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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 2, 1903. 



Tenne ssee ft ueens. 



Daughters of Select Imported 

 Italian, Select long-tongued 

 (Moore's), and Select, Straight 

 S-band Queens. BredSJi miles 

 apart, and mated to select 

 drones. No bees owned with- 

 in 2H miles; none impure 

 within 3, and but few within 

 Smiles. No disease. 30 years' 

 experience. WARRANTED 

 QUEENS, "S cents each ; 

 TESTED, $1.50 each. Dis- 

 count on large orders. 

 Contracts with dealers a spe- 

 cialty. Discount after July 1st 

 Send for circular. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, 



9A26t SPRING HILL, TENN. 



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/-•_^_,;_» is the very best honey-producing 

 C'ttinip plant. I have sold in nearly every 

 State in the Union. I have a small amount of 

 this ffood seed yet. Order soon. 3 ozs. tor i5c, 

 or on^elb for $l!lS. O. S. HINSDALE. 

 14Alt KENDRICK. IDAHO. 



IT IS A FACT 



That our line of Bee-Keepers' Supplies are 

 some of the best goods in the world, and that 

 our system of dealing with our trade is not ex- 

 celled by anybody. Plenty of testimony from 

 satisfied customers proves these things. Write 

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 discounts for winter-time orders-ALL free. 



The Lareest Stock of Bee Keepers Supplies 

 tn Indiana C. M. SCOTT & CO., 



1004 E. Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind. 



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IINGHAIH'S PATENT 



Smokers 



T. F. BINQHAM. Farwsii M>->- 



PRICE CATCHES TRADE. 



but our ciuality holds It year after year after year. 

 PACiKWin KV WIliK KK>t'l CO., Al>l!l AN, M U'll. 



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$ I ^.80 For 

 I ^ 200 Egg 

 INCUBATOR 



Perfect in coDstructioi 

 action. Hatches every fertile 

 egg. Write for catalog to-day. 



GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy, III. 



SWEET CLOVER 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arrang^cments so that we can 

 furnish Seed of several of the Clovers by f relghl 

 or express, at the foUowiog prices, cash wltb 

 the order: ^^ ^^^ ^^ l_^ 



Sweet Clover [white) $.75 $1.40 $3.25 $6.00 



Sweet Clover (yellow) 90 1.70 4.00 7.50 



Alsike Clover 1.00 1.80 4.25 8.00 



WhiteClover 1.50 2 .'iO 6.S0 12 50 



Alfalfa Clover 100 1.80 4.25 8 00 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Single pound 5 cents more than the S-pound 

 rate, and 10 cents extra for postage and sack. 



Add 25 cents to your order, for cartage. If 

 wanted by freight, or 10 cents per pound if 

 wanted by mail. 



GEORGE W. YORK A CO. 

 144 & 146 Erie Street, - C HICAGO. ILL 



hHve money. We start you in bualneBS. You make 

 large prolita. Easy worli. We fumiah capital. Send 

 111 c.nta for full lUte of aamjdea and particulars. 



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queen," and the pupil leaves the same im- 

 pression. ■ 



Now we have it all ia a nutshell. Isn't it 

 grand? With the subject set forth and cham- 

 pioned by such high authorities as quoted 

 above, I have been a little slow to expose my- 

 self. But'with ray bee-nature to back me up, 

 i now wade into the truth fearlessly. 



My nuclei were kept g-oing until late in 

 November— carried them in and wrapped 

 them up nights. The cells were examined 

 frequently, and in the pupa stage carefully 

 dissected, mouated in water and viewed with 

 the aid of lenses. The so-called " link " was 

 exposed and magnitied separately, and in no 

 instance did it prove to be anything more than 

 a part of the delicate lining that the pupa 

 (lueen gives to her couch when she " lies down 

 to pleasant dreams,'' as it were. 



Umbilicus nonsense! There is no such 

 thing. Sting-trowel theoriesdwindle to noth- 

 ing in comparison. Nay, my bees have a 

 xtro/K/ei- proof that it is a fallacy. Here is a 

 trutli they have taught me, and for their sake 

 I will speak for them. I challenge the entire 

 bee-keeping fraternity to disprove it. Here 

 it is ; Honey-bees, indudhiij queens, drones and 

 wurkers, are inactive and take no food while in 

 the pupa stage. This is also true in other of 

 the higher orders on insects, as the Lepidop- 

 tera and Diptera. If these assertions are cor- 

 rect no further proof is necessary. 



The lump of royal jelly in the cell has noth- 

 ing to do whatever with the kind of queen it 

 contained. Why, it never became a part of 

 her. It is what she ati\ and not the left-over 

 dried waste, that developed her. 



Nature is what she is, and she will not yield 

 one jot to our pet theories, even though we 

 spin them ever so tine. We can produce the 

 highest grade of " puddin' " only by living in 

 close touch with our bees and hearkening to 

 all they teach. Evan E. Edwards. 



Madison Co., Ind, 



Stinging a Hatpin-Other Peculiar- 

 ities of Bees. 



I think I have an explanation for the action 

 of bees in stinging a hatpin head. It involves 

 the trait I learned when a boy, back in Illinois, 

 by which we boys used to jug bumble-bees, 

 hornets and yellow jackets, and doubtless 

 would catch bees or any stinging insect. 



We would take a jug (white preferred) 

 partly BUed with water, and set it near a nest, 

 in plain sight, and then disturb the inmates, 

 when they would come out and flght the jug, 

 stinging at the mouth until they went in with 

 the peculiar thud made by an insect going 

 into a jug or the bung-hole of a barrel. Dis- 

 turbing them a few times would exterminate 

 the entire colony. Bees generally sting at 

 some mark, as mouth, nose, eye or ear. I 

 have had them sting at a white shirt-button 

 on my wrist-band. 



If there are only one or two bees that are 

 anxious to fight, I try to get them to attack 

 the nose of my smoker, and give them a whiff 

 of smoke, which soon quiets their nerves. 



My bees were very cross when I got them 

 three years ago, but they are quite gentle 

 now. Bees are irritated by jars, as a person's 

 breath, the smell of poibon from the stinger. 

 I avoid these things as much as possible. I 

 don't think they know me from any one else, 

 or pay any attention to any smells, except the 

 above. I wear the clothes which I wear at 

 my other farm work, and they are often 

 tainted with various smells. The sweat from 

 my face often drops into the hive without 

 disturbing the bees. I think my bees know 

 when I have the smoker, because a small 

 amount of smoke— so little that it does not 

 seem to be sufficient to have any effect— keeps 

 them quiet, when if there was no smoke used 



they would come out for a general flght. 

 Prowers Co., Colo. C. Stimson. 



The Season of 1902. 



The last season, around here, was a.badone 

 for gathering honey, from early spring to late 

 fall. There was plenty of bloom in its season, 

 but having so much rain and cold spells, the 

 rains washed all nectar out of the bloom, 

 which made it hard for liees to gather honey, 

 except from the basswood flow, and for two 



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old whitewash lini>li «itli>nur hard work 



The Hardie Whitewashing Machine 



not only works much faster but forces the 

 liquid into every crack and destroys insect 

 life which a brush would pass over. 



Send $7.50 for the complete machine, ex- 

 press prepaid, 



need then] 



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 MFC CO. 



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200 to 400 colonies of BEES— northern Califor- 

 nia, Oregon or Texas. State price, f.o.b. cars; 

 also kind of hive, with and without supers; and 

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 laying. For hatching and brood 

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 d. F. MICHAEL, 

 13\4t R. t). Winchester, Ind. 



The Danz. Bive— 



The Comb Honey Hive. 



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lOAlTt BEUL BRANCH, MICH. ■ 



Bee-Keepers, Remember 



that the freight rates from Toledo 

 are tbe lowest ot any city lu the U.h. 

 We sell 



Root's Supplies at their 

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214 Jackson Avenue, 



TOLEDO, OHIO. 



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BASSWOOD TREES. 



n„»,n two feet 25 for fl.ro; 100 for $3.00 



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