June 1, 1905 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. 



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^ ^ BEE-SUPPLIES « ^ 



or ALL KINDS. 



Beeswax Wanted at all Times. 



DADANT & SONS, Hamilton, III. 



For Queens 



SEND TO 



JOHN W. PHARR 



Berclair. Tex. 



He will furnish at same prices as last year: 

 Tested, $1 ; Untested. 75c ; 5 for S3.25 ; 10 for 

 <6 ; 15 for f8.25 ; 25 for $12.50 ; 100 for «45. He 

 breeds Goldens, Carniolans and 3-Band Ital- 

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

 colonies. Prices given on application. Pharr 

 pays the freight, and guarantees satisfaction 

 on all Queens. To do justice and judgment is 

 more acceptable with the Lord than sacrifice. 

 — (Prov. 3: 21.) 6Atf 



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On6-n6C6 S6Cilons 



"Columbia Brand" 



strictly High-Grade in Timber, 

 Quality and Manufacture. 



Prices on application. 



GOLUMBIft MFG. CO. '"'^l^' 



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Do You Need Queens ? 



By Return Mail ? 



If 80, we can 011 your order with the best 

 Queens that money can buy. Try our strain of 

 3-band Italians; ther will not disappoint yon 

 with empty supers. Untested Queens, 75 cents; 

 $8 per doz. Tested Queens, leacli. Send for 

 circular. J. W. K. SHAW & CO. 



13Atf LoREAUViLLE, Iberia Par., La. 



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creasing to 4G colonies, but then I am the 

 only bee-keeper in this neighborhood who 

 takes any bee-papers or buys any bee-books. 

 D. E. Andrews. 

 Monroe Co., Ind., May 5. 



Great Honey-Flow in California 



We are having the ideal conditions for a 

 great honey-flow here at the present time. 

 I know a man who has kept a colony of bees 

 on the scales for years, and has the record 

 this year. He secured 22 pounds one day last 

 week, and 24 pounds the next day. We have 

 had some very warm days, and the bees have 

 been wild with their opportunity to work and 

 store. I have never seen the like of bloom 

 that DOW decks our fields, canyons and hills. 

 The black or ball sage is in bloom and the 

 white is just beginning to open. Both of 

 these incomparalile honey-plants give rich 

 promise of a great yield of honey this year. 

 The plants show a growth and vigor that only 

 our abundant rains will explain. 



The salvias also are out in force, and are 

 very attractive to the bees. One of these. 

 Salvia oarduacea, is a wonderfully beautiful 

 plant, and I have wondered that it is not in 

 cultivation, the world over, for ornament. It 

 has a ball of exquisitely beautiful lavender 

 flowers, and the stem passes through this, and 

 then there is another ball of the bloom, and 

 so on there may be five in extreme cases. The 

 foliage is woolly, and the flowers are as fine as 

 any sage blooin that I have ever seen. The 

 foliage looks like that of the thistle, and 

 hence the scientific name which means 

 "thistle Salvia." 



We have another Salvia of like habit, which 

 is far more common. Salvia columbarhe, and 

 though not as showy as the other, it is a good 

 bee-plant and helps the bee-keeper not a little. 



We also have many phacelias, all of which 

 attract the bees and add to the stores in the 

 hives. I have wondered if we might not plant 

 more of the winter blooming acacias, and 

 eucalypts, so as to give more winter work for 

 the bees, and thus have brood-rearing com- 



Bees,Q,ueens and Nuclei 



Choice home-bred and im- 

 ported stock. All queens 

 reared in full colonies. 



One untested queen $ .90 



One tested qneen 1.10 



One select tested queen . . 1.40 



One breeding qneen 2.20 



One comb nuclens (no 

 queenl i.io 



All grades ready to send 

 by return mail. 



Safe arrival guaranteed 

 For prices on quantities and 

 description of each grade of Queens, send for 

 free price-list. J. t,. SXR4»IVGi. 

 204 East Logan Street CLARINDA IOWA. 

 L4Atf Please mention the Bee Joarnal. 



HONEY=JARS. 



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

 porcelain cover, metal screw cap, holding one 



fiound of honey net, one gross in case complete 

 n 5-gross lots, $4.00 per gross; less quantities, 

 $4.50 per gross, f.o.b. New Tork. If yon want 

 to secure some, let ns know at once. 



HILDRETH & SEQELKEN, 

 265 & 267 GREENWICH ST., HEW YORK, N. Y. 



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IN THE HEART OF MICHIGAN 



Within a huudred miles of me are over % of 

 the bee-keepers of Michigan. I am on the Pere 

 Marquette R.R., which completely covers this 

 region. Koot'e Goods, Factory Prices, 

 Prompt Service, Liow Freight. Send 

 tor Catalog. 



GEORGE E. HILTON, 



15A12t FREMONT. MICH. 



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