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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 28, 1901. 



Seed Catalogue « 



You should, by all mfans, have thia moat 

 modern catalogue of modern timeH. 



It IS brimful and overrtuwiiiK witb good things in 

 vegetable, farm and tlower seeds, tlowering 

 plants, fruits, bulbs, etc It eontainn 35 

 noveEties In vetretables and fiowert* 

 never offered before, has 1^6 large pages, 

 seven handaume colored plates and hundreds of 

 illustrations. It gives practical, up-to-date cul- 

 tural directions and offers many cash prizes. 

 The first edition alone costs over $30,000, eo while 

 we send it free to all customers, we must ask 

 others to send 10 cents for it, which amount they 

 may deduct from their first order. You will 

 make a mistake if you do not write to-day for this 

 the Novelty Seed Book of the year. Address, 

 WM. HENBT 9IAUI^E, Pbiladelpliia. 



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BelQlan Hares 



CHEAP. 



PEDIGREED AND COMMON STOCK. 



Having bought a Job Lot of a neighbor and 

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

 make room for my increase. They are mostly 

 young— 3 months and over— with a few bred 

 Does. ALSO 



Italian Queens 



of last season's rearing, ready as soon as the 

 weather is warm enough to send thru the mail. 

 Write for prices. Address, 



J. L. STRONG, 



iiAtf Clarinda, Page Co., Iowa. 



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, Wilson Co., Tex. 

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I Bee=SuppIies 



4' AT THEIR PRICES for southern Ohii 



Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Ken- A 



. tucky, and the South. ,. __ T 



f MUTH-S SQUARE CLASS HONEY-JARS, f 



4. LANGSTROTH BEE-HIVES, ETC. T 



4 Lowest Freight Rates in the country. ^ 



Send for Catalog. jJ" 



• C H. "W. "WE3BBR,, ▼ 



X Successor to C. F. Muth &. Son, *X 



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SENT ON 30 DAYS TRIAL 



$5 



ckeye Incubator Co., Sprlngflelil, 0. 



HOriE-SEtKERS' EXCURSIONS. 



On the fir.-t and third Tuesday's 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., may be ob- 

 tained by addressing F. A. Miller, Gen- 

 eral Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111. C 



Ppospeets Good for the Coming 

 Season. 



I am a beginner in the bee-business, and 

 have five colonies of bees in the cellar, which 

 seem to be doing well. The prospects for the 

 coming season are good, and I think we will 

 have plenty of white clover. 



I have taken the American Bee Journal one 

 year, and think I could hardly do without it, 

 as I get so much valuable information from 

 it. C. M. Lav\'kesce. 



Blaekhawk Co., Iowa. March 7. 



Winter Report— Long-Tongued 

 Bees. 



Tile season of 1900 was not a very good one 

 fur honey in this locality. I have not had a 

 paying crop for three years, but look for bet- 

 ter things the coming season. The indications 

 for a good crop of white clover were good up 

 to March 3d, but it turned cold on the 4th, 

 after having been warm for a few days, and 

 melted all the snow, which leaves the clover 

 in bad condition. Bees wintered outdoors 

 have had a number of good Bights during the 

 winter, but those in the cellar are not doing 

 very well, being more uneasy than usual; 

 more than a third of the 70 colonies in the 

 cellar are spotting their hives, and I think 

 there are many more dead bees on the lloor 

 than in former winters. I have been keeping 

 a record of the bees swept up since Jan. 16th, 

 also of the number of hives spotted, and will 

 report on it later. 



1 have some of the long-tongued bees .18 

 and .19 mm., the latter of the five-banded 

 stock. I shall watch the tongue matter next 

 summer, as I am prepared to measure the 

 tongues. Theo. S. Hurley. 



Tama Co. , Iowa, March 5. 



Bees Wintering Well. 



Bees are wintering well, are building up 

 nicely now, and prospects are good for a 

 honey crop; but sometimes we have dry 

 weather that cuts us out. T. B. Bownds. 



Milam Co., Texas, Feb. 4. 



Hard Winter on Bees in New York 

 State. 



So far the 20th century has been the worst 

 ever known for bees in this locality. There 

 has been no weather for them to have a flight, 

 and during the whole month of February it 

 didn't thaw even once in the shade, with "the 

 thermometer from zero to 12 degrees below 

 much ot the time. The snow is from 4 to 10 

 feet deep in our roads, and the ice is front 18 

 to 22 inches thick on the ponds and lakes. 

 Bees that survive will be of a hardy race — 

 those wintering on the summer stands, at 

 least. G. M. Doolittle. 



Onondaga Co., N. Y. March 6. 



Report for the Past Three Seasons. 



I am a man with a hard case of chronic bee- 

 fever. Two years ago a friend gave me, late 

 iu July, a colony of bees in a box-hive. They 

 cast a swarm the next day, which I hived suc- 

 cessfully in a Langstroth hive. Late as it 

 was, they gathered enough honey for winter, 

 and the next summer I divided them. The 

 colony in the box-hive swarmed when I was 

 away from home, "and they never caiue back 

 any more." I got 125 pounds of comb honey 

 that year. 



The next spring I purchast 12 colonies at 

 .$3.00 each : that was a poor year for honey in 

 this lo^lity, and I got 420 pounds of honey 

 (nearly all of which was dark), and increast 

 to 22 colonies. One of these was queenless in 

 the spring, so I began the last season with 21 

 colonies. White clover, basswood and buck- 

 wheat did nicely, but there was no fall flow to 

 speak of. I secured 73 pounds per colony. 



Dittmer's Foundation ! 



Retail— W hoiesale— Jobbing. 



I use a PROCESS that produces EVERY 

 ESSENTIAL necessarv to make it the BEST 

 and MOST desirable in all respects. My PRO- 

 CESS and AUTOMATIC MACHINES are my 

 own inventions, which enable me to SELL 

 FOUNDATION and 



Wort fax Into Fonnflation For Casli 



at prices that are the lowest. Catalog giving 



Full Line of Supplies, 



GUS, DITTMER, Augusta, Wis, 



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GREIDER'S POILTRY 



always do well, r)0 standard varieties. Handsoni- 

 of money-making bints. My birds are winners. 



B. H. CREIDER, Florin, Pa. 



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ALBINO QUEENS '^r^^.T^^^.r^ 



want the gentlest Bees— If you want the best 

 honey-gatherers vou ever saw— trv ray Albinos. 

 Untested dueens in April. $1.(I0; Tested, $1.50. 



llA26t J, D. GIVENS. LISBON. Tex. 



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CATALOG FREE. 



1. J. STRINQHAM, 



I05 Park Place, • NEW YORK, N. Y. 



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"Electricl 



applied to either 

 Wheels or V.'agons 



•"tt puarantfe of excellence The, 



""■ fact. In 4 years w 





lie apPrfcia-Lfs iiiiH lo.".:!.. in I J "_- 



Slid 320.000 EleetrlcSleel MTi^fls and 30- 

 OOOEIpetrie llaodj War-.n-. Weniske wbetls 

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Brooders, Etc. 



For Sale '"'"'^'"^ 



One 400-egg, Prairie state Incubator; one 20- 

 foot Sectional Hot-Water Brooder; one lO-foot 

 Sectional Uot-Water Brooder; one Hand or 

 Power Dandy Bone-Cutter. All new Willsell 

 them for cash for less one-half of their value, 

 or e-xchange for small steam-power. For refer- 

 ence and description address 



A. T. SICKLER, Vernon, Wyoming Co., Pa. 



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A 20th Century Catalog It is not the fault 

 of the seedsmen if the tables of the farmers at 

 this season of the Year are not abloom with col- 

 ored illustrations of the products of the vegeta- 

 ble and flower garden. One of the largest and 

 most attractive is "Maule's Seed Catalog, 1901." 

 Its 13(> pages are literally crammed with in- 

 formation about seeds that grow, and which 

 Maule sells. From it we learn that the concern 

 is one of the largest mail-order houses in the 

 world, paying out during the last S years, for 

 postage, jiSl,S87.S8. Theie are several valuable 

 novelties in the catalog, the two leading ones 

 being the "Success" tomato, which is pro- 

 nounced to be the best market tomato intro- 

 duced to the American farmer and gardener, 

 and the Snow White Dent corn, said to be the 

 grandest milling corn in the world. Other new 

 varieties are Maule's First Early cabbage, the 

 Model muskmelon, the Nameless cabbage, a 

 new, unnamed French carrot. Imperial, Giant 

 sugar-corn, Maule's unnamed lettuce, Excelsior 

 Tree egg-plants, the Prodigious pea, and others. 

 In fact, the largest list of new things we re- 

 member to have seen in any one catalog. It 

 would be an educator in any family, and can be 

 had free by our subscribers for the asking; 

 others must send 10 cents for it. Publisht by 

 Wm. Henry Maule, Philadelphia, Pa. Please 

 mention American Bee Journal when writing. 



