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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 11, 1900. 



SPECIAL NOTICE! 



Last winter's cut of basswood is the whitest it has been for manj' seasons. 

 We are now making sections out of this new stock and therefore are in a posi- 

 tion to furnish vou with the very finest quality in the market. 



LEWIS WHITE-POLISHT SECTIONS 



Are perfect in workmanship and color. 



Orders shipt immediately upon receipt. A complete line of everything 

 needed in the apiary. Five different styles of Bee-Hives. 



Lewis Foundation Fastener simplest and best machine for the purpose. 

 Price, ONE DOLLAR, without Lamp. 



G. B. LEWIS CO., Watertown,Wis , U. S. A. 



BRANCHES: 



G. B. Lewis Co, 19 So. Alabama St., Indianap- 

 olis, lad. 



G. B. Lewis Co., 515 First Ave., N. E., Minne- 

 apolis, Minn 



SEND FOR CATALOG. 



Please mention Bee Journal -when -wTiting. 



AGENCIES: 



L. C. Woodman Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Fred Foulger & Sons Og^den, Utah. 



E. T. Abbott, St. Joseph, Missouri.^ 

 Special Southwestern Agent. 



CALIFORNIA 



BELGIAN 

 HARE 



ASSOCIATION. 



( iN< ' -[A' >i:A1 i-.l' ■ 



We Are Importers and Breeders 



of Bcljrian Hares. ( lui- stiid is led by Wantaffe Fox. (scire 'li;) ; 

 Champion Duke of Cheshire, (winner 13 Fiist and Gold 

 medal) ; Buttercup (score 86) . We have an unusually good 

 lot uf younirsters. For prices, etc., address our Chicago office. 



CALIFORNIA BHGIAN HARE ASSOCIATION, 



Breeding Farm. Alameda, California. 340 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ills. 



i^lease mention Bee Journal wnen ■writing. 



paid 



26 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 





This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 

 wax. We are paying 

 26 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. 



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The Prohibition Hand-Booli 

 and Voter's Manual, 



Size, 5x7 Inches ; 50 Pages. 



It contains Platform, Sketches, Pictures and Letters of Acceptance of Candidates and much valu- 

 able Statistical matter. Full of Facts. An Arpuraent Settler. Pass them around. Price, 10c 

 per copy, postpaid; $1.00 per dozen, postpaid, ^e^d vour order at once to 



ALONZO E, WILSON, Room 823—153 La Salle St„ Chicago, III, 



Please mention Bee Journal -when writmo- 



Yellow Sweet Clover Seed 



WE HAVE IT AT LAST ! 



We have finally succeeded in g-etting- a small 

 quantity of the seed of the vellow 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 bight. 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 K 

 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 a'l right. 

 But we have only a small supply. When nearly 

 out we will mention it. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



llSMichifjan St., - CHICAGO, ILLi. 



PATENT WIRED COMB FOUNDATION 



Has no Sag in Brood-Frames. 



Thin Flat-Bottom Foundation 



Has no Fishbone in the Surplus 



Honey. 

 Being the cleanest is usually workt 

 the Quickest of any foundation made-. 



J. A. VAN DEUSEN, 



Sole Manufacturer, 

 Sprout Brook, Montgomery Co., N.li- 

 f'lease mention Bee JuLU'n.a.i wiicii writing, 



I BEE-SUPPLIES! I 



:^ -I^^Root'9 Goods at Roofs Price9*=Sa ^ 



;^^ Poudek's Honev-Jars and every- ^^ 



•^ thing used by bee-keepers. Prompt ^t^ 



• ^ Service — low freight rate. Catalog <^- 



^ free. WALTER S. POUDER, 5^ 



;^ 5X2 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. ^f; 



Please mention Bee Journal w^hen wntU'v- 



Belgian Hare Giiiile SSEEBl?R^s'^".?r«I^r 



Inland Pduliry .l<iiirn<tl Co., ln<lianH[ii>n'^- l»<l- 

 Please mention Bee Journal "when "wrltinp 



Please mention the Bee Journal iJ^^rSSJi"^ 



them before putting on the super and 

 found that they had filled both brood- 

 chambers with brood and honey. 



For a section of 10 miles square we 

 have had the driest and hottest weather 

 ever known. I had a fine lot of sweet 

 clover but it all dried up, and being 

 along the pasture-field the cattle got at 

 it and stript it. There are a few blos- 

 soms coming out now, but being dry 

 there is nothing for the bees to gather. 



We have had but two good showers 

 in 10 weeks, and the springs are all 

 getting very low. We will have no po- 

 tatoes, cabbage, or garden stuff ; there 

 will be a few tomatoes, but the crop 

 will be very small. Henry C. MoylE. 



Hunterdon Co., N. J., Sept. 27. 



Fall Cpop a Failure. 



The fall crop of honey here is a fail- 

 ure, and I have disposed of my spring 

 crop in the home market at IS cents 

 per pound for comb honey. We secured 

 only about half a crop, which was 35 

 pounds to the colony. 



W. L. McGhbk. 



Jackson Co., Ohio, Sept. 29. 



^EEDOH BOILER 



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Bees' Tongues and Red Clover. 



I have felt a good deal of regret that 

 so much pains have been taken to 

 breed for color with so few far more 

 valuable points or traits of character. 

 I have sometimes thought that the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Association could 

 not do anything more helpful to Ameri- 

 can bee-keepers than to pass a resolu- 

 tion something like this : 



Resolved, That we look with regret upon 

 the efforts to breed hig-h-colored bee«, and deem 

 thiee full bauds of yellow oa Italian-worker 

 bees as much color as necessary or desirable. 



Such a resolution would at least let 

 the younger bee-keepers know what 

 they thought of color, and establish a 

 standard the same as the rules for 

 grading honey, and at the same time 

 give queen-breeders an opportunity to 

 turn their attention to something of 

 more value than color. The Ethiopian 

 may not be able to change his skin, 

 nor the leopard his spots ; but we can 

 all see how the American queen-breeder 

 can change the colorof a breed of bees. 

 A few careful, thoughtful men have 

 largely increast the production of 

 honey by selecting and breeding from 

 the strongest and most industrious 

 colonies, and we haveat least one well- 

 authenticated instance where swarm- 

 ing has been reduced a half. Now, if 

 swarming can be reduced a half by 

 careful breeding in a few years, it can 

 be reduced three-fourths and nine- 

 tenths with the same care, and prob- 

 ably even more than that. 



If the color of bees can be changed, 

 their industry increast, and their 

 swarming instincts reduced a half, 

 with a few years of careful attention 

 to breeding, is there any reason to 

 doubt that bees can be produced with 

 tongues sufficiently long to reach the 

 honey of red clover ? All that is needed 



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