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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 23, 1901. 



Tennessee Queens ! 



Fine lot of Choice Tested 

 Queens reared last season, 

 daughters of select imported 

 and select golden queens, 

 reared 3% miles apart, and 

 mated to select drones, $1.50 

 each ; untested warranted 

 Queens, from same breeders, 

 either strain, 7Sc each. No 

 bees owned nearer than 2% 

 miles. None impure within 

 3, and but few within 5 miles. 

 2S years' experience. Discount 

 on large orders. Contracts 

 specialty. JOHN M. DAVIS, 

 Spring Hill, Tenn. 



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Bee=Kee pers' 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 



THE A. I. ROOT CO., 



H. a. ACKLIN, manager, 



1024 Miss, street, St. Paul, Minn. 



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XjOITEJ STA.K- .A.FIA.K,IE3S 



Price of Queens 

 from Imported 

 Mothers: 

 Tested.. 1—$ l.SO 

 Un" ..1— .75 

 Tested.. 6— 6.50 

 Un " ..b— 4.00 

 Tested -12— 12.00 

 n" .12— 7,00 

 (Golden, same 

 rice.! Select 

 ted, either 

 ,$2.S0. Write 

 ...Lit^*^.^,,;"*-^ ".. ,^.-- for circular. 

 G. F. DAVIDSON & SONS. 

 Establisht 1885. F.ilRvlEW, Wilson Co., Tex. 

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If you want the Bee-Book 



That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 



completely than anv other published, 



send *1.25 to 



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

 " Bee=Keeper's Guide." 



Liberal Discounts to the Trade. 



Queen-Clipping 

 Device Free.... 



The MoNETTE Queen-Clipping 

 Device is a fine thin^ for use in 

 catching and clipping Queens 

 wings. We mail it for 25 cents; 

 or will send it FREE as a pre- 

 mium for sending us ONE NEW 

 subscriber to the Bee Journal for 

 a year at $1.00; or for $1.10 we will 

 mail the Bee Journal one yeai 

 and the Clipping Device. Address, 



QEORaB W. YORK & COMPANY, 



Chicago, IlL 



fl Word to the Wise Bee-Keeper 



Is the title of an essay on fjueen-rearing. Sent 

 free to all applicants. Address. 



i'>A4t HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 



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SOUTH DAKOTA FARMS 



Is the title of an illustrated booklet just 

 issued by the Chicago. Milwaukee .i St. 

 Paul Railway, descriptive of the coun- 

 try between Aberdeen and the Missouri 

 River, a section heretofore unprovided 

 with railwa)' facilities, but which is now 

 reached by a new line of the Chicag-o, 

 Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y. Every one 

 contemplating- a change of location will 

 be interested in the information con- 

 tained in it, and a copy may be had by 

 sending a 2-cent stamp to F. A. Miller, 

 General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111. 

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A Young Bee-Keeper's Report. 



My g^raudfather was a bee-keeper, and he 

 gave a colony of bees to the oldest graniichild 

 in each of his children's families, and I, being 

 the oldest in our family, got one of them. 

 We now have 12 colonies working nicely on 

 frtiit-blossoms. 



We make our living mostly by selling sec- 

 tion honey and poultry, and would like to 

 have 50 colonies of bees from which to sell 

 honey. I help mamma hive the bees and 

 take off the honey ; my father is not able to 

 help any, so we three children all help a lit- 

 tle. I am going to school now, but it will be 

 out in four weeks, and then I will help with 

 the bees. I am not afraid of them as a great 

 many people are. 



I am a girl of 13 summers, and not a very 

 big one at that. Gertrude Hemrt. 



Page Co., Iowa, May 3. 



Bees in Fair Condition. 



At this time our liees are in fair couditiv)n. 

 and we hope for a good crop of honey. AH 

 our colonies wintered well. 



Mrs. Emma Woodmansee. 



Arapahoe Co., Colo., May 9. 



From a Young Bee-Keeper. 



I am 18 years of age, and have been trying 

 to keeji bees for the last four years. I got up 

 to T.T colonies, and as we had three dry years 

 I lost BO of them, so you can see we have hard 

 times as well as anybody else. 



Earl Tucker. 



Los Angeles Co., Calif., May 1. 



An Industrious Lady Bee-Keeper. 



We think we will have a good lioney crop 

 this year. Our bees are storing in the supers 

 now, and are swarming right along. We.have 

 4S colonies. You ought to have been here 

 last week and the week before. I, myself, 

 put up 75 hives, driving every nail, and then 

 painted them, and caught all swarms that 

 came out. My husband is a railroad conduc- 

 tor, and can't be here to help me, and I do not 

 hire anything done on the place. I was out 

 putting up iiives one evening when a lady 

 came in. She said, " Do you have to work 

 that w'ay ? You have on a gold watch." I 

 said. " i have silk dresses in the wardrobe, 

 but I like to work. My husband tries to keep 

 me from it, but he can't." 



I think if more women would work there 

 would not be so many bankrupt men. Of all 

 things, a lazy woman is the worst. The bees 

 teach us such good lessons. For ao years my 

 health had been so bad every spring that if I 

 didn't use a tonic I was bedridden; but the 

 little bee is the best tonic. For Ave years we 

 have kept them, and I am out almost all day 

 with them. I do not need a drop of medicine 

 now. I tell many women if they would keep 

 off the streets and stay at home, get a few 

 colonies of bees, watch them, and read bee- 

 books instead of novels, they would be better 

 wives and mothers. They say, ■' Oh, the bees 

 will sting." Well, if they do it will not last 

 long. I would rather be stung trying to 

 make something than to be stung for the 

 want of something. Mrs. C. R. West. 



Ellis Co., Tex.. May 6. 



Prospect Good— Bees Stinging 

 Chickens. 



We are exjiecting a good honey crop this 

 year. Bees wintered well, seem strong, and 

 are building up fast at present. Fruit is a 

 little past its best now. Vine maple will b» 

 the next to bloom after apple ; it makes a 

 very nice honey, and has a rtavt>r like maple 

 syrup. 



I have about 30 colonies, mostly hybrids, 

 though some of them are blacks. Last year 



We want * 



To sell you BEE=SUPPLIES! 



Our line is all new and complete. Send 

 for our Illustrated Catalog ; it will 

 convince you that our Dovetail Hive 

 is the best on the market. Our prices 

 are right, and our service is prompt. 



Fred W. Mutti & 60. 



S.W. Cor. Front & Walnut Sts., Cincinnati,0. 

 Please mention Bee Jotirnal ■when ■writing. 



ALuINU QUllNo proTiTc Queens— IfTou 

 want the gentlest Bees— If you want the best 

 honey-gatherers vou ever saw — trv mv Albinos. 

 Untested Queens' in April, $1.00; Tested, $1.S0. 



iiA26t J, D. GIVENS. Lisbon. Tex. 



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Dittmer's Foundation ! 



Retail— Wholesale— Jobbing. 



I use a PROCESS that produces EVERY 

 ESSENTIAL necessary to make it the BEST 

 and MOST desirable in all respects. My PRO- 

 CESS and AUTOMATIC MACHINES'are my 

 own inventions, -n-hich enable me to SELL 

 FOUNDATION and 



¥orl[ fax Into Foundation For Casli 



at prices that are the lowest. Catalog giving 



Full Line of Supplies, 



GUS, DITTMER, Augusta, Wis, 



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POULTRT BOOK FREE, 64 pages, illustrated 

 with 3 raos. trial subscription to our paper, 10c 

 INLAND POULTRY JOURNAL, Indianapolis. Ind 

 Please mention Bee Journal -when writing. 



B66s= Supplies 



CATALOG FREE. 



I. J. STRINGHAM, 



105 Park Place, = NEW YORK, N. Y. 



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PAN=AMERICAN OPENING. 



The Nickel Plate Road will sell ex- 

 cursion tickets from Chicago to Buffalo 

 at $13.00 for the round-trip on each 

 Tuesday in May (the 7th, 14th, 21st 

 and 28th,) with limit of 5 days, namelj-: 

 retttrning good on any train to and in- 

 cluding midnight train from Buffalo 

 on Saturday following Tuesday tickets 

 are sold. They will Vie good going on 

 all trains on date sold. 



Daily train from Chicago at 10:30 

 a. m., arrives Buffalo 2:05 following 

 morning : daily train from Chicago at 

 2:30 p.m., arrives at Buffalo 7:35 next 

 morning ; daily train from Chicago at 

 10:30 p.m., arrives Buffalo 4:45 next 

 afternoon. 



All trains carry through vestibuled 

 sleeping-cars. Individual Club Meals, 

 ranging in price from 35 cents to SI. 00, 

 and no meal in excess of the latter fig- 

 ure, are served in dining-cars. 



For sleeping-car reservations and all 

 other information, call at Chicago City 

 Ticket Office, 111 Adams St., or write 

 John Y. Calahan, General Agent, 111 

 Adams St., Chicago, 'phone Central 

 2057. Chicago Depot : Van Buren St. 

 and Pacific Ave., on the Elevated Loop. 

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