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GLKANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1 



At the present writing there are a lot of new 

 methods of treating disease, and people are 

 sending their money and telling of the won- 

 derful cures performed. Yes, you will meet 

 somebody at every turn who will say some- 

 thing like this : " Well, I was just as skepti- 

 cal as you are or anybody could be ; but when 

 I saw what was done right under my own eyes, 

 I had to give up." And so it goes. A woman 

 said a few days ago, in regard to so-called 

 Christian Science, that, just as soon as she 

 wrote to a certain great doctor, and described 

 her troubles, just the minute he got her letter 

 and understood the matter, she was well at 

 once, and he was hundreds of miles away.* 



Well, these wonderful cures do tell us some- 

 thing — in fact, they ought to tell us something 

 — more especially the fact that all kinds of 

 doctors and doctrines seem to cure just the 

 same. It reminds me of a clerk in a drug- 

 store who said he had noticed that, no matter 

 what sort of patent medicine the ailing cus- 

 tomer purchased, they all got better. Now, 

 the wonderful lesson these facts ough*- to teach 

 us (and I admit there ar^ facts all around us), 

 is that our troubles are either imaginary or 

 else they are in some strange way so depend- 

 ent on the will or the mind that a certain kind 

 of shaking up, call it " faith " if you will, ei- 

 ther in the doctor or in the medicine, produces 

 wonderful results. There is something ex- 

 ceedingly fascinating in this matter. I do not 

 understand it myself ; and I fear I, too, have 

 sometimes been carried away by these new 

 treatments, or whatever else you may call it. 

 May God help us in our efforts to sift truth 

 out of so much fiction and superstition. 



MORE ABOUT TOMALES. 



I^ast week Bro. Root took a look over the Southern 

 country, and entertained us with a very readable arti- 

 cle, but he getsterribly mixed up when he had Indians 

 making his hot tomales. He must have meant Mexi- 

 cans. An Indian knows as little about making tomales 

 as a bov does about bee-keeping. The Mexican has 

 the exclusive right to the tomale manufacture. No 

 one is a success at the tomales and chillikin carue ex- 

 cept them. R. C. McPhaill. 



Graham, Tex., Mar. 21. 



[Friend M., I stand corrected, and thank 

 you for the correction ; but, notwithstanding, 

 the Indians certainly do pound up corn. In 

 fact, we find these old stone basins scattered 

 all over the deserts of Arizona, and this 

 pounded corn is then made into a special cake. 

 I can not remember the names, but you doubt- 

 less know all about it. Well, my impression 

 was that the tomale was the same thing, only 

 a little more elaborate, with chicken meat, 

 etc.— A. I. R.] 



* I should like to give the names of some of the new 

 methods of treatment of disease, but I am afraid I 

 should hurt the feelings of some of my near and dear 

 friends. The new doctors are certainly getting piles 

 oftnoney, but I really fear the patients are not getting 

 any Just equivalent. 



Much has been said, and is being said con- 

 tinually, of the advantage of feeding poultry 

 green bone cut with the various bone-cutters 

 on the market ; but I had not thought of it 

 before, that manure from bone-fed poultry 

 has a special value over other poultry manure. 

 In commenting on this matter the Ohio 

 Farmer has the following : 



Here is a pointer for poultrymen. The manure 

 from such feeding is worth twice the cost of the bone 

 at the meat-markets, and is worth all it costs as an 

 egg-producer in addition, and the soft ration is bal- 

 anced by the addition of potash. 



Books for Bee=keepers and Others. 



Any of these books on which postage is not given 

 will be forwarded by mail postpaid, on receipt of price. 



In buying books, as every thing else, we are liable 

 to disappointment if we make a purchase without see- 

 ing the article. Admitting that the book-seller could 

 read all the books he offers, as he has them for sale, it 

 were hardly to be expected he would be the one to 

 mention all the faults, as well as good things about 

 a book. We very much desire that those who favor us 

 with their patronage shall not be disappointed and 

 therefore we are g&ing to try to prevent it by mention- 

 ing all the faults, so far as we can, that the purchaser 

 may know what he is getting. In the following li.st, 

 books that we approve we have marked with a *; 

 those we especially approve, ** ; those that are not up 

 to times, t ; books that contain but little matter for 

 the price, large type, and much space between the 

 lines, t ; foreign, g. The bee-books are all good. 



As many of the bee-books are sent with other goods 

 by freight or express, incurring no postage, we give 

 prices separately. You will notice that you can judge 

 of the size of the books very well by the amount re- 

 quired for postage on each. 



BIBLES, HYMN-B130KS, AND OTHER GOOD BOOKS. 



Postage.] . [Price without postage. 



8 I Bible, good print, neatly bound 20 



10 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress** 40 



Christian's Secret of a Happy L,ife.** 50c; cloth 1 00 

 3 I John Ploughman's Talks and Pictures, by Rev. 



C. H. Spurgeon* 10 



1 I Gospel Hymns, consolidated, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, 



words onlj'; cloth, 10c; paper 5 



2 Same, board covers 20 



5 Same, words and music, small type, board cov. 45 



10 Same, words and music, board covers 75 



3 I New Testament in prettj' flexible covers 05 



One-third off on all Gospel H^'inns mentioned above. 



5 I New Testament, new version, paper covers 10 



4 I Stepping Heavenward** 18 



5 I Tobacco Manual** 46 



This is a nice book that will be sure to be read, if left 



around where the boys get hold of it, and any boy who 

 reads it will be pretty safe from the tobacco habit. 



BOOKS especially FOR BEE-KEEPERS. 



20 A B C of Bee Culture, cloth 1 OO 



Advanced Bee Culture, by W. Z. Hutchinson ... 50 



3 Amateur Bee-keeper, by J, W. Ro\ise 22 



14 Bees and Bee-keeping, by Frank Cheshire, 



England, Vol. I., § 2 36 



21 Same, Vol. II., g 2 79 



Same, Vols. I. and II., postpaid 5 25 



10 Bees and Hone-., by T. G. Newman 65 



10 Cook's Manual, cloth 1 15 



5 Doolittle on Queen-rearing 95 



2 I Dzierzon Thei.ry 10 



3 I Foul Brood; Its Natural History and Rational 



Treatment 22 



1 I Honey as Food and Medicine 05 



10 I Langstroth Revised, by Chas. Dadant & Son 1 10 



15 I Quinby's New Bee-keeping 90 



I British Bee-keeper's Guide-book, by Thomas 



William Cowan, England? 40 



I The Honey-bee, bv Thos. William Cowan 95 



3 I Merrybanks and His Neighbrr, by A. I. Root... 15 



I Bienenzucht und Honiggewinimng 50 



Or "Bee Culture and the Securing of Honey," a Ger- 

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 Postage free. 



MISCELLANEOUS HAND-BOOKS. 



5 I A B C of Carp Culture, bv Geo. Finley 25 



5 I A B C of Strawberry Culture,** by T. B. Terry.. 35 

 Probably the leading book of the world on straw- 

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