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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 19, 



Willow-Herb, White Sage, Basswood 



EXTRACTED HONEY 



—For Sale.— 



We have made arrangements whereby we 

 furnish Willow - Herb or Wliite Sage 



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. 



Tlie Bassfvood Honey is all in kegs 

 holding 170 pounds, net. It is a very superior 

 quality, and the prices are: 1 keg. 8J4 cents 

 per pound ; 2 liegs or more, 8 cents. 



Cash MUST accompany each order. 



I^r A sample of either kind ot honey will 

 be mailed to an intending purchaser, for 10 

 cents, to coyer postage, packing, etc. We 

 guarantee purity, and that what we ship will 

 be equal to sample. 



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- CHICAGO, ILLS. 



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That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 

 completely than any other published, send 

 «1.2o to Prof. A.J. Cook, Claremont, Calif., 

 for his 



Bee-Keeper's Guide. 



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yand Book of Valuable Eecipes, w large 

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"DEFORE placing your orders for SUP- 

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CARLOADS 



Of Bee-Hives, Sections. Ship- 

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 and Everylliing used in the 

 Bee-InduBtry. 

 I want the name and address 



- of every Bee-Keeper in Anier- 



- fca. No reason why you can- 

 not do business with me. I have 



Cheap Lumber and E.xperienced Workmen ; 

 a good Water-Power Factory and hnow how 

 to run it. I am supplying Dealers as well as 

 consumers. Why not you? Send for Cata- 

 logues, Quotations, etc. W. H. PUTNAM, 

 IE River Falls, Pierce Co.. Wis. 



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BEGINNERS. 



BcB-inners should have a copy of 'the 

 Amateur Bee-Keeper, a 70-page booli by 

 Prof. J. W. Kouse. Price 25 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 

 IiEAHY MFG. CO., Higginsville, Mo. 

 Mention tlie American Bee Jouniai. 



(Andrews & Weeks) call our place, "Moun- 

 tain View Apiary." We are situated on a 

 tableland about 1.000 feet above the Santa 

 Ana rivei-, commanding a view of the 

 river and its valley, the valleys and moun- 

 tains beyond, that delights the eyes of all 

 beholders. We have two out-apiaries — one 

 up the the river two miles, the other down 

 four miles — all three face the river, and are 

 backed by lofty and almost inacessible 

 mountains. 



One year ago we had about 300 colonies 

 distributed among the three apiaries, but 

 almost all of them were weak, and out of 

 spirits on account of the very discouraging 

 conditions of the previous year. We sold 

 4S.000 pounds of honey of a high grade, and 

 held over 4,000 pounds as capital for a bad 

 season, should there be one. 



On Feb. 1 we had about 190 colonies in 

 the home apiary, and ISO and 90 respect- 

 ively in the out-apiaries; every colony in a 

 prosperous condition, each having stores 

 enough on band to take it through an East- 

 ern winter. 



In November, 1895, we put all down into 

 a single story, except about 50. that were 

 too populous to be crowded into a house 

 of one room, but now many of them are 

 storing new honey so fast, and filling the 

 brood-chamber so rapidly, that we expect 

 by March 1, or sooner, to commence put- 

 ting on the supers again. So if Nature is 

 kind to us. furnishing the requisite amount 

 of moisture, we expect to have some honey 

 to place upon the market early in the sea- 

 son. Up to this date, however, we have 

 had about two inches of rain, and are wait- 

 ing for the other 15 or 16 with what patience 

 and resignation we can command, but In 

 the meantime we are not taking any orders, 

 and if the near future does not develop con- 

 siderable moisture, I fear we shall have 

 bees to sell instead of honey. 



The flora of this locality is all that the 

 most fastidious bee. or sanguine bee-mas- 

 ter, could desire ; but in this land of ever- 

 lasting sunshine, it often fails tomateralize, 

 on account of too much sunshine and too 

 little dampness. 



We are delighted to see that Rambler has 

 commenced a series in the American Bee 

 Journal. While I would not even intimate 

 that our Bee Journal can be improved, but 

 certainly among the other good things 

 found in its columns Rambler's can come in 

 on the principle that we cannot have too 

 much ot that which is good. 



Orange. Calif., Feb. 3. G. W. Weeks. 



Don't Eat in Winter Confinement. 



I asked for a test of this question, and a 

 report of same through the columns of the 

 Bee Journal some two months ago. and yet 

 see no reply. 



After receiving the offer of such a valua- 

 ble premium from Mr. Heise. on page 718 

 (1895), I then set in with great eagerness 

 for the prize, and on Nov. 10 I selected a 

 colony on the summer stands, and weighed 

 it carefully. It weighed just 50 pounds. 

 Being a box-hive I fixed it so I could weigh 

 it handily with a pair of true 50 pound 

 scales. I have weighed that hive some 13 

 times in the last two months — it is just two 

 months to-day since I commenced the test 

 — and in that time my bees have had four 

 flights, and today they weigh just 48 

 pounds. I weighed each time when I saw 

 that they were going to have a flight, and 

 in the evening after flight, and found, to 

 my satisfaction, that all that was lost was 

 lost in the flight, with and by the so-called 

 "dysentery." 



Now I say. if two months holds good and 

 proves that bees do not eat in close winter 

 confinement, why won't three or four 

 months do the same ? It will, and if Mr. 

 Heise will watch his bees, he will find out 

 to his satisfaction that the 25 to 30 pounds 

 of honey that each of his colonies makes 

 away with, is during the warm daj-s in the 

 spring, long before there is any bloom to 

 gather honey from. This is my particular 

 time to give my bees attention, and to feed, 

 if I see they need it. 



I have never lost but few bees in winter — 

 I never think ot wintering them except on 



The Bee-Keepers' Guide: 



Or Manual of the Apiary, 



By Prof. A. J. Cook. 



This 13th and latest edition of Prof . Cook's 

 magnificent book of 460 pages, in neat and 

 substantial cloth binding, we propose to give 

 away to our present subsoribers, for the work 

 of getting NEW subscribers for the American 

 Bee Journal, 



A description of the book here is quite un- 

 necessary — it is simply the most complete sci- 

 entific and practical bee-book published to- 

 day. Fully.illtistrated. and all written in the 

 most fasclnatiiis style, The author Is also 

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

 quire any introduction. No bee-keeper is 

 fully equipped, or his library complete, with- 

 out " The Bee-Kkeper's Guide." 



For Tivo Nciv Subscribers and 

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Send us Two New Subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal aud your own renewal (with $;J.OO). 

 and we will mail vou a copy of Prof. Cook's 

 book FREE as a premium, and also a copy of 

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

 Subscriber. Pro 1. Cook's book alone is $1.25, 

 or we club it.with tbe Bee Journal for a year 

 —both together for only $1.75. But surely 

 anybody can get only 2 new subscribers to 

 the Bee Journal for a year, and thus get the 

 book as a premium. Let everybody try for it. 

 Will you hav« one ? 



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