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stated, without seeing the patient, is a 

 Whatyoumaycallhim, and the truth is not 

 in him ! 



Rhubarb and Honey. 



Another most excellent vegetable that 

 should be grown in your garden— since it 

 can be had so easily— is rhubarb, or " pie- 

 plant." I do not recall another vegetable 

 that is so useful, and so pleasant in a hun- 

 dred instances. Nothing can be more 

 healthy or enjoyable than pie-plant stewed 

 with honey. The children love it, liberally 

 spread on their big slices of bread ! Inci- 

 dentally, you save your butter. It not 

 only tastes good, and nourishes well, but it 

 is excellent to keep the stomach and 

 bowels in natural condition. Jelly made 

 of it rivals that made from currants or 

 crab. By all means, can lots of it for win- 

 ter's supply. Set out big roots this fall for 

 next year's use. 



Indeed, Hook upon "pie-plant" as the 

 poor man's orchard. It possesses all the 

 good qualities of the fruits, beside some 

 special merits of its own. When I visit 

 farmers— I may come to take tea with you 

 some day— and do not find plenty of this 

 excellent vegetable in the garden, I know 

 there is something wrong with their judg- 

 ment. 



Horse-Radlsli and Red-Pepper. 



Another serviceable plant I commend is 

 horse-radish, planted in some rich but 

 out-of-the-way corner, where it won't run 

 into more reserved ground. It is often- 

 times very useful; quite as much for its 

 leaves as its roots. They are a very handy 

 and effective application to many forms of 

 aches and pains. A pleurisy in the side is 

 often stopped by applying a leaf wilted in 

 hot vinegar. It acts much like a mustard 

 plaster, but not severely. A poultice of it 

 over rheumatic joints alleviates pain, and 

 sometimes cures. 



For headache over the forehead, a wilted 

 leaf is very grateful. The root ground up 

 fine and corked tight in a bottle with a little 

 alcohol to keep it, makes excellent "smell- 

 ing salts " for headache or fainting "spells." 

 The leaves should be gathered just before 

 the seed-stalk forms, and should be care- 

 fully dried in the nhade between sheets of 

 greased wrapping-paper, to preserve their 

 essential oil, and pressed in a big book to 

 keep their shape, then put away in some 

 convenient place, and used in the manner 



explained, when needed. In this way you 

 always have "mustard plasters" ready. 

 When put on a patient, they should be 

 covered with paper to prevent evaporation. 

 Be sure to raise some red-peppers. When 

 you sprinkle a few seeds on a mustard 

 draft, it makes it " take hold " at once. 

 Besides, a little piece of pepper held against 

 an aching tooth, right over the gum, often 

 stops the pain. 



Xlie '*Bee •Toiirnal^^ Pays. — 



Here is what one of our Ohio advertisers 

 wrote us on Aug. 23nd : 



Messrs. Geo. W. York & Co. 



Gentlemen : — Please discontinue our ad- 

 vertisement in the American Bee Journal, 

 as we are crowded with orders at present 

 so that we are unable to send queens by 

 return mail, but will be up in about ten 

 days. Orders are coming in 50 and 75 

 daily. That much for advertising in the 

 American Bee Journal. 



We are yours for success. 



Queen-Dealers. 



N. B. — We will advertise again in a few 

 weeks. Q.-D. 



Comment on the above is unnecessary, 

 though we might say, if you have anything 

 to sell to bee-keepers, "Go, thou, and do 

 likewise." 



<MOOtl Honey-Sellers will likely be 

 needed now, and the little 33-page pamph- 

 let, "Honey as Pood and Medicine," has 

 for years proven itself valuable in making 

 repeated sales of honey. Its distribution 

 will create a demand for the honey first, and 

 then the bee-keeper can follow it up and 

 supply that demand. Send to us for a 

 sample copy, only 5 cents ; 10 copies, post- 

 paid, 35 cents ; 50 copies, fl.25 ; or 100 copies 

 $2.00. Try 50 or 100 copies, and prove their 

 ability to aid you in disposing of your 

 honey at a good price. 



*»Foh1 Bi'oo*! ; Its Natural History 

 and Rational Treatment," is the title of an 

 interesting booklet by Dr. Wm. R. Howard, 

 of Texas. It also contains a review of the 

 work of others on the same subject. It is 

 being sold at the office of the Bee Jour- 

 nal. Price, postpaid, 25 cents; or clubbed 

 with the Bee Journal for one year — both 

 together for $1.15. 



'riie ]^ovelty Pocliet-Knife is 



worth having. Mr. A. G. Amos, of New 

 York, says this about it: " The ' Novelty' 

 pocket-knife which I received with the 

 American Bee Journal arrived all O. K., 

 and it is a dandy." Better get one your- 

 self, and then you will know what a 

 " dandy " thing it is. See page 285 for ad- 

 I vertising offer. 



