1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



173 



Sweet Clover, Willow-Herb, Basswood 



EXTRACTED HONEY 



—For Sale.— 



We have made arrangements whereby we 

 furnish S»feet Clover or WilloMr-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, 7i4 cents. 



The Basswrood Honej' 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. 



1^S~ A sample of either kind ot 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. 



GEOBGE W. YOBK & CO., 



- CHICAGO, ILLS. 



ler- IF YOU WANT THE 



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That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 

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 $1.25 to Prof. A. J. Cook, Claremont, Calif., 



for bis 



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BEGINNERS. 



Beffinners should have a copy of the 

 Amateur Bee-Keeper, a TO-page book by 

 Prof. J. W. Kouse. Price -Zb cents; If 

 sent by mail, 28c. The little book and 

 the Progressive Bee-Keeper (a live, pro- 

 gressive 28-page monthly journal) one 

 year, 65c. Address any flrst-class dealer, 



or 



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convinced that some other method should 

 be adopted, so I tried the plan of packing 

 all around, as is usually advised. I found 

 no better success from this method. While 

 packing all around kept out cold to some 

 extent, it also kept out the heat from the 

 sun, and many thus packed, especially if in 

 a shady place, filled with frost and perished. 



My losses from the three methods of win- 

 tering I formerly tried averaged 3.5 per 

 cent., and by the plan I have adopted for 

 the last three years not over 10 percent. 



In the first place, an apiary should be 

 free from shade and face the south, and the 

 hives should set either on the ground, or 

 very nearly so. and the super should be 

 filled with wheat chaff, leaving on the en- 

 ameled cloth, under which I would recom- 

 mend placing the small sticks reaching 

 across at least six of the center frames ; 

 this will allow the bees to go from frame to 

 frame. The outside packing should extend 

 nearly to the top of the super, and be of dry 

 leaves. 



I sold 10 colonies to H., a neighbor, in the 

 spring of 1894, and although I gave bim 

 directions how he should pack his bees, be 

 disregarded it. and moved them all up to 

 one place in a row, and packed them col- 

 lectively with leaves on all sides except the 

 front. In the spring he found them all 

 detnl. with plenty ot honey. I also sold C. 

 anil P.. 14 colonies at the same time; they 

 packed the same way, and lost all except 4, 

 whi'-!i were in old-fashioned box-hives. I 

 couUI mention many other instances of 

 loss;e« by packing all around the hives, but 

 perluipsthe above is sufflcient. 1 do not 

 contend that my way, or any other method 

 of i>:icking. will keep the heat up in the 

 hive, but 1 do believe it prevents cold winds 

 entering the hive through cracks, that is 

 about all, excei)t the chaff in the super, 

 that probably belp.< to retain heat. 



In our State about 1-6 to I4 of the days in 

 winter the sun shines very warm, and if 

 hives are packed all around, the heat on 

 warm days will have little effect in thawing 

 out accumulated frost. The hive-entrance 

 should be large, and not allowed to close by 

 snow, frost, or dead bees. Four of my 

 losses this winter were from smothering, 

 and the other from starving, with plenty 

 of honey in the hive. The bees clustered 

 during a cold spell on empty combs. 



J. L. Gandt. 

 Humboldt, Nebr.. Jan. 31. 



Sweet Clover and Alfalfa. 



In reading the proceedings of the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keeper.s' Convention, on page 

 09, the question of planting for honey and 

 pasturage engaged my attention. I believe 

 this to be one of the most important sub- 

 jects in relation to bee-keeping, especially 

 when we consider the changing conditions 

 going on around us, our forests being re- 

 moved, the flora changed, making bee- 

 keeping as a specialty a very uncertain oc- 

 cupation. I do not intend saying much on 

 the subject, as the last season left convinc- 

 ing proof of the necessity of increasing our 

 pasturage by sowing of honey-producing 

 plants. In this section bee-keepers within 

 reach of sweet clover can report 100 per 

 cent, increase, and some wonderful yields 

 of comb honey ; bees going into winter 

 quarters heavy with natural stores, and 

 strong in bees. 



The question I wish more particularly to 

 refer to is alfalfa as a honey -plant. From 

 the glowing accounts of the great yields of 

 honey from the alfalfa fields of the South 

 and southwestern States, one would be led 

 to believe that the same results might be 

 expected from alfalfa wherever it may be 

 sown, which is not thecase. I saw in Glean- 

 ings for Feb. 1. a perfect picture of alfalfa, 

 and a comment as follows; 



" Permit us to say once more, that any 

 one who contemplates making any test of 

 alfalfa at all should send for Farmers' 

 Bulletin No. :il. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington. D. C. In the alfalfa bulletin 

 we find nothing in regard to its value as a 

 honey-plant. It seems a little strange that 

 such a complete and exhaustive treatise 

 should omit to mention that the plant pro- 



The Bee-Keepers' Guide: 



Or Manual of the Apiary, 



Br Prof. A. J. Cook. 



This 15th and latest edition ot Prof . Cook's 

 magnificent 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 tor the American 

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A description of tlie book here is quite un- 

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For Two Xew Siib§cribcrs and 

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Send us Two New Subscribers to the Bee 

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 the 160-page " Bees and Honey " to each New 

 Subscriber. Prot. Cook's book alone Is $I.3.5, 

 or we club it with the Bee Journal for a year 

 —both together for only $1.75. But surely 

 anybody can get only '3 new subscribers to 

 the Bee Journal for a year, and thus get the 

 book as a premium. Let everybody try for it. 

 Will you have one ? 



GEOBGE W. YORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, ILLS 



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