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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Dec. S, 19i 1. 



OUR NEW CATALOG, describing and lisUoj.' the FINEST LINE OF 

 BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES IN THE WORLD, will be ready about Ihe 

 lirst of the year. If you have not been receivinir a copy annually, send us 

 your name and address and one will be mailed you free. Prices will be 

 same as last season with the exception of the narrow, plain sections with 

 no bee-ways, which will be J.= cents per thousand less. 



G. B. LEWIS COMPANY, Watertown, Wis., U. S. A. 



Special Ag-eacy, C. M. Scott & Co., 1004 East Washington Street, 



Indianapolis, Ind. 



Excellent shipping facilities and very low freight rates for Southern and 



Eastern territories. 



Flease menuon Bee Journal "when ■writing 



26 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 



This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 



paid for Beeswax. T Es^-'P^ 



JT 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. 



ASTERN OLD MOTHER EXPERIENCE 



th poultry business. 



; you but 10 cents and 



Reliable Incubator & Brooder Co.. Box B-2. Quincy. Ills. 

 Please mention Bee Journal -when writing. 



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BEST- 



I Extracted Honeu For Sale i 



■^ ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. ^ 



Alfalfa 

 Honey JTd^ 



This is tbe famous 

 White Exlracte 

 Honey gathered i 

 the great Altai i 

 regions of the Ceii 

 ral West. It is 

 splendid honey, an 

 nearly ererybud 

 who cares to e a 

 honey at all can 

 get enough of th 

 Alfalfa extracted. 



Basswood 

 HoneyJ^c 



)wn light-colored 

 ley gathered from 

 e rich, nectar- 

 en basswood blos- 



I t 

 stronger flavor 

 Alfalfa, and is 

 ferred by those w 

 like a distinct fla 

 in their honey. 



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Prices of Alfalfa or Basswood Honey: 



A sample of either, by mail, 10 cents, to paj' 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 HOMEY 



The finest of their kinds produced in this country. 



Read Dr. Miller's Testimony on Alfalfa Honey: 



I've just sampled the honey 

 something of a heretic, to sell s 

 and then buy honey of you foi 

 honey of his own region, there's i 

 drink, where one prefers the more w 

 of alfalfa honey I have received f: 

 marked flavor, according to my fast 



McHenry Co., 111. 



u sent, and it's prime. Thank ynu. I feel that I'm 

 ral thousand pounds of honey of rav own production 

 y own use. But however loval one ought to be to the 

 no denying the fact that for use in any kind of hot 

 holesome honey to sugar, the very escelleut quality 

 rom you is better suited than the honeys of more 

 e. C. C. MiLLiiR. 



^ Order the Above Honey and then Sell It. > 



i.^ We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce ^ 



^ enough honey for their home demand this year, just order some of the 5 



^ 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. ^ 



!^ ^QEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, III. S. 



Please Jleutioii the Bee Journal I^^?rSsir?H... 



of the property of the soil whereon they are 

 found.*' 



IDENTITY. 



One of the chief difliculties in reclaiming- 

 bees is in the almost impossible identiticatioa 

 thereof. Many curious cases of doubtful or 

 disputed identity might be cited to illustrate 

 the singular tortuous resemblance between 

 bees, not only in their general appearance, 

 but also iu the strain or accidental mark. 

 Positive recognition of peculiar habits and 

 working of bees is too dilBcult to suffice to 

 prove their identity. Courts judicially recog- 

 nize photography as a proper means of iden- 

 titication of the thing in dispute; but there is 

 no case or record, so far as we^have been able 

 to discover, where a claimant has been able to 

 reclaim his bees by means of photography. 

 Neither can bees be identified or proven by 

 the concurrence of their several characteris- 

 tics. This proof is too remote, and the ques- 

 tion of identity is for the jury. The court 

 can not presume identity of bees. 



The exact character of the contract for the 

 carriage of animals has been the subject of 

 much judicial discussion. The prevailing 

 opinion, however, is that common carriers are 

 also insurers against all losses except those 

 resulting from the acts of God or the public 

 enemy, or from the peculiar nature of the 

 property carried. Though it may be optional 

 with railway companies whether they will 

 accept the full responsibility of trans- 

 porting bees, yet if they do so without any 

 express restriction, they are liable as common 

 carriers. But they may, for a less hire, agree 

 simply to transport bees, furnish ears, etc. ; 

 and if the shipper and owner of the bees 

 agrees to the lower rate, he can not hold 

 them as common carriers. For a given re- 

 ward they proffer to become his carrier; for a 

 less reward they proffer to furnish the neces- 

 sary means that the owner of the bees may be 

 his own carrier (Kimbal vs. Ry. Co. "iS Vt., 

 247). In the case of Hirly v. Beemar, .54 Fed. 

 R., 718, the United States court held that, 

 when a vessel struck a hidden obstruction 

 and tilled with water, and a cabin containing 

 bees tioaled to the shore, but no effort was 

 made by the master to use care in saving 

 them, the steamboat line was held liable for 

 damages to them, though the vessel was in- 

 sured and was abandoned to the underwriters 

 as a total loss. 



BEES THE SUB.IECT OF LARCEST. 



Bees in the possession of the owner are the 

 subjects of larceny, says the Indiana Supreme 

 Court in State v. Murphy, S Blackf.. 498. 

 Further, the court holds that, when bees are 

 in the possession of any person, they are the 

 subject of larceny. Much depends upon 

 what constitutes possession. Generally it is 



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REDUCED RATES FOR CHRISTHAS 

 AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. 



The Nickel Plate Road will sell tick- 

 ets Dec. 24, 25, and 31, 1901. and Jan. 

 1, l'i02, at rate of a fare and one-third 

 for the round-trip, to any point located ■ 

 in Central Passenger Association ter- 

 ritory, good returning to atid including 

 Jan. 2, 1902. Pulltnan service on all 

 traitis. Individual Club Meals rang- 

 ing in price from 35 cents to SI. 00, 

 served in Nickel Plate dining-cars. 

 Address, John Y. Calahan, General 

 Agent, 111 Adams St., Chicago, for par- 

 ticulars. Depot, Van Buren St. and 

 Pacific Avenue, on the Elevated Loop. 

 45— 49A4t 



