1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



83 



According to a German bee paper 

 the black bee holtis a degree of favor 

 in that country equal to that wiih 

 which the Itaiiau is regarded in 

 Anjorica. 



The new Kepublican tariff hill ini- 

 pos-.s aa additional 10 cents p.'r gal- 

 lon upon honey imported from l'orei^':n 

 countries. Under the new schedule 

 the duty is 20 cents per gallon. 



The house fly makes 310 stiokes a 

 second with its wings ; the bee 190, 

 says an exchange. 



Si)me of our readers may profit by 

 the following anonymous advice from 

 an unknown source : " If hives of bees 

 are in close quarters, where the air 

 does not circulate freely, and the 

 direct rays of the sun are upon them 

 during the hot summer months, there 

 is danger of the combs all melting 

 down in a mass and the colony being 

 entirely destroyed. They should have 

 shade of some kind during the hottest 

 part of the day." 



" The secrets of large honey crops 

 are strong colonies and abundance of 

 storage room, together with a good 

 honey flow. Don't be so foolish as to 

 neglect to give your bees a place to 

 store honey. This is done very fre- 

 quently by placing on a small surplus 

 capacity, and then complain at the 

 end of the season that the bees did 

 not store you 200 pounds of honey in 

 a ten pound box." The author of 

 this bit of information and advice is 

 also unknown to us. He has, howev- 

 er, evidently had something to do 

 with bees, and the suggestion is a 

 good one. 



Garden Seeds as' Premium. 



We will send the American Bee 

 Keeper one year and a box of choice 

 garden seeds, retail value $1.60, for 

 only GO cents. 



PKLICACY OP THE SENSE OF SMELL. 



Tie delicacy of the sense of smell almost 

 surpa-ses belief. A single grain of musk 

 has been known to perfume a room for 

 tweii; V years. At the lowe&t computation 

 that ^r-An of musk must have been diyided 

 into three hundred and twenty million mill- 

 ion particles, each individually capable of 

 affecting the organs of smell. — March 

 Ladies' Home Journal. 



Clubbing List. 



We will send the American BeeIveeper with 



the— PUB. PRCE. BOTH. 



American Bee Journal, (8100) '^§5 



Bee-Keeper's Review, (1 00) 1 35 



Giinadian Bee Journal, (1 00) 1 35 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, (1 00) 1 35 



flow to Treat a Wound. 



Three useful things to have in a 

 farr-^r's h< "se as a provision in case of 

 wounds not snfificicuily serious to neces- 

 sitate the calling in of the medical at- 

 tendant are a spool of adhesive plaster, 

 some iodoform gauze and a package of 

 carboKiti d al.sorbent cotton. Cleanse and 

 dry as neariy as may be the cut surface 

 with a wad of the cotton, using moder- 

 ate pressure and elevating the part if 

 necessary to chock the flow of blood. Do 

 not apply any water. Bring the cut sur- 

 face together as accurate as possible and 

 retain them there with as few and as 

 narrow strips of the plaster as will suf- 

 fice, cutting them of a good length. 

 Then cover the wound with a dozen of 

 so thicknesses of the iodoform gauze, 

 which should extend an inch beyond tha 

 wound. Over the gauze apply a liberal 

 layer of the absorbent cotton, allowing 

 it to extend beyond the gauze. The cot- 

 ton may be kept in place by a bandage 

 of cheesecloth, or a part of a leg of a 

 stocking may be drawn over it. Moder- 

 ate pressure, if evenly distributed, is 

 helpful. The pressure of a string is hurt- 

 ful. Keep the part moderately elevated 

 and take care that there is no constric- 

 tion of the limb above the wound by a 

 garter. — Exchange. 



