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Mim AflE. 9, 1890, No, 32. 



Reports from western Kansas state 

 tbat the hot winds of the last few days 

 have so burned up the corn that some fields 

 will not yield a single ear. We do not know 

 how that may be, but the "hot wave" has 

 ruined the honey crop in places too numer- 

 ous to mention. 



We have received a copy of the 

 memorial ceretuonies at the funeral of Mr 

 Hiram Chapman, at Versailles, N. Y. It 

 contains ten superbly printed pages, and a 

 cover, and is well worth preserving by his 

 many friends. The address of the Hon. 

 Norman M. Allen, of Dayton, N. Y., at the 

 grave, is an eloquent tribute to the mem- 

 ory of the deceased. 



Won can Xell the day and about the 

 hour when to expect the swarms, and can 

 tell about eight days previous to their 

 swarming by the construction of queen- 

 cells. If cells are just started you can, if 

 nothing happens, look for the swarm In 

 eight days. If the cells are full size, and 

 being sealed over, the swarm is due, and 

 if the weather is fair, they will likely issue. 

 — Excluinge. 



Ants in the jli>iary are very an- 

 noying, and hence we are frequently re- 

 quested to give some method by which 

 they may be exterminated. The following 

 from the Scientijie American seems to be 

 highly recommended : 



Buy one-half pound or more of corrosive 

 sublimate, powder it very fine, and strew 

 the same sparingly on the ground, also in 

 the crevices, nests, and trails of the ants, 

 and I guarantee the ants will leave your 

 lawn and premises as quick as they have 

 come. Corrosive sublimate is a deadly 

 poison, and should be handled with care. 



IMore I>i«-M iiboiit Coni1> Honey. 



— The followiu;^ letter and item will show 

 what is still going the rounds of the press : 



Kixci^TON, Out., July 29, 1890. 

 I send you an item cut from the ^mufcu?' 

 Sport.sma?i, published at 6 College Place, 

 New York. Is there no way to stop such 

 lies being published 1 C. H. Coiibett. 



Here is the item referred to in the above 

 letter : 



Artificial honey, which is more common 

 in the market than customers know, is 

 made of potato starch and oil of vitriol. 

 Some rash optimists think that they are 

 sure of getting the genuine product of bees 

 and flowers by purchasing honey in the 

 comb. They do not know that the exquisite 

 white comb that pleases them is often 

 made of paraffine wax. — Herald of Health. 



Impatiently, Mr. Corbett asks, "Is there 

 no way to stop such lies from being pub- 

 lished ?" That is the question ! At present 

 we see no way to stop publishers from 

 giving their readers. such "potions " of lies 

 if they desire to do so. They are after the 

 sensation that will bring in the dollar, and 

 continually do they publish what they cer- 

 tainly ought to know is nothing but fabri- 

 cation — all becau.se it pays to do so ! 



An " Amateur " may be excused, but the 

 " Sportsman " is surely " making sport " of 

 the matter, or should know better than to 

 publish such bare faced falsehoods. The idea 

 of artificial honey being made of "potato 

 starch and oil of vitriol," and the combs of 

 "paraffine !" A nice mess, truly ! 



Just think of it — this infamous death- 

 dealing compound is credited to the Herald 

 of Health! 



All this is but a distorted re-statement of 

 the Wiley lie, which the author allowed to 

 be repeated for seven years without one 

 word from him to counteract its baneful 

 influence, when he. knew that it was a false- 

 hood from beginning to end, without the 

 sMghtest foundation to rest upon ! 



His silence gave color to the story, and 

 allowed others to paint it red, and flaunt it 

 in the face of the world ! The greatest lie 

 of the age has been told and retold in every 

 land under the sun ; and it has been told so 

 often that thousands now believe it ! 



In vain is it that the Professor, in sheer 

 desperation, admitted its untruthfulness 

 some two years ago ! He allowed it to run 

 until the scandal-mongers got hold of it, 

 and now he is powerless to prevent them 

 from " rolling it under their tongues as a 

 sweet morsel," and ever and anon repeat- 

 ing it to the wonder and amazement of the 

 unsophisticated. 



They spice it with "potato starch" and 

 "oil of vitriol," "just for the fun" of see- 

 ing those not posted " swallow it at one 

 gulp," and bung their eyes out with won- 

 der and amazement ! This age has a won- 

 derful development for scandal ! 



The people like to be humbugged— and 

 they are accommodated very readily ! 



How dull it would have been without 

 Prof. Wiley and his magnificent comb 

 honey "lie !" 



Xlie 4»r<l<-r of the lloni-y-ltee.— 



This order was established in the year 

 1703, by Louise of Sceaux, Duchess of 

 Maine. The medal of the Order consisted 

 of gold 14 grains and 63 centigrams, and 

 has the image of the founder of the order, 

 with the inscription L. R. D. S. G. D. P. D. 

 L. O. D. L. M. A. M. ; Louise of Sceaux as 

 continuous head of the Order, on one side, 

 and on the other a returning bee to her 

 hive, with the inscription, Plcola sirnafa 

 rjravileferite, i.e., "Small, but able to 

 strike deep wounds ;" representing the 

 small stature of the Duchess. 



The oath which the members of the 

 Order were to take, was as follows; "I 

 swear by the honey of Mount Hymettus, to 

 be true and faithful to the founder of this 

 Order, and to wear the medal during my 

 natural life ; and should I ever break my 

 oath, then may the honey be turned into 

 gall, wax into tallow, the honey-flower 

 into thistle, and bees and hornets may 

 destroy my life with their stings." — Trans- 

 lated from tlie Oerman by Rev. S. Roese. 



Mr. tiS. W. Memaree, of Christians- 

 burg, Ky., has this to say in a communica- 

 tion dated Aug. 3,' 1890, concerning his 

 honey crop, and in reference to an error 

 made by the printer in his reply to Query 

 721, on page 517 : 



" I have secured over an average crop of 

 honey from white clover. Owing to irregu- 

 lar weather, the yield of comb honey has 

 not been in the usual proportion to the 

 clear article. I was taken with Sciatic 

 rheumatism right in the best of the honey- 

 flow, and lost heavily for want of skilled 

 help. I am still suffering severely with 

 Sciatic pains. 



In my answer to Query No. 721, the 

 third line from the bottom, the word "not" 

 is omitted ; the reading should be — "did 

 not lay eggs until the following spring, etc. 



A Xea-Spoontiil of warm honey ta- 

 ken every 15, 20 or 30 minutes, has a sur- 

 prising effect on catarrh. Every family 

 should have some pure honey in the house 

 in order at once, after catching cold, to be 

 able to use it. 



Frank Coverdale's article, publish- 

 ed on page 520, was written on July 14. 

 He dated it June, by mistake. This cor- 

 rection is make because it states that the 

 honey harvest for white clover was over, 

 etc. Such a remark will "fit" better in 

 July than in June. 



Xlie Censins Illustrated sounds 

 rather startling, but that is just what this 

 week's " Frank Leslie's Illustrated News- 

 paper" does. It is the work of F. W. 

 Hewes, whose studies have received in- 

 dorsement both at home and abroad. This 

 chart tells graphically at a glance what 

 one could not learn from a mere array of 

 figures in many hours. The themes of the 

 pictures are as varied and as interesting in 

 this issue as usual. 



