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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 11, 1901. 



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Take $100. give your wife §35.20 for 

 \ pia money. Purchase a draft or nion- 



der lor $(34.80 and mail it to us 



.■ii and we will ship you at once, our 

 .5^ No. 292 Extension Top Surrey— the best Surrey 

 ever sold anywhere for SIOO. spot cash. 

 The S33.20 you give your wife represents 

 the two extra profits yni would have to 

 pay in Betting the jobfr mi a doaler. We 



Sell Direct from our Factory 

 to you and give you iO DAYS' TRIAL 

 before you pay 



tor It. 

 Get our laree illus- 

 trated catalogue of 

 our tuU line of Ve- 

 hicles and Harness. 

 Itisfullotbarp:ains. 

 Send for it to-day. 

 IT 18 FREK. 

 Kalamazoo Carriage & Harness Co. 

 Boi 53 , Kalamazoo. Mich. 



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If you want the Bee-Book 



That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 



completely than anjr other publisht, 



send J1.2Sto 



Prof. A. J. Cook,Claremont, Cal., 

 " Bee=Keeper's Guide." 



Liberal Discounts to the Trade. 



ENGINES 



—-either traction, portable or eeml-portable 



Tepresentthe preatest value thatcan be crowded 

 ioto s machine ot this kind. Simple or compounds to SOh.p. 

 Vnequalleil for threshiDg, well drilling saw millg, feed 

 grioder3.i:c.MakealsosuperiorthrC(*hcrs,hop8cpoW- 

 ers^saw uiills^etC* Illustrated catalog mailed I'rec* 



Pleasp mention Bee Journal -wh.--" ■writing. 



Grove City Rabbitry ! 



I'rinco Ijeopold, Ivaiihoc, 

 Donovan Boy, 



and other high-bied Belgian stock. 

 Youngsters, 3 mouths, $3.00, or 2 for $5.00. 

 For pedifjree, write 

 WM. M.WHITNEY, Kankakee III. 



Pleas 



BEES WANTED! 



50 TO 75 Colonies. 



If vou have anvfor sale wnie lo H. G. OUIRIN, 

 Parkektow.v, Ohio. 13A4t 



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TWENTY MILLIONS IN GOLD 



From Alaska during the year looo. 



Five millions of this came from the 

 Nome district. Government officials 

 estimate the output from the Nome dis- 

 trict ■will be doubled the coming season. 

 The Bluestone, Kougarok and Pilgrim 

 rivers have been found very rich. There 

 is hardly a creek from Port Clarence 

 to Norton Sound in ■which the precious 

 metal is not found, and hundreds of 

 creeks unprospected. A rich strike has 

 been made on the Yellow river, a trib- 

 utary of the Kuskokwim. 



For full information regarding routes, 

 steamship accommodations and rates 

 to all points in Alaska, address C. N. 

 Souther, General Agent, Passenger 

 Department, C. M. & St. P. R'y, 95 

 Adams Street, Chicago. 13A3t 



Early Spring in Arizona. 



We are having an early spring. Alfalfa is 

 about knee-high, and bees are gathering 

 honey from fruit and desert flowers. 



To-day I found ijueeu-cells started in all 

 stages, from the egg to the sealed cell ready 

 for swarming. B. A. Hodsell. 



Maricopa Co., Ariz., March 4. 



Bees Wintered Well in Kansas. 



I started last fall with eight colonies of 

 bees, and they are coming thru the winter 

 very nicely. I examined a few of them in 

 February, and found some of the queens la.v- 

 inn, and some brood in the larval state. The 

 colonies are all on the summer stands. How 

 is that for Kansas ? 



I love my bees, and am bound to give this 

 c^juntry a fair trial before I give up trying to 

 keep them here. I think the prospects will 

 grow better when the farmers get to sowing 

 more alfalfa. 



I want to do all I can for the American Bee 

 Journal, for I could not do without it now. 

 J. L. Bader. 



Coffey Co., Kans., March 10. 



More Rain in Southern California- 

 Sage Honey. 



We have ,iust had another nice rain, and the 

 prospect for a honey crop in southern Califor- 

 nia is good, as most locations have had from 

 12 to 1.5 inches of rain to date. I have an 

 apiary near Pasadena, where the rainfall has 

 been 22 inches. There has been very little 

 sage honey shipt from here during the past 

 three years, but there will soon be some to 

 ship. Fkank McNat. 



Los Angeles Co., Calif., March 14. 



A Voice from Southern California. 



Having read with do small degree of amuse- 

 ment the comments and prophecies on the 

 expectations and prospects of California's 

 honey crop for UKU — and these not always 

 given in the friendlie.st of terms, but tinged 

 with a gleam ot .jealousy — I wish to say : 



Now, fellow bee-keepers, honey-eaters, and 

 friends who are hopeful and have a good wish 

 for those who produce by the sweat of the 

 brow and the pain of the bee-sting, that which 

 of all others is one of Nature's choicest 

 sweets, California has had a hard trial — espe- 

 cially southern California — in the three sea- 

 sons of light rainfall .just past, and perhaps no 

 l)ursuit has been more severely tried, or suf- 

 tt'i^cd a greater percent ot loss in proportion 

 to the amount invested, than that of bee- 

 keeping. And ot the many who have 

 " stayed it thru " almost all have had some 

 other source of income, or turned at least a 

 part of their attention to other pursuits, that 

 they might save their bees until we should 

 be blest again with a normal rainfall that 

 would justify them in giving their attention 

 to the iioney-producing industry. The editor 

 of one of the leading bee-papers says, " We 

 expect California will be wishing Colorado a 

 ' short crop.' " This is not a fair judgment of 

 the temperament ot us California bee-keepers, 

 for I do not believe, at any time in the three 

 trying seasons just i^ast thru, that the bee- 

 keepers of California wisht to see a good crop 

 at home and a failure on the fellow in another 

 State. 



Five years ago last fall I came to this part 

 of the country from Oregon, and, to amuse 

 myself, the following winter I dug out from 

 the hills and hived 24 colonies, and from these 

 and sul)sequent purchases made with money 

 earned by working out between times, I have 

 built up an apiary of 1(10 colonies that are in 

 excellent condition, and I have a few dollars 



Belgian Hares 



CHBAP. 



PEDIGREED AND COMMON STOCK. 



H-iving- 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 enougrh to send thru the mail. 

 Write for prices. Address, 



J. L. STRONG, 



iiAtf Clarinda, Page Co., Icwa. 



one Star 



Establisht 1S8S. Fairview, Wilson Co., Tex. 

 12Atf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Bee=Supplies 



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 AT THEIR PRICES for southern Ohio, 

 Indiana, Illinois, W'est Virginia, Ken- 

 tucky, and the South. 



MUTH'S SQUARE CLASS HONEY-JARS, 

 LANGSTROTH BEE-HIVES, ETC. 



C. H. W. -WEBER., 



Successor to C. F. Muth & Son, 

 2146-48 Central Ave., CINCINNATI. O. 



ALBINO QUEENS I 



the g-eolk ' '" 



f you want the most 

 prolific Queens — If you 

 ; — If you want the best 

 -g-atherers vou ever saw- trv my Albinos. 

 Untested Oueens in April. $1,00; Tested, $1.50. 

 iiA26t j.D. GIVENS. Lisbon. Tex. 



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Retail— Wholesale-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 

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