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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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not eat her out. Then they had to go 

 without a queen another week. I said 

 nothing to the dealer this time, but sent 

 to Illinois for one, and that dealer sent 

 me a fine queen, with lots of bees, and 

 she came out all right. I had one more, 

 colony to Italianize, and of course I sent 

 to Illinois again, and she came just the 

 same as my Ohio queens. I honestly be- 

 lieve that there were not five bees in the 

 cage, and one of them was dead. If that 

 queen. would have had to come a long 

 distance, she no doubt would have been 

 dead before she could have been intro- 

 duced, but it was only chance that I got 

 her safely. She was as fine a queen as I 

 ever saw. 



I don't want to cause any argument 

 about queen-shipping, but I do want to 

 say right here, that if the dealers would 

 put more young bees with the queen, 

 that there would be less dissatisfaction 

 on the part of those buying queens, be 

 money in the dealers' pockets, and save 

 lots of vexation. When we have a queen- 

 less colony, we don't want to wait a 

 month or six weeks to get a queen. I 

 would rather pay a little more and get 

 my queens introduced at the first at- 

 tempt. M. W. Beights. 



Bueua Vista Co., Iowa. 



Not a Flattering Report. 



My report for l.SiiG Is decidedly poor. 

 I had 6 colonies, spring count, which I 

 increased by natural swarming to 12, 

 and reduced by doubling up to 8. I took 

 off 25 pounds of comb honey and fed 7."> 

 pounds of sugar for wintering. 



Forest Co., Pa. J. W. Henry. 



A Poor Year for Bees. 



This has been a poor year for bee- 

 keepers in this locality. We had 18 col- 

 onies, spring count, only increased one, 

 and took only 400 pounds of comb and 

 200 pounds of extracted honey. It was 

 too dry and cold In the first of the sea- 

 son. T. R. Jones. 



Watrous, N. Mex. 



Dr. Gallup's Medical Views. 



That article on " Doctoring," from 

 Dr. E. Gallup, In your esteemed Bee 

 Journal of Oct. 8, having quite inter- 

 ested me, I corresponded with the Doc- 

 tor regarding it, and will give some of 

 his views. 



In reply to the question, " What kind 

 of diet would you commend ?" Dr. G. 

 writes : 



" I have eaten no meat of any descrip- 

 tion for years. I am a Hindoo in that 

 respect, and they are as healthy as any 

 people in the world. They believe it to 

 be a great sin for man to eat, or live on, 

 anything wherein you have to destroy 

 life, whether fish, flesh or fowl, and I 

 know that I am as healthy, and more so 

 than the ma,iorlty of people at my age. 

 I am strong and robust, have not an 

 ache or pain about me, am as limber and 

 active as a young man, have none of the 

 stiffness or soreness of the joints com- 

 plained of by almost every one." 



Of the " Salisbury treatment," which 

 is so highly recommended by the editors 

 of Gleanings, Dr. G. has this to say : 



'•That Salisbury treatment is reason- 

 ing from a false standpoint; in fact, A. 

 I. Root reasons from false premises en- 

 tirely. There are certain conditions of 

 the stomach when I recommend rinsing 



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Mention ihc .uncrican Bee Journal. 



CARLOADS 



or Hee-Hives, Sections, Shlp- 

 pinfi-t'ases. Comb Foundation, 

 and Everyllilng used in the 

 Hee-lndu8try. 

 ■i ,| I want the name and address 

 3>;| of every Bee-Keeper In Anier. 

 •& ica. No reason why you can- 

 _ T>^ not do business with me. I have 

 Cheap Lumber and E.tperienced Workmen ; 

 a good Water Power Factory and hnow how 

 10 run it. I am supplying Dealers as well as 

 consumers. Why not you? Sfid for Cata- 

 loifues, Quotations, etc. W. It. PUTNAITI, 

 IK KiVEFi FALLS. Pierce Co.. Wis. 



Hf^flon the Anierienn Bee Jo^tmaL 



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 \VKITTEN US FOR PKICES ON 



The "Boss" Oue-Piece Section 



Also D. T. Ilivcs, Sliipping-Crales 

 aiKi Oilier Supplies. 



We have completed a large addition to our 

 Factory, which doubles our floor room; we 

 are therefore in better shape than ever to All 

 orders on short notice. Send for Price-E.i»t 



J. FORNCROOK, 



Watertown. Jeff. Co., Wis.. .Ian. 1st, 1896. 



NEW MAMMOTH 



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 ■mil recipes for all diseases ;hoiv tomnke 

 XPouhrv and Gardening pasionly 16 cents. 



^ - John Banscher, Jr., Box 3-1 Freeport, 111. 

 Mention tite American Bee Journal 



out the stomach with as hot water as 

 one can conveniently use, but ?iot (o ibe 

 continued, by any means. So also, under 

 certain contingencies, I rinse out the 

 colon with hot water, but for piles I use 

 cold water. It is a great relief, but that 

 is only for temporary*purposes." 



Asked to which "school " he belonged, 

 Dr. G. remarks : 



" I do not belong to any medical 

 school. Mine is a method that I have 

 practiced with success for years. Scien- 

 tific ' massage' comes the nearest to it 

 of almost any treatment known, yet in 

 many respects I have made advance- 

 ment. I also make use of the Swedish 

 movement cure, also mi.x hydropathic 

 treatment in fevers; have made ad- 

 vancement on that also. Dr. E. H. 

 Dewey, of Meadville, Pa., has published 

 a book — in fact, two books — that are 

 right in line with my treatment. He is 

 a reformed allopath, condemns medicine 

 as strongly as I do, only he thinks he 

 must use morphine yet, which I do not 

 approve, for various reasons ; one is, 

 that the cause of pain can usually be 

 ?'C»)oi)c(J just as soon as it can be be- 

 numbed or deadened by the use of mor- 

 phine; another reason is, it lessens the 

 vitality, which I know is not right. My 

 belief is to rouse or strengthen the vital 

 principle and help Nature to throw off 

 the morbid or disease-producing cause. 

 Send $3.00 to the Henry Bill Publish- 

 ing Co., 56 Shetucket St., Norwich, 

 Conn., and get Dr. Dewey's two books. 

 The one is entitled, ' The True Science 

 of Living, or The New Gospel of Health.' 

 The other is, 'A New Era for Women, 

 or Health Without Medicine.' If one 

 lives on the plan laid down by Dr. 

 Dewey, one cannot become sick. All 

 sickness is certainly avoidable, as I pos- 

 itively know by actual demonstration. 

 Then there is a new school started up, 

 called ' Osteopathy,' that is right in my 

 line of treatment. There is a college at 

 Kirksville, Mo., by a Dr. Still ; he is 

 performing wonderful cures without 

 medicine." Tbuth-Seekkr. 



A Tennessee Report. 



I had 14 colonies last fall, and 14 in 

 the spring. I had 10 swarms, and dou- 

 bled them so I now have 17 strong colo- 

 nies for winter. I got about 250 sec- 

 tions of honey the past season — more 

 than all of my neightiors got. Honey is 

 slow sale here. If times do not get bet- 

 ter we will have to give up the bees. 



J. W. Holder. 



Hebbertsburg, Tenn. 



" Old Woman's Bustle" Plant. 



I noticed on page 741, under " Plant- 

 ing for Honey," the question arose as to 

 what plant would furnish the bees nec- 

 tar in August and September. I have a 

 shrub that grows from five to eight feet 

 high, that fills the bill in northern Penn- 

 sylvania. It blossoms in large clusters 

 from August till the frost comes, and it 

 would surprise any one to see the bees 

 working on its flowers. One who was 

 born in Scotland, who resides in one of 

 the villages in our anthracite coal re- 

 gion, made a visit to his native land, and 

 being struck with the great fragrance 

 and beauty of the flower he saw growing 

 on a shrub, he concluded to bring a few 

 to his adopted home in America. The 

 writer being a lover of bees and keeping 

 a small apiary at this place, was in a 



