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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 21, 1903. 





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Lamar, Colo. 

 Trester Supply Co.. Q 



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Kooxville, Iowa. ?■ 



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Red Oak, Iowa. 



Italian Queens, by Mail. 

 Golden and Honey Queens S^t 



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2-frame Nucleus (no queenl 2.00 11.00 21.00 



Add price of any Queen wanted with Nucleus. 



Our bees are shipped in light shipping-cases. 

 Purchaser pays express on Nuclei. 



Safe arrival guaranteed of all stock sent out. 

 Batavia, III., Aug. 21, 1901. 



Dear Sir:— I thought I would let you know as 

 to results of the nucleus sent me. They were 

 placed in 10-frame hives and now they are in 

 fine condition. From one I removed 24 pounds 

 of honey and had to give 6 of them more room, 

 as they were hanging out. They have more 

 than reached ray expectations. 



Yours respectfully, E. K. Meredith. 



Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 31, fOI. 



Your queens are fully up to standard. The 

 honey queen that you sent my brother lakes the 

 lead. She had a rousing colony when put up 

 for winter. The goldens can be handled with- 

 out smoke or veil. Very truly yours, 



John Thoeming. 



Notice. — No tested stock sent out before 

 May 15. Send mon^^y by P. O. Money Order or 

 Express Order. D. J. BLOCHER. 



l7Atf PEARL CITY, ILL. 



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Miiness Queens. 



Bred Irom best Italian honey gathering stock, 

 and reaied in PULL COLONIES by best known 

 methods. Gmranteed to be good Queens and 

 free fiom disease. Untested, TSc each; 6 $4.00. 

 Tested, $1 .;S each Untested ready July 1st. 

 Tested about July 15th. Address, 



CHAS. B. ALLEN. 

 l.SAtf Central Square, Oswego Co , N. Y. 



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 have moDCy. We start you In buslDeBs. Yon make 

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is the short line to the East, and the 

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 Meals, ranging in price from 3Sc. to 

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 Adams St. and Auditorium Annex. 

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AN EXPERT'S ADVICE 



Mr. H. M. Ho 



Poultry Supply House. 



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 ol thi- hij^hest quality. Also Standard Bred Poultry, 

 HaN-liint- Egps, etc. Write us your troubles and 

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WJ. Gibson &. Co , (inc.,) Union Slock Yards, Chicago. 



Tennessee Queens. 



Daughters of Select Impoited 

 Italian, Select long-todgued 

 (Moore's.;, and Select, Straight 

 S-band Queens. Bred 3% miles 

 apart, and mated to select 

 droner,. No bees owned with- 

 in 2^ miles; none impure 

 within 3, and but few within 

 Smiles. No disease. 30 years' 

 experience. WARRANTED 

 OOEENS, 7 5 cents each ; 

 TESTED, $1.50 each. Dis- 

 count on large orders. 

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 Send for circular. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, 



qA26t SPRING HILL, TENN. 



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The Danz. Hive— 



The Comb Honey Hive. 



We sell it. We are authorized jobbing agents 

 for THE A. I. ROOT CO., lor Michigan. Send us 

 a list of the goods you want for this season, and 

 let us quote you prices. Beeswa.x wanted. Send 

 forcatalog. H. M. HUNT & SON. 



10A17t BELL BRANCH, MICH. 



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just that very angle whereby the greatest 

 strength with the least material can be se- 

 cured ; so that every cell bespeaks the presence 

 of God who alone could thus guide the bee 

 unconsciously to the uniform making of such 

 an angle. Yes, each cell tells of God. 



I find the same in every book, chapter and 

 verse, yes, word, of Holy Scripture, like the 

 cell of the comb; there is the presence of the 

 infinite mind even while employing men like 

 so many bees in the formation of this Divine 

 honey-comb of Holy Scripture. But, after 

 all, the sweetness of the product of all these 

 bees is the one quality most obvious. Surely, 

 to the man of spiritual taste, there is and can 

 be uothing so sweet as the Bible— God's great 

 honey-comb. Nor could I fail to note that, 

 although so many bees are engaged in the con- 

 struction of the comb, there was no confu- 

 sion in the process or in the result. Each did 

 its own work in its own place. Just so was 

 it with God's honey-comb — the Bible. Differ- 

 ent writers, in different lands, and from dif- 

 ferent sources, gathered the materials for 

 God's honey-comb, even as in the structure of 

 this of the bees. 



But why should I weary you with this line 

 of thought suggested by your gift? Enough 

 to state that to mind and palate your gift was 

 enjoyable. 



Again thanking you for your gift, I am. 

 Very truly yours in the Lord, 



A. McClei,land. 



[The above was sent to a friend of ours (Mr. 

 A. Weigand) who handed it to us for publica- 

 tion. Mr. McClelland is about 65 years of 

 age, and has been blind since his Sth year. 

 But his spiritual vision seems to be all right. 

 — Editor.] 



Honey and Fried Bacon. 



One of the boys in the Second Regiment 

 tells me that, while encamped in southern 

 Florida, he went out with a searching party 

 for water. After finding a good spring in a 

 ravine a mile or so from camp, he was about 

 to return, when he discovered bees going in 

 and out of a large dead palm-tree. With axes 

 they felled it in such a manner as to split the 

 shell wide open. Then they gathered many 

 combs of beautiful honey in several large 

 new handkerchiefs. Returning to camp, they 

 squeezed or pressed (with the aid of sticks) the 

 honey out on a lot of bacon just fried. The 

 boys had the best meal since they had left 

 home. I have developed a fondness for honey 

 and bacon since hearing the story, and prefer 

 it to any kind of steaks. 



The fellow who picked up the honey had 

 bees all over his sticky hands and was not 

 stung, but the one who tried to run was stung 

 many times. F. H. Drake. 



Wocester Co., Mass. 



Lost Bees in Winter. 



I had the misfortune to lose all my bees the 

 past winter, with the exception of one red 

 clover colony. This colony built up from a 

 3-frarae nucleus to a very strong colony ; in 

 fact I took one of the frames of brood away 

 to strengthen a weak colony. The colonies, 4 

 in all, starved, I think : in fact I know they 

 either had foul brood or black brood. Mr. 

 F R Root thinks it was foul brood, but this 

 spring I cannot see any signs of disease, and 

 shall try to build up some good colonies from 

 this queen. Her hive is full of brood and 

 bees at this writing, but the weather is bad 

 for bees here. 1 have .V2 tine colonies iii the 

 South ; there was not a day the past winter 

 but what they were flying. 



I don't believe I ever wrote to you about 

 the queen I got from you when I subscribed 

 for the American Bee Journal, bhe came all 

 richt and I made a nucleus and after '.24 hours 

 introduced her; she went right to laying, and 

 in about 2 weeks after. I had a weak colony 

 with a poor queen, and I thought it best to 

 pull her head olf, and that I would then put 



hese 2 colonies together. I smoked both 

 colonies, but the next day I found the queen 

 dead in froLt of the hive, and they then reared 

 a queen of their own, but all petered out last 

 winter. I notice some queen-breeders com- 

 plain of being imposed on ; if they will take 



