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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 16 , 



^?t YOUNG QUEENS BY RETURN MAIL 3«r 



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 Full Colonies, we can furnish you at boffOJJi prices. We never saw Foul Brood or 

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Golden Wyandotte Eggs for hatching, only $1.00 for 13. 



EMERSOIV T. ABBOTT, ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



That Gueen-Clipping Device Free ! 



PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING OFFER : 



We bave arranged with the inventor of the new Queen-Clipping Device (Mr. Mon- 

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 page 130 (Feb. 37) for full description of it. Complete directions accompany each one 

 sent out. It is a most ingenious and useful article. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan St., Chicago, lU. 



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BEES & QUEENS. 



strong, full Colonies of Italian-Hybrid Bees, 

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H;::;;::::.„. Walters. Ponder 



INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 

 Mention the American Bee JoumaZ. 



The Patent Wood-Veneer Foundation. 



Bee-keepers should give it a test, and my AU- 

 Wai Foundation. 1 wlU guarantee there is no 

 better made, as six years ago I discarded the 

 old way of dipping lor wax sheets, and a new 

 invention of my own was discovered, which 

 enables me to make the toughest kind of 

 Foundation; also, no acid used to purify the 

 Beeswax, and It preserves the smell of honey, 

 which is more acceptable to the bees Now Is 

 the the time to send wax and have it worked 

 up at low prices. Selid for Samples and Cata- 

 log with low prices. Wax wanted at 31c cash, 

 or 33c trade, delivered. 



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For Sale 



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 stroth 10-frame hives. Will 

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IHe^Uion the A merican Bee Journal. 



Honey-Clovers & Biickwlieat 



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We have made arrangements so that we 

 can furnish seed of several of the Clovers 

 and Japanese Buckwheat, by freight or ex- 

 press, at the following prices, cash with order: 



5a> lOB) 259) 50ft 



AlslkeClover $.70 $1.25 $3.00 $5.75 



SweetClover 75 1.40 ;!.25 6.00 



WhiteClover 1.25 2.00 4.50 8.00 



Alfalfa Clover. ... .65 1.10 2.70 5.00 



Crimson Clover 55 .90 2.00 3.50 



Jap. Buckwheat.. . .20 .35 .90 1.25 



Prices subject to market changes. 

 Add 25 cents to your order, tor cartage, if 

 wanted by freight. 

 Your orders ai'e solicited. 



GEORGE "W. YORK & CO., 



CHJCAGO, ILLS. 



-FIRST-CLASS BEE-SUPPLIES- 



at Rook-Bottom Prices. Seud for Catalog 

 to \V. J. STAHMANN, 



14A4t WEAVER, MINN. 



Mention the Anierican Bee Journal, 



sented to him as a slight token of our ap- 

 preciation of his services. 



He mentioned that bard times are on us. 

 'Tis true. We all expected to pay our dues 

 (and I hold a receipt for mine for 1896), and 

 while Mr. Newman has, in his generous 

 way. not forgotten our welfare, in his un- 

 selfishness he is entirely left out. This sug- 

 gestion is not offered through a feeling of 

 personal friendship, for Mr. N. is a stranger 

 to me, except what I have seen in print. 



Now, I am not intending any discourtesy 

 to any member of our sister association, in 

 regard to amalgamation, and do not wish 

 to stand on record as an obstructionist, yet 

 I believe I know a good thing when I see it 

 in the National Bee-Keepers' Union, and I. 

 am decidedly in favor of "letting well 

 enough alone;" and if any one, or any 

 number of bee-keepers, wish to avail them- 

 selves of the benefits to be derived from 

 membership, let them walk up and pay 

 their .$1.00 like the rest of us, and not tack 

 onto members who do not wish it, the ex- 

 pense of expensive meetings. 



The Union was organized for a purpose, 

 and has most decidedly gained its object, 

 and there is work for it in the future. 



Los Angeles, Calif. G. A. Millard. 



That Foul Brood Report. 



It is seldom that I read an article on the 

 subject of foul brood. Of the thousands of 

 reports and remedies for said reported dis- 

 ease, I think I have not read a half dozen 

 during the last ten years, having usually 

 passed by such articles as unworthy of no- 

 tice. But in accidentally reading what was 

 said about this dispute between McEvoy 

 and Rev. Clarke at the Ontario convention, 

 that wonderful infection as reported ar- 

 rested my attention. Is it possible that 

 more than one-third of the apiaries of Can- 

 ada are thus rotten and foul ? Now if one- 

 tenth of this be true, ought not Canadian 

 bee-keepers begin to search for some under- 

 lying cause of all this infection ? Is it not 

 possible — yea. probable — that an inspector 

 himself may spread the disease and carry 

 the contagion on his person, from diseased 

 apiaries to those that are healthy ? This 

 is one of the reasons I have opposed the in- 

 troduction of Bills into the legislatures, 

 providing for " foul brood inspectors." 



I predict that "foul brood" will go on 

 increasing in Ontario under the present 

 method of eradication. Will the bee-keep- 

 ers up there be patient enough to await the 

 fulfillment of my prophecy ? 



Updegraff, Iowa. W. P. Fatlor. 



The Season of 1895. 



A year ago last fall I had 8 colonies, not 

 very strong in bees, nor abundant in stores. 

 In February there were a few nice days, 

 and I examined them and thought they had 

 not enough to last through the spring, so I 

 fed each of them about 21., pounds of gran- 

 ulated sugar syrup. Through March I gave 

 them about 34 pound per day each. On 

 April 5 I procured from New Orleans 16 

 frames of brood and bees (supposed to con- 

 tain 60,000 to SO.OOO bees), and these I 

 divided amongst the 8 colonies. 



On May 1 the hives were full, and I esti- 

 mated that I had at that time about 500,000 

 bees. Now, as a bee will store about one 

 tea-spoonful of honey in a season, and as 

 two spoonfuls make an ounce, according 

 to the figures and measures (and they won't 

 lie), I calculated that I would have 2.56,000 

 ounces, or 15,000 pounds of honey. But to 

 make a sure estimate, and to allow for all 

 contingencies, I threw ofT 14.000 pounds, 

 and concluded that I would be satisfied if 

 I got 1.000 pounds of clear, pure honey. 



I will give some of the circumstances and 

 surroundings, and the reader can judge if I 

 was foolish in my expectations. 



The spring was very favorable, and my 

 bees had a large bed of crocus, hyacinths, 

 and a great many willow trees to go to 

 work on very early. They were near a 75- 

 acre woods filled with maple, chestnut, 

 sassafras, dogwood and wild flowers, and 

 several orchards of fruit-trees on a lOS-acre 



