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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 5, 1903. 



PDBLISHBD WE«!KLY BY- 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



144 & 146 E. Erie St ., Chicago, Hi. 



Entered at the Post-0 (Bee at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITOR, 

 C3-E30K,OE3 'W. 'S'OK.K:. 



DEPT. EDITORS, 



Or.C.C.Millek, E.E.Hasty, Emma M. Wilson 



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A Celluloid Queen-Button is u ,>.iy 



pretty thing lor a bee-keeper or honey-seller to 

 wear on his coat-lapel. It of- 

 ten serves to introduce the 

 subject of honey, and fre- 

 quently leads to a sale. 



The picture shown herewith 

 is a reproduction of a motto 

 queen-button that we are fur- 

 nishing to bee-keepers. Ithas 

 a pin on the underside to 



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or 6 for 25 cents. Send all orders to the office 



of the American Bee Journal. 



Something About (lar Ist-Page Pictiires. 



No. 1— Apiary of S. T. Crim. 



The preacher's boy came over, and 

 he had a little box in his hand that 

 looked like a toy canon. After he had 

 opened it he said he would shoot. I 

 told him to cut loose, and here we are. 

 My wife and little niece pretended to 

 be bee-keepers, and they got shot, too. 

 Our cousin from Springfield was stand- 

 ing in the shade of a plum-tree, and 

 you see she is still in the shade. 



This is only a part of my apiary. I 

 have 68 colonies, starting last spring 

 with 26. My bees are doing well this 

 season. I caught several stray swarms 

 and doubled up the small swarms. 



I am 63 years old, and have worked at 

 the blacksmith trade since I was 17, 

 but have retired from such labor. I 

 have kept bees for 30 years in the old- 

 fashioned way, and I never knew there 

 was such a thing as a bee-paper pub- 

 lished until three years ago. You see I 

 have lost all these years whereby I 

 might have been a rich man in the bee- 

 business. Since I have been reading 

 the American Bee Journal I have found 

 out a way to make bee-keeping profit- 

 able. Two years ago I tore up all my 

 box-hives, and now have my bees in 8- 

 frame dovetailed hives. I do love the 

 hum of the honey-bees. Oh, what 

 music they make ! 



Well, thislittle nieceof ours is named 

 Miron Cooper; she goes among the bees 

 and never gets stung. She is 5 years 

 old. Some time ago a swarm came out 

 and settled on a small cherry-tree. Lit- 

 tle Miron said she would help me hive 

 them. So she skipped out, and I got 

 the hive ready and went out to the tree, 

 and there she was up the tree above 

 the bees helping herself to the cherries. 



The last of June I run out of hives, 

 and could not wait to get them from 

 the dealer, so I resorted to nail-kegs. 

 I got along very well until I filled the 

 third keg — I had too many bees, they 

 could not all get in the keg, and in the 

 evening they left it. I prepared an- 

 other, and hived them as before ; the 

 next day they swarmed again, they 

 crossed the street and settled on a plum 

 tree in my neighbor's yard, so I pre- 

 pared another keg and took it over and 

 put the keg under the plum-tree, and 

 .set the ladder up to bring them down. 

 They must have seen the keg, for they 

 let go and departed across the corn- 

 field to parts unknown. I said, " Good- 

 by." 



I was amused at my neighbor. The 

 nest day he said, " Yourswai-m of bees 

 left you, and did not take their queen 

 with them." I asked him how he 

 knew the queen was left behind ? He 

 said: "Because his wife told him the 

 queen got after her and run her into 

 the house." I told him it was a drone ! 

 S. T. Ckim. 



Sangamon Co., 111., July 28, 1903. 



No. 2— Apiary of Louis N. Meyer. 



Mr. Louis N. Meyer, Sr., passed away 

 about a year ago. Louis, Jr., is shown 

 in the picture with the rest of the fam- 

 ily. Their bees are mostly Italians, in 

 modern hives. The parents of Mr. 

 Meyer, Sr., had kept bees in Germany. 



Louis, Jr., reports that they had very 

 few colonies until his father subscribed 

 forthe American Bee Journal, then the 

 apiary increased to about 45 colonies. 

 The father's desire was that Louis, Jr.. 

 stick to the bee-business, which he is 

 faithfully doing. 



No. 3— Apiary of A. W. Swan. 



I send a photograph of my apiary, or 

 rather what is left of it, which was 

 taken in July, 1902, there being at that 

 time 70 colonies of bees, and at the 

 present time there are 42 left. I lost 

 28 colonies through the winter and 

 spring. We have had three very poor 

 seasons here in Kansas, either too dry 

 or too wet, mostly wet. For the last 

 year it has rained nearly all the time 

 during clover bloom, and it is still at 

 it. It has rained every day except one 

 since white clover commenced bloom- 

 ing, which was about May 20. I have 

 been feeding up to the present time, 

 and to-day the bees are booming on 

 white clover, and yellow sweet clover, 

 which is blooming well. 



A. W. Swan. 



Nemaha Co., Kans., May 4, 1903. 



No. 4— Apiary of Peter Fleming. 



It seems to be quite fashionable for 

 bee-keepers to send to the Bee Journal 

 pictures of their apiaries for publica- 

 tion, so I thought it might not come 

 amiss to send a picture of a portion of 

 one of my apiaries. 



I am running for comb honey exclu- 

 sively, not the so-called, but the gen- 

 uine, and of the choicest quality. The 

 picture was taken June 28, 1903, and 

 shows that the bees are doing fair busi- 

 ness for the time of year. 



The apiary is under two apple-trees 

 that are well laden with fruit, as one 

 can judge by the number of props un- 

 der the limbs, and "your humble 

 servant" standing against one of 

 them. They are past SO years old, and 

 still bear well, the bodies being 2 feet 

 in diameter. The ladder seen stand- 

 ing between the hives is where we 

 went after a swarm ; they get the start 

 of me and drive out an occasional. 

 swarm, and I have other duties and 

 cannot give them proper attention, but 

 I give them as good attention as a one- 

 horse bee-keeper can. 



Peter Fleming. 



Clinton Co., Iowa, July 22. 



No. 5— Apiary of S. A. Matson. 



I send you a picture of my bee-yard, 

 in which there were about 60 colonies 

 when it was taken. The hives face 

 east, and the picture was taken from 

 the northwest. The two trees on the 

 left are apple, and the others are peach 

 trees. The picture was taken the lat- 

 ter part of September, just after the 

 supers had been removed. 



Last year (1902) was a poor one ; the 

 bees stored but little surplus, and that 

 of very poor quality. Our main source 

 is white clover, and it did not afi'ord 

 anything. S. A. MaTSOn. 



Nodaway Co., Mo. 



