. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 202 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL March 29, Honey^Poultices.—For boils, carbuncles, abscesses, etc., and for injured bones, mix the honey with flour, and spread on a piece of linen rag. If the abscess is coming to a head, cut a hole in the center of the rag to allow of free discharge of matter. Honey added to an ordinary bread- poultice will answer the same purpose, or it may be used in conjunction with linseed-meal poultices ; it will render them more emollient.—British Bee Journal. Weak Colonies In Spring—J. B. Hall says in the Can- adian Bee Journal
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 202 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL March 29, Honey^Poultices.—For boils, carbuncles, abscesses, etc., and for injured bones, mix the honey with flour, and spread on a piece of linen rag. If the abscess is coming to a head, cut a hole in the center of the rag to allow of free discharge of matter. Honey added to an ordinary bread- poultice will answer the same purpose, or it may be used in conjunction with linseed-meal poultices ; it will render them more emollient.—British Bee Journal. Weak Colonies In Spring—J. B. Hall says in the Can- adian Bee Journal : "My experience of over 20 years is that if you take ?weak colonies and put them into three you will still have three weak colonies; if you shut them down and don't med- dle with them at all there will sure to be some of them that will come up and be good colonies, and the others that are no good will die out, and if you put them together one of the poor queens may be saved. We don't open them except they are hungrj-; we don't open a colony of bees in our yards until the fruit blossoms. We let weak colonies die if they ; riore Hopeful of Cuba—Editor Hill refers to the report of G. Rockenback in this journal as the bluest yet given, and says: " Reliable information in regard to the apicultural outlook in Cuba is now of interest to bee-keepers everywhere, and it is gratifying to note that resident producers of honey take a much more cheerful view of the situation than the Journal's correspondent, whose article clearly shows that he would not be clast in the language of the hour, as an ' up-to-date bee-keeper.' " If Mr. Rockenback's testimony is thought hardly relia- ble, what will Mr. Hill do with Harry Howe's, which was given on page 185, last week ? Mr. Howe's simply corro- borates Mr. Rockenback's, or is even stronger. Reform Spelling in Gleanings in Bee-Culture is given up for the present, and a Stray Straw says : "Now that immediate d
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