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successor. Better counsels prevailed 

 when they saw her properly at work 

 again. 



As to your case, I shouldn't think it 

 very strange to find the first lot of cells, 

 and then have things all right, but that 

 egg in a queen-cell after you had de- 

 stroyed the first lot looks pretty plainly 

 towards superseding. Still I think it 

 quite likely the queen will not be super- 

 seded this fall, especially if you stop 

 feeding every night. 



You mustn't ask v/hy bees supersede 

 queens. That's one of the things I don't 

 know. Old age is a sufficient reason for 

 it, but there must be other reasons. I 

 have had plenty of queens superseded 

 before three months old. I could see 

 that some of them were poor queens, 

 and therefore it was right to supersede 

 them. In other cases I could see nothing 

 wrong with the queens, but I suppose 

 the bees could. Sometimes a queen will 

 be laying bountifully, then fail all at 

 once. You and I could not anticipate 

 this, but perhaps the bees could. 



If I should give a guess in the case, I 

 should say the bees may supersede your 

 queen, but just as likely she'll bo kept 

 through the winter and superseded next 

 spring. 



In case she abdicates the throne this 

 fall, it's perhaps an even "toss-up" 

 whether you furnish them another 

 queen or leave them to their own de- 

 vices. I believe I would take the latter 

 course. 



The first Hoffman frames I had were 

 so hard to get started at taking them 

 out of the hive that I would rather 

 tackle a hive of the old hanging frames ; 

 but the latest pattern are a real pleasure 

 to handle. 



Your Italians are a bad lot. Are you 

 sure they are not hybrids ? They are 

 not a fair sample, sure. Try a queen 

 from entirely different stock. I have 

 serious doubts whether yours are pure. 



Ciiood Iloney-Scllers will likely be 

 needed now, and the little 32-page pamph- 

 let, "Honey as Food 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- 

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 honey at a good price. 



Om Boeim's Eiets. 



By F. L. PEIRO, M. D. 



McVicker's Building, Chicago, III. 



Tomatoes and Cherries. 



Isn't it remarkable what singular notions 

 take hold of people, and how long ridicu- 

 lous theories are entertained, even to the 

 third generation ! 



Now, there is the one about tomatoes. 

 Since I was a boy— and that's many years 

 ago— I have heard repeated, hundreds of 

 times, what terrible results followed the 

 eating of this fruit— even to the production 

 ot cancers! What nonsense! There is, to 

 my mind, no better or healthful fruit (or 

 vegetable if you prefer to call it) than that 

 beautiful red or yellow globe that grows in 

 all well-regulated gardens. Its acid juices 

 are exactly adapted to digestion, and keeps 

 the stomach and bowels in splendid condi- 

 tion. 



A hundred years, or more, ago, much 

 sentiment attached to this splendid fruit. 

 It was called "love apples" then, and 

 though not in general culinary use, it was 

 supposed to possess remarkable amatory 

 influence, so that if a young lady could 

 only, by hook or crook, induce her "steady" 

 young man to eat any portion of one, he 

 would soon forget his bashfulness and ar- 

 rive at the essential point that would en- 

 able the thoughtful young lady to say 

 "yes" — and make the services of the 

 preacher p, matter of rapid necessity. Smart 

 girls in those days ! 



Then there are the luscious cherries. In 

 ye olden times, and since, many have 

 shunned the "snake berries," under the 

 superstition that because Mr. Black-Snake 

 often partakes of them, he poisoned them 

 for the people. How absurd ! And you'd 

 be surprised how many people are yet to 

 be found who still entertain this silly no- 

 tion. But those of us who know anything, 

 need not be told how beautiful on the tree, 

 and delicious to the taste, are the inviting 

 cherries. Indeed, the best medical opinion 

 now prevails that no fruit is so certain to 

 do good in all forms of liver trouble. 

 Fresh, dried or canned, they should form a 

 bountiful supply in the pantry of all intel- 

 ligent house-wives who can possess them. 



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