Aug-. 29, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



555 



A Good, Growing Season. 



This has been a very good, growing season 

 here. I feel sorry for such as Dr. Miller and 

 otliers who have suffered from lack of rain- 

 fall. If the Doctor had seut his bees and 

 pasture here last spring I think Nature could 

 have furnished the liquid tonic to have kept 

 them going. White clover was fairly good, 

 and bees worked well on it; basswood the 

 same. Buckwheat is to be heard from. There 

 is a large acreage sown, and as the weather 

 has been congenial for its growth, we may 

 expect a good flow of honey. 



M. P. LOWRY. 



Armstrong Co., Pa., July 29. 



The Outlook in Washington. 



All the spring and to the tirst part of July 

 it was very wet and cold here. All through 

 the clover bloom the bees did nothing more 

 than make a living, although they were very 

 strong in bees, but now they are getting some 

 honey from tireweed. I think some of my 

 best colonies have about 50 pounds ready to 

 extract, but I think thehoney-tlow will be cut 

 short considerably by the forest fires now 

 raging here. The last three days I have been 

 out in the timber with several other men 

 lighting tires, and I was surprised to see bees 

 working on the flowers where the smoke was 

 so thick that we could hardly stand it. But 

 even if the bees do work in the smoke, I 

 think it will cut down the yield some. 



Hans Chbistensen. 



Skagit Co., Wash., Aug. 10. 



Don't Make Wild Honey Reports. 



I think it is utterly wrong for bee-keepers 

 to make such enormous reports as, "A good 

 year for honey," " Best honey-fiow in years," 

 " Heaviest crop ever known," etc. Any man 

 with brains in their proper place can very 

 plainly see that all such reports have a ten- 

 dency to lower the price of honey, and while 

 some may be quite true, I fear a great many 

 report too early, having a large crop in view, 

 with perhaps two or three dozen colonies of 

 bees kept in a half-way manner, and thus 

 they find themselves minus their honev 

 crop, and buyers don't care to raise the price 

 after it is once down. Hence it is folly to 

 report. 



Bee-keepers should put their minds on a 

 level basis, and keep them there. We rarely 

 see a, bee-keeper who keeps bees for business 

 making such a whoop, whoop, hurrah boys ! 

 It is the still waters that are deep, and where 

 we catch our largest fish. I caught 22 nice 

 ones, Aug. 16. P. W. 8taui,man. 



Albany Co., N. Y., Aug. 19. 



Ancient Ideas of Honey. 



I send a clipping which would doubtless 

 amuse the readers of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal. We laugh at the a,ssumed knowledge of 

 this educated man of three and a (luarler cen- 

 turies ago; but many of the notions which 

 we cherish and hug to our bosoms at this 

 dawn of the 20th century will appear just as 

 ridiculous to our descendants at its close. 



Columbia Co., N. Y. James McNeill. 



The following is the clipping referred to by 

 Mr. McNeill : 



HONEV FOR SCHOLARS. 



" Honey and bread was a great Meat with 

 Pythagoras and his Scholars, and counted a 

 sufficient food for a temperate life. For bread 

 strengthens the body, and honey both nour- 

 ishes much and also cleanseth away super- 

 fluities. Pollio Homulus being asked by 

 Augustus the Emperor how he lived so long ! 

 By. nourishing Isaith he) my insvards with 



To make cows pay. usp Sbarplf) 



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 nearly everybody 

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 honey at all < 

 get enough of 

 Alfalfa extracted. 



Basswood 

 HoneyJ\^ 



Thii 



the 



veil- 



known light-colored 

 honey gathered from 

 the rich, nectar- 

 laden basswood blos- 

 soms. It has a 

 stronger flavor than 

 Alfalfa, and is pre- 

 ferred by those who 

 like a distinct flavor 

 in their honey. 



Prices of Alfalfa or Basswood Honey: 



A sample of either, by mail, 10 cents, to pay for package and post- 

 age. By freight — two 60-pound cans of Alfalfa, 8 cents per pound ; four 

 or more cans, T'i cents per pound. Basswood Honey, fi cent more per 

 pound than Alfalfa prices. Cash must accompany each order. You can 

 order half of each kind of honey, if vou so desire. The cans are boxed. 

 This is all 



ABSOLUTELV PURE HOMEV 



The finest of their kinds produced in this country. 



Read Dr. Miller's Testimony on Alfalfa Honey: 



_ -npled the honey you sent, and it's prii-. 



something of a heretic, lo sell several tbousand^pounds 

 and then buy honey of you for 

 honey of his own region, ther 



. Thank you. I feel that I'm 



_.. , of honey of my own production 



ny own use. But however loyal one ought to be to the 



_, _- - - - -^ --- _'s no denying the fact that for use in any kind of hot 



drink, where one prefers the more wholesome honey to sugar, the very e.x'cellent quality 

 of alfalfa honey I have received from you is better suited than the honeys of more 

 marked flavor, according to mv taste. C. C. Miller. 



McHenry Co., 111. 



Order the Above Honey and then Sell It. 



We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce 

 enough honey for their home demand this year, just order some of the 

 above, and sell it. And others, who want to earn some money, can get 

 this honey and work up a demand for it almost anywhere. 



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QUEENS! QUEENS! 



From honey-gathering stock. Tested, $1.(>0; u 

 tested, 75 cents. " Shady Nook Apiakv." 

 JAMES WARREN SHERMAN. 

 20A13t S.^G H.\RBOR, New York 



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SWEET CLOVER 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arrangements so that we can 

 furnish Seed of several of the Clovers by freight 

 or express, at the following prices, cash with 

 the order: 



s» lOK 25)is son 



Sweet Clover (white) $.70 $1.20 $2.75 $5.00 



Sweet Clover (vellow) 90 1.70 4.00 7.50 



Alsike Clover'. 90 1.70 3.75 7.00 



WhiteClover 1.00 1.90 4.50 8.50 



Alfalfa Clover 80 1.40 3.25 6.00 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Single pound 5 cents more than the 5-pouud 

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Add 25 cents to your order, for cartage. If 

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144 &.146 Erie Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



