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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 31, 1901. 



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jrfjT j,V to send in your Bees- 



• % fi T"* W5 VjS wax. We are paying 



paid for Beeswax. ^ sisHiVr nlei 



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 St 146 Erie St., Chicago, 111. 



Buffalo Pan-American Tickets 



via the Nickel Plate Road, $13.00 for 

 the round trip good IS days ; $16.00 for 

 the round trip good 20 days. Three 

 daily trains with vestibuled sleeping- 

 cars. Meals in dining-cars, ranging in 

 price from 35 cents to $1.00. Address 

 John Y. Calahan, General Agent, 111 

 Adams St., Chicago. 38— 41A4t 



If you want the Bee-Book 



That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 



completely than any other published, 



send *1. 25 to 



Prof. A. J. Cook.Claremont, Cal., 

 " Bee=Keeper's Guide." 



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BEST- 



I E.xira6t6(l Honeu For Sal6 1 



ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. 



Alfalfa 

 Honey JTiiJ 



^ Th 



Whit 



is the famoti 

 ; E.xtractc 

 Honev gathered i 

 the great Alfalfa 

 regions of the Cen 

 ral West. It is 

 splendid ho 



rly 



5-bod 



honey at all can 

 get enough of tl 

 Alfalfa extracted. 



Bass wood 

 Honey J^<C 



This is the 

 known light-colored 

 honey gathered from 

 tbe rich, nectar- 

 laden basswood blos- 

 soms. It has a 

 stronger flavor than 

 Alfalfa, and is pre- 

 ferred by those who 

 like a distinct flavor 

 in their honey. 





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,'< cents per pound. Basswood Honey, Yz cent more per 

 pound than Alfalfa prices. Cash must accompany each order. You can 

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

 This is all 



ABSOLUTELY PURE HOMEY 



The finest of their kinds produced in this country. 



fS Read Dr. Miller's Testimony on Alfalfa Honey: ^ 



•^ I've iust sampled the honev 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 production ^• 



•3- and then buy honey of vou for my own use. But however loyal one ought to be to the &; 



•5 honev of his own region, there's no denying the fact that for use in any kind of hot ^■ 



•^ drinli where one prefers the more wholesome honey to sugar, the very excellent quality ^: 



•^ of alfalfa honey I have received from you is better suited thau the honeys of more ^; 



:£ marked flavor, according to my taste. C.C.Miller. ^ 



•^ McHenry Co., 111. ^r . 



• 3> Sto- 



^ Order the Above Honey and then Sell It. ^ 



■^ 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 honey and work up a demand for it almost anywhere. ^'. 



f5 QEORQE W. YORK & CO., 144 & m6 Erie St., Chicago, III. *; 



hive them. It is well to have several boxes, 

 and poles of different lengths. 



Caltionart Labels seldom cut much 

 flg-ure with freight handlers. They must be 

 very striking to attract attention. Mr. A. E. 

 Hoshal, of Ontario, has certainly chosen a 

 heading that will quite likely be read. Here 

 is the label that he uses on packages oT comb 

 honey when he ships them : 



DANGER! 



J3r MO.K'T UROP. 'I'liis Pack- 

 age Contains^ CO.nB IIO.>(K%', 



and it will I>e Krolteii if Uropped, 

 ISoiiglily Handled, or .Uoved in 

 a Dray or Wagon Witliout 

 Sprins'!$. 



Kindly I^ift llie Crate by the 

 Handles, and Set UoM'n Care- 

 tully. 



I suppose when the freight handlers read 

 the heading they think they have got hold of 

 dynamite or gunpowder, but when they read 

 on and find it is only sweet and harmless 

 honey, the question is, it they will not be 

 disgusted at the ruse that has led them to read 

 the laljel, and get back at the shipper by 

 giving the package an extra tumble. 



Politeness in Business is a great factor. 

 When visiting at Mr. F. A. Gemmill's, in On- 

 tario, Mrs. Gemmill's mother, an old Scotch 

 laily, was telling rae how well a neighbor 

 across the way was succeeding as a florist, while 

 his predecessor had been compelled to sell out 

 for lack of patronage. I expressed my sur- 

 prise, and asked how it was that the first 

 man had failed. "He hadna' the sense to 

 speak gentle to the people," was the compi'e- 

 hensive reply. Then she went on to explain 

 that he waited upon customers with a con- 

 descending air, as though he were bestowing 

 a great favor. It he had more flowers than 

 orders, or the flowers were beginning to fade, 

 he would never give one to a neighbor, but 

 ■would throw them away — even burying them 

 in the ground that they might not Ije picked 

 up. The man who now has charge of the 

 business delights in giving to neighbors any 

 flowers for which he has no sale. Such 

 flowers are often sent to the hospital. These 

 things become noised abroad, and beget a 

 kind feeling for the giver. 



Bee-keepers can do much to keep their cus- 

 tomers by having the sense to '• speak gen- 

 tle"' to them. Many an order is lost (and 

 many a one secured) just from the character 

 of the letter sent in reply to an inquiry. I 

 don't believe in fulsome flattery, nor in a ser- 

 vile prostration of one's self at the feet of a 

 customer, but there is a pleased politeness 

 that lowers no one's self-respect, yet sends 

 every one awaj' a pleased customer. 



Keep More Bees.— For years bee-keepers 

 have been asking how to do lliinc/s, and the 

 matter of manipulation, hiving, supering, 

 extracting, wintering , etc., has been brought 

 to a high degree of perfection. Specialists 

 can better afford to turn their efforts in some 

 other direction than that of petty details. 

 Great success must be looked for in some 

 radical change. As I bring before my mind 

 man after man whom I have met on my Cana- 

 dian trip, I ask myself, " Which ones have 

 been the most successful ?" Invariably the 

 answer is forced upon me, " The ones that 

 have tbe most bees." It is a simple thing, 

 isn't it i 



Foundation is put into Heddon frames by 

 Mr. Miller, of Ontario, in the same way that 

 the Daisy puts starters into sections. There 

 is this difference, however, that there is some 

 difliculty with such a long strip, in getting it 

 in straight and exactly in the center of the 

 top-bar. To overcome this, the frames are 

 flrst wired, and when the foundation is put 

 in they are supported Ijy a tilting framework, 

 at a slight angle, so that the wires support 

 the foundation and l;eep it from toppling 

 over while the wax is cooling. If the foun- 

 dation does not strike the frames exactly 

 right, a straight edge is pressed against the 

 folindation. forcing it into position before 

 the wax sets. Afterwards the wire is im- 

 bedded. A stiff, upright wire is used in the 



