Nov. 12, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



733 



Something oSr Bee=Keeping Sisters 

 in the Winter Time. 



We think all ladies will agree with us in saying that every man should at least under- 

 stand some business, with which, in case of necessity, he could support himself and family. 

 The wealthiest people frequently come to want, and wretched, inileed, is the man who cannot 

 earn a living after his wealth is gone. He sometimes tills the grave of a suicide. And why, 

 in this enlightened age of progression, should not woman, as well as man, be able to depend 

 on her own resources? In case her husband dies in poverty, must she starve or depend on 

 charity? In case her husband fails to provide and grossly mistreats the woman he has sworn 

 to cherish, must she humbly submits A THOUS.VNI) TIMKS, NO! Let every woman, 

 before she marries, have some knowledge that can be used to make her a living. Every mother, 

 rich or poor, should make her daughters, in a certain degree, independent, by giving them 

 some kind of a trade, and teaching them to be self-reliant. Mothers should have their 

 daughters learn to sew, and not neglect this important part of their domestic education. The 



daughter so taught will not only make a better wife and mother, but will also be more likely 

 to secure a better husband, and will always command his respect. He will not look upon her 

 asa helpless " know-nothing,'' but will know that if he fails in his duties, she can live without 

 him and this can only strengthen the bond between them. A thorough knowledge of dress- 

 making can always be turned into gold, and become the means of support for the mother and 

 her little ones. She may never have to use this knowledge in this way, but she has a trade and 

 can use it if necessary. 



The outline cut shown herewith is a condensed copy of THE NEW LONDON' 

 LiADIES' TAILOR SYSTEM for drafting and cutting ladies' and children's garments. 

 For simplicity and accuracy it has no superior among the more expensive systems. Thousands 

 of girls have learned more about drafting and cutting with this system than they knew about 

 it after serving their apprenticeship in some of the dressmaking shops of the United States 

 and Canada Thousands of the best garment cutters have laid their complicated and expensive 

 system aside, and are now using THE NEW LONDON T.AILOR SYSTEM. Thousands 

 have been sold at .^5.00 each, but we mail it Free to a paid-in-advance subscriber to the Amer- 

 ican Bee .Journal for sending us two new subscribers at -Sl.OO each ; or we will send it to any 

 one with a year's subscription to the American Bee .Journal, both for g;l. "5; or, we will mail 

 the Tailor System alone for $1.00. Address all orders to 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



M4 & 146 East Erie Street, CHICAQO, ILL. 



Carniolari that, after swarming-, the 

 young- queen mated with an Italian, 

 and it tilled 5 supers every year for 3 

 years. I have 1 colony of Italians now, 

 but I can not call them pure, that is 10 

 years old, and has never swarmed, and 

 never stored less than from 50 to 100 

 pounds of surplus honey every year. I 

 reared a queen from her, and it was the 

 first to swarm the next year. 



G. W. Bell. 

 Clearfield Co., Pa., Oct. 19. 



Past Season Beats all Records. 



As the honey season is closed I can 

 make my report. The past season has 

 beaten all records for several years 

 past, for honey and swarms. All the 

 methods taught by bee-men to prevent 

 swarming have failed ; at the same 

 time the bees stored a nice lot of fine 

 honey. I started the season with 30 

 good colonies, which increased to 55, 

 and produced over 3000 pounds of comb 

 honey. The most of my new colonies 

 are made up of 2 and 3 swarms, and 

 all are almost too heavy, at this date, 

 for one man to handle. 



I want to put on record the perfor- 

 mance of 3 colonies belonging to a 

 friend of mine living 3'; miles dis- 

 tant. These 3 colonies produced 33 

 full supers of 24 sections each, being 

 an average of 264 pounds to a colony, 

 in 8 frame hives. This beats all re- 

 cords for this part of the country, 

 unless it might be that Dr. Gallup, who 

 kept bees in this county a good many 

 years ago, did better with his large 

 hives. The owner of these bees, Mr. 

 Fred Zilk, is a young farmer, who, be- 

 sides managing a large farm, keeps 

 about 20 colonies of bees, and takes 

 care of them, notwithstanding, until 

 the present time, he never subscribed 

 for a bee-paper. 



The hardest problem to solve now is, 

 what to do with so many bees. Our 

 honey has sold readily in the home 

 market, but the bees we cannot sell at 

 any price, and 30 colonies are all that 

 I want to keep. A. F. Foots. 



Mitchell Co., Iowa, Oct. 22. 



4-Inch Screw-Caps for Cans. 



By all means let us have those 4- 

 inch screw-caps, and also a good 

 wrench to remove them. 



Wm. Russell. 



Hennepin Co., Minn. 



A Lonesome Bee-Keeper. 



The Bee Journal came to hand as 

 promptly as usual ; glad to see it, too. 

 I did not find any answer to my ques- 

 tions yet, but did find Dr. Miller's hum- 

 ble apology, and it was accepted. 



I found the cause of that peculiar 

 odor, and am glad to say it was not 

 foul brood, or any other of the many 

 dreadful things I imagined, but pure 

 and simple goldenrod or wild aster, or 

 both. 



I visited an apiary near Atlanta last 

 week and found the same odor, but 

 much stronger on account of larger 

 number of hives in one place. 



Commission merchants at Atlanta 

 offered me 12'. to 13 cents for pound 

 sections, and I felt very sorry I had 4 

 colonies instead of 400. 



In reading the Bee Journal last night 

 I got badly shocked, so much so that 

 my heart went like a trip-hammer; it 



