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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb. 22, 1906 



The Bee-Hive Clock 



We have originated and had made specially 

 for our readers, a bronzed-metal Clock, called 

 " The Bee-Hive Clock." It is 10!< inches 

 wide at the base, 9J| inches high, and deep 

 enough at the ba6e to stand firmly on a man- 

 tel or elsewhere. It is a beautiful piece of 

 work, and would be both ornamental and 

 very useful in any house, and particularly in 

 a bee-keeper's home. 



The Clock part itself is warranted for 3 

 years to keep good time. So it is no play- 

 thing, but a beautiful and needful article for 

 everyday use. 



Clocks like "The Bee-Hive Clock " usually 

 sell in the stores at from $4.00 to $5.00 each, 

 but having them made for us in quantities 

 enables us to offer them at $2.50 each by ex- 

 press, or with the American Bee Journal a 

 year— both for only $3.00. Either Clock or 

 Journal would make an ideal gift. 



How to get "The Bee-Hive Clock" 

 FREE 



Send us 5 New Subscribers to the 

 Weekly American Bee Journal for one year, 

 at $1.00 each, and we will send you this beau- 

 tiful " Bee-Hive Clock" FREE (excepting 

 express charges). Or, send us 4 New Sub- 

 scribers (at $1.00 each) and 50 cents— $4.50 

 in all. Or, 3 New Subscribers (at $1.00 

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 $3.50 in all. 



Only $2.50. f.o.b. Chicago, by Express. 



Weight, with packing, about 4 pounds. 



What Dr. Miller Thinks of the 

 Bee Hive Clock 



Busily ticking away, in the room where I 

 am sitting, stands a genuine bee-keeper's 

 clock (please understand that the word " gen- 

 uine " belongs to the clock and not to the 

 bee-keeper) .or, as the legend upon the clock 

 has it, " The Bee-Hive Clock." I don't know 



A $4.00 CLOCK FOR $2.50 ... withthe 

 American Bee Journal B oth a for Only $3.00 



whether the idea of getting up such a clock 

 was conceived in tbe brain of the Editor of 

 the American Bee Journal, or whether he got 

 it elsewhere, but the wonder is that such a 

 thing wa6 not thought of long before. 



Setting aside all idea of its association with 

 the business of a bee-keeper, there is a pecu- 

 liar appropriateness in having the minutes 

 a'jd the hours " told off " in a case represent- 

 ing the home of the busy little workers. The 

 glance at the clock, with its ceaseless tick, 

 tick, tick, tick, can not fail to remind one 

 that the flying moments must be improved 

 now or be forever lost, and that suggestion is 

 reinforced by the thought of the never ceas- 

 ing activity of the little denizens of the hive, 

 always busy, busy, busy, working from morn 

 till night and from night till morn, working 

 unselfishly for the generations to come, and 

 literally dying in the harness. 



Let us be thankful that the form of the old- 

 fashion ed straw hive or skep was adopted, and 

 not that of any modern affair, patented or 

 unpatented. The latter smacks of commer- 

 cialism, but the former of solid comfort, for 

 no other form of hive has ever been devised 

 that contributes 60 fully to the comfort and 

 welfare of a colony of bees a6 does the old- 

 fashioned straw-hive. It appeals, too, to one's 

 artistic sense as can no angular affair of more 

 modern times. As an emblem of industry, 

 artists have always used— probably always 

 will use — the old straw skep. 



Thanks, Mr. Editor, for furnishing us a 

 time-keeper so appropriate for all, and espe- 

 cially for bee-keepers. C. C. Miller. 



Address aii orders to GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 334 Dearborn St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



let the bees out to run around, and closed 

 enough to keep a mouse out. They did pretty 

 well this way last winter. 



1 hang to that way of making increase that 

 I saw in the American Bee Journal some years 

 ago, viz. : After putting out, I see to keeping 

 them warm, and that they have feed enough, 

 and when they get well filled with brood (I do 

 not shake) I divide them about equally. If I 

 can not see the queen, I move the hive one 

 foot or so to one side and put the other half 

 a foot or so to the other side. I put a board 

 between the hives, standing it out in front, 

 and it seems the bees divide about right. I 

 soon find tbe half that has no queen, and either 

 introduce a queen or let them rear one them- 

 selves, helping them by taking brood from the 

 other. As soon as these two hives are filled 

 with brood, on goes the excluder and a hive 

 on top filled with empty comb or foundation, 

 and in comes the honey. I then look to ex- 

 tracting, having an eye to queen-cells below, 

 and little fear of swarming. 



1 get some fine queens from these queenles6 

 halves by taking a frame with cells and put- 

 ting it in a nucleus. These often build up to 

 a good colony for wintering or for replacing 

 a queenless colony. I often have 3 nuclei in 

 one divided hive-body. 



White and yellow sweet clover are all right 

 as honey-plants. We are well supplied with 

 forage — white clover, bas6wood, willow, plum, 

 elm, wild-cherry, hawthorn, mustard, corn, 

 raspberries, etc. All that is needed here is to 

 manipulate all right. The local demand for 

 honey is sufficient yet. 



I am getting more and more in love with 

 the American Bee Journal. But for it my sur- 

 plus would be little or nothing. By keeping 

 a close watch on its columns, and adding my 

 own experience, I succeeded even in the past 

 poor year to get over 100 pounds of honey 

 from each colony, spring count. 



Hendrum, Minn. R. McCradie. 



Favors a Shorter and Deeper Frame 



There comes through the columns of the 

 bee-papers every spring, a Rind of wail, es- 

 pecially from the beginners. Their bees died, 

 although there was honey in the hive— not 

 very much, perhaps, but if the bees had been 

 clustered on the little bit there was, they 

 would no doubt have survived until it was 



possible to feed them in the spring. Of course, 

 the bees should have been fed in the fall, so 

 there could have been no possible chance of 

 starvation. The beginner knows this, but still 

 he finds it hard to excuse those bees for dying 

 when the honey was there, although out of 

 reach. 



Would that honey have been out of reach if it 

 had been directly over the cluster, or nearly so f 

 One pound of feed over the cluster is worth 

 100 pounds in some other part of the hive, 

 when a cold-snap comes. I have found plenty 

 of honey at one end of a Langstroth hive, and 

 a cluster of dead bees at the other end, when 

 taken out of winter quarters. Would such a 

 state of things have existed if that superfluous 

 length had been added to the depth of the 

 hive, thereby placing the honey, which would 

 have been in that part of the hive, directly 

 over the cluster! 



For the man who winters his bees in the cel- 

 lar, the long Langstroth frame is all that can 

 be desired. It is also a good hive for some 

 men who winter bees out-of-doors. By some 

 men, I mean those who feed their bees so the 

 hives are chock-full in the fall, so they always 

 have feed in easy reach. But for the man who 

 can not attend to his bees as can the specialist, 

 a shorter and deeper hive — one which will 

 bring the bulk of the honey over the cluster — 

 will save him many colonies of bees. Ever 

 since Father Langstroth invented his hive, 

 with its long, narrow frame, it seems to have 

 been preserved as a standard, especially in re- 

 gard to its length. No doubt many bee- 

 keepers have found fault with its wintering 

 qualities, but when the penalty for changing 

 from regular to odd-sized hives was realized, 

 they were forced to stick to the standard. I 

 find that a hive which is about 3J-o inches 

 shorter, 2 inches deeper, and about 14>a inches 

 wide, winters a colony much better than a 

 standard Langstroth, and with less honey. 

 What honey the bees have i6 always within 

 reach. 



I don't wish it to be understood that I con- 

 demn the Langstroth hive for all conditions 

 and circumstances. As I said before, it is a 

 good hive for the specialist bee-keeper, but if 

 this other hive is a good hive for the novice, 

 it surely ought to be a better hive for the spe- 

 cialist, according to the ability of the man 

 using it. H. A. Smith. 



Palermo, Ont. 



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EngravjngsforSale 



"We are accumulating- quite a stock of engrav- 

 ings that have been used in the American Bee 

 Journal. No doubt many of them could be used 

 again by bee-keepers in their local newspapers, 

 on their stationery, or in other ways. Also, if 

 we can sell some of them it would help us to 

 pay for others that we are constantly having' 

 made and using in our columns. If there is any 

 of our engravings that any one would like tr 

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