest, and the activity of the poison will be reduced to a 
minimum. Any active exertion whereby the circulation is quickened will 
increase both pain and swelling.— Weekly Times. 
