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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



May 9, 1901. 



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Red Clover Queens 



LONG-TONGUED BEES ARE DEMANDED NOW, 



ONE Untested Italian Queen FREE as a Pre- 

 mium for sending us TWO new subsepibers 

 to tlie Amepican Bee Joupnal fop one yeap 

 (with $2i; OP, one Tested Queen fpee as a ppemium for sending 

 us FOUR new subsepibers with $4.00).) 



We have arranged with one of the oldest and best queen-breed- 

 ers (having many years' experience) to rear queens for us the coming 

 season. His bees average quite a good deal the longest tongues of 

 any yet measured. The Breeder he will use is direct from Italy, 

 having imported her himself. Her worker-bees are large, somewhat 

 leather-colored, very gentle, and scarcely requiring veil or smoke. 

 They stored red clover honey last season. 



Orders for these iine, " long-reach " queens will be filled in rota- 

 tion — "first come, first served" — beginning about June 10th. It is 

 expected that orders can be filled quite promptly, as a large number 

 of nuclei will be run. All queens will be guaranteed to arrive in 

 good condition, and all will be dipt, unless otherwise ordered. 



CASH PRICES of these fine queens will be as follows : Untested, 

 SI. 00 each ; Tested, S2.00 each. Send all orders to 



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144 & 146 Epie St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



hardly know how to descrilje these bees, but 

 they look much like the bees that many now 

 call Carniolans. still they are different.being 

 of a dirty bluish trray, or what some of my 

 friends used to call a '• wild pigeon " color. 

 They are the quietest and jjentlest of any bees 

 I ever workt with, and I liked them except 

 fur their falling from the combs and their 

 inclination to e.xcessive storing of propolis. 

 But a bad winter carried them off, as it did. 

 the Egyptian bees. i i 



I should be glad to know what has become 

 of these two races of bees, if any fellow bee- 

 keeper can tell me. Wm. S." Barclay. 



Beaver Co.. Pa.. April 12. 



Weather Unfavorable for Bees. 



This is cold weather for l)ees. Mine came 

 out for a Hight April 3d. and those that were 

 alive had a good one. The loss was 12 per- 

 cent, and if the weather does not change soon 

 I am afraid we shall lose more. There is such 

 a cold wind blowing from the northeast that 

 I iun unable to open my hives, but I hope a 

 day will soon come when I can look them 

 over. I know that some of mine are very' 

 light, Imt I am hoping for the best, and am 

 very much interested in bees. CZTj 



I would like to know what a bee-louse is; 

 where it keeps itself ; and what the work is 

 that it does in a bee-hive. C. H. Voigt. 



Manitowoc Co., Wis., April 24. 



Bees Bringing in Pollen. 



Bees came thru the winter nicely. I put 

 them out April lUth, and theyiibroughtJIin 

 pollen an hour after being put on the sum- 

 mer stands. "We had heavy frosts April 19th 

 and 2Uth, the temperature being 21 degrees 

 above zero, but since then the bees have been 

 working lively. They are stronger than 

 usual. 



I am getting better slowly, but can not do 

 much as yet. "C. Theilmann. 



Wabasha Co., Minn., April 24. 



Blaelss vs. Italians in Brood- 

 Reaping. 



I wintered 42 colonies of bees on the sum- 

 Tner stands with no protection, and did not 

 lose a colony. 



I think black bees far ahead of Italians in 

 regard to brood-rearing. C. C. Ream. 



Klamath Co.. Oreg.. .\pril IS. 



Severe Wintep Causes Heavy Loss. 



My loss so far is 10 tiut of 2.5. and M hofie 

 the limit has been reacht. The weather was 

 so severe all winter that the bees could not 

 reach their stores, so I have been feeding the 

 honev to the survivors. Mks. C. A. Ball. 



Oneida Co., N. Y., April 22. 



Bee-Keeping and Bears in Florida. 



The secretion of nectar from (lowers' in 

 this locality has been rather poor so far this 

 season. There have been cool winds and 

 heavy falls of rain. Fruit-trees bloomed pro- 

 fusely, and are now thru with the exception 

 of Burbank plums, which are now opening. 

 Ti-ti bloom is very abundant now. and has 

 l)een for several weeks, and is a great favorite 

 with bees. 



There is an apiary located at the mouth of 



Buggy Announoemsnt Extraordinary. 



The Kat 



iHl'ipti'il the plan of sendiiiK their v.-lji 

 They sell direct to consumers at whoicj 

 vdiiclcfrcjin llie depot, hitch up to it, t 

 the trinniiiiicK, fmiah and style before v 

 "a cat in the IjaK, sight unseen." The'y 

 are wiUing to let them sell on their 



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