1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



125 



The Bee-Keepers' Guide: 



Or Manual of the Apiary, 



By Prof. A. J. Cook. 



This loth and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

 mag'niflcent book of 460 pages, in neat and 

 substantial cloth binding, we propose to give 

 away to our present subscribers, for the work 

 of getting NEW subscribers for the American 

 Bee Journal. 



A description of the book here is quite un- 

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 day. Fully illustrated, and all written in the 

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 too well-known to the whole bee-world to re- 

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 fully equipped, or his library complete, with- 

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For Two New Subscribers and 



Your Own Renewal. 



Send us Two New Subscribers to the Bee 

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 the 1 60-page *' Bees and Honey "to each New 

 Subscriber. Prof. Cook's book alone is $1.'35, 

 or we club it with the Bee Journal for a year 

 —both together for onlj' $1.7.5. But surely 

 anybody can get only 3 new subscribers to 

 the Bee Journal for a year, and thus get the 

 hook as a premium. Let everybody try for it. 

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10 Pkgs. tested, pure, fresh garden seeds, 12 

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TEXAS QUEENS. 



If you are in need of Queens, let me have 

 your order. Price-List Free. 

 8A26t J. D. eiVSINS, I^isbon, Tex. 



If "TIicKest is llio Clieapest'" 



is applicable to the purchase of anything, 

 it is pre-eminently so to that of trees. You 

 find no seedlings scattered through your 

 orchard If you purchase direct of a thor- 

 ough nurseryman. The Storrs & Harrison 

 Company, Painesville, Ohio, have been in 

 the nursery business over 40 years, have 

 the reputation of being expert tree growers, 

 and as you will see in our advertising col- 

 umns offer a valuable catalogue free. If 

 you are in want of trees, plants, seeds, or 

 anything in the nursery line, send them 

 your address on a postal. 



did the readers of the Bee Journal know we 

 had one '. Yes. here in western Iowa we 

 haven't had enough snow and rain to- 

 gether, since the middle of last August, to 

 make one good, ordinary rain. It is fine 

 winter weather, but where will our white 

 clover be by spring ? 



That reminds me of another good trait of 

 sweet clover. Last winter all white and 

 red clover winter-killed here on account of 

 dry winter, but sweet clover came through 

 smiling as usual. 



I wish to tell Mr. Peter J. Schartz (see 

 page SOT, ISTO), that he must not blame a 

 thing for not working right when it isn't 

 put together rightly, or part is gone. If he 

 will nail a strip of tin, or sheet-iron, % of 

 an inch wide, across each end of those su- 

 pers of his, that have the section-holders or 

 slats on the bottom side, for the slats to rest 

 upon, and then wedge the sections up tifjlii 

 from both sides and end, if necessary, I 

 will undertake to get it off the hive and 

 sections of honey out of it and I'Jenned in 

 the same time he takes to get off his T super 

 and clean the sections. If I can't do it I'll 

 stand treat, Peter. 



I got about aOO pounds of honey from 15 

 colonies, and increased to 28 the past sea- 

 son. If any bee-keeper in western Iowa has 

 good comb honey to sell, I would like to 

 urge him very strongly not to sell it for 12 

 or 14 cents in trade to some store-keeper. 

 As scarce as honey is, you can get 18 or 20 

 cents per pound cash for good, clean, comb 

 honey. Don't let your honey stay on the 

 hive until the sections are brown and the 

 capping of the honey water-soaked. The 

 honey may be .itist as good, and even better 

 for it. but it won't sell as readily, or for as 

 good a price. 1 just wish I could produce 

 as much honey as I could sell for 18 and 20 

 cents iper pound. E. S. Miles. 



Denison, Iowa. 



'Twas the Indian, Not the White Man. 



Will you do me the favor to read again 

 the manuscript of my biography, on page 

 101 ? Somebody who furnishes copy, or 

 sets type, made a terrible mistake. I wrote: 

 " Here, too, fished and hunted and drank 

 fire-water and begged tobacco, a lone In- 

 dian, Johnathan Paul — 'the last of the 

 Mohegans.' " Your types made me say that 

 1 did the hunting and fishing, and that / 

 drank fire-water and begged tobacco of 

 an Indian ! My friends will be surprised to 

 learn that I ever did any of those things. 

 In my boyhood I was too much devoted to 

 my books to spend any time hunting and 

 fishing. Intoxicating liquors were quite 

 freely used by most of the people around 

 me at that time, but I never tasted them 

 unless prescribed by my physician. They 

 were msed medicinally much more than 

 now. I never entered a saloon in my life 

 unless it was to call some man out with 

 whom I had business which could not wait 

 his pleasure. As for tobacco, I have never 

 used it in any form. 



In my early boyhood there was an Indian 

 living in my native town whom the people 

 called "Johnathan Paul." //<■ spent his 

 time in the way you have made me say / 

 spent mine. When asked to what tribe he 

 belonged, he would mutter "Mohegan." He 

 was the last Indian that ever was seen in 

 that region. It was the recollection of 

 him that led me to write the unfortunate 

 sentence. Edwin Bevins. 



Leon, Iowa. 



[Mr. Bevins, we think the fellow that 

 made you appear in such a bad light ought 

 to be — well, what would you do with him ! 

 We'll have to own up that it was unr fault 

 entirely, and we are glad to give your cor- 

 rection. We are very sorry it occurred, 

 and trust all our readers will read your 

 letter above. — Editors.] 



A Bee-Cellar Described. 



The spring of 1895 I started with two col- 

 onies of Italian bees which I purchased in 

 the summer of 1894. The spring was rather 

 backward, and the bees did not get started 



POULTRY 



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BASSWOOD TREES ! 



Orders booked now for Spring delivery for 



Nursery-Grown Basswood Seedlings 



5 to 9 inches high, at $2 00 per 100 ; 300 for $5 

 or $1 5.00 for 1000. Parties living east of the 

 Mississippi river will be supplied direct from 

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GRAND SWEEPSTAKES 

 CORIi AT 



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Best riorii in tho whole big Corn State of Illinoi'J. 

 Best YhIIow Dent from NoilTHERN Division. Best 

 Yellow I tent from ACL Divisions, Best corn stiown. 



MANDSCHEURI BARLEY. fiC^^tV.'i^r 



Sen tout, last year by theWis.Fx, Station, fatalnc'ie 

 of Seed Potatoes. Fielil Seeds and Garden Seeds. 



L. L. OLDS - Clinton - Rock Co. - Wis. 



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PATENT WIRED COMB FOUNDATION 



Has No Sag In Brood-Frames 



Thin Flat-Kottom Foundation 



Has Qio Fisbbooe in tbe Sorplas Honef . 



BelnK the cleanest is nsually worked 

 the quickest of any Foundation made 



J. VAN DEUSEN & SONS, 



Sole Manufacturers, 

 Bprout Brook MontKomery Co.. N. Y. 



T7/W QrilA — A Dozen Colouies of I- 



X or OdlU talian and Carniolan Bees 

 Iq 8*frame Laufrstroth-Simplicity bives. The 

 Combs all built on full sheets of foundation, 

 wired in, and straight as a board. Seven of 

 the Queens are Imported, and all are of last 

 year's rearing. Will be sold at $5.50 per col- 

 ony for imported and $4.50 for native. Bees 

 are in tine condition with plenty of stores to 

 carry them throueh. Address. 



"W, J. CCILI^INAN, 

 7Atf QUlNCr, ILL. 



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, for all diseases, and howto make poultry 



^^^p^nnd gardening pay. Senipost paid for 16c. 



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No Hurry! Take Your Time ! 



,Tu.st h;id a cu.stomer who was leu years 



maUitiK up his mind. Using our fence all the 

 time too, as his farm joins a railroad with 

 PACK hctween. We send our paper free 

 wiiile you wait. 



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