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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



March 21, 19tl. 



BelQlan Hares 



CHEAP. 



PEDIGREED AND COMMON STOCK. 



Haviag bought a Job Lot of a neighbor and 

 added to what I had, I must dispose of same to 

 make room for mv increase. They are mostly 



Italian Queens 



season's rearing', ready as soon as the 

 is warm enough to send thru the mail. 

 r prices. Address, 



J. L. STRONG, 



Clarinda, Page Co., Iowa. 



I>one Star 



Establisht 1.-CS5. 

 UAti PI 



J Bee=SuppIies | 



f"^Ve are distributors for ROOT'S GOODS # 



, AT THEIR PRICES for southern Ohio, » 



A Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Ken- ▲ 



• tucky, and the South. • 



f MUTH'S SQUARE CLASS HONEY-JARS, f 



I LANGSTRQTH BEE-HIVES, ETC. 7 



:ig-ht Rates in the couutr 

 Send for Catalog-. 



A Lowes 



f C. H. "W. -WEIBEJK,, ▼ 



X Successor to C. F. MlTH & Son, "l 



" 2146-4,* Central Ave.. CINCINNATI,©. % 



HOnE=SEEKERS' EXCURSIONS. 



On the first and third Tuesdays of 

 each month the Chicago. Milwaukee & 

 St. Paul Railway will sell round-trip 

 excursion tickets from Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee and other points on its line to 

 a great many points in South Dakota. 

 North Dakota, and other Western and 

 Northwestern States at about one fare. 

 Take a trip West and see the wonderful 

 crops and what an amount of good land 

 can be purchast for a little money. 

 Further information as to rates, routes, 

 prices of farm lands, etc., maj' be ob- 

 tained by addressing F. A. Miller, Gen- 

 eral Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111. 



SEED POTATOES 



$1.SO a Barrel and up. 



BIichi<ran Northerti Grown are always 

 the best. 20 best varieties. Blight 

 proof, enormous yielders. highest 

 quality, lowest prices. Sold in any 

 quantity, one pound to a car load. 

 Catalogue free on request. 

 ^ Harry It, Hammond Seed Oo j 

 Box 2 , Bay City, Jlicli, 



F. rm.rl,/ of fin.tj. 



Largest growers of seed pota- 

 toes in America. 



Please mention Bee Journal -when writing. 



SENT ON 30 DAYS TRIAL tt ^ 

 Tbe Itantam batches every haubabie 9 Bm 

 eg. 50^(!g 6i2«, 9~x ^nd 4c for Cat. Na ^- ^M 

 buckeye Incubator Co., Springfield, u. 



We want * 



To sell you BEE=SUPPLIES ! 



Our line is all new and complete. Send 

 for our Illustrated Catalog : it will 

 convince )-ou that our Dovetail Hive 

 is the best on the market. f_)ur prices 

 are right, and our service is prompt. 



Fred W. Mutn & Go. 



S.W. Cor. Front d: Walnut Sts.. Cincinnati.O. 

 Please mention Bee Journal ■when writing. 



ALBINO QUEENS proUfi" Oueens-IfTo^u 

 want the gentlest Bees— If von want the best 

 honev-gatherers von ever saw— trv rav Albinos. 

 Untested dueens in April. $l,n}; Tested, il.50. 



nA26t J. D. GIVENS. Lisbon. Tex. 



Dittnier's Foundation ! 



Retail— Wholesale 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 mv 

 own inventions, which enable me to SELt 

 FOUNDATION and 



ion For Casli 



at prices that are the lowest. Catalog giving 



Full Line of Supplies, 



GUS. DITTMER, Augusta, Wis- 



Please mention Bee Journal Twhen -wTitinK. 



You Can't AffortI to Guess 



it re-uk> ill the poultry l»u^i^ess. If you f;til to raise the- c-bioks, you -siniph liave no busi- 



nesH. The way to be absolutely sure about gettingr the chicks is to employ 'aCypher» Incu- 



t»otop in your hatching. Weguarantee them to last lOyearsand to outhatch any ineubatnr 



lade. The best way to know about it is to read our 224 pape (8x11 in.) book, »*ProfltnbIe 



oultry Keeplni;.** Has3.iO illustrations and covers the entire subject. We send it for 10 



nps. .^j^k for book r.0, f'ireulars mailed free, .\ridrf";? nearest nft-ff. 



CYPIIKK8 INfl BATOIi < O. i htcuc-, 111 . Wi.ylantI, >. Y., Boston. Mass. 



START IN LIFE! 



, yuu back all right. The best w; 

 with the famou; 



RELIABLE 



ly to hutch chicky i^^ — — - ^^ 



INCUBATORS ";S 

 AND BROODERS 



The 1 



ichines which have satisfied more partioulnr pt 

 n anv other macnine made. They hatt-h e* ery fertile eee- -A" sizes? ; 

 <-$S BANTLINC SPECIAL.5o-eK>f size, isthe bert small Ineub 

 lata low price. But send for our great 20TH CENTURY POUlTRt BOOK 

 s— all about our poultrj- supplies, and all about the pou^'"^ ' 

 M lui men huve made monty at it. You won't find a bettertrei 



g E^l'^ul^ |'-^'^'V°" D°°5^ ' ARE LEADERS, 



j[j[ Reliable Pliant Leg Bands \ y,,^ ,,,.,'..-.",. m «(A, / 



' business in pei 



on poultry anywhere. Only 10c 



RELIABLE INC. & BROODER CO., 



Qulncy, III. 



SfQRSHiaR3Hia%S£3Sn3I^ISBSSE3SR8£3»0«^^ 



liim .*1U for a colony, but he did not want to 

 sell, eittier, I linally found a swarm hanging 

 on a willow liu>h. and thus began bee-keeping. 



The winter uf lst>i'-t3.5 I had 17 colonies— ll> 

 ill straw-hives, and one in a box-hive. On 

 the last day of the year (1864) the snow- 

 drifted day and night, and it was so cold that 

 a great many people had their ears and noses 

 frozen. My bees were near the house with 

 oil-cloth covering over them. A few days 

 after the storm the sun shone brightly, and I 

 saw no signs of the bees flying about, so I 

 l<nockt on the hives, but received no answer. 

 To ray sorrow I found 1 hat they were all dead, 

 so I had plenty of honey and wax to sell to 

 cobblers and tailors the next spring. I then 

 liought about a iiuart of bees and a hybrid 

 queen for ■*2..50 from an old friend, and 

 started in again. 



I was SO years old last Christmas, and I go 

 four miles to and from my apiary every day 

 in the summer-time, and occasionally in the 

 winter to find out the temperature of the bee- 

 cellar. I have halt of the bees in the cellar, 

 and the rest outdoors. I had to feed some, 

 liut I have about 30 colonies that I think will 

 come thru the winter all right, as the weather 

 has been favorable. 



The largest sn arm of bees I ever saw was 

 working in and out of a tree on Lone Moun- 

 tain. Calif.. 26 years ago. 



God bless Dr. Miller : may he live long to 

 be a help to bee-keepers, and if he ever comes 

 my way I should like to have him come to 

 see me. 



I have a .son in the bee-business. We feel 

 that we must have the American Bee Journal 

 as long as we keep bees. D. D. Daniher. 



Dane Co., Wis. 



Prospects Bright for the Coming 

 Season. 



I have 30 colonies of bees in winter i|uarters. 

 This is a clear day. the sun is shining brightly, 

 and the bees are having a flight. They are 

 wintering nicely, and we are expecting a good 

 honey crop the coming season. 



The past season was a poor one for honej' 

 in this locality: dandelions bloomed until 

 November. 



I am glad that the ■' Old Reliable '" did not 

 L'o up in smoke at the time of the big fire in 

 the building in which it was located. I have 

 been a reader of the American Bee Journal for 

 3'.; years, and as long as I keep bees I expect 

 to take it. Ira B. Nve. 



Posev Co.. Ind., Feb. 17. 



Bee-Keeping in Indian Territory. 



I want to ask some questions, as I am alone 

 here, and get all my information thru the 

 .\merican Bee Journal, the "ABC of Bee- 

 Culture.'' and experience. The most of the 

 '■ bee-brethren '' are up North, and very little 

 is publisht about bees in this part of the 

 country. 



I notice that one of our expert bee-keepers 

 has been on a trip to Sebastian Co., Ark. I 

 wish he would kindly give, thru the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, his impressions on bees and 

 the prospects tor making a success with an 

 apiary in that county. 



We have wild-flowers, cotton-plant, persim- 

 mons, black locust, ash, willow, wild fruits, 

 and berries in great abundance, but can one 

 make a success of the bee-business with these 

 plants ! 



This has been a very warm and open winter, 

 and there has not been more than 48 hours at 

 any one time in which the bees were not fly- 

 ing. I put 50 colonies into winter quarters, 

 and I believe every one of them are alive, 

 altho they must be short of stores, for I un- 

 derstand that they consume a great deal more 

 honey in a warm winter than in a cold one. 



Last fall, when taking off supers. I found 

 that only about one-half of the sections were 

 tilled, i let the bees clean the partially filled 

 ones, and stored them away in the supers. In 

 going over them uow I find quite a lot broken 

 and partially destroyed — or you might say 

 ragged. What would be the best thing to 

 do with them ! Shall I cut out all the comb- 

 and put in new starters, or will the bees fill 

 out the combs ; I had very bad luck lasl 

 summer in introducing Italian queens, and 



