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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 27, 



you fellows give the reasons why my 

 queens are received dead." It was not 

 very laughable to me to have my colony 

 queenless for two or three months, and 

 no queen after all. 



I think it does not matter about the 

 size of the cage. I have had them come 

 in all sizes, and come all right if there 

 were plenty of bees. I saw five or six 

 last season that were sent to a neighbor 

 of mine, and theyall came dead. I don't 

 think the five or six bees mentioned on 

 page 376 will work. I had about 40 or 

 ■oOqueens come from Arkansas, and I did 

 not have one arrive dead. That dealer 

 always filled his cage well with bees. 



I would like to see this subject brought 

 up in the American Bee Journal. It is 

 not very pleasant to have queens arrive 

 dead, when you have to send so far for 

 them. I think it would be a good thing 

 for the one that sends queens, and also 

 for the one that receives them, to have 

 all get through safely. I would like Mr. 

 Doolittle's opinion on the matter. 



^, H. Galloway. 



Olympia, Wash., Aug. 12. 



A Connecticut Report. 



I have 3 colonies now, and have taken 

 about 50 pounds of honey in sections. 1 

 expect to have more next year. 



R. Warren Hall. 



Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 18. 



Bees Doing Well— Big Yields. 



Bees are doing excellently. We have 

 extracted 200 pounds per colony, and 

 think we will have 50 pounds more 

 from buckwheat, which is now in bloom, 

 and the bees have just to step over the 

 fence for it. j. t. Bettridge. 



St. Marys, Ont., Aug. 12. 



A model Home. 



Mr. Editor:— We thank you very 

 much for the rich treat you spread tor 

 us in your visit to the Stows, which 

 creates a desire for more good things 

 Please visit them again, and serve us 

 another course. 



While in attendance at one of our 

 National conventions at Chicago, Mrs. 

 Stow invited me to accompany her home, 

 which I did, and which was followed by 

 many more invitations. These visits 

 will always be a bright spot in my mem- 

 ory, and my life will always be happier 

 by having made them. 



You must return, and "on the quiet" 

 get the photographs of Mr. Stow and 

 the younger members of the family; and 

 usually there is a girl there from the 

 Industrial School, that she may learn 

 something of home life in a Christian 

 family; when her visit is over another 

 enjoys the treat. 



Your picture will not be complete 

 without the pets— Dolly, the horse, that 

 carries them to and from trains; Daisy 

 the cow, upon whose head there once 

 clustered a swarm of bees, and who 

 came nearly losing her ears by reason of 

 their stings, and thedog and house cat- 

 pussy, whose home is at the barn, and 

 who IS admitted in the storm enclosure, 

 that he may dine without molestation ; 

 bees, rabbits, pigeons, and those thor- 

 oughbred fowls, receive the same lovine 

 care. ^ 



But this is not all, for companionship 

 IS made of trees, shrubs and flowers. 

 After Mr. Stow's return from the city, 



Honey-Clovers & Buckwheat 



SEED FOR SALE. 



We have made arramremeats so that we 

 can furnish seed of several of the Clovers 

 and Japanese Buckwheat, by freight or ex 

 press, at the following prices, cash with order 



,, ,. „, 51b lOlb 251b 50Ib 



Alslke Clover $.70 Jl.25 $3.00 $5.75 



^ejt Cover 75 1.40 .'i.^o 6.00 



yWteClover 1.25 2.00 4,50 8.00 



Alfalfa Clover 65 1.10 2.70 5.00 



Orlmson Clover 55 .90 2.00 3 50 



Jap. Buckwheat... .20 .35 ,90 i]o5 

 Prices subject to market changes. 



Add 25 cents to your order, tor cartaire. if 

 wanted by freight. 



Tour orders are solicited. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, ILLS. 



Sweet Clover \ Canada. 



At the following prices : 



^I'nn 19'J'„*- -"'bs. .'iOlbs. 



Sl.OO $1.60 $3.73 $7.25. 



Also a quantity of Motherwort and Catnip 

 seed. Prices on application. 



EGGS for Hatelilng. Buff Leghorns. In- 

 dian Games, & Light Brahmas. Choice Birds 

 A breeder for 30 years. Prices on application 



i**'*'^ OTcAKTHUR, 

 881 Yonge Street, - TOKONTO, ONT. 

 15Att iHUntUm the American Bee Journal. ' 



¥ Extracted Honev ^ 



Finest Quality. Basstvood and 

 CloTer. 



k on I? • '"*°^ '° '=*^®- *<^- P*"" pound. 1 

 I bO-lb. can in case, 9c. per pound. A 

 I sample by mall, 10 cts. POtJDER^S 

 I Honey-Jars and Complete tine 

 I or Supplies. Catalogue Free. 



WALTER S. POUOER, 

 I 162 Mass. Avenue, IMIlHIPllllS, 1.VD. 



Mention the A.m.erixxin Bee Journal, 



HO\'EY 



cheap. 



We have No. 1 Alfalfa, also White 

 and bweet Clover Honey we will sell 



Honey and Beeswax Wanted. 



Boss hpft.PSCanP ''Warranted the best, slm- 

 MUSS MCC-estdpe piest and quickest Escape 

 on the market. Sent postpaid to any address 

 rP^.. , ^*'^- " <"'° '"' returned at our expense 

 It It is not as represented, or we will send the 

 Kscape on trial to any bee-keeper wishing to 

 test It in good faith. We are agents for the 



Ferguson Patent Hive CerlTl^icTe^^ 



Gate Honey- Board, with the Escape. It is the 

 easiest, quickest hive to handle for the pro- 

 duction of comb or extracted honey, 

 c- „.,_ ^ ^- *• l-OVESV & CO., 

 3oo 6th East St.. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 

 tiemton ine American Ber Jounta. 9 Atf 



Van Deiisen Foundation! 



I have some of the celebrated \an Deusen 

 Thin Foundation In 25pound boxes, that I 

 will put on board cars for $12.50 per box. 



Also IXALIAX 



Queens ! 

 Queens I 



Fine Untested Queens mailed 

 PROMPTLY at 45 cts. each, or 

 Six for $2.40. 



Safe delivery and satisfac- 

 tion guaranteed. Address. 



F. ORABBE, 



LiBERTYViLLE, Lake Co., III. 

 26 Atf Mention the American Bee Journal 



or Ibis Journal who 

 ivrlte to any of oui 

 advertisers, either In 

 ordering, or asking abont the Goods 

 offered, will please state that they aaxi 

 the Advertisement In tbis paper* I 



READERS 



in the evening, he goes all over the place 

 to say "How d'ye do?" to all his pets; 

 and if darkness comes on, he takes a 

 lantern. A friend remarked, that if Mr. 

 Stow was away, his old, easy shoes took 

 the rounds, "allee samee." 



This family have solved the problem, 

 how to be happy. They are all as busy 

 as bees in a hive, at some useful employ- 

 ment. They have taken the New Testa- 

 ment, of our Lord and Savior, as their 

 rule and guide, and do all the good they 

 can, to as many people as they can, as 

 often as they can. 

 Peoria, 111. Mrs. L. Harrison. 



[Yes, Mrs. Harrison, we should like to 

 have all see the family and home of 

 those who be-Stow such genuine kind- 

 ness on every body and every thing they 

 possibly can. But we don't know about 

 doing anything more " on the quiet," for 

 we haven't been assured that we are 

 entirely " out of the woods " on the last 

 "quiet " work we did. Still, we are not 

 worrying much about it.— Editor.] 



Slanagement for Swarming. 



It does me good to hear of Dr. Miller 

 getting a crop of honey this year. He 

 will probably remember me asking him 

 if I could expect any surplus from sweet 

 clover, where it grew thick along the 

 roadsides for three or four miles. I can 

 say that I have a nice lot from sweet 

 clover, of as pretty honey as I ever saw, 

 and it kept the bees swarming for over 

 a month. 



I will tell how I manage swarms when 

 I run out of hives. As soon as the 

 swarm is out I open the hive and take 

 out all the frames that have sealed cells, 

 and all the rest I bruise and put back. 

 The frames that had cells sealed I put 

 into nucleus hives, fill out the old hive 

 with new frames, and return the bees, 

 and they go right to work in the sections 

 and fill them in a few days. None of 

 them reswarmed. If you are troubled 

 with swarming, try this method on a 

 few and report. G. E. Nelson. 



Bishop Hill, III., July 27. 



Svireet-Com Honey— A New Potato. 



Did you ever get any honey from 

 sweet-corn ? We have a fine lot of it. 

 We had about eight acres of sweet- 

 corn, that came into bloom just as the 

 linden failed. The bees worked on it 

 for 10 days. Through mistake, an early 

 corn was mixed with a late "Evergreen " 

 in the same field, so the mixture held 

 bloom a long time, the weather being 

 propitious. Some of the strongest colo- 

 nies filled a super, each 28 pounds. The 

 comb and cappings are beautifully 

 white, and the honey is — not amber, 

 unless it is amber verging on pink or 

 very light red. It is pleasant, smooth 

 honey, with a slight maple flavor. 



The linden did better than for many 

 years, averaging about 20 pounds per 

 colony, spring count. 



In 1892 I visited friends in Warren 

 county. Pa. In one garden I saw a 

 compact row of potatoes, so thrifty 

 looking, but with small tops. On inquiry 

 I learned that they were from Scotland, 

 grown that year for the first time in 

 American soil. A touch of sentiment 

 had caused them to be transplanted 

 from the ancestral home of the Eddys, 

 so we call them the " Eddy potato." I 



