June 6, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



365 



BEES AND QUEENS 



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One Select Tested Queen 1.25 



OneBreeder 2.00 



One Comb Nucleus 1.20 



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1901 — Bee-Keepers' Supplies! 



We ran furnish you with '1 lu' A. I. Knot To's 

 Koods at wholesale or retail at tlieir prices. We can 

 save you freitfbt. and ship proinptly. Marketprice 

 paid tor beeswax. Send for our li^n catalog. 

 M. U. HUNT & SON, Bell Branch. Wayne Co., Mich 



when confi-oiitcd by a live bee, or a practical 

 situation, I feel very ignorant and helpless. I 

 had such a queer experience in iutroducinj; 

 (lueens last year. There was no pasteboard 

 over the ca;,'c-hole. One colony had been 

 loni:: queeiiless. though I had just found it 

 out. and the other had an iniperfeet queen. I 

 didn't luiotv that, cither. Some time before, I 

 knew their queen was dead, and gave theiu a 

 frame of eggs, which were 'too old, I think. 

 Well, the queens came at night, and I was too 

 impatient to wuii till morning, so opened the 

 hives and placeil the cages between the 

 frames. I waited a week and then looked in to 

 discover that neither queen had been re- 

 lersed ! I waited three days longer, and found 

 that the bees having the drone-layer had 

 killed her and accepted the new queen. 1 

 found out then for the first time that they 

 had a drone-layer. 



Looking in the other hive I found the 

 queen still imprisoned, and so I let her out 

 myself. Two weeks later both hives were full 

 of young brood — an astonishing quantity ! 

 Neither colony was worth requeening, appar- 

 ently, but 1 wanted to try an experiment. 

 Then I was very anxious for fear the brood 

 would chill and the queens wouldn't go 

 through the winter, for I saw they were won- 

 ders. I fed both colonies, and covered them 

 up snug and left them. Now they are run- 

 ning over with bees. 



Imprisonment didn't seem to injure those 

 queens. I am afraid I will lose track of 

 them when they swarm. I have never tried 

 clipping, but do not fancy it. 



(Miss) Josephine Field. 



Las Animas Co., Colo., May 13. 



The Uses of Honey. 



Mr. Herman Cook, of Wyoming Co.. Pa., 

 sends us the following, taken from the New 

 York Tribune, contributed by .1. F., of Pres- 

 ton, Conn. -. 



The ancients regarded honey as a celestial 

 food, and they used it at all religious cere- 

 monies. The Egyptians used it as a remedy 

 for various diseases. To judge from the 

 Bible, honey was for the Hebrews as indis- 

 yiensable as milk and flour, and it served 

 them as an excellent medicine for the gout, 

 coughing, and all kinds of wounds. For the 

 Arabian, honey is of great importance, as is 

 shown in the Koran by the story of the man 

 who one day came to ask Mahomet what to 

 do for his brother, who was suffering great 

 pain, and about to die. The prophet pre- 

 scribed honey, and the man followed his 

 advice. After a short time, however, the man 

 returned and told Mahomet that the remedy, 

 instead of alleviating the evil, only made it 

 worse. But the prophet answered. ''Go 

 home and continue to give honey to your 

 brother, for God speaks the truth, and your 

 Ijrother's body has lied." And the patient 

 recovered after a continued use of the remedy. 



The ancient (ireeks used honey as a means 

 to prolong lite. Pythagoras lived only on 

 honey in order to keep healthy his body as 

 well as his miml. Other examples are those 

 of DemocritUE, who died at the age of l()!l, 

 and Anaereon, wlio died at the age of 11.5. 

 Both were very fond of honey, and con- 

 sumed it in large quantities. 



Therapeutically, honey is much employed 

 in diseases of the mouth. It is known that 

 these diseases (thrushes) very soon dis- 

 appear after the aiiplication of honey in com- 

 bination with alum or borax. When children 

 are teething their gums are rublied with n 

 decoction of marsliinallow (themcit of .Milma 

 orticinalis). or sull'ion with honey, l-'or pains 

 in the throat gar^ding with honey ami Icitiou- 

 juice is an excellent remedy. As curatives 

 are further known the O.^yme seilliliea (vine- 

 gar and honey) . ami the sanative wine (chevril, 

 knapweed, white wine and honey). Also the 

 application of diluted honey to burns, chil- 

 blains (in this ease the honey is combined 



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Ten Days on Trial.— In the past several years 

 certain manufacturers and others, with that 

 knowledge and unbounded faith borne of e.xpe- 

 rience have been sending out all sorts of things 

 to the farmer to be first tried bv him and paid 

 for onlv alter he is convinced'of their merit 

 and satisfied with the bargain. So far as we 

 know, however, the Kalamazoo Carriage and 

 Harness Co., of Kalamazoo, Mich., is the first 

 hrm in the United States offering to send out 

 carriages, bujfgies, wagons, harness, etc., on 

 this plan. Those of our readers who have fol- 

 lowed their advertising as it appeared from 

 time to time in our paper, will have observed 

 the proposition. The plan is to send articles 

 which appear in their catalog to anvbodv, any- 

 where, on 10 days free trial. The piirchaser or- 

 ders the vehicle he may wish, and when it is 

 shipped, he goes to the railroad station, hitches 

 up to it and drives home. He can use it in any 

 legitimate way and subject it to aav test aris- 

 ing from reasonable use for the space of 10 

 days. If at the end of that time he is satisfied 

 with the job, he simply pars the catalog price 

 for it. If not, he ships it back to the factorv. 



This appeals to us as being about js l.iir aud 

 open a method of doing business as it is possi- 

 ble to adopt. It is certainly a most gracious 

 compliment to the honesty and fairness of the 

 farmers of our country. It gives them the op- 

 portunity to see and try just what thev are buy- 

 ing and to test it in everv way before being 

 obliged to pay for it. Certainly the manufac- 

 turers, who will offer their (roods to people on 

 such liberal terms, have unbounded confidence 

 in the value of their wares. We should expect, 

 under these conditions, that the Kalamazoo 

 Carriage and Harness Co. made onlv first-class 

 vehicles, ami trimmed and finished them only in 

 a first-class and enduring manner. .\ny of our 

 readers who are in need of a vehicle or harness 

 of any kind should write them at once (or illus- 

 trated and descriptive catalog. They mail it 



