Julv 2, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



429 



SWEET CLOVER 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arrangemeiits so that we can 

 fmmish Seed of several of the Clovers by freight 

 or express, at the following prices, cash with 

 the order: 



sn lom zsm sob 



Sweet Clover |white)....$ .75 $1.40 J3.2S f6.00 



Sweet Clover (yellow) 90 1.70 4.00 7.£0 



AUlkeClover 1.00 1.80 4.25 S.0O 



White Clover 1.50 2.80 6.50 12.50 



Alfalfa Clover 1.00 1.80 4.25 8.00 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Single pound 5 cents more than the 5-pound 

 rate, and 10 cents extra for postage and sack. 



Add 25 cents to jonr 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, ILI, 



Tennessee Queens. 



Daughters of Select Imported 

 Italian, Select long-tong'ued 

 (Moore's), and Select,Straig-ht 

 S-band Queens. Bred 2% miles 

 apart, and mated to select 

 drones. No bees owned with- 

 in 2H miles; none impure 

 within 3, and but few within 

 Smiles. No disease. 30 years' 

 experience. WARRANTED 

 QUEENS, 75 cents each ; 

 TESTED, $1.50 each. Dis- 

 count on larg-e orders. 

 Contracts with dealers a spe- 

 cialty. Discount after July 1st 

 Send for circular. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, 



9A26t SPRING HILL, TEKN. 



Flease mention Bee Jonmal "wlien "writms 



Bee=Supplies 



Very best ot 

 goods, lar- 

 m M gest stock in 



Indiana. Send list of goods wanted AT ONCE 



and get our 



Special Prices. 



^Tee.^ C. M. SCOTT & CO., 



1004 E. Washington Street, 

 49Atf INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 



OnCCr MUNCT and easy to make 



u work for ue. We wili start you in 



leee and furnish the capital. Work 



|light and easy. Send 10 cenU for full 



line of Bamples and particulars. 



DKAPER PUBLISQINQ CO.. Chicago, lilt. 



INVESTMENTS 



IN 



SOUT HERN L ANDS, 



Such investments are not speculative. The 

 South is not a new country. Market and ship- 

 ping facilities are adequate and first-class. The 

 climate is mild and favorable. Notwithstand- 

 ing- these and other advantages, Southern lands 

 are selling- for prices far below their real value, 

 and at present prices net large returns on the 

 investment. For a free set of circulars, Nos. 

 1 to 10, inclusive, concerning the possibilities of 

 lands id Kentucky, West Tennessee, Mississ- 

 ippi and Louisiana, on and near the Illinois 

 Central Railroad, for homeseekers and invest- 

 ors, address the undersigned, 



fl.H.HftlSSON, G.P.fl., Ghicaou. 



26A12t Please mention the Bee Journal. 



WARM YOUR HOUSE 



at low .-..i-t l.y u^ini; the LCAItElt .-ti-i-l t iiniai-e. 

 Saves cc.al. time, trouble. Send for free l-...,klet .N... IT 

 lieu Warmlue and Ventilating Co., C'hleuffo, 111. 

 Please mention Bee Journal ■wn.-u wTiun» 



Saratoga Excursion 



July 5th and 6th, at $17.45 for the round 

 trip, via Xickel Plate Road. Final re- 

 turn limit July 20th. Three trains 

 daily to Xew York City and Boston. 

 City Ticket Office, 111 Adams St., Chi- 

 cago. "Phone Central 2057. ll~25A3t 



cement is the unly cheap material that will 

 furnish the warmth of the earth without the 

 moisture of I In- soil or' water sun-ouiuUn ;; it. 

 r_- A ilry room surrounded by the warm earth 

 must be depemluil upon in order to allow the 

 central upward ventilating flues. It is alone 

 by them that dry, fresh air can at present be 

 supplied in sullicient volume to meet the de- 

 mand of the bees. My three Hues are all wide 

 open now ; and the bees are not roaring be- 

 cause they have or have not a " sniff '' of the 

 spring air. 



These three Hues have a superficial area of 

 710 inches, eiiiial to one flue about five feet 

 wide by one foot thick, reaching up into the 

 air sixteen feet. 



The Queen's Retinue. 



That retinue .surrounding the queen is some- 

 thing after this fashion in this locality : 



Under normal circumstances, when a queen 

 is traveling over the comb, no worker accom- 

 panies her. It she runs against the hind end 

 of a worker, the worker will pay no more at- 

 tention to her than to another worker. If, 

 however, the worker is in such position that 

 she can reco^rnize the presence of the queen, 

 whether the queen touches her or not, the 

 worker will invariably squarely face the 

 queen ; and if the queen stands still lony 

 I'liovi/li there will be a circle of bees all facing 

 centrally. As soon, however, as the queen 

 moves on, the circle breaks up, never to be 

 formed again of the same bees. — tileanings in 

 Bee-Culture. 



Uniting Weak Colonies. 



The following discussion upon this topic 

 at the Ontario convention is taken from the 

 Canadian Bee .Journal : 



Mr. Chrysler — In August or the first of Sep- 

 tember, I simply set one on top of the other 

 for a few days and get them all in one hive- 

 body ; it they needed feeding for the winter I 

 would feed them then. I would pay no atten- 

 tion to the queens; they settle that them- 

 selves. 



Mr. Dickenson — Unless you knew one 

 queen was better than another* 



Mr. Chrysler — Oh, certainly. 



Mr. Byer— Wouldn't a number of bees go 

 back to their old stand * 



Mr. Chrysler — I wouldn't care very much 

 for that. 



Mr. McEvoy — Did I understand Mi'. 

 Chrysler to say he simply set one on top of 

 the other and unite them? 



Mr. Chrysler — I would set them on top of 

 one another and let them be like that for a 

 few days when I would come along again and 

 dispose ot the frames not occupied and get 

 them all in one hive-body ; they would be one 

 colony then. 



Mr. McEvoy — I would get the bees to fill 

 themselves pretty thoroughly upon their own 

 stand and do the work in the evenings as late 

 as I could do it and then unite them at once. 

 I would raise the hive 2 or 3 inches from the 

 bottom and shake the bees down and let them 

 run in and give them a fair smoking so as to 

 knock all the fight out of them. 



Mr. Heise — I k'o to the hives I wish to unite 

 and remove all the frames except just what 

 the bees occupy ; I do that one evening and 

 the next evening I come along and generally 

 lift three out of one hive and place them in 

 the other, leaving space for one frame be- 

 tween; let them remain on those for three or 

 four days or a week and then I put the rest of 

 the frames in and I have never noticed any 

 fight. 



Empty or Filled Frames for Forced 



Swarms '■" 



.1. F. Crane says, in Gleaningsjn ^Bee-Cul- 



If we shake our bees into an empty hive 

 there will be a loss of ten days to two weeks 

 (usually), unless they are very strong, and 

 honey very aliundant, before they will do 

 much in the surplus apartment. Some writ- 

 ers say they '-an get more surplus honey 

 when a swarm is compelled to build combs in 

 the brood-chamber than when given founda- 



Prize =WinninQ 



Daughters of Moore's famous long-tongued 

 red clover Italian Queen, which won the $25.00 

 prize offered by The A. I. Root Co. for the loog- 

 est-tongued bees; and also daughters of other 

 famous long-tongued red-clover breeders whose 

 bees "just roll in the honev,'" as Mr. Henry 

 Schmidt, of Hutto, Tex., puts it, now ready to 

 go by return mail. Untested Queens, 75c each; 

 six, $4.00; dozen, $7.50. Selected Untested, $1.00 

 each; si.\,$5.00; dozen, $9.0(1. Safe arrival and 

 satisfaction guaranteed. Cif^iiar free. 

 J. P. MOORE, 



25Alf Lock Box I. MORGAN. KY. 



MountiUnlonGoil6Q6 



Our motto in all departments is "Max- 

 imum eflficieacy at minimum cost." 



Our scholastic training is equal to the 

 best, our reputation first-class. All ex- 

 penses for a year, aside from the cloth- 

 ing and traveling, less than $200.00. Co- 

 education, health conditions 

 religious influence, superior. 



Send for catalog. 



MOUNT UMOX COIjLEGE, 



Alliance, Ohio. 



Rural Telephones —Telephones are becomiutr 

 very common in rural communities and the 

 more they are used the greater their apprecia 

 tion. The low cost of maintaining a service of 

 this kind makes it possible for those who are in 

 en verv raod- 

 -ate circura- 



nec t ion with 

 their neighbors 

 and with neigh- 

 boring towns. 



It may safely 

 be said that the 

 telephone has 

 solved more 

 problems than 

 any other inven- 

 tion of modern 

 times. It has 

 made farm-life 

 more attractive 

 and brought into 

 close communi- 

 cation those who 

 have formerly 

 been widely sep- 

 arated. It is now 

 a commoh thing 

 to have daily 

 conversations with friends or relatives who live 

 many miles away and where formerly ex- 

 change of friendly greeting or consultations 

 concerning business was a matter of considera- 

 ble time and a journey of several miles; it is 

 now a matter of minutes and of going to a tele- 

 phone in the house. 



In the matter of business alone any farmer 

 can well afford to pay the small cost of a tele- 

 phone, for there will be dozens of times during 

 the year when he can make or save money by 

 being in almost instantaneous touch with his 

 market town. 



Putting in operatfon a telephone line is very 

 simple. Any one can do it, and it requirej no 

 special skill to keep in repair and operate a 

 line. There are numerous makes of telephones 

 for rural Mna^ on the market, but the ones made 

 by the Siromberg-Carlson Telephone Mfg. Co., 

 Chicago, 111., is having the largest sale and is 

 giving the best satisfaction. This is one of the 

 oldest houses in this line in the country, and 

 the telephones made by this Company have 

 been found to be perfect in their adaptation to 

 the uses of people in country places. 



The Company publishes a very interesting 

 Catalog, and we would advise our readers to 

 send for one, and see for themselves how easy 

 it is to "gel on the line." Address, Stromberg- 

 Carlson Telephone Mfg. Co., F 4, Chicago, 111., 

 and do not forget to .say we invited vou to do so. 



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 when writing advertisers. 



