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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Aug. 9, 1900 



Bee Books 



ssEZnt postpaid bv 



George W. York & Go. 118 Mich. St. Chicago. 



Bees and Honey, or Maiiaf^^ement of an Apiary 

 for Pleasure and Profit, by Thomas G. New. 

 man.— It is nicely illustrated, contains 160 pages, 

 beautifully printed in the hifjfhest style of the 

 art, and bound in cloth, ^old-lettered. Price, in 

 cloth, "5 cents; in paper, 50 cents. 



Langstroth on the Honey-Bee, revised by 

 Dadant. — This classic In bee-culture has been 

 entirely re-written, and is fullj' illustrated. It 

 treats of everything- rehiting- to bees and bee- 

 keeping-. No apiarian library is complete with- 

 out this standard work by Rev. L. L. Lang-- 

 stroth— the Father of American Bee-Culture. I'. 

 has 520 pag-es, bound in cloth. Price, $1.25. 



Bee-Keepers* Guide, or Manual of the Api?.ry, 

 by Pr<if. A. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultu- 

 ral ColK^ge. — This book is not only instructive 

 and helpful as a guide In bee-keeping, but is 

 interesting and thoroly practical and scien- 

 tific. It contains a full delineation of the anat- 

 omy and physiologv of bees. 460 pages, bound 

 in cloth and fully illustrated. Price, $1.25. 



Scientific Queen-Rearing, as Practically Ap- 

 plied, by G. M. Dooliltle.— A method by which 

 the very best of queen-bees are reared in per- 

 fect accord with Nature's way. Bound in cloth 

 and illustrated. Price, $1.00. 



A B C of Bee-Culture, by A. I. Root.— A cyclo- 

 psedia of 400 pages, describing everything per- 

 taining to the care of the honey-bees. Contains 

 300 engravings. It was written especially for 

 beginners. Bound in cloth. Price, $1.20. 



Advanced Bee-Culture, Its Methods and Man- 

 agement, by W. Z. Hutchinson.— The author of 

 this work is a practical and entertaining writer. 

 You should read his book; 90 pages, bound in 

 paper, and illustrated. Price, 50 cents. 



Rational Bee-Keeping, by Dr. John Dzierzon, 

 — This is a translation of his latest German 

 book on bee-culture. It has 350 pages, bound in 

 paper covers, $1.00. 



Bienen-Kultur, by Thos. G Newman.— This 

 is a <lernian translation of the principal portion 

 of the book called " Bees and Honey." 100-page 

 pamphlet. Price, 25 cents. 



Bienenzucht und Honiggewinnung, nach der 

 neuesten methode (German) by J. F. Eggers. — 

 This book gives the latest and most approved 

 methods of bee-keeping in an easy, comprehen- 

 sive style, with illustrations to suit the subject, 

 50 pages, board cover. Price, 50 cents. 



Bee-Keeping for Beginners, by Dr. J. P. H. 



Brown, of Georgia.— A practical and coudenst 

 treatise on the honey-bee, giving the best modes 

 of management in order to secure the most 

 profit. 110 pages, bt.)und in paper. Price, 50 cts. 



Bee-Keeping for Profit, by Dr. G. L. Tinker, 

 —Revised and enlarged. It details the author's 

 **new system, or how to get the largest 5'ieldsof 

 comb or extracted honey." 80 pages, illustrated. 

 Price, 25 cents. 



Apiary Register, by Thomas G. Newman.— 

 Devotes two pages to a colony. Leather bind- 

 ing. Price, for 50 colonies, $1.00; for 100 colo- 

 nies, Si. 25. 



Dr. Howard's Book on Foul Brood.— Gives the 



McEvoy Treatment and reviews the experi- 

 ments of others. Price, 25 cents. 



Winter Problem in Bee-Keeping, by.G. R, 



Pierce.— Result of 25 years' experience. 30 cts. 



Foul Brood Treatment, by Prof. F. R. Che- 

 shire.— lis Cause and Prevention. Price, 10 cts. 



Foul Brood, by A. R. Kohnke.— Origin, De- 

 veli'pment and Cure. Price, lU cents. 



Capons and Caponizing. by Dr. Sawyer, Fanny 

 Field, and others.— Illustrated. All about cap- 

 onizing fowls, and thus huw to make the most 

 money in poultry-raising. 64 pages. Price, 20c. 



Our Poultry Doctor, or Health in the Poultry 

 Yard and How to Cure Sick Fowls, by Fanny 

 Field.— Everything about Poultry Diseases and 

 their Cure. 64 pages. Price, 20 cents. 



Poultry for Market and Poultry for Profit, by 

 Fanny Field.— Tells everything about Poultry 

 Business. 04 pages. Price, 20 cents. 



QUEENS 



Smokers. Sections, 

 Comb FovindatiOQ 



inn all Apiarian >?uppllee 

 rh.ap. 8rnd for 



Please mention Bee Journal -when ■wn-iting. 



was done on the Sth of May. On the 

 12th the first eggs appeared ; on the 

 ISth they were abundant ; three days 

 later they had all of the symptoms of 

 a colony badly afflicted with laying-- 

 workers. Unless some of the bees 

 from which the nucleus was stockt had 

 been reared in a colony where queens 

 were being reared, it would seem that 

 this experiment proved that workers 

 would lay eggs at will. — Bee-Keepers' 

 Review. 



Using Tobacco -Smoke on Bees. — 



Tobacco-smoke for the purpose of 

 handling bees should be used very 

 sparingly and carefully. It is hardly 

 safe to advise beginners to use it, for 

 its effect is to stupefy the whole col- 

 ony ; and if the fumes are administered 

 during the day there will be an hour, 

 or two hours, perhaps, when the bees, 

 slightly intoxicated, would put up no 

 defetise whatever at the entrances. If, 

 during the robbing season, they would 

 allow robbers to come right in pellmell 

 and help themselves; hence tobacco- 

 smoke is recommended for use only at 

 night. But even then I suspect the in- 

 troduction of queens could be accom- 

 plisht almost as well without the weed. 

 The best time to introduce queens is 

 toward night. We once releast two 

 dozen queens right among the bees, 

 and every one was accepted. The 

 queens in this case were some that 

 came thru the mails, badly daubed, and 



Rocku Mountain Bee-Plant Seed ! 



(Cleofiie iiiiegrifvlia.) 



.FREE AS A PREMIUM. 



The ABC of Bee-Culture says of it: "This 

 is a beautiful plant for the flower-garden, to 

 say nothing of the honey it produces. It grows 

 fromtwo to three feet in hight and bears large, 



clusters of bright pink llowers. It grows natur- 

 ally on the Rocky Mountains, and in Colorado, 

 where it is said to furnish large quantities of 

 honey." 



We have a few pounds of this Cleome seed, 

 and offer to mail a K-pound package as a pre- 

 mium for sending us ONE NEW subscriber to 

 the American Hee Journal, with $l.(Kl; or H 

 pound by mail for 40 cents. 



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reacht us just at nightfall. Nothing 

 remained but to let the queens run 

 loose and take their chances, and we 

 were very greatly surprised the next 

 morning to find all of them apparently 

 nicely accepted. 



In peculiarly stubborn cases tobacco- 

 smoke may be used, especially where 

 the bees are determined to ball the 

 queen, and we have positive evidence 

 that the bees are queenless. I have 

 made a colony so "beastly drunk" 

 (pardon the expression) that when the 

 bees finally recovered from their spree 

 they accepted the queen, when before 

 that they would ball her on sight. 



Our practice now is to use tobacco- 

 smoke only during fair-time, for, un- 

 fortunately, our county fair-grounds 

 are within an eighth of a mile of our 

 apiary ; and during the time the stands 

 are making taffy, selling watermelons, 

 lemonade, and the like, our bees would 

 prove to be a great nuisance unless we 

 went around to all the hives and gave 

 a smudging of tobacco-smoke. This 

 is done in the morning, about 8 o'clock, 

 and another dose is given about 1 

 o'clock. Half a dozen puffs of smoke 

 are blown in at the entrances, all over 

 the hives. If the colonies are all stu- 

 pefied there will be no danger from 

 robbing. This smudging keeps the 

 bees at home. But care should be ex- 

 ercised, as there is danger of overdoing 

 it, and also danger of not doing enough 

 of it ; for if they have once got a taste 

 of the sweets over at the fair-ground it 

 takes a great deal of stupefying to 

 keep them at home. — E. R. Root, in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



Boiling Honey to Disinfect.— Honey, 



to be boiled and disinfected, should 

 have a little water added to it, so that 

 when it has been boiled an hour or so 

 it will still have the same consistency 

 it did before it was boiled. Ordinary 

 thick honey placed on the stove would 

 be apt to boil all over, and it should be 

 thinned down very materially before 

 any attempt at heating has been made. 

 No, there would be danger, I think, of 

 bees getting foul brood at an ordinary 

 drinking-trough. So far as I know, 

 the disease is conveyed only thru the 

 honey or the old combs that have been 

 in diseased hives. It may be carried 

 on the clothing of bee-keepers, but 

 nine times out of ten it is carried by 

 robber-bees from infected honey. — 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



JULY 1st WE CUT 



prices, and bettered the quality of Page Fences. 

 Write for New Price List, or see our agent. 

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ranted, $1.00; tested, $1.35. 



i2A26t J. p. GIVENS. Lisbon. Tex. 



Italian Queens. 



1 3 6 



Untested Queens $0.90 $2.50 $4.50 



Select Untested Queens 1.2S 3.25 6.00 



TestedQueens 1.25 3.50 7.00 



Select Tested Queens 2.00 5.00 9.00 



These Queens are reared from honey-gather- 

 ers. Orders filled in rotation. Nothing- sent 

 out but beautiful Queens. 



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



