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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 12, 1903. 



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A Celluloid Queen-Button is a very 

 pretty Ihina: for a bee-keeper or honey-seller 

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

 introduce the subject of honey, and fre- 

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Note. — One reader writes: "I have every 

 reason to believe that it would be a very g-ood 

 idea for everv bee keeper to 

 wear one [of the buttonsj as it 

 will cause people to ask ques- 

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 many a conversation thus 

 started would wind up with 

 the sale of more or less hooey ; 

 at any rate it would give the 

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The picture shown herewith is a reproduc- 

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The Demiiig Catalog.— i'he i'.iDH cata- 

 log; of tlie Deming (Joiiipany of Salem, Obio, 

 is just off the press. As usual, our readers 

 will look to it to exeiuplif.v in practical form 

 the latest ideas in spraying orchards, vines, 

 potatoes, shrubbery, etc. The Deming people 

 have been so long engaged in the business of 

 making Sprayers, and their whole line has 

 been brought up to such high etiiciency in the 

 estimation of spraying people, that it has be- 

 come second-nature to look to their catalog to 

 show what is best adapted to any particular 

 purpose. It includes Hand, Bucket, Knap- 

 sack, Barrel, Mounted and Power Sprayers. 

 In certain sprayers of their line, notai)ly the 

 Century, Simplex, Peerless and Success Knap- 

 sack Sprayers, the mechanical agitation of 

 the liquid, insuring perfect mixing of poison 

 with the water, is worked out to a nicety. The 

 wide adaptatjilty and general usefulness of 

 the line cannot be realized without perusing 

 the catalog. As usual, it will be mailed to 

 any one writing for it. Kindly mention the 

 American Bee .lournal when writing them. 



empty them over my naked body without re- 

 ceiving a sling, i stated the same thing 

 some 24 years ago when Mr. Newman was 

 editor of the American Bee Journai. 



For foul brood I use hiokory-wood smoke 

 three times a week. Fill the hives piump full, 

 until it pours out of the entrance. Keep it 

 up from spring until tall. 



GUSTAV LeUI'OI.I). 



Will Co., 111., .Jan. '.). 



About Half a Crop. 



In 1902, from IS colonies, spring count, I 

 got 362 pounds of comb honey, and :il6 

 pounds of extracted — about half a crop for 

 this section of country. 



The floral matter was unusually prolific, 

 more particularly the basswood; and just at 

 the beginning of the flow of the latter those 

 tremendous rains utterly destroyed the nectar 

 on which the honey crop principally depended. 



We did not have that continued cold 

 weather in June like many complained of. 



I winter my bees on the summer stands, 

 with winter-cases slipped over the hives, 

 snugly packed with leaves. 



The outlook for white-clover the coming 

 season is great. M. N. Simon. 



Wood Co., Ohio, Jan. 26. 



No Nectar in White Clover. 



I have seen a great deal of complaint aljout 

 white clover not having nectar in it the past 

 sea.son. I have been in the bee-business since 

 1S80, and have made a close study of honey- 

 plants. Clover will not yield much the year 

 it comes from seed. The young clover comes 

 up in the spring, and in June and July it is 

 growing runners, the same as strawberry 

 plants ; these runners take root like the 

 berry-runners do, until the ground is all mat- 

 ted over the second year when the plants have 

 their giowth and the whole energy of the 

 plant goes to bloom, honey and seed. The 

 blossoms come all along on the runners that 

 grew the year before. 



In UIOl the drouth in this country killed all 

 the clover, and blue-grass, too. The clover 

 came up in full glory when it commenced 

 to rain last spring. Next season promises to 

 Ije a great one for honey in this part of the 

 country. The prospects are the Ijest I have 

 seen for 15 years. Get ready for it, and see if 

 your non-swarming plans fail. 



Frank Voorhees. 



Henderson Co., 111., Jan. 21. 



The Climate of Washington. 



In the "Question and Answer" depart- 

 ment (page 779, 1903). I notice a state- 

 ment which is somewhat misleading, as to the 

 climatic conditions of our State. The state- 

 ment reads thus r " It rains almost constantly 

 from the first of November to the first of 

 March.'' It is signed " Washington." Now, 

 as for the western part of the State, this state- 

 ment is no doubt about correct, but it does 

 not apply to eastern Washington, as we don't 

 have more than aljout 2 days in which it rains 

 or snows in a week, on an average, from Nov. 

 1 to March 1, or any season of the year. We 

 don't have any more rain here than is needed 

 for the good of the country. 



It might be of interest to some readers to 

 know upon what days bees were able to fly 

 last winter, in this country ; I will give the 

 dates and temperature, as this will give an 

 idea of the weather that we have here. The 

 dates, as per diary' kept by me in connection 

 with bee-keeping, are as follows : 



Nov. 13, packed bees for winter; tempera- 

 ture 48 degrees; Nov. 14, 50; Nov. 24, 4.t; 

 Jan. 4, 46; Jan. T, 53; Feb. 15, .50; Feb. 21,48. 



After this date they usually take fretiuent 

 flights. I winter my bees in a long, low shed, 

 all boxed up except a space in front of the 

 entrance so they can fly when the weather is 

 suitable. The hives set on their stands, and 

 are about 4 inches apart. I use a Hill's de- 

 vice on top of the frames, and a gunny-sack 

 quilt on this; then put on an empty super, 

 then take a large gunny-sack quilt and spread 

 over the super, and press the quilt down to 

 the other quilt, and then fill its super with 

 chaff, fold the quilt over it, put on the cover. 



Tip=Top Glass Honey-Jars 



The picture shown 

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 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, 

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