April 25, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



267 



LanQStiroilion... 

 TlieHoiieyBee 



Revised by Dadant— 1900 Edition. 



This is one of the standard books on 

 bee-culture, and oug^ht to be in the 

 library of every bee-keeper. It is bound 

 substantially in cloth, and contains 

 over 500 pages, being- revised by those 

 large, practical bee-keepers, so well- 

 known to all the readers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal — Chas. Dadant & Son. 



Each subject is clearly and thoroly ex- 

 plained, so that by following the in- 

 structions of this book one cannot fail 

 to be wonderfully helpt on the way to 

 success with bees. 



The book we mail for $1.25, or club 

 it with the American Bee Journal for 

 one year — both for $1.75 ; or, we will 

 mail it as a premium for sending us 

 THREE NEW subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal for one year, with $3.00. 



This is a splendid chance to get a 

 grand bee-book for a very little money 

 or work. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



144 & 146 Erie street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



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Sections, Shippine-Cases— Everything used by 

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should always look happy and cheerful. 

 The best medicine that the sick one can 

 receive is sreat allopathic doses of 

 encouragement. Indeed, the cheer that 

 the doctor's visit gives is usually more 

 potent than the medicine he leaves. We 

 see, then, tliat the nurse whose face is 

 ever full of sunshine, and whose very 

 mien and carriage brings courage and 

 hopefulness, will be one of the most 

 helpful agents in bringing back lost 

 health and vigor. 



MEDICINES PARTICULARLY THE 

 PATENT KINDS. 



Theieare a tew things that the sick 

 person can never afford to do. I refer 

 especially to the use of patent medicines. 

 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, so long a 

 favorite lecturer in the Harvard Medical 

 College, made very witty and wise sug- 

 gestions. One of his telling remarks 

 that I remember is as follows : 



" It would be a splendid thing if all 

 the medicine in the world were thrown 

 into the sea, but it would be awful on 

 the fish." 



1 presume he was wholly right. I 

 know he would have been it he had thi> 

 word '■ patent"' placed before medicine. 

 Perfection is not of this world. Yet as 

 we all know, patent medicines will cure 

 everything I This one thing ought to 

 condemn them. How utterly irrational 

 is the whole scheme of patent medicines. 

 We know that even the wisest and most 

 experienced physicians usually find it 

 difficult to diagnose diseases. We also 

 know that medicines given under the 

 best direction, as Dr. Holmes' witticism 

 suggests, are of doubtful use. Patent 

 medicines to be rational at all must cure 

 everything, which is surely impossible 

 and absurd. The newspaper advertise- 

 ments show plainly that patent medi- 

 cines are gulpt downby the car-load. Is 

 there anything that proves more surely 

 the gullibility and readiness of our 

 people to be hoa.xt and defrauded than 

 the wholesale consumption of these vile 

 compounds '? I hope all of our home 

 circles will see to it that all of these 

 quack remedies are forever banisht 

 from their households. If we must take 

 medicine — it is often wiser to touch none 

 of it — let us only use it at the suggestion 

 and under the direction of the best medi- 

 <'al advice we ran secure. 



The American' Fruit and Vegetable 

 JoVRNAL, which we have beea offering in 

 connection with the American Bee .Journal, 

 has been sold to the Farm, Field and Fireside, 

 of Chicago, and v.ill be publisht in connec- 

 tion with the monthly edition of that excellent 

 farm journal. So those of our readers who 

 were getting the first-named paper will not 

 be losing anythin^r by the consolidation. 



Sowing Cleoine Seed.— In reply to our 

 request last week about sowing cleome seed, 

 W. Cartwright. of Hardin Co., Iowa, says: 



'• It will grow and mature in the fall or 

 spring. If I wanted to put it on cultivated 

 land I would S(jw in the spring and harrow it 

 in. It will resin i itself afterward. Don't .sow 

 it on wet land." 



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My bees : 

 any disease 

 Shippil 

 16A2t 



ES OF BEES 



rame dovetailed 

 per colony, 

 there never having' been 

 hem. CHAS. seCKMAN. 

 LiNCOL.-j. Saltlllo, Nebr. 

 mention the Bee Journal. 



The Bee-Keeper's Guide; 



Or, ^laniial of tbe Apiary, 



BY 



PROR A. J, COOIC 



460 Pages— 16th (1899) Edition— 18th Thou- 

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A description of the book here is quite unaec- 

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 and practical bee-book publisht to-day. Fully 

 Illustrated, and all written in the most fascinat- 

 ing style. The author is also too well-known to 

 the whole bee-world to require any introduction. 

 No bee-keeper is fully equipt, or his library 

 complete, without Thk Bee-Kkepers' Guide. 



This 16th and latest edition of Prof. Cook*s 

 mag-nificent book of 460 pages, in neat and sub- 

 stantial cloth binding, weproposetoGiVK away 

 to our present subscribers, for the work of get- 

 ting NEW subscribers for the American Bee 

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Given for TWO New Subscribers. 



The following offer is made to present sub- 

 scribers only, and no premium is also given to 

 the two NEW subscribers— simply the Bee Jour- 

 nal for one year: 



Send us two new. subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal (with $2.00), and we will mail you a copy 

 of Prof. Cook's book FREE as a premium. 

 Prof. Cook's book alone sent for $1.25, or we club 

 It with the Bee Journal for a year— both for only 

 $1.75. But surely anybody can get only TWO 

 NEW SUBSCRIBERS to the Bee Journal for a year, 

 and thus get the book as a premium. Let every 

 body try for it. Will YOU have one ? 



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 greatest of honey-yielders. We will 

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 one ounce of the seed for sending us 

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 will mail to any one an ounce of the 

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