Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1876 — Gathering Honey and Pollen. [ARTICLE]

Gathering Honey and Pollen.

The honey is taken from the flowers by the bees, ana on their way home it is passing through a churning process, and churned The body of the bee is put toS ether in three sections, or bands, and unerneath the two front bands on each side there is an outlet, or small hole, where the butter oozes out after being churned. This butter is pure white wax. It is received by other bees and placed in the comb, or cell, and by the mouth of the bee it is £res«ed out in its proper thickness and the alance remaining—which, to cany out our simile, we may call buttermilk—is thrown up by the bees into the cells, and the longer it remains there the sweeter it gets, as it extracts the sweetness or the virtue from the comb, bringing back the body of the sweets which is contained in its first gathering from the flowers; one pound in the comb three years old has as much medical virtue as three pounds one year old. Besides the honey there is the pollen, which is of more benefit to the bees than the honey. After it is deposited in the comb it is called bee-bread, as it is their principal living in the winter and their young feed on it altogether until they are ready to work. xmai—.—— The pollen is gathered in this wise: The back of the bee is covered with a fine wool, or hair, and on entering the flowers

..the. pollen sticks tol.tMH Wb.eMecefiWy to release it, it is. combed out, The bee has six legs, three on each side, and the middle one on either side lias a comb on the under side, from the forked to the first joint. As this can reach only half-way across the back, it is combed from both sides and the pollen is taken from the comb by the two fore-feet. It is then flattened by the two fore-feet and caught between the toes and passed back to the thighs of the hind legs-, each one receiving the same weight as nearly as possible. The pollen is taken from the end of the petals of such floors as the bees cannot enter while on the wing,, the front feet, being used for this, purpose. The pollen is removed by putting the leg in the cell, when it is pushed oft with the forked toe apd, stepping to one side, the other is eleaded in the same manner.— American Bee Journal.

Chicken Croquettes. One large chicken, two sweetbreads, wine glass of cream, one loaf baker’s stale bread. Cook chicken and sweetbread separately, saving the chicken-broth. Chop chicken meat and sweetbread finely together, season with pepper, salt, parsley and half a teaspoonful grated onion. Rub the bread into crumbs until you have equal quantities of crumbs-and meat. Place over the fire as much chicken-broth as will moisten well crumbs, into which stir the cream and butter size of an egg. When it boils stir in crumbs until they adhere to the spoon. Add meat and when cold two well-peaten eggs. Mold into rolls with your( hands, roll them in crumbs and fry in not lard like doughnuts,—W. Y. Timet. < —-— —The Weeping Willow was named tialix Bdbylonica because it was supposed to be the willow alluded to by the psalmist as that on which the Jews hung their harps- Hebrew scholars have recently concluded that the word translated “ willows” should be “ poplars," and Karl Koch has shown that the weeping willow is in all probability a native of China. Since then further investigation seems to indicate that the Popidun Euphratica is the “ willow” of the psalmist.— N. Y. Independent ~~ ; The difference between a dandy and a ragged man is only a ditference-lu degree —one has his trousers and theotner has his trousers t’order. . - ■- -