. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April S, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 217 spanner slipt and his elbow struck the wheel, causitifj in- jury to the bone. The man was under a medical man fur two or three weeks, when, as the arm was still g-ettiiij; worse, his doctor thought it best for him to g'o to the hos- pital and undergo a surgical operation, which included scraping the bone of the arm. The hospital being full, and the man having to wait his turn in consequence, he was in- duced, on my recommendation, to try honej'-poultices, which, in about ten days, so far healed the arm that the
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April S, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 217 spanner slipt and his elbow struck the wheel, causitifj in- jury to the bone. The man was under a medical man fur two or three weeks, when, as the arm was still g-ettiiij; worse, his doctor thought it best for him to g'o to the hos- pital and undergo a surgical operation, which included scraping the bone of the arm. The hospital being full, and the man having to wait his turn in consequence, he was in- duced, on my recommendation, to try honej'-poultices, which, in about ten days, so far healed the arm that the doctor does not now consider it necessary for him to go to the hospital at all. "The other a very bad case of a gathered thumb caused by a thorn. In this instance the sufferer received more benefit from honey-poultices than from any other remedy. I mention these facts as connected with usefulness of honey, and if we could get the medical profession to advocate the use of honey either as food or otherwise, we should soon have the demand equal to the ; A New Idea in Wax=Extractors.—When Editor Root was in Colorado, among the things he saw at the home of R. C. Aikin was a mammoth solar wax-extractor, in whicli there was a new departure by way of applying bottom heat, a principle that can equally be employed in the smallest solar extractors. Mr. Root discourses as follows in Glean- ings in Bee-Culture: Now, then, for the solar wax-extractor. As will be seen, it looks very much like a small greenhouse. In fact, it is built a good deal on the same plan. The floor or pan of the extractor, so to speak, is built right over a brick oven, so that not only solar but artificial heat may be utilized. "Why," said I, "Mr. Aikin, what is the sense of hav- ing artificial heat when you have so many days of bright, strong sunshine, with an atmosphere so clear that there is neither mist nor rain a greater portion of the year ?" " Well," said Mr. Aik
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