June 7, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



365 



family and effects, to come here. Last 

 sprin;^, before leaving-, I talkt the bee- 

 •question to him, and told him to bring 

 me two colonies, and not to heed what 

 people might say. 



About two weeks before he left for 

 here he sent me a card saying- that the 

 people all told him that it was no use 

 to bring the bees. On receipt of his 

 card I wired him, "It is not the busi- 

 ness of your people, but my own. 

 Bring the bees without fail." He did, 

 and in addition to mine he brought one 

 colony for himself, and to the astonish- 

 ment of many, and myself, he wintered 

 his bees out-of-doors on the summer 

 stands, and they came thru all right. 

 I wintered mine in the cellar. I put 

 them in Nov. 7, and took them out on 

 Good Friday, this spring, all right. 



I am more than delighted with my 

 enterprise. The bees I got this spring 

 cost me $16 per colony, on arrival here 

 — $6.85 express charges, and S7.00 per 

 colony for the bees first cost, $1.50 for 

 a new hive, and 75 cents for cartage 

 from here to Edmonton, our nearest 

 station. They are pure Italians — 

 beautiful bees. 



I am not dissatisfied, altho the outlay 

 is much more than it -would be in the 

 East; still, T am more than pleased 

 with my bees. I am only beginning- to 

 understand them. I have been reading 

 up this winter all the bee-books I could 

 find, and the American Bee Journal is 

 -the third I am subscribing for. 



G. T. Montgomery. 



Alberta, Canada, May 21. 



DEEPOH BOILED] 



^^/^Iffis. 



The Value of Comb Foundation. — 



If you use only a starter, you will 

 save about five cents on each frame. 

 Is that a real saving in the long run ? 

 Let us see. With only starters you 

 may count on the bees building drone- 

 comb in the different frames, in some 

 more, in some less, in all enough to 

 make a full frame of drone-comb. You 

 have saved 40 or SO cents on founda- 

 tion by using starters, but you have 

 this drone-comb. Instead of having 

 reared in that drone-comb bees that 

 will add to the wealth of the colon}', 

 you will have those that will be only a 

 bill of expense. It will cost as much 

 fo rear them as to rear workers, and 

 they will have to be fed as long as they 

 live. Suppose you are unusually fortu- 

 nate, and have only half a frame of 

 drone-comb in all in the hive. It will 

 take as much to rear the drones as to 

 fill the same comb with honey, and 

 after the two or more broods of drones 

 are reared they will eat a lot of honey, 

 so it will easily make you a frame of 

 honey less than you would have if you 

 had all wrker-comb. That honey will 

 be easily worth 50 cents each year. 

 The comb will last 30 years, but if it 

 should only last 10, that will make a 

 loss of S5 to offset your saving of SO 

 cents. Where are you now ? — National 

 Stockman. 



Bleaching Travel-Stained Comb= 

 Honey. — I will try to tell how we 

 bleach travel-stained honej'. We first 

 fumigate with sulphur, then place the 



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 15 ^L t " 1^ t t r^ t ■• ^J ■ '" neat and tierfect condition, free from dirt and damat'e 



<M-dinaril\ ics lilting,' Ironi railroad handlinjj; and if you want your orders filled promptly with 



tlic very iinesl jiooiis in the market, send to 



G.B.L6wisGoJai6riown.wi§. 



JJ. S. A.. 



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



Lewis Foundation I'asteners are sellini,^ like hot-cakes. C-usloniers who have received one of these 



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



price, which is only ONE DOLLAR, without lamp. 



BRANCHES: AGENCIES: - 



L. C. Woon.MAN Grand Kapids, Mich. 



Fred Fo0i,gi;k & Sons Ogden, Utah. 



E. T. Ahbott, St. Joseph, Missouri. 

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

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

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will save enough extra f^rain in thresJinii^ tu puv 

 It combines the apron and vibrntor priii> 

 ciples aim is as far ahead ofo tin- r tlir eith- 

 er** as they are inadvaiit-e of tlie man with 

 a flail. They thresh last enoui,'h and have 

 capacity enough to suit the 

 j threshernian, and it 



Threshes Cleans 



enough tosuirtliemostexact- 

 ini,' farmer. Last indefinitely. 

 S-nd Inr fr^c caialogiie of Thresh- 

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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 tUat it would be a very g-ood 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 wvuld wind up with the sale of more or less honev; 

 at any rate, it would f;\ve the bee-keeper a superior opportunity to enlighten many a person in re- 

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

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