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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 22, 1901. 



00 YOU WANT A HIGH GRADE OF 



Italian Bees and Queens? 



2-frame Nucleus with Untested Queen, $2.00. 

 purchaser paying express charges. 



NOTICE. 



Having- sold ray propertv I am required to 

 give possession soon, as well as move mv entire 

 apiary. Therefore I will quit fillidpr' orders 

 Sept, 1. Our bees will be put in a more roomy 

 place, and there prepared for winter. 



Months July and August. 



Number of Queens 1 6 12 



fioLDEN Queens. 



Untested $.75 $4.00 $7.00 



Tested 1.2S 6.50 10.00 



Select Tested 2.00 9.00 16 00 



Breeders 5.00 



Honey Qdeens. 



Untested $.75 $4.00 $7.00 



Tested 1.2S 6.50 10.00 



Select Tested l.SO 7,00 12.00 



Safe arrival guaranteed. Descriptive price- 

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



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Dittmer's Foundation ! 



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 



Worl[ Wax Mo Fonnilatioii For Casli 



at prices that are the lowest. Catalog giving 



Full Line of Supplies, 



with prices and samples, tree on application. 

 BEESWAX WANTED. 



GUS, DITTMER, Augusta, Wis, 

 QUEENS 



Now ready to supply bv returned mail. STOCK 



which can not be E.XCELLED 1 1 1 

 Bred under the SUPERSEDING CONDITION of 



the colony. 

 GOLDEN ITALIANS, the GREAT HONEY- 

 GATHERERS. They have no SUPERIOR 

 and few equal. 7Sc each; 6 for $4,110. 

 RED CLOVER QUEENS, the LONG-TONGUED 



ITALIANS, which left all RECORDS 

 behind in GATHERING HONEY, $1 each; 6 



for $5. Safe Akkivai. (iuAKANTEED. 

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



214(. vV: 214S Central Ave., Cincinnati, O. 

 Headquarters for { Root's Qoods 



Bee-Supplies. | at Root's Prices. 



Catalog free; send for same. 



B66s= Supplies 



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I. J. STRINGHAM, 



105 Park Place, - NEW YORK, N. Y. 



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"HOIiSEniGH, BrLL-STHdNG, PIO TIGin"' 

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$■3.00 to Buffalo Pan-American and 

 Return--$i300. 



Tickets on sale daily via the Nickel 

 Plate Road, good returning 10 days 

 from date of sale. Especially low rates 

 for 15 and 30 day limit Chicago to Buf- 

 falo and return. Tickets at lowest 

 rates to all points East. John Y. Cal- 

 ahan, General Agent, 111 Adams St., 

 Chicago. 'Phone Central 2057. Chi- 

 cago Ticket Office, 1 J 1 Adams St. 18-3t 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



Tlie bees did fairly well here tlie forepart 

 of the season on while clover, tint it all dried 

 up. We did not liave any rain for three 

 weeks. It has rained now, and I think we 

 will have some biicli wheat honey yet. 



John C. Schveman. 



Monroe Co., Wis., July 26. 



From an Amateur Bee-Keepep. 



Xumljer 30 of the American Bee Journal is 

 just at hand; it is a splendid paper, and I 

 would not be without it. I have taken it for 

 tour years now. Although I am an amateur 

 I take great pleasure in its columns. I now 

 have about 2.5 colonies, with 12 of them in old 

 boxes ot all sorts, and from which I get very 

 little honey; but I have taken about 70 

 pounds from some of the others this season- 

 al! alfalfa honey. J. Rot Bradshaw. 



Humboldt Co., Nev., Aug. 2. 



Drouth and Little Hone.y. 



There is but little honey in southern Iowa, 

 and in Missouri I think it is still scarcer. I 

 had alMut 1,000 pounds from colonies enough 

 to have stored 3,000 in a good season. The 

 gathering came to a sudden stop in the early 

 days of .July. I have had swarms some sea- 

 sons as late as July 15 that filled the brood- 

 frames of a Jumbo hive. Our July was the 

 hottest and driest anybody remenibers. No 

 rain from June 21 to July 28. We are having 

 some rain now. Corn will make less than 

 half a crop. Potatoes and garden vegetables 

 are wiped out. Swarming was quite free in 

 June. I will have to feed some of the 

 swarms now. I am hoping for a fall flow. If 

 it does not come I have the choice of heavy 

 feeding or starved bees. Edwin Bevins. 



Decatur Co., Iowa, Aug. 9. 



Bees Have Done Well. 



My bees have done well this .season, giving 

 me a nice surplus of white honey, with the 

 fall flow now commencing, and prospects 

 good. E. B. Ttrrei.i,. 



(renesee Co.. Mich.. .\ug. 12. 



Bees Selecting a Home Before 

 Swapming. 



Rip Van Winkle says, on page 429, he does 

 not think that Ijees select their future home, 

 for certain reasons. And I know they do, 

 under certain conditions. Still, as a rule, 

 they do not. 



Years ago I kept bees in Canada, in box- 

 hives. All increase was by natural swarming. 

 When the hives became crowded I raised them 

 on blocks at the corners. The day before a 

 first swarm issued, the bees that were clus- 

 tered on the outside of the hive would go into 

 the hive, fill themselves with honey, and pack 

 closely in and under the hive. I had a colony 

 prepare for swarming, and it set in to rain, 

 and continued more or less cold, windy and 

 wet for eight days. Then the bees swarmed, 

 and went directly to their selected (or where 

 their selected) tree stood. The sun came out 

 for half an hour the day previous to their 

 swarming, and the scouts went out and 

 selected the tree. I had two men chopping, 

 and they reported that they had found a 

 swarm of bees. So we cut the tree down, and 

 not a bee was there. It was raining lightly 

 when we cut it down. In that case the bees 

 all let go at once, almost like emptying a 

 bucket of water by turning it upside down. 

 They never even stopped to circle about, but 

 went straight for their selected tree. "They 

 hazed about for quite awhile, and finally clus- 



Bees that Have a Record 



(See page 459 American Bee Journal.) 



Have long'est tongues, handsome, gentle, great 

 hustlers for honey, all tested queens, and sold 

 at rate of $8 per dozen. By return mail. 



HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 



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TENNESSEE 

 QUEENS.... 



Fide lot of Choice Tested 

 (Jueens reared last season, 

 daughters of select imported 

 and select golden queens, 

 reared 3yi miles apart, and 

 mated to select drones, $1 50 

 each; T^ntested Warranted 

 Queens, from same breeders, 

 either strain, 75c each. No 

 bees owned nearer than 2H 

 miles. None impure within 

 3, and but few within 5 miles. 



2S years' experience. Discount on large orders. 



Contracts with dealers a specialty. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, 



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