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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb. 22, 1900 



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Here's a new potato with every quality to make it the most popular 

 ever ^rown— Vaughan's White Ohio. Has even' good feature of the 

 oil Ohio, anil besides is pure white in color. Grown from Northern 

 seed; early and prolific. A money maker for the grower Get It now 

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riilCK— per lb. SO ceiittt, prepnid; pecli. 75 ceiif*; buphfl. *S. 

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'1 Unrticnllure. Ttll« the wholf Ftn.y of thn 



ithonrAnnuaUorlSOO, 

 rii-n, lawn and farm. 





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84-86 Randolph St., Chicago. 



14 Barclay St., Nen York. 



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1 A iTL 1 L^L rVL\. 1 1 lli-^l-r 



from 3 to 6 inches. As a rule, we have very 

 little wind ; sometimes our bees can fly for 

 weeks without enough wind to be called a 

 breeze, but on Tuesday, when everything 

 was as quiet as a lamb, real estate took a 

 sudden flight upward, in such quantities 

 that one could not see ."iO feet away. Well, 

 it will help out the water supply. As the 

 old saying goes, "It's an ill- wind that 

 blows no one any good." E. S. LovEsr. 

 Utah Co., Utah, Feb. S. 



"Has the Bee an Extra Sense?" 



Noticing the article on page 86, " Has the 

 Bee an Extra Sense ?" Michigan will cor- 

 roborate Massachusetts. Every experi- 

 enced bee-hunter knows that where bees 

 are carried forward towards the tree, and 

 by and beyond it. when liberated from the 

 box they will continue on the same course, 

 altho going straight away from the tree. 

 The bee-hunter, however, is not misled, for 

 if the bees do not return in about the same 

 time, or sooner, than from the last place, 

 he well knows he has past the tree. They 

 will find the box after awhile, unless 

 towards evening, in which case they seldom 

 return. D. H Metcalf. 



Calhoun Co.., Mich. 



Poultry and Bees. 



I want to tell what a friend of mine did 

 with 300 hens in connection with bees for 

 the year ending Jan. 1, 1900. This man is 

 a bachelor, and I believe any good woman 

 can do just as well, if not better, if she is a 

 woman that will work, as it takes lots ot 

 work : 



EGGS SOLD DURING 1899. 



January, 155 dozen, (*31c W8.05 



February, 416 " (tiil^c 66.56 



March, 731 " @13c 95 03 



April, 507 " @1.5c T6.05 



May, 440 " (((il7c 74 80 



June, 485 " @17c 82.45 



July, 286 " @l8c 51.48 



August, 210 " (!ii20c 42.00 



Sept., 276 " C«'34r 66.24 



October, 290 " @28c 81.20 



Nov., 216 " @31c 66.96 



Dec, 292 " @32c 93.44 



Total for eggs S«44.26 



Sold during the year 30 doz. broilers 

 at $3 00 WO.OO 



Sold during the year 20 doz. hens at 

 $5.25.... 105.00 



Grand total $1,039.26 



There was no account kept ot the eggs or 

 chickens consumed by the family during 

 the year, and as he raises his own feed, no 

 estimate was made of its cost. 



Now, do you not think that the poultry 

 business would pay for the womenfolks to 

 take hold ot in connection with their hus- 

 band's bee-business '. G. T. Jones. 



Sutter Co., Calif. 



Bees Still Working in Texas. 



I have just come in from working with 

 my bees, and find them still at work. They 

 haven't lost more than one week so far 

 this winter. They are bringing in pollen 

 as in the spring of the year. I have 116 

 colonies all in good condition, with plenty 

 of surplus. 



If I had to cellar my bees I should go out 

 of the business. Mine stay on the same 

 stands summer and winter. 



W. W. Williams. 



Goliad Co., Tex., Feb. 2. 



No Wax-Moth. 



On page 93, Mr. A. F. Foster claims to 

 have seen hundreds of bee-moth in Boulder 

 Co., Colo., during the past summer. While 

 ] don t know what Mr. Poster means by 

 "bee-moth," I am fairly certain that there 



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