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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb. 7, 191 1. 



"Poultry Raisins on tlie Farm 



20IH CENTIRY POULTRY BOOK. 



It W undeniably thtb, 



(r.:it:ulthe latest 

 the world famous Kcliahl.- Incnliiil.T^ uiid llr-oN^r-. ^shidi air u^td all wver the 



S*"n«ce^U*ori&"XtiS Reliable Incb. & Brooder Co. Box B- 2 ,Qulncy.lli 



Good Instruments. 



VIOLIN— Amati model, choice of 3 



i>lora, dark brown, lightredoraniber. 



board, best quality patent head 

 Full leather bound canvas cas»* 

 Regular price 818. My Price*?. <;i 

 MANDOLIN-Solid Rosi-v^.„„i 

 "Jribs; celluloidlront; veiH-.-r.ci 

 ead piece, handsomely in laid. 

 Elejrant French Polish. Puteiitl 

 \ head, engravedtail-piece. Worth 

 |81». My Price, «nly $7. with 

 I leather bound case, extra set of 

 inps and tortoise pick. Sendfo 

 t'h grade musiral instruments of all k 



Chicago. 



I BEE-SUPPLIES! I 



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;^ PouDER's Honey-Jars and every- ^■ 



•^ thing' used by bee-keepers. Prompt ^? 



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 Comb Foundatior 



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Fine lot of Choice Testeil 

 (lueens reared last season, 

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 and select golden i|ueens, 

 reaped y\ miles apart, and 

 mated to select drones, $1.SU 

 each : untested warranted 

 tjueens, from same breeders, 



bees 



vned 



arer tha 



large orders. Contracts 

 rith dea'ers a specialty. JOHN M. DAVIS, 

 {,A20t Spring Hill, Tenn. 



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Bee Journal. 



CAREER AND CHARACTER OF 

 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



An address b)' Joseph Choate, Am- 

 bassador to Great Britain, on the career 

 and character of Abraham Lincoln — 

 his earl}' life — his struggles with the 

 world — his character as developt in the 

 later years of his life and his adminis- 

 tration, which placed his nainc so high 

 on the world's roll of honor and fame, 

 has been ptiblisht by the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee & St. Paul Railway, and may 

 be had by sending six (6) cents in pos- 

 tage to F. A. Miller, General Passen- 

 ger Agent, Chicago, 111. 6A3t 



iQliCH MONEY 



I. ...IN CHICKENS... ^ 



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^ One Minute, Please I 



^ We be^r to announce Ibat we have g-otie 



^ into the bee-supply aud houe^ business. 



^ l^tin^ practical bee-^keepers who un- 



1 derstand the supply business thnruly, 



A and know pretij well the wants ot the 



^ bee-keepers, the firm will (rive its exclu- 



A sive altealion to the bee supply business 



^ aud tbe promotion oi the sale of htmey 



J in this vicinity. 



1 After visiting- all the imponant tuauu- 



O facfurerp, we have selected a line that 



^ will g-ive the best of satisfaction. Our 



J location — adjoining' the Suspension 



^ Bridg-e— is most central, and being- only 



1 four blocks poulh from tbe Fountain 



^ Square, is right down in the business 



J part of the citv, and especially handy 



A tor our Ketitucky friends; our facilities 



1 for prompt service are perfect; and our 



^ prices are consistent with g-oud business 



J judgment. Our Catalog has mauy new 



m leaiures. Send us your name so we can 



J mail you one. 



i FRED W. MUTH & CO. 



n Southwest Cor. Front and Walnut Sts., 



2 CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



^ 200-Egg Incubator 

 for $ 1 2.00 



ica every fertile 

 Write for catalogue to-day. 

 GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy. III. 



Dittnier's Foundation ! 



Retail \N holesale— Jobbing. 



I use a PROCESS that produces EVERY 

 ESSENTIAL necessary to make it the BEST 

 and MOST desirable in all respects. My PRO- 

 CESS and AUTOMATIC MACHINES are rav 

 oivn inrentions, which enable me to SELL 

 FOUNDATION and 



Work Wax Into Fonnilaiioii For Cash 



Full Line of Supplies, 



GUS, DITTMER, Augusta, Wis, 



the better if you give them a good 

 dose of paint afterward. This kind of 

 a cover will outlast a new one. If the 

 lids are fiat nail a cleat lengthwise 

 down the center, shave the corners of 

 the cleat with a plane, also the edges 

 of the cover — that is, the eaves ; then 

 shingle as you would a gable cover, 

 and you will have a small air-space left 

 under the shingle cover, which makes 

 a cooler cover in hot weather. The 

 cleat can be one, or even two, inches 

 thick. Eugene Hambaugh. 



Brown Co., 111.. Jan. 8. 



Past Season a Failure. 



I have been in the bee-business three 

 years, and the past season was almost 

 a complete failure. I will have to feed 

 some of the bees to bring them thru 

 the winter. But I don't see how I can 

 do without the American Bee Journal. 

 Ernest E. Bakek. 



Wayne Co., Iowa. 



Bees Having a Flight. 



To-day is warm and nice, and my 

 bees are having a fine flight. I can't 

 keep house (and bees) without the " Old 

 Reliable." H. W. Congdon. 



Hardin Co., Iowa, Jan. 14. 



Good Season— Honey From Spanish- 

 Needle. 



This has not been a very good year 

 for my bees. I got only 3500 pounds 

 of extracted honey and 50 pounds of 

 cotnb honey from 60 colonies, which is 

 not nearly so well as they have done 

 in years gone by. 



I am wintering them outdoors. I 

 made a box with three sides, leaving 

 the front open. I used clover chaff for 

 packing as it absorbs the moisture : 

 they seem to be doing very well. 



I move my bees every fall to the 

 swamps of the Illinois River bottom, 

 in order to get the honey-flow from 

 Spanish-needle. I had 40 colonies 

 down there last fall, atad secured 1500 

 pounds of as fine yellow honey as I 

 ever saw. James Grover. 



Brown Co., 111., Jan. 15. 



DilTepenee in Color of Wax. 



Did any of the readers ever notice 

 the difterence in color between wax 

 rendered from old brood-combs and 

 that rendered from honey-combs ? In- 

 variably when melting honey-combs — 

 that is, combs free from cocoons— I 

 get a pale-yellow-nearly-white wax, 

 while if melting old brood-combs I se- 

 cure a rich-yellow, first-class article. 

 It seems Mr. Hutchinson's experience 

 has been the same. He says he is un- 

 able to say what causes the difference 

 in color, and I am not sure that I know 

 what causes it, but I am sure that by- 

 careful experimenting the cause can be 

 found. Is it possible that brood-rear- 

 ing colors the wax thru and thru ? I 

 think not. I believe it is the stain 

 from the cocoons that gives the wax 

 from the brood-combs its rich-yellow 

 color. We can tell in this way : 



Melt up enough old brood-combs to 

 get ([uite a lot of cocoons and residue ; 

 take some new comb and put above the 

 pile of cocoons so that the melted wax 

 will not run thru it. Of course a so- 

 lar wax-extractor must be used. 



My reason for thinking that the 



