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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 17, 



stirring, knows that the grain is very 

 coarse. Well, the honey from corn was 

 about as near like the coarse-grained 

 maple sugar as it could be, and it had 

 the maple-sugar flavor and color. I 

 have seen bees working on corn silk in 

 this State. They gather lots of pollen 

 from corn tassels. 



Mr. J. M. S., on page S.'jl, might not 

 have observed his bees working on the 

 corn silk at the same time they were 

 working on the tassels. 



There is one thing I never saw men- 

 tioned until a while ago. It is about 

 bees working by moonlight. In Iowa I 

 had a cluster of three large basswood 

 trees, and one large, single tree, right in 

 the apiary, and the bees worked freely 

 on them by moonlight. I don't think 

 my bees were crossed with lightning- 

 bugs, but still they might have been for 

 aught I know. 



Bees are still doing splendidly. I 

 drove past several patches of alfalfa in 

 bloom a few days ago, and they were 

 humming with my Italians. One could 

 smell the rich perfume from the blos- 

 soms quite a long distance. 



Dr. E. Gallup. 



Santa Ana, Calif., Aug. 20. 



Importance of Decoy Hives. 



Last week my "other half" visited 

 with Wm. Suter, one of the oldest and 

 most scientific bee-keepers in the county. 

 The two late disastrous winters nearly 

 cleaned him out of bees. Last spring he 

 kept decoy hives around his yard, and 

 reports 7iMie swarms haying come and 

 taken possession — some of them were 

 immense, great swarms. There is an 

 idea for all of iis. 



Mrs. B. J. Livingston. 



Centre Chain, Minn., Sept. 8. 



An Experience with Bumble-Bees. 



Wanting to learn some things in re- 

 gard to handling bees, I was recom- 

 mended to read the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, with the result that I shortly found 

 what I was looking for, which is prob- 

 ably what happens to all members of the 

 American Bee Journal family, sooner or 

 later. 



I had by this time, however, acquired 

 the habit of reading the Bee Journal 

 from title page to Doolittle"s funny man. 

 An occasional article on hunting bees 

 would stir me so that I had in mind to 

 rush into print with my very-much-easier 

 way, but soberer second thoughts kept 

 me out, and, anyway, the same favor- 

 able conditions do not prevail every- 

 where. 



Then came those stories of A. Cotton, 

 about the youngsters and the originals 

 down his way, so I have to tell him the 

 story, anyway. You may know it was 

 some time ago that it happened, for what 

 is now the finest lawn in Washington 

 Park was then a meadow, where the hay 

 for the Park horses was cut. 



My brother and I, while playing 

 "peg" under the trees, noticed the 

 queer antics of the man who was driv- 

 ing the hay-rake. He would jump off 

 while the thing was going, wave his big 

 straw hat in the air until it seemed the 

 horses got scared, and they would buck 

 and try to run with him. He would have 

 a time quieting them, and finally go on 

 with the raking, but he was making a 

 ragged looking job of it. We finally 



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UAIvrv We have No. 1 Alfalfa, also White 

 nvilUl and Sweet Clover Honey we will sell 

 cheap. 



Honey and Beeswax Wanted. 



Vtt\Sii2 hofi AV^nna Warranted the best, sim- 

 UUfta UCv'ColjaJIC plest and quickest Escape 

 on the market. Sent postpaid, to any address 

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 If it is not as represented, or we will send the 

 Escape on trial to any bee-keeper wishing- to 

 test It in good faith. We are agents for the 



Ferguson Patent Hive C'rrj^ll.'c'ife'^ 



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

 easiest, quickest hive to handle lor the pro- 

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Fa&re & Lyon Mfsf. Co., 



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 of lumber, thus securing the best lumber 

 at the lowest price for the manufacture of 

 bee-keepers' supplies. They have also 

 j ust completed one of 



The Larsrest 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- 

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 equipped with best machinery, all com- 

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 goods at 



The Lowest Prices, ft 



^^Foriustancc, it has a job lot of 200.00& 

 No. 2 Sections that will be sold at 60 cts. 

 per 1,000; or '2,000 Snow-Whlte Sections 

 will be sold for $4.00, and larger quanti- 

 ties at still lower prices. Send for Circu- 

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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 mall. 28c. 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 



liEAHY MFG. CO., Higginsville, Mo. 



Vau Deuseii Foundation ! 



I have some of the celebrated Van Deusen 

 Thin Foundation in 25-pound boxes, that I 

 will put on board cars for $12.50 per box. 



Also IXAI^IA^ 



Queens I 

 Queens I 



Fine Untested Queens mailed 

 riioMPTLY at 45 cts. each, or 

 Si.x for $2.40. 



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