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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 30, 1%1. 



BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES A:a: 



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Our New 1901 Fifty-Two Page Catalog Ready. 



Send for a copy. Il is free. 



G. B. LEWIS COMPANY, Watertown, Wis., U.S.A. 



Branch, G. B. Lewis Co., 10 S. Alabama St., Indianapolis, Ind. 



K.xcellent shipping facilities and very low freight rates for Southern and 



Eastern territories. 



NOTICE 



THE A, I. ROOT COMPANY have a Branch Store at 10 Vine St., 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA., 



Where they ha.ve direct steainboat connections with Massachusetts, Rhode 



Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, 



South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. 



and low freigfht rates. 



As this is a main branch, order from any catalog' or quotations given 



from Medina. 



Also booking orders for healthy ITALIAN BEES, shipped this month. Full 



colonies, 8 frames and queen, $6.00. Wholesale rates on application. 



Please niention Bee Journal when ■writine 



28 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 





This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 



paid for Beeswax. "*' gin "r-i 



K CASH — for best yel- 



low, upon its receipt, or 30 cents in trade. Impure wax not taken at any price. 

 Address as follows, very plainly, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., CHICAGO. 



Marshfleld ilannfactnring Company. 



Our Specialty is making SECTIONS, and they are the best in the market. 

 Wisconsin BASSWOOD is the right kind for them. We have a full line of BEE- 

 SUPPLIES. Write for free illustrated catalog and price-list. 



sA26t Marshfleld Manufacturing Co., Marshfleld, Wis, 



I Red Glover Queens 



LONG-TON&UED BEEsIrE DEMANDED NOW, 



ONE Untested Italian Queen FREE as a Pre- 

 mlum for sending us TWO new subscribers 

 to the Amepican Bee Journal for one year 

 (with $2t; or, one Tested Queen free as a premium for sending 

 us FOUR new subscribers 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 Italj', 

 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 fine, " 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, $2.00 each. Send all orders to 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



144 & 146 Erie St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



that unitint,'. and if you do not lose that 

 ([ueen those bees are' old, and are g-oing to 

 pass from the stasje of action in a very short 



Light=Weight Brood Foundation. 



•J. M. Kankin reimrts in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture a series of interesting experiments 

 which are a Ijit surprising in their results. He 

 put in nine different hives comb foundation of 

 different weights, the heaviest running ti 

 Langstroth sheets to the pound, then T, 8, 9, 

 up to 13 sheets to the pound, putting in the 

 same hive foundation of two different weights 

 for the purpose of comparison, giving an 

 equal show to vertical and horizontal wiring. 



He found it more dittleult to put the thin 

 foundation in the frames and wire it : but the 

 bees showed a preference for the lighter foun- 

 dation l.iy working it first, their preference 

 being strongly marked when the heaviest and 

 lightest were put in the same hive. With ver- 

 tical wiring, 10 sheets to the pound was the 

 lightest that could be used without having 

 the sheets wavy and stretched between the 

 wires. With horizontal wiring all sheets, 

 even those running 13 to the pound, mad& 

 straight and even combs. Tons of founda- 

 tion are now made in sheets running 9 and 10- 

 to the pound, which weight was formerly con- 

 sidered entirely too light for brood-combs, 

 but it now appears that by using horizontal 

 wiring it may be used even as light as 13 to- 

 the pound, making quite a saving. The diffi- 

 culty of satisfactorily wiring such light foun 

 dation. however, should make one a little- 

 cautious. 



Foul Brood and Its Treatment. 



In the Canadian Bee Journal for Januarv,- 

 1901, I see that Mr. Pender, editor of the Aus- 

 tralasian Bee-Keeper. advises the hiving of 

 foul-broody bees on starters of comb-founda- 

 tion as a pretty sure way of curing the dis- 

 ease. 



I judge Mr. Pender to be a good bee-keeper., 

 and a man that would treat his colonies be- 

 fore they became bad with foul lirood. and 

 then doing his work so carefully and so well 

 that he made a success of curing all by hiv- 

 ing the bees on starters of comb foundation. 



The number of cures that can be made that 

 way will depend entirely upon the following 

 conditions: 



Ist. On how little diseased honey the bees 

 find to take out of the old combs when they 

 are being removed. 



2d. Where much of the honey in a foul- 

 hroody colonj' is badly diseased, everything 

 will depend upon whether anything is to be 

 ]>laced above the tiueen-excluder to catch the 

 diseased honey after the bees are given the 

 starters, if the starters are not to be removed. 



In the honey season of lisr.5. while curing 

 my own apiary of foul brood. I took all the 

 combs out of several diseased colonies and 

 left the bees to build combs on the bare 

 frames, and in a short time I had about as 

 many failures as I had cures. This method 

 cured every colony that was not bad with the 

 disease, but failed on every colony that had 

 been bad with foul brood, and had a good 

 deal of unsealed honey in the brood-nest when 

 the old combs were removed. Just as soon as 

 the bees had a little comb made they stored 

 part of the old diseased honey in it. and a lit- 

 tle later on foul brood made its appearance 

 again. I then resorted to taking away all the 

 new pieces of comb that the bees made during 

 the first four days, and let them keep what 

 they made after that. This plan thoroughly 

 cleansed the bees of all the diseased honey, 

 and ended in perfect cures. 1 also cured 

 many colonies that summer by the use of 

 clean combs and the frequent use of the 

 honey-extractor, and in the fall of that year, 

 after brood-rearing was all over. I cured quite 

 a number of foul-broody colonies by shaking 

 the bees onto sound sealed stores. This plan. 



