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lent flow of sap, causing an exudation, 

 called honey-dew. and for five or six days — 

 until the rain washed it off— the leaves 

 were dripping with this viscid liquid. The 

 stuff more resembles new pine tar— green- 

 ish black— than anything else. The taste 

 is not so bad. but I consider it worthless — 

 not fit for table use. or to feed bees in win- 

 ter or spring. I send it more as a curiosity 

 than for anything else. Pass it around. 

 Wm. R. Howard. 



Thank you, Doctor, for the generous 

 sample of honey-dew. We are " passing it 

 around," but so far no one seems to care to 

 order it in very extensive quantities ! It 

 certainly is not fit for table use, as you say. 

 Besides, it is the blackest stuff we have yet 

 seen called "honey-dew." Truly, it is a 

 "curiosity," and we shall preserve it as 

 such. 



A Use for Propolis — E. E. Hasty, 

 in the July Beview, suggests that propolis 

 can be profitably used in this way: 



A sufficient quantity of it melted into the 

 bottom of an old leaky wash-dish, or other 

 played out utensil, makes things lovely 

 again — provided you occasionally set it out 

 in the sun to heal up cracks that may en- 

 sue. And in the dire domestic extremity 

 of a leak in the wash-boiler that will not be 

 stopped, propolis is just a " ministering 

 angel." You see it never really melts, and 

 is heavier than water any way, and so will 

 remain at the bottom. Put a generous 

 piece of clean tin over the place, so the 

 clothes cannot get soiled. In applying the 

 stuff, heat the bottom first, and then rub 

 all around and over the leaky territory 

 with a lump of the propolis. 



Better Quality Paper Wanted. 



— One of our subscribers in Michigan wants 

 to know why we don't use better paper in 

 the Bee Journal. To answer his question 

 briefly, we must say it is because we can't 

 afford it, at such a low subscription price as 

 $1.00 a year. And yet we could, if all sub- 

 scribers would pay their subscriptiwis, and do 

 it promptly. 



It must be remembered that the Bee 

 Journal has no bee-supply business to 

 lean on, but that all expenses tnust be paid 

 out of the receipts for subscriptions and 

 advertising alone. If all subscriptions and 

 advertising accounts were 2mid, and there 

 were no losses whatever, why, of course we 

 could afford to use better paper, more 

 pictures, and improve the Bee Journal in 

 several other particulars. But all people 

 are not as " good pay " as they might be, 

 and others meet with misfortune, so that a 



certain percentage must be allowed, we 

 regret to say, for both the willful and the 

 unwilling delinquents. 



Then, again, how much does one expect 

 to get for two cents f For a monthly bee- 

 paper at $1.00 a year, you pay 8% cents a 

 copy ; you get 52 copies of the Bee Journal 

 for only $1.00 — less than two cents per copy / A 

 good many people seem to think it is worth 

 that, even without a superior quality of 

 paper. But once let all who are owing on 

 their subscriptions pay up, and keep paid wp, 

 so we can know what to depend upon from 

 that source; then let each present sub- 

 scriber send us just one new yearly subscriber, 

 before Sept. 1st, and we'll promise to use 

 better paper, and in many other ways im- 

 prove the old American Bee Journal. 

 Will you do it ? If you will, we will. 



Our Doctor's Hints. — The new de- 

 partment conducted by Dr. Peiro in the 

 Bee Journal, is meeting with much favor, 

 we are glad to note. Here is what our 

 good friend, R. A. Burnett, thinks of it: 



Editor American Bee Journal. — 



Dear Sir: — By adding to the Bee Journal 

 a department conducted by a doctor, you 

 have earned, and will receive, substantial 

 support, by prompt renewals, and new sub- 

 scribers who will be brought in thereby. 



In your issue of July 26th, Dr. Peiro 

 philosophizes on the "Contented Mind," 

 and, in my opinion, does well. In "Bow- 

 legs and Teething." who can tell the num- 

 bers of people that will draw comfort, hope 

 and cure, with lots of prevention, there- 

 from ; and then it all goes for the cost of 

 subscription to the American Bee Jour- 

 nal ! R. A. Burnett. 

 Chicago, 111., July 27. 



We hope that especially the Avomen in the 

 homes of bee-keepers will carefully read 

 "Our Doctor's Hints," for to them more 

 than to any others falls the treatment of 

 the sick or complaining ones of the family. 

 Most assuredly it will well repay the men 

 to read it also, as Dr. Peiro is a man who is 

 acquainted with farm and garden work, 

 and doubtless will always have something 

 to say that will be profitable to even the 

 hired man on the place. 



By the way, until further notice, we can 

 furnish back numbers from July 1st (when 

 Dr. Peiro began his " Hints "), so if any of 

 our readers desire to have their friends 

 take the Bee Journal, their subscriptions 

 can begin with July 1st, and thus have all 

 the helpful hints so far published in the 

 Bee Journal. 



