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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Jan. 25, 1900. 



SUFFERERS 



FROM 



LUNG ^KIDNEY 



troubles can obtain valuable advice, FREE, by 

 addressing DR. PEIRO, 



34 Central Music Hall, CHICAGO. 



J8®"Write at once, stating- ag'e, sex, occupation, 

 how troubled, post-office address, and enclose 

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"IT BEATS THE BAND,' 



how others try to imitate Pace Fences. Can' t do it. 

 PAGE WOVEN WIRE KENCECO., ADRIAN, MICH. 



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BEE-SUPPLIES SlsMi 



^m^f^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^m are rig^ht. We can 

 save vou some on frcipht. Enquire of us. 



2Atf JOHN NEBEL & SON, High Hill, Ho. 



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PATENT WIRED COMB FOUNDATIOS 



Has no Sap 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. 



J. A. VAN DEUSE^X, 



Sole Manufacturer, 

 Sprout Brook, Mrf^ntgomery Co., N.T 

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4 Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Ken- a 



tucky, and the South. M 



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.J, Lowest Freight Rates in the country, a 



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It stands for American farmers and produ- 

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<(iieeii!« Slo«' About I..aying.— 



The Australasian BeeKeeper says: ., ' 



"We had one instance this season of" 

 queen starting to lay on the 20th day after 

 emerging, and many instances of their 

 commencing on the 30th and 31st day. 

 Usually queens lay on the lOtb day. Cold 

 spells and unsettled and wet weather, and 

 no honey-flow, was the cause." 



I>ea,ve Plenty of Stores for tlie 



Bees.— A statement made by Allen Sharp 

 in the British Bee Journal, is worthy of 

 occasional repetition : 



" I have tried all ways of managing bees, 

 and all methods of feeding them, and I say 

 without any hesitation that the best plan 

 is to leave sufficient natural stores in every 

 hive to last until honey comes in again. 

 Colonies so provided in autumn require no 

 further attention until supering time ar- 

 rives, and they are the ones which yield 

 best results." 



I>ocalily.— Editor Hill says in the 

 American Bee-Keeper : 



"The noticeable inclination upon the part 

 of some writers to ridicule the ' locality ' 

 idea is a clear evidence of limited experi- 

 ence. The young man who looks forward 

 to apiculture as his life vocation would do 

 well to receive his training in the country 

 in which it is proposed to operate. Yet, our 

 ability to choose wisely in the matter of a 

 location is in proportion to the diversity of 

 our observation and experience. Causes 

 and effects in different localities are hardly 

 less different in bee-keeping than are the 

 varieties of vegetation and soil." 



tilass Sample Cards tor Wratl- 



ingf.— Here is a suggestion by W. H. 

 Pridgen, in the Progressive Bee-Keeper, 

 that has at least a prepossessing appear- 

 ance: 



" While Dr. Miller and the Root Company 

 are discussing the color-sample-card ques- 

 tion, if there is sufficient demand to justify 

 having such a thing, why not go ahead and 

 have small panes of glass made varying in 

 tints from clear to the shade of the darkest 

 honey, viewed thru a flask i.; inch thick. 

 By having one flask or flat bottle of a given 

 thickness, and a set, say 12 different shades, 

 beginning with white for number one, any 

 one could grade his extracted honey by 

 color and number." 



Oiaff vs. Pingfle Walletl Hives. 



— In the Progressive Bee-Keeper. R. C. 

 Aikin expresses himself as in doubt as to 

 which is best. He thinks there are times 

 when a chaff hive may be about equal to a 

 refrigerator for a weak colony. He says : 



" I know that a colony in a single-walled 

 hive will respond more quickly to the out- 

 side temperature in the matter of heat, and 

 the same as to cold ; but, still, that does not 

 prove one or the other. The difticulty 

 seems to be to protect against cold, and not 

 against heat, too. Sunny, warm days will 

 dry out a single-walled hive when it will 

 not a chaff one, and in such case, unless a 

 xtriDiq colony is inside, the chaff is a detri- 

 ment. 



"I say the chaff becomes a detriment to 

 iW(i/i colonies. If there could always be a 

 m-i) strong colony for the time of year, 

 then the packt hive is all right, for it re- 

 tains the heat of the colony against outside 

 cold ; but colonies good, bad and indiffer- 

 ent as to strength, will show varied results 

 about wintering, and more particularly 

 about building up in early spring. With 

 the opening of spring, and the first warm, 

 pleasant days, colonies in single-walled 

 hives rouse up and are the first to have 

 queens to lay freely. Weak colonies suffer 

 with cold nights, and general cold changes, 



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 vou sow lliimm»iiil'>« Improved 

 ^'V-^^i^ Early Jerwey Woketleld. Un- 

 -^^^-^iif^, 'ioubtedly the purest ami yarlieat etraiu 

 J .^7 ^"v kIlo^v^l. The result of years of careful 

 "3^-^* selertion, both for earllness and perfect 

 j-ij?-^ heails. EapeciallvvnlUHble to market gar- 

 ^-tl'v -^ ''■"•'"■ 5c pkt. ; 15c oz. ; 60c 3i-lb-. and 

 ^ -,^-^ 81.50 ib., all poatj.aid. llAmmond'x 

 :J l^iinlsh ItttUhefld. A sure header of 

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 ' ' ^ -^ loiru« for cash prizes. Price same as above. 

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--■ Harry N. Hammond, Seedsman. 



Itox -J , Kifltdd. Mich. 



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BEES FOR 5ALE 



200 Colon ies at $ 3.00 each. 



In 8-frame dovetailed hives, two supers each, 

 with fence separators complete. Good location, 

 no failures, and no disease. 



W, C GATHRIGHT, 



3A3t DONA ANA, NEW MEX. 



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 priced first class hatcher — the 



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Hatches the larpest per cent, of 

 fertile eggs at the lowest cost. 

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Yellow Sweet Clover Seed 



WE HAVE IT AT LAST \ 



We have finally succeeded in g-etting- 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 gfrows much. 

 shorter, only about two feet in higrht. It is as 

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

 ally comes into bloom ahead of white clover 

 and basswood. We offer the seed as a premium 



A QUARTER POUND FOR SENDING 

 ONE NEW SUBSCRIPTION. 



So lony as it lasts, we will mail a quarter 

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

 ber who sends us ONE NEVV subscriber for the 

 American Bee Journal one year, with $1.00. 



We have been trying- for years to secure this 

 seed, and finally succeeded in getting it. It is 

 new seed, gathered last season by an old per- 

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

 But we have only a small supplj'. When nearly 

 out we will mention it. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



118 Michigan Street, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



