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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 10, 1901. 



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low, upon its receipt, or 27 cents in trade. Impure wax not taken at any price. 

 Address as follows, very plainly, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, 111. 





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 the round trip good 20 days. Three 

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 price from 35 cents to SI. 00. Address 

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I umm Honey For sale i 



vS ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. ^I 



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Alfalfa 

 Honey JTiiJ 



This is the famous 

 White Extracted 

 Honey gathered in 

 the great Alfalfa 

 regions of the Cent- 

 ral West. It is a 

 splendid honey, and 

 nearly everybody 

 who cares to e a l 

 honey at all can'l 

 get enough of the 

 Alfalfa extracted. 



Basswood 

 HoneyJ?!^ 



Thi! 



the 



light-colored 

 honevgathered from 

 the'rich. nectar- 

 laden basswood blos- 

 soms. It has a 

 stronger flavor than 

 Alfalfa, and is pre- 

 ferred bv those who 

 like a distinct flavor 

 in their honey. 



ell- 5f: 



iS Prices of Alfalfa or Basswood Honey: ^ 



15 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, }i cent more per ^ 



:S pound than Alfalfa prices. Cash must accompany each order. \ou can ^ 



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



j$ This is all 5"' 



:$ ABSOLUTBLY PURE HONEY g 



:^ The finest of their kinds produced in this country. ^| 



.stead of there beiny: from 25 to 30 pounds of 

 honey left in the brood-nest, -which he does 

 not -want there, that amount all goes into the 

 supers, where he does want it, and where he 

 can eommand the very best market price 

 obtainaljle. When I asked 'Mr. Burt if it was 

 not desirable to have honey in the brood-nest, 

 he said it was not. aceording to his practice. 

 " I prefer," he said, " to sell my honey, what 

 I do get, at 12 and 15 cents, and then buy 

 syrup at 3 or 4 cents; and I not only make a 

 good trade, but I give the bees a much better 

 feed. While good honey does very well most 

 winters, yet there are occasional ones when 

 the syrup-ted colonies come out much better. 

 No, sir," said he, very emphatically, '• I do not 

 ■n'ant any honey in the brood-nest in late 

 summer. I prefer to feed sugar syrup, for 

 then I h-now my bees have the very best food 

 for winter."— Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



j§ Read Dr. Miller's Testimony on Alfalfa Honey: S^- 



:^ I've iust sampled the hooey 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 my own product on ^_ 



iS 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 m any kind ol hot ^_ 



:S drink, where one prefers Iha 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 my taste. c. c. iviiLLKh. ^ 



1^ McHenry Co., 111. ^. 



^ Order the Above Honey and then Sell It. ^ 



^ We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce ^i 



r$ 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. ^ 



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



Some Points in Indoor Wintering. 



Some that are of interest are given by Mr. 

 Darling, in the Canadian Bee .Journal. Form- 

 erly great stress was laid upon the eovering^ 

 in winter, so that the right amount of upward 

 ventilation could be secured; but of late 

 many are coming to the conclusion that Mr. 

 Darling has reached, that it is not a matter 

 of special importance how the air is intro- 

 duced into the hive, only so there is enough 

 of it, and if plenty of good air can enter be- 

 low, the upper part may be as tight as a drum.- 

 Mr. Darling says: 



In regard to packing. I have used sawdust 

 and eorkdust. 1 have not tried wintering 

 outside at all ; I li.ve where it is too cold— too 

 near the North pole— but for years I took off 

 the propolized sheet and put on a cotton 

 cushion filled with sawdust or eorkdust (I 

 brought the sawdust from the sawmill and 

 the sash-factory ), and I fail to see very much 

 difference in their effect, only I thought the 

 sawdust from the sawmill was not quite as 

 warm, and the eorkdust is a little drier. 

 There is so much evaporation from bee.s that 

 if you take a little piece of lath and leave it 

 lying on top of the cushion, without anj- 

 cover ou at all, if you lift that piece of lath 

 up any time after it has been there a few- 

 hours, there will be a wet spot on that cush- 

 ion the size of that piece of lath. It nothing 

 touches the cushion it is dry all winter long, 

 and the sawdust is dry. Lift the cushion and 

 put your hand under it and it is warm and 

 eosy on top of the sheet, if there is a sheet 

 underneath. 



I had formerly tight bottom-boards, and 

 that is the reason I took off the propolized 

 sheet. Lately I have taken off the bottom- 

 board, left the propolized sheet on, and put 

 the cushion on ; that allows no moisture to 

 get through, but I raise up my hive at the 

 front— I don't like going to the back to let 

 them down— and I find that they winter just 

 as well and better than they did without the 

 propolized sheet, and with the bottom-board 

 tight there is no danger of there being any 

 dampness above, and my combs and bees are 

 not as damp as they were when the boards 

 were fastened. 



Queens Fertilized in an Upper Story. 



Our Mr. Wardell, the man who has charge 

 of our 700 colonies, has evolved a system of 

 having (|ueens fertilized in upper stories, that 

 is a perfect success. I do not speak of it be- 

 cause it may be new. but because it gives ex- 

 cellent results. He tried it to some exteiit 

 last year, and now, after having tested it 

 thoroughly the irlmlr sck.ioh with scarcely a 

 failure, we are pleased to recommend it. By 

 his plan he succeeds in getting three queens 

 fertilized in one upfier story at a time ; that 

 is to say, there may be three virgins, all of 

 which will be fertilized within the usual 

 time. The method is this: 



He takes an ordinary Langstroth upper 

 story, and divides it off lengthwise into three 

 bee-tight compartments of equal size. On 

 the under side of this story and a bee-space 

 below the frames he tacks a sheet of wire- 

 cloth. The partitions come in contact with 



