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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. 19, 1901 



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Red Clover Queens 



seasod, 15m pounds of 

 , one-third red clover 

 ; ^A doz., $4.w. Tested, 



We have obtained, thi 

 comb honey per coloni 

 honey. Untested. 75 cent 

 $l.tH>; ^4 doz., $5.50. 



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 trip, tickets good 15 days ; §16 00 for 

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 on American Club plan. Meals rang- 

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I UimM Honey For Sale | 



•<* ALL IN Rn-POtIND TIN CANS. ^- 



Alfalfa 

 Honey JV 



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be famous 

 "White Extracted 

 Honev gathered in 

 the great AlfaHri 

 regions of the Cem 

 ral West. It is ., 

 splendid honey, aii<l 

 nearly everybody 

 who cares lo eai 

 hoaey at all can'i 

 get enough of the 

 Alfalfa extracted. 



Basswood 

 HoneyJTdJ 





laden basswood blos- 

 voms. It has a 

 stronger flavor than 

 Alfalfa, and is pre- 

 ferred by those who 

 like a distinct flavor 

 in their honev. 



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, 7'z cents per pound. Basswood Honey, yi 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 



ABSOLUTELY PURE HOIMEY 



The finest of their kinds produced in this country. 



^5 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 honey of ray 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 the 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 vou is better suited than the honeys of more ^" 



:^ marked llavor, according to my taste. C. C. Millkk. fc 



;^ McHenry Co., 111. «• 



:< Order the Above Honey and then Sell It. ^. 



i^ 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 honej' and work up a demand for it almost anywhere. ^| 



i^ QEORQE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, III. *; 



on Ihem. Sweet clover is our (jreat staple lor 

 surplus honey. It grows in jrreat abundance 

 here along the roaclways. railroad right;,' of 

 way, and around our stone (|uarries. 



From reports. I Ijelieve the average honey 

 <rop will be 50 poiHi'ls per colony. One bee- 

 man reports an average of 100 pounds from 36 

 colonies. Also another has two colonies that 

 have produced l.iO and 175 pounds each, re- 

 spectively. 



Let the honey-producers plant the white 

 and yellow sweet clover in their vicinity, and 

 they will have to do nu fall feeding to winter 

 their bees. We average one super of honey 

 from heartsease in the fall. " Kankakee." 



Kankakee Co., 111.. Aug. 28. 



Bees Working on Buckwheat. 



.My bees are rolling in the honey now from 

 buckwheat. I got more clover honey this 

 season than ever, .\lmost all colonies that 

 didn't swarm tilled two supers, and most that 

 swarmed filled one; and I will get two more 

 from the most of them yet, if nothing hap- 

 pens to the buckwheat. My bees started the 

 second swarming fever this week. I have 

 been returning the swarms. (i. W. Bei.l. 



Clearfield Co., Pa., .\ug. '-'S. 



An Expepienee in Transferping. 



Ei>iToK York: — I recenth wrote to know 

 it you could supply me with some back num- 

 bers of the American Bee Journal, and you 

 kindly sent nie a few. Since becoming a sub- 

 scriber I find them useful, and every bee- 

 keeper should have one of the Emerson 

 binders to keep from misplacing them as I 

 did. 



For instance, to show ibeir usefulness, 1 

 wanted to unite, and at the same time trans- 

 fer two weak colonies from boxes or " gums " 

 to movable-frame hives, and I readily found 

 advice by looking over some of the back 

 numbers, and went to work. It being ray 

 first lob, I began about as timidly as a young- 

 surgeon would when amputating his first 

 limb from a human being. However, I made 

 a coijiplete success, which I will tell for the 

 benefit of beginners like myself. 



I first moved one of the box-hives close 

 lieside the other to be united, several days 

 beforehand, tor them to get acquainted with 

 all the surroundings before transferring them. 

 When the proper time arrived I went to work 

 as follows: 



First. I prepared a table by placing a wide 

 lioard over a flour-barrel aiul folding a crocus 

 sack several times over the table, and on top 

 of that I spread a paper. Of course I had 

 provided myself with all the necessary tools, 

 etc. — a honey-knife, narrow chisel, and the 

 clamps — made l)y tying two narrow strips of 

 thin wood together at one end, and leaving 

 the other two open to be tieil after placing 

 them around the comb. 



Xext, I moved both hives back about two 

 feet and placed a movable-frame hive about 

 half way between the location of the two box- 

 hives. 



1 next opened one ot the hives and took out 

 a comb and fastened it in a frame of the new 

 hive, having wired the brood-frames first, and 

 then cut the combs to fit into the fratues the 

 best I could; and then the wire on the under- 

 side holding the combs till I could fasten the 

 clamps. 



In wiring my ftanies I jilaired the wire to 

 one edge of the frames instead of placing it 

 in the center. This gives room for the comb 

 to rest well in the frame, which I find much 

 better than to have it in the center. 



1 took pains to put the brood in the center 

 of the hive. I firsi used up all the comb ot 

 one l)Ox-hive, and then Ijrushed the bees in 

 front of the new hive, and they soon ran in. I 

 then opened the other box-hive and went 

 through the same process, by using up first the 

 best and fullest cuuibs. Kemember, I brushed 

 the bees utf of the rombs ba»'U into the old 

 hive until 1 completed the first box-hive, and 

 after beginning on the second hive I brushed 

 the bees off of the combs into the new hive, 

 and by the time I used the last comb of the 

 second hive I had nearly all the bees in th» 



