Looks like a blueberry......

[Chet]

So your tellin' me I'm 'spouse to put da Rust Reaper on my sore spots?    Here I been wastin' it on rusted and stuck stuff.  

[Jeff]

I.m going to have to do a new report thread. I have fixed a couple more things with the reaper.

[SwampDonkey]

 

and



can't be no worse than Absorbine's Horse linoment

[Tom]

I've had many a gallon of Absorbine Jr. rubbed on me.  I wonder if it will loosen a rusted-on nut?

[SwampDonkey]

I'll soon be contributing to that thread, gonna get mine outta the box tomorrow. I gots to remember to email Mike, his email addy is right here handy.

[Chet]

Jeff, maybe ya should try a shot of dat Rust Reaper in yer shoulder and arm. It does come wit dat needle applicator for pin point accuracy of application.  

[SwampDonkey]

Tom:

There actually was a Horse Absorbine linoment you got from the vet. My uncle used to rub it on his yarding horse's lame leg, even on his own aches. smelt the same.

http://www.pbshorsehealth.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/horsehealth/absvetliniment.html?E+scstore

[Tom]

Yeah, I know.  We use it on our horses too, but, I couldn't stand that stuff on me.  Granddaddy always kept some Jr. in the medicine cabinet.  I liked the smell but it sure was hot on young skin.

http://www.absorbinejr.com/history/h_history_fr.htm

[SwampDonkey]

Here's Rawleigh's Penetrating rub.
http://www.herbal-connection.com/Penetrating_Rub.htm

We used to get Rawleigh's White Liniment and it was actually kinda pinkish.

I've got a bottle of Absorbine Jr here in the house. I never got any relief from any of these snake oils. The only 'benefit' I've felt is from the eucalyptis oil in those products as in noxema, kind of a cooling effect on the skin. I suppose it acts to divert your feeling of  pain some-what.

[Fla._Deadheader]

  If ya ever want to "course" wild honey bees, take a little white flower to where ya see them bees working. Sprinkle a little flour on a couple of them bees, and you can follow them right to the (honey) bank.

[SwampDonkey]

Updated link to what Tom posted earlier.


Central NB Beekeepers Alliance

[Lanier_Lurker]

I believe I'd like that.

When I was a little younger, back in the 50's, we used to chew the tender green ends of the twigs of the trees in Ridgecrest North Carolina.  The bark was refreshing and reminded me of spearmint gum.  I think these were Birch but they may have been Beech.  I knew once only because I'd been told but haven't had the opportunity to experience them again in my adult life.  If I saw one, I think I'd recognize it though.

Those would have been black (sweet) birch twigs.  (Betula lenta)

[Lanier_Lurker]

Galberry bushes also make some of the best quail cover on the southwest Georgia quail plantations.

[SwampDonkey]

Black birch to, probably a stronger mint than yellow and might be more likely in the area Tom was. Although along the Hills of the TN border it may very well be yellow birch. I've seen it there, been there, done that. But still quite strong on yellow and you can even smell it on fresh cut stumps.