June IS, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



395 



TDousanfls oi Hives - Mlinoos ot Sections 



Ready for Prompt Shlpmeiit. 



We are not sellinfr 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., WatertowH, Wisconsin, U. S. A. 



28 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 



This is a good time 



to send in your Bees- 



• ji _tf 1~> f*^ **« wax. We are payine 



paid for Beeswax. * ai-- j-;- 



■ low, upon its receipt, or 30 cents in trade. Impure wax not taken at any price. 

 Address as follows, very plainly, 



GEORQE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, 111. 



Tell all Poultry Troubles 



t" uy. iHir poultry specialists will answer anil 



FUril LINE bir SUPPLIES 



Everything the best of its kind, from markers 



to incubators. Oureatalo(fue wiilititerest and 



profit you. Mailed free; ask for Catalogue B. 



W. J. GIBSOR & CO., (Inc.) UNION STOCK TIRDS, CHICAGO. 



Italian Queens, by Mail. 

 Golden and Honey QueensjSi^" 



1 



6 12 



$ 5.00 $ 9.00 



7.00 13.00 



11.00 21.00 

 th Nucleus. 



Untested $1.00 



Tested 1.2S 



Breeder 4 00 



2-f rame Nucleus (no queen) 2.00 



Add price of any Queen wanted 



Our bees are shipped in light shipping'-cases. 

 Purchaser pays express on Nuclei. 



Safe arrival guaranteed of all stock sent oat. 



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 my expectations. 



Yours respectfully, E. K. Meredith. 



Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 31, IWl. 



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 money by P. O. Money Order or 

 Express Order. D. J. BLOCHER. 



ITAtf PEARL CITY, ILL. 



and ea£y to make 

 if you work for ae. We wlU start you in 

 ousluesfi and furnish the c&pltaL Work 

 Hffht and easy. Send 10 cents for full 

 iloe of samples and particulars. 

 DRAPES PUBLISBINQ CO., Chicago, llli. 



Boston Excursions 



via the Nickel Plate Road, June 25th 

 to 27th, inclusive ; also July 1st to Sth, 

 inclusive, at popular rates. Write City 

 Ticket Office, 111 Adams St., and Union 

 Ticket Office, Auditorium Annex, Chi- 

 cago. 'Phones Central 2057 and Har- 

 rison 2208. 17— 25A3t 



Agriculture and Golden Queens 



mailed promptly on receipt of $1.00 each, or 

 S'J.OO per dozen. While the Goldens are of the 

 highest type, the daughters of a fine breeder 

 imported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

 from the Province of Bergamo, Italy, are sec- 

 ond to none. Money-order office, Warrenton, 



W. H. PRIDGEN, 



23A4t CREBK, Warren Co.. N. C. 



Please mention Bee Journal -when ■WTitlii& 



B 



INGHAM'S PATENT 



Smokers 



2SAtf T. F. BINQHAIVt, Farwell. Mich 



Please mention Bee Journal when ■writlns 



Complete Line of Lewis' Matchless Dovetail Hives and 



Supplies at Factory Prices. 

 HIGH-CLASS QUEENS. — Buckeye Strain Red Clover 



Queens, they roU in the honey while the ordinary starve. 



Muth Strain Golden Italians, |'°pe'rior Carniolans, g°t"r. 



We guarantee safe arrival by return mail. 



APRIL, MAY. JUNE. 



Untested H.Meach; 6 for f 5.00 I Best monev can buy $5.00 each. 



Select Untested... 1.25 each; 6 frr 6.00 2-frame Nuclei with Select Untested 



Tested 2.00 each; 6 for 10.00 Queen $2.75 



Select Tested ... . 3.00 each; 6 for 15.00 | 



Send for Catalog and see SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS. 



THE FRED W. MUTH CO. 



Piease mentioa Bee ioamal -wn^n wrttiiut 



Dittmer's Fonndation ! 



This fomidation 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 

 Retail and Wholesale. odor. It is ihi; most transparent, because it has 



the thinnest base. It is tough and clear as crystal, and give^ more sheets to the pound than any 

 other make. 



Working M'ax into Foundation for Ca!!!! a Specialty. Beeswax 

 alvrays wanted at Iiigliest price. 



CaUlog giving FULL LINE OF SUPPLIES with prices an d samp les, FREE on application. 



GUS, DriTMER, Augusta, Wis, 



we had a day the bees could fly I would go 

 and take off the cover to the winter-case and 

 run a stick down through the tin tube into 

 the feeder, and if I found no feed I put in 

 sugar syrup— three parts sugar, one part 

 water -hot right from the stove. I did not 

 expect they would live, but they did, and 

 came out strong last spring. I had a very 

 poor season last year. C. (J. Ascha. 



Berkshire Co., Mass., May 31. 



A Discouraging Outlook. 



The big freeze of last April was followed by 

 fairly warm weather through May, but it was 

 (|uite windy a large part of the time. The 

 bees did quite well, however, as there was an 

 extra-tine dandelion bloom, and some colonies 

 were nearly ready to swarm; in fact, I heard 

 of one stray swarm a week ago. But the last 

 week or 10 days it has been excessively rainy, 

 and now it is cold and cloudy, with the bees 

 destitute of honey. Many of the best colones 

 are running out drones, while the ground is 

 getting white with clover bloom. 



Truly, the prospects of no honey crop can 

 " go glummering " more easily than that for 

 honey, and yet " Hope springs eternal in the 

 human heart," especially it it is a bee-keep- 

 er's heart. For let the present be never so 

 barren, cheerless or dreary ; the glorious pros- 

 pects for " next year" still, still loom ahead. 

 E. S. Miles. 



Crawford Co., Iowa, May 31. 



Cause of Foul Brood. 



Out of 90 healthy colonies on May 1, fully 

 60 are more or less affected with what I take 

 to be foul brood, the first I have had in the 

 yard. It appeared in the home yard and in 

 "the new yard at another place, where I have 

 most of the bees. 



I watered the bees in a trough, and as a 

 number of them got drowned in it, this 

 made the water smell Ijefore I cleaned it or 

 them out as the weather got warm. The dead 

 brood and combs smell the same as the water 

 did. Might this not be foul brood ; 



I wish to know first the cause of foul brood, 

 but the "Smart Set " are wholly ignorant of 

 the cause. Root's " A B C of Bee-Culture" 

 has " Foul Brood and Its Cause" indexed, 

 but says not a word as to the cause. It 

 doesn't even say that they do not know the 

 cause. There is a good, big field for the dis- 

 covery of the cause, and an important one, 

 too. 



Bees wintered well, and are in fair condi- 

 tion. Rain is much needed, with a higher 

 temperature. D. C. Bacon. 



Bradford Co., Pa., .lune 1. 



Too Rainy for Bees. 



Bees are breeding up very well, but are 

 quite short in stores, as the fruit-bloom is all 

 frozen. We have had rainy weather here 

 since May 10, with some very hard, washing 

 rains, and it is still raining, so the bees can 

 not fly much. White clover is blooming 

 abundantly. D. E. Evers. 



Otoe Co., Nebr., May 30. 



Alfalfa Honey in Wisconsin. 



I saw in the last Bee .Journal, in " Our Bee- 

 Keeping Sisters' '' department, the statement 

 that there has never been any report of alfalfa 

 yielding honey east of the Mississippi River. 

 I believe Dr. Miller made the same statement. 

 Now. I want to say to them that we have pro- 

 duced thousands of pounds of alfalfa honey 

 right here in old Wisconsin. We have lots 

 of alfalfa, and get lots ot honey from it, as 

 our State Inspector, N. E. France, will testify. 

 We have plenty of white clover and an abun- 

 dance of sweet clover and basswood. But we 

 get very little honey, as a rule, from the bass- 

 wood. ' Alfalfa has been raised here for years, 

 standing the winters well, and making the 

 best of fodder for stock. 



Now, don't say a word aliout this to any 

 one except Dr. Miller's family, for this locality 

 is already overstocked with bees. We (my 

 boy and myself) will run over 200 colonies 

 this year to extracted honey, which will he 



