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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 5, 1903. 



Mb Keystone 

 ...Honey-Jars 



These are clear flint glass jars hold- 

 ing just one pound, and the shape of 

 a keystone. They are 7,'s inches high, 

 and very pretty when filled with honey. 

 The corks can be sunk a trifle below 

 the top, and then fill in with beeswax, 

 sealingwax or paraffin. We can fur- 

 nish them iu single gross lots, with 

 corks, f.o.b. Chicago, at $3.50 ; two 

 gross, $3.25 per gross ; or five or more 

 gross, at $3.00 a gross. These are the 

 cheapest glass one-pound jars we know 

 anything about. We have only a few 

 gross of them left. So speak quick 

 if you want them. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



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



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^ Open to both sexes from the begin- V 



\ n'lng. Founded in 1846. Highest grade J^ 



71 scholarship. First-class reputation. 25 JP 



^ instructors. Alumni and students occu- l* 



% pjing- hig-best positions in Church and ^ 



^ State. Expenses lower than other col- V 



*^ leges of equal grade. Any young person k 



\ with tact and energy can have an educa- ^ 



TL tion. We invite correspondence. Send V 



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J MOUNT UNION COLLEGE, r 



71 Alliance, Ohio. jp 



m MONEY IN POULTRY 



For the Next 30 Days Only, 



we will mail our flnevttluiible Poultry 



l£ FKEE. Tell3 you all about poultry. 



lake bip money with poultry ani 



mtains colored plate of fowls in 



JOHN BAUSCHER, JR., Box 94, FREEPORT, ILL. 



The Wliite 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 BLOSSO.M, Lamar Co., TEX. 



Please mention Bee Journal "when writme 



DAIRYMEN ARE DELIGHTED 



to meet those w no workforus. Cow kee|)er8aUayB 

 have moDe;. We start you in buslDcss. You m»ke 

 laree profits. Eaay work. We furnish capital, bend 

 10 C4*nU for fnll line of BSm pies and paitK^ulats. 



DRAPER PUBLISHING C0.» Chicago. Ills. 



Honey For Sale. 



20110 lbs. Basswood Extracted honev, at 'ic a 

 pouad. All in bO-lb. cans. Warranted PURE 



HONEY. JOHN WAGNER, BUENA VISTA, ILL. 



SAtt Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Please tuentiou Bee Journal 

 when writing advertisers. 



Muth's Special t he Best 



Regulation dovetail with ys Warp-Proof 

 Cover and Bottom. Costs more, but sold at 

 same price as regular. 



tW See special inducements in our 1903 

 Catalog. 



THE FRED W. MLTH CO. 



HONEY AND BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES. 



Front & Walnut Sts., CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



paid 



28 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 



low, upon its receipt, or 30 cents in trade. 



Address as follows, very plainly, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St 



'^ This is a good time 



vh> yiy to send in your Bees- 



•♦* W wax. We are paying 



•^ 28 cents a pound — 



CASH— for best yel- 



Impure wax not taken at any price. 



Chicago, ill. 



would Texas be in a year like 189", witli 

 Southern California's crop of 500 cars, valued 

 at .«(JOO,000 > 



I notice also that the proportion of the 

 Texas product is only .50 percent on the in- 

 vestment, while California, even in a short 

 year (ISfltt), yields nearly lUO percent, and 

 Colorado 90 percent on investment. 



That California report was from 6,000 farms, 

 while Texas reported 00,000. I append the 

 Government figures: 



Value of bees in 1899 Value of pro- Percent 

 duct in 1899 



California 1336,885 ?331,939 100 



Colorado.. .. 195,096 1-1,710 90 



Texas 849,483 488,527 50 



B. S. K. Bennett. 

 Los Angeles Co., Calif. 



[The above was sent to Mr. Working, for 

 the Denver convention, but was mislaid and 

 not found in time, so is given now. — Editor.] 



Growing Alfalfa— Honey-Boards. 



I would say to the readers of the American 

 Bee Journal that they are wasting their time 

 trying to raise alfalfa on ground that lifts 

 with the freezing iu the winter. Alfalfa will 

 not grow where freezing pulls the fence-posts 

 out of the ground. Where alfalfa does best 

 the ground cracks open with the winter 

 freezing, showing that it contracts. Alfalfa 

 has very long roots, and although it will 

 come up and grow well almost anywhere the 

 first winter, it the ground is moist enough to 

 raise the plant with the freezing; and this 

 will be the case whether there are any tuber- 

 cles on the roots or not. 



Don't bother about the tubercles; if you 

 have the land to grow it on, the tubercles will 

 come. 



I see no reports of better results than I had 

 with a few bees last year. From 2 colonies, 

 spring count, I increased to 7, and took oil 

 545 finished sections of comb honey. From 

 one 12th-of-June swarm, I took 201 finished 

 sections. 



If you use a honey-board it saves a lot of 

 daubed sections to turn the side with the 

 strips on up, and hold it a bee-space above the 

 sections by driving four small nails through 

 it, and let nails stick out a bee-space from the 

 smooth side. 



Heat escapes from the top; if bees have a 

 good blanket of some absorbent, nonconduc- 

 ing substance on top, it seems to me it is use- 

 less to try to tuck them in at the side. A 

 tank of water well protected on top will not 

 freeze. Griffen Culbertson. 



Phillips Co., Kans. 



A Queen-Intpodueing Experience. 



1 think it will be hard on bees around here 

 this year. It is so long since they had a flight, 

 some time about Nov. 20. 



I had quite an experience with a queen I 

 got last summer. I had a colony that lost 

 their queen and were so for two or more 

 weeks. I was away at the time and judged 

 the lime to be about that long. Well, I gave 

 them 4 frames of brood fit to rear a queen, but 

 they did not, so I sent for a queen, and re- 

 ceived her all right. I changed cages, that is, 

 I put the queen in a new cage, and introduced 

 her in the evening, between the combs. Now, 

 all the brood in the hive was about 10 days 

 old, and no queen-cells in the hive. I looked 

 at her the next morning, and found that she 

 was out of the cage, and running about the 

 combs as unconcerned as you please. I in- 



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