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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



latest thiiiy in tliat line was a remedy for 

 bunions. They sent me a sam}ile patch to 

 try. I put it right on, and it did lielp for 

 a few days. Then my bunion or callous 

 jdace was just as bad as ever. The price 

 was $1.00 for five patches. 1 thought that 

 was rather expensive. Then I tried the 

 corn remedy. I think that was sold for 

 '27^ cents for five patches. It was perhajjs 

 about as good as or perhajts a little better 

 than some of the other medicines I have 

 used, and I do not know but I should have 

 sent for more if the price had been more 

 reasonable. But just this morning I got a 

 notice that, for particular reasons, they 

 would sell any of their stuff at half jirice 

 if you would send right off, and tlien they 

 added : 



Remember, that while vdii have the opportunity 

 to get quick, permanent relief, you must avail your- 

 self of this special offer iww, as it will never be 

 made again. 



Just now in a little magazine called 

 Farm and Home Mechanics I found the 

 following : 



THE DRUGGIST'S TURN. 



The druggist danced and chortled till the bottles 

 danced on the shelves. 



" Wliat's up?" asked the soda clerk. "Have you 

 been taking something?" 



" No. But do you rememher when our water- 

 pipe.s were frozen last winter?" 



" Yes, but what — " 



" Well, the plumber who fixed them has just come 

 in to have a prescription filled." 



The above is, of course, a joke; but sucii 

 jokes sometimes do a lot of good. The 

 moral that is pointed out is this: That it 

 seems to be a part of the drug business, at 

 least that of some druggists, to put any 

 fancy price they please on a doctor's pre- 

 scription — at least when it comes from a 

 big city doctor. Now, here comes in an- 

 other thought : One of my brother's sons 

 is a doctor and a good one, and a pi'ofess- 

 ing Christian. I once talked with him 

 about fixing a doctor's fee according to the 

 financial standing of the patient. He re- 

 plied something like this : 



" Uncle Amos, when a doctor is called 

 he can not go to Dun and Bradstreet to 

 see whether the patient pays his debts or 

 not. He is in duty bound to respond to 

 every call to relieve suffering and save life, 

 no matter what it costs. Now, there are 

 many people who do not paj' and never 

 expect to pay. Is there any other way for 

 the doctor to get a proper salary than to 

 let those who are abundantly able, help take 

 care of those who have nothing to pay 

 with?" 



Do diiiggists have to give away expen- 

 sive medicine, in like manner? Not much! 



I do not know whether the commission 

 now starting all over the world expects to 



in\ade druyatures or not ; but I liojtc and 

 pray they will tackle the swindling in pat- 

 ent medicines, or, say, new remedies boom- 

 ed thru our daily papers like " enserol " 

 and a hundred other things. I hope this 

 sort of profiteering will be fully investigat- 

 ed and held up to the light of day. Pro- 

 fessor Cook once told me that his old 

 father lost his life by wasting time on a 

 patent medicine, when beset with a trouble 

 in liis old age, that could have been readily 

 cured by a surgical operation. Friend Cook 

 added that, had his father only consulted 

 hi))i in regard to a trouble that is quite 

 common to old men, he could, with the aid 

 of a competent surgeon, have restored him 

 almost at once; but he trusted to the patent 

 medicine until it was too late. " With malice 

 toward none, and charity for all," T hope 

 and pray that the great public who read 

 advertisements in the newspapers may soon 

 be protected from these fraudidcnt adver- 

 tisers. 



:\rOOKE HAVEN AND THE REGION ROUND 

 ABOUT LAKE OKECHOBEE. 



So much luis been .said and is being said 

 about Moore Haven, and its wonderful soil, 

 etc., that I have asked my friend Wheeler 

 to give us the real facts in regard to the 

 matter, its advantages and disadvantages, 

 which he does in the following: 



It would be hard to compare Moore Haven with 

 any other place, for it is utterly unlike any other 

 place in which I have ever been. While some fea- 

 tures are very much ahead of other places, so-me 

 others are very disagreeable. The beautiful palms.' 

 flowers, orange orchards, and all that which appeals 

 to the eye, are utterly lacking here at present, ex- 

 cept in a few ca-ses where homes have been built 

 long enough to get some of these things established. 

 However, all these will come as the years go by, 

 and many of them will grow more luxuriantly here 

 than in the sandy regions. 



As to the soil — of course, that is our long suit 

 here, and for most crops it is far ahead of any other 

 Florida soil, I have seen. At present prices, the 

 soil is actually worth $20.00 per ton for fertilizer, 

 gauging the price by other fertilizer prices. It has 

 been found tho that the so-called saw-grass land 

 will not produce yet, for some cause not as yet as- 

 certained. Various reasons have been advanced for 

 this. Some think it is on account of the excessive 

 ammonia, there being three per cent ammonia in 

 the soil. The soil expert here is working on that 

 theory and is turning the soil up to the depth of 

 18 inches and working it thoroly to get it aerated 

 iind to cause some of this excessive ammonia to 

 evaporate. Incidentally, his operations are getting 

 that raw peat rotted and in a condition where the 

 various elements are accessible to the crops, which, 

 in ray opinion, is worth far more than the escape 

 of the ammonia. The elder and custard-apple lands 

 have the same analyses of ammonia and are pro- 

 ducing bumper crops. Some believe (and I think 

 the analysis of the soil bears them out in it) that 

 the application of a small amount of phosphate 

 would be a benefit. As it is, however, they are 

 now mowing the finest crop.s of corn, lieans, pota- 



