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which it covers. The thin slii|i|iiiij,'-tags used 

 by express companies are made o£ just the 

 right Ivind of pasteboard for tliis purpose. 



After several years' experience with the 

 Doolittle and Pridgen methods of ciueen-rear- 

 ing, I prefer the Doolittle plan. With a quill 

 I can transfer just as small larva? as Mr. 

 Pridgen can move, "baby, cradle and all," and 

 no combs mutilated. 



To keep up with the times, I have been 

 measuring the tongues of bees from several 

 of my colonies. The variation in length is 

 surprising. The longest-tongued bees that 1 

 have yet measured are from the granddaugh- 

 ter of an " Adel " queen. Their tongues 

 measure from .25 inch to .354 inch from the 

 base of the sub-mentum to the tip of the 

 ligula. This colony built combs for me all 

 last summer, brood was taken from them fre- 

 •quently, yet they gave a small surplus, and 

 had more winter stores than any other colony 

 in my home yard. 



The bee-keepers of South Dakota have ex- 

 perinced some of the advantages of co-opera- 

 tion. Supplies were purchast thru our State 

 association. For many of our members the 

 saving of supplies alone many times repaid 

 the membership fee of one dollar. 



Perhaps for thoe e who wilt use quilts on 

 hives nothing is so good as Dr. Miller's quilts 

 ■with several layers of newspapers between, 

 says one of my neighbors who has used many 

 of them. 



Bees have wintered perfectly, both indoors 

 and outdoors. E. V. Atwater. 



Yankton Co., S. D.. March 1. 



Report from Southern Georgia. 



I began bee-keeping in 1897 with 5 colonies, 

 and have made a great many mistakes, as 

 most beginners do. I now have a small api- 

 ary of 3T colonies, which I run entirely for 

 ■comb honey, as I find a better demand for it 

 in my local market than for the extracted 

 honey. 



I live in southern Georgia, where we have 

 no severe winters, and my bees are left on the 

 summer stands in single-walled hives the year 

 around, without the loss of a single colony in 

 wintering. 



I hived a swarm April 5th that weighed 15 

 pounds, and have put some supers on. Our 

 main honey-tlow begins about May 1st, and 

 lasts until about July 1st. I take off the 

 •supers about July 15th, and let them build up 

 for winter. I lose two or three colonies every 

 spring from spring dwindling. 



There is no apiary within S miles of mine. 

 I like bee-keeping, and also like the American 

 Bee Journal, and think that no bee-keeper 

 ■ought to try to get along without it. 



H. T. Hanna. 



Decatur Co., Ga., April 13. 



Successful Cellap-Wlnteping. 



Our bees came out booming this spring. 

 From 400 colonies placed in the cellar last 

 fall we have lost only 10 colonies, so I think 

 we will have some bee-business this .season. 

 ■Our imported queens wintered very well, and 

 •came out with plenty of brood in their hives. 

 Many of the bee-keepers in this section re- 

 port heavy losses. We attribute our success 

 in wintering to the bees having plenty of 

 good food, good cellars, and last, but not less 

 important, good, young, prolific queens. 



AllA L. PlCKAKI). 



Richland Co., Wis., April IT. 



Rendering Beeswax. 



Having seen and read a gond many articles 

 in the Amerieaii Bee Journal alwut rendering 

 wax from old brood-combs, and about its 

 being such an awful job, perhaps I can help 

 some of those who think it so. by giving my 

 plan. I think the solar wax-extractor is a 

 slow process unless one has but a few colo- 

 aies. I have tried a number of different 

 ways, and I think the following is " king of 

 all,'' both for rapid work and ease: 



I have made what I call a " jack press.'' It 

 is 10x16 inches, inside measure, the posts and 

 beams are 4x0 oak. the bottom is made of 3- 

 inch planks, and the ends and sides are made 

 ■of one-incli pine with one-ineh slots left on 



QUEENS! 



Improved Golden ;iiid Leather-colored Ital- 

 ians are what H. G. QUIRIN rears. 



We have one o( Kom's best lone-tougued Red- 

 Clover Breeders from their $2W queen, and a 

 Golden Breeder from l)oomtle,wlio says if there 

 is a BREEDER of ffoUIen bees in the U.S. wonli 

 ftiiO, this one iswortli that sum. The above 

 breeders have been .idded to our already im- 

 proved strain of queens for the coming season. 



J. L. tiandv, of Humboldt, Nebr,, wrote us on 

 Aug. 5th, PJiKi, savintf that the colony having 

 one of our queens had already stored over 400 

 pounds of honey (mostly comb; ; he states that 

 he is certain that our bees work on Red Clover, 

 as they were the only kind in his locality and 

 apiarv. 



A. I. Root's folks say that our queens are 

 extra fine, while the editor of the American Bee 

 Journal tells us that he has good reports from 

 our queens from time to time. We have files 

 upon flies of unsolicited testimonials. 



After considering the above evidence, need 

 you wonder why our orders have increast each 

 year? Give us a trial order and be pleased. We 

 have years of e.\periencein mailing and rearing 

 queens. Safe dcliverv will be truaranteed, and 

 instructions for introducing sent with eacb lot 

 of queens. 



QUEENS NOW READY TO MAIL. 

 Prices before July ist: 



1 6 12 



Warranted stock $.75 $4.25 $8.00 



Selected warranted l.Oi) 5.IH1 ').50 



Tested 1.50 S.tW 15.00 



Selected tested 2.00 10 50 



Extra selected tested, the 



best that money can buy, 4.00 



Folding Cartons, with your address printed 

 on in two colors, $4 00 per 1,000; 500 for $2.75. 



Address all orders to 



H. G. QUIRIN, Papkertown, Ohio. 



(Parkertown is a Money-Order Office. 

 Bv contract this ad. will appear twice per 

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Price of Queens 



from Imported 



Mothers: 



Tested. 1-$ 1.50 



Un" .1— .75 



:d..6— 6.50 



..I,— 4.00 



Tested. 12— 12.00 



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each side of the Ijottom, these being covered 

 with wire cloth so that the wax can pass thru. 

 I also use a sack made of burlap with square 

 bottom tlie size of the inside of the press. I 

 have another plank to fit loosely in the press, 

 wliieli 1 set the jack on. I use a jack with 

 2x1(1 inch screw. Set the whole thing on a 

 large tub or trough with some water in it, 

 and I am ready for business. 



I boil about '25 or 30 combs at a time in an 

 old wash-boiler, having it as hot as I can 

 make it. I have the sack in the press all 

 ready, |iour the boiling wax into it, fold down 

 tile sack, lay on the loose plank, screw down 

 the jack, and the work is done. I can press 

 it as dry as pomace that conies from a cider- 

 press. After having done all this I refill the 

 boiler, and let the next lot get hot while I am 

 pressing the first. If the press is made strong, 

 and the work is done right, from "2.50 to 30(1 

 combs can be prest in a day. 



Wm. Housel. 



Hunterdon Co., N. J., March "21. 



Prospects for a Good Honey Crop. 



I put 11 colonies into the cellar last fall, 

 but they were not very strong, so I lost 4 of 

 them. Last season was a very poor one for 

 bees in this part of the State, but the pros- 

 pects are for a good honey crop this year. 



Albert GoETscn. 



Dodge Co., Wis., April 19. 



How the 



Robber-Bees" Were 

 Quelled. 



I had a little experience once with bees 

 when I first commenced in the bee-business. 

 I had read up on the subject of bee-keeping, 

 and considered myself competent to care for 

 and manage an apiary. I soon started out in 

 quest of bees, and ptirchast two colonies in 

 box-hives. This was in early spring. I kept 

 close watch to see that all was well with them, 

 and everything went well the first day. The 

 second day trouble came. One of my hives 

 was full of honey and bees, the other one was 

 light in both. 



About 1 p.m. I noticed there was something 

 wrong in the apiary. I soon discovered just 

 what the trouble was — they were robbing ray 

 best colony. 1 thought how very fortunate I 

 was to have learned just how to manage a bail 

 case of robbing like the one I now had to deal 

 with. 



I sent one member of the family after straw, 

 another after water, and myself after the 

 sprinkler. I soon had the front of the hive, 

 which was being robbed, piled high with 

 straw, and the sprinkler running full time. 

 But what perplext me was, the hees kept 

 piling into the hive, and none came out, but 

 soon all was quiet. I had comiuered them. I 

 decided then and there that I was well in- 

 formed in all the branches of bee-keeping. 



I diiln't learn my mistake till the following 

 day, when the bees again (as before) came 

 out for their daily play-apeU. 



A. E. WiLLCUTT. 



Hampshire Co., Mass. 



Value of Honey as Food. 



" Comparatively few to-day know the great 

 value of honey both as a food and a medicine. 

 Were its value as a medicine thoroly known, 

 it would displace in hundreds of families tlie 

 domestic remedies or quack compounds now 

 depended upon by them as 'cure-alls.' If 

 every bee-keeper in the country would write a 

 series of articles for his local weekly news- 

 piiper upon the value of honey for food anil 

 iiLoilieine, it would soon create a demand, to 

 sii|iply which would require a much larger 

 (pmntity than is now produced." 



Thus says a writer in one of our agricul- 

 tural papers. While there may not be in the 

 claims made, all the writer thinks, yet in them 

 is something worthy of thinking about. If 

 honey is really ihe gvod thing we tjce-keepers 



