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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Aug:. 15, 1901. 



FOR SALE 



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

 -^ plums, pears, apples, currants, raspberries, 

 blackberries, and strawberries. Good house, 

 barn, vegetable green-house, honey-house, SO or 

 H.K) colonies of bees, situated in good bee-local- 

 ity. Title clear. For particulars address, 

 31D3t A. L. KILDOW. Sheffield. 111. 



Farm Wagon Economy. 



The economy of this proposition is not all 

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If you want the Bee-Book 



That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 



completely than anv other published, 



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" Bee= Keeper's Guide." 



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improved and original Binfrham Bee-Smoker. 

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QUEENS! QUEENS! 



From honey-gathering stock. Tested, $1.00; un- 

 tested, 75 cents. " Sh.idy Nook Apiary." 

 JAMES WARREN SHERMAN. 

 39A13t Sag Hakiior, New York. 



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Catnip Seed Free! 



We have a small quantity of Catnip 

 Seed which we wish to oflfer our read- 

 ers. Some consider catnip one of the 

 greatest of honey-yielders. We will 

 mail to one of our regular subscribers 

 one ounce of the seed for sending us 

 ONE NEW subscriber to the American 

 Bee Journal for a year with $1.00 ; or 

 will mail to any one an ounce of the 

 seed and the American Bee Journal one 

 year — both for $1.30 ; or will mail an 

 ounce of the seed alone for SO cents. As 

 our stock of this seed is very small, 

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GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



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lessly left open the screen will close, keeping 

 out mice, cats, or anything of this kind. 



The building has been in use three years, 

 and I can say, truthfully, that not a single 

 mouse has eyer been inside of it. My house 

 was built in the same way, except that between 

 the joists is filled with grouting level with the 

 top, with a double floor. In the six years 

 that we have occupied it, not a mouse has 

 found its way into any part of it — up-stairs, 

 down-stairs, or between the walls. 



Another advantage is claimed for a house 

 built in this way, that is, in case a tornacjo 

 twists the building into kindli'Hg-wood. the 

 lloor will be left, so that it the family take 

 refuge in the cellar they will be safe; but I 

 am very glad to be able to say that we have 

 not yet been compelled to test the truth of 

 the statement. A. F. Fuote. 



Mitchell Co., Iowa. 



Good White Clover Flow. 



I have 'J.^ good colonies, have taken off 02".' 

 pounds of fine white clover honey, and have 

 about 100 pounds more to take off. We have 

 had a tine flow. Bees are in fine condition. 

 I nave not lost a swarm this summer. Sev- 

 eral colonies swarmed four times apiece. I 

 put them back, and cut out the queen-cells. 

 Honey sells readily at 12'.j cents per section. I 

 have 500 pounds yet in cases put away for 

 sale. My brother. D. D. Cole, has taken off 

 82.5 pounds — all very fine honey. 



J.'W. B. Cole. 



Audubon Co., Iowa, July 23. 



No Honey-Flow. 



I have been interested in bees for some 

 time. Two summers ago I bought a colony 

 with a tested Italian queen; last year my in- 

 crease was a prime swarm and an after-swarm, 

 which wintered well. Two of them cast two 

 swarms each this year. Last year I had a 

 surplus of 40 pounds of honey, but as yet I 

 have no surplus, as there has been no honey- 

 flow in this section. I want to try feeding. 

 Chas. Hardix. 



Greene Co., Tenn., July 22. 



Treatment for Bees Supposed to be 

 Diseased. 



On pages 487 and 488, I notice that a bee- 

 keeper in Massachusetts has trouble with his 

 bees, which seems to be a disease, or some 

 consider it so. Thus far I consider the 

 trouble arises, first, from a lack of vitality in 

 the queen; second, chilling of brood; and 

 third (and principally), starvation in its vari- 

 ous stages. Care should be taken to keep 

 bees dry and warm in the spring, or the whole 

 season ; plenty of good food supplied when 

 thej' are short in honey, and a good watering- 

 place in the apiary kept going from early 

 spring until quite late in the fall. New blood 

 should be introduced, and to make sure work 

 of it, where bees are bad, they might be put 

 on full sheets of foundation. This followed 

 carefully will make a great improvement, aud 

 should rid the bees of dying brood. Many 

 have this same thing in their yards in a 

 degree, and do not notice it until it becomes 

 quite bad. When the case becomes serious 

 the bees will amount to nothing. 



D. J. Blochek. 



Stephenson Co., 111.. Aug. 8. 



The Mulberry as a Honey-Plant. 



Do you believe in telepathy * Then how do 

 you explain the fact that since I accidentally 

 discovered the value of the white mulberry as 

 bee-food for honey-producing — before the 

 article in reference to mulberries had appeared 

 in the American Bee Journal (page 493) — 

 enquiries have been received, special explana- 

 tions being desired ; 



If the editor will permit me space I will 

 cheerfully add the result of recent and more 

 extended experiments. I should have been 

 more explicit in some of my details in the 

 first article, to which I will advert in this. I 

 am not certain as to how large dimensions 

 the white mulberry tree attains. The black, 

 I know, grows to be large, in some sections 

 used for saw-logs, but the white may not 



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