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AMERICAN BEE lOURiVAL 



Oct. 31, 1901. 



Great Coiiibinat ioD Sub scription Offers. 



Combination and concentration in business are the mag-ic watchwords of 

 the age in which we live. Why should it not be applied to the matter of sub- 

 scriptions to magazines and periodical literature in general ? We believe it is a 

 wise move, especially when it is in the line of economy for the reading public. 

 Now, if we can be the means of saving our subscribers several dollars a year on 

 their reading matter, and at the same time help them to the best literature pub- 

 lished to-day, we shall feel that we are doing a good thing, indeed. 



We have entered into an arrangement whereby we can furnish the follow- 

 ing excellent periodicals at greatly reduced prices : 



Jieflular 



Review of Reviews $2.50 



Current Literature 3.00 



New Eng-land Magazine 3.00 



Leslie's Weekly 4.00 



North American Review 5.00 



THE DOLLAU PAPERS. 



Cosmopolitan Magazine 1.00 



Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly 1.00 



The Household 1.00 



Good Housekeeping 1.00 



The Designer 1.00 



Success 1.00 



PLEASE NOTICE that in all combinations Success and the American Bee 

 Journal must be included. 



Here is our List of Liberal Offers : 



American Bee Journal and Success 



with any one of the above dollar magazines .¥2.50 



with any two o£ the above dollar magazines 3.00 



with any three of the above dollar magazines \ \ 3.50 



with the Review of Reviews (new) \\ 3.00 



with Current Literature (new) 3!oO 



with New England Magazine 3^00 



with Review of Reviews (new) and any ««<■ of the dollar magazines 3!50 



with Leslie's Weekly 3 75 



with Review of Reviews (new) and Leslie's Weekly i.7b 



with North American Review (new) and Review of Reviews (new) .'...'..'...'.'.....'. 5^00 



pS~ If a renewal subscription is wanted for the Review of Reviews, Curreut 

 Literature, or the North American Review, add $L00 for each renewal subscrip- 

 tion to the combination prices named above. On all the other combinations a 

 renewal counts the same as a new subscription. 



pS" No foreign subscribers can take advantage of these combination oflFers. 

 We shall be pleased to have our readers examine carefully the above list, 

 and send us their subscriptions. Address, 



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Garden of Eden Was Irrigated. 



When God made man and appointed him His most perfect condi- 

 tion He placed him on a piece of land watered by irrigation. Farm- 

 ing- by irrigation still remains the most scientific and successful. 

 With control of the water-supply the element of chance is completely 

 eliminated, crops are sure, larger, and of better quality and com- 

 mand higher prices. The most successful and profitable farms in 

 the United States are irrigated, SO bu. of wheat, 100 bu. of oats, 300 

 bu. of potatoes, 5 tons of alfalfa per acre per year are regularly pro- 

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UNDER THE WILSON PLAN 



such farms can be had for little monev on easy terms, possessing the 

 retjuisite of Abundance of Water, Rich Soil, Home Markets, Good 

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We share profits with those who can advance cash for land. 

 Profits large; uo risk. 



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JAS. W. WILSON. ManuKer. riBasB meilUon iiee jounij.! when wntlnp,. 



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Better Report this Year. 



I have a better report for the season of IStOl 

 than for 1899 and 1900. The bees came 

 through in very poor shape, short of stores 

 and bees, half of the colonies with practically 

 nothing; but they built up in June nicely, 

 making up my loss in winter, and storing 

 about 'Si) pounds of surplus honey, spring 

 count; and all hives were well filled for win- 

 ter with good honey, and nearly all colonies 

 had young queens. C. H. Chittenden. 



Middlese.x Co., Conn., Oct. 16. 



Honey a Light Yield. 



The season here was good until the drouth 

 set in July 10, when the excessive hot weather 

 cut the (low short. The dr.vness of the air 

 has caused the honey to be of heavy body and 

 flneijuality. I started with IS good colonies 

 in the spring, increased to 24, and have taken 

 off ,5.t0 pounds of comb honey — about 30 

 pounds to the colony. It is a rather light 

 yield, a little above an average with my neigh- 

 bors. Bees are in good condition tor winter. 

 JoHN Cline. 



Lafayette Co., Wis., Oct. 23. 



Crop Not as Good as Expected. 



The honey crop is not as good as was ex- 

 pected by the bee-keepers of this section. 

 With a late, wet spring the bees did not 

 swarm very early, and, therefore, were not 

 ready to catch the first honey-flow. However, 

 the basswood honey was a better crop than 

 last season, at least in some parts of Pennsyl- 

 vania. Buckwheat honey was almost a fail- 

 ure this season, there being very rainy 

 weather at the time it was in bloom. I find a 

 good sale for comb and extracted honey. 

 Bees are in fine condition for winter. 



W. H. Heim. 



Lycoming Co., Pa., Oct 14. 



Poop Year for Honey. 



This has been a very poor year for honey on 

 account of the drouth, but I think most of 

 the bees are well fixed for winter. I started 

 with 3 colonies, spring count, and increased 

 to 11, and got about 75 pounds of nice comb 

 honey. Our spring honey-How lasted only 

 about two weeks, then came the drouth; but 

 I think the fall flow will prove suffieient for 

 wintering. W. H. Ellis. 



Calhoun Co., Iowa, Oct. 12. 



Crop Nearly a Total Failure. 



Through smelter smoke, drouth, and grass- 

 hoppers the bee-industry in this county, as a 

 rule, has been nearly a total failure. I liave 

 56 colonies at Pleasant Green, where they 

 have hitherto always done well, but this sea- 

 son, owing to the grasshoppers eating the 

 crops off bare to the ground, 1 have not taken 

 off a pound of honey, and the bees are several 

 hundred pounds lighter — perhaps 10 to 15 

 pounds to each colony less than they were 

 last year. 



No. 1 comb honey is worth 13.00 per case, 

 and extracted is worth 6 to 7 cents a pound, 

 according to quality. The Omaha report of 

 Peycke Bros., in the .\ineriean Bee Journal, is 

 a bnrlesque as far as Utah is concerned. 



E. S. LOVEST. 



Salt Lake Co., Utah, Oct. 22. 



The Honey Crop and Prices. 



We note in the American Bee Journal of 

 Sept. 12 some dealers i|iiote Utah comb honey 

 at Ul cents for No. 1, and 9 to 91,, cents for 

 No. 2. This is a ini.stake. We have this sea- 

 son a iiuarter of a cnip of what it was last 



