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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 



ITALIAN QUEENS! 



Either Qolden or Honey-Queens After July i. 



Our GOLDENS will come up with any otlier 



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 Oueen wanted. We guarantee safe 

 arrival of all~Queens and N uclei. Our Breeders 

 may be returned after 30 days if satisfaction is 

 not g-iven. Cash must come with all orders. 

 Orders are booked and filled in rotation. 



Mr. Gus. Picaman, of Litchfield, 111., in a 

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

 tested honev queens. The one I bought of you 

 two years ago is all right. There are no better." 



Mr. Frank D. Gunderson, of Oconomowoc, 

 Wis., says in a letter dated August 1, 1''03: " 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, III. 



:SS" This ad. will appear every other number 

 16Etf Please meution the Bee Journal. 



IT IF^^^^-^S 



to order your 



Bee-Supplies s' Winter-Cases 



NOW, while we can serve yru PROMPTLY, 

 and get them at BOTTOM PRICES. 



R. M. SCHMIDT CO.. Sheboygan, Wis. 

 27A26t Please mention the Bee Journal 



Italian Queens sfsVi'iRs. 



My crop last season was about 40,l)Cn pounds 

 of honev (nearly half comb) from 210 colonies, 

 spring count, and increased to 280 colonies, 

 which shows my bees are hustlers. Queens 

 from this stock by prompt mail: Untested, 75c 

 each; Tested, $1.00. 



33A3t N. STAININQER, Tipton, Iowa. 



Hease mention Bee Joamal wben ■writma 



500 Colonies °l!?=£ 



Abundant alfalfa range: no failures. Reason 

 for selling, ill-health. Address, 

 Dr. Geo. D. Mitchell i: Co , Ogden, Ut.^h. 

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I MP brightest and finest 



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Dixie Home E:-:a?r 



It is bright and up- 

 to-date. Tells all about Southern Home Life. 

 It is full of fine engravings of grand scenery, 

 (Onildings and famous people. Send at once. 

 Xpc a year, postpaid, anywhere in the U.S., Can- 

 ada and Mexico. Six years, SOc. Or, clubs of 

 6names, 50c: 12for$l. Send us a club. Money 

 back if not delighted. Stamps taken. Cut this 

 out. Send to-day. THE DIXIE HOME, 

 24A48t No. 7.S. Birmingham, Alabama. 



Please mention Bee J oumai -wnen wntme. 



We Sell Root's Goods in Michigan 



Let us quote you 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 

 PleP«ie xnem.ion Bne Journal •A'ueu ^rriting 



BEE-KEEPERS! 



We manufacture sections, NO-DRIP 

 shipping-cases, and are dealers in 



Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



Write for low prices and catalog. 



AUG. LOTZ & SON, 



24A17t CADOTT, WIS. 



Please meutlou Bee Journal 

 wheii wrltltig advertisers. 



sugar-water ; and you have a sine qua 

 not! " Bidsom feeder," in which the 

 bees can get at the feed, but not at you 

 while looking after their feeding. 



And this home-made " Bisdom 

 feeder " makes humble bow to the bee- 

 keeping public, while making its 

 "bids" for bee-keepers' favor every- 

 where. James Grant Boughtsr. 



Carbon Co., Pa. i 



Very Dry Summer. 



It has been very dry here this sum- 

 mer, so there will not be much surplus 

 honey this year. Most of the bees were 

 killed off last winter. Ira L. Hyde. 



Washtenaw Co., Mich., Aug. 14. 



Too Cold for Fruit-Bloom. 



I have been keeping bees three years, 

 and have 14 colonies. It was so cold 

 last spring that we lost the fruit-bloom. 

 The bees are doing very well now. I 

 am 58 years old, and like to work with 

 bees. 



I have been taking the American 

 Bee Journal ever since a year ago last 

 May, and have every copy since then. 



M. M. BUCKANAN. 



Jackson Co., N. C, Aug. 5. 



A Good Queen— Introducing. 



I wish to give a report of an Italian 

 premium queen that I received from 

 the American Bee Journal office three 

 summers ago. She was successfully 

 introduced in a colony of fierce hybrids, 

 where she did some fine work and win- 

 tered well. The following spring 

 (1903) I had the colony transferred to a 

 Danzenbaker hive. The bees were 

 beautifully marked, very gentle, and 

 such fine workers that I used her for 

 my breeding queen. Although I was 

 continually robbing her of brood, her 

 colony stored more honey than any 

 other in the yard. During the summer 

 a terrible epidemic of foul brood swept 

 through here, and her colony was one 

 of the four in my yard that did not get 

 the disease. I have stamped the dis- 

 ease out of my yard. 



This spring the bees were very weak 

 on account of dysentery, caused by 

 long confinement during the winter. I 

 packed her up good and warm, and she 

 was bringing her colony up nicely 

 when the first swarm came out, on 

 June (). I caged my breeder, filled her 

 hive with drawn comb, and turned the 

 swarm into the hive. I then introduced 

 my caged queen into the hive where 

 the swarm came out. She has now a 

 powerful colony of bees that are doing 

 extra-good work at storing honey. 



The daughters of my breeder are 

 very fine workers. 



Here is a short cut for introducing 

 queens instantaneously. I believe it 

 surpasses Dr. C. C. Miller's drowning 

 method : j c:__^ 



Open the hive, remove the old queen, 

 catch hold of the new one and daub 

 her all over with honey, and drop her 

 in between two frames of brood so 

 that she can not fall to the bottom, and 

 the work is done. I have used this 

 method for some time, and have never 

 lost a queen. 



If I have an extra-choice queen, and 

 feel like being more careful, if there is 

 not a good honey-flow on, I drive the 

 bees back a little with smoke, then 

 sprinkle them with sugar-water (diluted 



TENNESSEE 

 QUEENS -•^ 



^- Daughters of Select Im- 



fj ported Italian, Select 



f Iiouf-Tongue (Moore's), 



and Select Golden, bred 

 3K miles apart, and mated 

 to Select Drones. No im- 

 pure bees within 3 miles, 

 and but few 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 1.00 S.UO 9.C0 .75 4.25 8.0O 



Tested 1.50 8 00 15.00 1.25 6.50 12.00 



Select Tested . . 2.00 10.00 \i.00 1.50 8 00 15.00 



Select Breeders $3.00 each 



Send for Circular. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, Spring Hill, Tenn. 



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 larg-e, vig-orous Untested 

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

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

 count on large orders. 



CHAS. KOEPPEN, 



22Atf FREDERICKSBURG, VA. 



LICE SAP LIFE 



That's how they live and thrive. 

 Ynii can't have healthy, profitable 

 fowls or stock and have lice Coo. Let 



Lambert's Death to Lice 



take care of the rerminandyou will 



he more busy takingrcareof the pro- 



_ (ItB. Makeasittinghenscorafortable. 



linflM^ ■^k/iS/^^ Sample 10 cents; 100 oz.. tl-CO by ex- 



nm"^ '^^i<jMl^t press. "Pocket Book Pointers" free. 



D J* Limbirt, Boi 707, Apponaug, R. I. 



TcAlO Wntirp ^'^^^ ^^^ ^ew century 

 idlVuPIUblUU Queen -Rearing Co. will 

 ■■^■■■^Bi^MMH^^ have 1000 Queens ready for 

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

 75c; 5 for 53.25; 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. 



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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 $. 65 



" Tested Queen 90 



" Selected " 1.10 



'* Breeder " 1.65 



'^ Comb Nucleus (no 



Queen) 1.00 



All (Trades ready now. Safe 

 arrival guaranteed. 

 For prices on quantities and description of 

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



J. L. STRONG. 

 204 East Logan Street, CLARINDA, IOWA. 



<l>in (\{\(\ WE HAVE JUST COMPLETED 

 «l>iU,UUW oup TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR 

 BEE KEEPERS'SUPPLY MANUFACTURING PLANT 



—and are ready to do business. Write us for 

 leaflet showing our special Hives and prices. 

 It is the greatest bargain you ever saw. 



Mondeng Mfg. Company, 



147 Cedar Lake Road. 

 MINNEAPOLIS, - MINNESOTA. 



eiease mention Bee Journal when wriUuK 



FOR SALE. 



',5 Colonies Bees in Langstroth Hives. Ad- 

 dress, ROBT. J. COLBURN, 



34Att 6827 Union AVE., CmcaGO, III. 



