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Xo Uestroy Ants. 



A correspondent asks for an efficient 

 remedy for ants in the apiary. The follow- 

 ing will give the desired information : 



To destroy large ants of the kinds which 

 gnaw holes through corks of molasses jugs, 

 and get into sugar boxes and barrels, and 

 sweets generally, sprinkle a little sugar or 

 molasses where they will find it. When 

 they get well baited, sprinkle a little good 

 insect powder among the sweets— just a 

 light sprinkling— and keep them supplied 

 as long as they will come for it. They will 

 go back to their nest, some of them can-y- 

 ing enough on their feet to destroy them all. 



To destroy small red ants, dust a little in- 

 sect powder for an inch or two around the 

 leg of the table which they crawl up, and 

 the next morning the table will be free of 

 them, if no other way has been used by 

 them. Do not sprinkle so much powder 

 that they cannot crawl through it ; their 

 legs are short. A good many of them will 

 be found close to the powder, but some will 

 carry off a little powder on their feet. It is 

 well to sprinkle powder along the road they 

 travel. When on a permanent shelf, find, 

 if possible, the road they use and dust it. 

 If you cannot find their roads, dust the 

 whole shelf lightly, and they will disappear. 

 It sometimes takes four years to entirely 

 desti'oy these ants. 



Bee-HitinB's for Rlaeiimatisni. 



Dr. Terc, of Vienna, Austria, has again 

 tried bee-stings on a rheumatic patient. 

 Upon saturating the patient's system with 

 the bee-poison, the rheumatism disappeared 

 — not to return again for a long time. 

 Dr. Terc has applied his remedy in 175 

 cases, and has inflicted 39,000 stingings, 

 and now keeps a colony of bees on his 

 premises, to be employed in this work. So 

 says en exchange. 



1^" A complimentary notice of Mi-. I. 

 R. Good appears in the Nappanee Xews, 

 from which we copy the following : 



Mr. Good has been one of our most en- 

 ergetic citizens, having built many dwell- 

 ing houses here during the past two years. 

 As a member of the Town Board, his ser- 

 vices were acceptable to our citizens, as 

 rendered by a conscientious worker. The 

 JVews regi'ets to see him take his dearture. 



Artificial Comb Honey. 



The old "gag" from the Herald of 

 Health, comes up again, and is going the 

 rounds of the press again. Here it is : 



Artificial honey, which is more common 

 in the mai'ket than consumers 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 ex- 

 quisite white comb that pleases them is 

 often made of paraffine wax. 



If it is so common on the market, why 

 does not some one produce a pound or so of 

 it, and show it as a sample? Not a pound 

 of it has ever yet come to light! No, not 

 an ounce of it ! ! Gentlemen, either show 

 us a sample, or stop this lying about the 

 matter ! 



Xlie rarni Journal, Philadelphia, 

 Pa., has the largest circulation of any agri- 

 cultural periodical in the world— 150,000, It 

 is now in its 13th volume, and is a good, 

 practical Monthly. We can offer the Farm. 

 Journal and either the American Bee 

 Journal or the Ii.i.ustrated Home 

 Journal from now until Dec. 31, 1S90, for 

 $1.20. 



Or, we will give it free for one year to 

 any one who will send us one new sub- 

 scriber for either of our Journals with $1.00 

 (the subscription price). 



This grand offer should bring us thou- 

 sands of responses at once. 



Honey Almanac 



Concerning this helpful annual, Mr. C. 

 Theilmann makes some suggestions. He 

 says : 



The Honey Almanac will surely pay 

 honey-producers, and make large returns, 

 if all will take hold of the matter in earnest 

 and distribute them liberally with their 

 honey. The cost is so small (only IJ-j' cents 

 each, by the thousand) that we can all af- 

 ford to work together and distribute them — 

 making a rousing advertisement, and sell- 

 ing the whole honey crop ; at the same time 

 we are furnishing the best and healthiest 

 of sweets to consumers. 



Honey is an excellent medicine for sore 

 eyes ; it is as good as anything that can be 

 had. Apply the honey by dropping it into 

 the eyes before going to bed, or after lying 

 down. If it is too strong, dilute it. It is 

 good for man or beast. 



Its 32 pages are filled with interesting 

 facts, figures and suggestions concerning 

 the uses of Honey for Food, Beverages, 

 Cooking, Medicines, Cosmetics, Vinegar, 

 etc. Also, its effects on the human system 

 are tersely noted ; a brief refutation is given 

 of the Wilej' lie about manufactured comb 

 honey ; a short dissertation sets forth the 

 mission of bees in fertilizing the flowers, 

 and increasing the fruit product. Instead 

 of being an injury to fruit, bees are the 

 fruit-gi'owers' best friends. 



Beeswax, its uses, how to render it, and its 

 importance as a commercial product, is de- 

 scribed, and 17 useful Becipes are given. 



Each alternate page is an illustrated 

 calendar for the month— making a complete 

 Almanac for the year 1890. 



This Honey Almanac places in the hands 

 of bee-keepers a powerful lever to revolu- 

 tionize public sentiment, and create a mar- 

 ket for honey, by making a demand for it 

 in every locality in America. 



Wisdom would dictate that a million of 

 them be scattered liy the first of January. 



Prices: *2.50 per 100; 500 copies for 

 SIO.OO; 1,000 copies for *15.00, delivered 

 at the freight or express office here. The 

 bee-keeper's Card will be printed upon the 

 first page, without extra cost, when 100 or 

 more are ordered at one time. Postage, 40 

 cents per 100 extra. All orders can now be 

 filled as soon as received. 



Wooden Combs. 



Mr. L. A. Aspinwall, of Three Rivei-s, 

 Mich., had on exhibition at the late conven- 

 tion in Chicago, a wooden comb, which had 

 been used by the bees for two seasons. This 

 he had placed in our Museum for the in- 

 spection of our visitors. 



These combs were mentioned on page 

 616, by Prof. Cook, who has also a colony 

 of bees working on them. 



In order to make such "combs," pieces 

 of wood of the right thickness are sawed 

 from the end of a pine block. In the sides 

 of these pieces of wood, holes like cells are 

 bored by gangs of little " bits," which are 

 not allowed to meet, leaving a " base " for 

 the cells. These " combs " are then dipped 

 in melted wax, and placed in a honey ex- 

 tractor, and the surplus wax tlirown off by 

 the extractor being run rapidly. 



Mr. Aspinwall claims these advantages 

 for the wooden combs : 



1. The combs are absolutely straight, and 

 the cells perfect. 

 3. They are very durable. 



3. They will admit of rough transporta- 

 tion. 



4. The bee-moth's larvse cannot infest 

 them. 



5. The honey can be extracted without 

 any possibility of injury to the combs. 



6. They admit of permanent queen and 

 winter passages. 



7. Drone and worker increase can be 

 controlled, drone-traps being unnecessary. 



8. An increased yield of comb honey can 

 be obtained, by reason of a preference for 

 natural comb, queen-excluding honey- 

 boads being necessai-y. 



9. The queen can be found more readily, 

 there being no spaces between the edges of 

 the comb and the frame, in which she can 

 hide. 



10. The great advantage to be derived 

 from its use, one of more value than all the 

 others combined, is that the hive furni.shed 

 with this comb may be used as a swarmer 

 or a iiofi-swarmer, as desired. 



In addition to this, says Mr. Aspinwall, 

 "should it prove to a be a perfect non- 

 swarmer, the success of bee-keeping will 

 not necessarily depend upon its being cou- 

 ducted'as a specialtj'; but with non-swarm- 

 ing hives, a hundred colonies of bees can 

 quite readily be handled in connection with 

 some other jjursuits. Of course I refer to a 

 non-swarmer without manipulation. We 

 can succeed in that direction at present by 

 excessive manipulation, which of course 

 will not pay." 



As it is impossilile for bees to rear drones 

 in these combs, Mr. Aspinwall reasons that 

 as they will not swarm without drones, 

 the)' will not swarm at all. 



We shall watch this invention with in- 

 terest, and keep our readers posted as to its 

 progi-ess. 



Convention Notices. 



f^~ At the request of several bee-keepers, I here- 

 by make a call for a meeting at Uigeinsvitle, Mo., on 

 Thursday, Nov. 14. 1S89, at 9 a.m.. for only one dajf, 

 for the purpose of organizing a bee-beepers' associ- 

 ation. Let all bee-keepers attend, that can do so. 

 J. W. KODSE. Santa Fe, Mo. 



t^~ The Northern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its annual meeting in the Supervisors* ' 

 Room of the Court House, at Rockford. Ills., on 

 Dec. 16 and 17. 1889. D. A. FDLLEK, Sec. 



