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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



May 16, 1901. 



QUEENS! 



Improved (iolden and Leathe<--colored Ital- 

 ians are what H. G. QUIRIN rears. 



We have one of Roofs best lonB--toogued Red- 

 Clover Breeders from their $2(10 queen, and a 

 Golden Breeder from Doolittle,who says if there 

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

 SHXl, this one is worth that sum. The above 

 breeders have been added to our already im- 

 proved strain of queens for the coming season. 



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

 Aug. 5th, 191X1, saying that the colony having 

 one of our queens had already stored over 400 

 pounds of honey (mostlv comb'; he states that 

 he is certain that our bees woik on Red Clover, 

 as they were the only kind in his locality and 

 apiary. 



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 files of unsolicited testimonials. 



After considering the above evidence, need 

 you wonder why ourorders have increased each 

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

 have years of experience in mailing and rearing 

 queens. Safe delivery will be guaranteed, and 

 instructions for introducing sent with each lot 

 of queens. 



QUEENS NOW READY TO MAIL. 



Prices before July ist: 



^ 1 6 12 



warranted stock $.75 $4.25 $ 8.0ii 



Selected warranted I.CIO 5.1)0 9.50 



Tested 1.50 8.00 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 

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



Addr 



i all I 



H. G. QUIRIN, Parkertown, Ohio. 



Parkertown is a Money-Order Office. 

 By contract this ad. will appear twice per 

 month only. "^"^ HElit 



Please mention Bee Jotirnal -when •writing, 



Tull-s trokgT 



„„PIG-TIGHT„,. V 



An Illinois fanner said thataft- 

 er harvest he had fully 200 bush- 

 els of loose oats on the ground 

 that he could not secure any ben- 

 etit from, because the fence 

 around the field would not turn 

 hogs. Figure the lossforyourself. 

 He also said, all this would have 

 been saved if he had used the 

 Kitselman Woven Wire Coiled 

 Spring Fences and the value 

 would nave K''ne a \on^ ways 

 towards paving cost of the fence. 



With the Duplex Machine 



any farmer (.an make it himself 

 at the actual cost of the «ire. 

 Oatalof^ue" f ree fnr the asking. 



KITSELMAN BROS. 

 Box Ubu Muncie, Ind. 



Bee Journal "wlien writiDo. 



I860 1901 



THOSE LONG-TONGUED ADELS ! 



White Rock, Min.x., April in, 1901. 

 The Adel Queens I got f rom j ou are more 

 than you claimed for them. I want more. — 

 S. W. Jackso.n. 



Oneco. Con.n., April 15, 1901. 

 The Adels have wintered finely, and I like 

 them very much. I want more Q'ueens. Send 

 price list.— Kev. T. B. Mowbey. 



I guarantee any Queens sent out from my 



apiary and sold for $1.10 each to be as good as 



any $10 Queens sold by auy dealer. Price-list 



Now Re.idv. 



It<E2t HENRY ALLEY, Wenllam, Mass. 



Please mention Bee Journal -when -WTiting. 



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- 

 oped 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 published by the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- 

 way, and may be had by sending six 

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

 General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111. 



18A3t 



Bees Beginning the Season Well. 



We are havinij an early spring in this part 

 of the State, and a good one. too, with the 

 exeeption of a little north wind. 



I have some colonies that are already filling 

 their second super with comb honey this sea- 

 son. W. T. Francis. 



Sutter Co., Calif.. April 14. 



Tennessee Queens r 



Fine lot of Choice Tested 

 Queens reared last season, 

 daughters of select imported 

 and select golden queens, 

 reaied 35i miles apart, and 

 mated to select drones, $1.50 

 each ; untested warranted 

 Queens, from same breeders, 

 either strain, 75c each. No 

 bees owned nearer than 254 

 miles. None impure within 

 3, and but few within 5 miles. 

 2S years' experience. Discount 

 on large orders. Contracts 

 with dealers a specialty. JOHN M. DAVIS, 

 6A2()t Spring Hill, Tenn. 



Please mention Bee Journal "wnen "writing. 



Wintered on Granulated Sugar. 



Mr. Gill, a bee-keeiJtr here, put a eolonv on 

 nothing but granulated sugar in the fall.'and 

 they wintered as well as those with an abun- 

 dance of stores of honey. Another neighbor 

 '■ took up " his bees, and Mr. Gill simply 

 shook them on dry combs into another hive, 

 set it in the same place, and put on a Millet- 

 feeder containing 1.5 pounds of sugar. 



The season here is fairly early. 



T. Proctor Otis. 



C^ueliec. Canada, .April ^.'4. 



Cold and Misty New England. 



We have had hard weather for bees. April 

 has allowed only three days for pollen-gather- 

 ing thus far. Mist and rain have been the 

 prevailing things in New England. The eon- 

 sequence is. that bees have alternately started 

 brood-rearing then ceased. The patches of 

 brood are very ragged. Ten days of cold, 

 misty weather at a stretch will put a dead- 

 stop to brood-rearing. Allen Latham. 



Norfolk Co., Mass.. April 28. 



A Cloudy, Rainy April. 



Bees have had a hard time — only 32 hours 

 of sunshine In 26 days in April. On all other 

 days it rained hard. No doubt good results 

 will come from this soaking, as this part of 

 the glolje had not tjeen yet down for the past 

 three years. Wells were dry, springs were 

 low. and now the wells and springs are full — 

 also a good many cellars. 



Bees are doing well now. carrying in pollen. 

 Henry Alley. 



Kssex Co., Mass.. May 1. 



Experience in Growing Cleome. 



On page 2-44 the editor asks for information 

 concerning cleome. I raised it last year in 

 our garden, where the soil is dry rather than 

 wet, but of course it was watered every day. 

 It grew so thriftily that one so inexperienced 

 as I might suppose it would grow almost any- 

 where. Our garden had only the spade to 

 loosen the soil as a preparation, and the seed 

 was planted near the first of May. It grew 

 quickly, and transplanted kindly when aljout 

 3 inches tall. The jjlauts should be set at 

 least three feet ajiart. as it branches exten- 

 sively, and every Ijranth flowers. Mine grew 

 from 3 to 5 feet or more tall, as I remember 

 them. The leaves resemljle the leaves of the 

 horse-chestnut, and many are quite as large. 

 The plant is sliglilly thorny and somewhat 

 aroniatii'. exuding a sweet juice, or dew, in 

 perceptive i.ut alniosl infinitesimal drops. It 

 began llowering the last of July, growing 

 from what appeared to be an umbel of buds 

 into a spike of flowers; the showy spike 

 lengthening and blooming until cutoff by 

 the frost. Strange to say, every flower in the 

 garden succumbed to the frost before that did. 

 so that it was not only a ■■ thing of beauty," 

 taut of interest, because I had supposed it to 

 be a semi-tropical plant. The flowers are 

 very odd, the long stamens growing on one 

 side of the four petals : the seed-pods are very 

 long, growing on long stems, and these clothe 

 the spike while the upper part is in the bud 

 and in full flower. Perhaps these give the 

 plant the name it sometimes bears, that is, 

 " the spider-iUant." 



It grew so easily for me in my first attempt 

 at gardening that I think if I had a farm, or 



Bee=Keepers' Supplies. 



Just received a consignment of the finest up- 

 to-date HIVES and SECTIONS we've had. They 

 are 2d to none. Complete line of Bee-Keepers'" 

 Supplies on hand. Bees and Queens. Catalog 

 free. 



THE A. I. ROOT CO., 



H. a. ACKLIN, Hanager. 



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nal. 



Price of Queens 

 from Imported 

 Mothers: 

 Tested.. 1—$ 1.50 

 Un" ..1— .75 

 Tested.. 6— 6.S0- 

 Un " ..6— 4.00 

 Tested. 12— 12.00 



Un' 



r.oo- 



S.-.-. 



(Golden, same 

 price.) Select 

 tested, either 

 race, $2.50. Write 

 for circular. 



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