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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Wavelets of News. 



Good=By, Old Year. 



Good-t»y, Old Tear, good-by ! 



With all your many cares ! 



With all your hopes and fears ! 



With all your joys and tears ! 

 Good-by, Old Year, good-by. 



We do not bid thee staj', 

 To us thou didst not bring 

 So many a joyous thing, 

 That we to thee should cling. 



The past is gone to-day. 



—Dairy Journal. 



Honey as Medicine. 



The public are waking up to the im- 

 portance of honey as a remedy for ills 

 that flesh is heir to. A boy comes regu- 

 larly to our honey-house, saying, "I 

 want some more honey for father." He 

 says that honey is the best medicine for 

 his lungs that he has ever had. Honey 

 is in demand for the baby's sore mouth, 

 sister's throat, and mother's cough, etc. 

 - -Mrs. L. Harrison in Prairie Farmer. 



Birthday Celebration. 



The Ameeican Bee Jourxal cele- 

 brates its 30th anniversary with the 

 opening of the coming volume, in Jan- 

 uary. It was started as a small monthly, 

 octavo size, the first volume which we 

 have. Now it is a quarto weekly of 16 

 pages ; but Brother Newman announces 

 in a late number that this excellent jour- 

 nal is to be enlarged to 32 pages weekly. 

 It goes without saying that its present 

 high standard — which is high enough — 

 will be maintained. — Lewlston, Maine, 

 Journal. 



Different Races of Bees. 



Dalmatian bees are easy to manage, 

 and excel in making comb-honey. The 

 Hymettus bees of Attica are much like 

 Carniolans except in disposition. Pales- 

 tines come from the Holy Land, and 

 are often confused with Syrians, to 

 which they are inferior. They use more 

 propolis than any other variety, and are 

 troubled with more laying workers, but 

 are said to be even more beautiful than 

 Cyprians. Egyptian bees, found in 

 Egypt, Arabia, and Asia Minor, have 

 yellow bands, and are smaller • than 

 Italians. Although they have long been 

 domesticated in Egypt, where floating 

 apiaries were common, they have been 



found vicious by European bee-keepers 

 who introduced them. Their cells are 

 smaller than those of other species. 

 Some naturalists believe yellow bees 

 originated from them Instead of from 

 Syrians. — Farm Life. 



Cuban Honey Yields. 



From news which comes to us from 

 Cuba, it is a wonderful honey country. 

 The flow begins in December and lasts 

 until May, and does not entirely cease 

 at any season of the year. The honey 

 produced is mainly extracted, of good 

 quality for Southern honey, and sells at 

 from 50 to 70 cents per gallon in New 

 York city. The yields reported are some 

 of them very large, as much as 150 to 

 200 pounds per colony, from apiaries 

 ranging from 460 to 500 colonies. — 

 Rural Homes. 



Good Air and Good Honey. 



My advice for ladies who are but sickly 

 house-plants, is to engage in something 

 that will call them outside into the 

 bright sunshine. I know of nothing 

 better calculated to interest and instruct, 

 and at the same time to remunerate for 

 labor bestowed, than bee-keeping and 

 poultry-raising combined. 



You cannot keep bees intelligently 

 without becoming enthusiastic. It 

 awakens a new field of thought never 

 before dreamed of. It changes the de- 

 spised weed into the wonderful honey- 

 producing plant. 



Take, for instance, the hoarhound ; 

 put the tiny flower under the magnify- 

 ing-glass, and look at its wonderful 

 structure and marvelous beauty ! From 

 this source alone, last year, my bees 

 gave me a ton of honey ! 



Just for a moment think how much 

 honey goes to waste each year for want 

 of bees, intelligently managed, to gather 

 it ; and how many poor little children 

 never so much as get a taste of the 

 delicious, God-given sweet ! 



In the name of humanity, come out- 

 doors, and help me work with the bees. 

 I, too, used to be dyspeptic ; did not 

 know for years what it was to feel well. 

 I have lived for months at a time on two 

 scant meals a day, and that, too, when I 

 had plenty. Now I believe I am con- 

 sidered the most robust woman of our 

 town. 



Thanks to active out-door exercise,and 

 constant use of honey, for my good 

 health, which I prize more highly than 

 any other earthly blessing. — Texas Fami 

 and Ranch. 



