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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 26, 1901. 



Bee Books 



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Bees and Honey, or Management of an Apiary 

 for Pleasure and Profit, by Thomas G. New- 

 man.— It is nicely illustrated, contains 160 pag-es, 

 beautifully printed in the highest style of the 

 art, and baund in cloth, fold-lettered. Price, m 

 floth, "S cents; in paper, 50 cents. 



Langstroth on the Honey-Bee, revised by 

 Dadant.— This classic in bee-culture has been 

 entirely re-written, and is fully illustrated. It 

 treats of everything- relating to bees and bee- 

 keeping. No apiarian library is complete with- 

 out this standard work by Rev. L. L. Lang- 

 stroth— the Father of American Bee-Culture. I', 

 has 520 pages, bound in cloth. Price, St.2S. 



Bee-Keepers' Guide, or Manual of the Api?.ry, 

 bv Prof. A. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultu- 

 ral College.— This book is not only instructive 

 and helpful as a guide in bee-keeping, but is 

 interesting and thoroly practical and scien- 

 tific. It contains a full delineation of the anat- 

 omy and physiology of bees. 460 pages, bound 

 in cloth and fully iliustrated. Price, $1.25. 



Scientific Queen-Rearing, as Practically Ap- 

 plied, by G. M. Uoolittle.— A method by which 

 the very best of queen-bees are reared in per- 

 fect accord with Nature's way. Bound in cloth 

 and illustrated. Price, Sl.W. 



A B C of Bee-Culture, by A. I. Root.— A cyclo- 

 paedia of 400 pages, describing everything per- 

 taining to the care of the honey-bees. Contains 

 300 engravings. It was written especially for 

 beginners. Bound in cloth. Price, $1.20. 



Advanced Bee-Culture, Its Methods and Man- 

 agement, by W. Z. Hutchinson.— The author of 

 this work is a practical and entertaining writer. 

 You should read his book: 90 pages, bound in 

 paper, and illustrated. Price, 50 cents. 



Rational Bee-Keeping, by Dr. John Uzierzon. 

 —This is a translation of his latest German 

 book on bee-culture. It has 350 pages, bound in 

 paper covers, $1.00. 



Bienen-Kultur, by Thos. G Newman.— Thia 

 is a German translation of the principal portion 

 of the book'called " Bees and Honey." 100-page 

 pamphlet. Price, 25 cents. 



Bienenzucht und Honiggewinnung, nach der 

 neuesten methode (German) by J. F. Eggers.— 

 This book gives the latest and most approved 

 methods of bee-keeping in an easy, comprehen- 

 sive style, with illustrations to suit the subject. 

 50 pages, board cover. Price, 50 cents. 



Bee-Keeping for Beginners, by Dr. J. P. H. 



Brown, of Georgia.— A practical and condeust 

 treatise on the honey-bee, giving the best modes 

 of management in order to secure the most 

 profit. 110 pages, bound in paper. 



Bee-Keeping for Profit, by Dr. G. I,. Tinker. 

 —Revised and enlarged. It details the author's 

 *'new system, or how to get the largest yields of 

 comb or e.xtracted honey." 80 pages, illustrated. 



Apiary Register, by Thomas G. Newman. — 

 Devotes twt) pages to a colonv. Leather bind- 

 ing. Price, for So colonies, Si.OO; lor 100 colo- 

 nies, $1.25. 



Dr. Howard's Book on Foul Brood.— Gives the 

 McEvoy Treatment and reviews the experi- 

 ments of others. Price, 25 cents. 



Winter Problem in Bee-Keeping, by G. R. 

 Pierce.— Result of 25 years' experience. 30 cts. 



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Foul Brood, by A. R. Kohnke.— Origin, De- 

 velopment and Cure. Price, 10 cents. 



Capons andCaponizing, bv Dr. Sawyer, Fanny 

 Field, aud (.thers.-lllustrated. All about cap- 

 onizing fowls, and thus how to make the most 

 money in poultry-raising. 64 pages. Price, 20c. 



Our Poultry Doctor, or Health in the Poultry 

 Yard and How to Cure Sick Fowls, by Fanny 

 Field.— Kverythiii'j' about Poul'.ry Diseases and 

 their Cure. 64 pages. Pi ice, 20 cents. ^ 



Poultry for Market and Poultry for Profit, b? 

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5ize of Queen^RearinK Nuclei. 



Efforts have been made to use as small a 

 number of bees as possible in queen-rearing 

 nuclei from the time the joung queen 

 emerges until slie is laying, but it is possible 

 the waste of a larger number of bees is not so 

 great as might be supposed. Dr. Miller says 

 in (ileanings in Bee-t'ulture: 



The greatest part of the cost of rearing a 

 ■ meen has been considered the time occupied 

 in the nuoleils to get her to laying; and, lilie 

 others, I have made some effort toward seeing 

 how few bees might be successfully used in a 

 nucleus. But is not the cost of nuclei mag- 

 nified J If I am not mistaken, a colony with 

 a virgin queen will work just as vigorously 

 as one with a laying queen, and a field-ljee 

 will carry just as much nectar to a nucleus as 

 to a full colony. It that is correct, and if a 

 cell is given at the time of removing a laying 

 queen from a nucleus, then there will not be 

 more than two days when the nucleus will not 

 be in good storing condition, and when too 

 much honey is in a nucleus a full frame can 

 be exchanged for an empty one. Of course 

 there will be some loss from the larger pro- 

 portion of bees required to keep up the heat 

 in a small nucleus. But I suspect that the 

 gain from fewer bees in a nucleus is overrated. 



To Prevent Swarming. 



Mr. Doolittle says in Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture he is trying several plans, but has only 

 one which is as yet perfect enough to give 

 out. It is as follows : 



Give lots of room, with as many bait-sec- 

 tions as possible, so as to discourage early 

 swarming as much as you can. When you 

 think you can hold them from swarming no 

 longer, cage the queen. Now wait from Ul to 

 11 days, when you will shake the bees off 

 their combs so you are sure to see wery 

 i:iueen-cell started, and pull every cell off. 

 Now make a hollow plug to fit one end of the 

 cage the queen is in, and fill the hollow with 

 candy, such as is used in shipping queens, 

 having the plug about !}.< inches long, so the 

 bees will be about two days in eating out the 

 candy, and liberating the queen. This does 

 away with all desire for swarming from that 

 colony." 



Feeding Medicated Syrup to Bees. 



It is time to feed bees in the central and 

 northern States; and if feeding has to be 

 resorted to I would strongly urge medicating 

 all the syrup with the naphthol-beta solution. 

 Such a precaution becomes exceedingly nec- 

 essary just now when foul and black brood 

 have been extending their ravages in every 

 direction. The medicated syrup will not kill 

 the spores of either disease, but it will de- 

 stroy the bacilli as soon as the spores develoi> 

 into the active stage. 



Into an eight-ounce bottle (halt pint) empty 

 a one-ounce package of naphthol-beta in the 

 form of a fine while power. Pour in just 

 enough wood or common alcohol to dissolve 

 the powder, and till the bottle full. This 

 quantity of chemical in solution is just right 

 for 140 pounds of sugar dissolved in 14(1 

 pounds of water. To mix, put 140 pounds of 

 water in a conmion honey-extractor; then 

 add sugar gradually, dipperful by dipperful. 

 until there are about 140 pounds of sugar. 

 While the sugar is Ijeing added, keep turning 

 the handle of the extractor so there will be a 

 rapid agitation and thorough mixing. After 

 the sugar is all in, keep on turning the handle 

 until it is all dissolved, and, last of all, pour 

 in the naphthol-beta solution already referred 

 to. Stir this into the mixture thoroughly by 

 running the extractor for several minutes 

 longer. 



In handling the naphthol-beta solution, be 



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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 atid thoroly ex- 

 plained, so that by following the in- 

 structions of this book one cannot fail 

 to be wonderfully helpt on the way to 

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