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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Jan. 11, 1900. 



We call ijour attention to our P A PT^'TjVJri^C ASE 



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Insures Arrival of Supplies In Neat Condition 



Br the use of this lig-ht, strong-, and ti(fhtl.v-woveu packing-case 

 we are" able to place our goods into vour hands in just as good condition 

 as when they left our factory, free from dirt and damage ordinarily 

 resulting from railroad handling. 



Q. B. LEWIS CO. Bee.Keepers 



Watertown, Wisconsin. Supplies ^^^^^ 



AtiENCIES; 



L. C. Woodman Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Fred Foulger & Sons Ogden, Utah. 



E. T. Abbott, St. Joseph, Missouri. 

 Special Southwestern Agent. 

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Comb Foundation 



—made bv a new sheeting process of my own, 

 which pro'duces a clear, transparent and pliable 

 foundation, that retains the smell and color of 

 wa-x. 



WorkiHg Wax into Foundation 

 for Cash a Specialty. 



I also carrv a full line of SUPPLIES, and can 

 furnish anything in any quantily at bottom 

 prices— wholesale and retail. I'HW Catalog will 

 be ready soon. Send me your name and let me 

 know your wants. 



GUS. DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. 



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HOWARD M. MELBEE, 



HONEYVILLE, O. 



keep my breeder queen well supplied with 

 bees and with but tew larvif , so that they 

 are abundantly fed. If you look into your 

 hives you will always find that colony hav- 

 ing but little unsealed brood, has the larvae 

 for the first few days floating in an extra 

 abundance of white milk food, which is the 

 royal jelly of the queen, and, when trans- 

 ferring, the larva? are floated upon the 

 transfer-stick without touching them, and 

 sufficient of the .ielly transferred with them 

 to surround them in their new cradle. It 

 the cups, as now workt on by the bees, are 

 placed in an upper story of a slrou;/ colony, 

 having frames of unsealed brood, a queen- 

 excluder over the brood-chamber, and an 

 old queen laying below, the cells will be 

 completed by the bees, and good cells will 

 be the result if not more than a dozen be 

 given at onetime. When removing this 

 frame of cells from the queenless colony, 

 take what bees are hanging to the frame.and 

 a second frame of prepared cups can be 

 given the queenless bees, and I should say 

 it was far more certain to have the cells 

 started by queenless bees than placing the 

 prepared cups at once in the super over the 

 queen excluder, at least I have found it so, 

 as my bees always refused to accept the 

 cups unless workt on by the queenless bees. 

 I£ a large number of queen-cells are re- 

 quired, the queenless bees will start several 

 prepared lots in one day." 



(This Cut is the Full Size of the Knife.) 

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of the handle is placed the name and res.dence of the Subscriber. 



The Material entering into this celebrated l<nife is of the very best quality; the blades are 



handle as described .above. It will last a lifetime, with proper usage. 



A Fair Yield of Honey. 



The past season was not a very good one 

 here. The honey crop was generally light 

 in quantity, but not in quality. I had a 

 fair yield— nearly 1.500 pounds from 40 

 colonies, mostly buckwheat honey. I think 

 that nearly all the bees in this part of the 

 country went into winter quarters with an 

 abundance of good buckwheat honey, 

 which I consider is the very best for out- 

 door wintering. Ed. Jollet. 



Venango Co., Pa., Dec. 14, 1809. 



Bees Did No Good. 



My bees nave done no good this season, 

 but I enjoy the Bee Journal and hope for 

 better success next year. I bought some 

 golden Italian bees and have sown some 

 sweet clover seed. My bees are in good 

 condition for winter, as they loaded up 

 pretty well on goldenrod and wild aster. 

 Will C. Gruber. 



Martin Co., Ind.. Dec. 25, 1S'.I9. 



Total Failure-No Clover Honey. 



Bees were a total failure here the past 

 season. There was no clover. Where there 

 was basswood they did fairly well; it 

 lasted about 13 days. D. E. Whitino. 



Dodge Co., Minn.. Dec. 33, 1S99. 



"•^ "Th^aVX^aTrng c°utTivef a lain, idea, but cannot fully convey an exact representation of 



this beautiful knife, as the "Novelty "must be seen to be appreciated. .„.,„,,,„ 



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A Young Beginner's Expepienee. 



I commenced keeping bees for a man that 

 I workt for, but he never read about bees, 

 and wouldn't let me manage them the way 

 others' experience had taught me, so we 

 didn't have much success. I bought him 

 out last spring— five colonies for .*'30. They 

 increast to 13 colonies, and I got 50 or (50 

 pounds of honey from three. It was a very 

 poor season for bees here— too dry. I was 

 away two weeks in September, and the 

 moth-millers got into one colony and de- 

 stroyed about half of the combs, so they be- 

 came discouraged and went away. I now 

 have 11 colonies packt with wheat straw 

 and chaff. 



1 have always been very much interested 

 in bees, and since I have taken the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal I like the business better 

 than ever. I get so much information out 



