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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 18 1900 



for this place was not a good one for 

 bees. Now some say I " make " my 

 section hone)', but the most of them 

 want bees. I have disposed of mj' en- 

 tire crop around home, and have also 

 boug-ht some to sell. 



On page 617, it is askt if Eastern 

 Oklahoma is a good location for bees. 

 It is not as good as some places, but I 

 believe with careful attention bees will 

 average 50 pounds of comb honey per 

 colony here. Our honey is from sumac, 

 both black and white, and cotton, 

 which makes a -No. 1 white honey. 

 The sumac honey has a nice flavor, 

 but is light amber in color. Alfalfa 

 clover is grown to some extent here, 

 and yields honey at times. Sweet 

 clover does fine, blossoming from seven 

 to eight weeks, orfrom June lOto Aug. 

 10, and has bees on it all of the time. 

 F. W. Van DeMark. 



Payne Co., Okla., Oct. 8. 



Bees Did Well. 



My bees have done well. They are 

 all in good movable-frame hives witli 

 plenty of stores for winter. 



I have taken off 250 pounds of fine 

 honey this year, and increast from 2 

 colonies to 8. Honey is in good de- 

 mand at 15 cents a pound. 



H. C. Springer. 



Story Co., Iowa, Oct. 4. 



Crop Almost a Failupe. 



My honey crop this year is almost a 

 failure. I think I never experienced a 

 poorer season. C. W. McKown. 



Knox Co., 111., Oct. 9. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



My bees did fairly well the past sea- 

 son. I shipt 125 cases of honey. It 

 has been very dry here, and we did not 

 get any fall honey flow. 



Mrs. Flor.\ Wing. 



Montrose Co., Colo., Sept. 29. 



Selling Honey-^Cleaning Combs. 



I notice in " Editorial Comments," 

 on page 627, it is said that Doolittle 

 complains that in 23 years he had sold 

 only 100 pounds of honey for cash to 

 distant parties. My experience has 

 been very different. Up to 1896 I cul- 

 tivated my home market, but that year 

 ray crop was so large that I could not 

 possibly handle it in that way, so I 

 shipt it to commission men and to 

 parties who paid cash on arrival, but 

 the greater part of my crop I sold to 

 those who sent cash with their orders. 

 I received the smallest price from the 

 commission men, the next smallest 

 from those who bought for cash on 

 arrival, and the best price from those 

 who sent cash with the order, as they 

 were mostly consumers. 



The result is that since then, with 

 the exception of one customer to whom 

 I sell, I sell all my honey direct to con- 

 sumers who send cash with the order. 

 Tho my own crop of honej- is large, I 

 now buy all the No. 1 extracted honey 

 produced in my own neighborhood, 

 and ship in large quantities besides, 

 from Wisconsin, Illinois, and Ohio. 



You also speak of the effect of ex- 

 posing combs to have the bees clean 

 them of honey. I keep about 400 colo- 



Sbarplcs Cream Separators: Profitable Dairying 



SPECIAL NOTICE! 



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

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

 tion to furnish you 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. 



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 HARE 



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of Belt,Man Hares. ( )ur stud is led by Wantage Fox, (score 'M'}) ; 

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 medal) ; Buttercup (score 96). We have an unusually pood 

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26 cents Cash 

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This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 

 wax. We are paying 

 26 cents a pound — 

 CASH— for best yel- 



paid 



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

 Address as follows, very plainly, 



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Yellow Sweet Clover Seed 



WE HAVE IT AT LAST 1 



We ha^e finally succeeded in g-ettiug- 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 XonfT as it lasts, we will mail a quarter 

 pound of the seed to a regular 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 g-etting 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 & GO. 



118 Michigan St., 



CHICAGO, ILIv. 



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 madCt 



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