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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



May 11, 1905 



York Honey ^TpIly- Co. 



(Not incorporated— Successors to The York Hooey Co.) 



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''"lit'"'- LEWIS' GOODS IN CHICAGO, 



5 short city blocks north 



of the C. & N.W. R.R. 



passenger station. 



Best and most direct Shipping Point 

 in the World. 



We have on hand a large stock of 



Lewis' PopnlarBee-Snpplies 



Consisting of Hives, Sections, Shipping-Cases— 

 everything used by the practical, up-to-date bee- 

 keeper. 



Catalog and prices on Honey on application. 

 If you want Wood Woods at Factory Prices and 

 Prompt Siiipnient, send your orders, or call on us. 



BEESWAX WANTED— 28c cash, or 30c when taking 

 H. M. Abnd, Manager. Bee-Supplies in exchange — delivered here. 



For Qyeens 



SEND TO 

 JOHN W. PHARR 

 . ^. -^ ^ » ~ . . ^ Berclair. Tex. 



He will furnish at same prices as last year : 

 Tested, $1; Untested. 75c; 5 for *3.35 ; 10 f or 

 $6 ; 15 for $8.25 ; 25 for S12.50 ; 100 for $45. He 

 breeds Goldens, Carniolans and 3-Band Ital- 

 ians. Also 1, 2, and 3 frame Nuclei, and lull 

 colonies. Prices given on application. Pliarr 

 pays tlie freiglit, and guarantees satisfaction 

 on all Queens. To do justice and judgment is 

 more acceptable witii tiie Lord tlian sacriBce. 

 — (Prov. 3:31.) 6Atf 



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One-nece Sections 



"Columbia Brand" 



strictly High-Grade in Timber, 

 Quality and Manufacture. 



Prices on application. 



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HONEY=JARS. 



For a limited time we offer No.2S Hooey-Jars, 

 porcelain cover, metal screw cap, holding- one 

 pound of honey net, one gross in case complete 

 in S-gross lots, $4.00 per gross; less quantities, 

 $4.50 per gross, f.o.b. New York. If you want 

 to secure some, let us know at once. 



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265 A. 267 GREENWICH ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. 



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QUEENS ITALIAN QUEENS 



BY RETURN MAIL.: 



Try Taylor's 3 banded leather-colored and 5- 

 banded Golden Queens— the best honey-g^ather- 

 erers in America. Untested, 75c each, or f 8 per 

 dozen; tested, $1, or $10 per dozen; select tested, 

 $1.50 each; breeders, the best, $3 each. I have 

 been breeding queens for 17 years, and I know 

 what a good queen is. No small queens sent 

 ont. I guarantee safe delivery. Send your or- 

 ders to J. W. TAYLOR, Ozan, Ark. 



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CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Illinois.— Mr. O. Taylor has appointed the 

 spring meeting of the Eastern half of the 

 Northern Illiaois Bee-Keepers' Association at 

 the residence of B. Kennedy, on May 16. The 

 place is situated 7 miles- southeast of Rockford, 

 and 3 miles northeast of New Milford. All bee- 

 keepers are invited to attend. 



Illinoif.— The spring meeting of the bee-keep- 

 ers of the west part or Freeport District of 

 northern Illinois will be held at the residence 

 of the President, N. A. Kluck, May 22, 3 miles 

 southwest of McConnell, 111. All bee-keepers 

 are requested to attend. Persons coming by 

 train will be met at McCnnnell by teams from 

 8:30 to 9 o'clock a.m. J. W. Johnson. Sec. 



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Otisville, Pa., Jan. 18, 1904. 

 Dear Sir:— I have tried almost everything in 

 the smoker line; 3 in the last 3 years. In short 

 if I want any more smokers your new style is 

 good enough for me. I thank the editor of Re- 

 view for what he said of it. Those remarks in- 

 duced me to get mine. Fred Fodner. 



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do a great deal of harm. We liave a very 

 strict pure food law here, but as far as the 

 bee-keeper is concerned it is a dead letter. 

 Linn Co., Mo., April 12. Irving Long. 



Snowstorm in April— Sweet Clovep 



We are having a snowstorm to-day, which 

 is coming on the fruit-bloom and lots of green 

 and tender things that would be better for 

 having sunshine. 



I have been putting in sweet clover for 2 or 

 3 years, and I had begun to feel quite proud 

 of my acres of it until I read of the man with 

 400 acres. That, knocked me right over baoic- 

 ward, for 1 realize now that I am a very 

 " small potato." 1 have about 40 acres, most 

 of which is last fall and this spring seeding, 

 60 that not more than I4 will bloom this sea- 

 son. I am not entirely sure, but 1 think there 

 is no blank time here from fruit-bloom till 

 frost, and I am quite sure that if all our de- 

 pendence was upon white clover 1 should go 

 out of the honey-business. W. H. Mills. 



Boone Co., Nebr., April 15. 



Hiving Swarms— Hofifman Frames 



I notice on page SS an item on sawing off 

 swarms. I will give the system I use, which 

 never has failed me yet. 



In 1903, when swarming was a daily occur- 

 rence, upon coming home one night my wife 

 met me at the gate with a smiling face. She 

 led me into the back yard, and showed me a 

 hive under the best peach-tree. I immediately 

 realized that the bees had swarmed, and she 

 had succeeded in hiving them, which she 

 knew pleased me very much, as I have always 

 devoted my leisure time to the bees. But, 

 dear me ! the beautiful peach-tree was a total 

 wreck. (I live in town, and have only a few 

 nice fruit-trees) . She had made several at- 

 tempts to get the bees before she was success- 

 ful. But I put on a bright face over it, and 

 was thankful that with so much rough hand- 

 ling the bees did not get angry, for about 40 

 "kids" of the neighborhood had gathered 

 around to witness the performance, but no 

 one had been stung. 



The next swarming occurred on a Sunday 

 when I was at home. The swarm settled in 

 an apple-tree where it was almost impossible 

 to get to it without sawing half the tree down. 

 I picked from a hive a double black cloth 

 about the size of the hive, which had been 

 used as a sort of quilt over the bees, and was 

 saturated through and through with propolis. 

 I wrapped this around a pole long enough to 

 reach the cluster, then shook all the bees off 

 at once, and held the pole there, and all set- 

 tled on it. I shook them in front of the hive, 

 and all went merrily in. This pole set up in 

 a tree near where the bees are likely to settle 

 when they are swarming, causes them to 

 sometimes alight on it, or if it is held where 

 they seem to be getting ready to settle, they 

 will settle there at once. It has never failed 

 with me, and I would like some one else to 

 try it, and let me know with what success it 

 is used. 1 am sure it will save many a nice 

 fruit-tree, lots of dangerous climbing, and 

 much time. 



On page 108 I notice an article on Hoffman 

 frames. I have used many different kinds of 

 frames, but will discard all but the Hoffman 

 just as soon as possible. I have only one fault 

 to find with them, which I have overcome, so 

 I consider them the best 1 have used yet. In 

 handling colonies in summer when time is 

 money, things must go quick. I find in first 

 removing the frames I have some trouble in 

 getting particular frames out quickly, and in 

 putting them back I find, especially in large 

 colonies, that as many as 7 or 8 bees can be 

 crushed. I have about remedied the trouble 

 in both cases by removing about ;'.( of the 

 bearing space of the beveled bar, leaving at 

 the bottom about half an inch and the same 

 at the top. It does not change the spacing a 

 particle. The frames are very easily removed 

 anywhere in the hive without any trouble, 

 and it lessens the bee-killing qualities about 

 'J5 percent. I think it the frame was made in 

 this way it would meet with much greater 

 favor — at least none go into my hives without 

 this change. Pius Mohr. 



Scott Co., Iowa, Feb. 22. 



