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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



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until next winter, or until the next 

 regular session of Congress, whieh 

 ought to be ample time to get things 

 in shape to strike a telling blow at our 

 most dangerous enemy. All that is 

 needed is for the right man to take 

 hold of it and the co-operation of the 

 producers of honey, sugar syrups, etc. 



C. P. Dadant tells in the American 

 Bee Journal how to make honey vine- 

 gar. He uses from H to 2 pounds of 

 honey to a gallon of water, using an 

 egg to test the strength of the sweet- 

 ened water, adding honey until a por- 

 tion of the egg the size of a dime ap- 

 pears above the surface of the water. 

 He then puts it in a cask and keeps it 

 at a temperature ranging from 70 to 

 90 and 100 degrees, leaving the bung 

 out of the cask so that it can get 

 plenty of air to cause the fermentation. 



" Honey and Tar Cough Cure : — Put 

 into boiling water a shallow, tin dish 

 containing a tablespoonful of tar. 

 When the tar is hot add a pint of ex- 

 tracted honey, and stir well for half an 

 hour, adding to it a level teaspoonful 

 of pulverized borax. Keep in a bottle 

 well corked. Dose, a teaspoonful 

 every 1, 2 or 3 hours, according to the 

 severity of cough." — Dr. Perio in A. 

 B. J. We have just tried this in our 

 own family and tiud it excellent. 



Some one, I don't remember who or 

 where, made the assertion that buck- 

 wheat houey was a cure and prevent- 

 ative of foul brood. And some one 

 else, I think it was Dr. Miller, said by 

 way of comment, that there might be 

 something in it and if there was it was 

 valuable to know. In reply to the 

 above I would say that western 

 Pennsylvania is noted for its great 

 crops of buckwheat and fiae buck- 

 wheat honey. And nopartof it more 

 so than northern Butler and southern 

 Venango counties. In fact the inhabi- 

 tants of this section are dubed " buck- 

 wheats," and right in this very section 

 there has been foul brood for a num- 



ber of years. I personally know of 

 two whole apiaries that were complete- 

 ly wiped out by it. 

 Franklin, Pa. 



Bee keepers, and especially those 

 just beginning the pursuit, should 

 be careful to purchase their supplies 

 of an old and reliable firm and prefer- 

 ably of manufacturers. They will 

 then be sure of getting goods whose 

 merits can be depended upon and are 

 not liable to be fooled into buying 

 something, patented or otherwise, 

 that is of little use for any purpose 

 unless it be to burn. Almost the old- 

 est and largest manufacturers of bee 

 keepers supplies in this country and 

 equally reliable as any is the W. T. 

 Falconer Man'fg Co. They have been 

 making supplies for fully fifteen years, 

 and their goods have a reputation 

 everywhere that bees are kept, for 

 their superior quality and merits. 



They do not, like some of their 

 competitors, pick up every " new 

 idea " that comes along with hopes of 

 inveigling a few more dollars with it 

 from the pockets of the unsuspicious 

 and unsophisticated "brethren" only 

 to drop it when sales begin to decline, 

 but they adopt only tried and proven 

 inventions, and for that reason have 

 gained the name " reliable." Their 

 prices are always as low, or even low- 

 er than others , and those who pur- 

 chase once usually continue their 

 customers. They make almost every- 

 thing used in the apiary, including 

 hives, extractors, smokers, etc. If 

 you have never bought anything of 

 them, give them a trial this season, 

 and see how well you will be treated. 

 You will come again. 



