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C,lFANlN(iS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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WAX CRAI-T, I!Y T. W. COWAN. 



We iire now in position to lake orders (orihe above book. It 

 is elegantly bound and beautifully printed. See review by W. 

 K. Morrison elsewhere in this issue. Price $1.00, prepaid any- 

 where. 



IHK ALEXANBER STRAINF.K I'AII.. 

 Since Mr. Chalon Fowls spoke so highly of the Alexander 

 strainer honey-pail that we illustrated in the new ABC and X 

 Y Z of Bee Culture, page 177, we have decided to make them 

 .ind offer them to the public, believing they will (ill a long-felt 

 want. We reproduce the cut here for the convenience of our 

 readers. It is nothing more nor less than a skeleton pail with 



sides and bottom filled in with a very fine milk-strainer wire 

 cloth, 60 meshes to the inch. This screen is small enough to 

 catch even the smallest particles of dirt or wax. These pails are 

 well made, and we can furnish them at the introductory price, at 

 least, of $.'^.00 per pail. A wire cloth of such mesh is quite ex- 

 Pensive and the labor of making considerable; we can scarcely 

 furnish it for less. As soon as we can determine whether there 

 will be sufficient demand to make it pay in sufficient quantities, 

 the price can be reduced. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



In response to the kind invitation of W. Z. H. on page 1024, I 

 would say that, Providence permitting. I expect to be present at 

 the National convention in Detroit, Oct. 13, 14, and 1^. 



f;oi) s MEniciNE — iwoRE ahout it. 

 We clip the following from the Cleveland Pluhi Dr-lrr: 

 A woman of 107 yeari, who died the other day, says she owed 

 her long life to the lipe fruit she ate. 



We should be very glad to get further particulars in regard to 

 the above — especially if this good woman's favorite fru t was ripe 

 apples, and if she ate them every evening a couple of hours be- 

 fore bedtime. 



INXOOKFD WHEAT .\ND OTHtK GRAIN'S FOR CHICKS ANIl 

 HUM\N IlEINGS. 



Every one who reads the poulfy-journals will notice there has 

 been a g-eat revolution of late in regard to the diet of poultry. 

 Ihe testimony fs overwhelming in favor of dry food — no more 

 mixed messes with water or even milk, and no cooked food of 

 any kind, especially for baby chicks. Cive them " b ihy chick 

 food '" and nothing else, and water to drink. Miik is all right, 

 but do not stir it up with other food. And now ihe world is just 

 beginning In discover that what applies so well to chicks applies 

 :tlso t.j hum, in beings. 



THE A II r Ol GETTING WELL AND KEEPINC; WELL. 



The matter in this issue, and perhaps some more added to il, is 

 to be printed in pamphlet form to be given away. If you will 

 send a stamp to pay postage we will send you just as many copies 

 as you need to give to ailing friends. If they should be the means 

 of giving health to suffering humanity, the knowledge of it will 

 be better pay for me than any pay that might come in the way of 

 dollars and cents. So do not be backward about asking for as 

 many of them as you can use, where you think they will do good. 



LEAN HEEF AS \ MEDICINE. 



Since the matter on page 1014 "was printed 1 was greatly 

 pleased to learn that our family physician had recommended to a 

 patient, who could not take milk toast without pain and distress, 

 to eat nothing but scraped beef, nicely broiled, for several meals. 

 He said good lean beef prepared in this way is easier of digestion 

 than any thing else he knew of, and could be taken safely where 

 the patient could not stand milk at all. It has taken a good 

 many doctors a good while to get hold of the idea that lean meat 

 is sometimes, at least, a very valuable medicine. 



FLYING-IVIACHINES UP TO DATE. 



I suppose most of you have noticed by the daily papers that my 

 predictions are coming to pass. Farnam has been making a series 

 of successful flights here in America, and Wilbur Wright has also 

 made two or more successful flights in France. We have not 

 heard from De la Grange and the " June Bug,'' but the tKing is 

 now so well started that flying-machines will probably very soon 

 be an every-day occurrence, even if they should not be as plenti- 

 ful as autos, right away. God grant that they do not duplicate 

 the number of accidents that are being daily recorded with auto- 

 mobiles in the hands of those who can not be satisfied with a 

 moderate and reasonable speed. 



SO-CALLED NON-EXPLOSIVE GASOLINE-CANS. 



There are certain people who are canvassing the country, of- 

 fering for sale gasoline-cans for which the claim is made that 

 gasoline or kerosene, after either has been stored in the same for 

 twenty minutes or more is rendered non-explosive. Scientific 

 men assure us there is no known method of making gasoline or 

 kerosene non-explosive ; and, furthermore, the so-called electri- 

 cal arrangement in some of the cans does not produce electricity 

 at all, even if said electricity could exert any influence (which 

 it does not) in rendering the gasoline non-explosive. The fact 

 is, it is very difficult lo make gasoline explode in any can. If 

 any one has any doubt of this, let him take a can of any sort, 

 pour in gasoline, shake the can well, and try to explode it. All 

 it will do, probably, will be to show a pale-blue flame at the 

 opening of the can when ignited. No amount of shaking or 

 spilling of the burning fluid will cause an explosion. The vend- 

 ers of the so-called " chemical " denatuiizing cans, knowing 

 this, are able to perform what has seemed like wonderful stunts. 

 If any reader wishes to try these experiments, let him do the ig- 

 niting at the end of a ten-foot pole, for gasoline will explode 

 when the conditions are just right. 



A " CHICKEN BIHLK,. 



MP. A. I. Root: — For six years I have been an amateur bee- 

 keeper in a small way, and the ABC book has literally been 

 my " bee bible " every hour of that time. I can't express the 

 enjoyment and profit the reading of it has afforded me. Now, 

 1 want to go into the chicken business. Is there a " chick n bi- 

 ble " published anywhere that will do for me what my " bee bi- 

 ble " has done: I am glad to say I am with you on the liquor 

 question, and enjoy the articles in Gleanings. I have voted 

 the Prohibition ticket for 16 years. The saloon is the great 

 American monstrosity. F. A. Cogswell. 



Swaledale, Iowa, Aug. 5. 



Friend C, I thank you for the very high compliment you pay 

 the ABC book; and I hope our poultry friends will excuse me 

 when I say that, from my point of view, there is no poultry-book 

 that covers that whole subject as thoroughly and exhaustively as 

 the ABC book does that of bees. There are some very valuable 

 books on poult y that were published several years ago; but to 

 have such a book up to date it would have to be kept standing in 

 type just as our bee-book is, so that a new edition could be issued 

 every two or three years. Some of the best articles and best ad- 

 vice I have found are in the large expensive catalogs sent out 

 every year by the manufacturers of incubators. Among others I 

 will mention the Cyphers catalog. The book entitled " An Egg- 

 farm,'" that we sold for so many years, started out in its first edi- 

 tions with more energy and enthusiasm than any other poultry- 

 book 1 ever got hold of; but in the last edition, by the O. Judd 

 Co., ihe writer has introduced such a multitude of cogwheels, 

 wires, and other machinery, the book is so complicated that any 

 real practical poultryman would say it was entirely out of the 

 question. Now. I shall be very glad indeed lo have our readers 

 who are conversant with poulliy literauire tell us what book or 

 books to recommend to such people as our good friend Cogswell. 



