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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 24, 19i 1. 



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 Device Free.... 



The MoNETTE Queen-Clipping 

 Device is a fine thm^ for use in 

 catching and clipping Queens 

 wings. We mail it for 25 cents; 

 or will send it FREE as a pre- 

 mium for sending us ONE NEW 

 subscriber to the Bee Journal ror 

 a year at $1.00; or for $1.10 we will 

 mail the Bee Journal one yeai 

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GEORGE W. VORK & COMPANY, 



Chicago, IlL 



THE NICKEL PLATE ROAD 



■will sell tickets each Tuesday, Thurs- 

 day and Saturday during- October to 

 Buffalo Pan-American Exposition and 

 return, at Sb.uO, good in coaches, re- 

 turn limit S days from date of sale. 

 Tickets with longer limit at slightly 

 increased rates. Three through trains 

 daily. Chicago Passenger Station, Van 

 Buren St. and Pacific Avenue. City 

 ticket office, 111 Adams St., Chicago. 

 , 36— 41A4t 



are freiiuently seen there, but never a honey- 

 bee, although my apiary is within a few rods 

 of there. 



J. A. McDonald may refer to some other 

 variety of the vetch, or his location may 

 modify the length of the tubes of the blos- 

 soms. I think the vetch I have produces 

 nectar, but the bees I have are unable to 

 reach it. However, as I have recently pur- 

 chased a long-tongued queen I am in hopes I 

 can make a more favorable report for the 

 vetch in a year or two. There are still a few 

 vetch blossoms to be found, and I send you 

 two herewith, and a spray of the leaves: also 

 an alfalfa blossom for comparison. 



It has been a poor honey season here, no 

 surplus to speak of. J. W. Steele. 



Merced Co., Calif.. Oct. ". 



The Mulbeppy for Bees. 



When we wrote before we had taken off 

 •Mil pounds of honey, and thought we would 

 have about 150 pounds more. When we took 

 it off we had 500. making 1000 pounds in all, 

 from 11 colonies, spring count. 



I .see (luite a good deal in the American Bee 

 .Journal about the mulberry for bees. I think 

 if we had nothing else for them but mulber- 

 ries we would never get any honey. We never 

 see bees working on the mulberry only when 

 they can't find anything else to do, then they 

 will work on the white mulberry a little. 



Dr. Peiro said, oo page 605, we should in- 

 sert cuttings in July or August. If we were 

 to do that here, it would be very few trees we 

 would get. We have hundreds of mulberry 

 trees, and have bushels of berries every year. 

 I bought a package of seed for 10 cents, and 

 from these I raised 500 trees. I think this is 

 the cheapest way to get mulberry trees. You 

 can buy one-year-old trees from the nursery 

 for about -?3.00 a 1000. There are male and 

 female trees, and when they blossom the bees 

 will work on the male trees, and get pollen 

 from the blossoms, but those don't have any 

 berries. If Dr. Peiro can find any cheaper 

 way to get mulberry trees, we would like to 

 hear from him again. R. Chinn. 



Dixon Co.. \ebr., Oct. 4. 



Quoting the Honey Market. 



I wish to enter a protest against the state- 

 ment made in the market report from Omaha 

 and from Kansas City, and signed " Peycke 

 Bros." They say Colorado and Ctah shippers 

 are offering honey for 10 cents per pound, 

 and in the Bee Journal of Aug. 22, at A2.40 

 lier case. Xow, as a matter of fact, the 

 Honey-Producers' Association of Denver have 

 lieen jjniiiiiy $2.~b per case all the fall, and 

 Peycke Bros, knew it, for their man has been 

 at Denver and called at the Association 

 rooms. Such statements are not only an in- 

 jury to the bee-keepers here, but all over the 

 country, as having a tendency to lower the 

 price of honey. 



Peycke Bros, say in the same report that 

 honey is selling in Kansas City for 16 to 17 

 cents per pound. Is not 6 to 7 cents per 

 pound a pretty good profit I 



We look to the American Bee Journal to 

 help the bee-keepers, not to injure them, and 

 certainly such a report does Injure them. 



"COLOKAUO." 



[The foregoing was not sent us for publica- 

 tion, but as we have not used the writer's 

 name, we think he will not object to its 

 appearance. 



We certainly do not want our market col- 

 umns to injure producers, and are indeed glad 

 that " Colorado " has written to us. We 

 imagine that the " 10 cents " referred to was 

 an error on the part of " Peycke Bros." Sup- 

 pose we invite them to explain the matter. — 

 Editor. 1 



1901 — Bee-Keepers' Supplies! 



We I an furnish you with The A. 1. R,,ot Go's 

 poods at wliolesale or retail at their prices. We ran 

 save you freitjht. and snip promptly. .Mnrket price 

 paid tor heeswH.x. tfend for our 191.U catalog. 

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mm is often enough to d" some thlnprs.lt'sof ten eiioupll 

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Standard Bred Queens. 



Acme of Perfection. 



Not a Hybrid Among Them. 



inPROVED STRAIN GOLDEN ITALIANS. 



World-wide reputatioa. 75 cts.each; 6 for $4.00. 



Long^Tongued 3«Banded Italians 



bred from stock whose tong^ues measured 25- 

 100 inch. These are the red clover hustlers of 

 America. 



75c each, or 6 for $4.00. Safe arrival guaran- 

 teed. Fred W. Muth & Co. 



Headquarters for Bee-Keepers' Supplies, 

 S.W. Cor. Front and Walnut Sts 

 Catalog on application. Cincinnati, O. 



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HONEY-JARS 



with patent air-ti^ht stoppers. 

 Cheapest and best. Shipped from New York at 

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This Emerson stiff-board Binder with cloth 

 back for the American Bee Journal we mail for 

 but 60 cents; or we will send it with the Bee 

 Journal for one year— both for only $1.40. It is 

 a fine thing to preserve the copies of the Jour- 

 nal as fast as they are received. If you have 

 this '* Emerson " no further binding- is neces- 

 sary. 



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 r the money invested than any 

 ler business; that anybody may 

 Ike a success of it without long 

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 itdok tells just why, and a hundred other thin grs you 

 sh.aild know. We mail the book for 10 cents. Write 

 to-.ia,-. We have 115 yards of thoroughbred poultry. 

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