April, 1908. 



American l^ee Journal 



I did not hope for anylhing better than 

 death as a release. 



" 'What my astonishment was when at 

 the end of 3 months I was shown a 

 healthy-looking, well-nourished baby, 

 with an excellent appetite and regular 

 habits, aird its stomach reduced to nor- 

 mal proportion, may be easily guessed, 

 Here was my little wretched creature 

 nothing less than metamorphosed by 

 means of the honey. And I learnt that 

 the mother had used my remedy to 

 other children who suffered from stom- 

 ach disorder with equally good results. 

 I profited by her experiments, and I 

 have since found the use of honey in 

 any disease of the digestive organs a 

 most valuable agent.' 



"The Doctor adds that he has tried 

 honey as a remedy for that most ob- 

 stinate of all diarrheas which follows 

 an advanced stage of pulmonary con- 

 sumption, and even with young animals, 

 and has in every case been rewarded 

 by seeing the diarrhea stop, and a de- 

 sire for nutrition take its place. The 

 list of chemical compounds used to clear 

 the intestinal canal, with more or less 

 good results, some of which work other 

 mischief, is a long one; honey, which is 

 at once cleansing and nutritious, ought 

 to take their place. And it may be that 

 this is only one of the therapeutic uses 

 out of many to which it might with ad- 

 vantage be put. 



"Dr. Pol Demade argues that it should 

 be easy for any pracjitioner with com- 



nioii-sense to recognize the reasons for 

 this high value possessed by honey. It 

 is, in the first place, a most extraodin- 

 ary natural product. It is a sugar, but 

 not of the ordinary kind. It is antisep- 

 tic, almost free from fermentation, and 

 withal capable of almost instant assimila- 

 tion in the organism with ne.xt to no 

 exertion on the part of the digestive 

 agents. Ordinary sugar is saccharine, 

 whereas honey is a glycose. The for- 

 mer ferments readily, and has to be 

 turned into glycose by the action of the 

 saliva or some of the other digestive 

 juices before it can be assimilated. In 

 the case of a healthy stomach, sac- 

 charine can be dealt with at no great ex- 

 pense to the system ; but when the di- 

 gestive organs have been weakened by 

 disease, and the whole nervous system 

 is e.xtra-sensitive, sugar should be with- 

 held and honey given." 



The foregoing article taken from the 

 Vegetarian Messenger ought to be of 

 especial interest to those of the sisters 

 who have anything to do with looking 

 out for what goes on the table (and 

 which of us has not?), but especially 

 those who have the care of little ones. 

 It is not likely that such remarkable re- 

 sults as here depicted would follow in 

 all cases; but it is entirely possible that 

 some other little lives might be saved by 

 following a like course. And would not 

 a little less sugar and a little more 

 honey be for the health of all, old as 

 well as voung? 



oiit!ierii"\ 



Conducted by LOUIS H. SCHOLL, New Braunfels, Tex. 



Tlie Divisible Brood-Cliaiuber Hive. 



(Illustrations Courtesy of Gleanings.) 



Again I have a complaint to make. A 

 number of letters inform me that I have 

 never given "a description of the divisi- 

 ble brood-chamber hive I use, nor di- 

 mensions of the different parts, etc., so 

 that they could be made after such ex- 

 planation." In response to these I shall 

 once more use space in ' describing it 

 briefly. 



The hive and its different parts can 

 be easily obtained of any leading manu- 

 facturers of bee-hives. Several such 

 similar hives are already catalogued. 

 But for a few slight differences they are 

 practically the same. In the cut is 

 shown the outside appearance of my 

 hive. It is made up of 5fi-inch shal- 

 low frame cases, taking Hoffman frames 

 5^ inches deep, with 5<2-inch top-bars 

 ^-inch wide. .\11 the cases, whether 

 for brood-chambers, extracted honey, or 

 comb supers, are alike throughout, and 

 this is one of the valuable features about 

 this hive. Hence, all are interchange- 



able. The same frames are used for 

 brood-frames as when producing bulk 

 comb or extracted honey. The same 

 cases are used for section honey, ar- 

 ranged with sections, of course. 



This makes the simplest and yet t: 

 most expansible hive as well. It can 

 enlarged for the strongest colony or li 



creased in size for the weakest, and, 

 unlike the full-depth hives, these shal- 

 low ones permit of a more gradual ex- 

 pansion to keep pace with the increased 

 size of the colony. 



In Fig. 2 is shown a single case with 

 the shallow frames. This is exactly the 

 same as the SJi shallow frame supers 

 for extracted honey listed in supply cata- 

 logs, except that my frames have a nar- 

 row tji-inch top-bar }^-inch thick. This 

 makes a stronger frame and the top- 

 bars are less liable to sag, which nearly 

 all my old frames have done. It also 

 provides more space between frames. 



This shallow super is used extensively 

 in the Southwest for producing bulk 



Fig. 



-Deep Super with 5'k Inch Frame. 



comb honey, and is also coming more in 

 vogue for extracted-honey production, 

 above regular full-depth brood-cham- 

 bers. In producing surplus honey it is 

 often best not to put on full-depth su- 

 pers, as it provides more room than the 

 Ijees can occupy at once, while they could 

 1 asily fill one of these supers. When the 

 work is well along another one may be 

 yivcn below the first one. 



For section comb honey the supers are 

 arranged with the regular 4x5 sections 

 lictween our Hyde-SchoU slotted separa- 

 tors. With this super fancy comb honey 

 can be produced much more readily than 

 with any of the super combinations now 

 ' III the market, as we have tried all of 

 tliem for several years. This is due to 

 the freer communication in the supers, 

 especially the transverse opening just 

 opposite the upright edges of the sec- 

 tions. In other separators the communi- 

 cation is cut off just at this point, and 





Fig. 1.— Divisible Brood Chamber Hive. 



Fig. 3.— The Hyde-Scholl Separator. 



besides preventing freer communication 

 here, it causes the bees to round off the 

 combs in each section, and retards the 

 sealing of the cells in the last row next 

 to the wood. With the above super such 

 is not the case, but a row of sections 

 represents a solid comb when completed, 

 with upright cleats in the comb. There is 

 free communication all along the comb, 

 and from one comb to the other, hence 

 the super is not cut up into so many 

 small boxes. 



Any favorite, standard size bottoni- 

 board and cover may be used with this 

 divisible hive, as all the cases are the 

 same as ^he regular L. hives, 16x20 

 inches outside measurement, for the 10- 



