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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 30, 1903. 



g-Frame Nuclei For Sale 



We are now booking^ orders for 3- 

 frame Nuclei of Italian Bees, with 

 queens, to be delivered between May 1 

 and May 15— first come first served. 

 They will be shipped by express from 

 Kankakee Co.. about SO miles south 

 of Chicago. They are on Langstroth 

 frames, and the number of Nuclei is 

 limited. Prices are. f. o. b. starting 

 point— One Nucleus, $3.00; 5 or more at 

 one time, S2.7S each. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



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



65 Best Queen o! Sixtu-tive 55 



Mr/alley: Belle Plains, Mi.nn. 



I have a queen received from you in 1%0. Her 



bees are the best honey-sratheiers of an apiary 



of 65 colonies in which are queens from ditterent 



breeders— natural queens, as Dr. Gallup calls 



them. The Adel queen is the best of the lot. 



C.J. Oldenbekg. 



Price List now ready. H. ALLEY. 



]jA4t Wenham, iVlass. 



A Pretty Good Test! 



Unroll a roll nt Paire Fence, and let eo. See the 

 spnnK in the wire mil It up auain. 

 "A(iK WOVKN WIKK KESCKCO., *D1!IAN, MICH 

 .-.ease mention Bee Jotunal when wntme 



Bee = Supplies 



G B.LEWIS CO'S GOODS and every- 

 thing necessary for handling bees. The very 

 best of goods, and largest stock in Indiana. 

 Low freight-rates. Catalog free. 



C. M. SCOTT & CO., 



1004 E. Washington Street, 

 4QA2bt INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 



SHEEP MONEY '« "o"" «?!'f? 



and easy to i 

 .ill Starr 

 .■apital. 



„.,.^^^j and fumiah the capital. \\ ork 

 ..ight and easy. Send 10 cents for fall 

 'line of Bomples and particulars. 



DRAPER PUBLISHINQ CO., Chicago, IIU- 



warned lo m 



unlimited quantities of ABSOLU TELY PURE 

 BEESWAX. Must be nice. Best prices paid, 

 either cash or in Supplies. Address at once, 

 C. M. SCOTT & CO., 



1004 E. Washington St., Ikdi^n.^polis, Ind. 



ISAtf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



A r\[\ Mounted Oueen-Cells and one 

 I I II I sample of the Stanley Cell- 

 *-^-'^J Protector or Introducing Cage 



for 7ii cents, postpaid. 



loAtf ARTHUR STANLEY, DIXON, ILL 



* 'e-ts© tnention Be«^ J 



as expected; it seemed to take very little 

 boaey to winter them. 



We have only three kinds of flowers that 

 yield honey to any extent: Basswood takes 

 the lead, blue thistle next, and raspberry 

 third. We have a great many acres of buck- 

 wheat, and the bees seem to work on it quite 

 a good deal, but the hives will get lighter all 

 the time— very seldom that we can find 

 enough to get a taste. As to white clover, 

 the bees will starve to death in June with 

 fields white with clover, in this section. 

 Aljout thirty years ago I lost over 30 colonies 

 by starvation, with fields white. I don't 

 know that I have had a taste of white clover 

 honey in 40 years. You very seldom see a 

 honey-bee on" the blossom ; it you chance to 

 see one it will look to be about half the size 

 of a good healthy bee, with a little bit of brown 

 pollen on its legs. C. M. Lincoln. 



Bennington Co., Vt., March '25. , 



Take a Trip 



over the Nickel Plate Road and becon- 

 vinced of its superior train service. 

 Solid through daily express trains be- 

 tween Chicago, Ft. Wavne, Findlay, 

 Fostoria, Erie, Buffalo, New York City 

 and Boston. American Club Meals, 

 ranging in price from 35c. to $1.00, 

 served in Nickel Plate dining-cars; 

 also service a la carte. Rates always 

 the lowest. No excess fare charged on 

 any train on the Nickel Plate Road. 

 Chicago depot : Harrison St. and Fifth 

 Ave. City Ticket Offices 111 Adams 

 St. and Auditorium Annex. John Y. 

 Calahan, General Agent, 113 Adams 

 St., Room 298, Chicago. 'Phone Cen- 

 tral 2057. 2— 17A5t 



Wintered Well. 



Our bees have come through the winter in 

 very good condition, and prospects are good ; 

 but, of course, time will tell. 



Sanfobd Haktman. 



Lincoln Co., Nebr., April 3. 



Sort 0' "Does Him Up Brown." 



On page ISO, there is an article that at- 

 tracted my attention—" Bee-Keeping in North 

 Ontario." I consider it a gross insult to 

 many of our able apiarists, as Mr. Brown says 

 if bees are properly handled foul brood and 

 insects will not attack the colonies. How 

 absurd, when many of the best apiarists have 

 to fight just such things. 



Mr. Brown says he has never met a man 

 that knows how to handle bees. How sad '. 

 How lonesome Mr. Brown must be in his 

 veritable land of milk and honey, as he terms 

 it. I wonder where Mr. Brown got his bees, 

 as he says no one else has anything like them. 



Mr. Brown says: "As to the keeping 

 qualities of my honey it is always as good the 

 following .June as when gathered the previous 

 Seplemljier." I wonder how long Mr. Brown 

 has been in the bee-business, that he does not 

 know that the quality of honey improves with 

 age, if properly cared for. I surmise that Mr. 

 Brown has been in the bee-business just long 

 enough to think that all other bee-keepers are 

 only "pebbles on the beach," while he is a 

 towering mountain. C H. Harlan. 



Kanabec Co., Minn., March 21. 



Standard Italian Queens 



OP THE HIGHEST QRADE, 



Bred in Separate yards from superior stock of 

 Golden and Leather-colored Strains. Selected 

 from among the best stocli of Long Tongue 

 Clover and UoneyQueens in .\merica. 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 add 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, Oretfon, Canada, Colo- 

 rado, Cuba, New Mexico, and many of the 

 States. We rear all queens sent out by us from 

 the i-gg or just-hatched larva; 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, prolific QUEENS, ond how 

 quick we can send them, just give us a trial 



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

 for $'1.00. 



Tested, $2.00; Select, $3.00; Best, $:!..00. 



Full Colonies, with Tested Oueen, ih 00. 



3frame Nuclei, wired Hoffman frames, no 

 Oueen, $2.0(i; 2-frame, no Queen, $1.50. (Add 

 price of Queen wanted to price of Nuclei. > 



Special rates on Queens by the 100. Safe arri- 

 val and satisfaction guaranteed. Shipping sea- 

 son begins in April. Write for circular. It is 

 FREE. T. S. HA-XjIj, 



13Atf Jasper, Pickens Co., Ga. 



VXZANTED TO BUY 



BEES 



n Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, or Wisconsin. 

 WM. C DAVENPORT. 

 ISAlt Lock Box .So, Wilmette, III. 



Comments on Several Subjects. 



On page 1.54 California says; "In lifting 

 out a frame it tears great ugly patches in the 

 comb.'' If his combs are not crooked it may 

 be like it is here. Some of my frames have 

 thin top-bars; the ijees will sometimes build 

 comb solid from one to the other. If the 

 frames are spaced very closely I can hardly 

 get one out without breaking the comb. The 

 way I do is to lake a short knife and cut the 

 comb loose on both sides of a frame, then I 

 have no more trouble until the next time, 

 when I have it all to do again. 



Here is a hand-shake for G. B. Williamson, 

 page 157, about forced swarms. If it is the 

 best way to have a good (|ueen by letting the 

 bees rear them at swarming-lime, how are we 

 going to get any good ones if we don't let 

 them swarm ? In fact, it would not work 

 well here to practice the shook-swarm plan, 

 as our best How is too short. 



I think I very nearly have some of Dr. 

 Miller's non-swarming bees. I have one col- 

 ony that I hived in 1WI3 that have swarmed 

 only one year; and one hived in 1895, and one 

 in ISWi. that have not swarmed al all. They 

 are in box-hives, too. 



I read with interest all that was said in the 

 Bee Journal last year about bees being able 

 to hear. I think Mr. Doolittle decided the 

 question in what he said about his bees kill- 

 ing a singing queen. If they can't hear how 

 did they know she was singing? 



Several have asked Dr. Miller about keeping 

 queens a few days after receiving them 

 through the mail. The good Doctor always 

 says. Keep them in a warm jilace; but 1 suii- 

 pose he forgets to warn them about ants. If 



fl iifE INVITE all readers of the Amer- S 

 47 II ICAN Bee JODRNAL who seek a col- 9 

 « lege for themselves or friends to inves- g 



I MouniUnionGolleoe | 



Ifi Our motto in all departments is "Max- 



rt imum efBciency at minimum cost." g 



tj Our scholastic training is equal to the g 



V) best, our reputation first-class. All ex- g 



^2 penses for a year, aside from the cloth- J^ 



*' ing and traveling, less than $200.00. Co' J, 



i' education, health conditious, moral and ?i 



4' reliirious influence, superior. g 



•' Send for catalog. {^ 



S MOUNT UNIOX COLLEGE, g 



2* Alliance. Ohio. g 



SWEET CLOVER 



And Sevepal Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arrangements so that we c«n 

 famish Seed of several of the Clovers by freight 

 or express, at the following prices, cash with 



•"*"*"= Sib lOIb 25ft .-iOtt 



Sweet Clover (yellow).... $.90 $1.70 $».00 $7.50 



Alsike Clover LOO 1.80 4.25 8.00 



WhiteClover L-SO 2 S3 ^SOUSO' 



A.lfalfa Clover 100 1.80 4.25 8 00 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Single pound 5 cents more than the 5-ponnd 

 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 mall. 



GEORGE W. YORK A CO. 

 144 & 146 Erie Street, - CHICAGO, ILL 



