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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Nov. 14, I'* 1. 



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25 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 





This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 



paid for Beeswax. T S»n -F't 



* 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, 



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That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 



completely than an v other published, 



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 " Bee=Keeper's Guide." 



Liberal Discounts to tbe Trade. 



An ELASTIC Elastic 



if^nut niorpsrttisfactorythan Elastic Pa^e Fence. 

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^ B£ST f^ 



I umm fioneu For sai6 i 



'.^ ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. ^ 



Alfalfa 

 Honey jr«^ 



This is the famous 

 White Extracted 

 Honey gathered in 

 the g-reat Alfalfa 

 regions of the Cent- 

 ral West. It is a 

 splendid honey, and 

 nearly everybody 

 who cares to eal 

 honey at all can't 

 get enough of the 

 Alfalfa extracted. 



Basswood 

 Honey JfiC 



This is the well- 

 known light-colored 

 honey gathered from 

 the rich, nectar- 

 laden basswood blos- 

 soms. It has a 

 stronger flavor than 

 Alfalla, and is pre- 

 ferred bv 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,i2 cents per pound. Basswood Honey, U 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 HONEY 



The linest of their kinds produced in this country. 



Read Dr. Miller's Testimony on Alfalfa Honey: 



I've just sampled tbe honey you sent, and it's prime. Thank vou. 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 loval 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 '' ' ■- . . - - 



marked flavor, according to my taste. 



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. 



!^ GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, III!" ^■ 



nearly all the drones, and making a hole 

 from -4 to 6 inches si|uare in the center of the 

 Ijottom-board, with wire-cloth nailed on both 

 sides, ihey keep cool and travel upward into 

 the sections. It there are many robber-bees 

 prowlingaround simply make small entrances. 

 Oscoda Co., Mich., Oct. 21. C. Ckask. 



Report for the Past Season. 



I have 'SS colonies at present. I wintered 

 18. The bees did well the forepart of the sea- 

 son, but it got too dry in .July, and has been 

 ever since. I sell my honey for 1.5 cents a 

 pound, and can sell all I have. I sell to the 

 consumer only. I will have about 1200 

 pounds this season. I have very good bee.s. 

 G. W. Kreamer. 



Audubon Co., Iowa, Sept. 1. 



White Snake-Root— Poor Season. 



What is the name of the enclosed flower ? 

 I think it is sweet clover. The bees work on 

 it, and as it is a very late bloomer it must be 

 valuable for honey. The first I have noticed 

 was this year. 



My bees have done very poorly — have not 

 as many colonies now as I had in the spring, 

 and from 50 I have not received enough 

 honey for home consumption. 



R. N. Grafton. 



Cherokee Nation, Ind. Ter., Oct. 22. 



[The flower in question is not the sweet 

 clover, but the white snake-root — Eupatorium 

 ageratoides — and belongs to the Composite 

 family, as the great majority of our late 

 flowers do. In previous reports we have 

 taken occasion to say that nearly all the com- 

 posite flowers produce honey to some extent, 

 and while we can give no definite reply as to 

 the quality of this particular species, yet, if 

 the bees take kindly to it, they are doing bet- 

 ter on it than they could elsewhere. — C. L. 

 Walton-.] 



Report for the Season of 1901. 



I put iix colonies into winter quarters last 

 fall, but some of them were weak last spring. 

 I increased to 12 colonies by dividing, besides 

 having some natural swarms, so that I non- 

 have 19 colonics in a tolerably good condition 

 tor winter. I got between 500 and 600 pounds 

 of first-class white clover comb honey, which 

 I can readily sell at the house for 15 cents 

 per i>ouud. 



I had two cases of drone-laying workers 

 this season, from queens that the bees reared 

 in the colonies I divided. I killed them, and 

 gave them other ones. I had one case of a 

 drone hatching out Of a good-looking queen- 

 cell; lam sure it was a drone, for while I 

 was examining that colony I killed it. I had 

 one colony that I made last spring by divid- 

 ing, thai has filled the hive and given me two 

 supers of honey, and now the third is all but 

 full. 



I am well pleased with the American Bee 

 Journal, and the information I have gotten 

 from it; I will not give il up as long as I 

 keep bees. James H. Kxotts. 



Preston Co., W. Va., Sept. 15. 



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a green bone ctitter. ^^ ^i^i^t 



The Adam' 



Send fi.r our Ulu-traltd fntalo 

 No. 9. before vou buy. Sent Fre 



W. J. ADAM, Jolict, Ills 



200*Egg Incubator 

 for $r2-8o 



I i,.*erfect in cnnstructioa and „ 

 faction Hatches evt-ry fertile H 

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