April 2, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



219 



NEW RUMELY 



SEPARATOR 



exemplified all that is best in the thresbins 

 machine maker's art. Xothing approaclies 

 it for him who makes threshing a business. 

 It threshes, cleans, saves for the farmer, 

 makes money for its owner and has the 

 speed and durability. Threshermen should 

 investigate the Wind Stacker. S^lf Feeder 

 aad other attachments and features which 

 mark the Rumely as the prince of thresh- 

 ers. Writ-' for the Rumely catalogue be- 

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A well built, finely finished top 

 bagt'y with oil tempered springs. ^ \i^ 

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Standard Italian Queens 



OF THE HIGHEST QRADE, 



Bred in Separate yards from superior stock of 

 Golden and Leather-colored Strains. Selected 

 from araon(^ the best stock of Long Tong-ue 

 Clover and fioney Queens in America. Bred by 

 us with the greatest care for business. No dis- 

 ease among our bees. Our elevated country, 

 with its pure mountain air and pure sparkling 

 spring water furnishes the ideal place of health 

 for bees and man. See our circular for the rest. 



Queens sent out last season by us arrived in 

 the very best shape, except a lew got chilled 

 late in the season in the North. Our Queens 

 have gone to California, Oregon. Canada, Colo- 

 rado, Cuba, New Mexico, and many of the 

 States. We rear all queens t-ent out by us from 

 the .■gg or just-hatched larvi: in full' colonies. 

 Our method is up-to-date. If you want to know 

 what we have, and what we can do. in the way 

 of fine, large, proliSc QUEENS, ond how 

 quick we can send them, just give us a trial 

 order. 



Prices: Untested Queens, $1.00; 6 for $5.00; 12 

 for $'1.00. 



Tested, $3.00: Select, $3.00: Best, $5.00. 



Full Colonies, with Tested Queen, $6 00. 



3-frame Nuclei, wired Hoffman irames, no 

 Queen, $2.00; 2-frame, no Queen, $1.50. (Add 

 price of Queen wanted to price of Nuclei.! 



Special rates on Queens by the I'XI. Safe arri- 

 val and satisfaction guaranteed. Shipping sea- 

 son begins in April. Write for circular. It is 

 FREE. T. S. HA-LiL, 



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i FROM MANY FIELDS | 



®SQQQQQSSQQQQQQSSQQQQQ)QQQS 

 An Abnormal Season. 



Last season was very abnormal, and the 

 bees did not do extra well. There was too 

 much wet and oool weather during fruit- 

 bloom, and the twes got nothing of it. There 

 was plenty of white clover, but whatever 

 honey they got was used for brood-rearing. 

 There was excessive swarming, but the 

 swarms were very hard to catch; some went 

 right off and never clustered. The bees were 

 always very cross. D. E. Evers. 



Otoe Co.. \ebr., March 10. 



Wintering Bees in Cellars Contain- 

 ing Running Water. 



Over 20 years ago my father had five apia- 

 ries, and wintered mostly in cellars. My old- 

 est brother did the managing. In one cellar 

 there was a running spring of water. Last 

 summer luy brother told me that the bees in 

 that cellar wintered better than in any of the 

 others. Perhaps the wurmtli of the spring 

 water had something to do with it. 



On page l.iU, Mr. H. B. Stump gives a good 

 record for cellar-wintered bees, and makes the 

 remark that " the cellar is very damp, so that 

 water stands on the walls." 



Mr. G. M. Doolittle has contended for years 

 that moisture did no harm, if the temperature 

 was kept uniform at 45 degrees. Mr. Stump 

 seems to go beyond that and claims that mois- 

 ture in the cellar not only does no harm to the 

 bees, but is a positive benefit. 



If I am not mistaken, that phase of cellar- 

 wintering has not been discussed in the bee- 

 journals. It there are people who winter bees 

 in cellars containing springs they might be in 

 a position to give facts of considerable value 

 to bee-keepers in general. 



I would like to know if Mr. Doolittle would 

 recommend building a bee-cellar over a spring, 

 in preference to choosing a dry bank, both 

 locations being on a side hill. 



John S. Callbreath. 



Delaware Co., N. Y., March St. 



Some Tennessee Honey-Plants. 



We have not had very cold weather this 

 winter. Our bees have wintered very well so 

 far. They are gathering pollen and some 

 honej'. The maple and elm trees are now in 

 bloom. We have a tree here commonly called 

 bee-willow — I have forgotten the Ijotanical 

 name of it. It is now in bloom. On fair 

 days the bees have a jubilee. Garden tiowers 

 will soon be in bloom, then the peach-trees. 

 In April, apple-trees and other fruit-trees. In 

 May, locust and tulip or poplar timber will be 

 in bloom. Various other trees will be bloom- 

 ing during spring and summer. A few farm- 

 ers s6w buckwheat, which comes in July and 

 August. Ked clover is not cultivated as it 

 should be, but we have some white clover in 

 the pastures, which gives some nectar if the 

 season is favorable. Another source of honey 

 is honey-dew; it comes the last of May and 

 first of June. We then get fine honey if the 

 weather is favorable for the bees to work. 

 Sometimes the rain makes it unfavorable for 

 bees to gather fall honey. We have a weed 

 that grows spontaneously in the fields. Some 

 call it stickweed, some frostweed; it is in 

 bloom just before frost, hence the name. It 

 granulates so the bees cannot do much with 

 it. H. M. Sherfet. 



Washington di., Tenn., March 11. 



Foul Brood in Illinois. 



The Foul Brood Bill now before our State 

 Legislature is a very important one, and one 

 of a broader nature than at first may be sup- 

 posed by many. 



The Ijee-keeptrs are not the only ones inter- 

 ested, by any nii-'aiis. The farmer that grows 

 the small red oi' the mammoth red clover, 

 alsike and white clover is also aflected by the 

 number of bees kept in the vicinity, the fact 



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Tells all about Bees in California. The yields 

 and Price of Honey; the Pasturage and Nectar- 

 Producing Plants; the Bee-Ranches and how 

 they are conducted. In fact the entire field is 

 fully covered by an expert bee-man. Besides 

 this the paper also tells you all about California 

 Agriculture and Horticulture. $1.00 per year; 6 

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BARNES' FOOT POWER MACHINERY 



Read what J. I. Parent, of 

 Charlton, N. Y., says: *' We 

 cut with one of your Com- 

 bined Machines, last winter, 

 50 chaff hives with 7-in. cap, 

 100 honey racks, 500 brood- 

 frames, 2,000 honey boxes, and 

 a ereat deal of other work. 

 This winter we have double 

 the amount of bee-hives, etc., 

 to make, and we expect to do 

 it with this Saw. It will do all 

 Catalog and price-list free. 

 W. F. & John Barnes, 



995 Ruby St., Rockford, 111. 



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It absolutely does cure. It is not a 

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 and is worth S20.00 to any sufiferer. 

 Sold only by our authorized agents or 

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