March 12, 1903. 



THE AMERIC. , BEE JOURNAL. 



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Headquarters FO" Bee-Supplies 



Root's Goods at Root's Factory Prices. 



Complete stock for 1903 now on hand. Freigfht rates from Cincinnati are the 

 lowest. Prompt service is what I practice. Satisfaction g-uaranteed. L,ang- 

 stroth Portico Hives and Standard Honey-Jars at lowest prices. 



You will save money buying from me. Catalog mailed free. Send for same. 



Book orders for Golden Italians, Red Clover and Carniolan Queens ; for pri- 

 ces refer to my catalog. 



C. H. W. WEBER, 



CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



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To Many 

 Points in 

 the State of 



California 



To Many 

 Points in 



Oregon and 

 sTTo^- Washington 

 EVERY DAY 



The Union Pacific will sell One-way 

 Colonist Tickets at the following rates 



FROM MISSOURI RIVER TERMINALS 



Tickets on Sale 



,1903 



$25.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles / ^''"p'j'/'Js 

 and many other California points. [ to June 15, i 

 $20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake City. \ 

 $20.00 to Butte, Anaconda and Helena. I 

 $22.50 to Spokane &Wanatchee, Wash.f yj^i^gj^ „„ 

 $25.00 to Everett, Fairhaven and New • Sale Feb. 15 

 Whatcom, via Huntington & Spokane./ '<> AP' •' 30- 

 $25.00 to Portland, Tacoma & Seattle.v'^"" 

 $25.00 to Ashland, Roseburg, Eugene,! 

 Albany and Salem, via Portland. / 



From Chicago and St. Louis Proportionately Low Rates are in effect by Lines 

 Connecting with the Union Pacific to all Above Points 

 E. L. LOMAX, G. P. & T. A., 



OMAHA, NEB. 



larshfleld M annfactnriB g Company. 



Our specialty is making SECTIONS, and they are the best in the market. 

 Wisconsin BASSWOOD is the right kind for them. We have a full line of BEE- 

 SUPPLIES. Write^for free illustrated catalog and price-list. 



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HIG(;INSVILLE BEE-SUPPLIES. 

 We hare received a car-load of these unique 

 suppplies this year and are nearly all sold. We 

 expect to order another car soon. These g-oods 

 are equal to if not the best on the market. Give 

 us a trial order. We are also agents for the 

 Progressive Bee Keeper, price 50 cents per 

 year. Send your orders and subscriptions to us. 

 We sell at factory prices. 



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egg. Write for catalog to- iiL. 



GEO. H. STAHL, 0"incy, III. 



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warm evenin^rs tlie bees would clean them 

 out during llio tiiifht, or so early in the morn- 

 ing that no atteni|il8 were made at robbing:. 



If Miss Wilson has had such poor success 

 after trjin;; everythiu(f that I su^rgested, I 

 own that I do not understand the reason 

 why, and asl; her to review her procedure and 

 see if sotnethiiiff was not omitted. 



Piling up supers of unlinished sections to be 

 robbed out by the bees of the whole yard is 

 too wasteful a method to be practiced. Rather 

 than give a large share of the honey to the 

 colonies not needing it, I would put the 

 honey on all the needy ones, and then if any 

 sections remained uncleaned near the close of 

 the season, I would pile these up and let the 

 bees have access to them. 



Mr. Hasty's answer to "Beginner" is 

 rather discouraging. I wonder whether Mr. 

 Hasty leaves the sections on the needy colo- 

 nies and then does nothing else. I did so 

 once, but not any more. If the sections are 

 not isolated from the brood-chamt)er. anti the 

 sealed honey not uncapped, and this work 

 not done while the weather is yet warm, it is 

 likely you will not get many sections cleaned 

 out. Edwin Bevims. 



Decatur Co., Iowa. 



Wintered Well So Far. 



Bees have wintered well so far, and have 

 commenced to rear brood. 



I can not get along without the American 

 Bee Journal. A. W. Atkersos. 



.Jasper Co., Mo., Feb. 1.3. 



Propolisln for Piles. 



I will attempt to tell "Minnesota" (page 

 SKI) how to make propolisln : 



Take propolis and olive oil enough to make 

 it soft when mixed. Put into a vessel and 

 heat slowly until the propolis is melted, then 

 strain through a cloth and let cool. I sup 

 pose about a measures of oil to 1 of propolis 

 would be about right; it too hard, add more 

 oil. I got the recipe in Gleanings; I do not 

 remember the page or date. Mrs. Rousseau 

 has made some and used castor-oil. This is 

 the best remedy for piles! ever knew any- 

 thing about. Made with castor-oil it seems 

 to be especially adapted for the cure of this 

 disease. The way to use it is to cleanse the 

 parts thoroughly with water warmed, then 

 insert a lump at bedtime, and again in the 

 morning, L. C. Rousseau. 



Ellis Co., Tex., Feb. 11. 



Adrertisers***' 



Fears Short Stores. 



Last spring I bought 19 colonies of bees. 

 They increased to 42 in spite of me, and gave 

 me .590 pounds of comb honey. Two colonies 

 starved, and another was eaten up by millers. 

 I am afraid some of my bees went into win- 

 ter quarters short of stores. 



Polk Co., Wis., Feb. 2. V. A. Hanson. 



Appear to Winter All Right. 



I have been in the bee-business for the last 

 .")0 years, and now have more than 40 colonies. 

 They did fairly well last winter. I winter 

 them on the summer stands. To all appear- 

 ances they are wintering all right. I am 74 

 years old. Riley Sanforh. 



Wayne Co., N. V., Feb. Ifi. 



Dr. Gallup's Queen-Rearing Con- 

 troversy. 



I have been a bee-keeper for seven years, 

 and read with delight Dr. (iallup's articles on 

 rearing long-lived queens; also the counter 

 articles of the lireeders whom he has touched 

 on the raw. The Doctor has set the ball in 

 motion, and it will not stop rolling until his 

 " unbilical cord" theory is proved or dis- 

 proved. My sponsor is a bee-keeper of 3" 

 years' experience, and be claims, of the hun- 

 dreds of queens purchased, he has never re- 

 ceived a queen, reared by any method or 

 breeder, that has lived more than one year. 

 Is this unusual mortality caused by rearing 

 from worker-IarviB, or is it the sudden stop- 

 page from laying, and consequent injury 



