Aug. 1, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



491 



DO YOU WANT A HIGH GRADE OF 



Italian Bees and (|ueeiis? 



2=frame Nucleus with Untested Queen. $2.00, 

 purchaser paying; express charges. 



NaperviUe, 111 , iMay 28, 1901. 



Dear SiK : — Bees arrived in g-nod condition. 

 Transferred ihem to hive and pave them honey. 

 Have reinforced them with hatching- brood. 

 Are working- when not too cold. Have ripht 

 color, and are satisfactory. D. B. Givlek. 



I like your way of packing- bees to express. 

 E. K. Meredith, Batavia, 111. 



Months July and Aug-ust. 



Number of Queens 1 6 12 



Golden Queens. 



Untested $ .75 $ 4 00 $ 7.00 



Tested 1.25 6 50 10.00 



Select Tested 2.00 4.00 16 00 



Breeders 5.00 



Honey Qijeens. 



Untested $ .75 $4.00 $ 7.00 



Tested 1.25 6 50 10.00 



Select Tested 1.50 7.00 12.00 



Safe arrival guaranteed. Descriptive price- 

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



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Dittnier's Fonndation ! 



Retail— Wholesale^Jobbing. 



I use a PROCESS that produces EVERY 

 ESSENTIAL necessary to make it the BEST 

 and MOST desirable in all respects. My PRO- 

 CESS and AUTOMATIC MACHINES'are my 

 own inventions, which enable me to SELL 

 FOUNDATION and 



fork fax Into Fonnilatioii For Casli 



at prices that are the lowest. Catalog giving 



Full Uae of Supplies, 



with prices and samples, free on application. 

 BEESWAX WANTED. 



GUS, DITTMER, Augusta, Wis, 



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IT'S NO TROUBLE 



for us to tell why PAGE Fences outlast others, nor 



why they etay up and don' t sagr. Ask us. 



I'AfJK W'OVKX UIKK FKNCICO.. AmtUX.MICH. 



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QUEEMS 



Now ready to supplv bv returned mail. STOCK 



. which can not be EXCELLED ::: 

 Bred under the SUPERSEDING CONDITION of 



the colony. 



■GOLDEN ITALIANS, the" GREAT HONEY- 



GATUERERS. Tliev have no SUPERIOR 



and few equal. 75c each: t for $4.00. 



RED CLOVER QUfc-ENS, the LONG-TONGUED 



ITALIANS, which left all RECORDS 

 behind in GATHERING HONEY, SI each; 6 



for $5. Safe Akkiv.\l Guarantked. 

 C. H. W.WBBER, Successor to Chas. F. Muth, 



2141. A: 214S Central Are., Cincinnati, O. 

 Headquarters for Root's tioods 



Bee-Supplies. | at Root's Prices. 



Caialofr free; send for same. 



Wo will pay Stic, oasli. por lb. for 



"■■ru. bright yoilow l>eeswax, 



d 20o. cash, per II). for pure. 



BEES 



pure, bright yoilow l>eeswax, 

 and 20o. cash, per II). for pure 

 Tir A Y (lark beeswax <U-livcred here 



WW /\^l ClI AMBEBI.AIN MEDICINE €0. 



FOR SALE 



i) 3 5 acres, well fruited to cherries, peaches, 

 -J plums, pears, apples, currants, raspberries, 

 blackberries, and strawberries. Good house, 

 barn, vegetable green. house, honev-house. So or 

 100 colonies of bees, situated in ^ood bee-local- 

 ity. Title clear. For particulars address, 

 31D3t A L. KILOOW, Shelfteld, III. 



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Breed from the Best. 



A Stray Straw in tileanings in Bee-Culture 



Scientific queen-rearing requires careful 

 selection of sire and dam, adapting one to tlie 

 other. Little can be done at that till fecunda- 

 tion can be controlled. In the meantime, if 

 eyery bee-keeper i)ersistently breeds from 

 (lueens whose colonies store biggest crops, 

 I'm sure he will bring up his ayerage.— [Yes, 

 that is true. J. F. Mclntyre, of California, 

 has a row of hiyes in hisapiary. each of which 

 has a queen from his best breeder. He says 

 it was easy to see that this row of hives giyes 

 a larger yield than any other row of an equal 

 number or strength. — Editok.] 



Bees as Fertilizers. 



Some testimony has been giyen to show 

 that bees may be dispensed with as fertilizers 

 of fruit-bloom. J. W. Rouse gives in the 

 Progressive Bee-Keeper some testimony on 

 the other side, as follows : 



We made some experiments during fruit- 

 bloom with our bees by covering the limbs 

 that would bloom of peach, pear, plum and 

 damson trees, and had intended also to ex- 

 periment on apple-bloom; but I was away 

 from home when they began blooming, so I 

 did not get to work on them. Contrary to 

 expectation, on peach-bloom there were some 

 peaches that set. but not quite so many per 

 bloom as on limbs with bloom uncovered. 

 We also noticed more dwarfed fruit on the 

 covered limbs than on those not covered, that 

 of course will not mature. We used a mos- 

 quito-netting. On the pear, plum and dam- 

 son limbs covered, there was not a single 

 fruit set. so we conclude that bees help the 

 peach some, anyway, and that they, or some 

 other insect, are necessary for pears and 

 plums. 



Brood in Sections. 



Some ijroducers of comb honey find no 

 need for queen-excluders, while others find 

 excluders necessary. Referring to this, a 

 Stray Straw in Gleanings in Bee-Culture says: 



Complaint is made by some that, when no 

 qneen-excluder is used the queen goes up and 

 lays in the sections. The curious part is. 

 that A says he has no trouble at all, while B 

 hasln-oodina fourth of his sections. Pos- 

 sibly this explains it: There is no drone- 

 comb in the brood-chamber In either case. 

 B's bees have only starters in the sections. 

 and they will build drone-comb there, and 

 the queen will come up to lay where the 

 drone-comb is. A's sections are tilled with 

 worker foundation, and there will be no 

 drone-comb there to bait the (|ueen up. — [In 

 California, so far as I have gone, perforated 

 zinc seems to be generally used, even for 

 comb honey.— Editou.] 



Prevention of Swarming. 



H. I). Kurrell uses the Heddon hive, and 

 rives in the Bee-Keepers' Review this method 

 (if preventing swarming, which, with .some 

 modifications, he thinks would work with 

 other hives. He says: 



Eight frames are fastened in a case, and any 

 desired number of cjim's may be used for a 

 brood-chamber. 1 usually use two. which 

 gives a horizontal bee-space entirely through 

 the middle of the luood-chamber. This bee- 

 space is a line place lo build queen-cells in, 

 and if the bees are prejiarlng to swarm, queen- 



Italian Queens Free 



BY RETURN MAIL. 



For sending us One New Subscriber 

 for one year, to the American Bee 

 Journal, with $1.00, we will send, by 

 return mail, a fine Untested Italian 

 Queen free. 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 $2.10. 



Please do not conflict the above offer 

 with the one on another page which 

 refers to Red Clover Queens. For send- 

 ing us one new subscriber at $1.00, and 

 25 cts., we will mail you free an Un- 

 tested Red Clover Italian Queen. 



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