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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 6, 1901, 



BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES A;A; 



THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. 



Oup New 1901 Fifty-Two Page Catalog Ready. 



Send for a copy. It is free. 



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



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 ■ig-ht rates for Southern; 



NOTICE 



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

 PHILADELPHIA, PA., 



Where they have direct steamboat connections with Massachusetts, Rhode 



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



South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, 



and low freight 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, S6.00. Wholesale rates on application. 

 Please niention Bee Journal "when writing 



paid 



26 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 



^^ This is a good time 

 x,«)> j,v to send in your Bees- 

 ''4»' VK wax. We are paying 

 ^^ 26 cents a pound — 

 CASH— for best yel- 

 low, upon its receipt, or 28 cents in trade. Impure wax not taken at any price. 

 Address as follows, very plainly, 

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



ilai'shfleld MaDiitactiiriiig 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., Marshfield, Wis. 



Red Glover Queens 



LONG-TON&UED BEEsIrE DEMANDED NOW, 



ONE Untested Italian Queen FREE as a Pre- 

 mium for sending us TWO new subseribeps 

 to the American Bee Joupnal fop one yeap 

 (with $2); OP, one Tested Queen fpee as a premium fop sending 

 us FOUR new subscpibeps 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 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, S2.00 each. Send all orders to 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



144 & 146 Epie St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



they will worry and ^'iiaw, and if there is a 

 possilile chance they will rush out and cause 

 trouble. I remove tliem regardless of strength ; 

 some of the hives may be full ol bees, but 

 there will be no dansrcr of trouble. 



The most important thing to be considered 

 in moving bees is which way the combs shall 

 be placed — toward the horse or crosswise. 

 Many of the readers w ill remember our good 

 old friend and bee-master, J. H. Townley, 

 who in the early 'SO's gave me, as well as 

 many others, our first lessons in bee-keeping, 

 and who advocated placing the combs length- 

 wise. But after years of practical experience 

 on all kinds of roads, hilly, stony, up-and- 

 down, trotting the horses, etc., I find that 

 combs placed crosmHse are more safely carried. 

 There are more or less ruts, sticks, stones, 

 etc., on any road, while up or down hill one 

 alwavs walks a horse or team. 



Ingham t'o.. Mich. A. D. D. Wood. 



Ppospeets Good. 



Bees are doing well. Clover is plentiful. 

 Prospects in general are good. 



D. J. Blocker. 

 Stephenson Co., HI.. May Iti. 



Bees Worliing on Dandelion Bloom. 



Our l>ees have been doing very well the past 

 two weeks on dandelion and other bloom, some 

 of the colonies having .50 pounds or more of 

 surplus honey in the extracting-combs. A 

 northeast wind and rain prevails at this time, 

 which is.interrupting their work; but if the 

 storm does not end in a killing frost there 

 will no doubt be an abundant flow of rasp- 

 berry and other honey as soon as the weather 

 is warm enough. H. W. Corxelisos. 



Washburn Co., Wis.. May 23. 



A Nopth Carolina Report. 



We have an apiary situated in eastern 

 North Carolina, whicli is being run for comb 

 honey. Last year the spring opened with 75 

 colonies in very poor condition, owing to the 

 fall bloom being cut off by storm the August 

 before. Last year was one of the finest 

 honey-years ever known here, and our 75 

 weak colonies built up and gave us 5.000 

 pound sections of honey. About three-fourths 

 of this was white honey. 



We wintered our bees last winter in single- 

 wall hives on the summer stands without the 

 loss of a single colgny, except that two were 

 found queenless. This brought us out this 

 spring with 12'J colonies with queens. Nearly 

 all of these were in good condition. April 

 was a cold, wet month, and the bees pulled 

 through under dithculties. 



The apiary is situated in a pine thicket 

 bordering on a farm. The trees are 50 or 60 

 feet high, hence we have to clip our queens 

 that we may be able to control the swarms. 

 We have had 24 swarms up to date. 



Occasionally a queen will emerge with her 

 wings, which is the result of superseding. One 

 such came out to-day and lit in the top of a 

 pine .50 feet high. We were anxious to bring 

 her down, fearing other swarms nught join 

 her. We tried jarring the tree with an ax, 

 thinking that she would get tired of flying 

 and alight lower ; but she resisted our efforts 

 until we despaired of being able to capture 

 her alive. When she became an "outlaw,"' 

 five shots from a Winchester repeating shot- 

 gun brought her to the ground, together with 

 many of her followers. 



Baxter & Farxell. 

 Pamlico Co., N. C, .May IS. 



A Colorado Lady's Experience. 



I lioitght Ui colonies of bees and united to 

 IS. a year ago last fall. This was too large a 

 start, according to all the advice I could get, 

 tint I wanted to go in that deep. I spent 

 about -*(50 on bees, new hives, etc., and last 

 year I spent -SlOO on all sorts of supplies. The 

 bees have yielded honey enough to pay for 

 themselves and the cost of keeping them. I 

 now have 3.3 colonies in fine condition, so I 

 think. □ _ "^ : "^ ~ c^^ ^_3 J 



I have read so many bee papers and books 

 that I am just bursting with information, but 



