June 13, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



381 



BEES AND QUEENS 



Having been ^s years rear- 



inj^ Queens for the trade oil 



the best known plans, I will 



continue to rear the best. 



PRICES: 



One Untested Queen $ .80 



One Tested Queen 1.<X) 



One Select Tested Queen 1.25 



One Breeder 2.00 



One Comb Nucleus 1.20 



BelgianHares 



Choice, pedig-reed and common stock; young-- 

 sters, $3.00 per pair. Write for description and 

 prices. J. L. STRONG, 



llAtf Clarlnda, Page Co., Iowa. 



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 trains daily, with vestibuled sleeping- 

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 Buildings and Grounds. 11— 24A3t 



did intend to make liim a visit, but did not 

 have the time. He was on the Columbia 

 River, and in the midst of a fruit-growing 

 region. 



I did not see any alfalfa growing, though iu 

 umw sections of Washington it is grown 

 ((uite extensively. Broom-grass is Ijeginuing 

 to Ije sown in central Washington, but clovers 

 do not seem to grow. There is no irrigating 

 done in Lincoln and Douglas Counties. These 

 counties are in the famous wheat-growing 

 region Ivnown as the Big Bend country. 



No person, I care not how good he may be 

 with a pen, can give an adequate idea of that 

 wonderful country. It must be seen in order 

 to t>e a]>itreciated. 



I intend to make Washington my future 

 home, and have purchased 320 acres of land 

 all under the plow, part of it in wheat, a 

 house and barn with outbuildings, and an 

 orchard, tor the consideration of .?14 per acre. 

 I do not intend to part with my old and tried 

 friend, the American Bee Journal, t.liough 

 some ties must he severed and friendly asso- 

 ciations liroken. L. Ai.len. 



Clark Co., Wis.. May 3. 



Of the Waterleaf Family. 



1 enclose a plant that is getting into the 

 fields here. What is it I JoHX M. Seii.ek. 

 Hennepin Co., Minn. 



[The plant in question Is EUisia Nj'ctelea, 

 and belongs to the Waterleaf familj-. It is 

 quite common in more southern States, and is 

 prfibably enlarging its borders by taking in 

 choice sections of Minnesota. I do not know 

 whether or not it furnishes food for bees. 

 Watch it.— C. L. Walton.] 



Heavy Locust Bloom in Kentucky. 



The prospects tor a good honey crop here 

 are not as good as I wish they were, but per- 

 haps everything will come around all right 

 yet. We have had an unusually cool, gloomy 

 spring, and everything is from 1.5 to 3.5 days 

 late. White clover is beginning to bloom, 

 and we are having the heaviest locust bloom I 

 ever saw, but the weather is so bad that the 

 bees work on it but little. W. S. Feeback. 



Nicholas Co., Ky., May 29. 



A Beginner's Report. 



I have 9 colonies of bees, and one of them 

 swarmed April 37. They wintered on the 

 summer stands without loss. They are stor- 

 ing in the supers now. 



Prospects are good in this locality. The 

 liillsides are white with locust bloom, and 

 Helds are covered with white clover. 



I am a beginner 16 years old, and love my 

 bees and I)ee-papers. R. W. Smith. 



Botetourt Co., Va., May 2". 



Bees in Fine Condition. 



Bees are building up nicely at present. The 

 early spring was too cool for them to do much 

 on maple and willow, but they have done 

 unusually well on truit-bloom, and are get- 

 ting in fine ccmdition for the white clover 

 harvest, which, from present appearances, 

 will be good. L. Jones. 



Floyd Co., luwa. May 3:1. 



Queen Visiting a Deserted Hive. 



While going through my hives on May It! I 

 found one deserted, and moved it out of the 

 bee-yard, back of my implement house, about 

 lUU feet from where it had been. I was tak- 

 ing out the comlis. and hunting and destroy- 

 ing tlie moth-worms that had a start in them, 

 and while at work a black queen lit on one of 

 llie comljs. 1 tried to catch her, but she cir- 

 cleil around and lit on the side of the hous», 

 when I caught and caged her. 1 tlien exam- 

 iiu'd the rest of my colonies, but could find 

 none without a i|ueen. Where do you think 

 she came from '. and is it not very rare for one 

 to My around like that? 



The past wiiitir was very hard on my bees. 

 They were Hying. ilmost every day, and used 



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BY RETURN MAIL. 



For sending us One New Subscriber 



for one year, to the American Bee 

 Journal, with SI. 00. we will send, by 

 return mail, a fine Untested Italian 

 Oueen free as a premium. This offer 



is made only to our present regular 

 subscribers. 



We will mail one of the above queens 

 alone for 75 cents ; or 3 for S2.10. 



Please do not conflict the above offer 

 with the one on another page which 

 refers to Red Clover Queens. For send- 

 ing us two new subscribers, and $2.00, 

 we will mail free as a premium an Un- 

 tested Red Clover Italian Queen. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



144 & 141, Erie St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



I am Now Prepared 



to Till orders promptly for Untested Queens 

 reared from a breeder of the HUTCHINSON 

 SUPERIOR STOCK, or a select GOLDEN 

 breeder, and mated to Golden drones, at 75 cents 

 each; f4.00 for o, or, $7.50 per dozen. 

 Money order office, Warrentown, N. C. 



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QUEENS 



Now ready to supply bv returned mail. STOCK 



which can not be E.XCELLED '.'.'. 

 Bred under the SUPERSEDING CONDITION of 



the colony. 

 GOLDEN ITALIANS, the GREAT HONEY- 

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 REDCLOVBR QUEENS, the LONG-TONGUED 



ITALIANS, which left all RECORDS 

 behind in FATHERING UONEY, $1 each; 6 



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