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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Dec. 20, 1900. 



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 j'ou 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. 



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FsED FoDLGER & SoNS Ogden, Utah. 



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 Special Southwestern Ag-ent. 



BRANCHES: 



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

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

 apolis, Minn 



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26 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 





This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 



paid for Beeswax. W ^6 cen^ a ^ounTi 



» 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. 



FOR SALE ! 



B6SI Extracted flifalta fioneu 



Guaranteed absolutely Pure Bees' Honey. 



Packt in S-g'allon tin cans, of about 60 pounds 

 each, two cans to the case, 1% cents per pound, 

 cash with order. Buy direct from the home of 

 Alfalfa. We can please vou. Headquarters 

 for ALFALFA and SWEET CLOVER SEED. 

 Write forprices. Vogeler-Wiedemann Co., 

 60-63 W. First So. St., Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 43Atf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



200-Egg Incubator 

 for $ 1 2.00 



Perfect in cnnstruction and 

 action. Hatches every fertile 

 epg. Write for catalogue to-day. 



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 which I like pretty well. It fills the 

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I was much pleased to receive your 

 publication. It is a very neatly printed 

 and well edited journal, and merits 



success. D. W. BARtiLEY, J 



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cage, from the beginning, and am not at all 

 anxious to have it abbreviated in the least. 

 The same with C. P. Dadant's account of his 

 travels in Europe. 



Rev. E. T. Abliott's talk on food adultera- 

 tion ought to be publisht in pam))hlet form, 

 and scattered over the whole country. 



Mitchell Co., Iowa. Dec. 10. A. F. Foote. 



The Past Season's Results. 



This is the Hrst year I ever kept more than 

 four or five colonies. They inereast to 12 and 

 averaged 35 pounds to the colony. 



George Mitchell. 



Cook Co.. 111., Dec. 13. 



Bees Dying Off. 



My bees are tlying very fast. Since cold 

 weather set in about half of them have died, 

 and now I think they will not winter. I lost 

 3 colonies just the same way last winter. The 

 trouble seemed to come from a colony to 

 which I introduced a premiuin queen. I was 

 away in the fall, and one day my wife saw a 

 lot of dead bees in front of the hive, and she 

 soou discovered that the bees from another 

 colony were robbing this one, so she had it 

 carried away ^^.j miles. The bees all died in 

 a short time. As cold weather came on the 

 liees from the othercolonies commenced to die 

 and by Feb. 19th they were all dead. 



A swariii was given to me in June of this 

 year, and about two weeks after I got them I 

 found that they were queenless. I sent for a 

 queen and introduced her July 4th. But they 

 did not build ujj as fast as I thought they 

 c lught to. The first of October they seemed 

 to be quite full of bees, but now I should 

 think there are about 2,^i quarts. Of course 

 they are clustered for winter and that may 

 liiake some ditference. 



None of the bees seem to be old. as the 

 wings are not worn any ; they are not swollen 

 nor .shiny, and they have i)leuty of honey., I 

 do not know of any one tbat does an.v .spray- 

 ing, and no one el.se is losing their lieesasi am. 



Last winter I put the l3ccs into the cellar, 

 liut as it was damp 1 thought perhaps that 

 made some difference, so this year I have them 

 on the summer stands in an outside case, and 

 some burlap on toji of the frames. 



Austin Stoveh. 



Hancock Co.. Maine, Dec. 6. 



Measuring Bees' Tongues. 



A short lime ago two cages of bees were 

 sent to me from J. H. Gerbracht, McHenry 

 Co., III., for measurement. Cage No. 1 was a 

 sample from a colony that stored 240 pounds 

 of surplus honey, and were a strain of his own 

 breeding. Cage No. 2 was from a five-banded 

 strain that stored 13.5 pounds of surplus hone.v 

 (luring the past season. The measurements 

 of the bees from each cage are as follows: 



Cage No. 1 —Length of tongues were as fol- 

 lows; 0, 5.0, 15, 5.8, 6, 6, .5.;!, 6. 5.S. 5.7. Aver- 

 age length, 5.i) millimeters. 



Cage No. 2 — Length of tongues were as fol- 



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tin Mtoc-k. All r'lnu Diiccn '^'""'^'t^o 



sttM k ^^e,^llipis rflHIll na!6tU I-oultry 

 GLiitle expiMiiisn]). aiuitell^ ln-twtoiiKikehig 

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