1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



541 



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. 



These Sectioi « 'ire finely finished and No. 1 

 in all respects ^.. \ c color, being, as their name 

 indicates, of a cream color. 



The stock consists of a quantity each of the 

 following sizes: 



414x2, open 2 sides iMxl 15-16, open 2 sides 



4V4.VI 7-8, open 2 sides 

 4>4xl?i, open 2 sides 4!.4.\7-to-tt., open 2 sides 



tVATEKTOWN, 1VIS. 



ITALIAN QUEENS 



Golden or Leatber.Colored ! 



BY RETURN 9I\IL. 



Choice Untested. oOc; Tested, 75c. Full Col- 

 onies cheap. No disease. Remit by express 

 M. O. payable at Barnum, Wis. Many cus- 

 tomers send $1.00 and $2.00 bills. 2c. stamps 

 taken for less than $1.00. Safe delivery and 

 satisfaction guaranteed. 



VAN ALLEN & WILLIA9IS, 



BABNUM, WIS. 



29Atf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Paare & Lyon Mfar. Co., 



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

 mills that cut, anDually, eig^ht million feet 

 of lumber, thus securing the best lumber 

 at the lowest (jHce for the raaQufacture of 

 bee-keepers' supplies. They have also 

 just completed one of 



The Largest Factories, 



^►and have the latest and most Improved 

 machinery tor ttie manufacture of Bee- 

 Hivee, 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 tor- 

 ests. and posstsslon of mills and factory 

 equipped with bast machinery, all com- 

 bine to enable this tirm to furnish the best 

 goods at 



The Lowest Prices, f^ 



^►For Instance, it has a job lot of 200,00er 

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

 per l,OU0; 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 



Menttmi the A.merlcan Bee Jounval. 



A Barsrain-EARLY QUEENS. 



119 Colonies Italian Bees in Chaff Hives: two 

 acres laud; good house; excellent well. 



Early dueeiis— I'ested, $1.00 ; Untested, 

 50c. ^euI by return mall. 



E. L. C\RKINGTON, 



16Atf PKT res. Bee Co., TEX. 



Reference— 1st National Bank of Boevllle. 

 M'ntion the, American Bee Journal, 



Itee-Meepei-s' Pliotogfrapli. — We 



have now on hand a limited number of ex- 

 cellent photographs of prominent bee-keep- 

 ers — a number of pictures on one card. The 

 likeness of 49 of tliem are shown on one of 

 the photographs, and 131 on the other. We 

 will send them, postpaid, for 30 cents each, 

 mailing from the 121 kind first; then after 

 they are all gone, we will send the 49 kind. 

 So those who order first will get the most 

 " faces'" for their money. Send orders to 

 the Bee Journal ofSce. 



BEE-SUPPLIES! 



We have the best equipped Fac- 

 tory in the West. Caiiaclty— one 

 carload a day; and carry the largest 

 stock and greatest variety of every 

 thing needed in the apiary, assur- 

 ing BEST goods at the LOWEST 

 prices, and prompt shipment. 



Illustrated Catalog. 80 pages. Free. 



22E8t 



Address, 



E. KRETCHMER, Red Oak, Iowa. 



few that I planted in my garden and 

 cultivated, that is, hoed it in and tramped 

 the ground. This grew six to seven feet 

 high last year, but no blooms; this year 

 it grew still longer, and has bloomed all 

 summer, during the terrible drought we 

 had, and still it blooms. In this section 

 the sandy lands produce finely, but clo- 

 ver will not catch unless it is raked or 

 harrowed in. W. G. Northcutt. 



Gregg Co., Tex., Aug. 5. 



[Whenever anybody wants some kind 

 of seed, and is not sure where it is to be 

 found, simply write to some one of the 

 many seedsmen who advertise every 

 year In all the papers, especially from 

 Jan. 1 to April 1. — Editor.) 



This "Cotton" Honey Leads. 



Bees are doing better here than they 

 have for several years. I have some 

 colonies that gave three swarms each, 

 and the last swarms are now storing 

 honey in the supers. I put my first 

 honey on the market here a few days 

 ago, and, for a fact, the first that has 

 ever been in this market in pound sec- 

 tions. It goes as fast as that man's 

 honey did on the ITair ground, mentioned 

 by A. B. Ginner lately. I put the price 

 to 12J^ cents a pound. I might just as 

 well have asked 15 or 2(), and could 

 have gotten it just as readily. There 

 has been honey brought in since, in the 

 old-fashioned way, and went back to the 

 country as it came. Those producers 

 have come to me to learn how I fixed my 

 honey so nice in the little square boxes. 

 I would now as soon think of going back 

 to the old shuck collar for a horse, or 

 the wooden moldboard plow, as to think 

 of putting a swarm of black bees into a 

 box-hive for profit. 



I have a splendid range here for bees, 

 and wild flowers are just beginning to 

 open. I expect to make more clear cash 

 from my few bees this season than I 

 have made, all told, in 20 years. 



I was preparing to take some honey 

 to our county fair, but as A. B. Ginner 

 Is in the habit of attending fairs, I be- 

 lieve I shall stick to the retail market. 

 Andrew Cotton. 



Pollock, Mo., Aug. 1. 



Bees that are Great Swarmers. 



I placed in the cellar, in November, 

 1895, 69 colonies of bees, having sold 

 the previous spring 60 colonies, I sell 

 every spring more or less, but did not 

 last spring, as my reduced number the 

 spring before only left me 36 colonies 

 after selling, and although the season 

 was very unfavorable for bees, mine 

 about doubled in number. 



There was not one pound of white 



honey in this section last season. My 

 bees wintered very well last winter, con- 

 sequently they were strong in numbers, 

 and with plenty of old honey from daisy 

 and buckwheat, gathered the season 

 before. 



My bees commenced work April 18, 

 earlier than I expected after so cold a 

 winter and spring. They worked well 

 about every day throughout the spring. 

 I reduced the number of colonies, by 

 uniting, to 00, and some were even 

 short of bees then, but the best colonies 

 were ready to swarm by May 21, and 

 they kept right on, so I had out about 

 30 in the month of May. In all my ex- 

 perience with bees for the past 60 years, 

 I never saw the like before ; 12 first 

 swarms the first day (May 30), but later 

 I had out 16 in one day, but not all first 

 swarms ; and so they kept on swarming. 

 One had been hived 15 days, and they 

 came out ; another 17, another 19, and 

 so oc. I have had from the old colonies 

 130 swarms, and from the young ones 

 about 40, making in all about 170. 

 Haven't we had to hustle, though, my 

 wife and self, for people of our ages — • 

 I am almost 69, my wife almost 01? 

 She has prepared all the boxes ready for 

 use, besides considerable other work 

 connected with the business, while I 

 have done all the work among the bees. 



I have a peculiar kind of bees — they 

 swarm about '4 the year. Last season 

 they began to swarm June 4, and the 

 last swarm issued September 2. They 

 are on the third month now. They 

 store some honey, but I cannot tell how 

 much we shall get. I have had on some 

 3,000 sections, but as they swarmed so 

 much, we do not get the honey we other- 

 wise should, perhaps. H. P. Newton. 



Whitney Crossing, N. Y., Aug. 3. 



Several Co(e)gent Suggestions. 



Bees are doing well this year. The 

 lower frames are all full, and they are 

 making a fine run in the supers. I am 

 making an extra effort to procure all the 

 new colonies I possibly can this year. I 

 furnish the empty hives, and outside 

 apiaries put new swarms into them for 

 me. I am working entirely for nice, 

 white comb honey. There is no money 

 in extracted hojiey for me. 



I have four didorent styles of hives in 

 my apiary — the " I. X. L.," Goodrich, 

 Langstroth, and the Danzenbaker. By 

 another year I will select the best hive 

 for white comb honey, and adopt it en- 

 tirely, and lay all others aside. 



To help stop cross bees from stinging 

 while working in the apiary, take a 

 block 4x4 Inches, and 12 inches long, 

 and set it on a hive 10 feet from the 

 cross colony, then put an empty hat and 

 veil on it, and after Miss Cross Bee has 

 given the hat and veil about a half 



