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It, but it keeps right on " bearinR " honey until it freezes. It 

 will withstand more drouth than any other plant, sweet clovpr 

 not excepted. For best results, it should be sown in the /((/;, 

 in seed-beds, like tobacco, and transplanted In rows about 

 four feet apart, and cultivated a few times during the season. 



We might say that we have arranged with Mr. Williaius 



to furnish us some seed of the Simpson honey-plant in time 



for it to be sown next fall. The price will be, one ounce for 



20 cents, or two ounces for 35 cents, postpaid. Or, we will 



send one ounce as a premium for sending us one iieio six 



months' subscriber for the Bee Journal at 50 cents, or two 



ounces for one 7icifi subscriber for a year, at .^1.00. Orders 



can be sent in any time, and they will be filled in rotation as 



soon as we get the seed from Mr. Williams, who will write an 



article describing fully just how to grow the plant, in time to 



be of use next fall. 



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Honey-Letnonade. — Mr. C. Davenport, in Glean- 

 ings, speaks highly of the merits of lemonade made with 

 honey. He claims a greater refreshing effect than from ordi- 

 nary lemonade. He tells about it thus : 



There is another way some honey can be very profitably 

 used by bee-keepers, and that is by converting it into honey- 

 lemonade, as occasion may offer As the people of our 



town celebrated the Fourth of July last year, I resolved to 

 give the matter a trial that day. I was notable to leave home 

 myself, but I got two young meu in the neighborhood inter- 

 ested in the matter, and they were eager to try it on shares. 

 We took a low wagon with a big hay-rack on it, and fitted a 

 canvas top over it and to one side. The other side was left 

 open except for a strip of canvas at the top, on which was 

 printed in large letters of red and blue — " Pure Honey 

 Lemonade." 



I furnisht a number of newly-built combs in brood-frames 

 to hang up on the back side of the rack. Quite a display was 

 also made of section honey, and extracted in glass of different 

 sizes ; a frame of bees with a queen, in an observatory hive, 

 and two boxes with wire-cloth on both sides, containing bees, 

 were also used to attract attention. The whole was decorated 

 with evergreens, flags and flowers. I furnisht a steady team 

 so the boys could haul the " rig " around where the people 

 were the thickest. 



Before and after the Fourth we had some very hot 

 weather ; but the glorious Fourth was a cool, cloudy, even 

 chilly day, compared with the weather just before; and on 

 this accountjour sales were not what they would have been on 

 a warm day. Many of the other lemonade stands did not pay 

 expenses; but the boys gave me S13.45 as my share of the 

 profits on the sale of lemonade. The whole time the three of 

 us spent in arranging the wagon was not over half a day. 

 The lemonade was made just the same as any, except pure 

 extracted clover honey was used to sweeten it instead of 

 sugar. While I do not know that many would like its taste 

 any better than that sweetened with sugar, it is certainly 

 much more refreshing, aud has a pleasant or stimulating 

 effect. We used a large amount of it at our place last sum- 

 mer; and many of the neighbors who drank some, bought 

 honey to make it. 



In selling honey-lemonade at a public stand, those who 

 buy it seem to notice its refreshing effect, and return for more. 

 I believe it is a very healthful drink, and I am going to see if 

 it will keep when bottled up air-tight. If it will, I intend to 

 put some of it on sale this summer among druggists and 

 grocers. 



Encyclopedia for Bees'wax. — Some time ago we 

 offered a splendid work of eight large volumes, called "The 

 New Standard American Encyclopedia," having nearly 4,001) 

 pages, and over 300 colored maps, charts, and diagrams. 

 Size of volume, 2 inches thick, 8Jt' wide, and 113-^ long. As 

 per that offer, last publisht on page 18<i, the eight volumes 

 were offered by freight for only .S19 cash. We can furnish 

 a set or two at that price, bound in half morroco ; or will ex- 

 change a set for 75 pounds of yellow beeswax, delivered at 

 our office. You would be more than satisfied with the Kn- 

 cyclopedla, and a set of such books ought to be in every 

 family for reference. 



Ti;?e Weekly Budget. 



Rev. W. p. Faylor, a bee-keeper and apiarian writer of 

 Franklin Co., Iowa, is also associate editor of The Parish Out- 

 look. 



Mr. J. W. Van Allen, of Crawford Co., Wis., wrote us 

 May 31, that he was suffering from a head trouble, and that 

 his physician advised complete rest. We regret to hear this, 

 and trust that Mr. Van Allen may soon be all right again. 



Mr. Percy Stone — son of Secretary Jas. A. Stone, of the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association — made the Bee Journal 

 office a pleasant call last week. He had been employed in 

 Chicago the past few months, but was on his way back to the 

 good old farm in Sangamon county. 



Mr. W. H. Pridgen, of Warren Co., N. C, has sent us 

 his "catalog and price-list of queens, together with combined 

 and improved methods of queen-rearing." It presents a neat 

 appearance, and should prove a good advertisement for Mr. 

 Pridgen, who is a promising young bee-keeper of the South. 



Mr. J. Q. Smith, of Logan Co., 111., wrote us June 3, as 

 follows : 



" My bees are in fine condition. I had 8 swarms in May. 

 The prospects for clover honey are good. I am putting on 

 sections. The weather is rather cool." 



Mr. M. M. Miller, of Livingston Co., III., called on us 

 recently. He reported the prospects good. Last year bee- 

 keeping was practically a failure in his locality, but the year 

 before they had a good crop. One colony that year yielded 

 $20 worth of honey. But last year it didn't produce an 

 ounce. 



Mr. C. M. McLean, of Baltimore Co., Md., wrote us May 

 25, when sending his renewal subscription : 



"The American Bee Journal has reacht me regularly, 

 and I must commend you for its prompt appearance every 

 week, and for its sterling worth." 



Rev. L. J. Templin, of San Diego Co., Calif., wrote May 

 17: 



" I don't see much merit in those taking the American 

 Bee Journal who, as they say, can't get along without it. Now 

 I could get along without it, but I won't as long as can get it 

 — so, there !" 



"Peof. Lawrence Bruner, so favorably known by those 

 who attended the Lincoln convention, has been employed by 

 the Argentine Republic to study the grasshopper plague 

 they've had for ten years. He sailed from New York April 

 2i, having a year's leave of absence from the University of 

 Nebraska." — Straw in Gleanings. 



Every Present Subscriber of the Bee Journal 

 should be an agent for It, and get all others possible to sub- 

 scribe for It. See offer on page 362. 



Mr. W. W. Cary's apiarian establishment, located in 

 Franklin Co., Mass., is shown by a full-page engraving in 

 Gleanings for June 1. Mr. Cary says his "father was the 

 first man to propagate the Italian bee." He was also a friend 

 of the lamented Langstroth, who made many experiments in 

 the senior Cary's apiary when inventing the movable-frame 

 hive. 



Mr. a. G. Wilson, of Vernon Co., Wis., writing us June 

 1, said : 



" I fear our basswood honey crop in this locality will be 

 short — possibly none — on account of two hard frosts — one this 

 morning and one yesterday morning. So far as I have noticed, 

 the fruit is all frozen. Bees are in about the usual condition 

 for this date." 



Prof. A. J. Cook has recently engaged with The Los 

 Angeles Herald — one of the large dally newspapers on the 

 Pacific Coast — to conduct its agricultural department. It will 

 be well done. The Professor is doing lots of journalistic work 

 nowadays. We don't see how he can stand it to do so much, 

 unless it be that the California ozone is a wonderful brain 

 strengthener. 



1^" See " Bee-Keeper's Guide" offer on page 350. 



