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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June IS, 1905 



BEST BEE-SUPPLIES 



Lewis' Goods at Factory Prices, 



Root's Mlm and Extractors, Dadant's Coffll) Founilatioii, BiDgliam Smolfers. 



Dovetailed hives with the famous COLORADO COVER. The best cover ever put on a 

 bee-hive. Hives (if entirely complete) cost you no more with this cover than with other 

 covers, but they are far better. WHERE DO YOU LIVE? We will quote you a price with 

 freight paid to your station if you send us your list of what you intend to buy. We ship goods 

 each year into every State east of the Rocky Mountains; let us ship to you. 



A Porter Bee-Escape Free with First Order if You say where you saw this ad. 88- 

 page Catalog free. Send for one at once. 



C. M. SCOTT & CO., 



E. Wash SI. Indianapolis, Ittd. 



Flease mention Bee Journal "wheTi -writiTip^ 



A Standard-Bred Italian (}ueen-Bee Free ! 



For Sending One New Subscriber. 



As has been our custom heretofore we offer to mail a fine, Un- 

 tested Italian Queen to the person who complies with the follow- 

 ing condiiioDS, all of which must be strictly followed; 



1. The sender of a new subscriber must have his or her own 

 subsc iption paid in advance at least to the end of this year 



2. Sending your own name with the SI. 00 for the Bee Journal 

 will not entitle you to a Queen as a premium. The sender must 

 be already a paid-in-advance subscriber as above, and the new sub- 

 scriber must be a NEW subscriber; which means, further, that 

 the new subscriber has never had the Bee Journal regularly, or at 

 least not for a whole year previous to his name being sent in as a 



n3W one ; and, also, the new subscriber must not be a member of the same family where 

 the Bee Journal is already being taken. 



We think we have made the foregoing sufficiently plain so that no error need be 

 made. Our Premium Queens are too valuable to throw away — they must be earned in 

 a legitimate way. They are worth working for. 



We will book the orders as they come in and the Queens will be mailed 

 Will you have one or morel 



It you cannot get a new subscriber, and want one of these Queens, we will send tne 

 American Bee Journal a year and the Queen — both for onlj $1.50. Address, 



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GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, EL. 



feare 



Manniacturers of 



Bee-Keepers' Supplies 



SPECIAL ! 



Closing out a large quantity of No. 2 SECTIONS as 

 long as they last, at $3.50 per thousand. 

 Write for Catalog. 



MONDENG MFG. CO., 



147 and 149 Cedar Lake Road, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



r.'lease mention Bee Juumajl ■wnen ■wnun.n. 



ada that it would be a real pleasure to apolo- 

 gize for having used the word "American" 

 as applying only to the inhabitants of the 

 United States, with the promise never to 

 offend in like manner again, if thereby "es- 

 tablished custom " could be changed. 



You say, " It may have been the custom in 

 the States. . . .but it is only the custom among 

 the lower classes." I do not know just what 

 opportunity you may have had for observa- 

 tion in the States, but I may be allowed to 

 say that with the exception of a very few de- 

 lightful days spent in Canada, my whole life 

 — not a very short one — has been spent in the 

 States, and I have been privileged to meet 

 some of the best and most intelligent in the 

 land as well as those of the lower classes, and 

 I have not found that the use of the word 

 " American " as applied to people of the 

 United States was confined to the latter. 



in any case I suppose that you will agree 

 with me that we shall not go astray if we fol- 

 low the lead of a good dictionary. The Stand- 

 ard dictionary is a work in good repute — 

 among the upper classes of the States — be- 

 tween you and me I'm not sure I know just 

 what upper classes are — it also stands well in 

 England, and I suppose in Canada. It gives 

 3 definitions for the noun " American." The 

 second is, " Any native or inhabitant of the 

 American continent, whether aboriginal or 

 descended from European settlers." In that 

 sense Mr. McEvoy is an American. The third 

 definition is: " One of the aborigines of the 

 American continent." Mr. McEvoy doesn't 

 look like an American of that kind. But the 

 first definition, which in that dictionary gives 

 the most common meaning of the word, reads 

 thus: " A native or legally constituted citi- 

 zen of the Uniled States." Surely Mr. 

 McEvoy is not an American in that sense, 

 the common sense of the word. 



While feeling obliged to defend my use of 

 the word "American,'' I may be allowed to 

 say that if I had known it would give you 

 offense I should have chosen some other word 

 for illustration on page 3'29, and shall have a 

 reckoning with "A Reader" for having drawn 

 me so near the vortex. But I make no apol- 

 ogy to Mr. McEvoy. I think he so thoroughly 

 understands my kindly feelings toward him 

 that if I should call him a thief he would 

 shake himself and laugh in that funny way of 

 his, and say, " Well, they must have some 

 new meaning over in the States for the word 

 ' thief,' for I'm sure that so good a friend of 

 mine as Dr. Miller would never apply it tome 

 in any other than a complimentary way." 



Atf 



Extracting-Combs— Cover for Sec- 

 tions—Using Combs in which 

 Bees Died-Bi-Sulphide 

 of Carbon 



1. Can good extracting-combs be built in 

 Hoffman wired brood-frames, from 2-inch 

 btarters of medium brood foundation? 



2. Will they stand extracting as well as 

 combs built from full sheets? 



3. In running for comb honey do you use 

 an oil-cloth or the underside of the covernext 

 to the sections? 



4. What can be done with combs in which 

 bees have died during the winter, and crawled 

 inio the cells? 



5. In using bi-sulphide of carbon for kill- 

 ing moths in brood-combs, how much should 

 be used to the cubic foot of space? 



Illinois. 

 Answers.— 1. Yes. 



2. No ; and for two reasons. Most of the 

 comb will be built without any foundation, 

 and the septum of natural comb is more 

 tender and thinner than that in foundation. 

 Also, the wires in this natural comb will not 

 be all in the septum as will be the wires in 

 full sheets of foundation. 



3. The cover is directly over the sections, 

 with a beespace of air between the cover and 

 the tops of sections. 



4. Give them to the bees as soon as con- 

 venient. 



5. Perhaps an ounce. 



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 when writing Advertisers. 



