Dec. IT, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



811 



4 Percent Discount During December ! 



lid order now. Take advantaj;e of this discount. Have your goods 

 JXJST TlillSTK; OF IT ! 



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



WATERTOWN. WISCONSIN. U.S.A. 



WE HAVE GROWN f 



TOO BIG FOR OUR PRESENT QUARTERS. 



The rapid expansion of our business has driven us out, and on January' 1st we 

 will be located at 51 WALNUT STREET. This forced change will remove us 

 only half a block from our old home, but there we will have four floors, with increased 

 facilities, and a TREMENDOUS NEW STOCK OF BEE-SUPPLIES. 



We Have To Do This. We Lead. 



ill be lacking. 



ill find a complete line of every- ^ 



7 In the new place noth 



3, thing in the bee-line. 



9 The MUTH SPECIAL, the REGULAR STYLES OF DOVETAILS, DADANT'S FOUNDA- ^ 



^ TION.etc. Soecial Hiscounts for Early Orders. COME AND SEE US. ^ 



;^ QUEEN-BEES and Nuclei in season. Send for Catalog. ^ 



2 The Fred W, Muth Co,, '''""* aNciNNATi, oh lo. % 



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TO START YOU IN BUSINESS 



We ■n-lll present you with the flrst (o yoa 

 take in to start you in n pood paying busi- 

 Send 10 cents for full line of eamples 

 and directdonB how to beirfn. 

 DRAPER PUBLISHING CO., Cblcaso, Ills. 



HONEY=JARS. 



I can sell you a White Glass Honey-Jar, hold- 

 ing 15 ounces of honey, at $4 00 per gros-. Also 

 the standard square one-pound Jar at I4.S0 per 

 gross. Sample of either Jar by mail on receipt 

 of 10 cents f< r postage. 



J. H. M. COOK, Bee-Keepers' Supplies 



7oCortlandtSt., NEW YORK CITY. 



41Atf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Reduced Rate for Christmas and 



New Year Holidays. 

 The Nickel Plate Road will sell tick- 

 ets Dec. 24, 25 and 31, 1903, and Jan. 1, 

 1004, at rate of a fare and a third for 

 the round-trip, within distances of ISO 

 miles, good returning' to and including 

 Jan. 4, 1904. Individual Club Meals, 

 ranging in price from 35 cents to $1.00, 

 served in dining-cars. No excess fare 

 charged on any train on Nickel Plate 

 Road. Chicago City Ticket Offices, 111 

 Adams St., and Auditorium Annex. 

 Depot, L,a Salle and Van Buren Sts., 

 on the Elevated Loop. 'Phone Central 

 2057. 30— 49A4t 



REMOVAL NOTICE. 



We wish to advise our friends that on and after Jan. 1st we shall be 

 located in our new 3-story builditig, S2i Monroe Street, where we shall 

 keep on hand at all times the largest stock of 



Poultry and Bee- Keepers' Supplies in the West. ^ 



Remember, we handle ROOT'S GOODS exclusively, and with the low L 



freight rates, and the 4 percent discount which we offer during December, T 



enables Toledo to excel all other shipping points. Thanking you for past r 



favors, and soliciting a continuance of the same, we remain, L 



Yours truly, T 



GRIGGS BROS., 521 Monroe St., TOLEDO, OHIO. f 



I-'r.KK ("A TALOG. Ask for it. m 



Let me SELL or BUY your i 



HONEY i 



If you have some to offer, mail sample with lowest price expected, delivered Ciacianati. t? 



^ IF IN NEED ^ g 



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



basis, in buying or selling. g 



Full stock of Bee-SuppHes, the best made. Root's Goods a 



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



C. H. W. WEBER a"n"d"nnfrS^^^- ^- -'''""'^ | 



2146-48 Central Ave., CINCINNATI, OHIO. g 



Order Your 8c6°SuppliGS Now 



While we can serve you 

 prompt, and get them at 

 bottom prices. 



R. H. SCHMIDT CO., Sheboygan, Wis. 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



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Great Year for Bees. 



What success I have had 'in bee-keeping I 

 attribute to the " old rolialile'' American Bee 

 ■Journal 



Last spring I had 2 colonies of bees, and 

 some empty hives. I bought 3 swarms in 

 May, where they had settled, for $1.00 each, 

 and increased to 11. 



It was a great year for honey here. After 

 (jiving several preachers a lot, and all the 

 neighbors some, and keeping enough for ray 

 own use, I sold "00 pounds at 12,U' cents a 

 pound. It was all in pound sections. As 

 soon as 1 take it off, I take it to the cellar 

 and leave the door just a little open, so the 

 bees will come out. Then it is not spoiled 

 with too much smoke. I 



In the summer I put a box that is about 

 S'inches deep over each hive, for a shade, lay- 

 ing 2 pieces of board, one inch thick, across 

 the hive, so there will be an air-space. 



iioe-keeping is a side-issue with me. but I 

 like it very much. C. W. Baker, M. D. 



Harrison Co., Mo., Nov. 2". 



Queen Laying in Queen-Cells. 



On page 7(51!, just received to-day, I notice 

 a little comment by Delos Wood on Mr. A. 

 C. F. Bartz's article on queen-rearing, where 

 he asks anyone who ever saw a queen lay eggs 

 in a queen-cell to hold up his hands. Mine 

 are up, and if I had 3 diflerent queens yet 

 alive, 1 have owned, 1 could very quickly 

 make Mr. Delos Wood hold up his hands. One 

 queen kept uie supplied for over two months 

 with eggs, and many are the times I have 

 seen her back up into queen-cups, and when 

 she crawled out I found an egg in the cell. I 

 used to put in sticks of cell-cups for her every 

 few days, and, when tilled with eggs and 

 young larvic, removed to other hives for ma- 

 turing. All such queens I used were old and 

 were trying to supersede, but I saw a year-old 

 queen backed in a natural cup .iust as I lifted 

 the comb. They were making preparations to 

 swarm. 



I used to be of the same opinion as Mr. 

 Wood, but I must believe my eyes. I also 

 saw 7 worker-bees backed in a comb as far as 

 their wings would let 1 hem at one time, and 

 after killing these 7,1 soon killed 23 more 

 that were backed in the same comb. So, I came 

 to the conclusion that laying workers are un- 

 limited in number when they get started. I 

 further believe that worker bees do not put 

 eggs in a cell any other way than by laying 



If you want the Bee-Book 



That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 



completely than any other published, 



send $1.20 to 



Prof. A. J. Cook, Claremont, Cal.. 



FOR HIS 



" Bee- Keeper's Guide." 



Liberal Discounts to the Trade. 



UMIRYMEN ARE DELIGHTED 



lho«e who work for Q*L Cow kecj>^™aU»yB 



UiX* proEta. Eaay work. W« fann8h«i.lt«l. Stud 

 10 Mntil for tuli line of MUnplen ftud partlculsra. 



DRAPEK PUBLISBINQ CO.. Chlcaio, Ilia. 

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