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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 8, 1904. 



Wanted=Thousands 

 of New Subscribers 



A STANDARD-BRED 



QFEEI^-BEE FREE 



To Our Regular Paid=-in=Advance 

 Subscribers. 



We have arranged with several of the best queen-breeders to supply 

 us with The Very Best Untested Italian Queens that they can possibly 

 rear — well worth $1.00 each. We want every one of our present regular 

 subscribers to have at least one of these Queens. And we propose to 

 make it easy for you to get one or more of them. 



In the first place, you must be a regular subscriber to the American 

 Bee Journal, and your own subscription must be paid in advance. If it 

 is not already paid up, you can send in the necessary amount to make 

 it so when you order one of these fine Queens. 



A Qneen Free for Sending One New Subscriber 



Send us $1.00 and the name and address of one NEW reader for the 

 American Bee Journal, and we will mail you one of the Queens free as 

 a premium. 



Now, go out among your bee-keeping neighbors and friends and 

 invite them to subscribe for the old American Bee Journal. If you want 

 some to show as samples, we will mail you, for the asking, as many 

 copies of the American Bee Journal as you can use. 



Should there be no other bee-keepers near you, and you desire one 

 of these fine Queens any way, send us $1.50 and we will credit your sub- 

 scription for one year and also mail you a Queen. Of course, it is un- 

 derstood that the amount sent will pay your subscription at least one 

 year in advance of the present time. So, if your subscription is in ar- 

 rears, be sure to send enough more than the $1.50 to pay all that is 

 past due. 



As the supply of these splendid Queens is limited, we prefer to use 

 all of them as premiums for getting new subscribers. But if any one 

 wishes to purchase them aside from the Bee Journal subscription, the 

 prices are as follows: One Queen, 75c.; 3 Queens, $2.10 ; 6 Queens 

 for $4.00. 



We expect ^o be able to fill orders by return mail, or almost as 

 promptly as that, so there will be no great delay at any rate 



Now for the new subscribers that you will send us — aud then 

 the Queens that we will send youl 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



334 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



have been used for cellar wintering 

 the outside case seems superfluous. Of 

 course, one cannot tell, without an ex- 

 tensive experiment, whether bees taken 

 from the cellar when soft maple is in 

 bloom need more protection than the 

 thin hives afl^ord. I have had no 

 trouble with mine. They breed up 

 well and do as well as my neighbors' 

 bees. 



I think my experience has solved the 

 much-talked-of brace-comb problem. 

 Brace-combs cannot be found in the 

 300 hives I have used for 5 years. They 

 have never been cleaned, and have 

 been used for section honey every sea- 

 son. All my honey is stored in the ifi- 

 side of the frames and in the inside of 

 sections. T. F. Bingham. 



Clare Co., Mich., Aug. 29. 



Long Winter Conflnement— Season 

 a Failure. 



I notice some of the correspondents 

 think they have kept bees in confine- 

 ment a long time, and I have been 

 waiting to see if some one would get 

 up near to high-water mark, but fear- 

 ing some one will get ahead of me and 

 I cannot report the longest time, I will 

 tell my story now. 



L. F. Sheldon put his bees in the cel- 

 lar Nov. 24, 1903, and in putting them 

 out missed one colony. He found it 

 later and put it out June 19, 1904, in 

 very fair condition. It did not swarm 

 or store any surplus honey. I tele- 

 phoned to Mr. Sheldon just before 

 writing this, to make sure about dates, 

 and what Mr. Sheldon says can be re- 

 lied upon. 



The honey season has come and 

 gone, and nothing to show for it but 

 lots of light swarms and about 500 

 pounds of honey. Never was the pros- 

 pect better than the forepart of June. 

 The colonies were sending off large 

 swarms, and every little basswood tree 

 and larger one was loaded. The ground 

 was white with clover, from which I 

 never saw the bees gather honey until 

 this season. They worked about 3 

 days on the first blossoms, but there 

 hasn't been a bee on it since. 



I could stand in my yard and see the 

 basswood trees in full blossom all over 

 the hills. There were not as many 

 bees moving in my yard, as there 

 should have been from 3 colonies, and 

 all this time the farmers were telling 



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