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1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



379 



BUY "direct from FACTORY," BEST 



MIXED PAINTS 



At WHOIiESALE PRICES, Delivered FREE 

 For Houses, Barns, Roofs, all colors, and SAVfe Dealers 

 profits. In use 54 years. Endorsed by Qranje & Fanners' 

 Alliance. Low prices will surprise you. Wrile for Samples, 

 0. W. INQERSOLL, 2d9 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N. X. 

 13Ai;i scn'j'jcyn i-fui .dmeruMii, ctee loiinny. 



WARRANTED GOLDEN 



ITALIAN QUEENS ^rL ■fCTBl^f.JJ^ 



tested by Doollttle out of 1.000 Queens for 

 his own use, and valued at $30. Queens, 50c ; 

 6 tor $3.75 ; or $.3.00 per dozen. 



l^eatlier Colored Queens from Root's best 

 imported stock same price. Bees from my 

 Queens are excellent workers on red clover. 

 1 guarantee safe delivery. N. B.— I sent more 

 than 200 Queens safely to California last sea- 

 son. H. G. QUIRIN, Relleviie, Obio. 



23.\16 Mention the. Amxrican Bee Jo>imcU« 



A MODEL TESTIMONIAL 



It comes to us this 18th day of M.y. 1S96. from one 

 of the must prosperous railways, the Lake Shore and 

 Michigan Southern. They have hundreds of miles in 

 use, but spend no time in praising it. Simply order 

 75 3-3 miles shipped at once, to nine points in four 

 states. 



Actions speak louder than words. Nextl 



PAGE WOVEN WIRE FEWCE CO., Adrian, Mich. 



When ANSWEniNG this ADVERTI5EMEr«T. MENTION THIS JOURNAU 



A New Metliod 



of refining wax without acid. 



Result Better 



Comb Foundation. 



My prices are also the lowest. 



A Job-Lot of No. 2 



Polislied Sections 



Equal in finish to any No. I's. 1 M. $1.73-, 2 M 

 $.3.40; ;i M, $t..SO: 5 M, $7.50. (1r I can furn- 

 ish a cheaper quality. Also, a full line of 



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TEXAS QUEENS. 



If you are in need of Queens, let me have 

 your^order. Prlce-Llst Free. 

 8A36t J. D. GIVENS, Lisbon, Tex. 

 Mention, the American Bee jQVff'/Uf^ 



up to date, since the season opened. We 

 had a light frost last week. Alfalfa and 

 other vegetation is very backward. One 

 case of bee-paralysis was discovered last 

 week. Alfalfa does not secrete honey 

 until it is in bloom about ten days, when, 

 by that time, a great deal of it is cut 

 for hay, then the chances for honey are 

 gone. Prospects for a good season are 

 encouraging. March and April were 

 the hardest months on the bees in this 

 locality. SiGEL Beautigam. 



Cliff, New Mex., May 18. 



Rolling in the Sweets. 



What bees are kept here are just roll- 

 ing in the sweets. S. H. Clark. 

 Elwood, Iowa, June 4. 



Just Kolled in the Honey. 



Bees have just rolled Id the honey in 

 this section this season, and we have 

 white clover, basswood, sourwood, and 

 the fall flowers yet to hear from ; and 

 the best part of all — the bees are not 

 swarming- -too busy, I reckon. 



I don't think it economy for any bee- 

 keeper to do without the American Bee 

 Journal, for I have tried it six months. 

 M. D. Andes. 



Bristol, Tenn., June 4. 



Bountiful Crops Expected. 



We have had no crops for two years 

 here, but the prospects are now for a 

 bountiful crop this year. We have had 

 more rain already this spring than we 

 have bad since 1891. Bees wintered 

 well, coming through without loss. In 

 the spring of 1S95 we had adust and 

 snow storm that drowned all but one 

 colony, which I divided July 4, and made 

 three out of it; two swarms came to me, 

 so I have five to commence with this 

 year. I winter them on the summer 

 stands, boxed up and packed with chaff, 

 facing the east. J. A. Hogg. 



Shelton, Nebr., May 23. 



Bright Prospects. 



Everything looks bright for a good 

 honey season, but I would have to throw 

 up my hand without the American Bee 

 Journal. Henry R. Elmslie. 



Richmond Hill, N. Y., May 26. 



Bees Poorly Cared For. 



Last winter and the early spring 

 months of this year were very bad for 

 bees about the country near here, judg- 

 ing by the number of colonies that died. 

 I have been to several apiaries within 

 six miles of here, and have talked with 

 several bee-keepers whose apiaries I 

 have not visited, and all have lost — some 

 only a few, others all, and at one apiary 

 that I visited lo colonies had died out 

 of 18. In this last apiary, the colonies 

 were left on the summer stands in single- 

 walled hives, and the only protection (?) 

 was a 2.5 or ^0 pound stone right on 

 top of the %-inch cover; 2 or 3 colonies 

 had been in double-walled hives and 

 packed with leaves, so the owner said, 

 but there were about enough leaves in 

 the whole hive to pack one side. One 

 hive had the entrance-blocks contracted 

 so that only about IX inches of an en- 

 trance remained for the bees. The dead 

 bees in this hive had blocked up the 



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Agents Wauled. 



JOHN B. KING. General Agent. 



Suite 513 First Nat'l Bank Bld'g, 

 20Atf CHICieO, ILL. 



Mention the American Bee Journals 



The Patent Wood-Veneer Foundation. 



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

 Wax Foundation. I will 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 

 Beeswa.\, 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. Send for Samples and Cata- 

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

 or 33c trade, dellvereu. 



AUG. \f EISS, Hortonvllle, Wis. 

 12A13t Please mention the Bee Journal. 



1,000 Teacliers' Oxford Bibles 



Were bought for spot cash by a Chicago firm 

 from an Eastern publisher who was about to 

 be driven to the wall 

 for the want of ready 

 money. More than a 

 million of these same 

 Bibles, in every way 

 like the Illustration, 

 have been sold dtiring 

 the past few years at 

 three times the money 

 we ask for them. 



They are the genu- 

 uine Teachers' Oxford 

 Bibles, Divinity Cir- 

 cuit, round corners, 

 gilt edges, complete 

 teachers' helps, maps, 

 ,1,350 i>a£es, bound 

 |in French seal, limp, 

 'with perfectly tlexlbie 



backs. Sent prepaid. 



Kegular price, $t.. 50; our price. $2 25. Or 

 we club it with the Bee Journal for one year— 

 both for only K. 75; or we will give this fine 

 Bible free as a premium to any one sending 

 4 newoiibseribers to the Bee Journal one 

 year (with $1.00). No additional premium is 

 given the new subscribers— simply the Bee 

 Journal one year to each of them. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



- CHICAGO, ILL& 



BEGINNERS. 



Beginners should have a copy of the 

 Amateur Bee-Keeper, a 70-page book by 

 Prof. J. W. Rouse. Price 25 cents; it 

 sent by mail, 28c. The little book and 

 the Progressive Bee-Keeper (a live, pro- 

 gressive 28-page monthly journal) one 

 year, OSc. Address any first-class dealer, 



LEAHY MFG.' CO., Higginsville, Mo, 



For Sale "r^j^^^- 



Vi Block of ground, some fruit, good 0-room 

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

 try-house [over 3.000 square feet of floor]. 

 100 colonies of bees in chaff hives and fully 

 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 ofl'er 2 year clipped queens 

 at 25c.; 1 year, undipped, at 50o. each. July 

 15th and after, YOUNO queens at tiOc. each- 

 all Italian and safe arrival guaranteed. 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. AIKIN, Loveland, Colo. 



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