Identifier: gleaningsinbeecu39medi (find matches)
Title: Gleanings in bee culture
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees Bee culture
Publisher: (Medina, Ohio, A. I. Root Co.)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ient tothe unique treatment, though he has neverbefore been stung by a bee. In spite of allthis he takes the stings unflinchingly; and,sharp and acute as the pain is, he declaresit is a pain of relief compared to the dulland incessant pains of his rheumatism.Twice each week the patient visits the api-ary of Fred W. Muth, and is stung by thebees from three to five times at each of thesetreatments. The stings are applied by Muthto Renners rheumatic arms and body wherethe rheumatism is most noticeable. Theexperiment with the bee-sting cure has beengoing on for two weeks, and the patient hasjust received 17 stings to date, which havetransformed him from hobbling about on acane to one who can walk almost as spright-ly as any one. Physicians who are watching the case de-clare that the formic acid will soon inocu-late his entire system, and the rheumaticpains, due entirely to a poison in the sys-tem, will give way entirely to the poison ofthe bee-stings. Cincinnati, O. GleanlngsinBee Culture
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liie-sling applied to the arm for curin? rheumatism. EDUCATING THE GROCER. Some of his Objections to Handling Honey. BY WESLEY FOSTER. In the course of a little experience in sell-ing honey to dealers, various objectionswere otTered, some of them by hundreds ofdealers, showing that there was and isground for the objections. The writer hashad all these to overcome in many cases,and will try to give the objections in theorder of their importance as shown by thepersistence of their repetition. 1. Honey does not sell here at all. I nev-er have a call for comb or strained honey. 2. It is too expensive. My customers cannot afford it. They buy corn syrup andNew Orleans molasses instead. 3. There is no profit in handling honey.The jobber and producer want it all. 4. All honey is adulterated. The strain-ed honey is sugar syrup flavored withhoney extract, and comb honey is artifi-cial, made from i)arafTin and glucose. 5. Honey sells so slowly with me that itsugars or spoils, gets dusty, or the

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