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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



November, 



fected by anemia, tuberculosis, inflam- 

 mation of kidneys or fever. In case of 

 heart disease, it must be avoided, as 

 it might cause death, and if after 

 beginning the treatment any symptom 

 of heart trouble appears, it must be 

 stopped. Dr. Terc thhiks the cases 

 reported of people dying of a few bee 

 stings were persons already having 

 some far advanced heart trouble. 



The method is very simple. The op- 

 erator takes the bee between the thumb 

 and index finger and applies the "busi- 

 ness end" to the patient. The sting is 



left for some minutes before taken 

 out. The treatment is begun by. 

 one to three stings a day, and then 

 increased gx'adually to one hundred or 

 even more. <^ treatment lasts one 



or two years in serious cases. If the 

 tissues '^" nvticulations are already al- 

 tered or degenerated, nothing can re- 

 store them. Not everybody will con- 

 sent to adopt such a course, yet Dr. 

 Terc, during the last 23 years, has 

 treated over five hundred persons. 



The problem is now to obtain a 

 serum or some other way to apply the|" 

 remedy in a more convenient way. 



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AUSTRIA. 



Michael Ambrosic, a well known 

 breeder of Carniolan bees and dealer 

 in bee-keepers' suppl''^'^ died recently. 

 The writer -'' this has some letters on 

 (file from this gentleman, referring to 

 the characteristics of the Carniolan 

 bee. He must have been a wide-awake 

 man. His inquiries regarding tools 

 and hives and methods in vogue here 

 among the Americans, which I have 

 had the pleasure of answering, are a 

 proof of this. 



ENGLAND. 



A certain English lord, after having 

 been cured of rheumatisin by his fam- 

 ily physicin'" "'>id him three hundred 

 pounds sterling for the recipo of the 

 medicine that cured him, that he 

 might give it to the public. Here it is: 

 "One ounce of sulphur; one ounce tar- 

 tari"^ if^id; one-half ounce rhubarb; one 

 dram Gugaca gum; sixteen ounces 

 honey." 



GERMANY. 



PUREST Blossom HONEY, 

 (mixed with sugar syrup) 

 Per pound, 1.00 Mark. 



Half pound, .GO Mart 



The words, "mixed," etc., were prini 



ed in the smallest type, very apt t 



be overlooked. It will be seen that th 



world is about the same everywhen 



Accordng to observation made b; 

 H. Ritter, the false drone (offspring o 

 a worker) requires twenty-one day 

 for its development. The normal dron 

 (offspring of a queen) requires twenty 

 four days. It would seem from thi 

 that there would have to be sonie diJ 

 ference in the resulting insects. 1: 

 this line Dickel says, in Die Biem 

 that there is a marked difference foun 

 in the third pair of legs. That part o 

 the leg which is called the pollen has 

 ket in the worker bee is in norma 

 drone and queen convex and in thl 

 former almost always bare; in till 

 false drone it is regularly shaped am 

 nearer that of the worker. 



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Honsel, who writes the monthly in- 

 structions for bee-keepers in "Die 

 Biene," says, one day wnen passing a 

 fancy store in Leipzig he discovered 

 in the show window extracted honey 

 exhibited in one, and one-half pound 

 glass .iars. The label read as follows: 



Dr. Kuehl reported at the grea 

 Wander-Versammlung ( bee-keeperf 

 union) of German, Hungarian, Aus 

 trian and Switzerland bee-keepers, tha 

 the average yield per colony from thl 

 tines alone run between eighty and on 

 hundred pounds. The convention wa 



