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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Aug-. 2, 1900. 



A HANDY TOOL-HOLDER ! 



Sent by Express, for $1.50 ; or willi tlic Bee Journal 

 one year — bolli for §2.00. 



Every Manufacturer, Miller, Carpenter. 

 Cabinet Maker, Machinist. Wheelwright and 

 Quarryman, Farmer, or any oneusiug-ag-rind- 

 stone, should have one of these Tool-Holders. 

 One boy can do the work of two persons, and 

 grind mucb faster, easier and with perfect 

 accuracy. Will bold any kind of tool, from 

 the smallest chitfel to a draw sbave or ax. 

 Extra attachment lor sharpening; scythe 

 blades included in tlie above price. The work 

 l8 done without wettins" the hands or soiling- 

 the clothes, as the waier Hows from the opera- 

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 baud or steam power, is always ready for use, 

 nothing to fret out of order, and is absolutely 

 worth 100 times ils co^t. 



No farm is well-equipped un- 

 less it bas a Tool-Holder. Pays 

 *or itself in a short time. 



How to Use the Holder. 



Directions.— The Tool is fas- 

 tened securely in the Holder by 

 a set-screw and can be ground 

 to any desired bevel by insert- 

 infe the arm of the Holder into 

 a higher or lower notch of the 

 standard. While turning the 

 crank with the right hand, the 

 left rests on an steadies the 

 Holder ; the Tool Is moved to 

 the right or left across the 

 stone, or examined while grind- 

 ing, as readily and in the same 

 way as it held in th> hands. 



For grinding Round . Edge 

 Tools, the holes In the stand- 

 ard are used instead of the 

 notches. 



Address. GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Italian Queens. 



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These Queens are reared froin houey-g-ather- 

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27A9t D. J. BLOCKER, Pearl City, III. 



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POULTRY FOR MARKET.— It is written for those who wish to make poultry- 

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GEORG-E W. YORK & CO., 



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right along. When I make artificial 

 swarms I take about half of the bees 

 and half of the br'ood, and the queen, 

 and put them into a new hive, and fill 

 both hives with combs. Then I take 

 the new hive that contains the queen 

 and set it on a new stand. This works 

 quite well for me, but sometimes the 

 colony that was left will build a lot of 

 queen-cells, and swarm, tho I almost 

 always go thru them and cut out all 

 but two cells. That stops swarming. 



When my bees swarm, and I don't 

 want them to swarm but once, I get the 

 swarm on a swarming-box that I have 

 used for some time, which is made of 

 half-inch lumber. It is about 18 inches 

 long and 8 inches square with a lot of 

 holes bored in it, and one end left open. 

 It is attacht to a long pole, so I can get 

 them to cluster there. When thej' are 

 all in and on the box, I move the hive 

 that the swarm issued from to a new 

 stand; then I get the swarming-box 

 that contains the swarm, and dump 

 them on the alighting-board. In so 

 doing I have never lost a single swarm, 

 and this plan of moving the old hive 

 weakens it to such an extent that it 

 does not swarm any more that year ; 

 while the new swarm being placed on 

 the old stand catches all the field-bees 

 that were out dtiring the time the 

 swarm issued. Having the new swarm 

 on full-drawn combs works a little like 

 giving a newly-married couple a full 

 outfit to start in house-keeping with. 



I have seen bees gathering honey- 

 dew frotn oak leaves, and on examina- 

 tion found a kind of wedge-shaped in- 

 sect on the bottom of the leaves and 

 branches. I found this same kind of 

 insect on the hedge fences a few years 

 ago. This honey-dew was of a very 

 light color, and was very abundant, so 

 it could be seen in small drops on the 

 stems of the new leaves. When these 

 drops get so large that they fall on the 

 leaves below they look like real dew, as 

 some people think it is. I think if 

 they would examine the matter verj- 

 closely, the3' would almost always find 

 the insects that produce honey-dew. 

 Bees will work on these oak-leaves 

 early in the morning and late in the 

 afternoon. This stuff was used by the 

 bees for brood-rearing, which is about 

 all it is fit for. But it is a good thing 

 that we get some honey-dew in this lo- 

 cality, because it generally comes when 

 there is nothing else for the bees to 

 get any honey from. 



I have wondered for some time why 

 it is that farmers do not pay more at- 

 tention to bees, when the bees are their 

 best friends. If they have any fruit- 

 trees bees of sotne kind are needed to 

 fertilize the blossoms, and the honey- 

 bee seems to be the best for this pur- 

 pose. I think bee-keepers could do a 

 great deal along this line by talking to 

 their neighbors that keep bees, and 

 telling them the real good that bees do 

 for them in getting their fruit, and 

 telling them the real value bees are in 

 getting fruit-trees to bear; and it will 

 not do any harm to tell them a little 

 about honey, because most people 

 think that all bees are good for is to 

 store honej' and sting. It would be a 

 good thing if we could have a little of 

 this nature study taught in our public 



schools. J-\COB WlKTH. 



Henry Co., 111., June 17. 



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