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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 12, 1901 



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I &xira6l)6fl Honeii For Sale | 



f5 ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. ^; 



9 A <c fr ^ ^'° 



5 Alfalfa 

 '\ Honey J?c 



Thii 



the fan 



White Extracted 

 Honev gathered in 

 the great Alfalfa 

 regions of the Cent- 

 ral West. It is a 

 splendid honev, and 

 nearly everybody 

 who cares to e a 

 honey at all can' 

 get enough of thi 

 Alfalfa e.xtracted. 



Basswood 

 Honey J/c 



This is the well- 

 known lig-ht-colored 

 honey g'athered from 

 the rich, nectar- 

 laden basswood blos- 



It hz 



Dger 



Alfalla, and is pre 

 ferred by those 

 like a distinct flavo: 

 in their honey, 



than ^ 

 ho ^; 



Prices of Alfalfa or Basswood Money: 



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, 7'^ cents per pound. Basswood Honey, !> cent more per 

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

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

 This is all 



ABSOLUTELV PURE HOMEY 



The finest of their kinds produced in this country. 



r^ Read Dr. Miller's Testimony on Alfalfa Honey: ^ 



;^ I've iust sampled the honey you sent, and it's prime. Thank you. I feel that I'm ^ 



•^ something of a heretic, to sell several thousand pounds of honev of my own production ^• 



-.^ and then buy honey of you for my own use. But however loyal one ought to be to the ^: 



•^ honey of his own region, there's no denying tlie fact that for use in any kind of hot' ^* 



'.^^ drink, where one prefers the more wholesome honey to sugar, the very excellent 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. ^: 



•^ McHeury Co., 111. ^; 



i^ 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. ^i 



!^ QEORQE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, III. %. 



Bees Did Better this Year. 



Our bees have done better this year than 

 for two or three years past, after all the dry, 

 hot weather. We coninienced the spring with 

 11 colonies, and increased to 17. We have 

 taken off over .500 ponnds of comb honey, 

 and have about 150 pounds on the hives yet 

 to take off, whieh is pretty good for this 

 locality. We can sell our honey at a pretty 

 good price — comb honey at *20 cents per 

 pound, and extracted at 10 cents; and custo- 

 mers furnish their pails. 



Richard Chinn. 



Dixon Co., Nebr., Aug. 2ii. 



Working on Buckwheat. 



Bees are working on buckwheat and queen- 

 of-the-meadow at present. I have taken oft' 

 nearly 40 pounds of honey per colony, so far. 

 Howard H. House.* 



Oneida Co.. N. Y., Aug. 21. 



Horsemint. 



I send a flower that grows here on the sand 

 hills. The bushes are just covered with bees 

 from morning till night. I think it gives 

 considerable honey, although a light amber. 

 Henry Roobda. 



Cook Ck)., III., Aug. 19. 



(The plant in question is the horsemint — 

 Monarda punctata— and lielongs to the large 

 and important mint family, the members of 

 which are usually aromatic and honey-pro- 

 ducing. A goodly number of these plants 

 blossom from July to November in sandy 

 fields and dry banks, and furnish a rich sup- 

 ply of nectar for the bees during the drouth 

 season.— C. L. Walton.] 



Continued Drouth. 



No rain yet. We never experienced such a 

 drouth. Bees may get enough to winter on. 

 E. T. Flanagan-. 

 St. Clair Co., III., Aug. 30. 



Season In North Carolina— Dollar 

 Queens. 



This has been the wettest and driest season 

 I ever saw. Up till July 1 it rained nearly all 

 of the time. Then there was a drouth for 

 nearly five weeks, so we have had a short 

 honev season. The linden bloom commenced 

 to open about July 4, and was very rich in 

 nectar for about 15 or 20 days, then the sour- 

 wood coiumenced to yield nectar, and was 

 never better, until the rain cut it off, two 

 weeks ago. It has rained nearly every 

 day since. Some bees are in very good con- 

 dition. I never saw better prospects for a 

 fall crop ot honey, the fields and woodland 

 being covered with honey -yielding weeds. I 

 have taken only about 1400 pounds of fine 

 honey up to date, mostly extracted. I will 

 take more in Septemlier. if the- weather is 

 favorable. 



I want to say a few words in regard to 

 " dollar queens.'" In my opinion nothing 

 else has done as much harm to the bee-busi- 

 ness as this sale ot one dollar queens. They 

 are reared- for the trade, not for business. A 

 queen ought not only to be tested for purity, 

 but tor business in egg-laying, and that her bees 

 are honey-gatherers, before she is offered to 

 the public for business. If each queen had a 

 good guaranty for egg-laying, her bees for 

 honey-gathering and hardiness for wintering, 

 it would improve the bee-business more than 

 any other one thing that could be done, in my 

 opinion. Let us hear from some of our big 



