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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Jan. 25, 1900 



We call ijoiir attention to our P A PT^INfivP A ^P 



IT PROTECTS GOODS. *^ /AV-dVli > VJ/'V^rVOC 



Insures Arrival of Supplies in Neat Condition 



By the use of this liffht, strong', and tig-htly-woven packinp-case 

 we are able to place our g-oods into your hands in just as good condition 

 as when they left our factory, free from dirt and damage ordinaril.v 

 resulting from railroad handling. 



Q. B. LEWIS CO. Bee.Keepers' 



Watertown, Wisconsin. Supplies ^^^^ 



AGENCIES: 



L. C. Woodman Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Fred Foulger & Sons Ogden, Utah. 



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

 Special Southwestern Agent. 



BRANCHES: 



G. B. Lewis Co, 19 So. Alabama St., Indianap- 

 olis, Ind. 



G. B. Lewis Co., 515 First Ave., N. E., Minne- 

 apolis, Minn. 



SEND FOR OUR CATALOG. 



Harshfieid NaDnfactiiring Company. 



Our specialty is making SECTIONS and they are the best in the market. 

 Wisconsin BASSWOOD is the right kind for them. We have a full line of BEE- 

 SUPPLIES. Write for free illustrated catalog and price-list. 



HARSHFIELD HANUFACTURINQ CO., Harshfield, Wis. 



Please mention Bee Journal -when writing, 



INCUBATOR FREE 



on trial. TheNewC.Von 

 Culin is most perfect in ven- 

 tilation, moisture and heat. 



HATCHES EVERY HATCHABLE 



EGG. Money made and saved. 

 Catalog; FREE. Poultryman's 

 Flans, IQc. Address. 



The W. T. Falconer 

 Wlfg, Co., 

 Ave.98, JAMESTOWN, N.r. 



Please mention the Bee Journal. 



THE LAND OF BREAD AND BUTTER 



is the title of a new illustrated 

 pamphlet just issued by the Chicago, 

 Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, relating 

 more especially to the land along the 

 new line it is now building thru 

 Bon Homme and Charles Mix counties 

 in South Dakota. It will be found very 

 interesting reading. A copy will be 

 mailed free on receipt of 2-cent stamp 

 for postage. Address Geo. H. Heafford, 

 General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111. 



4A3t 



The Novelty Pocket=Knife. 



Your Name and Address on one side— Three Bees on the other side. 



so foi'- 

 and iu 



level with the top of the rear solid portion, 

 and the bottom of the lower one on a level 

 with the bottom of the rear portion. This 

 leaves a space or hollow passage between 

 them, ^4 inch or more deef), and the width 

 of the hive, and extending about 7 inches 

 back of the ordinary entrance, which is 

 provided for as usual by a bee-space on top 

 of the bottom-board. The underground 

 passage, as it might be called, is connected 

 with the interior of the hive by two trans- 

 verse slots, each about 2J2' inches long, 

 where the solid portion is met. These slots 

 are under the side fi'mne.s, one slot at each 

 side of the hive, and that is the secret of it. 

 The side combs usually contain honey 

 rather than brood, and the queen is usually 

 not on those combs, but on the center ones, 

 containing brood, and when a swarm issues 

 she makes a straight shoot from the brood- 

 combs to the only entrance that appears to 

 be available— the ordinary entrance, where 

 the trap is placed. The bees, as aforesaid, 

 always return thru the lower entrance 

 when bringing home honey or pollen, hence 

 it does not matter how much the upper one 

 is blocked up by the trap and by masses of 

 bees banging out. Mr. Dudley has tried 

 this on a large scale two seasons without a 

 single failure, and has made 300 such bot- 

 tom-boards for future use." 



HOWARD M. MELBEE, 



HONEYVILLE, O. 



[This Cut is the Full Size of the Knife.] 



Vour Name on the Knife. — When orderingr, be sure to say just what name and 

 address you wish put on the Knife. 



The Novelty Knife is indeed a novelty. The novelty lies in the handle. It is 

 made beautifully- of indestructible celluloid, which is as transparent as g-lass. Un- 

 derneath the celluloid, on one side of the handle is placed the name and residence of 

 the subscriber, and on the other side pictures of a Queen, Drone, and Worker, as 

 shown here. 



The Material entering into this celebrated knife is of the very best quality; 

 the blades are hand-forged out of the very finest English razor-steel, and we war- 

 rant every blade. The bolsters are made of (rermau silver, and will never rust or 

 corrode. The rivets are hardened German silver wire; the linings are plate brass; 

 the back springs of Sheffield spring-steel, and the finish of the handle as degcribed 

 above. It will last a last-time, with proper usage. 



Why Own the Novelty Knife ? In case a good knife is lost, the chances are the 

 owner will never recover it; but if the " Novelty " is lost, having name and address 

 of owner, the finder will return it; otherwise to try to destroy the name and ad- 

 dress, would destroy the knife. If traveling, and jou meet with a serious accident, and are 

 tuuate as to have one of the " Novelties," your Pocket-Knifk will serve as an identifier; 

 case of death, your relatives will at once be notified of the accident. 



How appropriate this knife is for a present! What more lasting memento could a mother 

 give to a son, a wife to a husband, a sister to a brother, or a lady to a gentleman, the knife having 

 the name of the recipient on one side? 



The accompanying cut gives a faint idea, but cannot fully convey an exact representation of 

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



How to Get this Valuable Knife.— We send it postpaid for $1.10, or give it as a Premium to the 

 one sending us three new subsckibeks to the Bee Journal (with $3.00.) We will club the Novelty 

 Knife and the Bee Journal for one year, both for SI. 00. 



GEORGE W, YORK L CO,, 118 Mich, St., Chicago, III, 



it^Please allow about two weeks for your kuife order to be filled. 



Please Meution the Bee Joiirual iJl^rtTS^i"^ 





Selling Extracted Honey, Etc. 



My method is to extract all uuSnisbt sec- 

 tions and put it into two-quart tin-pails 

 holding 4'., pounds of honey. Sell pail and 

 honey for 50 cents. The pails cost .J5.75 per 

 gross, so it gives me 10 cents a pound. I 

 find no trouble to sell it the second time to 

 the same customer. I warrant it strictly 

 pure. 



The past was the poorest season since I 

 have kept bees. I bad only about 60 pounds 

 from 65 colonies. I had to feed up for win- 

 ter. We are having a very mild winter so 

 far. I hope to see the bees come out well 

 in the spring, tor I delight to see bees 

 lively, and make the air hum with their 

 activity. 



The ground is covered here with snow 

 now. I am afraid that a good many bees 

 will starve tnru this section. 



I don't see how any bee-keeper can get 

 along without some bee-paper. It seems to 

 me as if they would be shut up from the 

 outside, and would not know what their 

 fellow beekeepers are doing. 



G. H. Adkins. • 



Essex Co., N. Y., Jan. 16. 



Selling Honey in Home Market. 



My bees are in a locality where they 

 surely do well in one respect — that is, they 

 increase. Our winters are not cold enough 

 to even thin them out good. To illustrate; 

 I askt the principal merchant here if he 

 could not handle some of my honey. His 

 reply was, " No, no, every family in the 

 town has bees!" That was a year ago. I 

 bought, the past summer, two lots of bees, 

 one in the town containing 50 colonies, 8 of 

 which were in good hives, and the rest in 

 boxes that took the regular size frame, or, 

 rather, were built for them, but not used, 

 as there were sticks instead. There were 

 36 supers and over two pounds of founda- 

 tion, all for *25, The other lot in the same 

 vicinity (H colonies) I got for 100 pounds of 

 cheap honey that I retail to the Mexicans 

 at 5 cents per pound, and the latter bees 

 were hauled to my place. 



In Las Cruces I askt a merchant to han- 

 dle my honey, and he replied that honey 

 was sold on the streets, and that the stores 

 could not sell a pound per month. So it 

 was with some misgivings that on June 10 I 

 took some comb and extracted honey to 

 Las Cruces. I had 2S sections, 3 half-depth 

 frames, and 4 quart-jars. The sections 



