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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 30, 



honey " without the aid of the bees ! ). 

 I walked up to the counter and asl?ed 

 the man what he would ask for all the 

 biscuit and honey I could eat, and when 

 he said 25 cents, I planked down the 

 quarter I had saved, and went to putting 

 myself outside of the honey with a small 

 amount of biscuit, and when I had dis- 

 posed of eight dishes of honey, and 

 called for more, he shoved back my 

 quarter and told me to go. I thought 

 that was " the most unkindest cut of 

 all,'" so I resolved to own some bees as 

 soon as I got where I could keep them, 

 and I hope some day to have all the 

 honey I want. 



Now, Mr. Editor, if you see fit to put 

 this in your paper, perhaps I will give 

 you other reasons for keeping bees, but 

 if you give me such a scorching as you 

 did that other " illiterate, budding 

 writer," I'll use you as I did the biscuit 

 and honey vender — buy a paper of my 

 own, or, better still, I'll "sick" Dr. Mil- 

 ler onto you — he can make you take a 

 back seat. Suppose you give us the re- 

 sult of your hand-shake with him. 



I have a great many questions I 

 wanted to ask the Doctor, but fearing to 

 annoy him with so many foolish ques- 

 tions, I bought an "A B C" book, and 

 have already got into the a-b abs, and 

 expect to find all my questions answered. 

 ■A. B. GiNNER. 



■Weeping 'Water, Nebr. 



[We might say for A. B. Ginner's sat- 

 isfaction, that the hand-shake came off 

 all right, but " ye editor" didn't take a 

 "back seat." 



Don't be afraid to ask Dr. Miller any 

 question you really desire answered, 

 that cannot be found in the books. He 

 likes to answer hard questions. It's so 

 easy to say " I don't know'' — even if it 

 isn't exactly satisfying to the questioner. 



Judging from A. B. Ginner's experi- 

 ence at the Fair, we think his stomach 

 must have a regular honey-tank attach- 

 ment. Not every one has such a " home 

 market" to supply — and maybe it's a 

 good thing they haven't, for we fear 

 there wouldn't be much profit in it ! — 

 Editor,] 



Largfe Crop— Sweet Clover Growing. 



The honey crop of Nebraska promises 

 a large one for 1896. Our surplus in 

 this community is obtained mostly from 

 sweet clover, heart's-ease, hoarhound, 

 catnip, horsemint, wild cucumber and 

 buckbush. Since it bas been demon- 

 strated that sweet clover makes good 

 hay and pasture, many of our farmers 

 instead of trying to exterminate it, as 

 has hitherto been the custom, are en- 

 couraging its growth. W. H. Hudson 

 purchased seed last spring, and sowed 

 80 acres on a rocky hill where neither 

 grass nor weeds would grow; at this 

 writing it stands on an average three 

 feet high, and some of it is blooming. He 

 finds his stock prefer it to any other 

 kind of pasture. He and many of his 

 neighbors will sow more next spring. 



Louis Stalder, a prominent man and 

 prosperous farmer living 12 miles south 

 of this city, informs me his meadow in 

 some way became seeded with sweet 

 clover, and he said he did not know how 

 to get rid of it, so he cut it, and he finds 

 itmakesa^ood quality of hay, as also 



No. 1 Sections— Cheap. 



We offer for a few weeks, a surplus stock of 

 our one-piece No. 1 Cream Sections at the 

 following very low prices: 



1000 for $1.50. 



3000 for $4.00. 



5000 for $6.00. 



r These Sections are finely finished ;ind No. 1 

 in all respects save color, being, as their name 

 indicates, ol a cream color. 



The stock consists of a quantity each of the 

 following sizes: 



4!4X2. open 2 sides 4»-4xl 13-16. open 2 sides 



4i4.\l 7-8, open 2 sides 

 4J4xl9i. open 3 sides 4}4x7-to-ft.. open 2 sides 



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WATEKTOWN, WIS. 



ITALIAN QUEENS 



Golden or Leatlier- Colored ! 



BY RETURN 91^11.. 



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

 Untested. 75o. Tested, $1.00 Full Colonies 

 cheap. No disease. Remit by express money 

 order, payable at Barnum. Wis. Many cus- 

 tomers send j^l.OO and $2.00 bills. 2c. stamps 

 taken for less than 11.00. Safe delivery and 

 satisfaction guaranteed. 



P. S.— 57 choice 2-yr.-old Queens, 25c. each 

 while they last. 



VAN ALI.E\ & WILH4MS, 



BARNUM, WIS. 



29Atf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Paffe & Lyon Mfff. Co., 



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

 mills that cut, annually, eight niillion feet 

 of lumber, thus securing the best lumber 

 at the lowest price for the 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- 

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

 State. The material is cut from patterns, 

 by machinery, and is absolutely accurate. 

 For Sections, the clearest and 



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 firm to furnish the best 

 goods at 



The Lowest Prices. ?? 



^►-For Instance, it has a job lot of 200. OOo 

 No. 3 Sections that will be sold at 50 cts. 

 per 1,000; or 2,000 Snow-white Sections 

 •will be sold for $4.00, and larger quanti- 

 ties at still lower prices. Send for Circu- 

 lar and see the prices on a full line of 

 supplies. 16Atf 



History of the Adels 



IN 0.\RNIOL.4 there are two strains of 

 Bees— one is gray or steel-colored, the oth- 

 er is yellow. The natives consider the yellow 

 strain the best, and call them •■ The Adels." 

 Adel means superior— and they are superior 

 to all others. The Queens are very hardy and 

 prolific ; the Bees great workers, store and 

 cap their honev nicely, and are sure to winter 

 in 'most any cl'lmate on the summer stands. 

 The bees are gentle and seldom sting even 

 when no smoke is used. 1 have had six years' 

 experience with them, and never have had a 

 swarm. Can ship 2iJ0 Queens by return mall. 

 Everi thing guaranteed. 



Uur new Catalog giving way to introduce 

 Queens, and testimonials, ready to mall. 



One Queen. SI; 2 Queens. $1.90: 3 Queens, 

 $2.50: 6 Queens. $4.30; 12 Queens, $8,00. Tes- 

 ted Queens, $1,30, 



t3r" Italian Queens same prices. 



HENRY AI.L,El', 



28A4t WBNHAM, MASS, 



pasture. He says it is superior to alfalfa. 

 "When mixed with other hay his stock 

 will pick it out and eat it first. Alfalfa 

 has not proved such a success, either as 

 a forage-plant or for honey, as we had 

 hoped it would. After observing it for 

 four years, I never have seen a bee on 

 its bloom, although I am informed that 

 bees work on it in the western part of 

 the State. We have the white and yel- 

 low sweet clover, the yellow being two 

 or three weeks earlier than the white. 

 The yellow commences blooming about 

 the last of May, and the white about the 

 middle of June, and continues to bloom 

 until frost. For :'>0 miles south of this 

 2ity the roads are lined with it, and it is 

 a delightful scene. J. L. Gandy. 



Humboldt, Nebr., July 18. 



A Drouth-Stricken Region. 



We are in a drouth-stricken section 

 this season. It has been extremely dry 

 here. We had a good rain last week — 

 the first in two months — it was dry pre- 

 vious to that time, so dry that bees 

 barely gathered enough to keep up 

 breeding. They have gathered more 

 good honey in the last three days than 

 in the last three months. The rain 

 started a rank growth of cotton, which 

 is now beginning to bloom. I now look 

 for a good flow from that source. My 

 wheat and oat crop was an entire fail- 

 ure. Corn is very short, but I have the 

 best in this part of the country— it will 

 yield 20 or 25 bushels per acra ; I have 

 65 acres, so I will have some surplus. 



I must say that ray little advertisement 

 in the American Bee Journal has brought 

 me more orders than all my other adver- 

 tising combined ; and the Bee Journal is 

 as regular as a clock. I have never 

 missed a single number since I began 

 taking it. It is bright, and full from 

 cover to cover. Success to the American 

 Bee Journal and it is editor. 



J. D. GiVBNS. 



Lisbon, Tex., July 21. 



Bees Pvincturing Fruit. 



On page 418, Mr. P, J. Schartz asks 

 me to tell why it is that grapes and 

 (other) fruit are punctured when there 

 are no bees on them. The reason is that 

 something else does the puncturing, but 

 that is DO argument that bees do not do 

 it when they are at work on the fruit. 



Mr. Schartz also says that domesti- 

 cated bees never work on fruit when 

 they have plenty of forage. No one dis- 

 putes that fact, but it happens too often 

 with us here that hee-forage is lacking 

 just at the time when berries are ripe, 

 and the bees work on them until, as Mr. 

 Schartz says, they are a perfect nui- 

 sance, and I have looked in vain for the 

 wild bees, wasps and hornets that are 

 said to come and obligingly puncture the 

 skin so the bees cau get the juice. I 

 never knew bees to puncture pears, but 

 that is no evidence that they do not, and 

 I fully agree with Mr. Schartz that wild 

 bees and flies may puncture fruit as well 

 as domesticated bees. 



Wasps, hornets and bumble-bees have 

 become very scarce here, and yet it is 

 only in the past few years that bees have 

 been destructive on fruit. When we had 

 plenty of wasps and hornets our bees 

 seldom touched the fruit, but we don't 

 lay any of the blame to the want of 

 these insects, as we know that it is the 

 lack of forage that causes the bees to 



