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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 12, 1900. 



The Midland Farmer 



(SEMI-MONTHLY). 



CThe representative moderti Farm Paper of the 

 Central and Southern Mississippi Valley. Page 

 departments to every branch of Farming and 

 Stock-Raising. Plain and Practical— Seasona- 

 ble and Sensible. Send 25 cents, silver or two- 

 cent stamps, and a list of your neighbors (for 

 free samples), and we will enter your name for 1 

 year. (If vou have not received your money's 

 worth at end of year, we will, upon request, con- 

 tinue the paper to you free of cost another year), 



W, M, BARNUM, Publisher, 



Wainwright Building, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



7Dtf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Queens, Bees, Nuclei, Etc. 



Havinir been 27 years rear- 

 ing Queens for the trade on 

 the best plans, will continue 

 during I'lOO to rear the BEST 

 we can. 



PRICES: 



One Untested Queen $1.M 



One Tested Queen 1.2S 



One Select Tested Queen 1.50 



One Breeder 3.00 



One Comb Nucleus 1.80 



Untested Queens ready in 

 May. Tested are from last 

 season's rearing, ready now. 



COMB FOUNDATION flS^o^^wlx. 



Send for price-list of Queens bytje dozen; 

 also sample of Foundation. J. L. S 1 KONU, 



j4Atf Clarinda, Page Co., lowA. 



TDe Lewis 

 Foiindaiioii Fastener. 



Simplest aad best machine for the purpose 

 ever offered to the bee-keeper. Foundation 

 easily, accurately and securely fastened. Ad- 

 iustable for auy style section of any width. 

 Shelf can be adjusted for auy ordinary lamp. 

 Full directions with each machine. 



" Price, $1.00, without Lamp, 



Thousands of Bee-Hives, 

 Millions of Sections, 

 Ready for Prompt Shipment. 



Q. B. LEWIS CO. 



WATERTOWN, WIS., U.S.A. 



BRANCHES: 

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

 olis, Ind. 

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

 apolis, Minn. 



AGENCIES: 



L. C. Woodman, Grand Rapids, Mich, 

 Fred Foulger & Sons, Og-den, Utah. 

 E. T. Abbott, St. Joseph, Mo., Special South- 

 western Agent. 



SEND FOR CATALOG, 



WE TRUST THE PUBLIC 



luid 8eit<l oiif Iiifubuturtt tu itity 

 pespoiinible per**Oii. No one sliouldbuy 



an luLulKitor and pay tcr it before piving it a 

 'trifil. It \a madp BO that Dobody can fail 

 with it. A ehlhl can run It. lOcta. 

 worth of oil will inake a hauh. It bent nil 

 'Others at World's Fair, Nashville aud 

 - Omaha Hspositions. We me. sole ni:inuf3C- 



turersnf the celebrated New I'reinler i^nd Simplicity In- 

 eilbntorfl. Catalogue 5 eta. I'lana fur Poultry Houses. et(-., ■-'5c. 



Columbia Incubator Co., 5 Adams St.,Delaware City, Del. 



fldei Bees Did li ! 



San Lris, Colo., March 2, 1")00. 



Last spring (ISQO) I ordered queens from five 

 difEerent queen-breeders and among them one 

 queen from you. The bees from your (Adel) 

 queen gathered more honey than all the others 

 put together. (Signed) S. N. Smith, M.D. 



Send for price-list. 



ISDlt HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 



HATCH CHICKENS 



BY STEAM-»itn th. 



- Bimple, perfect, Belf-regulatint; 



FXP.fi SIOB I NCUBATOR 



ThousaDds in GuccesEfu 

 owest priced Isl-cla'iS hatcher made. 

 CEO. II. STAIll., 

 114toiaa s. «th St.. Oiilnoy, III. 



44A26t 



Please mention the Bee Journal. 



ALBINO QUEENS ^IZ^^^^r^^ 



want the geutlest Bees— If you want the best 

 honev-gatherers you ever saw— try my Albinos. 

 Untested Queens in April, Jl.OO; Tested, $1.£0. 



i2A26t J. D. GIVENS. Lisbon, TEX. 



Wehbcles and harness] 



At less Than Wholes ale Prices. 



i onrs is not a rnail order house buyin. from some |^ac^ory^^^^ 

 price. ,«>H"l"",'"'K*^;*^XSlab8oluteiy'^ril tW and 



houjeintheuic nnmuTEE EVERY VEH CLE OR HftRNESS WE SELL 



KALAMAZOO CARRIAGE AND HARNESS CO.. BOX 53 KALAMAZOO, MICH. 



Please Mention the Bee Journal lJl?rtTs''rrr 



Root, and subscribe for the American 

 Bee Journal, and you will be on the 

 rig-ht road to successful bee-keeping-. 



I now use the Dadant hive, and run 

 for extracted honey, and have made it 

 pay in dollars and cents. To use Mr. 

 Dadant's words, you must know what 

 to do, and do it in time. One spring- 1 

 workt my bees up so strong in numbers 

 that by the last of May the hives 

 fairly boiled with bees. I went away 

 to work for a week, supposing the bees 

 were getting plenty to live on from 

 the fields ; when I came home I found 

 them in a fearful condition — the alight- 

 ing-boards covered with the brood they 

 had thrown out, the young, white- 

 looking bees crawling all over the 

 hives, and the grass in front full of 

 them, some in bundles the size of wal- 

 nuts. I pondered a long time to know 

 what ailed my bees, but I couldn't 

 make it out. I went to " L,angstroth 

 Revised," and I soon found out. I had 

 a case of starvation. I then opened 

 the hives, and there was not a particle 

 of brood, not even an e.gg, or a drop of 

 honey. I gave them all a good feed of , 

 sugar syrup, and in four days the blos- 

 soms were dripping with nectar. As 

 strange as it may seem my crop aver- 

 aged SO pounds per colony that season. 



I once had nearly a whole colony of 

 bees inside of my pantaloons. Yes, 

 sir, inside my trousers. My move- 

 ments at that time were exceedingly 

 quick, or rapid. My gesticulations 

 were convincing, and with lightning 

 rapidity. I think if the President had 

 been there, yes, and the Mrs., too, I 

 should have disrobed just as 1 did. 



Ogle Co., 111. Byron Whitney. 



Bees in Florida. 



Bees have been holding high carni- 

 val of late, for fruit-trees and the ti-ti 

 are blooming. Pears, peaches, plums, 

 and dewberries are loaded with bloom, 

 apparently no room for another blos- 

 som. I counted 45 blossoms in one 

 cluster. Orange trees are not bloom- 

 ing, for their leaves were killed by 

 frost ; the wood was not injured, and 

 some trees are leaving out to their 

 very tips. Lemon trees are more tender 

 and are killed to the ground. 



Summer drouths are the " winters of 

 discontent" to bee-keepers here, for 

 many colonies perish by starvation 

 when they are of long continuance, as 

 they have been of late years. 



I laid down my pen just now, and 

 went to a neighbor's to look at his 

 bees; they are very diminutive blacks, 

 in movable-frame hives. On my ask- 

 ing the question, "How did your bees 

 do last summer, and how are they 

 now ?" He said : " Last spring the 

 ti-ti was killed by frost, and then a 

 severe drouth prevailed, and bees 

 stored no surplus ; I've had to feed 

 them to keep them from starving ; for 

 a few days they have been doing well 

 — they are a month late ; I've had no 

 swarms yet, and I should have had by 

 the first of March." 



Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Washington Co., Fla., March 29. 



Can It Be ! 



O can it be, that " flies are flies because they 



fly?" 

 O can it be, that " fleas are fleas because they 



flee?" 

 O can it be, that *' bees are bees because they 



be?" A. E. W. 



