1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



299 



A HANDY TOOL-HOLDER ! 



Sent by Expre§s, for $1.50 ; or with the Bee JournaS 

 one year — both for $2.00. 



Every Manufacturer, Miller, Carpenter, 

 Cabinet Maker, Machinist. Wheelwrigbt and 

 Quarryman, Farmer, or any one using- a grind- 

 stone, sliould have one of tlieso Tool-Holders. 

 One boy can do the work of two persons, and 

 grind much taster, easier and with perfect 

 accuracy. Will hold any kind of tool, from 

 the smallest chisel to a draw shave or ax. 

 Extra attachment lor sharpening scythe 

 blades included iu the above price. The work 

 is done without weltinpr the hands or soiling 

 the clothes, as the water flows from the opera- 

 tor. It can be attached to any size stone for 

 hand or steam power, is always ready fur use, 

 nothing to get out of order, and is absolutely 

 worth 100 times ils cost. 



No farm is well-equipped un- 

 less it has a Tool-Holder. Pays 

 'or itself in a short time. 



How to Ise the Holder. 



Directions.— The Tool is fas- 

 tened securely in the Holder b.v 

 a set-screw and can be ground 

 to any desired bevel by Insert- 

 ing the arm of the Holder into 

 a higher or lower notch of the 

 standard. While turning the 

 crank with the right hand, the 

 left rests on an steadies the 

 Holder ; the Tool is moved to 

 the right or left across the 

 stone, or examined while grind- 

 ing, as readily and in the same 

 way as if held in th') hands. 



For grinding Kouiid-EIdge 

 Tools, the holes in the stand- 

 ard are used instead of the 

 notches. 



Address, GEOKGE W. YORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



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In order to reduce stock we will sell 



40,000 4i4x4>ix'2 40,000 4i-4'x4Kxl 15/16 250,000 4Mx4Mx1% 



150,000 4^x41^x1% 80,000 4)ix4i4x7-to-ft, 



Of our No. 2. One-Piece. Open-Top Sections, at the following IjOW Prices : 



1,000 for $1.00 ; 3,000 for $2.50; 5,000 for $3.75. 



These Sections are all of good quality and manufacture, and prices will be maintained for a 

 short time only. 



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ALL CHOICE VARIETIES. 



No. 1— Eight Snyder Blackberry Plants. $1.00 



No. 2—50 Asparagus Roots 1.00 



No. 3—6 Fay Pioliflc Currants 1.00 



No. 4—3 Snyder Blackbery, 20 Asparag's 



Roots and 3 Fay Prolific Currants 1 00 



No. .5—3 Blackcap Oregg Raspberries. 3 

 Choice Red Raspberries. 12 lo'a Beau- 

 ty Strawberries and 2 Fay Pro. Cur.. 1.00 

 No. 6— 4 Snyder Blackberry, 4 Golden 

 Queen Haspberrv. 12 Asparagus R'ts 

 and 10 Erie Blackb'ry Root Cuttings. 1.00 

 No. 7—73 Blackberry Root Cuttings 1.00 



Vno/'iil AIT'ur — ^our choice of any one of 

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 sending us one new subscriber to the Bee 



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- CHICAGO, ILLS. 



Sweet Clover n Canada. 



At the following prices : 



5 lbs. 10 lbs. 2.5 lbs. .50 lbs. 



$1.00 $1.00 $3.75 $7.25. 



Also a quantity of Motherwort and Catnip 



seed. Prices on application. 



EGGS lor Hatching. Buff Leghorns. In- 

 dian Games, & Light Brabmas. Choice Birds. 

 A breeder for 30 years. Prices on application 



jrOHN IflcAKTHUK, 

 881 Yonge Street. - TOKONTO, ONT. 

 1 3 A t f isitvUu/n the American Bee JuumOh 



For Sale "n'iE^Ui^^' 



!4 Block of ground, some fruit, GOOD 6-room 

 dwelling, shop, stable, honey-house and poul- 

 try-house [over 3.OO0 square feet of floor], 

 100 colonies of bees in chaff hives and fuU.v 

 equipped for comb honey, all in town of 1000 

 population and good alfalfa range and good 

 water. Price. $3,000. If unsold June 15th, 

 will unqueen, and otfer 2 year clipped queens 

 at 25c.: 1 year, undipped, at 50c. each. July 

 loth and alter, young queens at 60c. each — 

 all Italian and safe arrival iruaranteed. This 

 is a rare bargain, but I must get my wife to a 

 lower altitude. Book your orders at ouce If 

 you want these queens. 

 lOAtf K. C. AlKIN, Loveland, Colo. 



Promptness Is What Counts ! 



Honey-Jars. Shipping-Cases, and every- 



I tiling that bee-keepers use. Root's 



<.<mm1h ill lEool's Prices, and the 



best .shippiTig point in the country. 

 Dealer in Honey and Beeswax. Cata- 



IlirMa'stAve. WaltcF S. PoudcF 



INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 

 McTLtiiyn the American Bee JoumaZ^ 



J. W. TAYLOR 



-HAS THE BEST- 



Italiaji Queeiis for Sale 



Untested, ready now, 75c. apiece; G for $4.25, 

 or 12 for$8.00. Tested. $1.25. Select Tested, 

 best. $2.00. Pay for Queens on arrival. 1 

 guarantee sate arrival and satislaction. 

 14A9t OZAN, AKK. 



one class that will tell you that the 

 comb is manufactured and filled, and 

 sealed all complete, artificially. Another 

 class will tell you that it is the work of 

 the bees, but that the bees are fed on 

 glucose and cheap syrup, or almost any- 

 thing. They seem to think that the 

 bees will store anything in the combs if 

 it is a little sweet. I have been selling 

 Colorado honey more or less for the last 

 year and a half, and I know what I 

 write from experience. 

 Carthage, Mo. L. G. Purvis. 



Not So Bad, After AU. 



Mr. Bargehr, on page 236, says the 

 bees in this section are all dead except 

 his 22 colonies. With due respect to 

 Mr. Bargehr, I must say the facts are 

 not so discouraging as he reports. I live 

 within three miles of his home, and have 

 wintered 63 colonies without a single 

 loss. We had a mild winter here, and 

 bee-mortality should be small where 

 they are properly cared for. I think the 

 gentleman has reference to some old- 

 fogy farmers in this section, who keep 

 bees that board themselves, or die in the 

 attempt. I have sent sample copies of 

 the Bee Journal to such, but they say 

 ye editors, or city chaps, talk well on 

 paper, but know very little about the 

 practical part of bee-keeping; and they 

 are prone to follow the "good old way" 

 of their unsuccessful fathers. I think 

 the sooner stich over-cautious individuals 

 " wind up " with empty boxes and moth- 

 eaten combs, the better. 



A. B. Baird. 



Belle- "Vernon, Pa., April 11. 



Colorado and Farmer Bee-Keeping. 



On page 219, Mr. John Seton ques- 

 tions the accuracy of that average yield 

 of 150 pounds of comb honey. Well, 

 when I got my information from the 

 (fealer who purchased the honey, who 

 had been to Rocky Ford and talked with 

 the man who ran the bees, I may be ex- 

 cused for lending blind credence to the 

 tale. 



He says I ought to know that there 

 were yards near me that yielded almost 

 nothing. (But he does not say whether 

 those yards were run by up-to-date bee- 

 keepers or not.) I do know It, and said 

 nothing to imply that I didn't. But I 

 was talking about the yards of "api- 

 arists," as Bee-Master would say. The 

 gentleman he refers to, who got some 

 2,000 pounds from 400 colonies, and 

 would need to feed 4,000 pounds to 

 winter, is not, I believe, a modern bee- 

 keeper. If wrong in this matter, I will 

 be glad to be corrected. The same re- 

 mark applies to those others who ob- 

 tained " almost nothing" — one of them 

 only half a mile from me. Mr, Seton 

 himself refers to the " best apiarists " in 

 the Rocky Ford region. How's this ? 



I have heard, too, of prime swarms 

 being sold for 50 cents (though I never 

 ran across them) ; but the same remark 

 applies to them, too, or rather their 

 owners. The man who would sell a 

 first swarm right in the honey-flow for 

 less than a good round sum, knows noth- 

 ing about modern bee-keeping. What 

 he does, doesn't count. 



I would like to know a little more 

 about that " much sold as comb which 

 was cut out of brood-frames." That is 

 the first I heard about it. About how 

 many bee-keepers are engaged in that 



