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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 14, 



PCBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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 G. M. Doolittle, Of New York. Prof. A. j. Cook, of California. 



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VoLinVI, CHICA&O, ILL,, MAY 14, m 1,20. 



dumber of Seeds to the Pound.— In the 



American Agriculturist we find the following honey-plants 

 among a lot of others: Alfalfa, 225,000; nielilotiis alba 

 (sweet clover), 248.000; esparcet, 24,000; Alsike clover, 

 723,000; crimson clover, 183,000; white clover, 750,000. 

 These figures represent the average number of seeds to the 

 pound of those named. 



Honey for Erysipelas.— The American Homeop- 

 athist contains this paragraph about the use of honey in treat- 

 ing erysipelas : 



Dr. Hayward, of Cropsey, III., calls attention to honey as 

 a remedy for erysipelas. It is used locally by spreading on a 

 suitable cloth and applying to the parts. The application is 

 renewed every three or four hours. In all cases in which the 

 remedy has been employed, entire relief from the pain fol- 

 lowed immediately, and convalescence was brought about in 

 three or four days. 



This certainly is " important, if true." We wish that Mrs. 

 Thomas G. Newman, who has been a great sufferer from 

 erysipelas, would try the honey remedy and report results. 



A Canipaig:n of Honey-Education should be 

 begun at once by bee-keepers everywhere, before the new crop 

 of honey comes on the market. It will pay, and pay well, to 

 push the work of enlightening the public upon the value of 

 honey as an every-day food. There are actually many people 

 who think that honey is a real luxury, and only to be afforded 

 by bankers and millionaires, or those who live in palaces and 

 wear silk and broadcloth for common ; when the fact is, 

 honey is the poor man's and the laboring man's food — or 

 ought to be. 



For over 25 years of our life, we presume we did not eat 

 five pounds of honey, all told ; now we feel that not a single 

 meal of the day is'complete without honey as a part of it. 

 And why didn't we eat more honey in those 25 years? Simply 

 because the folks that run the table where we boarded were 

 not acquainted with the real worth of honey as an article of 

 food. They thought it was mainly to be used as a medicine, 

 in small doses ! 



Three years ago, when we first met Dr. Peiro, he told us 



that he could not eat honey — it made him sick. He showed us 

 a sample of the kind of extracted honey he had been trying to 

 eat ! No wonder it gave him pain in the region of the belt, 

 for it was simply some of the infernally adulterated stuff that 

 so many grocers palm off on an unsuspecting public as 

 "honey .'" We gave the Doctor a sample of our honey to take 

 home with him, and from that day to this he can eat his 

 share of honey, and enjoy it — not as some folks " enjoy poor 

 health" — but really and truly eat it with a relish and pleas- 

 ant after sensations. 



What bee keepers need to do, in our estimation, is to make 

 a Mil effort to see that everybody has a chance to eat pure 

 honey. Talk it up. Write it up for your local newspapers. 

 Owe the editors of such papers liberal samples of honey. After 

 being thus "sweetened," they'll help much in the campaign 

 of honey-education. 



There are at least two men here in Chicago who are doing 

 their share to see that grocers (and thus their customers, the 

 people) are supplied with pure honey. Mr. Grabbe is one, 

 and Mr. Walker the other. The former has a store here the 

 whole year round, and the latter spends the winter months 

 here; in fact, Mr. Walker is here yet, having come from 

 Michigan last November. He has disposed of upwards of 

 50,000 pounds of mostly extracted honey in neatly-labeled 

 tin pails. He thinks that another year he will be able to 

 place 100,000 pounds. 



How do they do !t? Simply by personal ivork. They come 

 here and work. They guarantee the purity of their honey ; 

 solicit grocery orders themselves ; talk them into buying once, 

 and then it is pretty much a "perpetual motion" business. 

 Even a Chicago grocer "knows a good thing when he sees it" 

 a few times. 



Some think that Chicago is the greatest honey market in 

 the world. Probably it is. But it will be greater. The seed 

 sown by Messrs. Grabbe and Walker is bound to result in 

 great good, both to the producer and the consumer of honey. 

 They are men who stand back of their goods every time, thus 

 insuring satisfaction, and building up a trade that is bound to 

 be more profitable to them as the years go on. 



Now, why not every city, town and hamlet be thus worked? 

 No reason at all. There are plenty of bee-keepers wide- 

 awake enough to "go up and possess the land" — the cities 

 and towns, and push the honey-business, if they only thought 

 so. It will pay to try, and try hard. What others have done, 

 you can do. Go forth to win on this theme — Honey for the 

 masses ! 



No, sir ! It is not over-production. It is under consump- 

 tion — the kind of " consumption " that sorely needs a radical 

 cure, and no encouragement. 



"Sanianttia at the "World's Fair."— We want 

 to make our present readers one of the best offers ever made. 

 All know the excellent books written by " Samantha, Jbsiah 

 Allen's Wife." Well, " Samantha at the World's Pair " is 

 probably her best, and we are enabled to offer tlus book a7id a 

 year's sidjscriptlon to the New York "Voice" (the greatest 

 SI. 00 weekly temperance paper published to-day), for sending 

 us only three new subscribers to the American Bee Journal 

 (with S3, 00), provided you are not now a subscriber to the 

 "Voice." Think of it — a grand book and a grand weekly 

 temperance newspaper given simply /oc sending us three new 

 subscribers to the Bee Journal for a year ! The Samantha 

 book is exactly the same as the S2.50 one, only the binding is 

 of heavy manilla instead of cloth. It is a special 100,000- 

 copy edition, aud when they are all gone, the offer will be 

 withdrawn by the publishers. Of course, no premium will 

 also be given to the new subscribers — simply the American 

 Bee Journal for one year. 



We trust our readers will now go to work, get the three 



