May 12. 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



349 



New Centur 



have 1000 Qu 



ng Co 



Pill 



ready for 



the mail by April 20. Tested. *1. 00; Untested, 

 7Sc; 5 for J3.25; 10 for $6.00. Prices on larger 

 quantities and Nuclei given on application. 

 •* Prompt service; fair treatment " is our motto. 

 Address, 



John W. Pharr, ProD., Berclair, Tex. 



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Special Notice to Bee-Keepers 



BOSTON 



Money in Bees for you. 

 Catalog price on 



ROOT'S SUPPLIES. 



Catalog tor the asking. 



182 Friend St., Boston, Mass. 



Up First Flight. 



ITALIAN QUEENS, BEES AND NUCLEI 



Choice liome-bred and 



Select Imported Stock. 



All Queens reared in full 



colonies. 



One Untested Queen $1.10 



" Tested Queen 1.50 



" Selected " 1.6S 



" Breeder •' 2.75 



" Comb Nucleus (no 



Queen) 1.40 



Tested Select Breed- 

 ers and Nuclei ready 

 now ; Untested in May. Safe arrival 

 guaranteed. 



For prices on quantities and description of 

 each grade of Queens, send for free Pnce-List. 



J. L. STRONG, 

 204 East Logan Street, CLARINDA, IOWA. 



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 when writing advertisers. 



be really for the 

 the very weakom- 

 What reports 1 

 losses throughuu 

 those wintered mj 



rhite clover honey, except 



■itn gather indicate heavy 

 the country, especially 

 loors. I think lots of the 

 white clover has winter-killed, but not enough 

 to affect seriously the pasturage. When the 

 bees are on the summer stands I can give a 

 uiore definite report. 



The last two nights and two days have been 

 rainy, the temperature has gotten down to 80 

 degrees, and alttrnating drifts of rain and 

 snow, w ith a northeast wind that indicates a 

 rough night, and it's a comfort to know that 

 my bees in the cellar won't know it. It's an 

 ill wind that doesn't blow somebody some 

 good. My bees w ould have been on the sum- 

 mer stands if I had not gotten hurt, or could 

 have gotten some one with grit enough to 

 put them out for me. 



Soft maple and elm are almost in bloom. I 

 long for weather tit tor the bees to be hum- 

 ming their merry tunes again. They have 

 been confined in the cellar for nearly five 

 months. F. W. Hall. 



Sioux Co., Iowa, April S. 



Winter Losses One-Half. 



Bees are wintering badly. There is still 

 snow on the ground, and the weather is cold. 

 We have had a few warm days, and bees hive 

 taken a little rye-meal, and in some warm 

 locations they have brought in a little pollen. 

 Winter losses will be about 50 percent. The 

 price of bees has advanced, and the demand 

 will exceed the supply. 



George W. Adams. 



Essex Co., Mass., April 16. 



Gathering Pollen— Colonies Strong. 



The box-elder and maple trees are all 

 budded out in this section. My bees are 

 already gathering pollen, but the weather has 

 been so cold. 



I have 15 colonies of Italian bees. I win- 

 tered them on the summer stands, and they 

 are all healthy and strong. I am running for 

 comb honey. Edwin Bishop. 



Jasper Co., Iowa, April 20. 



Most Backward Spring. 



In my home yaid there are t! colonies dead, 

 4 weak, and 100 with 3 to 5 frames of brood. 

 It is a most backward spring, with pollen all 

 killed, as was the early bloom. Not a thing 

 for bees yet. The weather was cold and 

 rainy till April iij. I have used chaff hives 

 for 20 years. Tht price of bone.v here was 

 killed by Colorado comb honey. White 

 clover is very plentiful. 



John C. Stewart. 



Nodaway Co., Mo., April 28. 



Practically No Winter Loss. 



Bees wintered linely. Our loss is 1 colony 

 out of 400. How is that? We will lose some 

 outside. It is ve:y cold weather. 



W. J. PiCKARD. 



Richland Co., Wis., April 20. 

 [April 25 we received the following from 

 Mr. Pickard ;— Editor.] 



There has been the greatest loss of bees in 

 this country I e\er heard of — from 70 to 90 

 percent — and the weather is very bad now for 

 what few colonies that are left. 



W. J. Pickard. 



Transferring Bees— Queen-Rearing. 



There are twn 

 necessary in my 

 and the Americai 



I would like t 

 colonies of bees 

 pried the board: 

 and with the aid 

 from the blade o! 

 from the top. i 

 sides of the hive 

 with full sheets 

 drew out the cm 

 In the fall, whei: 



•liings that I find absolutely 

 iliiary — a good bee-smoker 



Bee Journal. 



tell how I transferred two 

 om box-hives last June. I 



rem the top of the hives, 

 .[■ a long, thin knife, made 

 ■' hack-saw, I cut the combs 



ey were still stuck to the 



I then placed on top a hive 



f foundation, and the bees 

 and filled it with honey. 



he brood had all hatched, I 



TENNESSEE 

 QUEENS 



^P Daughters of Select Im- 



n ported Italian, Select 



/ Long-Tongue (Moore's), 



and Select Golden, bred 

 3% miles apart, aad mated 

 to Select Drones. No im- 

 pure bees within 3 miles, 

 and but few within 5 

 miles. No disease; 31 

 years* experience. A 1 1 

 mismated queens replaced 

 free. Safe arrival guar- 

 anteed. 



Price before July Ist. After July 1st. 

 1 6 12 1 6 12 



Untested $ .75 $4.00 $7.50 $ .60 $3.25 $ 6.00 



Select 1.00 5.U0 9.00 .75 4.25 8.00 



Tested 1.50 8 00 15.00 1.25 6.50 12.00 



Select Tested . . 2.00 10.00 18.00 1.50 8.00 15.00 



Select Breeders $3.00 each 



Send for Circular. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, Spring Hill, Tenn. 

 NOTICE. 



I have booked all the orders I can fill until 

 June 1st. John M. Davis. 



Spring Hill, Teno.. May 6. 

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For Sale I 



10 good strong colonies ITALIAN BEES >n 

 8 and 10 frame hives. No disease. Address, 

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