February, 1913. 



American l^ee JournaiJ 



65 



a year's subscription, and in my inspection 

 work it is easy to tell without asking if one 

 takes a bee-paper. I find very few make a 

 success of bee-keeping who do not take one. 

 My bees are flying today with the tliermom- 

 eter at 00 degrees. John L. Bvard. 



Marlboro, Mass., Dec, 16. 1012. 



California Co-operation 



The California Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will market its members' product in the 

 future, and we intend to create such a de- 

 mand on the home market that you of the 

 eastern portion will never come in competi- 

 tion with us. It is our belief that California' 

 can consume all the table honey that we 

 can ever produce. 



No rain yet, and the bees are wintering 

 very poorly. Geo. L. Emerson. 



Los Angeles, Jan. 3, ipn. 



A Good Report from Minnesota 



Enclosed you will find a picture of my api- 

 ary of 52 colonies of Italian bees. Like most 

 of the bee-keepers here, I lost heavily last 

 winter. Out of 4b colonies I managed to save 

 26. These 26 were increased to 58 by divid- 

 ing. I then sold b at a good price. The 52 

 colonies gave me a surplus of a little over 

 200 pounds of mostly white clover honey- 



not so bad when one considers the awful 

 condition they were in when taken out of 

 the cellar, and the cold and backward spring 

 we had. You will notice the apiary is sit- 

 uated in an orchard; all colonies facing the 

 south. I use the lo-frame hives, and run for 

 extracted honey mostly. I also use the 

 queen-excluders, as I simply cannot get 

 alongwithout them. My hives are all num- 

 bered, and a record is kept of all queens and 

 colonies. 



.'\s I had a little trouble in keeping the 

 grass down in front of the hives, I tried an 

 experiment. I put, as you will see in the 

 picture, six inches of sawdust about two 

 feet wide in front of the hives, but it was a 

 failure, as in about four weeks the grass 

 came shooting up through the sawdust. The 

 grape trellis you see in the picture, has 

 every year given a good crop of grapes, but 

 in all these years I have never once found 

 that the bees punctured the grapes, as some 

 foolish writers claim they do. 



Gottlieb A. Barbisch. 



La Crescent, Minn. 



Corn Meal and Honey 



Corn-meal pudding and honey make a 

 licking good combination for old folks. Try 

 some. Edwin Bevins. 



Leon. Iowa, Dec. to, 1012. 



Mr. G. a. Barhischs Ai-iarv at La Crescent, Minn, 



Queen-Breeding Apiary of J. L. Strong, of Clarinda, Iowa. 



Wants, Exchanges, 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, vou must say so when ordering. 



BEES AND QUEENS. 



Golden Queens that produce 5 and6band 

 bees. Untested, Ji.oo; Tested, 83.00. 



Robert Inghram, Sycamore, Pa. 



Bees and Queens from my New Jersey 

 apiary. J. H. M. Cook. 



lAtt 70 Cortland St.. New York City. 



For Sale— About one hundred black and 

 hybrid Queens. Will ship any time after 

 March ist at 40 cts. each, or 12 or more 3^ cts. 

 each. D. E. Brothers. Attalla. Ala. 



Improved golden-yellow Italian queens for 

 IQ13; beautiful, hustling, gentle workers 

 Send for price list. E. E. Lawrence. 



iA8t Doniphan, Mo. 



Place Your Order Now for early de- 

 livery. Untested Queens, one for Si. 00; 6 for 

 $5.40, Tested Queens, one for 81. so; 6 for 88 40. 

 Write for prices of Nuclei and full colonies. 

 W. J. Littlefield, Little Rock, Ark. 



Golden Queens that produce Golden 

 Workers of the brightest kind. I will chal- 

 lenge the world on my Goldens and their 

 honey-getting qualities. Price, Si. 00 each; 

 Tested, 82.00: Breeders. $5.00 and Sio.oo. 



2Atf J. B. Brockwell. Barnetts, Va. 



Queens — Improved red-clover Italians, 

 bred for business; June i to Nov. 1= Un- 

 tested queens. 75c; select, Si. 00; tested, 8125 

 each. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaran- 

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



Golden and 3-band Italians, also gray Car- 

 niolan queens. Tested, Si 00 each; 3 or more 

 00c each. Untested, 75c each; i to 6, 70c each; 

 6 or more. 65c each. Bees per lb , 81.25; nu- 

 clei per frame, 81 5o. A discount on orders 

 booked 30 days before shipment. lAtf 



Bankston & Lyon. Buffalo. Leon Co.. Tex. 



We will requeen all our 2000 colonies this 

 spring. We offer the one-year old queens 

 removed from these hives at 40c each; 84.20 

 per dozen; S30 per hundred— delivered any 

 time before June i. Your money back if not 

 satisfied. First come first served. Book or- 

 ders now. Spencer Apiaries Co. 



lAtf Nordhoff. Ca(if. 



How About those beautiful untested 

 three-band Italian queens for 1013 ? We 

 have them and know how to rear them; 30 

 years' experience. We rear queens that 

 make bees that gather us heavy crops of 

 honey, and we will send you the same kind 

 at 75c each; $4.25 for 6; 88.00 per dozen. Safe 

 arrival and satisfaction always guaranteed. 

 Rialto Honey Co.. Rialto. California. 



What One of Our M.^ny Customers 

 Writes— C. W. Phelps tV Son, Binghamton. 

 N. Y. £>i\ir Sirs.— I cannot speak too highly 

 of your Queens. I believe they are equal to 

 any and surpassed by none. They winter 

 well, good comb builders, gentle and easy to 

 handle. One could not wish for a better 

 strain of bees, I wish to purchase more 

 breeding Queens this season. Yours truly. 

 F. B. Stone. Itaska, N. Y., May 8, rji2. 



HONEY 



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., 



bAi2t 173 S. Water St., Chicago, III. 



Honey for Sale— Clover honey of the 

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

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



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. 



