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German Bee-Sting Cure

From time immemorial, since man has coveted the sweet nectar gathered and stored by the busy bee, the bee-keeper has feared the poisonous effects resulting from the sting of the honey bee, while many have been deterred from entering the apicultural arena, not a few have abandoned the pursuit for a like cause, while the world at large are cognizant of the fact that the virus from a single bee-sting has resulted in death to persons who have been stung. With these facts in view it need hardly be stated that the bee keeper has sought by all means in his power to discover a remedy for the sting of a bee.

In the language of a recent editorial of the American Bee Journal," Any alkali application is good; soda and blue-bags are recommended; a drop of honey, garden soil, spirits of hartshorn, alcohol and tincture of iodine are among the external applications. But, (continues the editor of the American Bee Journal,) we have discarded every other application since becoming acquainted with a German remedy lately introduced. A drop or two will remove all trace and effect of a sting in a very few minutes. It costs but a trifle per bottle, and a single bottle will last a bee-keeper for a life-time."

With such evidence as this, before the reader, we hardly deem it necessary to say one word further in commendation of this remedy. If you would go among your bees without the fear of being stung, use the German Bee Sting Cure, This preparation (imparted to the proprietor by a German friend, used by his ancestors for over an hundred years, and now for the first time prepared by scientific chemists,) after having been fully and throughly tested, is introduced to Apiarians to supply a want long felt by the fraternity. Its efficacy is thorough and complete when the directions are complied with.

The German Bee Sting Cure is free from all poison, and may be successfully used for all insect bites.

Price $1.00 per bottle. Sent only by Express. WM. S. HAWLEY, Proprietor, 116 Miller St., Utica, N. Y. D. L. ADAIR, Hawesville, Ky., And at the office of the

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The American Bee Journal

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Room 27, Tribune Building,

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CHICAGO HONEY HOUSE,

360 WABASH AVENUE,

CHICAGO.

Be not deceived by the Blue Bottles. jan74tf MRS. S. E. SPAIDS, Manager. BRIGHT GOLDEN & DARK BRONZE ITALIAN QUEENS, Reared from choice mothers; will be sent by mail or express on receipt of the following prices, viz: One Queen, $2.50

Five and less than fifteen, each, 2.00
Fifteen or more,

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Purity and safe arrival guaranteed. Agent in Pa. for Farmers' Bee Hive. J. E. KEARNS, jun74m3 Waterloo, Juniata Co., Penu.

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NEW SYSTEM

BEEHIVE

COMBINATION of the most valuable features

A. of several patents and inventions,so as to render

them the most valuable hives in the market, arranged to hold from one to eighteen frames, rendering them a complete queen-breeding hive, also the best for increasing bees and extracting honey (if extracted honey is desired), or twelve glass sides, or sectional boxes may be used at the end of the frame, arranged to double the yield of box honey. Contains the best arrangement for wintering.

BEE FEEDER and VENTILATOR.

The cheapest and most perfect acting feeder for feeding water, syrup, honey, or meal in the hive from

E. M. JOHNSON,

BREEDER OF

ITALIAN QUEEN BEES,

Mentor, Lake Co., O.

PRICES FOR 1874.

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E. M. JOHNSON,

Mentor, Lake Co., O.

PURE HONEY WANTED!

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the outside: Ventilates the hive at pleasure, from the G17, 75 cents per year. Sample Copy Free.

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AMERICAN BEE-KEEPERS' GUIDE THE EMERSON BINDER,

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For binding Magazines and Papers,

S in appearance, precisely like the cover of a regularly bound book, and is the only FILE that binds periodicals as received, and holds them in a perfect vise, and when full, serves as a complete binder, as firm and durable as a regularly bound book.

We are prepared to furnish them for BINDING THE BEE JOURNAL, Lettered on the back with title in gold. Sent by mail, post paid, on receipt of price. Size of Bind. er for the Bee Journal, 61⁄2x10. Cloth and Paper,.... Cloth.....

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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL,

Manchester, St. Louis Co., Mo. sep73f

Room 27, Tribune Building, Chicago.

Issued by the American Publishing Co.,

Is a magnificent monthly Journal of Art, embelished with beautiful Engravings, and printed on fine tinted paper. It is universally admired when exhibited, and everywhere welcomed. Canvassing is but a pleasant recreation. It is published at $2.50 per annum, in advance.

CANVASSERS WANTED EVER

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

The engravings are capitally executed.-Chicago Post.

The literary contents are varied and first class. -Chicago Times.

The best Journal of its class published in the west.-Rock Falls (Ill.) Progress.

It is a very fine publication, and has no rival in the west.-Marion (Ia.) Liberal.

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We can most cordially recommend this publication as one especially valuable to families; safe in its tendencies, instructive and entertaining.-The Standard, Chicago.

The Illustrated Journal is a rare combination of literary and artistic merit-The Illustrations are quite equal to those of the Aldine in its best days.-Chicago Evening Journal.

The Illustrated Journal has already made a reputation for literary excellence and artistic Decidedly the handsomest publication of the beauty, which places it among the very best kind in the west.-Marshall (Iowa) Repub-productions of journalism in the country.-The

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We hail with pleasure the coming of this

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paper and the pages are rich in masterpieces of the engraver's art.-Des Moines Daily Repub. All who appreciate the importance of encouraging an enterprise which is intended to cultiThe paper and typography are scarcely in-vate a correct taste for the true and beautiful ferior to those of that pattern of excellence, the in literature and art, can do no better than lend Aldine.-Chicago Advance. their support to the Illustrated Journal.-The Advance.

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We will club THE ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL
with The American Bec Journal for $3.50, or
with The
Farmer for $3.00, or all
three for $4.00, per annum.

THE ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL AND
The Weekly Tribune,
The Weekly Inter-Ocean,
The Weekly Journal,
The Weekly Post and Mail,
The Western Rural,
The Young Folks' Rural,

PUBLISHED AT CHICAGO, ILL., and CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa.
Send Stamp for sample copy; or 50 cents for sample copy and Chromo.
THOMAS G. NEWMAN,

Address,

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With Stationary Can, and Metallic Revolving We present Bee-keepers a new Extractor. Comb Basket. Geared three to one under the machine, entirely out of the way. Can open at top and free for fast operation; will take the largest combs, and has a lid to cover.It is noiseless and runs very easy.

500 NOW IN USE. This will be the favorite Stationary-Can

And they give the best satisfaction to all.

Extractor.

OUR KNIFE.

WINDER'S

We also present a new knife which we have found, from experiment, to be far superior to any straight blade in use for uncapping for the Extractor. Many combs have depressions that a straight knife will not uncap. This knife is equally good for perfect and imperfect comb.

For further imformation, send a three-cent stamp, for our 24 page Illustrated Circular and Apiarian Supply Price List of Honey Extractors and Knives, Wax Extractors, Bee Hives, Glass Honey Jars and Labels, Glass Honey Boxes, Bee Veils, Rubber Gloves, Alsyke and White Clover Seed, Straw Mats and Blankets, Safety Queen Cages, Imported and Home-Bred pure Italian Queens, also pure Egyptian Queens from last year's importation.

Address all orders to

J. W. WINDER & CO.,

Importers and Breeders of pure Eees from the best Imported Stock,
132 Fourth St., CINCINNATI, OHIO.

AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL

DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO BEE CULTURE.

Vol. X.

CEDAR RAPIDS, AUGUST, 1874.

Correspondence.

Correspondents should write only on one side of the sheet. Their best thoughts and practical ideas are always welcome; no matter how rough, we will cheer fully fix them up."

For the American Bee Journal.

Bees, Birds and Grapes.

What the Greeks or Romans may have said or written on this question fails to come down to us in history. But we find the bee and the grape side by side, occupying the most delightful portions of our globe for ages, without threat of deadly poisons or other violence, till you come to America in the year of our Lord, 1873.

Over twenty years have I cultivated both bees and grapes, consequently my affections are about equally divided between the two. On a lot of some acres I have many of the choice fruits of the climate, with grapes in profusion.

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My colonies, say 60 to 80 in number are located under Apple, Peach, Pear, Quince, Cherry, Grape and Plum trees, where contact occurs necessarially every season. ing a person of leisure, my opportunities have been good to closely inspect this question. Itoo like Prof. Riley and hundreds of horticulturists and apiarists have scen bees cut into small fruits, especially grapes and peaches.

I too with all my family have had our fingers cruelly stung in gathering_those fruits when ripe. In years departed I have witnessed my bees swarming by the thous ands on my trellises, apparently threatening the entire destruction of my grape crop, to say nothing of my pears and peaches. My neighbors too, both learned and unlearned, give their unimpeachable testimony to the same state of facts among themselves.

Surely this ought to be sufficient to convict every bee in the land, and, as the lawyers say, we might here rest the case. Now I have summed up all I care about on this side of the question, and am free to say, there is not any evidence touching the vital point at issue. Who cares what bees eat

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in general. All winged insects live on something. Every barefooted boy in the land can testify to bees extracting the juice from pomice laying around a cider mill, peaches, pears or grapes that have been maimed, crushed, eaten into or broken open by some other agency. But not one living soul of all the parties to this question have seen with the physical eye, a honey bee at any time or under any circumstances pounce upon a bunch of grapes or other fruit untouched by birds or insects, perfect in all respects; and with its mandibles eat through the skin or rind and open up its contents to a free banquet! And I challenge all partics interested in this controversy to come forward through the columns of this journal, not with circumstantial or superficial evidence, but with facts bearing directly upon this vital point.

The season of 1872 visited a fearful drouth on this portion of Ohio, and the bees and birds alike were hard up for provinder and made sad havoc with our grapes. Some citizens counted their loss as high as twenty bushels and vigorously pressed the Village Council to expel the bees by ordinance beyond corporation limits. Acting on the spur of the moment they actually passed an ordinance to its second reading (repeating the Wenham farce) imposing a heavy penalty for keeping bees within said limits. In the mean time I had not been idle, but applying tests to satisfy our people of their error, I invited them to come upon my grounds and see for themselves the Robbius, Red-birds and Orioles that lay dead under my vines and fruit trees with grape seeds in their stomachs and mouths, as I had often shot them in the act of biting open the grapes as they hung on the vines.

Our bees were undergoing a test alsothree hives had as many bunches of ripe concord grapes tacked to their fronts-that passing out and in, contact was unavoidable on the fifth day they remained untouched save the bees hunting through and over them to find an open berry. Then I opened with my knife say a quarter of the berries on each bunch and true to their instinct they began taking up the juice before I completed the job. In about forty-eight hours they had taken up all the juice and

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