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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Aug. 30, 1900. 



first time for years that there was a 

 surplus stored in the sections — usually 

 it is. fed to the young- brood. 



About July 1 the basswood came into 

 bloom, and such a rush — honey came 

 in bj' the wholesale. I added the third 

 set of supers to some of the swarms 

 that issued in May. This rush only 

 lasted about a week, and very suddenly 

 and abruptly closed. I think there was 

 too much rainfall. 



There was a lull for two or three 

 weeks, then things began to liven up 

 again. Buckwheat came into bloom, 

 and many of the honey-producing wild 

 flowers, and now. at this date, the bees 

 are putting in their best licks. Golden- 

 rod, asters and heartsease are in bloom. 

 The weather is very warm, and we 

 have frequent showers. To me the out- 

 look is good for a good yield of honej' 

 from now until frost comes. 



Yesterday I had a swarm issue — one 

 of, if not the, largest for the season. 

 There must have been at least 10 

 quarts of them. I gave them two sets 

 of brood-frames, of s each — 16 frames 

 — and am quite certain that by the way 

 they have gone to work, in two weeks 

 they will have the whole batch filled 

 with honey. L. Ai.len. 



Clark Co., Wis., Aug. 9. 



Honey a Failure. 



The honey crop is a total failure 

 here. I don't know of a pound of honey 

 that has been taken. I have 17 colo- 

 nies of bees, and there are 30 or 40 col- 

 onies in this vicinity. No honey has 

 been taken by any one here. 



'' James Akins. 



Putnam Co., Ind., Aug. 17. 



High 

 Grade 



No White Honey. 



Bees are just commencing to whiten 

 the edges of the top-bars for the first 

 time this year. Not an ounce of white 

 honey, so far. Unless buckwheatand 

 fall flowers yield honey, bees must be 

 fed for winter. Chas. B. Allen. 



Oswego Co., N. Y., Aug. 18. 



BEEPOM BOILED] 



Making Bees Do Hot^Bed Work.— 



Uncle Lisha gives the following in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture : 



" I don't know that it is quite ortho- 

 dox, but I am fond of early vegetables, 

 and, like the son of the Emerald Isle, 

 I find 'it is niver aisy to work hard ;' 

 and I find it a good deal of work to 

 make a hot-bed every spring with ma- 

 nure and earth frozen hard, so I have 

 just made me some boxes with old 

 sheet-iron bottoms, and fill them with 

 earth in the fall ; and then in the 

 spring when it is time I just take off 

 the cushion from the top of the brood- 

 chamber of some of my strongest hives 

 and replace with these boxes of earth, 

 and pack round the edges, and cover 

 with glass. You can use, as you see, 

 a box some 12 to 14 inches wide by 20 

 long. A good colony of bees will give 

 just about the right amount of bottom 

 heat, and the earth is about as good as 

 a cushion to keep the bees warm, and 

 there is no danger of too much bottom 



Italian Queens 



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One Tested Queen 80 



One Select Tested Queen 1.00 



One Breeder 1.50 



One-Comb Nucleus 1.00 



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Yellow Sweet Clover Seed 



WE HAVE IT AT LAST : 



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 higbt. 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 aa 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. 



fliDino.Queens 



by return 

 mail. Un- 

 tested. 75 

 cts. ; war- 

 ranted, Jl.OU; tes'ed. SI. 25. 



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 when writing advertisers. 



EXCURSION TO FT. WAYNE, IND., 



and return, via Nickel Plate Road, at 

 rate of S4.00 for the round trip, account 

 National Encampment Union Veteran 

 Legion. Tickets on sale Sept. 9th to 

 12th inclusive, with return limit of 

 Sept. 18th, 1900, and will be available 

 on any of our three daily trains from 

 Chicago, at 10:.5S a.m., 2:30 p.m., and 

 10:30 p.m., respectively. Vestibuled 

 sleeping-cars and first-class service in 

 every respect. 



Chicago Passenger Station, Van 

 Buren St. and Pacific Ave., on Eleva- 

 ted Loop. City Ticket Office, 111 Adams 

 St., Chicago. 



Write John Y. Calahan, Gen'l Agent, 

 111 Adams St., Chicago, for further 

 information, or 'phone Central 20,57. (34) 



heat, as there is with a hot-bed. You 

 can fix as many hives as necessary to 

 supply your family with all the early 

 plants you want, and it is but little 

 more work to care for half a dozen such 

 miniature hotbeds than one. And, be- 

 sides, you can use old tin fruit-cans for 

 tomato and other plants. Just put them 

 in the fire and melt the solder and then 

 tie them together with a string and 

 they will hold just the right amount of 

 earth for plants to grow in, and then 

 you can transplant without disturbing 

 the roots, and save time and money 

 both." 



Honey Dishonored in Europe.— The 



United States consul-general, James T. 

 DuBois, at St. Gall, Switzerland, sends 

 to the Department of State, at Wash- 

 ington, a lengthy communication on 

 " Food Adulteration in Europe." Re- 

 garding honey, he says : 



This delicious and, in its natural 

 state, very wholesome breakfast dish 

 is coming into general use on the con- 

 tinent of Europe ; and the bees, be 

 they never so busy, can not supply one- 

 third of the honey that is consumed, so 

 some one must naturally make enough 

 to supply the deficit. Thru a series of 

 manipulations of almost everything 

 containing saccharine, this is now be- 

 ing successfully and very profitably 

 accomplisht ; and, of course, this in- 

 dustry flourishes best in those years 

 when the bees have but little success 

 in manufacturing the real article, 

 which very often occurs. 



The " dishonoringof honey," as it is 

 called, is a growing art, and several 

 successful establishments are now in 

 operation, producing large quantities 

 of this artificial honey for the market, 

 and the product is in popular demand. 

 The people seem to like it. It is cheap, 

 and the sales are large. All sorts of 

 ingredients enter into its manufacture, 

 among which may be mentioned 

 syrups, malt extracts of the lowest 

 grades, meal of difiFerent kinds, and 

 cornstarch. 



From a pound of bee-honey 5 to 10' 

 pounds of •' dishonest honey " are made 

 so successfully that it sometimes re- 

 quires an expert to discover the decep- 

 tion. 



Sweet Clover for Horses and Sheep. 



— Dr. Miller had just cut two tons of 

 sweet Clover hay. I should say by the 

 looks of it it was allowed to get rather 

 too rank and tall to make the best hay ; 

 but as an object-lesson he opened the 

 stable door and whistled for his three 

 horses. They evidently supposed it 

 was feeding-time, or for some special 

 reason they were to be fed. All three 

 marcht into the barn, and turned their 

 heads toward the mangers ; but as no- 

 body seemed to hinder them they 

 marcht over to the hay-mow and pitcht 

 into the sweet-clover hay. They first 

 pick off the leaves and small twigs ; 

 but after they have trimmed off the 

 stalks and can't get any more they eat 

 up this dry brush, as it were. The 

 doctor suggested something I never 

 heard before — that, altho the horses 

 would eat the green-growing clover 

 with avidity, thej' preferred the cured 

 hay ; so he led one of them out in the 

 yard and gave him a taste of some 

 rank but tender shoots. Of course, he 

 grabbed for this, but soon showed his. 



