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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 29, 1903. 



Here is a Hummer! 



We want 1000 subscribers among the readers of the American Bee Journal. 

 The Modern Farmer and Busy Bee $.50 I ^ /\ 



^-^---^^'-=^ I All iQ|, 50 {^ents. 



"The Horticultural Visitor" is among the best of the fruit-papers published. 

 " The American Poultry Journal " is one of the oldest and best of its kind. 

 " The Modern Farmer,"— well, we will let that speak for itself. 



Gleanings, The Modern Farmer, and either of the above — one 

 year— $1.00, 



This ad. will not appear again. Do it quick, if you want a bargain. Address, 



THE MODERN FARMER, St. Joseph, Mo. 



A FRIEND Tip-Top Glass Honey- Jars 



Adam's^^o^E" Cutter 



It runs easily because it has 

 "ball beannga. It cuts clean, 

 quickly and perfecly. Makes a fine 

 bone shaving sucb as chickens re- 

 quire. Before you buy send for 

 Wree catalogue No. y 

 -W.J.ADAM, JOUET.ILL. 

 Please mentioa Bee Journal -when -wrltiiifi: 



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DAIRYMEN ARE DELIGHTEU 



to meet thoB« who work for ub. Cow keepers always 

 have money. We sUrt you In buslnesa. You make 

 targe profita. Ewy work. We furnish capital. Send 

 10 cenu for fntl line of samptesand r.rticolars. 



DRAPER PUBLISHINQ CO., Cbicago. Ills. 



KieUl-Xoto. — All farmers and ever}'one 

 who has a garden will be interested in the 

 new catalog just issued by the Iowa Seed Co., 

 of Des Moines, Iowa. It is the largest and 

 most complete book of this kind every pub- 

 lished by any seed-firm west of the Missis- 

 sippi, which, as our readers are doubtless 

 aware, is the great seed-growing section of the 

 United States. This firm claims now to stand 

 first in their line among Twenty Million peo- 

 ple, and they make a specialty of supplying 

 the best quality of Seed Corn and other farm 

 and garden seeds direct frotn the grower to 

 the user. Catalog will be mailed free on re- 

 quest. Please mention the American Bee 

 .Journal when writing. 



Queen-Clipping Device Free! 



The MoNETTE Queen-Clipping 

 Device is a fine thing for use in 

 catching and clipping Queens' 

 wings. It , is used by many bee- 

 keepers. Full printed directions 

 sent with each one. We mail it for 

 2.'-i.-..|it^-. or will send it FREE as 

 :i |>iiiiiMitn for sending us One 

 \,-\\ subscriber to the Bee Journal 

 fur ;i yrar tit SI. 00; or for $1.10 we 

 will mail the Bee .Tournal one year 



and the Clipping Device. Address, 



QBORQE W. YORK & CO., 



144 & 146 E. Erie St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



Please mention Bee Journal 

 when writing advertisers. 



The picture shown 

 herewith represents the 

 best one-pound jar for 

 honey that we know of. 

 It is made of the clear- 

 est flint glass, and when 

 filled with honey, and a 

 neat label attached, it 

 makes as handsome a 

 package as can be im- 

 agined. Its glass top 

 sets on a flat rubber 

 ring, and is held in 

 place by a flat steel 

 spring across the top as 

 shown in the picture. It 

 Is practically air-tight, 

 thus permitting no leak, 

 which is an important thing with honey- 

 sellers. 



We can furnish these jars, f .o.b. Chicago, 

 at these prices; One gross, $5,00; two gross, 

 ?4,7" a gross; five or more gross $4.5i) per 

 gros 



If. lu try them once you willlikely use no 

 other sind of top or sealing arrangement for 

 honey ars. 



^ JEORGE W. YORK & CO. 

 M4 & 146 Erie Street, - CHICAGO, ILI* 



The White Mfg. Co. 



wants to sell you your Supplies. Send for 

 their Catalog and Price-List of BEE-KEEP- 

 ERS' SUPPLIES, free. Best goods for best 

 prices. Address, 



THE WHITE MFG. CO. 



3A4t BLOSSOM, Lamar Co., TEX. 



Please mention Bee Journal -when writine 



*'Bees in Colorado" 



I still have several hundred copies of 

 the souvenir with the above title. The 

 bee-papers and a good many people 

 without visible axes to grind have said 

 it is a valuable and attractive thing. 

 If you should like to have a copy, send 

 me a silver dime or S two-cent stamps, 

 and I will mail you a copy. 



" Bees in Colorado " is the title of a 48- 

 page and cover pamphlet gotten up to boom 

 the Denver convention. Its author is D. VV. 

 Working, the alert secretary of the Colorado 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, It is beauti- 

 fully illustrated, and printed on enameled 

 paper. It is a credit to .Mr. Working, and 

 will be a great help in acquainting those out- 

 side of Colorado with the bee and honey 

 characteristics and opportunites of that 

 State. — American Bee .lournal. 



D. W. WORKING, Box 432, Denver, Colo. 



^ease mention Bee Journal "when WTitlng. 



vancing any cure for blight, I once happened 

 to live one summer where there were no bees, 

 but in a district where nearly everything in 

 frtjit line blighted, especially in the varieties 

 of pear and apple, and it was all kinds, too — 

 tree, litiib and twig, also fruit-blight — and it 

 was impossible for it to have been done by in- 

 oculation by bees or insects, especially the 

 twig and fruit, as one day they were all green, 

 thrifty and growing, the next day blighted, 

 shriveled and brown by evening. The people 

 called it " electric blight," claitiiing there was 

 no blight there until the telegraph and tele- 

 phone lines were stretched through their dis- 

 trict. 



As I feel a little critical, I noticed another 

 article by J, E. Johnson, of Knox Co,, 111,, 

 who claims he has an orchard of ttOO trees and 

 no blight. Now, whether that is not a smooth 

 way of securing an "ad," I am not sure, as 

 after the assertion he leaves the subject, I 

 would prefer that he would get the affidavits 

 of some disinterested neighbors to that affect, 

 and then give us the formula or peculiar 

 method of cultivation. I.e., if he wishes to be 

 a great public benefactor. The seed-sowing 

 part of his article is all right, provided there 

 is waste or uncultivated lands to scatter seeds 

 on, but when we use good, tillable land for 

 raising bee-pasturage only, I am afraid it will 

 hardly pay, while all kinds of blooming crops 

 give two dividends, I find that turnip is a 

 tine honey-plant, blooms at a season just after 

 fruit-bloom, and the bees literally cover it 

 from morning till dewy eve. If florists in 

 their " ads" and circulars would always say 

 whether or not certain flowers were honey- 

 secreting, they would secure many sales from 

 apiarists that at present they do not. 



There are the ''Sisters '' that call a fellow 

 an " t)ld Drone," Not being a bachelor, this 

 probably is admissible, but suppose afellow is 

 not " old," and more, it there is another in- 

 sect that really deserves sympathy more than 

 the drone-bee, I am not acquainted with it. In 

 the first place, Mr, Drone-Bee is fed on the 

 fat of the land, groomed and kept sleek, not 

 allowed to wait on himself, hovers the brood 

 in cool nights and after a time of elegant leis- 

 ure is pounced upon and ruthlessly driven 

 from his own home to starve. Just think of 

 it! W. S. Mitchell. 



Cherokee Nation, Ind. Ter. 



Feeding Bees— Dividing or Shaking. 



I thought I might write how I fed the bees 

 200 pounds of sugar, I fixed up some feeders 

 with fioaters in them that gave me far better 

 results than the Miller feeder, 



I keep the mice out of my cellar by the use 

 of poison and traps, 



I have practiced dividing my bees for 15 

 years; I suppose every large bee-keeper does 

 this, I always run out-apiaries by the shaken 

 or dividing plan, 



I took all the honey from my bees last fall 

 and fed sugar syrup, I have sold nearly all 

 my comb honey, for the last two years, as 

 chunk honey, cut it up and put it in Mason 

 jars, and then filled up with extracted honey, 

 I find ready sale for this kind of a package, 

 I found a way to keep the honey from granu- 

 lating in the jar. Put in just a little tartaric 

 acid, I do not see that it hurts the honey. 

 What do you think ! C. J. Barber, 



Monona Co., Iowa, 



New and Old Things in Beedom, 



When will there cease to be something new 

 in the bee-keeping line ! I've been puzzling 

 my brain over that fellow, who came over 

 from Canada, " by letter," to have a talk with 

 Mr, Doolittle, How that could be done, " by 

 letter," and have the questions and answers 

 in such consecutive order, and have them so 

 interwoven together-r-firsl one asking a ques- 

 tion and then the other ; and each answering 

 the other's question— is more than I can get 

 through my stupid noddle. If a 'phone were 

 used, it is easy to understand it; or, it wire- 

 less telegraphy were brought into requisition 

 we might comprehend it; but the other thing 

 beats me. It is worse than the 13-14-15 puz- 

 zle, I give it up. 



Not only something new, but old things — 

 matters we might suppose were buried out of 

 sight— bob up, like Banquo's ghost, to annoy 



