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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 20, 1901. 



XJISTTESTED 



Itnliaii ilmm Free 



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 

 Queen free as a premium. This offer 



"iS^y^ 



is made only to our present regular 

 subscribers. 



We will mail one of the above queens 

 alone for 7.^ cents : or 3 for S2.10. 



Please do not conflict the above offer 

 with the one on another pagre which 

 refers to Red Clover (Jueens. For send- 

 ing- us two new subscribers, and S2.00, 

 we will mail free as a premium an Un- 

 tested Red Clover Italian Queen. 



GEORGE W. YORK &: CO. 



144 & 14ti Erie St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



I am Now Prepared 



to fill orders promptly for Untested Oueens 

 reared from a breeder of the HUTCHINSON 

 SUPERIOR STOCK, or a select GOLDEN 

 breeder, and mated totiolden drones, at 75 cents 

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

 Money order office, Warrentown, N. C. 



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2^Atf Creek, Warren Co , N. C. 



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 Untested Queens in April, $1.00; Tested, $1.50. 



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Good Honey-Flow Expected. 



Wi- have just hail a couple of good rains, 

 and it looks as if we would have a good, old- 

 fashioned flow of white clover honey. We 

 have had no rains t.i amount to anything for 

 nearly two months, and I had about given up 

 hopes of a clover crop. A. N. Draper. 



Madison Co., 111.. .June 7. 



Drouth Will Cut the Honey Crop. 



Our bees have been storing honey nicely for 

 aliout two weeks, but the protracted drouth 

 will cut our honey crop short, as the white 

 and alsike clovers are drying up or dying, 

 and there is but little sweet clover growing 

 near. David Sharp. 



fais Co., Mo.. June S. 



Bees Did Not Winter Well. 



The tiees eanie through the winter very 

 weak indeed, but have built up much better 

 than I expected, so 1 can hope to get some- 

 thing, at least. Mathilde Caxdleb. 



(irant Co.. Wis.. June 6. 



Keeping Down Increase. 



I see a good chance for Dr. C. C. Miller to 

 get into a dispute in regard to an answer to a 

 question on page 32s, in which he says : 



" It your object is to keep down increase, 

 perhaps this plan might suit you better: 

 When the colony swarms kill the old queen 

 and return the swarm. A week later cut out 

 all the queen-cells but one, and the work is 

 done. There will be no more swarming for 

 that colony until another year." 



That may be so in some locations, but it 

 will not work everywhere, as I have had 

 swarms many times after hiving first swarms 

 by themselves and cutting out every queen- 

 cell but one 7 days after the swarm issues. 

 And I have then had swarms from the same 

 colony again in from 6 to S weeks. I also 

 have virgin swarms from almost every prime 

 swarm. C. H. Harlan. 



Kanab'ec Co., Minn.. May 27. 



Good Outlook fop a Honey-Crop. 



Jly winter and spring losses have been very 

 heavy and it has been cold with much cloudy, 

 rainy weather (it is raining to-day), and the 

 wind seems to hang in the northeast. But 

 the hcmey outlook is fine; clover is very plen- 

 tiful as none of it was winter-killed, and 

 liasswood seems to be setting full. The big- 

 gest drawback with me is the bees, but they 

 seem to be building up fast now, and may be 

 in good condition for the flow. 



I visited R. L. Taylor's apiary. May "J.H. and 

 his 200 colonies are in excellent condition, 

 most of them ready tor the supers, with the 

 clover flow two weeks ahead. He wintered 

 his bees in the cellar, and I wintered mine 

 outdoors. E. B. Ttkrell. 



Genesee Co.. Mich., May 29. 



Long-Tongued Bees. 



From a Southern standpoint 1 read with 

 some satisfaction (i. M. Doolittle's article on 

 page "293, and Dr. .Miller's reply on page 3'26. 

 I feel quite sure tliat Mr. Doolittle is very 

 willing that the people of the red-clover belt 

 shall get the benefit of this bloom, and am 

 also sure that he meant to cast no reflections 

 on the honesty of the people at Medina. I 

 am of the opinion that these articles will do 

 good. While no sensible man will doubt the 

 advisability of having long-tongued queens 

 in sonie locations, there are other places 

 where no benefit whatever would be derived 

 from them. In my own locality (southern 

 Georgia! bees w-ith a '2.5-100 reach would store 



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Full Line of Supplies, 



with prices and sami 

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when we sav that PAGE Fences require less posts 



than others, and that they do Dot saK. 



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SWEET CLOVER 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arrangetuents so that we can 

 furnish Seed of several of the Clovers by freight 

 or express, at the following prices, cash with 

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Sits lOtb 25tb SOBS 



Sweet Clever (whitel "Oc $1.20 $2.TS 15.00 



SweetClover(vellow)....$l.SO 2.80 6.25 12.00 



AlsikeClover 90c 1.70 3.75 7.00 



White Clover 90c 1.70 4.00 7.50 



Alfalfa Clover 80c 1.40 3.2S 6.00 



Japanese Buckwheat 30c .50 1.00 1.60 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Single pound 5 ceuts more than the 5-poand 

 rate, and 10 cents extra for postage and sack. 



Add 25 ceuts to your order, for cartage, if 

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