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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 19, 1900 



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THOUSANDS OF BEE-HIVES, MILLIONS OF SECTIONS READY FOR PROMPT SHIPMENT. 



Lewis Foundation Fasteners are selling- like hot-cakes. Customers who have received one of these 



new machines pronounce it the finest, and write us that it is worth more than our 



price, which is only-ONE DOLLAR, without lamp. 



BRANCHES: 



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AGENCIES: 



L. C. Woodman Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Fred Foulgek & Sons Ogden, Utah. 



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 Special Southwestern Agent. 



Ttie Einersaii Biiider. 



This Emerson stitf-board Binder with cloth 

 back for the American Bee Journal we mail for 

 but 60 cents; or we will send it with the Bee 

 Journal for one year— both for only $1.4(). It is 

 a fine thinf;r to preserve the copies of the Jour- 

 nal as fast as they are received. If you have 

 this "Emerson" no further binding- is neces- 



''^'^' GEORGE W YORK & CO. 



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 regarding points of interest along its 

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No. 1. — The Pioneer Limited. 



No. 2. — The Land of Bread and 

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No. 3.— The Fox Lake Country. 



No. 4. — Fishing in the Great North 

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No. S.— The Lake Superior Country. 



N,o. 6. — Cape Nome Gold Diggings. 



No. 8. — Summer Days in the Lake 

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No. 9.— Summer Homes. 1900. 



No. 11.— The Game of Skat. 



No. 12. — Milwaukee — The Conven- 

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No. 13. — A Farm in the Timber 

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No. 14. — Stock-Raising in the Sun- 

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No. 15. — Hunting and Fishing. 



Italian. Hybrid, 

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me B66-K66Der's 

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Or, Manual of the Apiary, 



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460 Pages— 16th 1899; Edition— 18th Thou- 

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A description of the book here is quite unnec- 

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 illustrated, and all written in the most fascinat- 

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 No bee-keei>er is fully equipt, or his library 

 complete, without The Bee-Keepers' Guide. 



This 16th and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

 magnificent book of 460 pages, in neat and sub- 

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 to our present subscribers, for the work of get- 

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 Journal. 



Given Jor TWO New Subscribers. 



The following offer is tnade to present sub- 

 scribers only, and no premium is also g:iven to 

 the two NEW subscribers— simply the Bee Jour- 

 nal for one year: 



Send us two new subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal (with $2.00;, and we will mail you a copy 

 of Prof. Cook's book FREE as a premium. 

 Prof. Cook*sbook alone sent for $1.25, or we club 

 it with the Bee Journal for a year— both for only 

 $1.75. But surely anybody can get only TWO 

 NEW SUBSCRIBERS to the Bee Journal for a year, 

 and thus get the book as a premium. Let every 

 body try for it. Will YOU have one? 



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118 Michigan Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



not any more filthy than the milk of the 

 cow, for it is produced in the same way. 



In the year 189S we had the most copious 

 yield of this sweet I ever saw. There were 

 not bees enough to gather a hundredth 

 part of it. it being dry and warm thru Slay 

 and June. The first of July the rains set 

 in and destroyed both the sweet and its 

 producers. Some of these insects produce 

 good honey-dew, while others produce bit- 

 ter stuff. 



This is not guess-work, nor what others 

 say — it is what I have seen and know. 



A. J. McBride. 



Watauga Co., N. C, Feb. 18. 



Wintered Without Loss. 



I put 12 colonies into the cellar last fall 

 and took them out last week without a loss, 

 but some colonies are quite weak. The 

 temperature varied from 35 to 4.5 degrees. 

 Some of them have young bees, and all 

 have lots of eggs. 



For an experiment I took 3 colonies up- 

 stairs over the store, and they came thru 

 in good shape. I gave them a flight in Jan- 

 uary. I had them confined to the hive with 

 a screen in front for ventilation. The tem- 

 perature varied a great deal — I don't know 

 how much, but nevertheless they came thru 

 all right. 



The prospects are not the best in this lo- 

 cation for a good honey season. The white 

 clover I am afraid is frozen out, the same 

 as a year ago. There is no basswood nor 

 sweet clover to speak of. L. J. Bergh. 



Dane Co., Wis., April 6. 



A Little Bee-Experience. 



When only a boy at home in Henry Co., 

 Iowa, we had several colonies of bees in the 

 old-style "gums," and boxes of various 

 kinds and sizes. We got some pretty good 

 honey at times by placing a small box over 

 a hole on top of the hive, but the bulk of it 

 we secured by the robbing system of pry- 

 ing off the cover and cutting out the top 

 part down to the brood, or "taking up" 

 some of the new colonies at the approach 

 of winter. 



In the spring of 1876 1 came West, and re- 

 mained almost entirely away from my bees 

 until July, 1837, when, while at work in the 

 field, a swarm of bees past over. I gave a 

 cbasB, hailing wheat and oats among them, 

 and succeeded in capturing them. I put 

 them in a box 31}.< inches long, n^.i' inches 

 deep, and 18 inches wide. They did not 

 swarm until June 11, 1898. This was a 

 rousing swarm, and on June 13 another 

 swarm issued, but not so large, tho they 

 filled their S-frame Langstroth hive and a 

 super besides, and wintered all right; while 

 the prime swarm filled their S-frame Lang- 

 stroth hive and a super, but starved out 

 during the winter. 



Last summer I took the top off of the 

 hive box of the old colony, and fit to it a set 

 of slats to support the combs below, the 

 bees attaching the combs to the slats in a 

 few hours. I made the slat work to receive 

 a 10-frame Danzenbaker super. They filled 

 about three supers, and cast a swarm in 

 September that decampt. 



I put the bees in a cave the first winter; 

 but since then they have remained on the 

 summer stands. They have an unusual (?) 

 amount of drone comb; I think I am safe 

 in saying I have killed a half bushel of 

 drones. They were formerly rather dark, 

 but now they are almost as yellow as the 

 golden Italian queen gotten from a queen- 

 breeder in the East. I have somewhere 

 seen it stated that bees become yellower by 

 being inbred, and this colony seems to in- 

 dicate that the statement is true. I think 

 there are twice as many drones in this one 

 hive as there are in all the other 19 colonies 

 put together, and it seems the chances 

 would favor them in fertilizing queens. I 

 shall try to supersede their queen with one 

 from Dr. C. C. Miller's yard next season, 

 and run them for drones to fertilize as 

 many of the young queens as possible, by- 

 keeping drone-comb cut out of the other 

 hives. 



I have all the bees in a cave except this 



