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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 29, 1903. 



G. B. LEWIS CO., 



Watertown, Wis., I. S. A. 



BEB-ICBBFBrg,S' SXJFFXjIBS 



1903 Catalog Ready.— H you have not received a copj annually, send us your name 

 and address, and one will be mailed you FREE. 



SPECIAL OFFERS.— On all cash orders received before April 1, l')03, we allow a dis- 

 count of 2 percent. 



To parties sending us an order for Supplies amounting- to $10 00 or more, at regular prices, 

 we will make the following low rates on Journals: Gleanings in Be^ Culture (semi-monthly) SOc; 

 American Bee Journal (weekly) 70c. List of Agencies mailed on appiicaiion. 

 Please mention Bee Journal -when -wriung. 



A Celluloid Queen-Button is a very 

 pretty thing for a tee-lteeper or honey-seller 

 to wear on his coat-lapel. It often serves to 

 introduce the suijject of honey, "and fre- 

 quently leads to a sale. 

 Note.— One reader writes: "I have every 

 DQ to believe that it would be a very good 

 idea for every bee keeper to 

 wear one [ui the buttons] as it 

 will cause ppople to ask ques- 

 tions about the busy bee, and 

 many a conversation thus 

 started would wind up with 

 the sale of more or less honey ; 

 at any rate it would give the 

 bee-keeper a superior oppor- 

 tunity to enlighten many a 

 person in regard to honey and bees. 



The picture shown herewith is a reproduc- 

 tion of a motto queen-button that we are fur- 

 nishing to bee-keepers. It has a pin on the 

 underside to fasten it. 



Price, by mail, 6 cents; two for 10 cents; 

 or 6 for 2.5 cents. Send all orders to the office 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



If you want the Bee-Book 



That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 



completely than any other published, 



send $1.20 to 



Prof. A. J. Cook, Claremont, Cal., 



FOR HIS 



"Bee=Keeper's Guide." 



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IT 15 A FACT 



That our line of Bee-Keepers' Supplies are 

 some of the best g-oods in the woild, and that 

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 satisfied customers proves the ie things. Write 

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 discounts for wintertime orders — all free. 



The Largest Stock of Bee Keepers' Supplies 

 in Indiana. C. M. SCOTT & CO., 



1004 E. Washing-ton St., Indianapolis, Ind. 



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 ifvou write before March 15th. Aildress. 



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and easy to 



if you work for ub. We will start yoii in 

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 'line of aamplcB and particulars. 

 DRAPER PUBLISHING CO., Chicago. lilt. 



Dittmer's Foundation ! 



This foundation is made l)y a process that pro- 

 duces the superior of any. It is the cleanest and 

 purest. It has the brightest color and sweetest 

 Retail and Wholesale. odor. It is the most transparent, because it has 



the thinnest base. It is lout,'h and clear as crystal, and gives more sheets to the pound than any 

 other make. 



Working: Max into Foundation for Cash a Specialty. Ueestvax 

 always 'wanted at liigliest price. 



Catalog giving FULL LINE OF SUPPLIES with prices and samples, FREE on application. 



GUS, DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. 



^ Muth's Special the Best 



Regulation dovetail with % Warp-Proof 

 Cover and Bottom. Costs more, but sold at 

 same price as regular. 



lt^"rSee special^inducements in our 1903 

 Catalog. CZ_ i ' ' L. t — ■ 



E3 THE~FRED_W.JVU]THCO, 



HONEY~AND~BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES" 



™'""Front iTwalnut StsTT CINCINNATI, OHIO. ^ 



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28 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 





This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 



paid for Beeswax. '¥- SHrSl-: 



low, upon its receipt, or 30 cents in trade. Impure wax not taken at any price. 

 Address as follows, very plainly, 



GEORGE W. YORK SkiiCO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, 111. 



Please Mentioii the Bee Jwirnal IfcSri' 



tiud a queen with all six feet gone, for the 

 sake of having a chance to play with you for 

 a day. (.'. C. Miller. 



McHenry Co., 111. 



Report for Season of 1 902. 



We had a poor honey crop here last season. 

 I had 46 colonies last spring, in good condi- 

 tion. I got 600 pounds of e.\tracted honey. 

 1050 pounds of comb honey, and inceased to 

 76 colonies, by natural swarming. They are 

 all in good condition at present. 



There was an abundance of white clover 

 here last summer, but the weather was too 

 wet and cold. I winter my bees in a cellar, 

 under a workshop. It is 14 by 20 feet high, 

 with good ventilation. It has a cement floor. 

 Theopore Rehorst. 



Fond du Lao Co., Wis., Jan. 5. 



Growing Ginseng. 



It takes about .5 or t', years for ginseng to 

 mature for good, cultivated seed; then it is 

 not full-grown, but it will do to market. 



Wright Co., Minn. F. Gent. 



A Farmer Bee-Keeper. 



I started in bee-keeping with a box-hive 

 colony which a neighbor gave me 7 years ago: 

 since that time I have been working with 

 bees, and with the help of the " Old Reliable'' 

 I have been able to make them pay me3 times 

 as much, for the amount invested in them, as 

 any other property I have. 



I am a farmer, and there are lots of bees in 

 old Franklin county, but not much interest 

 taken. Some are in box-hives, some in logs. 

 I love my bees. I winter them on summer 

 stands. I had 26 colonies, all in Langstroth 

 hives, the spring of 1W02 ; I increased to 49, 

 and got 1,000 pounds of honey, which I sold 

 for 10 cents per pound, 



I now go all over the country transferring 

 in Langstroth hives; I also rear some queens 

 from the best queens that I got from the 

 queen-breeders. M. H. Sossamann. 



Franklin Co., Ark., Dec. 28. 



What is a Swarm? 



There has been some controversy in the 

 American Bee .Journal in regard to " shook '' 

 or brushed swarms. Some claim they should 

 be called brushed swarms, others " shook '' 

 swarms. I think it all depends upon whether 

 they are shaken off the combs or brushed off. 

 But why call them swarms ? When is a colony 

 of bees a swarm of bees ! My idea heretofore 

 has been that a colony of bees can only be 

 call a swarm of bees when they are out of 

 their hives and flying in the air — when they 

 are swarming. As soon as the swarm clusters, 

 or at least when they are hived, then they are 

 no more a swarm, but a colony. Perhaps I 

 am wrong, but if I am right then it is wrong 

 to say a brushed swarm or a shook swarm. 

 The one is a shook colony, and the other a 

 brushed colony, and not a swarm at all. 

 Fulton Co., Ind. S. Morrett. 



Cotton-Waste for Smolser-Fuel— 

 Siiade-Boards. 



Seeing so much lately in the Bee Journal 

 about shade-boards and smoker-fuel, I thought 

 1 would tell what I consider the best smoker- 

 fuel, and my plan of making shade-boards. 



1 have kept bees for several years, and am 

 now nearly 7S years old. During my time I 

 have used all kinds of rotten wood, planer- 

 shavings, and all kinds of old rags. In the 

 first place, I would say that rotten corn-cobs, 

 well dried and pulverized, are better than any 

 rotten wood; still, I have something that 

 beats everything else I ever tried. Ills what 

 is called •' waste. " It is what the engineers 

 and flremeu use to clean their engines with. 

 When it becomes saturated with oil they 

 throw it away. When they stop for any 

 length of time they generally clean up. My 

 first experience with it was about eight years 

 ago. I took a bunch of it and put it in the 

 smoker, and since then I don't want any rot- 

 ten wood. All you have to do is to take a 



