Sept. 12, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOUENAL 



587 



LanQstroilion.- 



Tll6f10I16yB66 



Revised by Dadant — 1900 Edition. 



This is one of the standard books on 

 bee-culture, and oug-ht to be in the 

 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- 

 known to all the readers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal — Chas. Dadant & Son. 



Each subject is clearly and thoroly ex- 

 plained, so that by following the in- 

 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 $1.75 ; 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 & 146 Erie Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



1901— Bee-Keepers' Supplies! 



We ran furnish you w[th The A. I. Root Go's 

 goods at wholesale or retail at their prices. We can 

 save you freiKht. and ship promptly. Market price 

 paid tor beeswax. Send for our lyol catalog. 

 M. II. U0iNT & SON. Bell Branch. Wayne Co.. .Mich 



$13 to Buffalo Pan-American and Re- 

 turn-$i3, 



via the Nickel Plate Road, daily, with 

 limit of 15 days ; 20-day tickets at $16, 

 and 30day tickets at $21 for the round 

 trip. Through service to New York 

 and Boston and lowest available rates. 

 For particulars and Pan-American 

 folder of buildings and grounds, write 

 John Y. Calahan, General Agent. Ill 

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guas in this respect. Don't understand nie 

 to mean that there are no good riueeiis — 

 there is about one j;ood one in 50, aceordini^' 

 to my experience. I have bou^'lil more than 

 that numlier. iinii only one was of any value 

 wortli inentitMiiriL^. Bees in a state of nature 

 d(jn"I have tln-ir dnllar qtieens but one season, 

 for they fall by the wayside the first winter, 

 as only the titiest survive. 



I have been in the bee-business for .33 years, 

 and have learned some things, but there is 

 much to learn yet. A. J. McBride. 



Watauga Co,, N. C. 



Too Dry fop Honey-Ppoduetion. 



I think the .American Bee .Journal is splen- 

 did, and I don't think I could do without it. 

 We have but little honey in north Texas this 

 year, as it has been too dry. I have 20 colo- 

 nies, and will have to feed some of Ihem. 



B. F. T1N11LE. 



Dallas Co., Tex., Aug. 2S, 



Mulbeppy Pulp for Bees. 



Yes, as Dr. Miller says, page .5"i0, "It would 

 jirobahly take a good deal to make old bee- 

 keepers believe that bees could store good 

 honey from the pulp of any fruit.'' 



Then, again, some of them would be suffi- 

 ciently industrious and investigating, when, 

 lo ! they may learn that pulp from white mul- 

 berries, containing, as they do, 87 percent 

 sugar, would reveal mysteries in honey-gath- 

 ering that would astound thein ' 



We live in an age chock-full of surprises, 

 and old bee-keepers may as well wake up to 

 the fact before their children urge it upon 

 their attention. 



And as the experiment of planting a hun- 

 dred cuttings of white mulberry would be 

 hardly a dollar, would not such a beloved 

 seer in bee-lore — our esteemed Dr. Miller — do 

 a worthy act to employ his benign inlluence in 

 encouraging his readers at least to attempt a 

 venture that at its worst would leave bee- 

 keepers in possession of delightful shade- 

 trees, serviceable timber, and delicious fruit .' 



I know that the best impulses of his good 

 heart strongly tend in this direction, but 

 years of observation have compelled sober 

 discretion, even to timidity and distrust, I 

 fear. 



But let courage and hope, yea. faith also, 

 lead on to untried but reasonable measures, 

 trusting, thereby, to develop resources hith- 

 erto unknown. It is to spirits possessing 

 these qualities we owe most beneficent dis- 

 coveries. Dk. Peiho. 



Against Zine Honey-Boards. 



It is not very often that I give my views on 

 the methods of manipulating bees, but as 

 each bee-man plods along the dusty road to 

 fortune, if he sees, or thinks he sees, some- 

 thing in the shape of a mote in his brother's 

 eye, he forthwith proceeds to pluck it out, or 

 at least feels he ought to do so. 



I do not use honey-boards. The queen has 

 the liberty of the hive. I do not use them 

 because they are in the way of the workers. 

 The field-bee comes in heavily loaded, tired 



Catnip Seed Free! 



We have ;i small quantity of Catnip 

 Seed vphich we wish to offer our read- 

 ers. Some consider catnip one of the 

 greatest of honey-yielders. 'We will 

 mail to one 'if our regular subscribers 

 one ounce o( 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 .Vmerican Bee Journal one 

 year — both for $1.30; or will mail an 

 ounce of the seed alone for 35 cents. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



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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 will mail you free an Un- 

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144 & 146 Erie St., 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



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