. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 654 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL-, rice-pudding, soft yolk of eggs, and baked apples, if desired. Never forget the importance of keeping the patient warm, and free from all drafts of air. If the lungs are very painful—es- pecially on taking a long breath—a mus- tard poultice may be applied, or a leaf of horse-radish kept over the pain, as sug- gested in a previous article, until it smarts pretty well; but under no circumstance should either be permitted to stay on long enough to blister. If in a few days the cough becomes very troublesome, give Remedy No. 13
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 654 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL-, rice-pudding, soft yolk of eggs, and baked apples, if desired. Never forget the importance of keeping the patient warm, and free from all drafts of air. If the lungs are very painful—es- pecially on taking a long breath—a mus- tard poultice may be applied, or a leaf of horse-radish kept over the pain, as sug- gested in a previous article, until it smarts pretty well; but under no circumstance should either be permitted to stay on long enough to blister. If in a few days the cough becomes very troublesome, give Remedy No. 13 in a teaspoonful of honey, a dose every two hours. Every household should possess a few re- liable remedies and book of instructions to use in just such emergency. It often en- ables them to cut short diseases that, left to develop, may prove very serious, and the treatment expensive. The above suggestions as to treatment, judiciously followed, will, in the great majority of such cases, result most happily, and the expense be very small. Besides, it is not always possible to obtain the services of a physician to the family who live a dis- tance from his office. Yet no time should be lost in affording ease and comfort to the Giving Water to Bees in the Cellar. Query 949.—Is it desirable to give bees water while ia the cellar ?—Idaho. No.—B. Taylor. No.—P. H. Elwood. I think not.—M. Mahin. I think not.—E. France. No, never.—R. L. Taylor. I think not.—J. M. Hambaugh. Not with me.—G. M. Dooi>ittle. I doubt if it is for my bees. I never could get them to take it.—C. C. Miller. No, not by any means.—Dadant & Son. I do not think it necessary.—Eu&ene Secor. I don't think it is necessary.—J. P. H. Brown. I do not know. I never tried it.—J. A. Green. No. They do not seem to need it.—C. H. DiBBERN. My experiments have not demonstrated that it is.—S. I. Freeborn. I don't know, as I never have had any experience with cellar-winterin
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