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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 7, 1903. 



TDousands o! Hives = Millions oi Secilons 



Ready for Prompt Shipment. 



We are not sellinpf goods on NAME ONLY, but on their quality. 

 In addition to the many car-loads we are shipping to all parts of the United 

 States, we have just made one shipment of five car-loads to England. 



G. B. LEWIS CO., Watertown, Wisconslu, U. S. A. 



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

 lowest. Prompt service is what I practice. Satisfaction guaranteed. Lang- 

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



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



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Dittmer's FonndatioD ! 



This foundation is made by a process that pro- 

 duces the superior of any. It is the cleanest and 

 purest. It has the brightest color and sweetest 

 nd Wholesale. odor. It is the most transparent, because it has 



It is tough and clear as crystal, and gives more sheets to the pound than any 



Retail 

 the thinnest base. 

 other make. 



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wanted to catch them. The black ants were 

 very bad, so I got all the land tarpons I could 

 find, and they crawled off; then I got hop- 

 toads. They hopped off, but cleaned up the 

 ants before they went. I then took a Bantam 

 hen and chickens, and she cleaned up all 

 pests. 



This year I am going to hang a lantern over 

 a tub of water; the miller is great for coming 

 to the light. 



I got 183 pounds of good honey and 6 

 swarms. I think that is doing well. 



Kent Co., Md., April 13. Thos. Gore. 



Foul Bpood in Ontario. 



Et5iTOR York ; — In a recent number of the 

 American Bee Journal I see a report as to the 

 extermination of foul brood in Ontario. With- 

 out going into any details let me say that 

 our good friend Mr. McEvoy is looking at 

 things through rather rose-eolored glasses. I 

 can take him or yoa to more than one part of 

 the Province where he has inspected and found 

 foul brood, and for a whole year or more 

 never went back to see that they were treated 

 or cured ; this does not speak well of its 

 almost extermination. To my knowledge it 

 is in the countiesof Victoria, York, Peel, Nor- 

 folk and Simcoe; and several counties are 

 moving to have county inspectors, so the 

 work will be done more expeditiously. 



I have been pressed to make these state- 

 ments, and in justice to bee-keepers they 

 should be made, as you have published the 

 other side. R. F. Holtekmann. 



Ontario, Canada, April 24. 



Bees in British Columbia. 



I send a few words from British Columbia, 

 reporting the condition of my bees after a 

 steady, cold winter, with no flight between 

 November and March. They were wintered 

 out-of-doors, with two or three inches of 

 planer-shavings between the hives and an 

 outer rough case. A ganny-sack, with planer- 

 shavings placed in a super, formed the cush- 

 ion. 



I had b colonies, one in a 10-frame Lang- 

 stroth hive, two 8-frame Langstroths, and two 

 Danzenbaker hives. We had a light fall of 

 snow just before they took their fiight, about 

 the middle of March, and that cost me a lot 

 of bees, for when they lit on this fluffy snow 

 they sank in and soon met death in the icy 

 meshes of that downy while mantle. Had the 

 snow been packed the least they could have 

 risen again, but, as it was, I lost a lot of my 



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A Celluloid Queen-Button is a very 

 pretty thing for a bee-keepei»or honey-seller 

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

 introduce the subject of honey, and fre- 

 quently leads to a sale. 



Note.— One reader writes: "I have every 

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

 idea for every beekeeper to 

 wear one (of the buttonsj as it 

 will cause people to ask ques- 

 tions about the busy bee, and 

 many a conversation thus 

 started would wind up with 

 the sale of more or less honey; 

 at any rate it would give the 

 bee-keeper a superior oppor- 

 tunity to enligrhten many a 

 person in regard to honey and.bees. 



The picture shown herewith is a reproduc- 

 tion of a motto queeu-button that we are fur- 

 nishing to bee-keepers. It has a pin on the 

 underside to fasten it. 



Price, by mail, 6 cents; two for 10 cents; 

 or 6 for 25 cents. Send all orders to the oflBce 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



