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epidoniic iliscases. Experience and 

 medical skill is teacliinj,^ tiie present 

 population of this world, willi still 

 more force, that honey is forming- the 

 connecting link in Nature's remedies, 

 which none other of Nature's products 

 can do ; and, consequentlj-, a large field 

 lies here open for honey, as the sole 

 agent which no other product can fill. 



The writer keenly asserts, that there 

 is no better remedy in the kitchen, 

 drug-store, or in any school, which can 

 fill the place of honey in cases of 

 croup, diphtheria, La Grippe, bronchial 

 aftection, asthma, consumption, and 

 all diseases of the blood and bowels. 



When during the pilgrimage to 

 Mecca, a dreadful epidemic raged — 

 where millions were in camp around 

 the city of Mecca, thousands died 

 daily, and physicians and their medi- 

 cines proved of no avail, a messenger 

 came hastily to the prophet, saying, 

 " The faithful are dying by thousands 

 daily." The prophet answered, "Tell 

 the people to eat honey." The same 

 messenger came again, saying, "The 

 faithful are alive, and dead," in one 

 minute ; and the physicians declared 

 the epidemic uncontrollable. "Tell 

 the people," the prophet replied, " to 

 eat honey ;" and again the messenger 

 returned, saying to the prophet, "The 

 pilgrims are falling like snow-flakes." 

 " Once for all." replied the prophet, 

 angrily, " tell the people to eat honey, 

 and honey alone, as medicine !" 



The writer takes liberty here to say, 

 that by his experience and observa- 

 tion, honey has proved in all cases 

 what is claimed for it as a remedy for 

 worms, a relief for constipation, an in- 

 vigorator of the blood, and a regulator 

 of the liver and bowels ; and there is 

 no better way to bring these truths be- 

 fore the public, and place honey on its 

 former standard, height and level, 

 than the broadcast scattering of the 

 Honey Almanac. 



The writer never made free use of 

 honey until the Honey Almanac claimed 

 it to give warmth to the system, for 

 elderly people ; and having sufl'ered 

 for over three years past from cold 

 feet, poor circulation, and an irregu- 

 lar pulse, I made it a practice to use 

 it freely, and on every morning, the 

 first thing I would take a cup of hot 

 water with a spoonful of honey diluted 

 and taken as hot as could be drank, 

 and the same at retiring at evening, 

 and the result has been a marvelous 

 cure. The temperature below zero this 

 winter is not dreaded like it was when 

 the writer called at the Bee Jouknal 

 office three winters ago, nearly frozen, 

 sick, and poorly looking, expecting a 

 home soon with those residing in 

 graveyards ; and a gain of flesh from 

 143 to 153 pounds tells the story of all. 



Maiden Rock, Wis. 



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1890. Time (111(1 itldce of ynccliiKj. 



.Miir. 2C1.— Carulina, iit cliarldUe. N. <:. 



N. 1". lyjies, Sec, Deritu, N. V. 



April 16, 17.— Miwsimri State, at Marshall. Mo. 



J. vv. House, Sec Santa Ke, Mo, 



May l.~Southwestern Wisconsin, at Boscohel. Wis 

 Benj E nice, Sec BoBc-obel, Wis. 



May 3,— Susquehanna Co., at Hrjpbottom, Pa. 



H. M. Seeley. Sec, Hurtord, Pa. 



May 7, 8.— Texas State, at Greenville, Tex. 



,1. N, Hunter, aec , Celeste, Tex, 



May 19.— Northern Illinois, at Rockford. Ills. 



D. A. Fuller, Sec, Cherry Valley, Ills. 



Xlie Union and Its ^Vork. 



In regard to the officers elected for the 

 ensuing year, I am very much pleased, as 

 I think that the Bee-Keepers' Union has 

 done a great work for the bee-keepers of 

 the ditJ'erent States. I hope that the work 

 may grow in interest until every bee-keeper 

 in the United States will become a member. 

 I think that It is a grand movement, and 

 all should become more interested in the 

 work. 



I have 47 colonies of bees, packed in chaff 

 hives, which seem to be wintering nicely 

 so far. My crop of honey for 1889 was 

 1,950 pounds of e.xtracted, and 150 pounds 

 of comb honey, from 39 colonies, spring 

 count. MiLO George. 



Bowling Green, O., March 3, 1890. 



Wintering; Itees. 



It seems to me that bees would winter 

 better near the ground, but experience says 

 such is not always the case. I have a col- 

 ony of bees upstairs in the gable-end of a 

 shop, about 14 feet from the ground, that 

 came out as strong last spring as any colony 

 in the apiary; the hive is on a shelf, with 

 the entrance through to the outside ; this 

 same colony was the first to carry in flour 

 about a week or ten days ago. As the 

 weather was so nice, and the bees inclined 

 to borrow honey without leave, I thought 

 that artificial pollen would give the bees 

 something to do. I have noticed that bees 

 that winter in trees, come through some- 

 times in as good condition as in the best 

 chafif hives. I remember one, in particular 

 — a tree that I helped a neighbor cut down, 

 and transferred the bees to Langstroth 

 frames, two years ago the tenth of last 

 May, or a little later. The bees were about 

 30 or 40 feet from the ground, and the 

 combs were 73.1 feet long, well filled with 

 honey, brood and pollen, and a great lot of 

 bees. C. A. Bunch. 



Nye, Ind., March 23, 1890. 



Xlie ^lana^enievt of Bees. 



In the fall of 1886 I bought 1 colony of 

 bees in a box-hive, and during the winter I 

 read all the works on bees that I could get 

 hold of, including a year's numbers of the 

 American' Bee Journal, which a subscriber 

 was good enough to lend me. In May I 

 transferred the bees to movable frames, 

 made them into 4 colonies by division, and 

 they stored 60 pounds of honey, besides 

 getting enough to winter on. The next 

 year I bought an Italian queen, and reared 

 nine from her. On Oct. 1, I had 14 good 

 colonies of bees, 200 pounds of honey in 

 one-pound sections, besides a lot of brood- 

 frames full of honey — perhaps 135 pounds. 



In ISH9 I iiicieased my apiary to 21 colo- 

 nics, tooli H(H| iiounds of honey in one- 

 pound sectioii.s, and a lot in brood-frames. 

 I jiractice tiering up ; put separators on the 

 first case of sections, and none in any of 

 the others. I sometimes have a little 

 trouble to get the bees to work in the sec- 

 tions, l)ut I do no not let up on them until 

 they do. If a colony casts a swarm, take 

 out four of the fullest frames of brood, put 

 empty frames in their place, and put them 

 back on one hive. I fill the brood-chamber 

 with combs full of honey, and put a case of 

 jiartly drawn sections on, when they have 

 them filled in two days. I winter the bees 

 in the cellar, and have yet to lose my first 

 colony. Geo. T. Gl'nn. 



Wall Lake, Iowa, March 3, 1890. 



My Experience -with Bees. 



I began in the spring of 1887 with 6 col- 

 onies of pure Italian bees in old-fashioned 

 hives. I bought new Langstroth hives, but 

 did not get any swarms, and but 175 

 pounds of surplus honey. In the spring of 



1888 1 bought 6 more Italian colonies, at a 

 sale, all in the old Langstroth hives ; I in- 

 creased them to 26, and in the spring of 



1889 1 put on the summer stands 20 strong 

 colonies, which I increased to 38 that sea- 

 son, and sold over 1,200 pounds of honey 

 in one and two pound sections, and we 

 have honey on the table every day — the 

 healthiest spread for children that I know 

 of. I had been keeping bees in Iowa untO 

 late last fall, when I moved to this State, 

 and will try the business here. I think 

 that bees will do well here, for we have 

 plenty of maple and basswood. I think that 

 the Americ.vn Bee Journal is a grand 

 teacher to all bee-keepers. I was asked 

 quite frequently what was the cause of all 

 the bees dying, yet having plenty of honey. 

 By inquiring, I found that the bees had the 

 diarrhea, and the honey which the bees 

 had eaten, had been frozen. I lost several 

 colonies by the same cause last spring. In 

 this State every one leaves the bees on the 

 summer stands the year round; some 

 packed with chaff, and some are not 

 packed. J. S. Ptfer. 



Salem, Nebr., March 3, 1890. 



Hard to Keep Bees 4(ni«t. 



We put about 100 colonies into the cel- 

 lar, and have had some trouble to keep 

 them quiet. Some colonies have thrown 

 out some brood. We like the Bee Journal 

 and the Home Journal very much, and 

 their general circulation would do great 

 good. S. P. Heacock. 



Dudley, Iowa, Feb. 28, 1890. 



Ho^v a Boy Cures Bee-Stin&fs. 



On page 124, I read a letter telling bow 

 to cure bee-stings. I am only a little boy, 

 but I know what it is to be stung by bees. 

 My Pa keeps bees, and I help him to take 

 care of them. I am generally bare-footed 

 in swarming-time, and am quick on foot 

 when they begin to crawl up my pant's- 

 legs, and sting. My cure for stings is 

 lemons. Take a fresh lemon, pare, and 

 press the juice on the sting, and it will stop 

 the pain, and keep the swelling down. Or 

 take flour and honey, and make a paste, 

 and bind it on the sting. 



I do not take the Bee Journal, but my 

 Pa does, so I have the pleasure of reading 

 it, and I like it very much. Pa's bees are 

 wintering nicely. We have had a pleasant 

 winter so far, with very little snow. I wOl 

 be old enough to vote in eleven more years, 

 then I will try to keep bees and write for 

 the Bee Jouh'nal. Worthy E. Stoner. 



Atlantic, Iowa, March 4, 1890. 



