1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



461 



The Bee-Keepers' Guide: 



Or Manual of the Apiary, 



By Prof. A. J. Cook. 



This loth and latest edition of Frof. Coolc'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- 

 entiSc 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-Keepeb's Guide." 



Given For 2 IVeiv 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 $2.00), and we will mail YOcr 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 $1.7.5. 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. -iORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, ILLS. 

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A Bararain-EARLY QUEENS. 



119 Colonies Italian Bees in Chaff Hives: two 

 acres land: good house; excellent well. 



Early Queens— Tested, $1.00 : Untested, 

 30c. Sent by retnrn mall. 



E. L. CARKINOTON, 

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'Eggs. 81.25 per 14. Our P. Kocks are very 

 large, with flue plumage. Also. 



BLACK MINORCA EGGS, 



a non-sitting and great laying breed. Both 

 Kinds raised upon our farca. Minorca Cock- 

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W«r>UiO''». *"* /4 'If ri.co'.n fief frjumM^ 



TO X RAYS. 



Our strain of 

 Italians pene- 

 "trate red clover blossoms. Choice Un- 

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If you want to know how to have queens 

 fertilized in upper stories while the old 

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 safely introduce any queen, at any time of 

 the year when bees can fly ; all about the 

 different races of bees ; all about shipping 

 queens, queen-cages, candy for queen- 

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

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 Here are some good offers of this book : 



Bound in cloth, postpaid, $1.00 ; or clubbed 

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 for only ^1.7,^ ; or given free as a premium 

 for sending us three new subscribers to the 

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Qei;)eral Itcnjs* 



Fine Honey Season in Canada. 



This is a fine honey season. I never 

 saw so much basswood. Every one has 

 lots o( honey, and it is extra fine. 



N. H. Smith, 



Tilbury, Ont., July 7. 



Basswood and Sweet Clover. 



Bees are booning on basswood and 

 sweet clover. I never saw them fuller 

 of blossoms. 



Hurrah for the " Old Reliable !" 



Lawrence G. Warner. 



Middleburgh, N, Y., July 6. 



Booming on Sweet Clover. 



The bees are .just booming on sweet 

 clover. I have taken off over 100 

 pounds of very fine honey, and have 

 about 500 pounds more nearly ready to 

 take off. Swarming has been brisk for 

 about three weeks. G. E. Nelson. 



Bishop Hill, III., July 3. 



Bees Doing Well. 



My bees are doing all that 1 could ask 

 of them. There is white clover and 

 basswood in abundance here. The bass- 

 wood has just begun to bloom, and 

 promises a splendid crop of honey. I 

 had 21 colonies, spring, count, and have 

 so far had 15 prime swarms. 



C, S. French. 



Leslie, Minn., .luly 6. 



Great is Sweet Clover. 



I have all my supers on the hives, and 

 the way the bees are bringing in the 

 honey makes me smile. I have taken 

 one super off, and all the hives have two 

 supers on, and the top ones will be ready 

 to take off in a few days; it is all from 

 sweet clover, and from six weeks to two 

 months still ahead. Talk about old-time 

 yields ! If this is not one of them, I will 

 miss my guess. L. Sylvester. 



Aurora, 111., July 7. 



Bees Reasoning, Etc. 



I have seen several times in the Jour- 

 nal where some one asks if bees reason. 

 My answer would be, that one end of 

 them does, while at other times the 

 other end seems very unreasonable. 



I must tell a little joke on a man who 

 is in the 60's, and has handled bees to 

 the largest extent of any man I know of 

 in this country. I was talking to him 

 not long ago in regard to bees wintering 

 and standing cold weather if kept dry. 

 He says they cannot be frozen to death 

 at all, and to prove it, I will tell how he 

 knows it. He said : 



" I know tnat my bees have staid out 

 of their hives all winter, lots of them, 

 and come in all right in the spring. I 

 have moved my hives several times, in 

 the winter, to a different place from 

 where they were in the fall, and the first 

 warm day that came there would come a 

 lot of bees from the woods where they 

 had been all winter, and fly around their 

 old home place where it was when they 

 left. Now, can't a child see into this, 

 how it is ?" 



I said, " Mr. Ellison, do you really 



ITALIAN QUEENS 



Golden or Leather-Colored ! 



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Fine Untested. 60c. each; two, .$1. 00. Select 

 Untested, 75c. Tested, $1.00 Full Colonies 

 cheap. No disease. Remit by express mone,v 

 order, payable at Barnum, Wis. Many cus- 

 tomers send $1.00 and S'3.00 bills. 2c. stamps 

 taken for less than $1.00. Safe delivery and 

 satisfaction guaranteed. 



P, S.— .")7 choice 3-yr.-old Queens, "250. each 

 while they last. 



VAN ALLEN & WILLIAIUS, 



BARNUM, WIS. 



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Doctor, 3J4-in. stove, by 



mail, $1.50 ; Conqueror, 



.3-ln,. $1.10 ; Large, 2/j. 



$1 : Plain, 3, 70c: Little 



Wonder, 2, wt 10 oz, 60c 



Biii^ham & Hrthrrin^rton 



Honpv-Kiiives, 80 cents. 



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1880 Special Offer. 1896 



Warranted Queens, bred from best imported 

 or home-bred Queens, at 60 cts. each: ^ doz., 

 $3 50. Untested, 55 cts.: 14 doz.. $1.15. Tes- 

 ted, 70 cts.; Vi doz., $4.00. All Queens sent 

 promptly by return mall. 



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