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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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The Bee-Keeper's Guide 



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This I5th and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

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Pasre & Lyon Mfa:. Co., 



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

 mills that cut, annually, ei^ht million feet 

 of lumber, thus securing itie 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 

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 State. The material is cut from patterns, 

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 For Sections, the clearest find 



The Whitest Basswood 



^^is used, and they are polished on both 

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 equipped with best machinery, all com- 

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 goods at 



The Lowest Prices, ft 



^^For instance, it has a job lot of 200. OOo 

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

 per 1,000; or 2,000 Saow-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 



BEGINNERS. 



Beginners should have a copy of the 

 Amateur Bee-Keeper, a 70-page book by 

 Prof. J. W. Rouse. Price 25 cents; If 

 sent by mail. 28o. The little book and 

 the Progressive Bee-Keeper (a live, pro- 

 gressive 28-page monthly journal) one 

 year, 65c. Address any flrst-class dealer, 

 or 

 LEAHY MFG. CO., Higginsville, Mo. 



MUTH'S 



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CoId-BlasC Smokers, 



Square Glass Honey Jars, Etc. 



For Clroulars. apply to Chas. F. Muth & Son. 

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 Send 10c for Practical Hints to Bee-Keepers. 



Suggestion from a Comnussion Man. 



As you will remember, we have advo- 

 cated the use of small sections for 

 honey for some years, and now small 

 sections are the standard size — so much 

 so that any sections weighing over % to 

 one pound have to be sold at a discount, 

 and are about out of style entirely. We 

 are advocating now the use of a wood- 

 pulp board wrapper, or cheap carton, 

 for we find the trade calls for honey 

 without glass, but wants some protection 

 from breaking in shipping. These car- 

 tons, or wrappers, can be procured at a 

 low price, or about one-half per pound 

 what honey sells for, thereby affording 

 a profit, as dealers do not object to the 

 weight of these wrappers as they do to 

 glass. 



We look for a good demand for honey ; 

 but the days of high prices are gone by ; 

 and the bee-keepers' honey that is the 

 most attractive and most desirable will 

 sell first and for the best price, always, 

 and the consumer is more fastidious 

 every season. 



A word about shipping-cases : Don't 

 use a case holding over 24 combs (single 

 tier), nor less than 20 combs. — H. R. 

 Weight, of New York, in Gleanings. 



Scanty Stores for Winter. 



Jf I remember right, the quantity of 

 honey needed to carry a colony of bees 

 safely through the winter, has been es- 

 timated at different times by different 

 writers at amounts ranging from 5 

 to 40 pounds. This question is surely 

 of some importance to bee-keepers, for 

 if an average colony of bees may be win- 

 tered safely on 5 pounds of honey, it is 

 of no use to let them consume any more, 

 and we might as well save the 35 pounds 

 of the higher estimate. But I very much 

 fear that a thorough investigation into 

 the details will evidence the fact that 

 scanty stores are a nuisance. 



In the first place, I believe that it 

 would be a mistake to set down a stated 

 amount as absolutely and exactly suffi- 

 cient, for the reason that, not only colo- 

 nies differ in numbers, age of their bees, 

 etc., but winters also differ in duration, 

 in suddenness of changes, and the num- 

 ber of sunshiny days, or stormy days, 

 even, has some influence upon this ques- 

 tion. 



Colonies which are wintered in the 

 cellar consume less honey than those 

 wintered out-of-doors, but in localities 

 where the winters are comparaiively 

 mild, if the bees are strong in the fall, 

 the difference between out-door and in- 

 door wintering is slight. Most bee- 

 keepers agree that a comparatively weak 

 colony will consume more stores than a 

 very powerful one, owing to the neces- 

 sity of producing heat by eating. For. 

 this reason it is undoubtedly belter to 

 winter the weak colonies in the cellar, 

 and the populous ones out-of-doors. 



But all things being equal, it is best to 

 leave to a strong average colony a large 

 amount of honey, say 30 to 40 pounds, 

 or should we compel them to winter on 

 the least possible amount? I hold for 

 the large supply, even though the quan- 

 tity left in excess might constitute a 

 sufficient amount to pay for one season's 

 management of the apiary. 



If we stint our bees, we compel them 



