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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 13, 19( 1. 



BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES A:a: 



THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. 



OuF New 1901 Fifty-Two Page Catalog Ready. 



Send for a copv. It is free. 



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



Branch, G. B. Lewis Co., 19 S. Alabam: 



Excellent shipping facilities and very low fr 



Eastern territorie 



St., Indianapolis, Ind. 

 ight rates for Southern : 



BEST 



Basswood^ Alfalfa Honey 



in 60-pound tin cans, f .o.b. Chicago — two cans in a box — at these prices : 9 

 cents a pound for one box of two cans ; two boxes (4 cans) or more at one 

 time, S'z cents a pound. 



We have only a limited quantity of the Basswood honey, 

 either kind, postpaid, 10 cents. Address, 



Sample of 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, 111. 



26 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 



This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 



paid for Beeswax. W ^^r;^:^^ 



* 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, 111. 



Marsbfield M anufactur ipg CompaDy. 



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. 



8A26t Marshfield Manufacturing Co., Marshfield, Wis. 



Red Glover Queens 



ONE Untested Italian Queen FREE as a Pre- 

 mium fop sending us TWO new subscpibers 

 to the Amepiean Bee Joupnal fop one yeap 

 (with $2); OP, one Tested Queen fpee as a ppemium 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, (if-mi 

 They stored red clover honey last season. f*^A 



All queens guaranteed to arrive in good condition, and all will be f^^ 

 clipped, unless otherwise ordered. (<4t^ 



CASH PRICES of these fine queens will be as follows • Untested K^, 

 $1.00 each ; Tested, $2.00 each. Send all orders to f<AlA 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. ^ 



144 & 146 Epie St., CHICAGO, ILL. (^ 



u]) all their stores, and I have lost 13 colonies 

 through spring dwindling, and expect to lose 

 more. I have been feeding, but the bees are 

 not there to build up. 



I think there is no better country in the 

 Tnited States for all purposes than the Chero- 

 kee Nation country. R. X. C'R.iFTOX. 



Cherokee Nation. Ind. Ter.. May is. 



The Weather Hard on Bees. 



My bees were in splendid condition in 

 March, breeding up strong, and they worked 

 three days on maple blossoms, the trees hav- 

 ing the finest amount of bloom on them that I 

 ever remember seeing, the blossoms being as 

 large as peach-blossoms. But suddenly it 

 turned cold, and thousands of the poor little 

 bees were caught napping, they could not get 

 to their hires, and perished. The frost killed 

 all of the bloom that was far enough advanced 

 to be affected, and all through the greater 

 part of April we had cold rains and frosty 

 weather, then there was a great profusion of 

 fruit-bloom ; but the bees did not seem to be 

 strong enough to take advantage of it, and in 

 the midst of it came a heavy, cold rain and 

 hail-storm which destroyed the bloom. 



The bees have had a hard time of it, though 

 most of them are in good condition now. 

 Some are weak, but most of them are clus- 

 tered at the entrance waiting for white clover, 

 which is looking first-rate, and there are a 

 few blossoms here and there. 



We have had no swarms so far this year. 

 D. C. McLeod. 



Christian Co.. 111., May 27. 



Bees Starved in Iowa. 



A good many of the bees in this part of the 

 country starved last winter. I have 30 colo- 

 nies in good condition, and increasing fast 



I clip all queens, cut out queen-cells, give 

 plenty of rooiu — two or three supers at once — 

 and have very little swarming. I sell all my 

 honey in the home market, and stamp every 

 section. George C. Durr. 



Jasper Co., Iowa, May 30. 



Bees and Olives. 



These are suggested by- W. A. H. Gilstrap 

 in the Bee-Keepers' Review, as a desirable 

 combination. He says : 



The bulk of the work with olives is done 

 between Oct. 1 and March 1, then for three 

 months the work is moderate with both bees 

 and olives. Some time in June or July the 

 honey harvest commences and lasts until Oct. 

 I, when the fruit is about ripe. By that plan 

 one man can put in his time the year through 

 at one place, having no idle spell. Perhaps 

 that would be more protitable than any other 

 method iu some cases, while in other sur- 

 roundings, with other men, it would not. 



Smothering a Colony of Bees. 



This is a much easier thing than the novice 

 would suppose. Nearly every one must suffer 

 a personal loss in order to learn the lesson. 

 Possibly some may be induced to be careful 

 without any personal experience by reading 

 the following case reported by Dr. C. S. 

 Phillips, in the Southland Queen : 



I want to tell you how we lost a large, fine 

 swarm. There was a swarm that came out 

 and my wife hived them, and they came out 

 and went back. They did this two or three 

 times, and the last lime was on Saturday, and 

 when I came home from the office she told me 

 of it. I said, " All right ; I'll fl.x 'em. Sun- 

 day they will not come out.'' 

 So Sunday morning I got some wire-cloth 

 I and fitted it over the entrance to keep them. 



