AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



693 



Swarming Bee-Hive : All bee-keepers, 

 having actual practice, can form an 

 opinion when they see the simple 

 methods, and when I tell them that I 

 have been testing this hive by different 

 methods for years ; and during the last 

 two years, after perfecting the hive as 

 you see it, I have not had a swarm from 

 any one hive having the attachments 

 connected. I have had 96 sections on 

 most colonies run this season, and almost 

 all the honey I got this Summer was 

 from the non-swarming hives, many 

 colonies finishing 64 sections. I have 

 experimented with 10 of my worst 

 hybrid colonies this season ; they were 

 given to swarming at times during the 

 whole honey season, and usually storing 

 very little honey.— John Consek. 



— Missouri Bee-Keeper. 



Wavelets of News. 



Remedy for Sore Eyes. 



Honey boiled with ants is a remedy for 

 ulcers of the eyes. A poultice, made of 

 honey, flour, and onions, is good for 

 stye in the eyes. Honey dissolved with 

 wax and oil is good for wounds and 

 ulcers (fistula). Honey dissolved in 

 turpentine and oil of laurel cures chaps. 

 Honey and water, taken during an epi- 

 demic, prevents contagion. — M. Ens- 

 BKUNNEE, in Le Bucher. 



The Honey of Malta. 



It has long been noted for its delicious 

 flavor. A writer in the Mediterranean 

 Naturalist says that the flavor is largely 

 due to the extensive crops of sulla 

 (clover) that are annually raised 

 throughout the islands, from which the 

 bees derive the largest portion of their 

 material. It is estimated that to collect 

 one pound of honey from clover, 62,000 

 heads of clover must be deprived of 

 nectar, and 3,750,000 visits must be 

 made by the bees. — Exchange. 



Beginners. 



We do not hear of many now-a-days 

 who are anxious to go into the bee busi- 

 ness. A year or two, such as we have 

 just passed through, has not been very 

 encouraging to new recruits. The bee- 

 keeper who expects to succeed, however, 

 must not get discouraged. In any call- 

 ing, fortune is sure to favor those who 



keep everlastingly at It. Certainly the 

 prospect is much better than last year. 

 — C. H. DiBBERN, in the Plowman. 



Look Out for Him ! 



Do not send money, or anything else, 

 to a man who has recently headed his 

 stationery as follows : 



JOHN A. BRIGGMAN, 

 General Commission Merchant & Broker. 

 Melons, Potatoes, Apples and Cabbage 



in Car Lots a Specialty. 

 P. O. Box 151.] [Telephone 751. 

 Columbus, O 189 



And, by the way, do not send honey 

 to anybody unless you have first found 

 out from some bank or reliable person 

 that he is trustworthy. After some 

 further investigation we found that he 

 was in Columbus ; but when last heard 

 of he was in Pittsburg, probably start- 

 ing a commission house there. — Glean- 

 ings. 



Cleomella Augustifolia. 



I have a pretty plant from W. Z. 

 Frazier, Carrizo Springs, Texas, that 

 interests me. Mr. F. says this is a very 

 valuable bee-plant. It blooms in May, 

 and continues until frost. The bees, he 

 states, are wild after it. He adds that 

 they have had a very dry year, so that 

 all other plants have failed to produce 

 honey ; but this has done admirably. 

 He thinks it does its best in a drouth. 

 He says : But for this plant, the bees 

 would have starved. 



This pretty plant is Cleomella Augus- 

 tifolia. We see that the very name is 

 suggestive. Cleome and mella make us 

 think of Rocky Mountain bee-plant and 

 honey at the same breath. This plant 

 belongs to the same small family that 

 contains spider-plant and Cleome Integ- 

 rifolia, or Rocky Mountain bee-plant ; 

 caper family ; cappariclacew. 



The name, the family, the fact that it 

 gives a good honey crop when all else 

 fails, and that it seems to do best in a 

 drouth, are all points of interest. Will 

 it grow in the North ? Will it hold its 

 own ? Will it bloom so long ? Will it 

 yield nectar in any and every season ? 

 We have arranged to tTry it here at the 

 station. — A, J. Cook, in Gleanings. 



Oet a Binder, and always have 

 your Bee Journals ready for reference. 

 We will mail you one for 50 cents. 



