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Title: American bee journal
Identifier: americanbeejourn5657hami (find matches)
Year: 1861 (1860s)
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Subjects: Bee culture; Bees
Publisher: (Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons)
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16 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL January The results of Prof. Fink and others indicate this beyond a doubt, but in one of the experiments reported the first tomato produced by close fertili- zation contained 48 seeds, the average number of seeds for the variety being more than 200; the fruits were below the average in size. Other observations recorded by this writer indicate that the size of the fruit is slightly increased and that the crossed fruits have a greater tendency to be irregular than those not crossed. The various species of plums are also pollinated by insects and the bee is im- portant. When insects are excluded fruit will not set. Prof. Waugh found that out of 153 blossoms, covered, of the Arkansas Lombard, no fruit set; that out of 457 blossoms, covered, of the wild goose (^Pru)!ns Americana), no fruit set; and that out of 90 blossoms, covered, of the Japanese plum (Maru), no fruit set. It has long been recog- nized that bees are important in the pollination of the apple and pear. Ex- periments made by Waite show the Baldwin apples produce better fruit when cross-fertilized. Waugh obtained interesting results in some experiments conducted in Vermont, only three ap- ples having set out of 2586 blossoms covered, or little more than one-tenth of one percent. Of these the Baldwin, Esopus, Fameuse set some fruit. These varieties are generally considered more or less self-fertile. We may conclude that bees are essential for the production of a fruit- and-seed crop of some agricultural plants. Every horticulturist should keep a few colonies of bees to insure a crop of fruit. Ames, Iowa. Are BY W. J. SHEPPARD. whom the poison has absolutely no effect by reason of their having been stung so frequently that they have be- come immune. The theory is supported by the state- ment that French doctors advise their consumptives to keep bees. If there is anything in the theory a good many claim that the remedy is worse than the disease. This is not so, however, and it is astonishing how soon one can become so accustomed to being stung that very little notice is taken of it. Having reached this stage there is abso- lutely no swelling or inconvenience from the after effects. If after a sting is received it is rubbed out quickly with the finger nail before the poison bag has time to pulsate and pump much of the virus into the wound very little pain will be experienced, and the homeopathic doses thus re- ceived will in course of time cause en- tire immunity, with a minimum of suf- fering. Nelson, B. C. Beekeepers Immune to Zymotic Diseases? No. 24.—The Honey-Producing Plants BY FRANK C. PELLETT. Photoeraphs with this number by J. M. Btichanati Franklin, Tenn. IN this issue we come again to the South. The two trees described herewith are little known except in the southeastern States. YELLOW WOOD. The yellow wood, Cladrastis lulea (same as Virgilia lutea), is a tree con- fined to a limited range. It is found principally in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. While it may be found to some extent in the States adjoining the three mentioned, it is rare except in very limited areas. It is recorded as occurring on shaded bluffs in the Tennessee valley in Alabama, and may be looked for in similar situations in Mississippi, Georgia or South Carolina. The flowers are white as can be seen THE above is the subject of a lead- ing article in a recent issue of the British Bee Journal, to which attention had been previously drawn by a correspondent. It is stated that the question is considered of such far reaching importance that the Royal Faculty of Medicine have asked for en- quiries to be made respecting it. The editor will therefore be glad to hear from any person in a position to throw any light on the matter. The theory is that people who keep bees and have become immune to sting poison, which is one of the strongest antiseptics known, consisting of formic acid with slight traces of malic and other acids, become also immune from cancer, consumption, neuritis, or any form of zymotic disease. The infer- ence is that the sting poison acts as a protection against noxious germs by purifying the blood, and has given rise to the suggestion that zymotic diseases can be prevented or warded off by in- jections of a similar nature, if it can be satisfactorily proven that beekeepers as a whole, who have become immune to the poison, are free from these dis- eases. Of course, it does not apply to beekeepers who habitually protect themselves against stings-andlonly^get lung occasionally, but to those on
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FIG. 96.-BLOSSOMS OF THE YELLOWAWOOD

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