had regained her usual weight. Al- 

 though she did not continue to use it 

 as frequently as at first, at no time, if 

 she entirely left it off, did the bad symp- 

 toms fail to return. This confirmed us 

 in the belief that the honey had been 

 the chief agent in her improved health. 



Very far be it from me, to presump- 

 tuously assert, that I have found a 

 panacea for consumption, although in 

 Mrs. L.'s case, it proved to be so highly 

 efficacious. I believe that by its use 

 Mrs. L., who had lost her mother and 

 a sister from this disease, was able for 

 more than ten years to ward it off. She 

 died at last from a different disease, 

 having enjoyed before her fatal illness 

 better health than for some years. 

 Taking into account the above train of 

 facts and reasonings, I hope that any of 

 my readers who are threatened with 

 consumption, will give pure honey a 

 faithful trial. If procured in the comb 

 it should be sloioly heated until the wax 

 is all melted. When cool this may be 

 removed like a cake of cold grease, and 

 will be useful for many purposes. If 

 honey is found to disagree with any 

 one, it should be heated almost to the 

 boiling point. Milk taken with honey 

 often makes it more wholesome; and 

 honey and cream would doubtless be 

 more nutritious than honey alone. 

 Some may prefer to follow the practice 

 of the old man— both using honey freely, 

 and anointing the body with pure olive 

 oil. 



Oxford, O., January, 1879. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Dealers in Apiarian Supplies. 



BY JAMES HEDDON. 



This branch of our pursuit has had, 

 and is still having a potent influence 

 upon the success or failure of every 

 honey producer in the world. No one 

 can fail to see that the great law of 

 specialism is as advantageous in the 

 manufacture of our tools as of those of 

 the farmer, or of any other class. 



A good reason for specialty in the 

 manufacture of our supplies, is that as 

 soon as our bees are safely through the 

 trials of the cold season, we are busy 

 enough without any supply making. 

 Before we know how many and how 

 well our bees are coming through, is a 

 poor time to put capital and labor into 

 fixtures that we may not want to use, 

 and are almost sure to soon be left be- 

 hind as unworthy of use, being super- 

 seded by those much better. 



Producers have been, and still are too 

 radical in regard to the usefulness and 



advantages of apiarian supplies. Par- 

 ticularly is this the case with those of 

 less experience. While the manufac- 

 turers of a few of the useful and prac- 

 tical implements have blessed our pur- 

 suit, no class has done more to damage 

 bee-keepers at large, than apiarian sup- 

 ply dealers. 



If to sell us inferior hives and tools, 

 that soon had to be thrown away, was 

 all the damage, we could easily forgive 

 and forget ; but this is not a tithe of the 

 loss we must suffer. The deception 

 used in regard to the fortunes to be 

 made at apiculture, will ruin many be- 

 ginners, and severely test the strength 

 of the veterans. 



Some of these supply dealers, seeing 

 a chance to make their patrons pay for 

 the extensive advertising required by a 

 large business, now publish their circu- 

 lars monthly, and call them periodicals 

 " devoted to the interests of honey pro- 

 ducers." In them are puffed fixtures 

 enough to cost a small fortune, and clog 

 the successful working of any apiary. 



To cap the climax, the principal one 

 of these supply dealers has now nearly 

 ruined our foreign trade in honey, which 

 market seems to be our only future 

 hope. Of course he knows enough of 

 human nature to see that to tell bee- 

 keepers at large that glucose is a fine 

 thing to feed to bees (only to rear brood), 

 and is also a choice material to mix with 

 honey as an article of diet (to be labeled 

 " glucose and honey," of course), is to 

 indirectly encourage fraud and conse- 

 quent ruin to our pursuit ! I am thank- 

 ful that this man is fast coining into 

 light, where we can all see him as he is, 

 and lessen his power for harm. 



Now let us see if we can come to an 

 understanding of what is honest and just 

 supply dealing. I will give you my 

 ideas in part: 1. The dealer should give 

 some public guarantee that he is respon- 

 sible, and good for all money sent to 

 him. 2. He should rigidly adhere to the 

 " cash with the order" system, to enable 

 him to deal on small margins, and tempt 

 no man to dishonesty. 3. He should 

 adopt for his business motto "justice," 

 instead of " charity," and do business 

 like an honest man, upon business prin- 

 ciples, never playing "baby" to cover 

 up wrong committed, or sins he intends 

 to commit. He should be wise enough 

 to know that the religious dodge is too 

 old to catch business men. Bradstreet, 

 and other commercial reporters, say 

 nothing about the church a business man 

 belongs to, nor the political ticket he 

 votes. Neither do the men who are the 

 back-bone of our country care whether 

 one's children have " blue eyes" or grav 

 —either are good enough. 



