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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 11, 1903. 



SWEET CLOVER 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arrangements so that we car 

 furnish Seed of several of the Clovers by f reighi 

 or express, at the following prices, cash witk 

 the order: 



sns lOBs 2Sni 50ft 

 Sweet Clover (white)....* .75 $1.40 J3.25 J6 00 



Sweet Clover (yellow) 90 1.70 4.00 7.S0 



Alsilce Clover 1.00 1.80 4.25 8.00 



White Clover l.SO 2 80 6.50 12.50 



Alfalfa Clover 1 00 1.80 4.25 8 ,00 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Single pound S 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. • CHICAGO, ILIi 



Very best ot 

 goods, lar- 

 _ _ gest stock in 



Send list of goods wanted AT ONCE 

 and get our 



Special Prices. 



'^free"^ C. M. SCOTT & CO.. 



Bee=Supplies 



49A26t 



1004 E. Washington Street, 

 INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 



JUST A LITTLE 



more money will \ni\ Pase Fence, a fence that fence.^ 



ALL the strick ALLthe time. Cataliig free. 



FAtiK HOVK.N rtlKK KENCE CO., ADRIAN, MICH. 



The Danz. Bive— 



The Comb Honey Hive. 



We sell it. We are authorized jobbing agents 

 for THE A. 1. ROOT CO., for Michigan. Send us 

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

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

 for catalog. H. M. HUNT & SON, 



10A17t BELL BRANCH, MICH. 



Please mention Bee Journal wtien \mting. 



BOYS 



WE WAKT WORKERS 



Boys, GlrlH, old and younjf aUkb, 

 make money workinfer for ub. 

 W'e farolfih capital to Blmrt y<in in basi- 



Tennessee Queens. 



Daughters of Select Imported 

 Italian, Select long-tongued 

 (Moore's), and Select, Straight 

 5-band Queens. Bred 3% miles 

 apart, and mated to select 

 droneP. No bees owned with- 

 in 2% miles; none impure 

 within 3, and but few within 

 5 miles. No disease. 30 years' 

 experience. WARRANTED 

 QUEENS, 75 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. 



To Boston and Return at One Fare 



for the round trip from Chicago via 

 Nickel Plate Road, for Christian Sci- 

 entists' meeting in June. Tickets on 

 sale June 2Sth, 26th and 27th, with ex- 

 tended return limit of Aug. 1st. Stop- 

 over at Niagara Falls, in either direc- 

 tion, without extra charge, and at New 

 York, returning, on payment of fee of 

 $1.00. No excess fare charged on any 

 of our trains. Write John Y. Calahan, 

 General Agent, 113 Adams St., room 

 298, Chicago, for detailed information. 

 'Phone Central 2057. 6— 22ASt 



ing in more, and temperature and humidity 

 are high. These two latter items should re- 

 ceive special attention, and I cannot do better 

 than quote from Cowan's " Honey-Bee." On 

 page 60, quoting Newport, he says; "Tem- 

 perature of the brood-nest in the swarming 

 season averages 9fi degrees, while in August it 

 is seldom over SO degrees, or perhaps 86 de- 

 grees, even in the middle of the day when 

 outer temperature is often more than 7S de- 

 grees." He then proceeds to give the scien- 

 tific reasons therefor. At swarming-time the 

 air of the hive is saturated with moisture, a 

 matter almost never alluded to as a requisite 

 for successful queen-rearing, whereas it is 

 one of the essentials. 



It is due to such causes as above that Dr. 

 Gallup's "rousing colonies" produce fine 

 queens, not to any supposed "umbilical 

 cord," the latter being merely the last " cast " 

 of the larva with its silken attachments. 



Quality of Catnip Honey. 



Last year, for the first time, J. A. Crane 

 had some catnip honey. He says in Glean- 

 ings in Bee Culture: 



It being a very wet season, the stuff grew 

 quite rank, and farmers were too busy, when 

 it did not rain, to cut it; consequently the 

 bees made a drive on it, wet or dry, rain or 

 shine. Wherever there was a bunch ot cat- 

 nip it would be covered with bees from morn- 

 ing till night. Well, just before buckwheat 

 came 1 extracted the crop, and— whew ! I 

 have it yet. I don't want any more. I can't 

 sell it, can't eat it, wouldn't give it away — 

 going to make t»es ot it. It all catnip is like 

 this, every pound ot it sold on the market 

 will spoil the sale of five pounds ot good 

 honey. 



Editor Root adds ; 



I tasted the honey at Dr. Grandy's that had 

 a slight flavor ot catnip. It was not unpleas- 

 ant. But a pure-catnip honey might be very 

 strong, and totally unfit for market, I think 

 we have had other reports to that ettect. In 

 the same way, hoarhound honey— the pure 

 article — is vile stuff. But a very little of it 

 mixed with some other good grade of honey 

 gives it a nice flavor that is not unlike the 

 hoarhound candy ot our childhood days. 



The Carniolan^ltalian Cross. 



L. H. Perry says in the American Bee- 

 keeper; 



I have crossed them for several years, and 

 with me the cross is a better bee than either 

 race in its purity. The most satisfactory re- 

 sults have been from the use ot a Carniolan 

 queen— the drone being Italian. In most 

 cases this gives me a bee that slicks right to 

 business in. a honey-flow, and also a prolific 

 queen. They are trying constantly to swar.n, 

 and are quite as gentle as either of the races 

 from which the cross originates, and are beau- 

 tiful bees, as well. 



I have kept Carniolaiis for many years, and 

 with the exception of their two bad traits — 

 excessive swarming and excessive brood-rear- 

 ing after the close ot the honey-flow- 1 find 

 them superior to the Italians in every way. 

 The use ot the Carniolan queen with Italian 

 drone, has given nie the bee best suited to my- 

 self, and I have no doubt the experience of 

 my brother bee-keepers would be the same. 

 The colonies which gave me the most honey 

 this year were all bred in this way, and I am 

 well pleased with their actions. Best ot all, 

 they did not oiler to swarm, but kept right at 

 woric, storing honey. It is my firm belief 

 that the more Carniolan blood one can get 



EHirQiS 



Bred from best Italian honev-gatbenuf; stock, 

 and reared iu FULL COLONIES by best known 

 methods. Guaranteed to be good Queens and 

 free from disease. Untested, 7Sc each; 6, $4.00. 

 Tested, SI. 25 each. Untested ready July 1st. 

 Tested about July 15tU. Address, 



CHAS. B. ALLEN, 

 ISAtf Central Square, Oswego Co . N. V. 



f: lease mention Bee Journal -wrheu "writiEii, 



Italian Queens, by Mail. 

 Golden and Honey Queensj^t 



1 6 12 



Untested $1,00 $ 5.00 $ 9.00 



Tested 1.25 7.00 13.00 



Breeder 4 00 



2-frame Nucleus (uo queen) 2.00 11.00 21.00 



Add price of any Queen wanted with Nucleus. 



Our bees are shipped in liffht 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 (■ of them more room, 

 as they were hanging out. They have more 

 than reached my expectations. 



Yours respectfully, E. K. Meredith. 



Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 31. I'^Ol. 



Your queens are fully up to standard. The 

 honey queen that you sent my brother takes 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 money by P. O. Money Order or 

 Express Order. D. J. BLOCHER. 



ITAtf PKARL CITY, ILL. 



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.^im A Good Wagon 



bej^ns «ifli iX'uid wheels. TnleHS 



the wliec-U nre enod the waeon ta 



^ ^,11 Crtniin-. IF Yor IJl'Y THE 



ill ELECTRIC STEEL WHEEL 



^■^ ^' mad? to tit any wagon— your wagoa 

 will always have good wheels. Can't 

 drv out or rot. No loose tires. Any 

 heipht. anv ^vidthti^e. Catalog free. 



ELECTRIC WHEEL CO. 



BoTl4i Ql'IACr. IIX* 



Catnip Seed Free I 



We have some of the seed of that fa- 

 inous honey-producing plant — Catnip. 

 It should be scattered in all waste- 

 places for the bees. Price, postpaid, 

 IS cents per ounce ; or 2 ounces mailed 

 FREE to a regrular subscriber for send- 

 ing us one NEW subscriber to the Bee 

 Journal for one year, with $1.00 ; or for 

 $1.20 we will send the Bee Journal one 

 year and 2 ounces of Catnip seed to 

 any one. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



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



55 Best, Queen of Sixtu-!ive 55 



Belle Plain e, Minn, April, 1103. 

 Mr. Alley:— I have a queen received from 

 you in IQTO. Her bees are the best honey-gath- 

 erers of an apiary of OS colonies in which are 

 queens from different breeders— natural queens 

 —as Dr. Gallup calls them. The Adel queen is 

 the best of the lot. C. J. Oldeniierg. 



A Tested Adel Breeding- Queen and ray new 

 book giving result of 40 years' experience in 

 rearing queens, sent by mail for %2.W). War- 

 ranted Adel queens, each, $1.00. Safe arrival 

 guaranteed. Send for price list of queens and 

 prospectus of book. "Z' 



20Atf HENRY ALLEY. Wenham. Mass. 

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 if you work for us. We will start you In 

 iDUBinesB and furnish the capital. Work 

 light and easy. Send 10 cents for full 

 liue of samples and particulars. 

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