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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Money for Food and Ittedi- 

 cine^ were its health-producing prop- 

 erties more familiarly known, would be 

 appropriated to a much greater extent 

 than is found at the present time. 



That this valuable information is not 

 more extensively disseminated, and a 

 consequent increased demand felt, for 

 the sweet product of the bees, is largely 

 due to the apathy existing among those 

 who produce honey — by their failure to 

 take it upon themselves to inform their 

 neighbors of the facts concerning the 

 health-giving and health-keeping quali- 

 ties of this "nectar of the gods." 



When all appreciate the benefits to be 

 derived from its regular and constant 

 use, then will honey-producers begin to 

 realize the nobility of their pursuit, and 

 exert themselves to supply a demand 

 that will at once arise. 



The following paragraphs, taken from 

 the Chicago Daily Neivs of recent date, 

 endeavor to show something of the 

 value of honey as an article of diet and 

 remedial agent : 



But few people are cognizant of the 

 benefits to be derived from a moderate 

 use of honey as food. Saccharine mat- 

 ter, as a rule, is apt to affect the system 

 injuriously, but if taken in the form of 

 honey, it at once becomes a valuable 

 food and medicine. Instead of having 

 it given to us in combination with bulk 

 foods, as in the cane and beet, it is, in 

 the case of honey, mingled with fruit 

 juices derived from flowers highly 

 charged with medicinal properties. 



Honey taken as food becomes a power- 

 ful medicine to the sugar-fed and half 

 diseased, and many people must begin 

 on small quantities and acquire an appe- 

 tite for it. Foul air, improper ventila- 

 tion, coal gas and sudden changes of 

 temperature, and exposure of lungs and 

 throats to sudden chill are the source of 

 no end to throat and bronchial troubles. 

 A free, regular and constant use of 

 honey is probably the best medicine for 

 throat ti-oubles known, and its regular 

 use is largely corrective. 



The Foreign participation in the 

 World's Columbian Fair, up to the pres- 

 ent, embraces 72 Nations and Provinces. 



Hngflisli horticultural papers are 

 renewing their attack on American 

 apples, on the ground that they contain 

 arsenic, and the attacks are being gen- 

 erally copied in the daily press. The 

 charge is that growers sprinkle arsenic 

 on their trees to prevent the ravages of 

 a moth which eats nothing but apples 

 and pears. The editor of the Ho7-ti(nd- 

 tural Times is the author of the " arsenic 

 scare," as it is called. Immense quan- 

 tities of American apples are sold in 

 England, and bring high prices, which, 

 perhaps, explains the reason for the 

 attack. 



Spraying fruit trees, plants and vines 

 for the prevention of the ravages of 

 insects and fungus diseases, is no longer 

 an experiment, but a necessity, in order 

 to get large crops of perfect fruit. Of 

 course the spraying must not be done 

 while the trees are in bloom — but just as 

 the fruit is " set." 



For full information on this subject, 

 address William Stahl, manufacturer of 

 Excelsior Spraying Outfits, Quincy, Ills., 

 who will send free a full and complete 

 treatise on this subject. 



We are glad to be able to state that 

 Mr. Stahl gives proper directions for the 

 time of spraying, so that no damage 

 will result to the bees. He says : 



Apple trees should be sprayed twice — 

 when the apples are the size of peas, 

 and again in a week or ten days. Plum 

 trees should be sprayed three or four 

 times, at intervals of a week or ten 

 days, beginning as soon as the blossoms 

 have fallen. To spray an orchard will 

 cost, per spraying, for material and 

 labor of applying the mixture as well as 

 preparing it, from 15 to 25 cents per 

 acre. 



Very Fine samples of thin founda- 

 tion are received from W. W. Gary, of 

 Colerain, Mass. ; two of them being of 

 white wax, and all show excellent work- 

 manship. 



Xlie Amateur Bee-Keeper, 



by J. W. Rouse ; 52 pages. Price, 25c. 

 For sale at this office. 



