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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 4, 1903. 



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Red Oak, Iowa. 



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SWEET CLOVER 



And Several OtheF Clover Seeds. 



We haTe made arrangements so that we can 

 famish Seed of several of the Clovers by freight 

 or express, at the following prices, cash with 



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Sweet Clover (yellow).... $.90 11.70 $4.00 $7.50 



Alsike Clover 1.00 1.80 4.2S 8.00 



White Clover 1.50 2.80 6.50 12.50 



Alfalfa Clover 1.00 1.80 4.JS 8.00 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Single pound 5 cents more than the 5-poand 

 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. 



eEORGE W. YORK A CO. 

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Special Prices. 



C. M. SCOTT & CO., 



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Tenne ssee ft ueens. 



Daughters of Select Imported 

 Italian, Select long-tongued 

 (Moore's), and Select,Straight 

 5-band Queens. Bred 3K miles 

 apart, and mated to select 

 drones. No bees owned with- 

 in 2^ miles; none impure 

 within 3, and but few within 

 S miles. No disease. 30 years' 

 cperience. WARRANTED 

 UEENS, 75 cents each ; 

 ESTED, $1.50 each. Dis- 

 count on large orders. 

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45 8-frame dovetail HIVES, (complete except 

 frames) about a dozen of them new, and bal- 

 ance but slightly used; ISO Sframe Ideal supers 

 with fences, nearly all new; and 2000 Ideal 

 358x5xl>4i sections, never opened; hives and 

 supers painted one coat. $40.00 takes the lot; 

 worth $100. C. H. MCNEIL, 



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Heavleswiiui stronBest madf^fences poultry IN and 

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Boys, GirlH, (.idandyounjr alike, 



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New and Second-hand Comb-Honey Supers, 

 both 8-frame and lo-frame size, at half-price or 

 less. Some have sections and drawn comb. 

 Either section-holder arrangement or T supers 

 can be furnished. Hoffman worker-combs 

 wanted; also 5gal. square tin cans. 

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some of the results, first stating that every 

 year here is like the season you had there last 

 year— more or less cold and rainy during the 

 best honey-How, and the nights are always 

 cool here. Well, sir, I had h colonies enter 

 the supers before apple was in, and now, May 

 10, with apple in full bloom, every colony in 

 the home yard is working,' in the supers, and 

 those first .5 have each '-i supers on and over 

 half full, and they are all full-blooded blacks. 



Say, Mr. Alley, don't you think I ought to 

 be suppressed* 



Now, to come back to the subject in hand, 

 the queen you got in 1878, valued as she 

 should be for what honey her bees would pro- 

 duce in surplus, was worth just that much 

 more than the rest, as the crop from her col- 

 ony would exceed that of the others, quality, 

 etc., considered, which might not have ex- 

 ceeded any of the rest, nothing more. Any 

 other value you got out of her you created by 

 advertising and beauty, not utility. 



Now, Mr. Alley, I see by your remarks 

 about black queens, yellow queens, dunghill 

 fowls, and up-to-date fowls, you have an eye 

 to free advertisements yet. But, look here, 

 don't you know that the best breeds of chick- 

 ens alive to-day for producing eggs are the 

 selected descendants ot those despised dung- 

 hill fowls? Well, I am just selecting the 

 honey-producers from among my blacks. 



I am very sorry to lose my mainstay and 

 support on queens, "Dr. Gallup," but the 

 loss is pretty well made up by " foxy grand- 

 pa " coming to the rescue. I say, hurrah for 

 G. M. Doolittle, and with such a man as he 

 by my side I am ready to do battle with the 

 world, as he uses nothing but high-pressure, 

 smokeless powder, while Mr. Alley uses that 

 horrible smoky stuff. 



Well, I will close for this time, but will give 

 you black-powder fellows something to roar 

 about when I get time to write an article on 

 laying workers, worker queens, and queens 



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Geo. B. Whitcomb. 



Linn Co., Oreg., May 13. 



Bees Stinging Bright Objects— Sow- 

 ing for Bees. 



Tell C. Stimson to get one of the bright 

 pendants that are used on the hanging lamps. 

 They are of glass and cut with many faces, 

 so that the rays of light strike from all direc- 

 tions, making an attractive mark. I have to 

 wear glasses to see well in clipping queens. 

 I don't like to wear a veil, as it not only im- 

 pedes sight, but interferes with breathing 

 and then, as 1 am one ot the boys of '01, I 

 contracted the tobacco habit when camp-life 

 had tew entertainments. The veil interferes 

 with the use of the weed. The bees had a 

 habit of diving for the glistening of my 

 glasses, and generally would hit the mark, 

 then crawl under them, and get m their work 

 on or near my eyes. I have had as many as 

 100 shots a day, and while the stmg doesn't 

 swell iny flesh it interferes with one's comfort. 

 80 I stuck a pin through one of these pen- 

 dants, and making a hook of it, stuck it m 

 my hat This makes a prominent mark and 

 good target, and keeps them wondering why 

 things are thus. , . . , 



I sowed five acres of alfalfa on high clay 

 ridge this spring. If it doesn't do well I shall 

 resow in two years, and thus gradually get 

 the " bugs " in that soil. We were taught in 

 our army life that the only way to succeed 

 was to keep everlastingly at it, and lE at first 

 repulsed (which often occurred, as our friends 

 in the Southland were of mighty good mate- 

 rial ) , to spit on our hands and try again. We 

 must adopt these tactics in our business and 

 never say die, but try, try again, and success 

 will crown our efforts. ^ , , 



I sowed half a bushel ot catnip seed last 

 fall in waste-places, under hedges, and along 

 river banks. It is coming up nicely. I got 

 some carpet-grass seed Irom California, and 

 have sowed that in sheltered spots, but do not 

 expect much from it in this climate. I have 

 some phacelia seed from (iermany that 1 will 

 trv It is a fine bee and fodder plant there, 

 an old German informs me. I have also 

 sowed buckbush along low ground near nver 

 edge, and expect good returns. We can do 

 much to improve our range 11 we will only 



*E?ght years ago I sowed a peck of sweet 



