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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 21, 1900. 



ti. G. Quirin, the Queen -Breeder, 



Is as usual a^ain on hand witli his 

 improved strain of 



^'GOLDEN '^ 

 ITALIAN QUEENS. 



Our largest orders come from old customers, 

 which proves that are stock gives satisfaction. 

 We have 12 years' e-xperience in rearing queens, 

 and if thereis any one thing we pride ourselves 

 in, it is in sending all queens promptly BY 

 RETURN MAIL. We guarantee safe delivery. 



Price of queens before July 1st: 



12~ 



Warranted as queens average $ .75 $ 4.25$ 8.00 



Selected, warranted 1.00 5.00 9.50 



Tested ISO 8.00 15.00 



Selected tested 



Extra selected tested, the best 

 that money can buy 



Addrei^s all orders to 

 H. a. QUIRIN, Parkerstown. Erie County, Ohio. 



(Money Order Office, Bellevue, O.) 

 23A14t Please mention the Bee Journal. 



«-|F YOU WANT THE 



BEE-BOOK 



That covers the wnole Apicultural Field more 

 completely than anv other publisht, send $1.25 

 to Prof. A. J. Cook, Claremont, Calif., for his 



B66-K66p6rs' Guide. 



Liberal Discounts to the Trade. 



Here we are to the front 

 for 1900 with the NEW 



CHAMPION CHAFF -HIVE, 



a comfortable home for the bees io 

 summet and winter. We also carry 

 a complete line of other SUPPLIES. 

 Catalog^ free. R. H. SCHMIDT & CO. 

 Sheboygan, Wisconsin. 

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I BEE-SUPPLIES! I 



:5 j8®"Roof8 Goods at Root's Prices^^ft ^ 



;^ Pouder's Honey-Jars and every- ^« 



•^ thing- used by bee-keepers. Prompt ^^ 



' ^ Service — low freight rate. Catalog' ^• 



^ free. WALTER S. POUDER, ^ 



■g^ 512 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. t^* 



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V^IICrtr LANDS 



Located on the Illinois Central R.R. in 



^^ SOUTHERN ^^ 

 ^^ ILLINOIS ^^ 



And also located on the Yazoo & Mississippi 

 Valley R.R. in the famous 



YAZOO VALLEY 



of Mississippi — specially adapted to the 

 raising of 



CORN AND HOGS, 



Soil RlGDesi t'«"e World. 



Write for Pamphlets and Maps. 



E P. SKENE, Land Commissioner, 



111. Cent. R.R. Co., Park Row, Room 413, 

 24A24t CHICAQG, ILL. 



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Bees Doing Well. 



My bees are doing- well this year, 

 and this week I am g^oingf to build a 

 honey-house for which they will more 

 than pay, as altho I have only IS colo- 

 nies I can sell all my extracted honey 

 at 8 cents from our door, and the people 

 bring- their own utensils. 



I got five colonies of black bees to 

 keep on shares for three years, when 

 the whole outfit belongs to me. 

 During swarming, in the early days of 

 May, as soon as they swarmed, I cut 

 out all their own queen-cells and put in 

 two or three good, large cells from my 

 pure Italians, and one of those young 

 queens keeps 8 standard frames plump 

 full of brood from top to bottom-bar. 

 But I am afraid that I injured her last 

 Friday, when I dipt her wings as I cut 

 too close to the thorax, and when she 

 dropt on the top of the frames she 

 bowed herself up. I will look at her 

 next Tuesday, and see if she is all 

 right. W. H. Ai,DKR. 



Callahan Co., Tex., June 4. 



Italians on Red Clover. 



Today my bees are busy on red clo- 

 ver around my apiary. There is more 

 white clover than red, but they are 

 working on the red clover too. Those 

 who doubt whether Italian bees work 

 on red clover should be here now. 



D. J. Bl,OCHBR. 



Stephenson Co., 111., June 7. 



The Season— Putting Foundation in 

 Extracting-FPames. 



Since my last report we have had ex- 

 tremely fine weather for the bees. Very 

 few cold spells, and scarcely any high 

 winds to interfere with the " Hum of 

 the Bees iu the Apple-Tree Bloom." 

 Dandelion has been out for some time, 

 and hives are being packt with brood 

 and honey from the yellow heads. 



I had 4 colonies become queenless 

 from some cause, the queen being 

 dumpt just off the alighting-board. In 

 each case she had laid the combs pretty 

 full of eggs, with the last laid mostly 

 drone-eggs. They were all from prime 

 swarms (last year), consequently old 

 queens, and died from being worn out, 

 which was indicated by the queen lay- 

 ing drone-eggs (i.e., the seminal fluid 

 being exhausted for fertilizing the 

 eggs.) I have, however, gotten them 

 supplied with a "yellow" (?) Italian 

 queen from my best stock, and all are 

 laying except one, which was too early 

 for drones, and began laying drone- 

 eggs. I had to supply them with an- 

 other chance. Their queen is out, but 

 not yet laying. 



The rest of my 16 colonies are "boil- 

 ing over " with bees. I have put an 

 extracting-super under the brood- 

 chambers to check their swarming. 

 And now for my experience in putting 

 foundation in the extracting-frames : 



First, I cut a board that would just 

 fit inside the frame, and half as thick 

 as the frame is thick. This is nailed 

 onto another board as large as the 



Sharpies Cream Separators: Profitable Dairying 



TtieQueenCrank 



Is before the readers of this Journal with a peti- 

 tion for orders for as fine Queens as he has ever 

 been able to rear. Thej' are being-, and have 

 been for some weeks, reared in triple-decker 10- 

 frame hives, from choice Golden and Three- 

 Band Mothers, ia a Golden yard. The Bee- 

 Keepers' Review, of Flint, Mich., for May 

 (which is a special queen-rearing- number) tells 

 how it is done. Ask for a copy. Tested, $1.00; 

 untested, 75 cents. Monev order office, Warren- 



ton, N. c. W. H. PRIDGEN, 



24Atf Creek. Warren Co., N.C. 



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Wholesale 

 and Retail 



DITTMER'S 

 FOUNDATION 



This foundation is made by an absolutely 

 non-dipping- process, thereby producing' a per- 

 fectly clear and pliable foundation that retains 

 the odor and color of beeswax, and is free from 

 dirt. 



Working- wax into foundation for cash, a 

 specialty. Write for samples and prices. 



A full line of Supplies at the very lowest 

 prices, and in any quantity. Best quality and 

 prompt shipment. Send for larg-e, illustrated 

 catalog. 



GUS, DITTMER, Augusta, Wis, 



Beeswax^ WaxitetJ, 



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PATENT WIRED COMB FOUNDATION 



Has no Sag in Brood-Frames. 



Thin Flat-Bottom Foundation 



Has no Fishbone in the Surplus 



Honey. 

 Being the cleanest is usually workt 

 the quickest of any foundation made, 



J. A. VAN DEUSEN, 



Sole Manufacturer, 

 Sprout Brook, Montgomery Co., N.T. 

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Yellow Sweet Clover Seed 



WE HAVE IT AT LAST ! 



We haTe fi.aally succeeded in g^etting- a small 

 quantity of the seed of the yello-w; variety of 

 sweet clover. This kind blooms from two to 

 four weeks earlier than the common or white 

 variety of sweet clover. It also grows much 

 shorter, only about two feet in hight. It is as 

 much visited by the bees as the white, and usu- 

 ally comes into bloom ahead of white clover 

 and basswood. We offer the seed as a premium 



A QUARTER POUND FOR SENDING 

 ONE NEW SUBSCRIPTION. 



So long- as it lasts, we will mail a quarter 

 pound of the seed to a leg-ular paid-up subscri- 

 ber who sends us ONE NEW subscriber for the 

 American Bee Journal one year, with $1.00; or % 

 pound by mail for 30 cents. 



We have been trying- for years to secure this 

 seed, and finally succeeded in g-etttng it. It is 

 new seed, g'athered last season by an old per- 

 sonal friend of ours, so we know it is all right. 

 But we have only a small supply. When nearly 

 out we will mention it. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



118 Michigan St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



5=banded 

 QUEENS 



Queens 



Yellow all over — 75 cents each; after June, 

 50 cents each. 

 By this my friends will see that I have moved 

 from Falmouth, IND., to Merigold, Bolivar Co., 

 MISS., where I am making a specialty of rear- 

 ing the BEST Queens from the best strain of 

 bees that can be found in this country. 



Remit by postal or express money order, and 

 address all letters to 



DANIEL WURTH, 



2SE2t Merigold, Bolivar Co., Miss. 



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