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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 8, 



Besides my regular patients X attended three chlldblrths ; 

 their labor is shortened from six to seven hours, and they in- 

 variably are up and around on the third day. I attended and 

 cared for five families of children with measles, besides my 

 own three had them ; not one of the lot staid in the house 

 over one day. My children never went to bed a single day, 

 and took care of themselves while I was away. I had three 

 cases of cholera infantum, and one case of rheumatism ; told 

 the latter patient what to do, and let him cure himself, as he 

 had only been drugged three months. I had one case of deaf- 

 ness and palpitation of the heart; gave him directions and let 

 him cure himself, as he had only been drugged a short time. 

 One case was a boy 16 years old, with a sprained knee ; 

 three years previously he sprained the same knee, and paid a 

 doctor $30 to keep him a cripple for six months. I explained 

 to him what to do, and he cured himself in two days; I 

 charged him nothing for such a simple case. 



I was called in to see a family down with fever and colds ; 

 told them what caused the colds and fever, and how to avoid 

 it in the future. I cure cholera infantum by talking to the 

 mother in this manner: 



" We have had three hot days, and you have fed your 

 little one just as often and just as much as you did when the 

 weather was cool. It never takes as much food to keep up 

 the vitality In hot weather as it does when cool, consequently 

 you should not have fed so much or so often. The surplus 

 food over and above what Nature required, was either decom- 

 posed or was undigested. That irritated the mucus membrane 

 of the stomach and bowels, and your little one was cross and 

 fretful from nervousness, and you fed it more. Now stop 

 feeding the child for 24 hours ; give it all the water it will 

 drink, and flush the colon with tepid water, two or three times 

 in the course of the 24 hours. Fill up all it can hold, and let 

 it pass oft immediately. If a very high fever, use cold water. 

 It can do no harm. Hereafter, you must regulate the diet 

 according to the weather, and avoid trouble." 



Remember that all disease or sickness is avoidable. I 

 have not the least particle of fear of sickness with my little 

 chaps whatever. They are muscular, wiry, tough, healthy, 

 and hearty ; not a pound of surplus fat or diseased flesh about 

 them ; never have taken the least particle of medicine of any 

 kind whatever; neither have I given a particle of medicine in 

 all my 40 years' practical experience. I never have lost a 

 case of diphtheria, cholera infantum, cramp, or any acute 

 disease, where the patient had not previously been poisoned 

 with drugs. 



It has taken quite a long article to tell you what I was 

 doing while starting my apiary. On my road home I would 

 come past the lumber yard, and take a board or two, as the 

 case might be, on my shoulder, and get up at break of day, 

 feed the thoroughbred Langshans, brown leghorns, and 

 Wyandotts, Pekln ducks, turkeys, and thoroughbred white 

 fantalls and the pony ; then make a bee-hive before my neigh- 

 bors were out of bed ; get breakfast, and off on foot at 6:30. 

 That gave me 30 minutes to go two miles and get to work. I 

 am quite young yet, only past 76. I think you ought to see 

 how a man with very little means can start an apiary. Wliat 

 are you going to do abotit it t' 



Bees are doing extra well yet. 



Santa Ana, Calif., Sept. 11. 



Honey as Food and Medicine. — A new and revised 

 edition of this 32-page pamphlet is now issued. It has 5 blank 

 pages on which to write or paste recipes taken from other sources. 

 It is just what its name indicates, and should be liberally dis- 

 tributed among the people everywhere to create a demand for 

 honey. It contains a number of recipes on the use of horoy as 

 food and as medicine, besides much other interesting and vhiuable 

 information. Prices, postpaid, are : Single copy, 5 cts. ; 35 copies 

 65 cts. ; 50 for $1.00 ; 100 tor $1.50. Better give them a trial. Send 

 all orders to the Bee Journal office. 



The New McCartney Combined Fouudatlou- 

 Fastener and Section-Press. 



BY S. H. HERRICK. 



It is said that necessity Is the mother of invention. This 

 may be true, but equally true it is that competition is the 

 father of it. For, look where you will, and you will see 

 that sharp competition is the order of the day, and is con- 

 stantly spurring on the minds of our inventive geniuses to 

 study out something still better and more useful than any- 

 thing of its kind now before the public. Take our own indus- 

 try, for example — what improvements have been made in 

 hives ! Take foundation — what a valuable invention it is. 

 And then, smokers — what improvements have been brought 

 out on them. 



Take bee-escapes — but a few years ago no one had heard 

 of such a thing. Then the " Dibbern escape " came out, but 

 no sooner had it been fairly placed on the market than the 

 " Porter " bobs up serenely, and (being a big Improvement on 

 the other) " takes all the persimmons." But while the "Por- 



McCartncy's Found ation-Fasteticr and Section-Press. 



ter escape" is conducting the bees down and out "single file," 

 Mr. Jardlne conceives the idea that one exit is no more enough 

 when bees want to find their mother than is one exit in a 

 theater when the play is over; and out comes the new "Jar- 

 dine escape," with its six exits. 



Parker's foundation fastener was a pretty good little tool, 

 but the " Daisy " came along and beat it all to pieces. Now 

 comes the " New McCartney "—a machine, which fastens the 

 sections together, and cuts the foundation and fastens it in 

 the sections, all complete. I do not know that I can describe 

 the process, but I will try. 



You will see by the illustration that there are two treadles. 

 Standing (or sitting) in front of the machiue, take a section 

 and bend it ready to be fastened together. Place it in the 

 machine, and press the foot on the right side treadle; this 

 fastens the section squarely and nice. Slide the foot over to 

 the other treadle and press down, and the foundation is car- 



