1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



763 



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 completely than any other published, send 

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We can furnisli 'WillOW-Herb Extracted Honey, in 60-pound tin cans, on 

 board cars in Chicago, at these prices : 1 can, in a case, S cents per pound ; 2 cans 

 In one case, 7>2 cents ; 4 cans (2 cases) or more, 7 H cents. 



Basswood Honey in liegs holding about 270 lbs., net, at 7}4' cents. Cash 

 MUST accompany each order. 



i^" A sample of the houey will be mailed to an intending purchaser, for 10 

 cents, to cover postage, packing, etc. We guarantee purity, and what we ship will 

 be equal to sample. 



Now it seems to us here is a splendid chance for any bee-keeper to supply his 

 home demand after his own crop is all sold. Or, why not begin now to create a 

 local honey-trade ? Order one 60-pound can drst, and start out among your neigh- 

 bors and friends, and see what you can do. You ought to get at least 15 cents per 

 pound in 5-pound lots, or 50 cents for 3 pounds. Some may be able to do even 

 better than that, though we think that enough ought to be sold at these prices to 

 make a fairly paying business out of it. Give It a good trial. Push it. It may 

 grow into a nice winter's work for you. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



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Very Successful Year. 



This has been a very successful year 

 in the bee-business here. Bees have 

 done well. My 67 colonies are all in 

 winter quarters. I hope they will be all 

 right next spring. My honey took the 

 first and second premiums at our county 

 fair this fall. Mbs. A. A. Simpson. 



Greene Co., Pa., Nov. 11. 



was 

 All 

 his 

 the 



Why Some Folks Can't Eat Honey. 



I cannot give you a learned, scientific 

 article, as I never had the advantage of 

 education; still I can give my views in 

 plain English, so as to make myself un- 

 derstood. 



On page 642, Prof. A. J. Cook speaks 

 of the reason why some cannot eat 

 honey. It seems most likely that the 

 deleterious element is the formic acid 

 added to the sweet by the bee. Now, 

 Professor, I am after you with some of 

 my ideas. I have made the subject of 

 why good, healthy food should hurt any- 

 one's stomach a serious study for 40 

 years, and have come to the firm conclu- 

 sion that it never does hurt anyone, as 

 they or you suppose. God made man 

 upright, but the foolish fellow has 

 sought out many inventions. Now, A. 

 I. Root will say that food certainly hurts 

 his stomach, therefore he eats lean beef. 

 A Mr. Huddleston, of Elmodena, Calif., 

 drugged for three years, emaciated to a 

 skeleton, given up to die with chronic 

 diarrhea, was cured entirely in six treat- 

 ments. He was positive his food hurt 

 him. I was just as positive it did not. 



A Mr. Willets lay at the point of 

 death, helpless and speechless. He was 

 up and outdoors the third day, and 

 could eat auything. A Mr. Way 

 cured entirely in five treatments, 

 kinds of food, he said, disturbed 

 stomach. A Mr. Prichard was in 

 same fix, and was cured in three treat- 

 ments. A Mr. Tolle was cured in two 

 treatments; and I might enumerate any 

 number of cases cured just as quickly 

 and just as easily. 



All the above cases were invalids, and 

 drugging from two to three years each. 

 They had paid the drug doctors and 

 drug stores hundreds of dollars. Mr. 

 Way said, when I discharged his case, 

 " Why, Doctor, this is too silly and sim- 

 ple for anything." 



" Well," I replied, " do you not think 

 it is worth $5.00?" 



"Oh, yes," he said; "I am actually 

 ashamed of myself," etc. 



Now for the explanation : All those 

 cases violated the laws of life and health 

 in some manner. No doubt they did it 

 ignorantly, but the laws of life and 

 health are as fixed as the laws of the 

 Modes and Persians; they do not alter 

 to suit your or my condition. In all 

 probability you ate at improper times, or 

 more food than Nature required, and all 

 over and above what Nature required 

 did not digest, therefore it decomposed 

 and was poison to a certain extent. You 

 did not feel well, and commenced taking 

 more poison, calling it " medicine." This 

 inflamed or congested the pneumogastric 

 and ganglionic nerves that supply the 

 gastric juices to the stomach. Those 

 gastric juices are actually poisonous 

 when not natural. Every time you take 

 certain kinds of food into the stomachy 



