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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 14, 1904. 



100 rods east of the bee-yard. My Carmolan 

 bees were gathering from a held of pea-beans 

 nelr by-something I have never seen before 

 -bees gathering from bean-tlowers. 



1 have my bees in the cellar; they have not 

 bad a flight since the middle of Isovember. 

 This has been a severe winter and rough for 



""^^ would like to tell of some of my mistakes 

 in breeding Italian queens. First I bred a 

 young queen late in the fall for the purpose 

 of securing early drones (she was not mated 

 so she laid nothing but drone eggs) , I Kept 

 her in the breeding hive, and when I put my 

 bees nto the cellar I placed this l»ve upon a 

 hive of black bees, with a piece of wire-cloth 

 between the two hives. Along in February I 

 took the wire-clolh out so they could go down 

 n the lower hive, and when I placed my bees 

 on the summer stands I "«^«''^ ^'^'^ .f''^^^ 

 mess. She had layed in the worker-cells, and 

 the drones were no longer th.n the worker- 

 bees, and as black as charcoal. She did not 

 take the drone-comb as I thought she would, 

 so I destroyed the queen and drones. (This 

 mistake caused me to mi»k^''°°t^*''„ °°f>- , J 

 bought an Italian queen of Mr. Langstroth, 

 paying him *20 for the queen. Her workers 

 bad one or two bands, and more of her drones 

 were black than yellow banded. I did not 

 consider her a good queen to breed from, so I 

 made a drone-trap by taking a tin tube and 

 inserting one end of it in the hive and the 

 other end in a wire-cloth cage. In this way 

 I captured all the drones from that colony. 1 

 kept all drones that had yellow bands on the 

 upper part of the abdomen, and gave them to 

 a queenless colony that I had given several 

 queen-cells to, and which they had destroyed 

 I found one opened on the end, and thought 1 

 had a voung queen tor sure. I wished to see 

 this queen, and would open this hive every 

 time I passed it. After a while I found eggs 

 in the hive, and after a long and careful 

 search I found her backed in a cell, laying. 1 

 could iust see head and wings showing. 1 

 got her out quickly ; she was a worker, shin- 

 ing black. I found 8 such workers in the 

 hive so I gave them another .lueen-cell. Ihis 

 one hatched, but her wings were imperfect on 

 one side. I let her remain until another cell 

 was ready to give. When I opened the hive 

 in August, to give another cell, I found she 

 had commenced to lay. I gave this queen to 

 an observatory-hive colony. She soon tilled 

 the comb with brood, so I thought she was 

 another drone-laving queen. I took her out 

 and started a nucleus with her, and the queen 

 and bees left the frame of brood I gave them 

 and was lost; and when her worker-bees 

 hatched I never saw a better marked lot of 

 workers than this queen's workers were. If I 

 had left them until the brood was capped 

 over I should have seen she was not a drone- 

 laying queen. (So another mistake). I know 

 those dark drones are not pure to breed from. 

 I brought my first queen in 1863, and from 

 1885 until 1903 I quit buying queens. 



Subscriber. 



Genesee Co., N. Y., March 4. 



[The writer of the above evidently forgot to 

 sign his name. There are a great many care- 

 less writers and correspondents, we find. 

 Sometimes a letter containing money is re- 

 ceived, and no name signed to it. Then quite 

 frequently no post-office is given. All who 

 attempt to do any business should be careful 

 about these things.— Editor.] 



First Flight of Bees. 



The only fair flight for 14 weeks occurred 

 on Saturday, March 20. It was the coldest 

 period for the length of time I ever experi- 

 enced, and I am not a spring chicken by any 

 means. The loss to date is 7 colonies out of 

 47. Many are weak and may dwindle out of 

 sight. And just contrary to all ye learned 

 apostles of beedom, queens of 2 or 3 years old 

 have the strongest colonies to day, and those 

 that perished were nearly all young queen?, 

 none of which was 2 years old. The hives 

 have closed-end frames, 10 frames in every 

 hive (except one that has 1."), and wintered 

 well) ; burlap over frames with small passage 

 way, leaves in the super, hived cribbed and 



A Standard-Bred Italian Queen-Bee Free ! | 



For Sending One New Subscriber. 



As has been our custom heretofore we offer to mail a fine. Un- 

 tested Italian Queen to the person who complies with the follow- 

 ing conditions, all of which must be strictly followed: 



1. The sender of a new subscriber must have his or her own 

 subscription paid in advance at least to the end of this year 

 (1904). 



2. Sending your own name with the ¥1.00 for the Bee Journal 

 will not entitle yon to a Queen as a premium. The sender must 

 be already a paid-in-advance subscriber as above, and the new sub- 

 scriber must be a NKW subscriber ; which means, further, that 

 the new subscriber has never had the Bee Journal regularly, or at 

 least not for a whole year previous to his name being sent in as a 



new one; and, also, the new subscriber must not be a member of the same family where 

 the Bee Journal is already being taken. 



We think we have made the foregoing sufficiently plain so that no error need be 

 made. Our Premium Queens are too valuable to throw away— they must be earned in 

 a legitimate way. They are worth working for. 



We will book the orders as they come in and the Queens will be mailed in May or 

 June. Will you have one or more? 



It you cannot get a new subscriber, and want one of these Queens, we will send the 

 American Bee Journal a year and the Queen— both for only §1.50. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 E. ERIE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



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 Supplies ever 



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OUR NEW BUILDING. 

 is filled with the largest stock < 

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We are centrally located, and have every fa- 

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 our shipping" facilities are the best. 



Write to-day for 1904 Catalog. Address, 



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 565 k 567 W. SEVENTH ST. PES MOINES, IOWA 



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 once; and the only way to get a full section of 

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R. A. BURNETT & CO., 



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from a reliable breeder. 

 You all know him-DANIEL 

 WURTH-theQueenSpecial- 



ist — who fills orders by Re- 

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 stay, and thank my many 

 friends and patrons for 

 their liberal patronage in 

 the past. Wishing you all 

 a Happy New Year, I am 

 ready as usual to furnish' 

 you with the best of Queens. 

 Tested, in March and April, 

 $1.25 each; Untested, in 

 April and May, $1.00 each; for $5.00. Breeders,, 

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March 26th to 31st we had from two to four feet of water iu our ware- 

 houses. As a result we will sell SECTIONS at $1.00 per thousand less than 

 Catalog prices. FOUNDATION at S cents per pound less than listed prices. 

 Special prices on 2S and SO pound lots. These prices good only as long as 

 the wet goods last. Write for particulars. We have plenty of dry goods 



I if you prefer them. .... 



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