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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 2, 



^ Money Saved is Money Gained. •^ 



THE ROYAL UMON 

 Life liisiiraiice Conipanv 



DES MOINES, IOWA. 



The Iowa Policy 



Is one that deflnitely promises to keep an 

 accurale account wlih you ; credit your 

 premiums and interest, charg-e tiie actual 

 expense acd mortuary cost, and liold the 

 remaining: funds sutiject to your order. 

 Ageuto Wanted. 



JOHN B. KING. General Agent. 

 Suite 513 First Nat'l Banl£ Bld'g, 

 20Atf CHICIGO, ILL. 



Mention the American Bee JouriwJ,- 



WARRANTED GOLDEN 



ITALIAN QUEENS ^.'^^^SS.i 



tested by Doclltlle out of 1.000 Queens for 

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

 6 for $a, 75 ; orJo.OO per dozen. 



Leailier Colored Quef nsfrom Hoot's best 

 imported stO' k same price. Bees from my 

 Queens are excellent workers on red clover. 

 1 iruarantee safe delivery. N. B.— 1 sent more 

 than 200 Queens safely to California last sea- 

 son. H. r.. QOIKIN, Bellcviie, Ohio. 



23 A 1 6 Mention the A merican Bee Jo'imal^ 



The Ten Year Test 



This IS attracting considerable attention amone 

 fence buyers. They realize that all wire fences are 

 nice when first put up, but that very few are presenta- 

 ble after two or three years. After ten years service 

 there is but one able toanswer roll call— 

 The Page Woven Wire Fence, matie at Adrian, Mich. 



WHEN ANSWERING TMI8 AOVERTISEMENT, MENTION tmiS JOURNA... 



fS^ IF YOU WANT THE 



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 his 



Bee-Keeper's Guide. 



Liberal Discounts to the Trade. 





Galiforni 



If you care to know of Its Fruits, Flowers 

 Climate or Kesources. send for a Sample Copy 

 of California's Favorite Paper— 



The Pacific Rural Press 



The leading Horticultural and Agricultural 

 paper of the Pacl9c Coast. Published weekly, 

 handsomely Illustrated, $2.00 per annum. 

 Sample Copy Free. 



PACIFIC RVISAL PREfiiS, 



220 Market St„ - SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. 



TEXAS QUEENS. 



If you are in need of Queens, let me have 

 your order. Price-Llst Free. 

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



Me^^k^n, the yL',Tjcsnca,n t«e* ^''tK-njcu 



Pull rnllini(>S! o«''ta"a" Bees for $4.00. 

 I llll VUiUlllliiS or particulars f-ee larger ad. 

 on page a50 of this paper, 'rested (tueeus, 

 after June lOLh. 75 cts. each; 2 for $1.25. 

 Address. X. H. KL-OKR, 

 426 Willow St., TEKKE HAUTE. IND 



23A4t . Mention the American Bee Journal. 



for the supers for extra,ctinp, or sections, 

 of which 31 go in a super. I have pieces 

 of tin or zinc cut to size for separators. 

 The sections I fix with T tins. Till now 

 I had only once a little drone-brood in a 

 super, though I do not have any queen- 

 excluder. I think the capacity of my 

 brood-nest is about right for here. 



I do not fuss very often with my bees. 

 To make thera work stra.ght, I put little 

 bits of wax on the frames as a guide. 

 Now I alternate straight-built frames 

 with empty ones. Sometimes I examine 

 the new ones, so they will not build 

 crooked combs, that is nearly ail. Every 

 now and then I look into the super, and 

 when there are full sections or frames, I 

 exchange them for empty ones. I can- 

 not pile them up in the house, for the 

 reason that I have to make all things 

 myself. I do not know yet the use of 

 various supplies used in the United 

 States. All foreign goods here have an 

 awfully high duty on them. 



Of course, I do not call this manage- 

 ment scientific bee-keeping, but it suits 

 me, and is easy and far superior to the 

 Indian way. It pays well enough, es- 

 pecially the wax which sells for .$1.00 

 per pouud. For that reason I should 

 like to have a strain of bees that makes 

 only wax. F. Bussler. 



Orizaba, Mexico, May 26. 



Not a Large Crop Expected. 



Having a very dry fall in 1895, and a 

 sorghum-mill Dear me, my colonies ran 

 down so that they went into winter 

 quarters in poor condition. I had to 

 feed full winter stores to about 6 colonies, 

 I had to double up, and from robbing 

 and the loss of queens brought me to 40 

 colonies from some 50 at fruit-bloom the 

 first of April. 



Bees did well on tulip or poplar in 

 May. White clover is a failure, as I 

 have seen but two or three bees on the 

 bloom. It being in bloom since about 

 May 10. June, so far, is a failure. Bees 

 are consuming their stores and getting 

 nothing. There is about 200 pounds of 

 surplus, but I am afraid to take it, as 

 only about one-third of the basswood 

 trees will bloom, and some of them 

 sparingly. W. W. Mount. 



Farmington, Tenn., June 11. 



Not Much. Surplus Clover Honey. 



White and Alsike clovers are and have 

 for some time been in full bloom ; bees 

 are getting some pollen and a little 

 honey from them. No work is being 

 done in the sections to amount to any- 

 thing yet. Unless there Is a change, 

 and that soon, we will not get much, if 

 any, surplus clover honey here. 



C. MONETTE. 



Chatfield, Minn., June 12. 



Bees in a Green-House. 



I am very much pleased with the Bee 

 Journal, as I find a great many practical 

 hints on bee-keeping and other useful 

 articles on bees. 



This spring I had a pure Italian queen 

 and not over 2()0 bees left with her. I 

 wanted to save her if possible. I took 

 her to the green-house, fed them oat- 

 meal and wheat flour, which they car- 

 ried in. In two weeks they had brood 

 about 2 inches square. I then gave 

 them a brood-comb with all the bees ad- 

 hering to the comb. In two weeks more 



The Bee-Keepers' Guide: 



Or Manual of the Apiary, 



Bv 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 .lournal. 



A description of the book here is quite un- 

 necessary — it 18 simply the most complete sci- 

 entific and practical bee-book 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- 

 quire any introduction. No bee-keeper Is 

 fully equipped, or his library complete, with- 

 out " The Bee-Keeper's Guide." 



GiTCii For 2 jVew Subscribers. 



The following offer is made to present sub- 

 scribers only, and no p'emium is also given 

 to the tw'o new subscribers— simply the Bee 

 Journal for one year : 



Send us Two New Subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal (wiih $2.00). and we will mail vou a 

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

 um. Prof. Cook's book alone sent for$1.25, 

 or we club it with the Bee Journal for a year 

 —both together for only $1.75. But surely 

 anybody can get only 2 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 Chaff Hives: two 

 acres land: good house; f^xcellent well 



Early Queen**— Tested, $1.00; Untested. 

 50c. ^ellt by return mall. 



E. I^. C%KKI\GTON, 

 16Atf PETTDS. Bee Co.. TEX. 



Reference— 1st Natiooal Hank of Beeville. 

 *''"ntJ/>r}. the American Bfe Journal 



CARLOADS 



Of Bee-Hives. Sections. Ship- 

 ping-Cases. Comb Foundatton. 

 and Evrryihing used in the 

 Bee-Industry- 

 I want the name and addre8S 

 I-f of every Bee Keeper in Aiuer- 

 ■'"•' ica. No reason why you can- 

 not do business with me. I have 

 Cheap Lumber and Experienced 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- 

 logues, Quotations, etc. \V. II. PUTNAM, 

 IE lUvEK Falls. Pierce Co., Wis. 



Mf^itimi UieA-inerican Bee Joun»/T.i^ 



Paare & Lyon Mfa:. Co., 



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

 mills that cut. annually, eight million feet 

 of lumber, thus securing the best lumber 

 at the lowest price for the manulacture of 

 bee-keepers' supplies. They have also 

 j ust completed one of 



The Largest Factories, 



^^and have the latest and most improved 

 machinery for the manulacture of Bee- 

 Hives, Sections, etc.. that there is in the 

 State. The material is cut from patterns, 

 by machinery, and is absolutely accurate. 

 For Sections, the clea.rest snd 



The Whitest Basswood 



^^is used, and they are polished on both 

 sides. Nearness to pine nnd basswnod loi*- 

 ests. and possession of mills and factory 

 equipped with best machinery, ail com- 

 bine to enable this lirm to furnish the best 

 goods at 



The Lowest Prices. 9? 



^►■For inetance, It has a job lot of 200.00t> 

 No. 2 Sections i hat will be sold at 50 cts. 

 per 1,000; or "i. 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. IGAtf 



MentUyii tfie Ajrvencan Bee JoumaJ^ 



