1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



219 



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We h.-ive killed hip:h prices. (Uvc me a trial 

 order aud he convinced that, good Queens can 

 be reared tor 30 cts. each. Untested, .tO cts. ; 

 Tested. 75 cts. Golden Italians. 3-Banded I- 

 taliaus, and Silver-Gray Carniolajis, all the 

 same price. Best of References given. 



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Mentton tue. Anvsirican Bee Jov/rnai, 



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 Wire, and wtien good limes come, be ready to give 

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 8A26t J. D. GIVENS, LUbon, Tex. 



Mention the American ISce journal. 



camp— is that abominable beast— the laybuj 

 workrr. We are tausht that ouce they are 

 established there is hardly any means of 

 getting rid of them, for they will accept 

 neither queen-cells, virgin, nor fertilized 

 queens. Well, I rather think I have found 

 out a method of overcoming these senseless 

 objectors to accejit a proper Head of the 

 State. All I do is this: 



I open the hive, powder them well with a 

 dredger (a tin canister like a biggish pep- 

 per-box) contaiuiug flour scented with a 

 few drops of the essence of peppermint, 

 then dredge a fertile queen and pop her in, 

 and all's well! Dredging with scented 

 flour, whether for the above purpose or for 

 uniting colonies, beats wet spraying all to 

 fits, and the dredger is always ready and 

 handy— no plan to equal it for introducing 

 queens. 



I don't know wh.it I should do without 

 the American Bee Journal, though it is hard 

 to say what bee keepers in this part of the 

 ■world can do ir!fli it. unless it should hap- 

 pily some day contain directions for secur- 

 ing a regularity in the rainfall. Indeed, it 

 is three years since there has been any rain- 

 fall worth terming such— there is a sort of 

 a honey-flow on just now. or there would 

 be if the strong winds (which begin regu- 

 larly at sunrise and stop blowing at sun- 

 down) would only cease; and as our white 

 population is not much over half a million, 

 there's not much of a market when we do 

 manage to get a little honey. Beekeeping 

 is an interesting occupation, and that's 

 about all— in 111,111:1 parts of the globe; 

 though there may be parts where there's 

 money in it. '• (jli. where oh where, is that 

 happy land V Not here, not/inr, my child ! 

 S. A. Deacon. 



Mossel Bay, Soutli Africa, Jan. •2'3. 



Colorado Bee-Keeping. 



Stopping a couple of days at this place 

 (Pueblo), I have accidentally run across a 

 copy of the American Bee Journal contain- 

 ing a letter from Mr. F. L. Thompson, of 

 Arvada, Colo., in which he speaks of his 

 average yield, and further remarks on the 

 yield of some one at Rocky Ford. Colo., as 

 being an average of 1.50 pounds. I had rea- 

 son to make inquiry last fall as to where I 

 could get comb honey, and found the aver- 

 age of the bext apiarists in that region to be 

 about 60 pounds, while from that it went to 

 nothing. It sounds to me as it Mr. Thomp- 

 son's informant must have caught a piece 

 of a Kansas cyclone in his mouth. 



The average in Mr. Thompson's neighbor- 

 hood was not even ;25 pounds per colony, 

 and much sold as comb was cut out of 

 brood-frames, and I (jnexs Mr. Thompson 

 extracted quite a bit from the same source. 



Mr. Thompson ought to know that there 

 were yards near him that yielded almost 

 nothing. One gentleman I heard of, from 

 400 colonies, between Denver and Littleton, 

 got some 2.000 pounds, and would need to 

 feed 4.000 pounds to winter. 



My observation leads me to think that 

 there are many piirts of Colorado with all 

 the bee-keepers tliey need, and that they 

 will in many places crowd each other soon. 

 Prime swarms are often sold in Jefferson 

 county at .50 cents each, put into hives, so 

 you may Judge for yourself as to the profits. 



Durango, Colo. Joh.n Seton. 



Section Supers— Mountain Laurel. 



On page T1.5. W. L. asks Dr. Miller for 

 advice in regard to frames with top-bars 

 for holding sections. I have some with 

 hinged bottom-bars, in use the past season, 

 and am very favorably impressed with 

 them. The first cost of making is a little 

 more, but that is more than offset by the 

 convenience and saving in time of scraping 

 and cleaning sections, for they will come 

 ofl: as white aud clean as when put on the 

 hive. 



I also have had a pattern-slat super in 

 use the past two seasons, and unless further 

 experience changes my mind very ma- 

 terially, I would not discard either, if I 

 could have the old T super given to me. 



Some might object to the bars or slats on 



Honey-Clovers & Budwheat 



SEED FOR SALE. 



We have made arrangements so that we 

 can furnish seed of several of the Clovers 



Sweet Clover— the Great Honey-Plant. 



and Japanese Buckwheat, by freight or ex- 

 press, at the following prices, cash with order: 



SB) 101b 2oIb oOIb 



AlslkeClover $.80 $1.:!.5 $3.50 $6.25 



SweetClover 1.10 1.80 4.25 8.00 



WhiteClover 1.50 2.40 6.00 11.00 



Altalfa Clover 75 1.20 3.00 5.25 



Crimson Clover 65 1.00 2.50 4.00 



Jap. Buckwheat... .30 .45 1.00 1.50 



Prices subject tP market changes. 



The above prices include a good, new 25- 

 cent two-bushel bag with each order. Add 25 

 cents to your order, for cartage, if wanted by 

 freight. 



Your orders are solicited. 



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