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AMERICAN BEE lOURiMAL. 



Sept. 5, 1901. 



Bees that Have a Record 



(See page 459 American Bee Journal.) 



Have longest tongues, handsome, gentle, great 

 hustlers for honej, all tested queens, and sold 

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



HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 



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D IJ^Ij^O We will pay 20c. cash, per lb. for 



IlIVI'.J pure, bright yellow beeswax, 



'^ '-"^^^ iirid 20c. cash, per lb. for pure, 



d.'irk beeswax delivered here. 



Chamberlain Medicinb Co, 



Dos Moines. Iowa. 



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TENNESSEE 

 QUEENS. 



Fide lot of Choice Tested 

 Queens reared last season, 

 daughters of select imported 

 an:3 select g-olden queens, 

 reared 3?4 miles apart, and 

 mated to select drones, $1 50 

 each; Untested Warranted 

 Queens, from same breeders, 

 either strain, 75c each. No 

 bees owned nearer than VA 

 miles. None impure within 

 3, and but few within 5 miles. 



28 years' experience. Discount on larg-e orders. 



Contracts with dealers a specialty. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, 



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W i\\\\C\\ COMB FOUNDATION on 

 ^ ^ •-».»«•-*'** rovaltv. Also. 108 colonies 

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H. VOGELER, New Castle, Calif. 



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For sending: us One New Subscriber 

 for one year, to the American Bee 

 Journal, with $1.00, we will send, by 

 return maU, 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- 

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

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GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



144 & 14<, Erie St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



and he is the only bee-keeper in that locality. 

 He_beats me, forjie has h ad fi ve swarms from 

 one colony, making six in 'all," and "they are 

 doing- well. 



I have only to add that he and I are both 

 beginners, and I value highly the hints I get 

 from the American Bee Journal. 



British Columbia, .Tuly •>\. H. Beek. 



The Honey Market in California. 



The honey season is ended for this year in 

 this locality. Our honey is in packages, and 

 the most ditiicult problem for the bee-keeper 

 is upon us — disposing of our honey at a price 

 that will give us honest remuneration for the 

 labor expended and capital invested. 



I have heard some say the market is demor- 

 alized; I do not consider it so. A demoralized 

 market is one where the product is thrown 

 on the market and sold for what it will bring, 

 and where there are uiore sellers than buyers. 

 I am pleased to note that such is not the case 

 in Southern California at present. There is 

 very little honey moving, not because there 

 are no buyers, but because the buyers are not 

 offering what the producers think they are 

 entitled to. 



While there is uo organization or general 

 understanding amongst bee-keepers, yet there 

 seems to be a general feeling that we ought 

 to have, and will get, 5 cents a pound for this 

 year's crop of extracted honey, and. they are 

 almost to a man living up to their feelings, 

 and holding their honey ; and I think if they 

 hold on for 60 days longer they will realize 

 their expectations. 



Every little lot that is sold at the price the 

 buyers are ottering, the report of that sale is 

 hawked all over the country, and made the 

 most of to scare holders. J. W. George. 



Riverside Co., Calif., Aug. S. 



An Experience and a Question. 



I am not one of those lucky bee-keepers 

 who get large yields ot honey, yet I get fair 

 yields. I keep a record of every colony, the 

 date of swarming, etc. My hives are all num- 

 bered. It they have prolific queens it is so 

 marked on the book, and those thai are extra 

 honey-gatherers are also marked. I started 

 in the sirring with nine colonies, and now I 

 have 36, and have taken off .300 pounds of 

 comb honey. I will give the record ot one 

 colony, and then ask a question for Dr. 

 Miller to answer : 



.May -'0 I bought a colony ot bees in a two- 

 sLory hive for $2.00. When I got them home 

 I examined them, and found the upper story 

 full of brood. June 19 they cast a swarm ; it 

 was very large, and when hived it filled a 10- 

 frame hive apimrcntly full. The hive of the 

 old or parent colony is No. 21. The new 

 swarm was hived in No. 1.5, In nine days 

 after the first swarm No. 21 cast a second 

 swarm, which was hived in No. 11. About 

 five days after this, when I was absent from 

 home, my son-in-law saw a swarm ot bees in 

 the air, but could not tell what hive they 

 came out of. They clustered, and he hived 

 them ; it was a very small bunch. There was 

 a space of about six inches between hive No. 

 loandNo. 11. .\ day or two after this little 

 swarm was caught, I saw bees going on the 

 alighting-board from No. 11 to l.">, and on 

 looking into No. 11 I found some comb, but 

 no bees. On the 13th— 24 days after the 



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Revised by Dadant — 1900 Edition. 



This is one of the standard books on 

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 library of every bee-keeper. It is bound 

 substantially in cloth, and contains 

 over 500 pages, being revised by those 

 large, practical bee-keepers, so well- 

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 Each subject is clearly and thoroly ex- 

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 structions of this book one cannot fail 

 to be wonderfully helpt on the way to 

 success with bees. 



The book we mail for $1.25, or club 

 it with the American Bee Journal for 

 one year — both for SI. 75; or, we will 

 mail it as a premium for sending us 

 THREE NEW subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal for one year, with $3.00. 



This is a splendid chance to get a 

 grand bee-book for a very little money 

 or work. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



144 .t 146 Erie street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



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