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THE AMERICAN bEE JOURNAL. 



June 11, 



The Bee-Keepers' Guide: 



Or Manual of the Apiary, 



By Prof, A. J. Cook. 



This 15th and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

 magnificent book of 460 pages, in neat and 

 substantial cloth binding, we propose to give 

 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-booii published to- 

 day. Fully illustrated, and all written in the 

 most fascinating style. The author Is also 

 too well-known to the whole bee-world to re- 



?uire any introduction. No bee-keeper is 

 ully equipped, or his library complete, with- 

 out "The Bee-Keeper's Guide." 



Ciiven For 2 New 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 (with S2.00). 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. 'Jo, 

 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 f 



GEORGE VT. "iORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, ILLS. 



A Barafain-EARLY QUEENS. 



119 Colonies Italian Bees in Chaff Hives: two 

 acres land; good house; excellent well. 



Early Queens— Tested. $1.00 ; Untested, 

 60c. Sent by return mall. 



E. Ii. C4KKINGTON, 

 16Atf PKTTUS, BeeCo., TEX. 



Heference— 1st National Bank of Beeville. 

 "'•Tifion the American Bee Journal 



CARLOADS 



Of Bee-Hives. Sections, Ship- 

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 and Everything used in the 

 Bee-Industry. 

 I want the name and address 

 ;l-;( of every BeeKeeper in Aiuer- 

 t»" lea. No reason why you can- 

 not do business with me. I have 

 Cheap Lumber and E.xperienced Workmen ; 

 a good Water-Power Factory and hnow how 

 to run it. I am Supplying Dealers as well as 

 consumers. Whv not you ? Send for Cata- 

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 IE BivER Falls, Pierce Co., Wis. 



MiMtlon the A-merican Bee Jourti/^i^ 



Paffe & Lyon Mfa:. Co., 



^►New London. Wis., operates two saw- 

 mills that cut, annually, eijrht million feet 

 of lumber, thus securing the Uest lumber 

 at the lowest price tor ihe manufacture of 

 bee-keepers' supplies. They have also 

 just completed one of 



The Largest Factories, 



^►and have the latest and most improved 

 machinery for the manufacture of Bee- 

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 State. The material is cut from patterns. 

 by machinery, and is absolutely accurate. 

 For Sections, the clearest snd 



The Whitest Basswood 



^^is used, and they are polished on both 

 sides. Nearness to pine and basswood for- 

 ests, and possession of mills and factory 

 equipped with best machinery, all com- 

 bine to enable this Arm to furnish the best 

 goods at 



The Lowest Prices, t? 



^^For instance, it has a ,iob lot of 200, OOo 

 No. 2 Sections that will be sold at 50 cts. 

 per 1,000; or 2,000 Snow- White sections 

 will be sold for $-1.00, and larger quanti- 

 ties at still lower prices. Send for Circu- 

 lar and see the prices on a full line of 

 supplies. 16Atf 



MentUyn the Arnerican Bee Journal. 



entrance, and what few bees were alive 

 could not get out. Is it a wonder that 

 they died ? In all of the apiaries vis- 

 ited but very few colonies were packed. 

 On page 267, it tells how I packed my 

 bees and the result. 



Apple trees bloomed fuller this year 

 than they have before in a number of 

 years. I put extracting frames or combs 

 on one of my colonies April 18, which 

 had lots of honey and bees in the brood- 

 chamber ; on May 13 a large swarm 

 came from this hive. This is the first 

 swarm I have had this year, I was sur- 

 prised, when looking into the old hive, 

 to find the 10 super combs about full of 

 honey. 



Three colonies stored, I should think, 

 about 45 pounds of honey during apple- 

 bloom. S. K. Luther. 



Olneyville, R. I., May 18. 



Gathering Honey. 



Bees are gathering honey now, and 

 planning to swarm. T. P. Bingham. 

 Farwell, Mich., June 3. 



Bright Prospects Failed. 



The spring opened with great promise, 

 but has signally failed to fulfill. Out of 

 80 colonies of bees only three have 

 swarmed, and work in supers has but 

 barely commenced. I work for comb 

 honey. Alvin L. Heim. 



Chandler, Ind., May 27, 



A Woman Bee-Keeper's Report. 



I should not like to do without the 

 Bee Journal. 



I began the spring of 1895 with 6 

 colonies of bees, and increased to 23, 

 harvesting 50O pounds of comb honey. 

 I put the 23 colonies in an out-door.cel- 

 lar; they had an abundance of honey, 

 and March 30 X brought them out. 

 They were a little moldy, and as soon as 

 we had a warm day I cleaned the bot- 

 tom-boards. They all had sealed brood 

 April 10, and to-day they are in fine 

 condition, the weakest colony having 

 five frames of brood. My queens are all 

 clipped, I use both 8 and 10 frame 

 hives. Mrs. M. L. Williams. 



Nimrod, Minn., May 20. 



Experience with a Queen-Bee. 



To-day I have had what I believe to 

 be an unusual e-\perience with a queen- 

 bee. 



Two or three days ago I got two 

 queens from Mississippi, and having a 

 place for only one of them, I concluded 

 to keep the other in the cage until the 

 weather should get warm enough for me 

 to make a nucleus to receive her. This 

 morning I made the nucleus by means 

 of the nucleus-bo.x, and this afternoon 

 between 2 and o o'clock I gave the 

 queen. I took the cage to a window and 

 opened it, when the queen flew out 

 against the glass and I caught her easily 

 by the wings. Then I started for the 

 bo,x, but when I got out-of-doors I seemed 

 to have hold of but one wing, and in an 

 endeavor to shift her to the other hand, 

 she got away. She circled around me 

 leisurely a few times, and seemed very 

 reluctant to go away. Two or three 

 times she seemed about to alight, and I 

 thought I had lost a queen. 



Then I went into the house and got 

 the cage, with the escort still in it, and 



No. 1 Sections— Cheap. 



We offer for a few weeks, a surplus stock ot 

 our one-piece No. I Cream Sections at the 

 following very low prices: 



1000 for $1.50. 



3000 for $4.00. 



5000 for $6.00. 



These Sections are finely finished and No. 1 

 in all respects save color, being, as their name 

 indicates, of a cream color. 



The stock consists ot a quantity each of the 

 following sizes: 



4)^x2, open 2 sides ii-^xl 15-16, open 2 sides 



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WMEr, Answering THIS advertisement, mention this journal 



Hives & Coiiil)s For Sale. 



45 10-trame Langstroth Hives, twostor.v, for 

 extracting, as made and sold by T. G. New- 

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 paicted. and have been kept in the bee-house. 

 Price, 75 cents each. 



Also, 400 Brood or Extracting Combs for 

 the above hives : they have the triantrular 

 top-bar as made by Newman. They are clean 

 and in good condition. Price, $15.00 per 100. 



I would take $85.00 tor the whole lot of 

 Hives and Combs. 



Reference— American Bee Journal. 



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Cold-Blaot Smokers. 



Square Glass Honey Jars. Etc. 



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Send lOo tor Practical Hints to Bee-Eeepers, 



Mention the American Bee jou.i'nay, 



Beautiful Golden (jueeiiSuan. 



Let me tell you why my Golden Italians are 

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1 Untested Queen, 75 cents or .'3 for .$2.00 



1 Tested Queen, $1 00 Breeders 2.50 



1 Breeder which I have bred from and 

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1 Frame Nuclei with Queen 1.75 



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