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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 7. 



Largest Factory tife West Go?d^ph!7|djT?^ces 



READ THIS— Mr. Keyes says: The 100 rot'Qds of Extra-Tuin Foundation you sent us is 

 superior to anything- he ever saw; and I think the same. R. L. Tucker, Wewahitchlia. Fla. 



Dear Sirs:— The Sections came duly vo hand. Indeed, thev are very nice. Yes, sir; they 

 are as good as the best. Charles H. Thies. Steelevllle, Illinois. 



Leahy Mlg. Co. : — I have received the bill o£ goods. I must say they are the choicest lot of 

 Hive-Stuff 1 have ever received from any place. I admire the smoothness of your worls. and 

 your close selection of lumber. Yours very truly. O. K. Ol.mstead, Orleans, Nebr. 



Dear Sirs:— The Sections arrived in due time, and are all O. K. so far as examined. They 

 are simply perfection. 1 can't see how you can furnish such goods at such low prices. I hope 

 you may live long and do well. Yours respectfully. Z. S. Weaver. Courtney, Tex. 



Gents:— I received the •■ HigglnsvlUe Smoker " all O. K. It's a dandv; please find enclosed 

 stamps for another. Yours truly. Otto Enuers, Oswegathe, N. Y. 



Gentlemen:— 1 have bought Supplies from nearly all the large manufacttirers by the car- 

 load, and 1 must say yours are as good as the best. Indeed, in many lines they are the best. 

 It le a pleasure to handle them, , E. T. Flanagan. Belleville, Illinois. 



The above unsolicited testimonials are a fair sample of hundreds we receive. 



Our prices are reasonable and the " HlgginsviUe Goods " are the best. 

 The " HiggiiiHVllle " HooAn are for sale by the following parties : 



Chas. H. Thies. Steelville, ill. E. T. Flanagan. Belleville, 111. 



Henry L. Miller. Topeka. Kans. E. A. Seelev, Bloomer, Arkansas. 



J. W. Kuuse & Co.. Mexico, Mo. P. J. Thomas. Fredonia. Kans. 



Fulton & Gregg. Garden City. Kans. W. J. Finch, Jr., Springfield. 111. 



If you need a Carload of Supplies, or only a Bee-Smoker, write to us. Kemember. we are 

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$1.50 a M. 3 M. $4.2.5. 

 These are not Seconds, but perfect Sections. 

 As they are not up to our present high stan- 

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 Widths— 7-to-loot. I 15-16 in., and 2 in. 

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41x41 Snow-white Sections $2.00 per 1,000. 



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For the purpose of introducing our One-Plece Section to the bee-keepers generally, we 

 have concluded to make the price $2.00 per 1.000 for the month of April. Now is the time to 

 get your Sections cheap. We have a choice lot of Section Lumber, gotten out of young tim- 

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We have arranged with the inventor o£ the new Queen-Clipping Device (Mr. Mon- 

 ette), to offer it to our present subscribers as a Premium for getting new subscribers. 



Send us ,//(.»■( oHf «f 10 »n»if for the American Bee Journal a year (with •'?1. 00), and we 

 will mail you the Queen-Clipping Device free of charge. Or, the Queen-Clipping Device 

 will be sent postpaid for .50 cts. But why not get it as a Premium by the above offer ? 

 You can't earn 50 cts. any easier. Almost every bee-keeper will want this Device. See 

 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, 



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Qerjeral Iterrjs^ 



Wintered Well. 



Bees have wintered well around here. 

 I have not heard of any losses at all. 

 N. Richardson. 

 Blooming Prairie, Minn., April 20. 



Fine Weather for Bees. 



We are having fine weather for bees 

 now. and I never knew them to get more 

 honey from the fruit-bloom than they 

 are now. E.mebson T. Abbott. 



St. Joseph, Mo., April 23. 



Nailing Hoffman Frames. 



I notice in April 1 of Gleanings what 

 Mr. C. Davenport says about nailing the 

 Hoffman frames. I had some of the 

 trouble which he describes when I first 

 began to use them. If one would avoid 

 this difficulty, he should commence nail- 

 ing by slipping the first end-bar onto 

 the top-bar with the square edge of the 

 end-bar towards the body. Then change 

 ends with the top-bar, and that will 

 bring the square edge of the second end- 

 bar in the same direction. 



By following this order of nailing, or 

 reversing it, one will have no trouble so 

 far as his own apiary is concerned. But 

 if he should ever have occasion to get 

 frames from some one who started nail- 

 ing differently from him, he would have 

 trouble. If one should nail with the 

 square edges in the direction of the per- 

 son, and another should nail with the 

 V edges in the same direction, the V 

 edges would not come against the square 

 edges unless half of the frame were 

 turned upside down, and the larger part 

 of the frame held above the top of the 

 hive. Bee-keepers should agree on 

 which way they will nail, and then all 

 nail alike. Edwin Bevins. 



Leon, Iowa. 



Extracted vs. Comb Honey. 



Occasionally I see something in the 

 Bee Journal that is quite at variance 

 with my ideas and experience. I noticed 

 the discussion at the meeting of the Col- 

 orado State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 about the advisability of doing away 

 with the honey-extractor. Bee-keepers 

 have always been told that it would pay 

 them to have an extractor, if they pos- 

 sessed only a few colonies of bees. If I 

 am not mistaken some of those who 

 took part in the discussion used to manu- 

 facture and sell extractors; however, I 

 am not sure of this. But what I started 

 out to do, was to give some of my ex- 

 perience in selling honey. 



Although I have not been a large 

 honey-producer, I have always sold my 

 entire surplus crop direct to the con- 

 sumer — peddled it from a wagon. My 

 experience dates back to 1872, when I 

 commenced with five colonies, and have 

 produced since that time from 300 or 

 400 pounds up to 5,000 or 6,000 in a 

 season. I have always had the preju- 

 dice to contend with against extracted 

 honey, but now I am going to tell those 

 Colorado comb-honey men something 

 that they don't seem to know, and that 

 is, that there is almost as strong a preju- 

 dice against their nice Colorado comb 

 honey as against extracted. There Is 



