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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 22 1905 



BEST BEE-SUPPLIES 



Lewis* Goods at Factory Prices. 



Root's Smokers and Extractors, Dailant's Coniti Fonndation, Bingliam Smokers. 



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 TOU LIVE? We will quote you a price with 

 freig-ht 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.waSi'st.lndiaDapolis,lDd. 



■"Please mention Bee .Tourtiai -wtIirtj ■writi-ap 



A Standard-Bred Italian Qneen-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 conditions, 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 



new 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 



If 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 only SI. 50. Address, 





GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



We are 



Maniiiaclurers 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 MFC, CO., 



combs on top of them, then pour in water till 

 nearly full. Having put on the cover, put a 

 smooth, clean stone on it. The cover is made 

 of heavy galvanized or tinned sheet-iron, with 

 holes made about the center, and nailed to a 

 cross made of boards 3 inches wide, notched 

 to fit each other, or like paste-board in egg- 

 cases, and just the length of the width of the 

 can, so as to keep the cover from tipping as 

 it is forced down. 



Boil slowly till all the wax is on top. Let 

 it cool on a slow fire. The combs will render 

 better it exposed to the sun for awhile. 



Jamaica, W. I. Robt. West. 



Backward Season— Bees Dying 



The season has been backward. Bees did 

 nothing on apple-bloom, and white clover had 

 no honey till the past few days. The bees are 

 booming on it now. 



Some 10 days ago as I was looking over the 

 bees I noticed a number crawling on the 

 ground as though they were drunk. Later 

 they seemed to be all coming out of the hive, 

 and the next day ail were dead. It was one 

 of the strongest colonies. I can give no rea- 

 son for their death. No other colonies seem 

 affected any way. I imagine they found poi- 

 son somewhere. I don't think it could be 

 from spraying. S. N. BL.iCK. 



Adams Co., 111., June 2. 



Marketing Unripe Honey 



The unripe-honey talk in the May 18 issue 

 is right, and if the advice were followed by 

 all producers the demand for honey would 

 surely be greater than it is now. Last year I 

 was particular to extract all the unsealed 

 honey beforehand from every comb, and this 

 was kept warm in a tank over an oil-stove for 

 several days, until it was good and thick. 



Of course this did not have quite as good a 

 flavor as the all-sealed honey, but perhaps 

 was better than the whole lot would have 

 baen if extracted together. 



Ashtabula Co., Ohio. H. E. Cbowther. 



Treatment of Robber-Bees 



I had a little experience with robber-bees 

 which might help some one some time. I had 

 a weak colony which I thought to strengthen 

 a little by giving them a frame of brood from 

 a strong colony. I had no sooner done so 

 than another colony of rather black bees com- 

 menced robbing this weak one. I covered 

 them up with a horse blanket, but they would 

 crawl under. Then I piled grass before the 

 hive, but to no purpose. I closed the en- 

 trance to one bee-way on the start; but they 

 bothered 2 or 3 days. I tried putting the weak 

 colony where the robber-colony was, and vice 



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he KINU of ll . 



size, good layers ot finest eggs. 



Hardy and fearless, the best all 



urpose fowl. Willow legs and 



Say eyes. Illustrated circular. 



25thyear. H. H. FLICK, 



MANCHESTER. MD. 



$12.25 to Buffalo, N. v., 



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 extreme return limit of Aug'. 4th, by 

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