THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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QUEER THINGS THAT ARE PA- 

 TENTED. 



There is a claim in the patent office 

 for a patent on the Lord's prayer, the 

 specifications being that the repetition 

 of the same "rajiidly and in a loud tone 

 of voice" will cure stammering. 



Among odd inventions are -'chicken 

 hopples," which walk the chicken 

 right out of the garden when she tries 

 to scratch ; "the bee moth excluder," 

 which automatically shuts up the bee- 

 hives when the bees go to roost ; ''the 

 tapeworm fishhook," which speaks for 

 itself; the ' educational balloon," a toy 

 balloon with a map of the world on its 

 surface ; "sidehill annihilators, "stilts to 

 fit on the down hill legs of a horse when 

 he is plowing along a hill side ; and the 

 "hen surpriser," a device that drops 

 the newly laid egg through the bottom 

 of the nest, with intent to beguile and 

 wheedle the hen into at once laying 

 another. — Exchange. 



APICULTURIST MAIL BOX. 



CUBAN HONEY YIELDS. 

 From news which comes to us from 

 Cuba, it is a wonderful honey country. 

 The flow begins in December and lasts 

 until May, and does not entirely cease 

 at any season of the year. The honey 

 produced is mainly extracted, of good 

 quality for Southern honey, and sells at 

 from 50 to 70 cents per gallon in New 

 York City. The yields reported are some 

 of them very large, as much as 150 to 

 200 pounds per colony, from apiaries 

 ranging from 460 to 500 colonies. — 

 Rural Homes. 



HONEY AS MEDICINE. 



The public are waking up to the im- 

 portance of honey as a remedy for ills 

 that flesh is heir to. A boy comes regu- 

 larly to our honey-house, saying, "I 

 want some more honey for father." He 

 says that honey is the best medicine for 

 his lungs that he has ever had. Honey 

 is in demand for the baby's sore mouth, 

 sister's throat, and mother's cough, etc. 

 — Mrs. L. Harrison in Prairie Far- 



SPr-EXDID CAUXIOLAX QUEKX. 



The Carniolan queen is splendid, 

 her brood is just hatching large, beau- 

 tiful and quiet, with every frame full. 



Jos. P. Brown, Colora, Md. 



QUEEN SUCCESSFULLY INTRODUCED. 



Friend Alley : Your beautiful yel- 

 low queen came to hand all right, and 

 has been successfully introduced, I 

 think, for the colony seems to have new 

 life. 



It had been without a queen several 

 weeks and had become indolent. Also 

 your golden covered monthly Apicul- 

 TURiST contains golden ideas. I like 

 it, and so long as its pages are so rich 

 and practical, I shall welcome its visits 

 to my home. 



C. M. Herring, Brunstuick, Maine. 



HOW IT WORKS. 



Mr. Alley : P^iiclosed find 75 cents for 



prfminin queen to sul)scrn)er. 



booked uiy order Corqueen last December. 

 Now he writes that I can have my money 

 or wait till Jnly for queen. 



John C. Rogers. 



Stamford, New York. 



You did a wise thing Rro. R. in send- 

 ing here for a queen. You not only get 

 one by return mail, but you will get as 

 good a queen for the 75 cents as can 

 be purchased for $5 of any other deal- 

 er. It looks as though the 5 -band adv. 

 took you in. You will find the bees 

 from the queen we send you as hand- 

 some as any 5 -banded bees in the world. 



BEES DOING WELL. 



Bees are doing well here and the 

 weather so far has been favorable. With 

 the help of the Api I hope to make 

 them a success this year even if I am 

 only a woman. 

 Mrs. a. L. Hallenbeck, Millard, Neb- 



