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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 13, 



Nature. I deny that non-sitting fowls are 

 so through any wildness of disposition. I 

 haye found the non-sitting Houdans and 

 Crevecoeurs to be tamer than even Brah- 

 mas and Cochins. They are the most 

 familiarly tame of fowls ; and the non-sit- 

 ting Leghorns are no wilder than the sit- 

 ting games. The sitting jungle-fowl is the 

 wildest of all. Any breed of animals and 

 any variety of plants, if left entirely alone, 

 would soon revert, or lapse back, to the 

 original form of its species. The non-sit- 

 ting or non-swarming character would not 

 be an exception. 



As to the " Plymouth Rock hen, and get- 

 ting fat on nothing," something can never 

 be made from nothing. You can breed out 

 all tendency to waste, and there it must 

 stop. 



As to " breeding our ears off entirely," it 

 probably will never be tried. However, an 

 extra tee was bred on each foot of the 

 Dorkings, etc. 



Having thus covered all the points ad- 

 vanced against me by Mr. Lownes, I retire 

 from the arena, after making this state- 

 ment of my position in brief: 



1st. No reliable man will ever claim to 

 have produced a strain of non-swarming 

 bees without first testing them and finding 

 them so; and, 



2nd. If some one does claim to have pro- 

 duced a non-swarming strain, any one can 

 say, "I don't believe it;" but none can as- 

 sert that it is not so until he has tried those 

 bees and actually found that they do 

 swarm. 



3rd. And let any one keep trying to pro- 

 duce them who wants to do so. 



Monterey, Calif. A. Norton. 



Results of the Past Season. 



My last year's crop of honey amounted 

 to 1,043 pounds, and it is almost all sold at 

 home. I had only 54 colonies of bees, and 

 they have plenty of winter stores besides. 

 H. K. Gresh. 



Ridgeway, Pa., Jan. 13. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



My bees did fairly well last season, tak- 

 ing 3,000 pounds of mostly extracted honey 

 from 40 colonies, spring count, and in- 

 creased to 50, with plenty of stores for win- 

 ter. Some colonies gathered over 100 

 pounds. Success to the Bee Journal. 



Geo. W. Wilson. 



Hylton, Tex., Jan. 18. 



Another Honey-Buying Fraud. 



On pages 817 and 818 is a letter from E. 



B. Huffman about marketing honey. After 

 reading it I remarked that misery loves 

 company. It is so near what I experienced 

 myself that I concluded to tell the readers 

 of the Bee Journal where my man is located 

 — not in Chicago, but in Toronto, Out. 



In August, 1895, I received an order from 



C. A. Hirchfelder, of Rosedale, Toronto, for 

 300 pounds of honey, stating that he wanted 

 it for a college there, and that he would 

 send me a postoffice order for the amount 

 on its receipt. But, as in the case of Mr. 



Huffman, that postoffice order never came, 

 and my attorneys report the man to be 

 worthless. This man Hirchfelder has been 

 an American Vice-Council in Toronto, but 

 in the month of June last, he had to quit 

 the office on account of his conduct. 



So now, brother bee-keepers, in every 

 land where the American Bee Journal is 

 read, take notice, and be careful to whom 

 you sell your hard-earned product ; and 

 when a man of the stamp of Dingsman or 

 Hirchfelder calls on you in any way, just 

 give them an introduction to your shoe- 

 maker! W. J. Brown. 



Chard, Ont.. Canada. 



The "Marriage" Forbidden. 



As a member of the Bee-Keepers' Union 

 I have a right to say a few words about its 

 proposed marriage with the North Ameri- 

 can Bee-Keepers' Association. I was one 

 of the earliest members of the Union, and 

 have paid as much toward its bank account 

 as any one. I look at it as I would look 

 upon an old man who had spent his whole 

 life in social pleasures, and in his dotage 

 and poverty seeking the hand of a rich 

 young woman, who had been prudent and 

 economical, and was helpful to her family 

 and friends. He says, " Marry me, and 

 give me the disposition of your money, and 

 we will have much pleasure in attending 

 all the social parties in the country ; and 

 when your money is all gone, we will call 

 on your friends for more, and if they do 

 not band it over promptly we will disin- 

 herit them." 



Now, as one of the family of " the bride," 

 I forbid the bans. I fear that the proposed 

 marriage will Impair the usefulness of the 

 Bee-Keepers' Shion. L. Eastwood. 



Waterville, Ohio. 



Two Good Years for Bees. 



Seeing I am not a member of any bee- 

 association, I would like to see a conven- 

 tion held somewhere close by, so that some 

 of us northern bee-keepers could attend, 

 and I must say that there are a good many 

 beekeepers springing up in the northern 

 part of the State at present, and bees have 

 done very well the last two years. Mine 

 wintered without loss, but they did not 

 swarm last summer. I had 4,800 pounds of 

 comb honey from 35 colonies, and put them 

 into winter quarters in good condition. 

 The weather is very mild at present, with 

 no snow. It is almost too warm for our 

 bees. John Hoffman. 



Clinton ville, Wis., Jan. 30. 



Back With the Bees Again. 



Possibly some of my old-time friends of 

 the 70's and 80's, not having heard from me 

 for several years, imagine I "crossed the 

 river." I wish to assure them now that I 

 am still in the land of the living. 



In 1889, I received an appointment as 

 United States gauger in the Internal Rev- 

 enue service, at S5.00 per day. This in- 

 duced me to leave my home and my bees 

 here, and move to Peoria, 111., where I 



Got Something for Nothing ! 



MVnii P Thousands of readers answering my ad. in the past received free 

 1 UU. I by mail at a cost of 20 cents to me, a package of my discovery, 

 VITjE ore, and 90 per cent, have written to thank me and send cash order for 

 more, declaring that it had done them more good than all doctors and man-made 

 remedies they ever used. I scorn to take any one's money until convinced at my 

 expense that V.-O. is the best thing in, on, or out of the earth for all who suffer 

 from ills no doctor or drug will cure, such as general debility, feebleness from over- 

 work, worries, cares, protracted sickness, old age, female complaints, all kidney 

 and membranous ailments. It is the only natural. Nature's cure for human ills 

 ever offered to man, and not by a quack doctor or methods peculiar thereto. If you 

 have been bamboozled often, and grievously, by robbers in the medicine business, I 

 am not responsible therefor, but am if V.-O. fails to give greater satisfaction than 

 all else you ever tried. Send the addresses of six sick people and 1 will do the 

 balance. THEO. NOEL, Geologist, Tacoma Building, Chicago, III. 



6A4t Mention the Bee Journal. 



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 the Queens are Imported, and all are of last 

 year s rearing. Will be sold at $5 50 per col- 

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 are in fine condition with plenty of stores to 

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^Took First Premium last fall at Ills..™ 

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 \^ Improved Varieties. Prices L,ow, for this v' 



roved Varieties. PrL , ....» - 



re;i«on most people will not plant many pota- /^ 

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Now is the time for J 



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Promptness is Wliat Counts ! 



Honey-Jars. Shlpplng-Caees, and every- 

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