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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 15, 1903. 



those same bees are ready to extract 

 again. We have had a fine fall so far, 

 and if it will only stay warm we will 

 get considerable honey yet. We have 

 run about 436 colonies for extracted 

 honey this season, and 183 for comb 

 honey. We have had the comb-honey 

 bees in two apiaries, and the ones for 

 extracted honey in four different yards. 



Early in March we moved 180 colo- 

 nies aljout 10 miles to a heavy mesquite 

 timber, and they gathered about 700 

 gallons of nice honey from that source. 

 The mesquite commences to bloom 

 about June 20, and lasts until July 15. 

 Then we moved the bees back to the 

 Valley, and have had two good extract- 

 ings from them, and will get one more 

 extracting, which, I think, has paid us 

 very well for our work, as that honey 

 comes much earlier than the honey 

 from alfalfa in the Valley. We got 

 our extra extractings out of those we 

 moved, and would have had a great 

 deal more honey if it had not been for 

 paralysis, which affected 81 colonies 

 quite badly, and they did not gather 

 very much honey from the mesquite. 

 I have the bees now in apparently 

 healthy condition, but of course it may 

 return in the spring ; if it does not, I 

 will report ray treatment. 



W. D. Jefferson. 



Graham Co., Ariz., Sept. 26. 



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Honey for Rheumatism. 



It is said that a certain lord found so 

 much benefit from the use of the fol- 

 lowing mixture for rheumatism that 

 he paid his physician /:300 for the 

 privilege of making it generally known, 

 pro bono publico : 



Recipe: — Sulphur, 1 oz.; cream of 

 tartar, 1 oz.; rhubarb, ;i oz.; gum 

 guiacum, 1 drachm ; honey, 16 oz. A 

 tablespoonful night and morning in a 

 tumblerful of white wine and hot 

 water. 



This mixture is called " Chelsea Pen- 

 sioner," and a man of my acquaintance 

 having tried the same has been bene- 

 fited.— John Browning, in British Bee 

 Journal. 



Be Careful With Horses Around Bees. 



Below is given a graphic account of 

 the trouble one of our Canadian friends 

 had through trying to make a combina- 

 tion of bees and horses. It will serve 

 a good purpose if it warns some one of 

 little experience in that line, so that he 

 may avoid a like disaster. Some of us 

 are looking forward hopefully to the 

 time when we can have " horses " im- 

 mune to bee-stings — in other words, 

 when automobiles shall become so com- 

 mon and reduced in price that they 

 will be cheaper than horses. 



BKES -\nd horses— a bad combina- 

 tion AT too CI,0SK yUARTBRS. 



A few days ago it became necessary 

 to draw in some grain from along-side 

 of the home apiary of some 160 colo- 

 nies. ^The bees were working hard at 



Thousands of Hives -llilliODs of Sections 



Ready for Prompt Shipment. 



We are not sellid^ eoods on NAME ONLY, but on their quality. 



In addition to the many car-loads we are shipping to all parts of the United States, we have just 



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I don't see what I have been thinking of all summer. Here I 



could gest as well sent to Griggs Bros, for my Supplies and saved 



all this freight I've been throwing away and got my goods 



cheaper, too. Don't see why I didn't send them a trial order 



sooner and find out what I was doin', long as they sell Root's Goods at 



their factory prices, gest as they said. 



A Word to the Wise is Sufficient. 



GRIGGS BROS., ■ "[ Q'-^^Q' Q^j^'Q- 1 



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