1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



141 



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 LIST now ready. Send stamp and get valuable 

 paper on WIiXTERlIVU BEES. 



OOLDEK WYABfDOTTE Eggs from line birds 

 only $1.00 for 13. 



EMERSON T. ABBOTT, St. Joseph, Mo. 



St. Joe 



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IWkl'PV We have a large amount of Pure 

 llVllEil No. 1 Alfalfawe will sell cheap. 

 Vl?l?lk Ot those great honey-producincr plants 

 iMiLU —Alfalfa and Cleome or Rocky Moun- 

 tain Honey-Plant. Alfalfa seed at 7 cts. a lb. 



Boss be6-GSeiip6 plest and quickest Escape 

 on the market. Sent postpaid to any address 

 for 50 cts. It can be returned at our expense 

 if it is not as represented, or we will send the 

 Escape on trial to any bee-keeper wishing to 

 test it in good faith. We are agents for the 



Ferguson Patent Hive ^^I1rir\l,-c'ife^^ 



Gate Honey-Board, with the Escape. It is the 

 easiest, quickest hive to handle for the pro- 

 duction of comb honey. Address, 



E. S. liOVESV A: CO., 

 353 6th East St., SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 



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That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 

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 lor his 



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Liberal Discounts to the Trade. 



TAKE NOTICE I 



"DEFORE placing your orders for SUP- 

 PLIES, write for prices on 1-Piece Bass- 

 wood Sections, Bee-Hives, Shipping -Crates, 

 Frames, Foundation, Smokers, etc. 



PAGE & LVOK mFG. CO. 



NEW LONDON, WIS. 



Sweet Clover, Willow-Ilerb, Basswood 



EXTRACTED HONEY 



—For Sale.— 



We have made arrangements whereby we 

 furnish Sweet Clover or Wlllow-Herb 



Extracted Honey, in 60-pound tin cans, on 

 board cars in Chicago, at these prices: 1 can. 

 in a case, 8 cents per pound; 2 cans In one 

 case, TYi cents. 



Tlie Basswood Houey is all in kegs 

 holding 170 pounds, net. It is a very superior 

 quality, and the prices are: 1 keg, 8^ cents 

 per pound ; 2 kegs or more, 8 cents. 



Cash MUST accompany each order. 



f^~ A sample of either kind of honey will 

 be mailed to an Intending purchaser, for 12 

 cents, to cover postage, packing, etc. We 

 guarantee purity, and that what we ship will 

 be equal to sample. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



- CHICAGO, ILLS. 



the bees bave paid as well as anything on 

 the farm. I have run my farm of 80 acres, 

 and seen to the bees, and did the work 

 mostly alone. I have my bee-hives all with 

 numbers painted on them, for this reason: 

 When I am in the field to work, and the 

 bees swarm, some one runs out and rings 

 the dinner-bell as hard as possible; then I 

 know what is up. and run for the house, 

 and the wife will say, ''Number 14" or 

 " "23," as the case may be, " has swarmed ;" 

 sometimes she has the queen in the cage 

 already, for I clip the queens' wings. I 

 don't like to climb tall trees. Then I keep 

 a record this way : 14 swarmed June 20, in 

 hive 16; 23 swarmed June 24, in hive 40. 

 Then you see I know just where the old 

 queen is, and when to open the old hive, 

 and cut out the queen-cells. The next year 

 I can look in my book and see just where 

 my old or young queens are. 



Geo. H. Acrinqbe. 

 Bonniwells Mills, Minn. 



Sweet Clover — Bees and Noise. 



As the readers of your paper are desirous 

 of picking up all the knowledge possible 

 about sweet clover, I wish to add what 

 little I know about the hardiness of the 

 plant. 



Last September my little nephew and I 

 took a day"s outing in the Chemung valley, 

 near Waverly. Of course, I had my bee- 

 hunting kit with me. After fishing until it 

 ceased to be sport, we commenced a search 

 for honey-plants, in order to find bees. 

 Although the season was the driest ever 

 known in this vicinity, sweet clover was 

 found on a dry, gravelly bar, which was so 

 barren for several rods each way that there 

 was scarcely a plant of any other kind. 

 There were plenty of blossoms on the 

 plants, which were only 2 or 3 feet above 

 the low water mark. Those plants must 

 have been under water many times. Prob- 

 ably three or lour days at a time during 

 the spring freshets. As I do not wish to be 

 misleading, I will say that stock might 

 have nipped the plants during the summer 

 somewhat, which caused them to blossom 

 so late in the season. 



I never took too much stock in the idea 

 of noise interfering with bees, if the hives 

 or their foundation were not thumped, as I 

 have wintered them in first-class condition 

 under the sitting-room where a large family 

 lived. Dr. GalUip's account of that colony 

 wintering on the willow-tree in that rock-a- 

 bye-baby style, has convinced me still more 

 that noise has little effect if the hives are 

 not jarred, or motions are not seen by the 

 bees. J. H. Andre. 



Lockwood, N. Y. 



How to Market Honey and Wax. 



I live in what is called a poor honey 

 country, not many bees being kept here. I 

 have 13 colonies, and produced, last season, 

 2.50 pounds of honey in one-pound sections. 

 My best colony gave 67 pounds. Three 

 swarms went away in the month of August. 

 I have sold three-fourths of my honey, and 

 I have not been to any trouble to do it. I 

 work every day at my trade, and some 

 mornings I carry my sample box of honey, 

 which holds 8 one-pound sections; the box 

 is made of ;v^-inch white- wood lumber. It 

 is 10 inches square, and i}.< inches deep. 

 The box has a handle on the 4i,,' inch side, 

 and is carried like a hand traveling-bag. A 

 cover opens from each side, showing four 

 sections on each side. It can be carried in 

 a wagon without breaking the combs, and 

 looks fine when open to show to a customer. 



I get 20 cents a section for all of my 

 honey. I keep a supply at the village store, 

 which sells readily. For that I have made 

 a little show-case of comb foundation. We 

 keep the honey in a box at the store, and 

 set out two sections at a time, in the little 

 case, which is made of black walnut lumber 

 and brood-foundation. The bottom is made 

 of a 1-inch pine board, 10 inches long and 5 

 inches wide, 2}4 inches being left flat for 

 the section to rest on, and 2^., inches of 

 front beveled down to a fine edge. The flat 

 part is covered with white paper, the bevel 

 with foundation. The top is made of }4- 

 inch black walnut lumber. There 'are four 

 round posts, and a half-round top-rail on 

 top, with grooves in rail, and posts for 

 foundation to catch in. This attracts con- 

 siderable attention, as most of the people 

 have never seen any foundation. 



I mold my wax into small cakes, and get 

 5 cents a cake for it — that makes 80 cents 

 per pound. 



I am looking forward for a good season 

 next year. George C. Beals. 



Bridgewater, Mass., Jan. 13. 



Report of a Chicagro Bee-Keeper. 



My apiary is located on 43rd and Col- 

 orado avenue, in a good place, surrounded 

 by a 6-foot board fence, the boards of 

 which are pointed at the top. On the 

 northwestern portion of the grounds stands 

 a neat cottage, the grounds being sur- 

 rounded by a 16-foot alley. My 13 hives 

 face the east. I have sufficient room for 

 100 hives. 



I winter my bees on the summer stands. 

 Although I have tried many plans for in- 

 door protection, I prefer the former. The 

 amount of honey from eight of these colo- 

 nies was 700 pounds ; three of them I built 

 up. I got 108 pounds from one colony of 

 blacks ; the amounts from the others aver- 

 aged from 70 to 80 pounds. They are all in 

 prime condition. 



I have an oak-tree stump that I found in 

 the woods by the World's Fair Grounds. It 

 is a monster, with bees and honey, and 

 stands 6 feet high. It is interesting to see 

 them slip out from two entrances. I would 

 not take -$30 for it. 



I notice by reports that the honey crop 

 has been very slim for some years. I think 

 the bee-keepers have to blame themselves 

 for the light crops. If all the bee-keepers 

 took the pains to scatter sweet clover over 

 waste places and grounds, the reports would 

 be quite different from what they are. They 

 talk about all kinds of hives, and their 

 sizes, but sweet clover is the best "hive" 

 made. 



I sold 700 pounds of honey at 15 cents 

 per pound. Timothy O'Donnell. 



Chicago, III., Jan. 38. 



Phenol Cure for Foul Brood. 



I will now give my experience with 

 phenol and the way I used it. I had five 

 colonies to experiment with. Nos. 1 and 3 

 were very bad, Nos. 3, 4 and 5 were strong, 

 with not much foul brood to be seen, but 

 some cells in every comb. The 5 colonies 

 were treated with half a pint of syrup for 

 three weeks every evening, with 1-500 part 

 of phenol. 



Colonies Nos. 1 and 2 I poured the syrup 

 all over the brood in the comb the first two 

 evenings; after that I poured it around the 

 brood on every comb, so they were bound 

 to get it right against the brood. Nos. 3, 

 4 and 5 I poured the syrup around the 

 brood-nest in every comb in the hives. 



This was in July, 180.5. There was but 

 little honey coming in at the time. At the 

 end of three weeks' treatment the colonies 

 were just as bad as when the treatment 

 was begun, and the result was I kept the 

 disease in my apiary through the season. 

 If any readers of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal have made a success with the phenol 

 cure, I hope they will give it, so the read- 

 ers can see how they used it. Also, it would 

 be good if those who failed would state how 

 they used it, for I have cured a good many 



