1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



347 



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At WHOL,KSAL,E PRICES, Delivered FREE 

 For Houses, Barns, Roofs, all colors, and SAVI', Dealers 

 profits. In use <'»4 years. Endorsed by Grange & Farmers' 

 Alliance. Low prices will surprise you. Write for Samples. 

 0. W. INQERSOLL, 269 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N. V. 

 12A13 Mentimi C'le ^mencan xset. Jimriuii. 



We have killed hip-h prices. Give me a trial 

 order and be convinced that good Queens can 

 be reared lor 50 cts. each. Untested, 50 cts. : 

 Tested, 75 cts. Golden Italians. :i-Banded I- 

 lalians, and Silver-Gray Carniolans, all tbe 

 same price. Best of Keferences given. 



€. B. BANKSTON, 



13Att CHRIESMAN, Burleson Co., TEX. 



ALEXANDER WEPT 



For other worlds to conquer. Ale.x should have 

 changed his name, got a new tin sword and taken 

 another whack at this same old world. That's the 

 way some fence men do, but the IPAOK conquests 

 cause no weeping on either side and a "return en- 

 gagement" is always welcome. 



PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Mich. 



When amswering this advertisemeht. Mention this Jouhnau 



A New Method 



of lefiaing wax without acid. 



Result Better 



Comb Fouudatioii. 



My prices are also the lowest. 



A Job-Lot of No. 2 



Polished Sections 



Equal in finish to any No. I's. 1 M, $1.75; 2 M 

 $3.40; 3 M. $4. SO; 5 M, $7.50. Or I can furn- 

 ish a cheaper quality. Also, a full line of 



HIGGIKSVILLE SUPPLIES. 



See my List with prices. 



-Z W. J. FINCH, Jr., ^^«'il*L?f"''" 



1^S~ IF YOU WANT THE 



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BEE-BOOK 



That covers the whole Apicultural Field more 

 completely than any other published, send 

 11.25 to Prof. A. J. Cook, Claremont, Calif., 

 for hlB 



Bee-Keeper's Guide. 



Liberal Discounts to the Trade. 



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 Climate or Resources, send for a Sample Copy 

 of California's Favorite Paper— 



The Pacific Rural Press 



The leading Horticultural and Agricultural 

 paper of the Pacific Coast. Published weekly, 

 hand.somely Illustrated, $2.00 per annum. 

 Sample Copy Free. 



PACIFIC RURAL PRESS, 



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TEXAS QUEENS. 



^It you are in need of Queens, let me have 

 your;order. Price-List Free. 

 8A26t J. D. GIVEKS, Lisbon, Tex. 

 Mernilan, Uie American Bee JvvjifKA, 



the most honey the past season. Had 

 we contracted these to seven or six 

 frames, they would have swarmed and 

 stored but little honey. A weaker col- 

 ony can often be forced into boxes by 

 contraction. Feeding syrup at that time 

 is not to be thought of. 



Emerson T. Abbott — I would not use 

 the Heddon divisible brood-chamber, 

 feed the brood-chamber full of .sugar 

 syrup, nor contract. I would use an 

 ordinary 8-frame hive, put the super on 

 at the proper time, and let the bees have 

 their own way about it. 



J. E. Pond — Neither plan would oper- 

 ate in my own locality. Force the bees 

 to till the top of the frames close up to 

 the top-bar with brood, and there will 

 be no trouble in getting them into the 

 sections. Exact close spacing will do 

 this, or does it with myself. 



James A. Stone — I think the best way 

 is by having no more than separators 

 between alternate sections, and then 

 ventilate the upper part of hive, and I 

 have found no trouble in their going to 

 work above as soon as they ought, with- 

 out neglecting the lower partof the hive. 



H. D. Cutting — If your bees are in 

 good spring condition, you will not have 

 to resort to a Heddon brood-chamber. 

 If you fill your brood-chamber with 

 syrup, you will defeat just what you are 

 trying to accomplish ; and just at this 

 time contraction is bad, unless you want 

 more swarms. 



G. W. Demaree — The best way to in- 

 duce bees to enter the surplus depart- 

 ment of the hive is to put on your sur- 

 plus cases a little ahead of the honey- 

 flow, then be sure you have plenty of 

 bees to spare from the breeding depart- 

 ment, and above all, order a good, rich 

 and deep honey-How. All the rest is 

 "rot." 



Queens ami Queen-ISeai-ins:.— 



If you want to know how to have queens 

 fertilized in upper stories while the old 

 queen is still laying below; how you may 

 safely iidrodiicv any queen, at any time of 

 the year when bees can fly ; all about the 

 diJferent races of bees ; all about shipping 

 queens, queen-cages, candy for queen- 

 cages, etc. ; all about forming nuclei, mul- 

 tiplying or uniting bees, or weak colonies, 

 3tc. ; or, in fact, everything about the 

 queen-business which you may want to 

 know— send for Doolittle's ■•Scientific 

 Queen-Rearing" — a book of over 170 

 pages, which is as interesting as a story. 

 Here are some good offers of this book : 



Bound in cloth, postpaid, $1 .00 ; or clubbed 

 with the Bee Journal for one year — both 

 for only $1.75 ; or given free as a premium 

 for sending us three new subscribers to the 

 Bee Journal for a year at $1.00 each. 



Kce-Keepci's' Pliotog'i-:(|>Ii. — We 



have now on hand a limited number of ex- 

 cellent photographs of prominent bee-keep- 

 ers — a number of pictures on one card. The 

 likeness of ■11) of them are shown on one of 

 the photograplis, and 121 on the other. We 

 will send them, postpaid, for RO cents each, 

 mailing from the Vil kind first; then after 

 they are all gone, we will send the 49 kind. 

 So those who order first will get the most 

 " faces'- for their money. Send orders to 

 the Bee Journal office. 



The Bee-Keepers' Guide: 



Or Manual of the Apiary, 



By Prof. A. J. Cook. 



This loth and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

 magnificent bools of 460 pages, in neat and 

 substantial cloth binding, we propose to glvo 

 away to our present subscribers, 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 illustrated, and all written in the 

 most faeeinating 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-Keeper's Guide." 



Given For 2 ^ew Subscribers, 



The following offer is made to present sub- 

 scribers only, and no premium is also given 

 to the two new subscribers— simply the Bee 

 Journal for one year : 



Send us Two New Subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal (wiih $^!. 00). and we will mail you a 

 copy of Prof. Cook's book free as a premi- 

 um. Prof. Cook's book alone sent for$1.35, 

 or we club it with the Bee Journal for a year 

 —both together for only $1.75. But surely 

 anybody can get only 3 new subscribers to 

 the Bee Journal for a year, and thus get the 

 book as a premium. Let everybody try for it. 

 Will you have one ? 



GEORGE W. ^ORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, ILLS. 



A Bararain-EARLY QUEENS. 



119 Colonies Italian Bees in Chatf Hives: two 

 acres land; good house; e.\celleut well. 



Early Queens— Tested. .SI. 00 ; Untested, 

 50c. Scut by return mall. 



E. li. CAKUI,\GTON, 

 16Atf PETfUS. BeeCo., TEX. 



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 ■' ica. No reason why you can- 

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MfMtion the jlinerican Bee Jountr.i^ 



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^►For instance, it has a joli lot. of '200. OOo 

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