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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



May 2, 1901. 



Tennessee Queens ! 



ghi 



of Choice Tested 

 eared last season, 

 :lect imported 



her 



select goldea qu 



eared 2'i miles apart, aud 



uated to select drones, $1.50 



■ach ; untested warranted 



rae breeders, 



5c each. No 



an 254 



les. None impure within 



ind bat few within 5 miles. 



rears' experience. Discount 



large orders. Contracts 



■with dealers a specialty. JOHN M. DAVIS, 



(,A2tit Spring Hill, Tenn. 



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Chicago, III., Jan. 28, 1101. 

 D. J. Blocher, Esq., PearlCity, 111. 



Dear Sir: —Your quotations on 48 untested 

 Italian Queens, ready for delivery by May IS, 

 1901, at hand. It being the first offer out of sev- 

 eral inquiries,and, besides, you having promptly 

 favored me with queens last year, you may, in 

 appreciation thereof, have the order. 



Yours truly, L. Kreutzinger. 

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Number of Queens 1 6 12 



Golden Queens. 



Untested Sl.OO $5.00 $ ^.OO 



Tested 1-25 ''■"O "-W 



Select Tested 2.00 10.00 17.00 



Breeders 5.00 



Honey Queens. 



Untested $100 SS.00 $9.00 



Tested 1-25 7.00 11.00 



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think it is, are we doing right in not publish- 

 ing the matter more ? Are -we not " hiding 

 our light under a bushel ''the most of the 

 time, when, by letting it shine brightly aU the 

 time, we might honor our calling by leading 

 others to partake of the good which comes to 

 the world thru that best of all sweets — honey '. 

 — G. M. DooLiTTLE, in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper. 



Load a Worker^Bee Can Carry. 



A Stray Straw in Gleanings in Bee-Culture 

 says; " A worker, according to Alex. Astor 

 (Rev. Int.), can carry about an eighth more 

 than its own weight when honey is given to 

 it. The maximum load of nectar brought in 

 he found to be (about .June 1st) 65.5 milli- 

 grams (a little more than three-fourths its 

 own weight); and from then to Aug. 3d the 

 weighings showed 50 mg., 45, 40, 28, '25, 18, 16. 

 10, 0." — [It appears, then, that a bee can carry 

 more of honey than it can of nectar — not larger 

 in imlk, but greater in weight. These figures 

 are very interesting. — Editor.] 



CAREER AND CHARACTER OF 

 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



An address by Joseph Choate, Am- 

 bassador to Great Britain, on the ca- 

 reer and character of Abraham Lincoln 

 —his early life— his early struggles 

 with the world — his character as devel- 

 opt in the later years of his life and his 

 administration, which placed his name 

 so high on the world's roll of honor 

 and fame, has been publisht by the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- 

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 (6) 'cents in postage to F. A. Miller, 

 General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111. 



18A3t 



A Queen Between the Lips. 



A pointer for those who, like myself, are 

 forgetful: Here is a queen I wish to remove. 

 The hive is all open ; I hold in my hands the 

 frame she is on, but I have no cage ! It is a 

 long way back to the honey-house ; the sim is 

 hot, and robbers have found us. If I place 

 the frame back into the hive in order to go 

 and get the cage. I shall miss the queen ; I 

 can do nothing so long as this frame is in my 

 hands. I want that queen ! What shall I do i 

 Simply place her, head in, carefully between 

 the dry lips, close the hive, and then go and 

 cage her. See ' 



I hold cells, root in, the same way, very 

 often. — ■' SwARTHMOKE," in the American 

 Bee-Keeper. 



Good Apiarian Advice. 



Produce what your market calls for: this 

 will be both comb and extracted honey. Some 

 customers will want comb, and some extracted 

 — please both. Bottle nothing but first-class 

 honey. Ftu-nish this to the grocers around 

 you to sell on commission, as many will sell 

 in this way who would not purchase outright. 

 Call all your w-its into play, and remember, it 

 is as honorable to sell honey as to sell wheat 

 or potatoes. Give good weight, and you will 

 soon work up a good trade, and get retail 

 prices for your goods. — F. P. Clare, in the 

 Bee-Keepers' Review. 



Railroads Against Comb Honey. 



Referring to the fact that the Grand Trunk 

 raihvay in Canada has ruled out a class of 

 honey as freight, and to the information 

 given in a previous number of this journal as 

 to contemplated action on this side, the editor 

 of Gleanings in Bee-Culture expresses himself 

 in the following vigorous style: 



I regard this as a most serious matter. I 

 can not think of anything that would handi- 

 cap bee-keeping anj- more, unless it be fold 

 or black brood, than to have the railroads 

 practically refuse to handle comb honey. AVe 

 can not afford at the present rate to send any 

 quantity by express; and if the new freiL'ht- 

 olassihcation should go thru, we could not 

 afford to send it by freight. Many large api- 

 aries -would he totally unable to dispose of 

 their product, and the industry would not 



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