1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



645 



tucky, one from Iowa, and one from Wisconsin, one from 

 Ohio, and one is now due from Massachusetts. The queens 

 have all proved satisfactory except one that was worthless, 

 and I superseded her. 



I received an Albino queen from Texas, that is a little 

 ahead of anything 1 ever saw, and I have seen some good 

 queens in my time. The queens from Kentucky were extra- 

 good ones, their workers are golden beauties, and they have 

 evidently been reared for business as well as beauty. The 

 queens from Wisconsin and Ohio I received only last week, so 

 I cannot tell how they will turn out. All received have 

 proven satisfactory as to purity; the one superseded could 

 not, or would not, keep two Langstroth frames occupied with 

 brood. 



I have made all my own hives (45 single ones) myself. I 

 made one observation hive and one sun extractor. The cost 

 of single hives for material was 32 cents each. The tools 

 used were a common handsaw, one carpenter's square, two 

 hammers (oue large, and one small for nailing frames), and a 

 common jackplane. Not an expensive outfit, by any means. 

 The hives are all made from first-class redwood lumber, and 

 all are good, substantial, well-made hives. / fcjiou', for I made 

 them. 



I have purchased $8 worth of comb foundation, and 

 used nearly all of it. I lost one queen in introducing ; came 

 very nearly losing another by following the directions sent 

 with the queen. I learned, some 50 years ago, how to intro- 

 duce queens with tobacco smoke, from an old Hollander, and 

 I have never failed by that process. I can remove a queen 

 and introduce a new one in from 10 to 15 minutes. 



Another kink I learned from him, also, is this : When 

 you have to set hives close together, side by side, and young 

 queens come out on their wedding flight, mark the front of the 

 hive so the young madam cannot make a mistake. I pin a 

 piece of newspaper, cut in a peculiar shape, over the entrance 

 of one hive; over another I pin an old black hat; over 

 another, a paper sack (inflated) just above the entrance, etc. 

 Make your marks, whatever they are, as odd and prominent 

 as possible. I have had six queens come out in one day, close 

 side by side, and no mistake made in getting back all right; 

 while I neglected two hives, and had both queens to go into 

 one hive, but I discovered the mishap in time to save them 

 both. I neveR had lost a queen in that manner, if I attended 

 to " posting notices" just over the entrance. They can be 

 removed as soon as we are done with them. I dislike painting 

 the fronts of the hives different colors, as recommended by 

 some. The old Hollander had over 100 hives set in a row, all 

 alike, and only about two inches space between each hive, and 

 he said that posting notices as above proved infallible. It 

 certainly has with me. 



During the bad weather in spring I fed $3.00 worth of 

 sugar, all told. I now have 30 good colonies of bees, all 

 Italianized. If the two months in spring had been as good as 

 it usually is here, I could have made 60 colonies just as easily 

 as to have made the 30. 



Now for what I was doing in that time: My last wife 

 died three years ago the 17th of last March, with inherited 

 consumption. I do not claim to cure consumption when once 

 thoroughly seated, but I have cured incipient consumption in 

 many cases. I always prolong life, and make the patients 

 more comfortable while they do live. My wife left me with 

 three little fellows on my hands to care for, the youngest two, 

 the next four, and the oldest six years of age. And I have 

 taken sole care of them since, without the help of a woman, 

 with the exception of two months at one time, and one month 

 just past. I have done all my housework, cooking, etc. 



At the time I commenced my "bee-factory," last spring, I 

 would get breakfast, and be at the west end of town (two 

 miles from home) at 7 o'clock in the morning, where I treated 



a Mrs. B. She had a complication of complaints caused by 

 drugging for sciatica. The doctors had drugged her for 

 years. In fact, she had (like one of old) suffered many things 

 from many physicians, but all to no purpose, but rather grew 

 worse. She was cured in three weeks by common-sense treat- 

 ment, at a cost of $18. 



I cured three cases of typhoid fever in three days each, at 

 a cost of $5.00 each ; one case of neuralgia of long standing, 

 dyspepsia, etc., all caused by drugging until the little girl had 

 ceased to grow, and had weak eyes^I cured her at an expense 

 of $5.00 to the parents. One young man was deaf, caused 

 by drugging for fever a few years ago ; rheumatic pains, dys- 

 pepsia, constipation, etc.; cured at ao expense to him of $5.00. 



A Mr. H., with one withered leg, cold and dead, had 

 drugged constantly for 12 years ; paid all his earnings over 

 and above supporting his family, to doctors and drugstores, 

 until his mind was badly affected, and on the verge of commit- 

 ting suicide. He said : "I had typhoid fever 12 years ago 

 for 10 weeks, and the fever left me with this paralyzed leg." 

 My reply was this : " That caiuxot be possible, for a fever is a 

 cleansing, purifying process, a remedial effort of Nature to 

 throw off impurities from the system, consequently if properly 

 assisted it always leaves the patient in better health than 

 when it found him. Your fever could have been cured in 

 three days by natural process, and without drugs of any 

 description. Your swallowing poisonous drugs for 10 weeks 

 paralyzed your leg. Your system is now thoroughly saturated 

 with poison from head to foot. Now, if you commence treat- 

 ing with me, you must agree faithfully to stick to me three 

 weeks, or I will not touch your case, because- 1 shall stir up 

 the stagnant and poisonous blood, and drive the poison out of 

 the system, and it will make you deathly sick. Your body is 

 a machine, and I shall go to work mechanically with my 

 hands to cleanse the human machine. You will perhaps 

 vomit, but you will purge fearfully, and wind up at the end 

 with typhoid fever that the doctors suppressed 12 years ago. 

 I can certainly cure you without the least particle of doubt on 

 my part, etc." 



He was cured at an expense to him of $20. The veins 

 and arteries are the streams and rivers ; the nerves are the 

 telegraph wires, etc. In his case he had a tornado of poison 

 (commonly called " medicine") thrown into the stomach, and 

 this tornado had impaired or thrown down the telegraph wire 

 at the hip joint, and stopped all communication from the head 

 office through the leg. All that was needed was to stir up the 

 debris in the small streams and rivers, and repair the line at 

 the hip joint. Now, understand, that the nerves are what 

 causes the blood to flow, and without nerves the blood cannot 

 flow. 



Then I bad another case helpless with rheamatism, joints 

 all enlarged and badly swollen, very painful to attend. All 

 those cases I visited before noon, and was at home at 11:30 

 to get dinner for myself and children. The youngest tots stay 

 at home alone, the eldest went to school. 



In the afternoon I had Mr. A. O Sutton, of Easton, Mich., 

 and family to see to. He came here on crutches with chronic 

 rheumatism for seven years ; had paid out hundreds of dollars 

 to doctors, all to no purpose, only to make him worse. Mrs. 

 Sutton had female trouble (chronic) ; the three little children, 

 all nervous from drugging, etc. I sent them all home joyful, 

 happy and well. 



I had a Mrs. S. from Washington (State). She heard of 

 me, and came all the way down here for treatment. She had 

 been 42 years an Invalid, a good share of the time bedfast, 

 and had suffered many things from many physicians, all to no 

 purpose. She had paid out hundreds of dollars to make her- 

 self sick, and to keep her sick. She was on the verge of in- 

 sanity from drugging, but is now happy and sees her way 

 clear to good health once more. 



