30 



January, 1913. 



American Bae Journal 



of the Spanish-needle, as I have them by the 

 acre here, and one of the aster; here known 

 as .Npanish aster. It is fine for nectar We 

 have three varieties, but the above is the 

 i-ffi'' 'he third is a smaller aster, and has a 

 little different seed, and is not so good to 

 jiroduce nectar. 



I had a good honey-flow this season, my 

 home yard having produced about uoo 

 pounds of white clover honey and 600 pounds 

 ot t<panishneedle; also some smartweed 

 honey, which is fine. The Spanish-needle is 

 also fine, and as yellow as gold. 



W. D. Darby. 



[The above letters refer to some varieties 

 of Hilcns under the name of asters. We must 

 not confound the names by using popular 

 misnomers. Both asters and bidens belong 

 to the Composite family. Both yield honey. 

 The flowering yellow bidens may be called 

 aster, because its rays radiate as do those of 

 the aster, the latter name being derived 

 from the Greek word, which means " a star." 

 But asters have white, purple or blue rays, 

 while the bidens' blossom either has yellow 

 rays or is devoid of rays. There are dozens 

 of varieties of asters, in almost all kinds ot 

 soils, from the richest to the poorest] 



Do Bees Fly in a Straight Line? 



In answer to Dr. Miller's question. "Do 

 bees fly in a bee line?" lam quite sure my 

 bees donothnd their wayhome as Dr. Miller 

 suggests by memory of some route they have 

 traveled before. I have found, by close ob- 

 servation, that my bees come pretty near 



beelTn^'' "?'' °''^ ^S*""l '^' Straight as a 

 beeline. I mean by that, that their gen- 

 fan' ^^h'''''' IS straight. This part of Mon- 

 on al =!'Hi"'"''''j".^^' '^'■"?*' mountain ranges 

 L,^? ■ '^?^' ^"'^ ','"5 e'^es me a peculiar 

 ?nni anH'"i '■'^eard to atmospheric condi- 



Xii'^^Au^^S "" "^'^^' chance to study this 

 pnase of the bees 



hnT,'iv'"fl '""'"^F' ''■'^'■?' '" 'he height of the 

 honey^How, when it is perfectly still, not a 

 ^^•.%J^)ll °} ^f"" stirring, and being at an alti- 

 tude of 3500 feet, the air is quite rare, and 

 one can see at a great distance very easily, 

 the past season my bees were working 

 n^wi,°"f ' l°" ^ !"=''* of mustard half a mill 

 ??nrr^°Ki *" aP'ary- H was a solid mass of 

 yellovv blossoms when there was scarcely 

 , ? JJ f^ ^.'^^ '" bloom. I started from mv 

 jard afoot toward this held, and I could 

 hear a steady roar of bees all the way, and 

 could see great numbers of them in the air. 

 hv .h"» ?h' '*""'5 'hey were on the blossoms 

 by the thousands. This flow kept up for 

 ten days or two weeks. Just as it went out 

 ot bloom a good-sized field of alsike clover 

 came into bloom about a mile west of the 

 apiary. 



Now, did they go and come by the wa ~f 

 this mustard field in their flights to the 

 clover? Not a bit of it. I could follow them 

 by sight and sound straight to the clover I 

 was across the mustard field four or five 

 times during this flow, and there was not a 



. ?u'°i"^, /*^e" °'' heard on the way there or 

 at the field. 



Sometime after this quite a quantity of 

 sweet clover came into bloom about i"/ 

 miles east of the apiary, and the same" 

 thing was repeated. A bee-line is not a 

 straight line, but the course is straight. My 

 bees go and come to the fields in a line like 

 this. 



They would cross a straight line about 

 every three or four rods. The farthest point 



in the bee line to the straight line would be 

 eight or ten feet. Frank Morgan. 



Corvallis. Oreg.. Nov. 18. 



Wants, Exchanegs, Etc. 



[Advertisements in this department will 

 be inserted at 15 cents per line, with no dis- 

 counts of any kind . Notices here cannot be 

 less than two lines. If wanted in this de- 

 partment. you must say so w hen ordering. 



BEES AND QUEENS. 



hSS''°fT''.*^^l'^5'*.^ "'a' Produce5and6band 

 bees. Untested. $1.00; Tested, S3.00 



Robert Inghram, Sycamore. Pa. 



HONEY 



Bees and Queens from my New Tersev 

 ^''^IM r- , . J. H.M.Cook "^ 



lAtf 70 Cortland St.. New York City. 



Lmproved go den-yellow Italian queens for 

 4ll'A >eaut.iful hustling, gentle workers 

 1 A*!/""" P"" ''^•' E- ^- Lawrence 



'^'" Doniphan. Mo. 



h?pYf^r^^^'^^''°^%^ red-clover Italians, 

 tP=.»^ business; June i to Nov. 15. Un^ 

 each 5"?''"^- ?5<:i select. $1.00; tested. $1.25 

 IHa ^1'^ arrival and satisfaction guaran 

 teed. lAiy H. C. demons. Boyd. Ky. 



Golden and ?-band Italians, also gray Car- 

 niolan queens. Tested. $1,00 each: 3 or more 

 wc each. Untested, 7sc each; 3 to 6. 70c each- 

 6 or more, 65c each. Bees per lb. 81 25- nu- 

 clei per frame. $1.50. A discount on orders 

 booked 30 days before shipment. lAtf 



C. B. Bankston. Buffalo. Leon Co Tex 



XVe will requeen all our 2000 colonies this 

 spring. We offer the one-year old queens 

 removed from these hives at 40c each- 84 ^0 

 per dozen; 830 per hundred-delivered any 

 time before June 1. Your money back if not 

 satisfied. First come first served. Book or- 

 ders now. Spencer Apiaries Co. 



''*■'■ Nordhoff, Ca(if. 



Wanted— Comb and extracted honey, and 

 beeswax. Write us. Hildreth & Segelken 

 265 Greenwich St. New York City. 



Wanted— Comb, extracted honey, and 

 beeswax. R. A. Burnett & Co., 



6Ai2t 173 S. Water S t.. Chicago. 111. 



Honey for Sale— Clover honey of the 

 finest quality in new 60-lb. cans at g cts. per 

 pound. 8Atf J. P. Moore. Morgan. Ky. 



For Sale.-i!; carloads ot choice sage 

 honey by the can or case. Samples of honey 

 and desirable California souvenir free for a 

 st amp. C. W. Dayton. C hatsworth. Calif. 



For Sale. -Water White Alfalfa. Light 

 Amber Alfalfa. Put up in any size pack- 

 ages, any quantity. Write for prices 



iiAtf Dadant & Sons. Hamilton. III. 



._..^ SUPPLIES. __ ■ 



For Sale-A full line of Bee-Keepers" 

 supplies. Agents' prices. Save freight. 

 Dreamland Farms. Buckingham, Fla. 



For Sale— Empty second-hand 60 lb. cans 

 two cans to the case, good as new. 21; cents 

 per case. C. H. W. Weber & Co 

 2146 Central .■\ve.. C incinnati. Ohio. 



Bee-Supplies— none belter. 15 years of 

 experience. 



I Ideal Winter-Case, complete $2.50 



100 Hoffman Brood Frames in flat 2"5o 



500 No. I Sections 2 50 



100 Section-Holders scalloped 2.00 



100 Section Slats. M inch i.oo 



I Champion Smoker 70 



Dadant's Foundation. • 



Medium Brood, per pound ; 5q 



Thin Surplus " " ...:. 65 



Extra Thin " " 6g 



Discount on larger amounts. 

 .Satisfaction guaranteed or money refund- 

 ed R. H. Schmidt. 

 R. R. No. 3. Box No. 205. Sheboygan, Wis. 



Bee-Supplies for all Bee-Keepers in 



anH Vl*;^"i '^^''i? ^"'^ ^^'^^ Oregon. Wholesale 

 and retail. All we want is an opportunity 



Cataln^ Y,"*' 1^]" °" Supplies. Write for 

 Catalog. It will be ready by Jan. i igi3 It 

 costs you a postal card only. 



C. E. .Shriver. Boise. Idaho. 



SITUATIONS WANTED. 



\VANTED--Position in an apiary by deaf 



lllhf;^' *^° '^ nearly completing a course 

 in bee-keeping. Address, lAit 



X03 American Bee .lournal . Hamilton, III. 



Positions WANTED-One Apiarist "Queen 

 Breeder, one Assistant Apiarist desire en- 

 gagement to work one or more apiaries on 

 salary or share the IQI3 season. West of the 

 Rocky Mts. preferred. References exch 

 Apiarists. Rt. 3. Box B. Oro ville. Calif. 



SiTu.^TiON WANTED-By a young man who 

 has successfully passed his examinations 

 alter taking a course of lectures and dem- 

 onstrations in Apiculture at the Ontario 

 Agricultural College. Any one desiring help 

 of this kind for the season of IQ13. kindly 

 correspond with Morley Pettit. Provincial 

 Apiarist Ontario Agricultural College, 

 Guelph, Canada. iA2t 



POULTRY 



Rose COMR White Leghorn cockerels $1 c 

 gach. Ellen Thornburgh. Perry. Iowa. 



Indian Runner Ducks, light fawns, also 

 dark penciled, white eggers. Si. 00 and up. 

 R. O. Dickson. Box M. La Harpe, III. 



For Sale --White-egg strain Indian Run- 

 ner Ducks. White Orpingtons. White Wyan- 

 dottes. Houdans. Bronze Turkeys. Ducks 

 81.25 each. A. F. Firesto ne. Broadwell. Ohio. 



^yANTED— Bee-men and poultry-men to 

 wijite for my special proposition on the Eu- 

 reka Case for wintering bees; and White- 

 Rock eggs or stock before Jan. 15. A sur- 

 prise for you. B. T. Bosserman. 



iA» Rt. 16. Willia mstown. Ohio, 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Gummed Labels in two colors of all va- 

 rieties. 33 cts. a 1000 up. Pearl Card Co. 

 _^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Clintonville. Conn. 



New Crop white sweet-clover seed, 4 lbs. 

 by rnail. prepaid. Si 12; 50 to 100 lbs.. 15c per 

 lb., hulled; unhulled, 3c less. Alfalfa seed, 

 same price. R. L. Snodgrass. 



Rt. 4. .'Augusta, Kan. 



Save 50 Percent On 



LEWIS BEEWARE 



We will sacrifice for cash a large stock 

 of Lewis Beeware recently purchased 

 from the Bankruptcy Court. Send for 

 itemized list. Fantus Bros. 



lAtf .525 S . Dearborn St. Chicago. 



Crown Bone Cutter 



Best 



Kn voiir hens '■ut creen hone 



ami p'.'t more <?t;gs. With a 



Crown Bone Cutter you 



(jan cut up atl scrap bones 



easlt; and quiokly, and without 



any trouble, and have out bone 



fresh every day for your poultry. 



Setid Pt once for free catalogue. 



WILSON BROS., B018I4 , Easton.Pa. 



Made 

 Lowest 



in 

 Price 



BEE-HIVES OUR SPECIALTY 



For IQ13, we will offer you Dovetailed 8- 

 Frame Hives at rock bottom prices, goc each 

 and up. Tell us how many you want. Also, 

 we make the Fireless Chick Brooder. 25 

 chick size, $1.00; 50 chick size. $2.00. 



CHESTNUT HILL MFG. COMPANY 

 Biglerville, Pa. 



