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comb of honey in a closed-end frame 

 serves all the purposes of one. With a 

 little attention in the fall, you have 

 double-walled hives for winter. The 

 closed-ends furnish the inner wall at the 

 hive ends, and the solid honey-combs on 

 each side, with a top covering for at 

 least the side frames, furnish the inner 

 wall at the sides, and the best of it is, 

 that it is mostly automatic. 



I think I have already said enough, 

 and hope others will tell from their own 

 experience of the merits and defects of 

 these frames. Let us permit no little 

 flings at articles of approved worth, in 

 the bee-papers, without demanding the 

 proof. 



Arvada, Colo. 



Honey as a Food ani leucine. 



Bead at the Indinna State Conveiifiou 

 BY DR. .J. M. HICKS. 



It is a Jcnown fact to many of us, that 

 pure honey used in many ways as a medi- 

 cine has but few if any equals in thera- 

 peutics. Honey has been used for many 

 hundreds and thousands of years as a 

 medicine in the various diseases of the 

 human family, such, for instance, as a 

 severe cold, croup in children, coughs, 

 and all bronchial affections. We find 

 honey to be one of the great medici- 

 nal factors, not only in the above-enum- 

 erated diseases, but it has great healing 

 properties in all pulmonary affections. 



We read in Holy Writ, as well as in 

 ancient history, that honey was promi- 

 nently used as a medicine by the an- 

 cients in many of their ills. It is said 

 that the Mahomet bible taught the 

 Egyptians that honey was a medicine 

 for man ; also that Mahomet, in his 

 Koran, prescribed honey as a medicine. 

 One of the chapters of that work is en- 

 titled " The Bee ;" (see " British Bees," 

 by Shuchard, pages 90 and 91). 



Honey is not only a good medicine for 

 many distempers that the human family 

 is heir to, but wc also find it a healthful 

 as well as cheap food for children ; es- 

 pecially that which the bees gather from 

 the various mints, such as the hore- 

 hound, catnip, peppermint and horse- 

 mint ; and I would not forget to men- 

 tion especially the honey that is pro- 

 cured from the various clovers, such as 

 the Alsike, red and white clover — these 

 furnish the best of honey for all medici- 

 nal purposes. 



Let mo here state as a matter of fact, 

 I have had on several occasions to test 



the merits of honey in severe cases of 

 colds, and have as yet not been disap- 

 pointed, but all my patients have been 

 greatly benefited in a very short time, 

 and the relief was permanent in each 

 case. I am sure that if we can at all 

 times procure a pure article of honey 

 from the sources above enumerated, we 

 can at all times depend upon it as a sure 

 remedy or medicine in colds and bad 

 coughs. 



And especially do I know that honey, 

 if properly and judiciously used as a 

 medicine, in pulmonary or lung troubles 

 will be of great and lasting benefit to 

 the patient. But like many other thera- 

 peutic agents, it needs other combina- 

 tions, in order to make it more efficient 

 in meeting special cases with which we 

 have to deal. I am not inclined to extol 

 any article for more than it is truly 

 worth, but I do think, and believe, that 

 to a large class of the American people 

 the true value of honey as a medicine in 

 many of our ills, is not known as well as 

 it should be with the masses. 



Before I close, let me impress it upon 

 the minds of this organization of bee- 

 keepers, that it is the duty of each and 

 every member of this and other State 

 organizations, to see well to it that all 

 honey offered in the various markets 

 should be a pure article, and not adul- 

 terated, as is often the case ; then, and 

 not until this can be done, can we de- 

 pend upon it as a true medicine in many 

 of the ills we have to contend with. 



Indianapolis, Ind. 



Some Honey-Producini Trees. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY W. H. MORSE. 



Trees that bees gather honey or pollen 

 from we all as bee-keepers should en- 

 deavor, when opportunity occurs, to 

 plant, or when public improvements are 

 in operation, we should endeavor to get 

 in our work ; in fact, if we were to 

 watch every opportunity, the bee-keeper 

 would become a philanthropist, uncon- 

 sciously to himself. 



The next thing is to get the right va- 

 rieties, and recommend nothing except 

 what is suitable to fill the bill. 



Before I go any further, I will say 

 that I am not in the business of selling, 

 as I have nothing to sell, but wish to 

 give ray little knowledge, and if I con- 

 vey but one item to the general knowl- 

 edge, I am repaid a hundred fold. 



Of course different States, and even 



