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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb. 9, 1899, 



stuDg times almost without Dumbers, both 

 before and since I was troubled with rheu- 

 matism, and I never receive any benefit or 

 obtained any relief from stings of the 

 honey-bee; the severity of rheumatism has 

 increast rather than diminisht. 



What is rheumatism, or rather, what 

 causes it ? I once aslit a physician this 

 question, and his reply was, "It is acid in 

 the blood." An alkali neutralizes an acid, 

 hence physicians administer potassium to 

 neutralize the acid in the blood. Scientists 

 tell us that the poison of the honey-bee 

 sting is formic acid. Will one acid neutral- 

 ize another '. Those acids which were Urst 

 recognized were sour, but now there are 

 acids that have not this property. Is for- 

 mic acid one of them ? 



Let us hear from those who know. I have 

 known where rheumatism has left a man as 

 suddenly as it came, without any bee- 

 stings, as in Dr. Mason's case. I don't wish 

 to make light of any man's opinion, that 

 thinks he has been relieved of rheumatism 

 by beestings, but I have no faith in it. But 

 when doctors can't agree, how shall we 

 know the truth ' S. B. S.mith. 



Millelacs Co., Minn. 



From Away Up North. 



I am very fond of the Bee Journal. Its 

 patience and good humor are very refresh- 

 ing. I have no bees .iust now, but intend to 

 make another trial in the spring. I bad 

 one colony last year, but they all disap- 

 peared some way. I think the blackbirds, 

 catbirds, toads or mosquito-hawks must 

 have gobbled them up. I noticed some 

 very large black crickets with feelers over 

 two inches long, the bodies l^., inches, 

 and big. round heads. I never saw any- 

 thing hide themselves so quickly, and sta- 

 tion themselves under the bottom board. 

 But I only saw them attack dying bees, and 

 I do not think they entered the hive at all. 

 Perhaps they were only pall-bearers come 

 to the funeral. Thomas Henet. 



Muskoka. Ont. 



A Report from Oregon. 



Last spring we started in with nine colo- 

 nies and increast to 14, but one of the old 

 colonies was eaten up by worms. I got .300 

 pounds of honey last season. I intend to 

 Italianize next spring. I have 11 cedar 

 hives and two Eastern pine. I like the 

 cedar better, as they are lighter. There 

 were "lO tons of dried prunes shipt from 

 within seven miles of me. and the bees did 

 not bother when drying them. 



I sowed some sweet clover in 1S97, and 

 last summer it grew from three to seven 

 feet high. Some of it is in blossom now. 



Our first frost was Dec. 7, and we had 

 cold weather till the 14th. There is no 

 sweet clover except where we sowed it. 

 The bees workt on it real well. 



Our best honey comes from poison-oak 

 blossoms. It is almost clear, and real thick. 



Our bees have plenty of honey to winter 

 on. The coldest it has been in the last six 

 years here was 16 degrees below zero. 



HEKBERT PRUNEi4. 



Douglas Co., Oreg., Dec. 20. 



An Experience with Hives. 



I have kept bees for some time and tried 

 to learn something of their habits, and find 

 that it pays to give them comfortable 

 homes. I began about six years ago, and 

 soon adopted the dovetail hive, using 

 mostly 8 frames— a few 10. I attended the 

 bee-congress at Atlanta during the Fair at 

 that place, and met Mr. Danzenbaker. who 

 showed me all about his hive, but I did not 

 try it then. At the same time be met my 

 friend. Dr. Copeland, and the consequence 

 was, the next season Copeland adopted the 

 Danzenbaker hive, and seems to be well 

 pleased with it. Knowing Copeland to be 

 a man that took pains to get out all the 

 money there was in a thing, upon his rec- 

 ommendation I bought some of the same 

 hives and have used them for two seasons, 

 and I am sorry that I did so, as they are 



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