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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



May 10, 1900 



_-^,_ ix^m^P^O If you want your supplies to arrive at your railroad station 

 K£t,"l\t t r 1 1»0 ! 'Q neat and perfect condition, free from dirt and damage 



jTdi^rilv resultintr from railroad handling; and if you want your orders filled promptly with 



the very iinest goods in the market, send to 



G.B.L6wis6ojamown,wis. 



TJ. S. -A.. 



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 

 l.ewis r o_J'^°^'Jjj^^^.^gg pronounce it the finest, and write us that it is worth more than our 

 price, which is onlyONE DOLLAR, without lamp, 



BRANCHES: 



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

 olis, Ind. , _ ,,. 



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

 apolis, Minn 



SEND FOR CATALOG. 



AGENCIES: 



L. C. Woodman Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Fred Fodlger & Sons Ogden, Utah. 



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

 Special Southwestern Agent. 



|^<^HAYE A 

 CARRIAGE, SIR?^' 



We Make Them and Sell Direct to You at Less 

 Than Wholesale Prices. 



/ Pull line of Buggies, Carriages, Canopy Top and Extension Top Surreys, 

 Inn n stick Seat surreys, Phaetons, Traps, Drivlug Wagons, Concords, 

 /?DHni?Wagonsandall klAdsof single and double harness. Every article 

 /guaranteed. Shipped anywhere subject to buyer's approval. 



KALAMAZOO CARRIAGE & HARNESS CO., Box 53, KALAMAZOO. MICH. 



/if not satisfactory return at our , 

 /expense. We save you iiSito\ 

 JST6, mcordlne to thejob. l.et 1 

 I our free illustrated catalogue be- 

 I fore buying. 



Please mention Bee journal when writing. 



FREE 



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TABLETS for thin blood 

 people. — Nervousness, 

 Indigestion — Rheuma- 

 -Female Disease — Brain Food. 



OX-BLOOD 



A SURE 

 CURE 



This oreoaration contains in a concentrated form the active principles of healthy bullock's 

 blood combi.?edwUh tSe most valuable nerve, brain, blood and flesh producing drugs known to 



^^^ &7eat,^st"discovery S\he age for suffering people. Less than a year since first put in use and 

 thousandf are being cured eviry day. To convince you we give a 3 weeks' treatment free-all we 

 LskTs for you to send l" cents to pay postage on sending it. This is safer than paying a doctor $25 

 fo experiment on von. 3 weeks' treatment sent free on receipt of lo cts. in stamps. 

 „r i cr =n>.- TESTIMONIALS: 



• Derr^'si^-lnclosed find SO cents for which piease send me a W-cent bo.x of your O.x^Blood Tab- 

 lets. The 3 weeks' treatment that you sent me free did all you claim for it. Geo. Fillman. 



^^Tc'fn^%t^"safe"n?nTh"npra"'e°o?'Jx-mood Tablets. I have suffered everything for months 

 with a hurtfng til my hlad and a stomach trouble After persistent efforts to get relief from other 

 remedies and failed,' I was cured with one box of O.x-blood tablets 

 SO cts. a box or 6 for $2.so. Address. W. A. HENDERSOri OO. 



17D2t 



Masonic Building, Des Moines, Iowa. 



MarsliMd MannfactnriDg 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. 



riARSHFIELD HANUFACTURING CO., Harshfield, Wis. 



Please mention Bee journal when -writinv 



cated, as such a statement is at vari- 

 ance with the facts. While it will look 

 nice and slick when first put on, it will 

 commence to "chalk off," and is so 

 porous as to be little better than no 

 paint at all, in many instances. 



If you want a white paint that will 

 stand' the weather there is nothing 

 better than white oxide of zinc. Use 

 strictly pure raw Unseed oil to mix 

 with it, without a particle of drier of 

 any kind ; if you can get oil that is 

 from 8 to 10 years old it will have more 

 body, will dry quicker, and will be a 

 little nicer to handle in painting. 

 White zinc will not chalk, and will 

 stay on until it wears off if put on 

 properly. Turpentine or japan injure 

 the oil, but they are used by painters 

 as it makes the paint work better. 

 White zinc makes a very white paint, 

 but when first put on with raw oil it 

 has a creamy look, and it is almost im- 

 possible to do what painters would call 

 a good job, as it will be streakt almost 

 in spite of you. But its looks improve 

 with age, so by the end of a year it 

 looks all right. After the hives are 

 painted set them in the sun, and they 

 will dry in a short time ; raw oil dries 

 very slowly in the shade, and the sun- 

 shine does'not injure it in drying. 



W. S. Doner. 

 Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. 



Four Celluloid Queen=Buttons Free 



AS A PREMIUIVI. 



For sending us ONE NEW SUBSCRIBER to the 



Bee Journal for the balance of this year, with 50 

 cents, we will mail you FOUR of these pretty but- 

 tons for wearing on the coat-lapel. (You can wear 

 one and give the others to the children.) The queen 

 has a golden tinge. This offer is made only to our present regular subscribers. 

 NOTE.— One reader writes: " I have every reason to believe that it would be a very good idea 

 for every bee-keeper to wear one [of the buttons] as it will cause people to ask questions about the 

 busy bee, and manv a conversation thus started would wind up with the sale of more or less honey; 

 at any rate, it would give the bee-keeper a superior opportunity to enlighten many a person m re- 

 gard to honey and bees.'' 



Prices of Buttons alone, postpaid : One button, 8 cts.; 2 buttons, 6 cts. each ; 

 5 or more, 5 cts. each. (Stamps taken.) Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan St., CHICAGO. 



Wintered Well— A Warning. 



Thruout the country generally I 

 think bees have wintered well, but in 

 certain small localities where perhaps 

 little attention was given in the fall, 

 the mortality was quite large. My own 

 colonies have come thru on the sum- 

 mer stands thus far, but there are yet 

 2 or 3 weeks of critical times to tide 

 over. 



The clovers which appeared nearly 

 all dead last fall, have come out uiider 

 the heavy mantel of snow in full vigor 

 of spring ; and if we should be favored 

 with good weather we will certainly 

 expect a better harvest than we had a 

 year ago. 



If a kind providence spares me until 

 the last week in August, I hope to have 

 the pleasure of meeting with the bee- 

 keepers in Chicago. That is, if I may 

 expect to be better treated (not at the 

 bar) than happened to be my lot at 

 Buffalo 2 years ago. I refer only to the 

 congested state of the city, and the dif- 

 ficulty of finding a comfortable place 

 to rest one's weary head. If it should 

 so happen that I am perinitted to meet 

 with Uncle Sam's "boys" in conven- 

 tion in Chicago, and the editor has any 

 old scores to settle with me, he would 

 better commence early practice at the 

 " punching-bag " with "bare knuck- 

 les," because I would not stoop to an 

 encounter with gloves. 



I might just add, that I am in fine 

 condition, so look out for a pleasant 

 time. The only one of the "boys" 

 that I feel some fear for is Dr. Mason, 

 and the big G. M. D. Who will protect 

 me ? Perhaps Uncle Sam himself. 



D. W. HeisE. 

 Ontario, Canada, April 23. 



[Now, look here, Mr. Heise, if all 

 you think of is punching somebody, 

 we'll try to accommodate you should 

 you risk coming to Chicago nest 

 August. The idea of a short and fat 

 little Canuck sending a warning in ad- 



