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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Jan. 11, 1900. 



SUFFERERS 



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34 Central Music Hall, CHICAao. 



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needs a truardiaii ortlie I'jitie Fence is a MncceHs. 

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4n-patre Catalog 

 FRiiE. Goods are 

 the BKST. Prices 

 are riyht. We can 

 save vou st.nif on freifrht. Enquire of us. 



2\\f JOHN NEBEL & SON, High Hill. Ho. 



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PATENT WIRED COMB FOUNDATION 



Has no Sag in Brood-Frames. 



Thin Flat-Bottom Foundation 



Has no Fishbone in the Surplus 



Honey. 

 Being the cleanest is usually workt 

 the quickest of any foundation made. 



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 Sprout Brook, Montgomery Co., N.Y. 

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Celluloid tor- Quills an<I I'^xclu- 

 «lers is used in England. For quilts, cel- 

 luloid has the advantage (whatever that 

 may be) that one can lift the cover and 

 look down upon the bees without taking off 

 the quilt, as the celluloid is almost as trans- 

 parent as glass. 



Necessity ol Covering Apiaries 

 in Ciilta is the heading of an article in 

 the American Bee-Keeper, by Col. G. Gar- 

 cia Viete. Before the war he had .500 colo- 

 nies in one apiary and 1,200 in another, and 

 he felt that a roof was an actual necessity. 

 He is again building up his apiaries de- 

 stroyed by war, having 300 colonies under 

 roof and as many more under available 

 shade. He can examine those under roof 

 in two or three days, while it requires more 

 than a week to look over those out-of- 

 doors. The heat of the sun melts founda- 

 tion in an hour in exposed hives, but it will 

 not do to keep hives in groves on account 

 of malaria. After the very heavy rains of 

 several days, the bee-keeper cannot work 

 at hives without roof for several days on 

 account of mud. The roof must be strong 

 to withstand the fierce winds. 



I>i!!>po><>ilion of <^oni1>!ii Arilli a 

 l>illle Honey. — In the report of the 

 Brant County convention reported in Can- 

 adian Bee Journal, appears the following: 



" What would you do with combs having 

 small quantities of honey in them in the 

 fall ? was the next question. Some mem- 

 bers advocated setting them out in the yard 

 and allowing the bees to clean them out. 

 Mr. Pepper said that he preferred to ex- 

 tract them even tbo the work seemed te- 

 dious and unprofitable; leaving honey 

 around the yard has a tendency to excite 

 the bees and often leads to no end of trou- 

 ble by their robbing. Mr. Edmonson said 

 that he did not favor the idea, for the same 

 reasons, and, besides, they tear and de- 

 stroy the combs. Mr. S. T. Pettit's plan of 

 placing the super of each hive in front of 

 the colony it belongs to, in order to clean 

 out the combs, after the last extraction, 

 was dwelt upon ; some could not see how 

 this would be practical in a yard of 70 or 80 

 colonies, as it would take some time to do 

 the extracting, and all could not be placed 

 at the same time. J. H Shaver and W. J. 

 Craig observed that the moth will not at- 

 tack combs left moist with honey, as they 

 are after extracting, so readily as they will 

 dry combs. The combs will keep better, are 

 not nearly so easily broken, and, besides, 

 the bees will take to them more readily 

 when placed in the hive next season." 



Itlaok Itees and Foul llrood. — 



Editor Simmins makes this statement: 



" Native bees are decidedly more subject 

 to the disease of foul brood than either 

 Carniolans or Italians; while the latter 

 more readily respond to treatment when 

 affected, and will quite frequently dispose 

 of the malady without aid from theowner." 

 He quotes W. Symes, from the Austra- 

 lian Bee-Bulletin, as saying that in his 

 earlier experience he kept black bees and 

 was almost in despair with foul brood, but 

 since keeping Italians the disease had grad- 

 ually disappeared and now ceast to trouble 

 him. In an experience of 2.5 years, Editor 

 Simmins has had plenty of proof come un- 

 der his own observation. He says: 



" Our first terrible experience with foul 

 brood occurred over 20 years ago. The bees 

 attackt were, with two or three exceptions, 

 so-called black bees, and these could not 

 keep the disease under. The Italians soon 

 disposed of it with a little assistance, and 

 upon removal of the queen, every vestige 

 of the complaint disappeared from the 

 combs. On later occasions, in buying black 

 bees from a distance, the disease has come 



Yellow Sweet Clover Seed 



WE HAVE IT AT LAST I 



We have finally succeeded in getting- a small 

 quantity of the seed of the yellow variety of 

 sweet clover. This kind blooms from two to 

 four weeks earlier than the common or white 

 variety of sweet clover. It also grows much. 

 shorter, only about two feet in hig-ht. It is as 

 much visited by the bees as the white, and usu- 

 ally comes into bloom ahead of while clover 

 and basswood. We offer the seed as a premium 



A QUARTER POUND FOR SENDING 

 ONE NEW SUBSCRIPTION. 



So long- as it lasts, we will mail a quarter 

 pound of the seed to a legular paid-up subscri- 

 ber who sends us ONE NEW subscriber for the 

 American Bee Journal one 3'ear, with Sl.OO. 



We have been trying^ for years to secure this 

 seed, and finally succeeded in g-etting it. It is 

 new seed, g^athered last season by an old per- 

 sonal friend of ours, so we know it is all right. 

 But we have only a small supply. When nearly 

 out we will mention it. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



118 Michigan Street, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



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