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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



July 19, 1900. 



Se iiaiian Queens 



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One Tested Queen SO 



One Select Tested Queen 1.00 



OneBreeder 1.50 



One-Comb Nucleus 1.00 



21 Years Rearing Queeiis 



for tlie Traile. 



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riyal 



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Italian Queens. 



1 3 6 



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Select Unt'ested Oueens 1.23 j.2:, 6.00 



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Select Tested Queens 2.00 5.(X) o.OO 



These Queens are reared from honey-gather- 

 ers. Orders filled in rotation. Nothing- sent 

 out but beautiful Queens. '< 



27A5t D. J. BLOCHER, Pearl City, III. 



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There is a Great Difference 



between "hard wire" and '-Page "Wire." 

 PA«K WOVEN WIKK FENCE CO., ADKIAN. .Mltll. 



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Second/Class Oueens* 



What Becomes of Them ?) 



As to color of proj^eny there are some tested 

 queens that are second-class, that are equal to 

 any for business. That is, 3-band bees predom- 

 inate in the offspring: of yolden mothers. These 

 are sold at 50 cents each. If 5-band bees pre- 

 dominate, and do not exceed 80 percent, they 

 are worth Jl.OO; above this and not to exceed *?5 

 percent, $1.25; all of a higher grade and not uni- 

 formly markt, S1.50 each; while first-class 

 breeders are placed at only $2.00. 



Untested, either 3 or 5-band, 75c each; or 3 for 

 $2.00. Money order office, Warrenton, N. C. 



W. H. PRIDQEN, 



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



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Yellow Sweet Clover Seed 



WE HAVE IT AT LAST I 



We have finally succeeded in getting- a small 

 quantity of the seed of the yellow 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 legular 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 getting it. It is 

 new seed, gathered 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. 



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 when writing advertisers. 



it will be a paving crop. The owner is 

 not a bee-keeper, but he tells me the 

 field is perfectly alive with bees, and 

 when a storm comes up here, and the 

 bees come home in a hurry, it seems 

 they nearly all come from his direc- 

 tion, and as I know there is no bee- 

 pasturage between my apiary and his 

 field of white clover, I presume there is 

 where some of my honey has come 

 from. 



I have been bothered with only a 

 couple of swarms so far, and do not 

 now expect any more. In fact, I am 

 never bothered much with swarming 

 for some reason. Altho I run for comb 

 honey, my experience is at variance 

 with others who have excessive swarm- 

 ing. 



Well, I am thankful for what honej- 

 I have secured, and I do not have to 

 feed this fall, as the prospect for so 

 doing was so fair for the last month 

 before the flow came. 



The omission of weight on July 1st 

 was caused by adding another case of 

 30 sections, it being a 10-frame hive. 



One thing I have found out is, that 

 it is as Mr. E. R. Root says, the double- 

 deckers are not so good for comb honey 

 until the deck is taken off at the com- 

 mencement of the flow. 



Ch.^uncey Reynolds. 



Sandusky Co., Ohio, July 6. 



Bees Hatching Hens' Eggs. 



I have been using the plan of having 

 the bees hatch hens' eggs all spring, 

 and it is all that I have claimed for it. 

 Out of 100, and perhaps a dozen more 

 fertile eggs, every one hatcht a good, 

 strong chick, no crooked legs or half- 

 dead ones. I have applied, and shall 

 have the plan before the public before 

 next spring. It will be very cheap, 

 and any bee-keeper can use it without 

 much extra expense, as the bees are 

 not interrupted in the least. I use a 

 chaff hive for the purpose, with chaff 

 cushions, which act as a hen, and the 

 eggs are placed above the bees, where 

 they are kept warm from Feb. lath till 

 late in the fall. I think after a person 

 tries this plan he will have no use for 

 complicated incubators or cross sitting- 

 hens. I have had the plan in mind for 

 three or four years, but this is the first 

 time I have tested it, and I have never 

 heard of it being used by any one be- 

 fore. John G. Norton. 



McDonough Co., 111., July 5. 



The Glucose Yarn Still Going. 



I dipt the following from a paper, it 

 having been written by J. S. Trigg, 

 Iowa's most noted agricultural writer : 



" Now here is a sweet, mean trick if ever there 

 was one. A man in an eastern town keeps a lot 

 of bees, and has discovered that if the bees can 

 get glucose to eat they will not bother to for- 

 age for the sweets of the flowers, but will work 

 most industriously filling the ready-made comb 

 furnisht with glucose honey I" 



Of course, Mr. Trigg got the idea 

 from the article referred to several 

 times in the American Bee Journal. 



Lanoswn on... 



Tll6fiOJ160B66 



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 

 substantially in cloth, and contains 

 over 500 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 $1.25, 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 $3.00. 



This is a splendid chance to get a 

 grand bee-book for a very little money 

 or work. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



lis Michigan Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



UNTESTED ITAL- 

 IAN, ,^0 cents each; 

 tested, 51 each. Queens 

 large, yellow and pro- 



lific. Circular free. 



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QU66nS 



paid 



:25 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 





This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 

 wax. We are paying 

 «5 cents a pound — 

 CASH— for best yel- 



low, upon its receipt, or 28 cents in trade. Impure wax not taken at any price. 

 Address as follows, very plainly, 



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



