July 11, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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DO YOU WANT A HIGH GRADE OF 



Italian Bees and (Jueens? 



2-frame Nucleus with Untested Queen. $2.oo, 

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Naperrille, 111 , May 2S, 1901. 



Dear Sir:— Bees arrired in tfood condition. 

 Transferred them to liive and srave them honey. 

 Have reinforced them with hatching- brood. 

 Are working- when not too cold. Have ri^ht 

 <;olor, and are satisfactory. U. B. (tIvlek. 



I like your way of packing bees to e.xpress. 

 E. K. Meredith, Batavia, 111. 



Months July and August. 



Number of Queens 1 6 12 



Golden Queens. 



Untested $.7? $4 00 $7.00 



Tested 1.25 50 10.00 



SelectTested 2.(X) 9.00 16 00 



Breeders 5.00 



Honey Queens. 



Untested $.75 $4.00 $7.00 



Tested 1.25 6 50 10.00 



SelectTested 1.50 7.00 12.00 



Safe arrival guaranteed. Descriptive price- 

 list free. D. J. BLOCHER, Pearl City, III. 



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 GOLDEN ITALIANS, the GREAT HONEY- 

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ITALIANS, which left all RECORDS 

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Prospects for a Large Honey-Flow. 



The prospect is i,^0(>d for a larij^e Ijasswood 

 flow, which will be out in about a week. 

 .\lsike and white clover are yielding well 

 DOW. I. A. Travis. 



Wood Co., Wis.. .In lie 29. 



Bees Doing Fairly Well. 



Bees are doiug fairly well here. I wintered 

 6 colonies, and have increased to 12. I have 

 prevented all swarming, though they are very 

 strong in Ijees. They iave already stored six 

 supers of honey. 



I have three kinds of bees, and the leather- 

 colored Italians are the best. 



Jas. H. Knotts. 



Preston Co., W. Va., June 32. 



April Weather Hard on Bees. 



I put i'i colonies of l>ees into winter iiuar- 

 ters, and 40 of them oame through safely, but 

 one died in April of spring dwindling. April 

 was a very hard month on bees, only I'.j days 

 out of the first 23 being sunshiny. On April 

 6 last year I moved my 29 colonies of bees 

 from "Tyngsljoro to this place, and there were 

 not two days in succession that the bees did 

 not go out "foraging. This year there were 

 five days in succession that no bees were 

 flying. ■ John T. Cobirn. 



.Middlesex Co., Mass., June 2'2. 



White Clover Dried Up. 



White clover is about dried up, three weeks 

 ahead of its usual time. Basswood is just 

 beginning. 1 can't tell what it will yield yet, 

 but it looks well. E. M. Johnson. 



Dane Co., Wis., July I. 



Finds Bee-Keeping a Pleasure. 



1 was born in Hillsdale Co., .Mich.. April 

 16, ISIifl, and lived on a farm until aijout 18 

 years of age, when I began attending high 

 school in Hillsdale. From that time until 

 1897 I was in school work, either as student 

 or teacher. In the fall of 1S9B I married Miss 

 Mazie E. Harmon, ot Mason County. 



Because of the confinement of school work, 

 my health began to give way, and we decided 

 to locate on a fruit-farm. So here we are in 

 the midst of the Michigan fruit-belt, with 

 more than 2U00 trees to look after. We have 

 daily mail delivery, teleiihone connections, and 

 are pleasantly located to enjoy life. 



During the fall of 1899, while making a 

 small business transaction with one of my 

 neighbors, he proposed to turn three colonies 

 of Ijees over to me in the deal. I knew noth- 

 ing about bees, that is, so far as management 

 was concerned, Ijut I have a honey-tooth, and 

 am somewhat curious to learn the habits of 

 plants, insects, etc., so the deal was made. 

 The neighbor agreed to deliver the bees and 

 pack them for winter, and he did as he agreed, 

 but he packed them too tight. 



Of course, as soon as I purchased some bees 

 I began reading everything I could find on 

 tliat subject, getting ready to manage them 

 the next spring. Spring came, and one fine 

 day my neighbor came over to unpack the 

 bees and get me started. As I said before, he 

 had packed them too tight, and all were 

 smothered. The honey was there, but the 

 bees were dead. My neighbor was perplexed 

 and disappointed, and of course I was. But 

 he left me the honey, and gave me another 

 colony ill a very poor box-hive, and 1 began 

 to work with my bees. 



During June they swarmed, and I hived the 

 new swarm on the old stand, and soon trans- 

 ferred the old colony to a movable-frame hive. 

 1 did not get much surplus last season, but 

 lioiighlanotlicr good colony in the fall, and 



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