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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 8, 1905 



IF YOU WANT 



LEWIS 



POPULAR 

 BEE-SUPPLIES 



BY RETURN FREIGHT 

 OR EXPRESS, 



SEND TO 



H. M. Aknd, Manager. 



York Honey -^^9^- Co. 



141 & 143 Ontario Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



(5 short blocks north of the C. & N. W. Ry. Passenger Station, 

 using the Wells St. Cable Line from center of city to Ontario St.) 



A FULL LINE OF BEE-SUPPLIES ON HAND 



Consisting of Hives, Sections, Shipping-Cases— everything used by the practi- 

 cal, up-to-date bee keeper. 



Catalojr and prices on Honey on application. If you want <>ioocl Croods 

 at Factory Prices and Prompt !$liipnient, send your orders, or call on us. 



BEESWAX WANTED — 28c cash, or 30c when taking Bee-Supplies in exchange 

 — delivered here. 



$12.25 to Niagara Falls and Return 



via Nickel Plate Road, .lune 18, 19 and 

 20, with return limit of June 24, or by 

 depositing ticket limit of July 14 may 

 be obtained. Through vestibuled sleep- 

 ing-cars. No excess fare charged on 

 any train on the Nickel Plate Road 

 Meals served in Nickel Plate dining- 

 cars, on American Club Meal Plan, rang- 

 ing in price from 35 cents to $1.00 ; also 

 a la carte. For further information, 

 write John Y. Calahan, t^.eneral Agent, 

 113 Adams St., Room 298, Chicago, 111. 

 Passenger Station at Chicago, corner 

 Van Buren and La Salle Sts., on the 

 Elevated Loop. Chicago City Ticket 

 OfBces, 111 Adams St. and Auditorium 

 Annex. 10-23A2t 



VIKGINIA QUEENS Iffl^.linirylifs 



of careful seleciion from red-clover queens and 

 superior stock obtained from W. Z Jlutchinson. 

 Untested queens, 7Sc; after June IS, t.Oc; tested 

 queens, $1.00; after June 15, "5c; selected tested 

 queens, $1 25; after June 15, $1.00. Write postal 

 £ard for circular. CHAS. KOEPPEN. 

 17A26t Fredericksbcrg, V A. 



IN THE HEART OF MICHIGAN 



Within a hundred miles of me are over % of 

 the bee-keepers ot Michigan. I am on the Fere 

 Marquette R.R., which completely covers this 

 region. Root's Goods, Factory Prices, 

 Prompt Service, Low Freight. Send 

 for Catalog. 



GEORGE E. HILTON, 



lSA12t FREMONT. MICH. 



Bees,Queeiis and Nuclei 



Choice home-bred and im- 

 ported stock. All queens 

 reared in full colonies. 



One untested queen $ .90 



One tested queen 1.10 



One select tested queen . . 1.40 



One breeding queen 2.20 



One comb nucleus (no 

 queen) 1.10 



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»3iCi. 

 204 East Logan Street CLARINDA IOWA. 

 14Atf Please mention the Bee Jonrnal. 



Do You Need Queens ? 



By Return Mail ? 



It so, we caa fill jour order with the best 

 Queens that money can buy. Try our strain of 

 3-band Italians; thev will not disappoint you 

 with empty supers. Untested Queens, 75 cents; 

 $S per doz. Tested Queens, pleach. Send for 

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



l3Atf LoREAuviLLE, Iberia Par., La. 



^'eaae mention iioe joamai ■woen ■wrnJi.^ 



Please mention Bee Journal 

 when writing advertisers. 



I No BreakagCo^^RSections 



•^ Out of 1500 shipped one of our customers, that he folded, not one broke. There [ 



'■^ are but few No. 1 Sections on the market that will equal this record. In addition ; 



!^ our price for No. 3 Sections is so far below the No. 1 that you can't aSord to send , 



^ away for your si; l*I»I.IES anywhere else. 



.y Our goods are made on honor and any article not entirely satisfactory to you 



•5 will be replaced or money refunded. Send us a sample order for a crate of our 



iS No. 2 Sections. Do it now. 



it JOHN DOLL & SON, 



i5 Power Building, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



^/(fy(f>(t>(f>^f>'ff>^fy(f>?f>?*>?»? 



Danzenbaker and Langstroth-Simplicity hives 

 exclusively. 



At that time, in 1SS5, the hive and system 

 of management was all right, but the price of 

 the hive and bees— •■?20 — was an outrage. 

 There being no patent on the Cotton hive, 

 they can be furnished complete with a full set 

 ot glass honey boxes, holding about 2 pounds 

 of houey each, with a full colony of Italian 

 bees, for SIO. I have full and complete plans 

 for the hive and outfit. Subscriber. 



Boone Co., Mo., May '20. 



Wintering — Discouraging Outioolt 



Last season I lost 1S4 colonies out of 185. 

 Then I bought, requeened, and put into the 

 cellar TO strong colonies, and carried from the 

 cellar 40 live colonies. 25 of them very strong. 

 Yesterday I took an inventory, and I found 

 S colonies with about 8 pints of bees, and I 

 am having no worse luck than my neighbors. 



I will give, as nearly as I can, the number 

 of colonies of bees in this and 5 adjoining 

 towns 20 years ago, and contrast them with 

 the number at the present time : 



Rupert, 1885 2100 Same, 1905. .20 



Pawlet, " 700 " " . . 4 



Dasset, '• 400 " " ..60 



Sandgate, " 300 " " . . 2 



Hebron, N.Y., 1885.. 350 " " ..40 

 Salem, 1885 450 " " ..70 



I have had letters from other towns in the 

 county, and the decrease is about the same. 



1 had a letter from a man in Sunderland, Vt., 

 saying that he had only 3 colonies left out of 

 So which he had 3 years ago. 



I have tried every way that I could read or 

 think of to keep the bees. I have not lost 20 

 colonies because of their not having stores 

 enough, and in 55 years I have never had a 

 swarm winter in any kind of double-walled 

 hive left out-doors, never had them in S-frame 

 dovetailed hives but 2 winters, and have built 



2 new houses at a cost of .S5000, my aim in 

 building both these houses being to have a 

 cellar that would winter bees. They are dry 

 and well-ventilated, and the temperature is 

 from 42 to 46 degrees, hut after the bees have 

 been in the cellar about 4 weeks they will be- 

 gin to roar and come out, and they keep this 

 up all winter, and if I leave them out they do 

 the same. I will give any one .$100 who will 

 give me a successful plan that will winter and 

 spring 90 percent of the strong colonies put 

 into winter quarters. The time will soon 

 come when the hum of the honey-bee on the 

 willow or apple tree, will not be heard in this 

 vicinity. C. M. Lincoln. 



Bennington Co., Vt., May 24. 



Strange Season in Texas 



Wo are having a strange season in Texas. 

 Uvalde has lost its honey crop for this year, 

 we understand, but suppose they will have 

 some honey. We are having a fine honey-llow 

 now from horsemint, which bids fair to be the 

 largest crop in years, for this location. 



Southwestern Bee Co. 



Bexar Co., Tex., May 27. 



H0NEY=JAR5. 



For a limited time we offer No.25 Honey-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. 



HILDRETH & SEQELKEN, 

 265 & 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 honeygather- 

 erers in America. Untested, 75c each, or fS per 

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

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

 been breeding queens fcr 17 yearp, and I know 

 what a good queen is. No small queens sent 

 out. I guarantee safe delivery. Send your or- 

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



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