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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 6, 1%1. 



with oil of turpentine), inHanimations, and in 

 many cases of veterinary practice, are almost 

 generally known. 



To preserve the complexion there is nothing 

 better than honey-baths, which, a hundred 

 years ago, were much in use among the ladies 

 of the stage, and have to-day again come in 

 vogue in Paris. 



Spring Feeding in the Fall. 



The Canadian Bee Journal reports that 

 very practical bee-keeper, J. B. Hall, as say- 

 ing: 



•' As far as spring feeding is concerned I am 

 a lazy man, and I have found it is better to 

 give the spring feed in the month of Septem- 

 ber previous; and as I have advocated in the 

 past, never open your colonies until the fruit 

 blossoms, unless there is something wrong 

 with them. If you want to know their 

 strength, and can not tell by the noise they 

 make, tip up the hive and look underneath — 

 do not break the quilts. This may make the 

 difference of a crop of honey or no honey. 

 You open them in the spring to see if they 

 are queenless — what good can you do them if 

 they are queenless ? Let them be." 



Money Not the Highest Success. 



W. A. H. (iilstrap utters some good sense 

 in the Bee-Keepers' Review when he says ; 



•' Many make more than a living at home, 

 mainly from bees, who could make more 

 money to scatter their time and business all 

 over the country, and still have less of life's 

 real success than at present. 



" To illustrate, you can Hnd places, isolated 

 perhaps, where you can make more money 

 with a system of out-apiaries than you are 

 doing at present; but you would necessarily 

 have to be away from home more, would be 

 worth less to your family, to society and your- 

 self, than in your present capacity. To make 

 the suggested change would be very unwise.'' 



In-Breeding. 



The opinion is commonly held that without 

 occasional introduction of fresh blood one's 

 stock will run out, and that continued in- 

 breeding means final decay. Under usual 

 circumstances the opinion is probably correct, 

 but it should be known at the same time that 

 in-breeding under skillful and intelligent 

 management may produce very desiralile re- 

 sults. The editor of Gleanings in Bee-Culture 

 says: 



" Very recently my attention has been 

 called to a series of articles in the Jersey 

 Bulletin on the subject of in-breeding to get 

 prize-winning stock. I was surprised to note 

 how the Ijreeders of high-class Jersey blood 

 in-breed. In one or two instances I noticed 

 that a mother had been bred to her son, and 

 sisters to brothers, for the express purpose ot 

 accentuating certain desirable traits. I ob- 

 served, further, that this practice has been 

 carried on to great advantage for many years. 



Bee-keepers have much to learn frojii tlu- 

 breeders of other fine stock. But we liave 

 one difficulty to contend with, and tliat is. 

 that of getting a particular queen mated to a 

 particular strain of drones." 



In the same paper J. H. Gerbracht says : 



" I think I will say a word right here about 

 in-breeding. There is not in existence to-day 

 a single strain of unusual superiority of either 

 cattle, hogs, or chickens, in which this prin- 

 ciple has not been employed to secure a fixed 

 type ; and after this has been done, the fixed 

 type can be maintained only by the most care- 

 ful and scientific line-breeding. Crosses be- 

 tween different strains produce just the same 

 unreliability and tendency to degeneration as 

 crosses of distinct breeds do, excei)t in the 

 few cases in which, either by accident or the 

 exercise of most unusual good judgment, the 

 two strains happen to ' nick ' well. In cattle 

 and swine breeding, the infusion of one- 

 eighth new blood is considered enough to off- 

 set whatever ill effects close in-breeding may 



Tennessee Queens ! 



Fine lot of Choice Tested 

 Oueeus reared last season, 

 daughters of select imported 

 and select golden queens, 

 reared 3% miles apart, and 

 mated to select drones, fl.SO 

 each ; untested warranted 

 (jueens, from same breeders, 

 either strain, 75c each. No 

 bees owned nearer than 2% 

 miles. None impure within 

 3, and but few within 5 miles. 

 ZS years' experience. Discount 

 on large orders. Contracts 

 with dealers a specialty. JOHN iH. DAVIS. 

 6A2ot Spring Hill, Tenn. 



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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 

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That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 



completely than any other published, 



send Jl. 25 to 



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FOR HIS 



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Liberal Discounts to the Trade. 



Queen-Clipping 

 Device Free.... 



The MoNETTE Queen-Clipping' 

 Device is a fine thing- for use in 

 catching' and clipping- Queens 

 wings. We mail it for 25 cents; 

 or will send it FREE as a pre- 

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 subscriber to the Bee Journal for 

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

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 Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Ken- 

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MUTH'S SQUARE CUSS HONEY-JARS. 

 LANGSTROTH BEE-HIVES, ETC. 



Successor to C. F. Muth & Son, 

 2146 4S Central Ave., CINCINN ATI.O. 



I am Now Prepared 



to lill orders promptlv for Untested Oueens 

 reared from a breeder of the HUTCHINSON 

 SUPERIOR STOCK, or a select GOLDEN 

 breeder, and mated to Golden drones, at 75 cents 

 each; $4.00 for (., or, $7.50 per dozen. 

 Money order office, Warrentown, N. C. 



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produce, the idea beiii;^ to use the least possi- 

 ble amount to maintain the vigor and stamina 

 with as little disturbance of characteristics 

 and type as possible ; and the success of the 

 breeder depends to a great extent on his 

 ability to do this accurately. 



In poultry-breeding, particularly in the 

 varieties which have variegated plumage, in- 

 breeding and line-breeding are the only ways 

 by which any fixity of type can be secured ; 

 and some breeders boast of not having gone 

 outside of their own yards for breeding-stock 

 for 20 years. Of course, the results are some- 

 times the same as those attained by some 

 breeders of five-banded bees — good to look at, 

 but of no utilitarian value: but this Is by no 

 means necessarily the ease ; and the best lay- 

 ing and most vigorous-growing stock we have 

 to-day is from this same line-breeding." 



Assaulting the Bees. 



A writer in Badminton says that in India, 

 al.)out eight miles from the town of Jabalpur, 

 is a place called The Bee, from the fact that 

 swarms of the insects live there and defend 

 their holding against the world. Shocking 

 are the tragedies which have resulted from 

 invasion of the spot. Some men who had 

 unwittingly disturbed the bees were set upon 

 by stinging millions, and plunged into the 

 river. But every time they showed their 

 heads above water, the insects settled upon 

 them in clouds, and they chose drowning to a 

 more hideous death. Deer, pigs, and even 

 the lordly tiger, have paid the same penalty 

 for their indiscretion. Says the Englishman 

 who described the spot : 



I determined to invade the home of the 

 bees, and I began by designing a suit of de- 

 fensive armor. It was a sort of overall suit, 

 tied round the neck with tape, a bee-veil to be 

 tucked into the garment, riding-boots, gaunt- 

 lets, and two pairs of gloves. Into this suit I 

 was sown by the tailor, so that there should 

 be no chink or crevice. 



Abram. a native, and I, armored and carry- 

 ing a bucket and two coils of rope, were to 

 climb up to the back of the hills so as to get 

 above tire bees, and Percy, who was in charge 

 i)f the boat, ascended the rocks. He went to 

 the bank of the river, which was under the 

 point of attack, and made his lx)at fast. 



Abram and I climbed to a well-considered 

 height, and then I left him and crawled cau- 

 tiously forward. I could hear a sort of all- 

 pervading hum, dominating even the roar of 

 the water beneath, and my nostrils were filled 

 with that sweet smell which is made up of 

 lioney. wax and be(?. 



I decided that the point of attack was about 



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Long'Tongued 3=Banded Italians 



bred from stock whose tongues measured 25- 

 100 inch. These are the red clover hustlers of 

 America. 



il.Oii each, or 6 for $5.W. Safe arrival guaran- 

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ALBINO QUEENS U^Q^i^^^r^^ 



want the gentlest Bees— If you want the best 

 honey-gatherers you ever saw — try ray Albinos. 

 Untested Queens in April, $1.1X); Tested. $1.50. 



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