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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 7, 1901 



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25 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 



■^ This is a good time 

 wjrjV to send in your Bees- 

 Vp VJS wax. We are paying 

 ^& 25 cents a pound — 

 CASH— for best yel- 

 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. 



1901 — Bee-Keepers' Supplies I 



We ran furnish you with The A. I. R"Ot Co'8 

 goods at wholesale or retail at their prices. We can 

 save you freipbt. and ship promptly. Market price 

 paid for beeswax. Send for our !9<tl catalog. 

 M. H. HUNT & SON, Bell Branch. Wayne Co.. Mich 



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, improved and original Binffbam Bee-Smoker. 

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i uimM Honey For Sale i 



1^ ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. ^[ 



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Alfalfa 

 Honey JTtJ 



Thisis thefamoii'i 

 White E.xlractf. 

 Houev gathered i 

 the great Alfall 

 regions of the Cen 

 ral West. It is 

 splendid honey, an 

 nearly everybod 



honey at all c; 

 get enough of 

 Alfalfa e.\tracte 



Basswood 

 Honey J/c 



This is the well- 

 l<nown light-colored 

 lioney gathered from 

 the rich, nectar- 

 ladeu basswood blos- 

 soms. It has a 

 stronger Haver 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,'2 cents per pound. Basswood Honey, )4 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 HONEV 



The finest of their kinds produced in this country. 



Read Dr. Miller's Testimony on Alfalfa Honey: 



I've just sampled the honey 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 

 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 in any kind of hot 

 drink, where one prefers the 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. Miller. 



McHenry Co., 111. 



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. 



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



potash salts in sii(,'ar from beet which do not 

 occur in those from suffar cane. Leather and 

 lieefsteak have chemically the same composi- 

 tion, but there is a diflerence between them. 

 Thos. W.if. Cowan. 



It may be possible, as Mr. Cowan suggests, 

 that the humid climate of England may have 

 something to do with the matter. It it is not 

 too much trouble I should like to have him 

 give me the address ot the cannery to which 

 he refers — not that I in the least iiuestion his 

 word, but because I should like to get a de- 

 tailed statement from them, explaining why 

 their experience with beet sugar has not been 

 satisfactory. 



California vs. Australia for Honey. 



Why tliere is so much more honey produced 

 in California than Australia, and why a much 

 larger number of hives can be kept in one 

 place there than in Australia — In Australia 

 the highest mountain does not reach S.llOt) 

 feet, while in California they attain an alti- 

 tude of from 16,000 to 18,000 feet. The white 

 sage of the valleys precedes the black sage of 

 the canyons, and the bees commence working 

 in the valleys and then gradually Hy higher 

 up as the blossoms climb the mountain sides. 

 It gives a much longer honey season than in 

 regions not so mountainous. There is an- 

 other fact that greatly extends the period of 

 bloom in California — many flowers, like the 

 white sage, are in long racemes which bloom 

 centrifugally, that is, the outside flowers, or 

 the lower howers, blossom earlier than the 

 upper. This, of course, greatly prolongs the 

 period of bloom, and, consequently, the honej- 

 season. — The Australian Bee-Bulle!in. 



Tarred Paper for Packing. 



Last winter I had two colonies, each in a 

 ten-frame dovetailed hive, with a half-story 

 full of saw-dust over the enameled mat, and 

 the whole hive from the under edge of cover 

 to the ground surrounded by a single thick- 

 ness of tarred paper. This was secured by 

 strips of wood tacked around where the paper 

 lapped. The entrance, ot course, was left 

 open. The results were all that could be de- 

 sired. The two colonies wintered perfectly, 

 were strong in bees, stores sound and combs 

 dry, and were the first to have supers put on. 

 So well pleased am I with the results that I 

 shall try the experiment on a larger scale this 

 fall. 



The tarred paper is virtually air-tight, at 

 least it is wind and water proof ; but when 

 the sun shines on it its blackness causes it to 

 absorb much heat. I often saw bees at the 

 entrances of these hives when none could be 

 found stirring in any ot the others, and dur- 

 ing the winter months I began to fear that 

 the results would be disastrous, but they were 

 quite the contrary. 



Of course, this is only with two hives for 

 one winter, and it is not safe to put too much 

 dependence on the method until it has been 

 more extensively tried. — A. C. Miller, in the 

 American Bee-Keeper. 



Uniting Bees for Wintering. 



A friend inquires of G. M. Doolittle as to 

 the best way to unite two or more weak colo- 

 nies for wintering. The following conversa- 

 tion upon the subject is given in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture, Doolittle being the first speaker: 



'' Well, I will tell you of a plan I have used 

 successfully for a score or more of years. The 

 first thing to do is to place an empty hive 

 where you wish a colony to stand; and if you 

 can allow that to ije where the stronger of the 

 weak colonies is now standing, so much the 

 l^etter, as in this case the bees from this one 

 will not have any desire to go to any other 

 place, as this is where they have marked their 

 old home." 



" But how can I set an empty hive there 

 when the stand is already occupied?" 



" If you do this work as you should, oa 

 some day when the bees are not fiying, and 

 yet when it is not cold enough to chill bees 

 generally, say on some cloudy day, or near 

 sundown, when the mercury stands at from. 



