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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 23. 1904. 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



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Season in Florida. 



The season was cold until June. There was 

 a warm spell during March, with bees swarm- 

 ing. We have the whitest honey I have seen 

 for years. D. J. JPawletta. 



Columbia Co., Fla., June 7. 



Southern California Crop Pros- 

 pects. 



The honey crop of Southern California will 

 not worry the Eastern producers thin year, it 

 being almost a failure. Some of our largest 

 producers are already feeding their colonies 

 to try to save them. Notwithstanding this 

 well-known fact, there appears occasionally 

 in our daily papers the old story of how much 

 honey is on hand in Southern California, and 

 that low prices will prevail. 



Somebody keeps putting out these market 

 reports, evidently hoping the small producers 

 will swallow the bait and rush in their stock 

 if they have any. One of our largest produc- 

 ers has nearly 50 tons of extracted honey from 

 last season, and is holding it for 7 cents, 

 f.o.b., and perhaps more. He will get his 

 price before the season is over. 



It will take eternal vigilance on the part of 

 the Honey-Producers' Association to prevent 

 the glucose fiend from getting in his work this 

 season. R. H. Lyman. 



Los Angeles Co., Calif., June 4. 



Heavy Winter Loss of Bees. 



There are not as many bee-keepers here now 

 as last year. Quite a nvimber lost all they 

 had. Fully "5 percent of all the bees have 

 gone to their " happy hunting grounds." 



I have taken the American Bee Journal for 

 over 10 years, and should not know how to 

 get along without it. 



Henry Sutherland. 



Berrien Co., Mich., June S. 



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 Purest, Richest in Color and Odor, ?Iost Xransparent and 1'ougli- 



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 fail to send for samples. Working wax into Foundation for Cash a specialty. Beeswax al- 

 ways wanted at highest price. A full line of S UI* I* JLIES, retail and wholesale. Catalog 

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QUS. DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. 



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Severe Winter— Home-Made hives. 



As the winter here was very severe many 

 bees died, and many that lived are very weak, 

 but some are still strong and doing nicely. 



I was quite lucky, and did not lose as large 

 a percentage of my bees as many other bee- 

 keepers in this vicinity, and at this time I 

 have bees working in their super. 



When I first worked among the bees I was 

 troubled by their being very cross, so cross, 

 even, that one could not go at all near their 

 hives, and many bees of other bee-keepers I 

 find the same, but this year I am over this 

 trouble to such an extent that I open the 

 hives and work among them largely without 

 veil, smoker or gloves. I found that I was 

 the one that was to blame, and not the hees. 

 1 happened to be in the yard of a fellow bee- 

 keeper, and noticed that although he opened 

 the hives and did about as he had a mind to, 

 the bees kept just as still as kittens fondled 

 by their mother. I asked him how he man- 

 aged to keep his bees so tame, and it did not 

 take him long to make me understand, and 

 this year, as I said, I have no trouble in per- 

 forming the same feat. 



The remedy is simply this : Be very calm and 

 moderate in your actions, and use the smoker 

 but very little, so as not to gjve the bees the 

 impression that you are after all their hives 

 and stores, for, if j-ou do, they will give you 

 to understand that they got there first, and 

 mean to stay until the last. 



I see, on page H-i7, that a certain subscriber 

 seems to doubt my statement made on page 

 3S3, in regard to making my own hives, as he, 

 says he had found it costs more than to buy 

 them at a factory. 



Now, I consider it needless to give my fig- 

 ures again, but they were the exact cost of 

 the material that I used, and the lumber was 

 good and sound, and not the sappy stock that 

 one is apt to get in ready-made hives, which 

 must be painted before getting wet or else 



TENNESSEE 

 QUEENS ^ 



Daughters of Select Im- 

 ported Italian, Select 

 Long-Tongue (Moore's), 

 and Select Golden, bred 

 3% miles apart, and mated 

 to Select Drones. No im- 

 pure bees within 3 miles, 

 and but lew within S 

 miles. No disease; 31 

 years' experience. All 

 mismated queens replaced 

 free. Safe arrival guar- 

 anteed. 



Price before July 1st. After July 1st, 



1 6 12 1 6 12 



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



Select l.OO 5.00 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 IS.OO 



Select Breeders $3.00 each 



Send for Circular. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, Spring Hill, Tenn. 



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VIRGINIA QUEENS. 



Italian Queens secured by a cross and years 

 of careful selectioo from Red Clover Queens 

 and Superior Stock obtained of W. Z. Hutchin- 

 son. I can furnish large, vigorous Untested 

 Queens at "Scents; after June IS, 60c. Tested 

 Queens, $1.00; after June 15, 75c. Write for dis- 

 count on large orders. 



CHAS. KOEPPEN, 



22Atf FREDERICKSBURG, VA. 



Take Notice Su\\'n!'k%a??g^ ^r^ifi 



a^^.^— ^^—^^^ have 1000 Queens ready for 

 the mail by April 20. Tested, $1.00; Untested, 

 75c; 5 for $3.25; 10 for $6.00. Prices on larger 

 quantities and Nuclei given on application. 

 ■' Prompt service; fair treatment " is our motto. 

 Address, 



John W. Pharr, Prop., Berclair, Tex. 



13Atf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



If you want the Bee-Book 



That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 



completely than any other published, 



Send $1.20 to 



Prof. A. J. Cook, Claremont. Cal., 



FOR HIS 



" Bee=Keeper's Guide." 



Liberal Discounts to the Trade. 



Please xnenuou isee j Durniu ■wnen wntm^ 



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INGHAM'S PATENT 



Smokers 



ZSAtf T. P. BINQHAM. Parwell, MIcb. 



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Excursions for the Fourth 



via the Nickel Plate Road, at one fare 

 for the round-trip, plus 25 cents, July 

 2d, 3d and 4th, within a radius of 200 

 miles from starting point. Return 

 limit July Sth. Three daily trains in 

 each direction, with modern coaches 

 and vestibuled sleeping-cars, to Cleve- 

 land, Erie, Buffalo, New York, Boston 

 and New England points. Passengers 

 to points east of Buffalo have privilege 

 of stopover at Niagara Falls, in either 

 direction, and also at Chautauqua 

 Lake, during excursion season, by de- 

 positing tickets. Individual American 

 Club Meals, ranging in price from 3Sc. 

 to $1.00, served in Nickel Plate dining- 

 cars ; also service a la carte. No ex- 

 cess fare charged on any train on the 

 Nickel Plate Road. Chicago Depot, 

 corner La Salle and Vrfn Buren Sts. ; 

 the ouly depot in Chicago on the Ele- 

 vated Loop. City ticket offices, 111 

 Adams St. and Auditorium Annex. 

 Telephones, Central 2057 and Harrison 

 2208. 10— 24A4t 



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 condiiioDs, 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 j ear 

 (1904). 



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

 will not eniiile you to a Queen as a premium. The sender must 

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

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

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

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



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

 the Bee Journal is already beiu^' 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 iu 

 a legitimate way. They are worth working for. ., j . „ 



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? , ,v r. -, , .v. 



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

 American Bee Journal a year and the Queen— both for only 151.50. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



