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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 24, 1903. 



Tlioosands ol Hives - Millions ol Secvions 



'Ready for Prompt Shipment. 



Wp are not sellinff ffoods on NAME ONLY, but on their quality. 



^addition to the many car-loads we are shipping to all parts of the Un .ted 



In ^d|'t^°^^^t°^*;j^^^ j„/t made one shipment of five car-loads to England. 



G. B. LEWIS CO., Watertowii, Wisconsin, U. S. A. 



Bees and Apiary Stock 

 at a Bargain! 



which is new, and the balance as good as new : 



66 10-trame Dovetailed Nailed Hive-Bodies 20e each' 



60 10-frame Simplicity Nailed Hive-Bodies iiic each 



167 8-frame Hive-Bodies •• • j IV each 



70 Wood-bound 10-frame Zinc Honey-Boards 15^ each. 



20 Unbound 10-frame Zinc Honey-Boards ..... i"e eacn. 



1200 New Clean, Wired Extracting Combs (L. size) . . . ioe eacn. 



700 New L Brood-Frames with full sheets wii:ed foundation 10c each. 



500 Good L. Brood-Combs u; ■ ; ■ • •; " «k on 



Reversible Honey-Extractor »-00 



TT ^^\r^rr.nrxv * ^'" 



1 2 Frame Cowan . 



1 Two-part Wooden Uncapping-Box. „e en i„ \ 



1 " New Model " Solar Wax-Estraotor (glass 26x60 m ) •■■■■•■■ • • • • • • 



1 Wooden Honey -Tank with galvanized-iron bottom (holds 1800 lbs.) . 



1 Bingham Honey-Knife. ^_^ 



1 6-inch Comb Foundation Mill „. 



- ..^. i .-. UT?" ...Inti^n IVflU .._ *^' 



8.00 



10.00 



.50 



15 00 



00 



2 00 

 5 colonies at 



1 10-inch Comb Foundation Mill. 



^ffO New Wired Staple-Spaced Brood -Frames— per 100 ; . . . 



Also60FuTl colonies Italian Bees in 10-fr. Langstroth hives, at these prices: 

 l;4.50 each ; 10 or more at $4.00 each. No disease. 



All the above can be shipped promptly. First come, first served. What 

 Ar. VOU want out of the lot ? or do you want it all ? Of course the combs and 

 do YOU ^,^°^ ,,3 °""'; '°id be filled into the empty hive bodies and shipped 

 s^f^r in thTwaT"f so desired. (No order fiUed'fJr less than S5 00 from the 

 above list). Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



144 & 146 East Erie Stre et, CHICAQO. ILL. 



S6Gl]ons, SHippina-Gases, 

 Honeu-Gans, 



Catalog' free. 



C. M. SCOTT & CO. 



1004 E. WashinKtoo St., 



INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 



iiBvflfnonev We start yon tn buBlnesH. You mfvkt. 

 U,;'?"»i<^ F.„,-ork. W.ton...hcapl..L «»d 

 10 cenW tot full Itae of •»™P'" *"'1,V'! in. 



DRAPER PtBLISBlNO CO., Chicago, Ills. 



I INGHAM'S PATENT 



. 25 years the best. 

 1 Send for Circular. 



2SAtf T. F. BINaMAM. Farwell, Mich 



Smokers 



4')Atf 



Hybrid Queens ! 



25 CENTS Each 

 -5 FOB SI. 00. 



Full Colony wiih 

 more, "5 cents each. 



(no combs) $1.00; 2 



n. H. Porter, Baraboo, Wis. 



TEST PAGE FENCE ONCE 



nndTOU'U never be Batisfled with any otlior. 

 I'AGE WOVES WIIIK FKXCK (0., Ailnan, Mich. 

 Please mention Bee Journal when -writinp 



38 cents Cash ^ 

 for Beeswax. ^ 



This is a good time 



to send in your Bees- 



^ ^ _ -.^ •♦- -.- wax. We are paying 



paid for Beeswax. ^ m^^,:, r.:^% 



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

 ' *^ Address as follows, very plainly, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO.. 144 & 146 Erie St.. Chicago. 111. 



Please Mention the Bee Journal 



when writing 

 Advertisers •♦• 



I found no queen in either, nor any brood of 

 any age, so I sent for two queens, which came 

 all right, and near night the same day I ex- 

 amined both hives again, and found no queen 

 in either, but queen-cells of several ages, so I 

 cut them all out. Another thing, I found 

 what looked like drone-cells at least '<^ or "._; 

 inch in diameter, the largest I ever saw. I 

 let those queens remain in their cages inside 

 of the hives for two days and one night, in 

 order to get the scent of the hives. 



Toward sunset of the second day 1 took an 

 empty hive and placed it immediately in front 

 of the old hive, say a toot or so, with a wide 

 board forming a bridge from one hive to the 

 other. I then took out each frame with the 

 bees on and put them in this empty hive-body, 

 which, when completed, I sprinkled with pep- 

 permint water, then sprinkled thequeen to be 

 introduced, and then brushed the bees all 

 above from the frames, and placed the empty 

 frames back in the old hive, dumped the bees 

 out on this bridge, and let them run In as a. 

 swarm, and when about halt in I turned the 

 queen and escort bees loose, and saw them run 

 in all right. I then placed a super of frames 

 on top, that I had recently transferred from a 

 box-hive, all tied with strings, and let them 

 have this to occupy their attention for awhile, 

 until they became well acquainted with the 

 queen, and then I closed the hive. 



The next morning, on visiting these hives, 

 I found one queen dead and dragged out, and 

 the other showed nothing wrong that I could ■ 

 see from the outside, but I would disturb only 

 the one with the dead queen. 1 got my assis- 

 tant and went carefully to work to examine 

 to see if there was not some sort of a queen 

 in this hive; although I had examined this 

 particular hive a half-dozen or more times, I 

 was going to make a more thorough thing of 

 it. But on the third frame I lifted up. my 

 assistant saw a queen, and on examining her 

 she showed signs of something being wrong- 

 seemed to be crippled in one leg, and got 

 about very slowly and clumsily ; still, there 

 was not an egg of any kind or any brood to 

 be seen, and I suppose this hive has been in 

 this broodless condition no telling how long, 

 as the colony had become reduced from a very 

 large one to quite a small one, but had plenty 

 of honey and no drones. 



After writing the above I examined the 

 other hives, and to my great satisfaction 

 found my new process of introducing a queen 

 to a colony thai had been queenless ever since 

 it was hived May 20, had proven a perfect 

 success. 



When I placed this queen in her cage inside 

 the hive the bees clustered around her and 

 clung to the wire, and held on with such a 

 grip I could hardly force them loose. I 

 thought that was an unfavorable sign— one 

 that 'indicated they would ball her if they 

 could get to her-and it was with the greatest 

 fear, and with but little hope I had of success- 

 fully introducing a queen when the bees acted 

 in this way; but, being a novice, I did not 

 know whether it was a favorable or an un- 

 favorable sign. 



My idea of this method of introducing a 

 queen into a colony, was that, by brushing 

 them all off and running them in as a swarm, 

 and spraying them, would so mix up things 

 and so contuse them that they could not tell 

 one bee from another; and through this 

 freshly transferred super, with the combs tied 



