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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mr. H. E. Heatli, editor of the 

 weekly Xfbnisha Farmer, Lincoln, Nebr., 

 was at the St. Joseph meeting a portion of 

 the time, after which he went on to Chi- 

 cago. While here he called on us. Mr. 

 Heath is a progressive farmer publisher, and 

 is making an excellent paper for the coun- 

 try people of Nebraska. The subscription 

 price is $1.25 a year. We can club it with 

 the Bee Journal — both together for one 

 year for $1.75. This is certainly a liberal 

 offer. 



Mr. E. V. Beeler, of Berwick, Nova 

 Scotia, has sent us a nice picture of his 

 apiary of 56 colonies. Mr. Beeler is located 

 about as far northeast as one can get, and 

 still keep bees on this continent. His api- 

 ary shows that much care is given to it, and 

 that its owner believes in neatness and 

 attractiveness. 



Mr. C Xlieilinaiiu, of Theilmanton, 

 Minn., called on us just as we were about 

 to start for the St. Joseph convention. He 

 has about 300 colonies of bees, and is one 

 of the best bee-keepers in Minnesota. 



l^Iice in a Bee-Hoiise. — From an 

 exchange the following was clipped by the 

 American See-Keqxr, telling how to destroy 

 the mice that often infest bee-houses, etc. : 



We do not believe in advocating cruelty 

 to animals, but we are forced from last 

 year's experience to advocate most strongly 

 the use of any and every means to rid the 

 hives from mice. It is very important in- 

 deed that this should be closely looked 

 after— equal quantities of arsenic, white 

 granulated sugar and flour mixed dry, put 

 on little pieces of paper about the hives or 

 apiary, where it can remain for some time 

 without being exposed to dampness, is a 

 very sure way of ridding the place of mice, 

 yet in some instances where they can feed 

 on bees in hives, they seem to care little 

 for the poison. 



Here is another plan we have adopted, 

 which frequently gave us good satisfaction: 



Take a tin pail half full of water, scatter 

 a little wheat chaff on the top to make it 

 look like a chaff bin. A board from two to 

 four feet long, with one end on the floor, 

 and the other on the side of the pail — in 

 fact, better one on each side of the pail, 

 then scatter a little bran, meal or flour, 

 dust it lightly on the board. The mice will 

 run up and look down upon the chaff where 

 you have the meal scattered, they will 

 jump down off the board on the chaff in the 

 pail to get the meal, the chaff will sink 

 around them, and the mice drown. We 



have caught five or six in a pail in one 

 night in this way. We recollect once, 

 in one of our out-apiaries, having several 

 deer-mice and a chipmunk, which had gone 

 into the bee-house from a neighboring wood 

 about 20 rods away. They were so anxious 

 to investigate the pail business that they 

 got into it. Perhaps rats might be caught 

 in the same way. 



Prol'. <'ooI^ writes us that the next 

 California State bee-convention will be 

 delayed until in February, 1895, as by that 

 time abundant rains may have fallen, and 

 thus will encourage bee-keepers, and cause 

 a larger attendance at the meeting. Re- 

 cently an inch of rain fell, which was a 

 very rare thing for September in Califor- 

 nia, and all hope it will keep on. 



r¥oii<' Paid Better. — Mr. C. D. 



Duvall, of Spencerville, Md., who adver- 

 tises queens, etc., almost constantly in the 

 American Bee Journal, wrote us on Oct. 



8, 1894: 



Friend York : — I have sold all the queens 

 I have this fall. No paper has paid me 

 better for advertising than the American 

 Bee Journal. Yours truly, 



C. D. Duvall. 



It pays to advertise regularly and con- 

 stantly, oin order to get the best results. 

 Try it, you who have anything to sell to 

 bee-keepers. 



East Friends.— We want to thank 

 those who have written such kind words 

 about the Bee Journal. We appreciate 

 them greatly, and shall try hard to merit 

 them. Here is a fair sample : 



Friend York:— Find enclosed 25 cents to 

 pay for three months' subscription for that 

 friend of mine, the "old reliable" Bee 

 Journal. We are faster friends than I was 

 aware of when I ordered you to stop its 

 visits at my place every week. I have 

 missed two copies since the flrst of the 

 month ; send them along, I do not want 

 to miss a number. I tell you, I can see the 

 benefits of its visits as I look back. When 

 I take a paper devoted to bee-culture, I 

 want bee-business. Your paper is the best 

 complete bee-paper I ever saw or read. 



Burns, Mich., Oct. 11. Fred Card. 



I^" " I think the Bee Journal well and 

 ably conducted, and no one, I think, would 

 read it every week without drawing both 

 proHt and pleasure therefrom." — John 

 Chrysostom, of Indiana, Sept. 38, 1894. 



