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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 6 1900 



YELLOW OR WHITE 



Sweet Clover Seed 



Free as a Premium 



For Sending us One ^ew Subscriber for a Year. 



There has been so much written 

 about both the white and the yellow 

 variety of sweet clover, that we will 

 simply say here that if one of our pres- 

 ent regular subscribers will send us $1 

 with a new name for next year (1901), 

 we will send the new subscriber the bal- 

 ance of this year's (1900) numbers free, 

 and mail, postpaid, to the one sending 

 the new name and the dollar, either 

 one pound of yellow sweet clover seed, 

 or two pounds of the white sweet clo- 

 ver. This is a good chance to get a 

 start of both kinds of these honej' clo- 

 vers. Better send two new subscribers 

 (with $2.00) and get the three pounds 

 of seed. Address, 



GEORG-E W. 





YORK & CO. 



18 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, IL,L. 



WHY NOT 



BE SURE ABOUT IT T^lil'T.urVln.f.^^t^ 



New Premier Incubator}!^^ p' 



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COLUMBIA INCUBATOR CO., 5 Water St., Delaware City, Del.'^ " - 



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On Trial, y"ii pay for it .after ttiorouRhly testing it. I'tit e^'ea in it, make n hatch, then y 

 Firstprizeat WoTld*3Falr. i\IeiialaatN!i3hville,()rni 

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HERIT ALWAYS WINS. 



The hard times of the past three or 

 four years have been very destructive 

 to all industrial affairs, and the rail- 

 roads have had unusual amount of dif- 

 ficulty in making both ends meet. 

 Roads that have, during this trying 

 period, earned dividends while at the 

 same time affording high-class trans- 

 portation facilities to their patrons, 

 have, indeed, been fortunate. And 

 such an event speaks well for the man- 

 agement of the roads. 



The record of the Nickel Plate Road 

 during the recent period of industrial 

 depression, has indeed been remark- 

 able, and it speaks most eloquently of 

 he conservative judgment of the 

 managers. For this road has made 

 great and steady progress in the ma- 

 terial improvement of its roadway 

 and appliances, and in perfecting its 

 equipment. The interests of the pub- 

 lic have been in no wise neglected ; in 

 fact, the success of this road has inured 

 to the benefit of the public, as much, if 

 not more, than to the stockholders. 

 The condition of the road to-day shows 

 this. Great and valuable improve- 

 ments of a permanent character have 

 been made— in the shape of strength- 

 ening the roadway, bridges and other 

 accessories, and procuring new and 

 improved safety appliances ; new 

 coaches have been added, elegant Pull- 

 man sleeping-cars put on, new and 

 powerful engines have been placed in 

 service, and everything has been done 

 to raise the standard of the road, to 



perfect its service, and to give it a 

 leading place among the best roads in 

 the country. The result has been ob- 

 vious. The people have observed the 

 progressive spirit of this road, have 

 given it a liberal patronage, have en- 

 joyed its excellent facilities, and that 

 tells the whole story of a highly suc- 

 cessful enterprise. 



Among the most noteworthy im- 

 provements effected by the Nickel 

 Plate Road is the introduction of a 

 first-class dining-car service, which 

 has won the approval of the best class 

 of patrons. Then the coaches have 

 been illuminated by the brilliant 

 Pintsch gas, heated by steam, and 

 placed in care of a colored porter, so 

 the passengers have had the best that 

 money can afford, at the lowest rates. 

 The thru train service of the Nickel 

 Plate, running in connection with the 

 West Shore and Fitchburg Railroads 

 over the great Hoosac Tunnel Route, 

 between New York, Boston and Chi- 

 cago — ranks with the best in the coun- 

 try, and has become deservedly popu- 

 lar. Elegant new coaches, and pala- 

 tial Pullman buffet sleeping-cars run 

 thru without change ; the service is 

 unexcelled, the time fast, scenery most 

 fascinating. 



Located along the south shore of 

 Lake Erie are many substantial and 

 attractive summer resorts that are 

 yearly growing in popularity, and this 

 class of travel promises a continual 

 increasing source of revenue to the 

 Nickel Plate Road. 48A4t 



swarms, June 6 and 16, and 21 days 

 after I drove them out into new hives ; 

 and I took off 125 nicely filled sections 

 of honey from the two new colonies ; 

 I got none from the old. They are all 

 four good, strong 10-frame colonies. 



I received my " premium queen " 

 Aug. 29th, and removed the old queen 

 (put her in an old hive with a few bees). 

 Aug. 31st I placed the cage with the 

 queen between the combs after cutting 

 out all queen-cells, and on Sept. 2nd, at 

 noon, they had her releast. I did not 

 even remove the pasteboard, that some 

 have seemed to have had trouble with. 

 Sept. 5th I found her balled, and about 

 25 more queen-cells started, and some 

 of them capt. I caged her, cut out all 

 queen-cells again, and placed her on a 

 frame of honey, eggs, larvs, and 

 hatching brood, covered with wire 

 cloth, and the next day at noon found 

 they had gnawed under the wire and 

 let her out. I found her running around 

 on the bottom of the hive, with a string 

 of bees chasing her, but they did not 

 ball her again, and two days later she 

 was laying and now has a strong 

 colony of her own bees, and I look for 

 good results from her another year. I 

 bought 6 colonies this fall, so I have 10 

 now. 



We have had a very warm, open fall 

 here. Nov. 4th my bees were bringing 

 in pollen, and, I believe, some honey. 

 We had our first freeze after that. 

 What will be the result of bees gather- 

 ing pollen so late ? 



I hated to kill my queen in the old 

 hive, as she was a good, this year's 

 queen, so I made an observatory hive 

 with glass sides, and put her with one 

 frame of bees in it, and have them 

 in my office with an outside entrance, 

 and they are breeding right along, and 

 are watcht with interest by a great 

 many grown people and children who 

 would not dare go near a bee-hive. 



Extracted fioney For Sale ! 



Case of two cans White Alfalfa, weighing 

 \21 pounds net, for $8.50, f o.b. 



H. L. WEEMS, LemooFe, Calif. 



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