As for drinking, I am something of a chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from traces of a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such as fusel oil, acetic acid, ethylacetate, acetaldehyde and furfurol.

During the present year a number of beekeepers, representing widely separated localities, have reported in the bee journals the appearance among their bees of a trouble, by some called 'nameless bee disease,' and by others 'trembling disease.'

Other popularly used plants are tassel-flower (Cacalia hastata var. tanakae), plumed thistles (Circium amplexifolium), sweet coltsfoot (Petasites japonicus), and wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)

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