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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 12, 1905. 



L(et him take dram doses every hour for three hours before 

 he commences to work with them. The reason for the faith 

 that is in me is this : They used to hurt me. Last summer 

 I was taking it for a skin disease, and while under its in- 

 fluence I was stung by a wasp on the face and neck. When 

 stung I started to the house to get something to stop the 

 pain and swelling that I expected to sufl^er with, but instead 

 of pain and swelling as heretofore when stung, there was 

 no more of either than a mosquito or a gnat would have 

 caused." 



For the bee-keeper whose time is taken up entirely with 

 bees, working at them as long as he can see in the evening, 

 and going at it again about as soon as he is out of bed, it 

 would not be very convenient to take his dose three hours 

 in advance of work and hourly afterward ; although an 

 alarm clock might help out if he had the trick of promptly 

 falling to sleep again. Yet such treatment, if entirely re- 

 liable, might be warmly welcomed by some amateurs upon 

 whom the effect of a single sting is severe. 



Bee-stings for rheumatism and Bright's disease come 

 in for mention, one man saying: "I do not remember a 

 single person who has kept bees that has been bothered 

 with this troublesome disease". Which merely goes to 

 show that his sphere of observation has been very limited. 



The editor is sufficiently up-to-date to say that the 

 poison of the bee is something essentially different from 

 formic acid. 



Right in line with the foregoing is the following " scien- 

 tific note " sent us as a clipping by Dr. Peiro, whom quite 

 a number of our readers know both by reputation and also 

 personally : 



"Investigation of the poison of bees has shown M. 

 Phisalix three distinct active principles, one of which pro- 

 duces inflammation and the second causes convulsion, while 

 the third stupefies. The poison is secreted by two glands, 

 the acid one yielding the stupefying and inflammatory sub- 

 stances, and the alkaline one the substance causing con- 

 vulsions. The observations included the poisoning of a 

 sparrow by the stings of two or three bees. The bird 

 showed weakening within five minutes, then progressive 

 increase of the partial paralysis, which, at last, became a 

 mere trembling, interrupted by periods of somnolence. 

 Death came in two or three hours." 



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General Manager France, of Wisconsin, called on 

 us last week when passing through Chicago on his way to 

 New York State, where he will speak on bees and bee-dis- 

 eases at farmers' institutes and bee-keepers' conventions 

 during much of the time this month. It will be a treat for 

 New York bee-keepers to hear Mr. France. 



Luna W. Elmore, of Jefi'erson Co., Iowa, when send- 

 ing his renewal subscription dollar for 1905, added these 

 appreciative words : 



" I can't get along without a good bee-paper like the 

 American Bee Journal. . All bee-keepers should read every 

 copy. If one has only one colony of bees, a good bee-paper 

 will help him to give that one colony the proper care." 



A Slx-Foot Swarm.— George Hodges, of Allegany Co., 

 N. Y., sends us the following which originally appeared in 

 the Friendship Register last summer : 



Mr. John Todd, who has a large apiary of nearly ISO 

 colonies of bees, reported an unusual sight Tuesday of sev- 

 eral colonies of bees that had swarmed and hung to a limb, 

 one swarm after another caught on until the string of bees 

 was nearly six feet long, and so heavy the limb finally 



broke with them. He said if they could have been photo- 

 graphed it would have made a great picture. 



Mr. Hodges then added that he had had the same thing 

 himself many times when the weather was warm. 



A Queen-Bee Free as a Premium.— We are now 

 booking orders for untested Italian queens to be delivered 

 in May or June. This is the premium offer : To a sub- 

 scriber whose own subscription to the American Bee Jour- 

 nal is paid at least to the end of 1905, we will give an un- 

 tested Italian queen for sending us one new subscription with 

 $1.00 for the Bee Journal a year. Now is a good time to 

 get new subscribers. If you wish extra copies of the Bee 

 Journal for use as samples, let us know how many you want 

 and we will mail them to you. Address all orders to the 

 office of the American Bee Journal. 



" The Fort Snelllng Apiary " is the name of the 

 bee-yard shown on the front page this week. It is located 

 on the north shore of the Mississippi River, nearly opposite 

 where the Minnesota River empties into the Mississippi 

 River, and near Fort Snelling. It is a beautiful place, and 

 Mr. and Mrs. Acklin have often entertained their friends 

 at luncheon at this apiary. The honey-house and Mr. 

 Acklin are shown in the picture. This apiary is run mostly 

 for extracted honey. Three nucleus hives are shown, but 

 more nucleus hives, colonies, and a bee-cave are to the 

 right and not shown in the picture. 



A Bee and Red Clover Calendar for 1905 has been 

 received at this office from Mr. W. F. Marks, of New York, 

 the chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. The outside dimensions of the card- 

 board are SJixW^^. The illustration, 5x6 inches, shows a 

 large honey-bee and six red clover heads. This latter is 

 pasted near the top of the card, and the calendar below it. 

 At the upper left-hand corner are shown several white em- 

 bossed bees on a gold background. Altogether it is a very 

 attractive calendar, and should be in every bee-keeper's 

 home. Perhaps Mr. Marks will offer them for sale. 



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©pinions v of 

 Some (Experts 



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Producing Marketable Comb Honey Without 

 Separators. 



20. — Can marketable sections of hotiey be satisfactorily produced 



wit /tout separators? 



EuGKNB Secor (Iowa) — No. 



Adrian Gbtaz (Tenn.) — No. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown (Ga.)— Yes. 



C. H. DiBBERN (111.) — No, no, no. 



Rkv. M. Mahin (Ind.) — I think not. 



J. M. Hambaugh (Calif.)— I think not. 



G. M. DoouTTLE (N. Y.)— Not with Doolittle. 



Mrs. J. M. Ndli, (Mo.) — No, not as a general rule. 



Prof. A. J. Cook (Calif.) — Yes, but not invariably by 

 me. 



P. H. Elwood (N. Y.) — I should answer no, emphat- 

 ically. 



L,. SXACHELHAUSBN (Tex.) — I do not know, but I do not 

 think they can. 



Wm. Rohrig (Ariz.) — As a rule, I should not. I would 

 use separators. 



