July S, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



427 



Lanosran on.^. 

 TlieflojuBee 



Revised by Dadant— 1899 Edition. 



This is one of the standard books on 

 bee-culture, and ought to be in the 

 library- of every bee-keeper. It is bound 

 substantial!}' in cloth, and contains 

 over SCO pages, being- revised by those 

 large, practical bee-keepers, so well- 

 known to all the readers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal — Chas. Dadant & Son. 

 Each subject is clearly and thoroly ex- 

 plained, so that by following- the in- 

 structions of this book one cannot fail 

 to be wonderfully helpt on the way to 

 success with bees. 



The book we mail for SI. 25, or club 

 it with the American Bee Journal for 



one year — both for $1.75 ; or, we will 

 mail it as a premium for sending- us 

 THREE NEW subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal for one year, with S3. 00. 



This is a splendid chance to get a 

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 or work. 



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118 Michiif.-iii Street, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



MARQUETTE, ON LAKE SUPERIOR, 



is one of the most charming summer 

 resorts reacht via the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee ilv St. Paul Railwa}'. 



Its healthful location, beautiful 

 scenery, good hotels and complete im- 

 munity from hay fever, make a sum- 

 mer outing at Marquette, Mich., very 

 attractive from the standpoint of 

 health, rest and comfort. 



ForJ a copy of " The Lake Superior 

 Country," containing a description of 

 Marquette and the copper country, ad- 

 dress, with four (4) cents in stamps to 

 pay postage, Geo. H. Heafford, General 

 Passenger Agent, Chicago, III. 



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i7ig the spelling and pronunciation. 

 Therefore, we should go a long way 

 better than our Yankee friends, and 

 adopt a proper code of signs for the 

 language such as is given to us by Mr. 

 Isaac Pitman, in his Phonotypc and 

 Phonograph, where the principles of 

 one sign one sound, and one sound one 

 sign are carried out. The English 

 language is very good, and will grow 

 better ; it has evolved from inarticulate 

 barks and grunts, and become a means 

 of interchanging abstract ideas of in- 

 finite beaut}' and delicacy ; the lan- 

 guage will become more perfect yet, 

 but we certainly require an improve- 

 ment in the meansof recording it. I've 

 seen an improvement in my time, and 

 our children and their children will 

 perfect it. 



Getting Rid of Ants.— I once pur- 

 chast a lot of bees that the owner as- 

 sured me he would brimstone unless I 

 bought them, as they drove him off 

 his place. On examining them I found 

 one of the stands had half of its combs 

 filled with the large black wood ants. 

 As the combs were " fixt and immov- 

 able," I turned the hive upside down, 

 dusted Persian insect-powder freely 

 among the ants, and then closed the 

 hive for a few minutes, when I reverst 

 it, and in a few minutes had the pleas- 

 ure of seeing the bees carrying out the 

 dead ants. I had no further trouble 

 with that colony. I irrigate the ground 

 on which my hives stand, and in con- 

 sequence the ants are driven to the 

 hives. They never enter the combs, 

 but seek the spaces between the sec- 

 tions where the bees can not reach or 

 glue them out. I have tried placing a 

 ridge of insect-powderaround the hive. 

 While the bees do not seem to be af- 

 fected by it, the ants avoid it for sev- 

 eral days until it has lost its strength, 

 when they remove it. A chalk-mark 

 will prevent the passage of ants as 

 effectually as a barb-wire fence will 

 cattle ; but the ants will remove the 

 chalk, a particle at a time, until they 

 have a passage thru it, just as rats 

 will pack glass, when placed in their 

 holes, till it is all removed. 



The best way to exterminate ants is 

 to make a mixture of arsenic, Paris 

 green, London purple, or strychnine, 

 with syrup or honey. Put this in a 

 dish, and the dish in a box, with the 



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