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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 27, 19. 1- 



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BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES J^A: 



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Our 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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Excellent shipping facilities and very low freight rates for Southern and 



Eastern territories. 



BEST 



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Basswood m Alfalfa Honey 



in faO-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, 8'-2 cents a pound. 



We have only a limited quantity of the Basswood honey. Sample of 

 eitlier kind, postpaid, 10 cents. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicag'O, lU. 



25 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 



This is a good time 



to send in your Bees- 



• 4 /• w~> -«^ '»■> wax. We are payine 



paid for Beeswax. * » -ly, c- 



low, upon its receipt, or 27 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. 





MarshMd M anufactur ing 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. 



8A26t Marshfield Manufacturing Co., Marshfield, Wis. 



I Red Glover Queens 



long-tonguedIeesTre demanded now. 



ONE Untested Italian Queen FREE as a Pre- 

 mium fop sending us TWO new subscribers 

 to the American Bee Journal for one year 

 (with $2); OP, one Tested Queen free as a premium for sending 

 us FOUR new subscribers 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. 



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

 clipped, unless otherwise ordered. 



CASH PRICES of these fine queens will be as follows : Untested, 

 SI. 00 each ; Tested, $2.00 each. Send all orders to 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



144 & 146 Erie St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



feetly quiet and healthy— not half a pint of 

 dead Ijees were on the floor. In Gleanings In 

 Bee-Culture we are told how the hees came 

 out, as follows: 



On the 1st, 2d, and 3d of May we took all 

 the bees out of the cellar under the machine- 

 shop. They were in tine condition, and ap- 

 parently iust as strong: as when they were put 

 in last fail, about the first of December, but 

 had little or no brood. They had been con- 

 fined just about five months. During all this 

 time they were very tjuiet. and the number of 

 dead bees on the cellar bottom was the small- 

 est I ever saw. Well, now for the results : 



Our Mr. Wardell says that those colonies 

 are away ahead of the outdoor-wintered ones 

 of the same strength last fall. The larger 

 force of bees has enabled them to take care of 

 large ([uantities of brood, now that they are 

 outdoors; and the probabilities are that, 

 when the honey-flow comes on, they will be 

 worth nearly two of the colonies wintered 

 outdoors. We estimate that our outdoor bees 

 lost very heavily during the great storm of 

 April 20 — a storm that was a record-breaker, 

 and which wiU go down in history as one of 

 the heaviest ever known. While the weather 

 was not very cold, yet after the snow had 

 fallen the Ijees flew out on the warm days fol- 

 lowing, dropped on the snow, and never got 

 back. Thousands and thousands of bees were 

 housed during this big storm, and were not 

 put on the summer stands till atjout ten days 

 later. 



Ira Barber, in our last issue, recommends 

 putting more bees in the cellar and raising 

 the temperature. Our cellared bees were 

 kept in a higher temperature than any bees 

 we ever wintered indoors : and they wintered 

 the best, irrespective of the noise above in 

 the machine-shop. But I am afraid that, if 

 the temperature had been as high as Mr. Bar- 

 ber recommends, they would not have fared 

 as well as they did. Nevertheless, we shall 

 test his ideas on a small scale next winter. 



Co=operative Queen-Rearing. 



The editor of the American Bee-Keeper 

 mentions the scheme of the California bee- 

 keepers to have one man rear a definite num- 

 ber of queens for the crowd at a cost of la to 

 25 cents each, but does not grow very enthu- 

 siastic over it. He says : 



We have great faith in the possibilities of 

 co-operation ; but our prayer that Mr. Martin 

 mav live to see his plan in successful opera- 

 tion, we confess, is not Imeked by the implicit 

 faith which we should be pleased to entertain. 



Principles of Breeding. 



Like those who raise sheep and cattle, bee- 

 keepers are breeders of live-stock. The first 

 principle in breeding— the one which every 

 breeder accepts as sound and worthy of all 

 acceptation — is that "like produces like." 

 This is a rule as old as the Scripture that 

 aftirms its truth by asking, " Do men gather 

 grapes of thorns or figs of thistles*'' It is 

 even older, lor you all remember Jacob, the 

 thrifty keeper of the flocks and herds of his 

 father-in-law Laban, and how wisely he man- 

 aged the breeding, with the inevitable result 

 that " the feebler were Laban's, and the 

 stronger .Jacob's.'' 



We expect the offspring to be like the par- 

 ents. We are sure that the little will not 

 produce the great ; we are no less sure that 

 the large will not produce the small. We ex- 

 pect the striking characteristics of the par- 

 ents to be repeated in their children. 



The first rule, then, to be kept in mind by 

 the breeder is, that to have the best he must 

 breed from the best. This is the law. He 

 who violates it suffers the penalty which most 

 of us must bear as best we can, and get along 

 with what is worse than the best. 



But the law that "like begets like "must 

 not be interpreted too rigidly. Each of the 

 higher animals has two immediate parents, 

 and grandparents without number, and they 

 all have their influence under the same law. 

 The father and the mother are never exactly 

 alike, and the differences in the grandparents 



