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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Nov. 28, 1901. 



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26 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 





This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 

 wax. We are paying 

 26 cents a pound — 

 CASH— for best yel- 

 low, upon its receipt, or 2S 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. 



Why Not Buy the Best? 



It costs DO more than iiift-nor styles. Wo clnirn that 



Adam's Green Bone Cutter 



Istbebest becanseit istheonly Ball Bearing maclime 

 on the market. It worksontlie shear principle, turns 

 easier, cuts faster and cleaner, and prepares the bone 

 In better shape than any other. Write atonce. 

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I uimm Honey For sale | 



•^ ALL IN An. POUND TIN CANS. ^Z 



ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. 



Alfalfa 

 Honey J^i^ 



This is the famous 

 White Extracted 

 Honey gathered in 

 the great Alfalfa 

 regions of the Ceni 

 ral West. It i^ a 

 splendid honey, ami 

 nearly every bud _v 



honey at all can'' 

 get enough of ilie 

 Alfalfa extracted. 



Basswood 

 Honey J/<^ 



This is the well- 

 known liyht-colored 

 bodey gathered from 

 the rich, nectar- 

 laden basswood blos- 

 soms. It has a 

 strong-er flavor than 

 Alfalfa, and is pre- 

 ferred bv those 

 like a distinct fl. 



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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, yi 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 HOIMEV 



The finest of their kinds produced in this country. 



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



.^K 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 ougrht to be to the ^; 



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



1^^ drink, where one prefers the more wholesome honey to sug^ar, 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 ^| 



i^ enough honey for their home demand this j'ear, just order some of the 5^ 



:^ above, and sell it. And others, who want to earn some money, can get ^; 



1^ this honey and work up a demand for it almost anywhere. ^." 



^ '^^QE0RQE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Cliicago, III. *; 



iD, and if ever a fellow felt helpless it was I. 

 Noticing the bees sucliinfj the snow al»ut the 

 entrances, I took the hint and made a rush for 

 the teakettle. I tempered some water and 

 put it at the entrances; those poor bees just 

 covered the entrances, crawling over each 

 other to get that water. In less than '20 min- 

 utes all were quiet. The weather remained 

 cold tor several days, but I lost no more bees. 

 Mr. Root may safely say it is not a disease, 

 but a condition, namely, young bees to car© 

 for, and water, one of the great requirements, 

 not available. It you have prepared your 

 bees properly, both as to food and shelter, yet 

 under the conditions I have mentioned you 

 will still have a fatal case o£ spring dwin- 

 dling. Therefore, the preventive would b» 

 plenty of stores — but!/ of Iwuey and water. 

 Pike Co., Ohio, Nov. 4. J. M. West. 



Hand-Pieking Drones. 



(Ill pat;e6Sl, .Mr. Doolittle tells about hav- 

 ing hand-piclied drones for best results, 

 " killing all which you think are not such as 

 you would desire."' It may l^e an easy thing 

 for Mr. Doolittle to decide just what are the 

 best drones, but a very hard thing for a 

 novice. Please have Mr. Doolittle inform us 

 how we are to decide which drones to kill and 

 which to save. LE.iRSEU. 



[In hand-picking drones I look first for 

 perfect development, and those under size 

 and imperfect in any way are killed. Next 

 I look to activity on the combs, Iwlieving 

 those sluggish in action and motion while on 

 the combs will be the same while on the 

 wing, and beget offspring of like import. 

 Next I look at their markings, and any vary- 

 ing to an unusual degree to either side of an 

 average are disposed of. It would seem 

 hardly necessary for me to say in conclusion, 

 though some beginners may not know it, that 

 drones are what are known as " commoners," 

 which means that any colony which will keep 

 their own drones will allow the drones from 

 other hives in the apiary to enter and be wel- 

 come. And thus it often happens that when 

 drones from other colonies are being driven 

 out, they will enter the colony having the 

 drones from our select, drone-reared queen; 

 ami, in hand-picking, these should be selected 

 out and killed. This can generally best be 

 done from their color or markings.— G. M. 

 Doolittle.] 



A Successful Wintering of Bees. 



This has been a very poor season for bees 

 in my locality. We had so much rain and 

 cold winds in the spring that the hees could 

 work but little on apple-ljloom. and when 

 that was over it kept right on raining, so that 

 farmers could not get in many spring crops; 

 so the summer has been a poor one for the 

 farmer as well as the bee-keeper. I sold all 

 but about lUO colonies last spring. I in- 

 creased them to 17S during the season, but 

 got very little honey— perhaps 450 or 500 

 pounds — nearly all from ulsike clover. It 

 rained so much that buckwheat did not yield 

 any honey to speak of. and it has been the 

 poorest season of the 12 that I have kept bees. 

 I was looking over an old diary to-day, 

 where I had kept a record of my bees, of 

 which the following is that of the past four 

 years: Dec. 2, 1S97, I put 190 colonies into 

 "winter quarters, and on March 23, 189S, took 

 out 189, losing one by smothering. Dec. 1, 

 1898, I put 204 colonies into" winter quarters 

 just as they were, with no feeding or uniting, 

 and April 7, 1899, took out 201. losing 3, one 

 by starvation, and two by dwindling down to 

 a handful each. 1 again sold all but about 90 

 colonies; and on Nov. '25, 1899, I put 120 col- 

 onies into a bee-house, talting out, April 7, 

 1900, the same number, with no loss. Nov. 

 17. 1900, 1 prepared 160 colonies tor winter, 

 all having enough stores for winter; and on 

 April 13. 1901, I took out 1,59 colonies, one 

 having played out through loss of the ciueen. 

 I sold again, and doubled up to about 100 

 colonies. 



Now, it any one who winters his bees above 

 the ground, can show a better record than 

 mine, I would like to hear from him. I have 

 read the American Bee .lournal for several 

 years, but do not remember seeing any men- 

 tion of our best bee-keepers making a success 



