1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Honey. 



We can furnish 'Willow-Herb Extracted Honey, in 60-pound tin cans, on 

 board cars in Chicago, at these prices : 1 can, in a case, 8 cents per pound ; 2 cans 

 in one case, 7}4 cents ; 4 cans (2 cases) or more, 7i4 cents. 



Basswood Honey in liegs holding about 270 lbs., net, at 7U cents. Cash 

 MUST accompany each order. 



S^" A sample of the honey will be mailed to an intending purchaser, for 10 

 cents, to cover postage, pacl<ing, etc. We guarantee purity, and what we ship will 

 be equal to sample. 



Now it seems to us here is a splendid chance for any bee-keeper to supply his 

 home demand after his own crop is all sold. Or, why not begin now to create a 

 local honey-trade ? Order one 60-pound can first, and start out among your neigh- 

 bors and friends, and see what you can do. Vou ought to get at least 15 cents per 

 pound in 5-pound lots, or 50 cents tor 3 pounds. Some may be able to do even 

 better than that, though we think that enough ought to be sold at these prices to 

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 grow into a nice winter's work for you. 



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A Good Report. 



From 12 colonies, spring count, I 

 have taken 975 full sections, and 550 

 pounds of extracted — all white honey. 

 I increased to 26 colonies — 6 natural 

 swarms and 8 artificial. They are all 

 strong colonies, and have 30 to 40 

 pounds of honey for stores to each hive. 

 My best colony gave me 170 sections of 

 capped honey. I have sold most of my 

 honey at home. There are no other bees 

 within 50 miles of me. 



The Bee Journal has been worth ten 

 times its price to me ; also Prof. Cook's 

 "Manual of the Apiary." This is my 

 second year in bee-keeping. 



A. C. Porter. 



Merritt, Wash., Nov. 6. 



Honey Candying as Fast as Stored. 



Bees did fairly well the past season, 

 which has just closed here. Tanglefoot 

 is our last honey-plant to blossom, and is 

 just now going out of bloom. 



I ran my bees this year for extracted 

 honey, and was confronted with a 

 trouble which I never had to much of an 

 extent before, which was the candying 

 of the honey almost as soon as put into 

 the hive. This caused me to get very 

 little honey. 



I should have said that tanglefoot gen- 

 erally furnishes winter stores, but failed 

 to yield this fall, likely owing to a very 

 light rainfall for the last seven months. 



Success to the American Bee Journal. 

 Jno. M. Kelly. 



Jackson Co., Ala., Nov. 4. 



Thawing Out Bees and Uniting. 



Since about the middle of September I 

 have been on the bed a good deal of the 

 time, with my old malady — heart disease. 

 For a few days of this time ray thoughts 

 were not much of bees nor anything else 

 terrestial. Matters have lately taken a 

 more favorable turn, and 1 am now tak- 

 ing care of my bees and some other 

 things. 



On election day I heard a neighbor, 

 who lives about two miles away, say 

 that he had cut a bee-tree in his pasture 

 two or three days before. A bystander 

 said the bees were still there, clustered 

 near their old home. I felt some com- 

 passion for those forlorn bees, and, be- 

 sides, I wanted some bees to strengthen 

 a nucleus for wintering. It was too late 

 to go for them that day, but the next 

 morning I started with a box and cloth 

 to cover it, and a section of honey in the 

 box. The night had been cold, and I 

 found the cluster stiff and motionless as 

 if dead, but I scraped it into the box and 

 saw some signs of life in the center of 

 the cluster. When I got home with the 

 bees there were no signs of life at all. I 

 placed thorn near the fire and in the 

 course of three or four hours all were 

 lively. There is not much left of that 

 section of honey, and some more sections 

 which have been given them since I got 

 them warmed into life. 



It may be of interest to some of the 

 readers "to know how I united the cluster 

 of bees referred to above, with the 

 nucleus colony. I first place a queen- 

 excluder on the hive containing the nu- 

 cleus, and then spread a newspaper over 



