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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 8, 1903. 



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Beedom Boiled Down 



Whisk=Brooiii Bee°Brush. 



There has been so much said in the 

 journals relative to bee-brushes that I 

 want to add just a few words. It seems 

 to me that there has never been a first- 

 class brush described ; and it seems to 

 me that, when we revert to a bunch of 

 weeds, we are not making much ad- 

 vancement, aside from the untidiness 

 of the apiary, in having weeds grow- 

 ing so plentifully that we can grab up 

 a handful at every hive. We can all 

 buy the best bee-brush at any store for 

 10 cents ; and that is just an ordinary 

 whiskbroom. Tack a sheet of sand- 

 paper on your workbench oron a board 

 and take hold of the handle of the 

 whisk-broom with one hand, and with 

 the other one press the end of the 

 brush down flat on the sandpaper, and 

 then pull it across it a few times, and 

 you will have all the stiff points cut 

 down so it will be pliable and soft, and 

 no danger of mutilating the cappings. 

 When brushing, hold the brush flat to 

 the comb, or practically so ; and if it 

 gets daubed with honey, dip it in a 

 dish of water, and it will be clean 

 again, and the moistening makes it 

 more pliable. I have one I have used 

 for IS years, and it is good for as many 

 more. I always wet it before begin- 

 ning my day's work. — Ei,iAS Fox, in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



Introducing Virgin Queens in Pairs. 



This is the latest kink practiced by 

 the A. I. Root Co., although the same 

 thing seems to have been previously 

 practiced by Swaithmore. The plan 

 is thus given in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture, as used by their apiarist, Geo. 

 W. Phillips: 



Here is a colony, we will say, that is 

 queenless. Instead of giving it one 

 caged virgin, to be released on the 

 candy plan, he gives it two of flying 

 age; but the loose slide protecting the 

 candy is removed, exposing the food 

 in one cage, leaving it in the other 

 cage covered by the slide. The bees 

 will release the queen of the first men- 

 tioned. In a day or so she will become 

 fertili2ed, and go to laying. The other 

 virgin is kept caged in the mean time. 

 As soon as queen No. 1 is laying, she 

 is taken out, and at the same time the 

 slide covering the candy to the other 

 cage is set back, the bees release queen 

 No. 2. Before that is done, another 

 virgin is put into the hive, caged with 

 the candy protected. Queen No. 2 is 

 accepted, and ere long begins to lay. 

 She is removed, and the slide of cage 

 No. 3 is slid back, and another virgin 

 put in, and so on the cycle proceeds. 

 The point is here : Both queens while 

 in the hive acquire the scent of the 

 bees and of the comb, so that when 

 one queen is removed the other queen 

 is already introduced except releasing, 

 which the bees do in a few hours, and 

 she again is in a fair way to become 

 the mother of the flock. During the 

 interim between the time the queen is 

 released and when she becomes laying. 



TlioiisaDds of Hives "Millions of Sections 



Ready for Prompt Shipment. 



We are not selling goods on NAME ONLY, but on Iheir 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., Watertown, Wisconsin, l.S. A. 



Please mention Bee jovuroai ^^nea writing 



RUBE'S SURPRISE. 



Well, I'll Be Bumped! 



I don't see what I have been thinking of all summer. Here I 

 could gest as well sent to Griggs Bros, for my Supplies and saved 

 all this freight I've been throwing away and got my goods 

 cheaper, too. Don't see why I didn't send them a trial order 

 sooner and find out what I was doin', long as they sell Root's Goods at 

 their factory prices, gest as they said. 



A Word to the Wise is Sufficient. 



GRIGGS BROS., 



TOLEDO, OHIO. 



IF YOU WANT 



a better, more prii.ii.al, lnni,'.T lii^-liria, heavier 

 ealvanized wire fence. VOII WANT I'AUF. 

 PA(;K WOVKN UlREKKMK t(»., Adrian, Mich. 

 Please mention Bee Journal wh«n writmt 



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TO START YOU IN BUSINESS 



U preweat you with the first *5 yoa 

 take in to start you in a pood pavinp busi- 

 Send 10 cents for full line of SiimpleB 

 and direi-tiona how to beprin. 



DRAPER PUBLISHINQ CO.. Cblcaso, Ills. 



Tlie Emerson Binder 



This Emerson stiff-board Hinder with cloth 

 back for the American Bee Journal we mail for 

 but 60 cents; or we will send it with the Bee 

 Journal for one year — both for only tl.40. It is 

 a fine thing to preserve the copies of the Jour- 

 nal as fast as they are received. If you have 

 this ** Emerson *^ no further binding is ueces- 

 •ary. 



QEORQE W. YORK & CO., 

 144 & 146 Erie Street. CHICAGO ILL. 



Please Mention Bee Journal 

 when writing, advertisers. 



Let me SELL or BUY your 



HONEY 



If you have some to offer, mail sample with lowest price expected, delivered 

 Cincinnati 



^ IF IN NEED ^ 



state quantity and kind wanted, and I will quote you price. I do business on 

 the cash basis, in buying or selling. 



Fttll stock of Bee-SuppUes, the best tnade. Root's Goods at their 

 factory prices. SEEDS of Honey-plants. 



C. H. W. WEBER fnTrMo'r^H^^^-""""'^ 



2146 = 48 Central Ave., CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



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 sweetest odor. It is the most transparent, because it 

 as crystal, and gives more sheets to the pound than 



This foundation is made by a procf 

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 has the thinnest base. It is tough and cl 

 any other make. 



■ Working wax into Foundation tor Casii a Wpecialty. Heesvcax 

 always wanted at liij^iiesit price. 



Catalog givi^ng FULL LINE OF SUPPLIES with prices and samples, fkee on applicaf 



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