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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 1. 



getting a stand here. It will not stand two 

 weeks' drouth; and as for its honey, I have yet 

 to see the first bee on it; and I doubt its being 

 nearly as good a nitrogen-catcher as our com- 

 mon bush bean. Refugee, Best of Ail, or others 

 of the same class, as I find far more nitrogen 

 nodules on the bean than on the flat pea. 



Crimson clover and sainfoin are far ahead for 

 fodder, for soil-improvers, and for honey, the 

 honey from the latter being equal to the best 

 white clover, only a shade darker. 



Wewahitchka, Fla., May 30. H. F. Hart. 



The Egyptian onions occasionally bear a few 

 isolated flowers; but I have never known them 

 to produce seed. By the way, this suggests the 

 fact that there is a tremendous tendency in all 

 the onion family to sport and mix up. Last 

 season I said that the white Multipliers never 

 produce seed-stalks. Now. we kept our Multi- 

 pliers very carefully by themselves: but this 

 season a dozen or two seed-stalks have run up. 

 We might be tempted to think they would mix: 

 but how could they mix when they never be- 

 fore produced seed at all, but just multiplied 

 like potatoes? I am inclined to think the 

 lathyrus is not suited for Florida; and. in fact, 

 as a rule, neither are any of the clovers, if I am 

 correct. I am glad to know that beans furnish 

 nitrogen nodules as well as the pea and clover 

 family. This I know, that beans flourish and 

 thrive when the weather seems to be too dry or 

 the ground too poor for almost any thing else. 



ELECTROPOISE. 



ELECTROPOISE S25.00, AND NOT A CENT LESS 



WHEN YOU BUY IT; BUT NOT EVEN 25 



CTS. FOR IT WHEN YOU WANT TO 



SELL IT BACK AGAIN. 



If our readers will turn to page 536. July 1, 

 they will notice that I there advised Leahy 

 Beachy (a sister of Jacob) to ask the Electro- 

 poise people how much they would give her for 

 the intstrument back again, since it is compar- 

 atively new and almost unused. Here is the 

 reply. 

 Mr. Jacob Beachy, Aurora, W. Fa.:— 



It is not our custom to take instruments back at 

 any price. J. E. Dubois, Pres. 



1122 Broadway, New York, June 30. 



The above is the only sentence in the letter 

 in regard to receiving it back again at some 

 figure. Now, friends, is not this enough? There 

 are still a few who insist that the Electropoise 

 has virtue, and that possibly the mannfacturers 

 are doing an honest business, or think they 

 are. Where an instrument is made to order, or 

 a special machine is built for some particular 

 person, cases may occur where it would be of 

 no value to the makers; but this instrument 

 is just such as they keep in stock, and furnish 

 broadcast to whoever can be induced to buy 

 them. When you want to buy, the price is 

 $25.00— not a cent less: you must even pay the 

 express charges yourself: but when you want 

 to sell the machine back again, in consequence 

 of the death of the patient, as in the case 

 above you are coolly informed that they " never 

 take instruments back at any price." No won- 

 der. It costs them in the first place only 50 

 cts.. or even less; and probably tiieir best re- 

 treat out of the corner they are in is to decline 

 to purchase rather than offer 30 or 40 cts., the 

 real cost of the thing to themselves. If there is 

 anybody who now defends the Electropoise 

 people, and claims they are Christian men, and 

 doing an honest business, we should be glad to 

 hear from them: orif there is a religious journal, 

 or any other journal, that is accepting their ad- 

 vertisements, we would respectfully call their 



attention to the above transaction. Let me ex- 

 plain again that the reason why the instrument 

 was offered back was because the patient died 

 while using it. 



To explain the failure, the Electropoise people 

 sav the disease was probably, '"organic." But 

 they knew that in the first place; still they 

 said they had " no doubt '' they could " bring 

 about a cure." Men have been justly hanged 

 for being less directly implicated in murder 

 than that. Can't the LTnited States postal 

 authorities put a stop to such rascality ? 



Many of our periodicals — in fact, our most 

 respectable religious papers— have rejected 

 Electropoise advertisements. Let me call at- 

 tention to the Union Signal, which has right 

 straight along refused to disgrace Itself with 

 Electropoise or any similar advertisement. 

 This paper should have been mentioned in my 

 former list. One of our subscribers wrote to 

 the editor of the Cumberland Presbyterian, 

 protesting in regard to Electropoise. Below is 

 the significant reply: 



Dear Brather:— In reply to your favor of the 11th 

 inst., we would state that the Electropoise has been 

 used by large numbers of people in Nashville and 

 vicinity, including- our most intelligent and sensible 

 people. There are hundreds who believe they 

 have been materially benefited by its use. I have 

 used it myself, and it has seemed to benefit me. On 

 the other hand, there are some people who believe 

 that the benefit is purely imaginary, and that there 

 is no efficacv in the Electropoise itself. Just how 

 this is, is difficult to tell. We think that, through 

 the imagination or otherwise, a great many people 

 have been really benefited by its use. I suppose 

 that certificates could be procured from thousands 

 to theeftect that it had been materially beneficial 

 to them. This is about all the light on the subject 

 which we are able to give you. John M. Gant. 



Nashville, Tenn., March la. 



There is a good deal of sound sense and wis- 

 dom in the above, after all. If people could 

 be induced to pay S25 for a horseshoe to be 

 nailed up over the door, no doubt a great many 

 would be helped through the imagination. I 

 guess we are nearly all agreed on the above. 

 But what sort of business is this for a religious 

 journal,Sind a progressive one, to engage in? 

 Can there be any fairness or honesty in taking 

 money from poor hard-working sick people, 

 fifty or even a hundred times the real value of 

 the thing, even if it does cure through the 

 imagination? 



THINGS THAT MAY BE PLANTED AUGtJST 1ST. 



First and foremost for the bee-keeper, buckwheat 

 and crimson clover, both on the same ground. One 

 srives a honey crop this fall, and the other a crop of 

 honey < arly next spring. In the way of garden 

 seeds, almost every thine: on our list on page 573 of 

 our last issue, especially Egyptian and American 

 Pearl onion-sets, and Multiplier onions. For prices 

 of all, see page given above. 



BEESW.\X DECLINED. 



Until further notice we ofifer for average wax, 

 delivered here, 22c cash, 25c trade. Market for wax 

 in New York is quiet. We recently made a ship- 

 ment to that point of three tons, and get about 5 to 

 6 cts. per lb. less than we paid there last March. 

 Selling price of wax in small lots, till further no- 

 tice, will be 29c average, or 31c for refined. 



CALIFORNIA SAGE HONEY. 



We have negotiated for a car of white-sage honey 

 which we hope to have here ready to ship out on 

 orders within the next two weeks. It may be a lit- 



