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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 10, n. 1. 



A HANDY TOOL-HOLDER 



Sent by Express, for $1.50 ; or with tlic Bcc Journal 

 one year — both for $'2.00. 



Every Manufacturer, Miller. Carpenter. 

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How to Use the Holder. 



Directions.— The Tool is fas- 

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For grinding Round ■ Edge 

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GEORGE "W. 



YORK & CO., 



118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, LL. a 



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26 cents Cash 

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 26 cents a pound — 

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 Address as follows, very plainly, 

 GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan St., CHICAGO. 



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Index to the Chapters of the Book. ^ 



Importance of Good Queens: Nature's ^ 



Way of Hearing Queens; Another of ^ 



Nature's Wav; Old Methods of Rearing ^ 



Queens; Later Methods of Rearing Si 



Queens; New Wav of Rearing Queens; ^ 



Getting the Bees off the Cells; What to S 



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Shipping-Cages,Bee-Candy,Etc.; Uueens ^ 



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■^ GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 118 MICHIGAN ST., CHICAGO. ILL. ^ 



1.S94 or 1895. The next year after its 

 appearance I lost 70 colonies. That 

 was genuine foul brood, and I showed 

 it no mercy but burnt everything. 

 Since then I have suffered but little 

 from its effects, until the past year and 

 then I was puzzled. I do not know 

 whether I will stock up again or not, 

 as I believe every apiary in the bottoms 

 is infected more or less. If I remain 

 in the business the coming season I 

 will fall back on the lire remedy, as I 

 know that is sure. 



The season here was fair for honey, 

 and the good colonies stored honev un- 

 til the last of October. Out of 70 col- 

 onies I have about 50 left, and will lose 

 more by spring. C. A. Haixes. 



St. Clair Co., 111., Dec. 25. 



Poop Season and Poof Prospects. 



I began the bee-business 7 years ago 

 with one colony. I tiow have a mon- 

 ster apiary of two colonies, altho I have 

 had as many as 15. During the past 

 summer there was no clover of any 

 kind, and the two colonies did not cast 

 any swarms, nor did they store enough 

 honey for winter, and so had to be fed. 

 If I could get 1600 pounds of honey 

 from one colony, spring count, as was 

 reported the other day, from my two 

 next summer I might get 3200 pounds, 

 which would be some encouragement 

 to continue, but the way things look 

 now I shall have neither bees nor honey 

 by next fall. When people tell about 

 havitig to feed their bees for winter, I 

 know how to sympathize with them, 

 but some of the stories that get into 

 the papers are big enough to choke 

 me. J. V. B. Hkrrick. 



Hennepin Co., Minn., Dec. 25. 



The Lightning-Bug Bee! 



While the long and short tongued 

 bee is being so much discust I wish to 

 say that I bought a strain of bees from 

 an old fellow that kept a few bees in 

 this neighborhood ^-ears ago, and they 

 do say they crost with the lightning- 

 bug and workt by nightl (No queens 

 for sale.) Daniel Jones. 



Marshall Co., 111., Dec. 24. 



A Drouth for Three Years. 



An unprecedented drouth of three 

 successive years has visited southern 

 California, and the bee-keepers' and 

 the grain farmers' interests suiTered 

 very severely, we are reduced in num- 

 bers to a minimum of a few apiaries, 

 and we had to work out to make ends 

 meet. We all hope for a better season 

 to come. 



This is the land of perpetual sun- 

 shine, but farmers and bee-keepers 

 have been scanning the sky for rain- 

 clouds, only to be disappointed, and a 

 radiant hot sun pours forth on the 

 hills, valleys, and meadows. 



GrST.4^v Voss. 



Riverside Co., Calif.. Dec. 22. 



Hardly Paid Expenses. 



The bee-business has iiardly paid ex- 

 penses the last three seasons, and it is 

 hard scratching to spare the monej' for 

 my subscription, but you can't run the 

 " Old Reliable " vrithout money, and I 

 can't do without the paper. I will try 

 to keep bees one more year before I 

 give it up. T. M. BarkeTT. 



Orange Co., Calif., Dec. 20. 



