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fever and ague indefinitely. It 

 gloomy outlook to constantly expect this 

 unwelcome cold visitor, and to reflect that 

 its visits can only be discouraged by con- 

 stant medication. Reason would dictate a 

 removal from such surroundings, but I 

 know full well this desirable change is not 

 always possible. As those malarial dis- 

 tricts are usually the most fertile, farmers 

 prefer to remain where their labors are 

 most profitably rewarded, even at the ex- 

 pense of frequent "shaking" and dosing 

 quinine. But for the occasional sufferers— 

 those who have accidentally contracted the 

 "chills"— as it were— and are not "old 

 timers " in its service, very safe and practi- 

 cal suggestion is here given. 



We'll suppose your chill is due at 10 

 o'clock to-morrow morning. Go gather a 

 big handful of boneset from that low, 

 swampy field, and after washing it clean 

 put it on the fire with two quarts of water. 

 Let it boil one hour and simmer two more, 

 then strain clean, and every two hours take 

 a half cupful in a pint of hot water. Keep 

 this up faithfidhj all day, when not asleep 

 at night. Less of the " tea" or water will 

 do little good. 



This remedy may make you throw up— all 

 right if it does; if not, quite likely it will 

 act on your liver and bowels— the more 

 thoroughly the better. 



In the morning, bright and early, several 

 hours before you expect the chill, have a 

 big pint of very strong coffee made, to 

 which you add the juice of a good, large 

 lemon. Make two doses of this mixture, 

 one each hour, drink hot. 



It will be an exceedingly presumptuous 

 " chill " that will have the hardihood to re- 

 turn after such a reception ! But supposing 

 it should, and fever follows, drink all the 

 lemonade you can, and the following day 

 commence the boneset tea again, and fol- 

 low with the coffee and lemon, as before, 

 and a hundred chances to one you will 

 have permanently parted with your persis- 

 tent enemy. That's the way I "shook" 

 him :5() years ago, and we've never met 

 since ! 



Children predisposed to chills, owing to 

 locality, can with great benefit be given, 

 say a fourth of this coffee dose once in a 

 while with vastly better result, and greater 

 safety, than the resort to the indiscrimi- 

 nate use of quinine, blue pills and Dover, 

 as usual. 



CONDUCTED BY 



MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY, 



Beeville, Texas. 



Bees Booming — Bee-Trees. 



We have plenty of rain now, and bees 

 are booming. We cut six bee-trees last 

 week — almost all good Italian bees. 



August 6. Jennie Atchley. 



PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING. 



Ijesson No. 



(Continued from page 142.) 

 HOW TO CURE FOUL BROOD. 



Now, I have headed this short lesson 

 " How to Cure Foul Brood," but I must 

 confess that I do not know for sure 

 whether my method will cure every time 

 or not, but I lost 100 colonies down to 

 four before I checked it, in the year 

 1880, and I have not had any in my 

 apiary since 1883. 



I may be away behind the times with 

 my cure, but I hope to assist some one. 

 I do not claim the cure my own inven- 

 tion, either — I belive it was at the sug- 

 gestion of A. I. Root that I tried the 

 plan, and it has been given lots of times, 

 and it will not hurt to give it again. 



I shook the bees all out of their hives 

 into clean empty boxes or hives, and 

 kept them shut up until they began to 

 show signs of starvation, which was 

 usually ;56 hours. Then I put them into 

 another clean hive on comb foundation, 

 and on the second brood that was reared 

 in these new combs, I found a few cells 

 of foul brood. I just treated the whole 

 outfit as before, and this time it was 

 getting too late for them to gather a 

 winter supply, and I fed them up on 

 horu^y and sugar syrup, and the next 

 spring I watched closely for the disease 

 to reappear, but it never did appear, 

 and I caught an idea then that if one 

 could possibly wait until breeding time 

 was just about over, and starve the bees, 



