Oct. 22, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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6 Percent Discount During October I 



Send for our List, aud order now. Take advantage of Ihis discount. Have your troods ci 

 land readv for use. 



JTJST TtllKTIC OF IT ! 



G. B. LEWIS CO., Manufacturers' of Bee-Keepers' Supplies, 



WATERTOWN. WISCONSIN. U.S.A. 



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. 



i GRIGGS BROS., ■ TOLEDO, OHIO. 



•-•leasto mention Bee Journal -wiien ■writing. 



A COMMON REMARK: 



"Idon'tseehowPaffel2-Biir. ."s-inch Stock Fence 

 can lie bettered. It holds all farm uiilnials." 

 PAGE WOVEN WIliU FE.NtE CO., Adrian, Mich. 



Please mention Bee Journal w^hen "writint 



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Roo t's_poods at Root's_FriGes 



Everytbinp used by Bee-keepers. 

 POUDER'S HONEY-JARS. 

 Prompt Service. 



Low Freight Rates. 



NEW CATALOG FREE. 

 WALTER S. POUDER, 



215 Mass. Ave , Indianapolis, Ind. 



TO START YOU IN BUSINESS 



We will present you with the tirwt K> yoa 

 take in to start you in a good paying busi- 

 ness. Send 10 cents for full line of samples 

 and directionH how to begin. 



DRAPER PUBLISHING CO.. Chlcaso, lira. 



The Emerson Binder 



This Emerson stiff-board Binder with cloth 

 back for the American Bee Journal we mall for 

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

 Jonrnal for one year— both for only $1.4C. It is 

 a fine thln^ to preserve the copies of the Jonr- 

 nal as fast as they are received. If yon have 

 this " Emerson " no further binding is neces. 

 •ary. 



QEORQE W. YORK & CO., 



144 A 146 Erie Street. CHICAGO ILL. 



Please Mention Bee Journal 

 when writing advertisers. 



p Let me SELL or BUY your | 



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g If yon have some to offer, mail sample wiih lowest price expected, delivered Cincinnati. 4? 



8 ♦^ IF IN NEED ^ I 



g State quantity and kind wanted, and I will quote you price. I do business on the cash fi 



7i basis, in buviog^ or sellidg-. § 



g Full stock of Bee-Supplies, the best made. Root's Goods S 



at their factory prices. SEEDS of Honey-plants. g 



C. H.W.WEBER 



2146-48 Central Ave., CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



Successor to CHAS. F. MUTH 

 nd A. MUTH. 



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DITTMER S FOUNDATION ^^H^rks^X^E 



This foundation is made by a process that produces the superior of any. It is the cleanest 

 and purest. It has the brightest color and sweetest odor. It is the most transparent, because it 

 has the thinnest base. It is lough and clear as crystal, and gives more sheets to the pound than 

 any other make. 



Working ywax into Foundation lor Ca!«li a. Specialty. Beeswax 

 always* wanted at liighest price. 



Catalog giving FULL LINE OF SUPPLIES with prices and samples, free on application. 

 E. Graixger & Co., Toronto, Ont., ^110 rkl'r'rucn 1 ^ ^ mi;- 



Sole Agents for Canada. UtS. DITTMER, AUgUStd, WiS. 



Please Mention the Bee Jonrnal 



when writing 



yon would have to stretch the barrel ia order 

 to bold ii all; in fact, water beinf; lighter than 

 honey you would have very nearly two bar- 

 relfi, would you not'^ Could you not afford 

 to sell it cheaper either by the barrel or by 

 the pound! Did you ever try this! If so, 

 did said honey absolutely refuse to talie on 

 any more water when this point was reached? 

 Could this properly be called "watered 

 stock " amODjf bee-keepers? I have beard it 

 said you could lead a horse to water, but you 

 could not make it drink ; but this seems as if 

 you can make a barrel of honey drink without 

 rolliufr it to water. 



To-day it is raining. If this moist weather 

 continues how many more barrels would it 

 take to hold the out-put of extracted honey? 



It is said there is no ill-wind but what blows 

 some one good. The barrel manufacturers 

 will be strictly " in it." won't they? 



Knox Co., ill., Oct. 10. J. E. Johnson. 



[It looks as if the experiment of watering 

 that honey had been made in a dry time, and 

 the water poured into the honey so slowly 

 that some 300 pounds of it must have evapor- 

 ated in the process. For if l-(j of the 1000 

 pounds was water, and that 1-6 were taken out, 

 there would be left rt-Q of the 1000 pounds, or 

 S3:) pounds of waterless honey. If now that 

 833 pounds becomes half water, it must take 

 to itcelt 833 pounds of water, aud thus be- 

 come 1666 pounds of dilute honey, instead of 

 1333. Under such circumstances the honey 

 might refuse to liecome more than half water, 

 but under favorable circumstances there 

 would be no such limit. — Editor.] 



Northeastern Wisconsin Conven- 

 tion. 



The Northeastern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' 

 Association met in convention in Mishicot, 

 Oct. 8, 1903. 



Owing to very unfavorable weather condi- 

 tions, the meeting was not largely attended. 

 The afternoon session, however, proved more 

 successful, and some important topics were 

 quite extensively discussed; among which 

 was, " The cause of miscellaneous laying of 

 drone and worker eggs in the same comb," the 

 subject being introduced by Mr. Cochems. 



The date of the next meeting is Get. 28, 

 and as it is to be an important meeting, a 

 large attendance is urged. 



The election of officers will be held, and 

 State Inspector France will address the meet- 

 ing on the subject, " Advantages of Belong- 

 ing to Bee-Keepers' Associations, and Attend- 

 ing Their Conventions." 



Measures will also be taken to unite the 

 local society with the State and National As- 

 sociations. Dr. J. B. Rick, Sec. 



Manitowoc Co., Wis., Oct. 13. 



Advertisers 



Honey Used in Cuba. 



We find honey is used here for its reme- 

 dial properties much more than it is in the 

 United States, being sold in considerable 

 quantities from all drug-stores, besides being 

 employed in many home remedies for both 

 man and beast. fii,EN E. MoE. 

 Cuba, W. I. 



A Coppeetion— Cost of Bee-Supplies. 



Will you kindly correct the mistake in my 

 letter in regard to the number ot swarms cast 

 on the same day. Instead of 115 it should 

 have read 15 ; and from the fact I gave the 

 number of colonies I was handling, it must 

 have shown a mistake. (See page 536.) 



I am much obliged to Mr. Hasty for bring- 

 ing the same to my attention. Had I noticed 

 the error I should have hastened to correct it, 

 as I am not a descendent of the Baron Mun- 

 chausen, who, most of our readers will remem- 

 ber, was the greatest prevaricator of his time. 

 If I had not been so fond of reading Mr. 

 Hasty's Afterthoughts, I should never have 

 known how I had committed myself. As Mr. 

 Hasty seems to think my mistake may have 

 been due to that single-blessedness bread, if 



