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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 28, 1904. 



Special Notice to BeeKeepcrs 



BOSTON 



Money in Bees for you. 

 Catalog price oa 



ROOT'S SUPPLIES. 



Catalog for the asking. 



182 Friend St., Boston, Mass. 



Up FiTBt Flight. 



VIRGINIA QUEENS. 



Italian Queens secured by a cross and years 

 of careful selection from Red Clover Queens 

 and Superior Stock obtained of W. Z. Hutchin- 

 son. I can furnish large, vigorous Untested 

 Queens at 75 cents; after June 15, 60c. Tested 

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

 count on large orders. 



CHAS. KOEPPEN, 



22Atf FREDERICKSBURG, VA. 



If you want the Bee-Book 



That covers the whole Apirultural Field mure 



completely than any i.iher published. 



Send $1.20 to 



Prof. A. J. Cook, Clarcmont, Cal., 



FOR HIS 



" Bee=Keeper's Guide." 



Liberal Discounts to the Trade. 



Ta ke Notice &:'k%a?ln^ cr^ji 



^^_^^_>^_^^ 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. Pliarr, ProD., Berciair, Tex. 



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We Sell Root's Goods in Michigan 



Let us quote yon prices on Sections, Hives, 

 Foundation, etc., as we can save you time and 

 freight. Beeswax Wanted for Cash. 



M. H.HUNT & SON. 



Bell Branch, Wayne Co., Mich. 



B 



IINGHAIH'S PATENT 



Smokers 



T. P. BINQHAM. Farweil. Mich. 



National Encampment, Q. A. R. 



The Nickel Plate Road will sell tick- 

 ets, August 12th, 13th and 14th, at 

 S17.7S for the round-trip from Chicago, 

 via direct lines, with stopover at 

 Niagara Falls and Chautauqua Lake, 

 if desired, within final limit. Also, if 

 preferred, rate of $20.70 between same 

 points for the round-trip via New York 

 City and Boat, with liberal stop-qver 

 returning at that point. Tickets good 

 on any train on above dates and also 

 on special train from Chicago at 8 

 a.m., August 13th. Final return limit 

 September 30th. Meals served in 

 Nickel Plate dining-cars, on American 

 Club Meal Plan, ranging in price from 

 35 cents to $1.00 ; also a la carte City 

 Ticket office, Chicago, 111 Adams St. 

 Chicago depot, L,a Salle St. Station, 

 cor. Van Buren and La Salle Sts., on 

 the Elevated Loop. Write John Y. 

 Calahan, General Agent, 113 Adams 

 St., room 298, Chicago, for reservation 

 of berths in through standard and 

 tourist sleeping-cars, and other de- 

 tailed information. 20— 30A3t 



season, and what bees came through 

 the severe winter are doing nicely. I 

 had one swarm that issued June 14 ; 

 July 5 I took off one super of 40 sec- 

 tions, and July 7 I took off the second 

 super of 40, and I have at this date two 

 more supers nearly filled by the same 

 swarm. 



I am getting 18 cents per section for 

 the No. 1. I extract all cull sections, 

 and sell my extracted honey in bottles 

 and 2-quart pails. The honey this sea- 

 son is very white, and the sections 

 well filled. I use the Langstroth 

 frame. My brood-chambers hold 11 

 frames ; that gives me a good working 

 force of bees in the honey-ilow. I have 

 25 colonies of bees now ; at one time I 

 had 75 colonies, but I lost them down 

 to 4, but I am gaining some. 



I have kept bees for 16 years, and I 

 find the American Bee Journal a great 

 help. I would not try to handle bees 

 without it, and " A B C of Bee-Culture." 



I intend to have a photograph taken 

 of my apiary in the near future, and I 

 will send you one. 



On page 442 I notice the question 

 asked in regard to an extractor for un- 

 finished sections. I take two 2-inch 

 frames that will hold 8 sections each, 

 and put them in the Cowan extractor. 

 I can extract 16 sections at a time, and 

 do nice work. G. H. Adkins. 



Essex Co., N. Y., July 18. 



What to Learn. 



Learn to laugh. A good laugh is 

 better than a bee-sting. 



Learn to attend strictly to your own 

 business — a very important point. 



Learn to tell a story ; a well-told 

 story is as wholesome as a sunbeam in 

 a sickroom. 



Learn the art of handling the bees 

 with care, for, if you don't, they will 

 tell where they are. 



Learn to avoid iil-natured remarks, 

 and everything calculated to create 

 friction. 



Learn to keep your troubles to your- 

 self. The world is too busy to care 

 for your ills and sorrows. 



Learn to stop croaking. If you can 

 not see any good in this world, keep 

 the bad to yourself. 



Learn to greet your friends with a 

 smile. 



And last, but not least, is to learn to 

 get some one to subscribe for the old 

 American Bee Journal. 



W. H. HOBBKT. 



Muscatine Co., Iowa, July 20. 



Cane Sugar and Maple Sugar. 



Allow me to offer a criticism of E. E. 

 Hasty's statements regarding sugars, 

 on page ISO. He says: "You may 

 meet a chemist who will tell you that 

 cane sugar and maple sugar are the 

 same — and all common folks of good 

 sense know they are not." Well, I 

 suppose I must not be one of the " com- 

 mon folks of good sense," for I believe 

 they are the same, excepting that the 

 sugar in the maple has taken up the 

 peculiar flavor of the tree. And that 

 is why I believe it. I, and others, have 

 made a decoction of the rough bark of 

 the maple, and by using two parts 

 granulated sugar to one of the decoc- 

 tion, have obtained a syrup that the 

 average person could not distinguish 

 from the real maple syrup. As to their 

 sweetening powers not being the same, 



ITALIAN QUEENS! 



Either Qolden or Honey-Queens After July 1. 



Our GOL,DENS will come up with any other 



Golden strain. Our HONEY-QUEENS are 



what some breeders call '^ Red Clover Queens.'' 



1 6 12 



Untested $.75 $4.00 $7.00 



Tested 1.25 7.00 13.00 



Breeders 5.00 



2 frame Nuclei (no queen).. 2.00 11.00 22.00 



When Queens are wanted with Nuclei add 

 price of any Queen wanted. We guarantee safe 

 arrival of all Queens and Nuclei. Our Breeders 

 may be returned after 30 days if satisfaction is 

 not given. Cash must come with all orders. 

 Orders are booked and filled in rotation. 



Mr. Gus. Picaman, of I,itchfield, 111., in a 

 letter of Aug-. 3, 1903, says: '-Send me two un- 

 tested honey-queens. The one I bought of you 

 two years ago is all rif;^ ht. There are no better." 



Mr. Frank D. Gunderson, of Oconomowoc, 

 Wis., says in a letter dated August 1, 1903: " I 

 like your queens the best of any that I have 

 ever had." This man placed an order last 

 August for 24 Nuclei to be delivered thi j spring. 



Address all orders to 



D. J. BLOCHER, Pearl City, 111. 



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ITALIAN QUEERS, 

 BEES AND NUCLEI. 



Choice home-bred and 

 Select Imported Stock. 

 All Queens reared in full 

 colonies. 



One Untested Queen f. ti5 



" Tested Queen 90 



" Selected " l.in 



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*' Comb Nucleus (no 



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All grades ready now. Safe 

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 For prices on quantities and description of 

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



J, L. STRONG. 

 204 Bast Logan Street, CLARINDA, IOWA. 

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ICHARLES SCHILD, Ionia; Mich. 



<&1 A i\(\(\ VVE HAVE JUST COMPLETED 

 iDlUjUirV OUR TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR 

 BEE KEEPERS'SUPPLY MANUFACTURING PLANT 



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 It is the greatest bar^'^ain you ever saw. 



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