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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 14, 1906 



of life radiant with boyhood's dreams and 

 fancies, how I loved to watch the long rows 

 of bee-hives, and guess this one will swarm 

 to-day. See how they cluster out I How rich 

 they must be ! Perchance I ran acrosss an 

 advertisement of queen-bees; I at once or- 

 dered a catalog, and then a book on bee6. My 

 fancy was stolen away as I unfolded its magic 

 pages. 



My post-office was then 5 miles away. In 

 the morning I hurried off for Beech Creek 

 office to order an Italian queen. It's almost 

 a sin to keep black bees according to the book 

 I bought. Indue time I went to the post- 



office to see if her majesty had arrived. I 

 made the usual inquiry, " Is there any mail?'' 

 "Yes, sure. A little box full of flies." I 

 hastened way with my " Italian flies." The 

 queen was safely introduced by the old Peet 

 method, and another was ordered. 



The queens wintered in fine order. The 

 following summer was poor, and there was 

 no chance for comparison between the races. 

 But many more yellow queens were ordered. 

 The next season wa6 fairly good. As usual I 

 put sections on all the good colonies. Upon 

 examination a few days later I found in most 

 of the hives active work was going on in the 



sections, while the Italians were doing noth- 

 ing upstairs. 



But, hark ! whence comes that sharp, buzz- 

 ing sound that has run so often in every bee- 

 keeper's ears? Yes, sure as fate. No. 20 — my 

 fine yellow colony with a Dixie queen — is 

 swarming. And so in turn as the days go by 

 the long ladder is mustered into service almost 

 every day, hiving those pesky Italians. But 

 what are the black6 doing! Look in their 

 boxes — they are almost full, and only 2 

 swarms! Fall comes, S5 pounds average for 

 the blacks and 25 pounds for the Italians. 

 Surely, my object was accomplished. I had 



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, 9% inches high, and deep 

 enough at the base 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 84.00 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 (ar, $1.00 each) and 50 cents — $4.50 

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

 each) and $1.00—14.00 in all. Or, 3 New 

 Subscribers (at $1.00 each) and $1.50— 

 $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 • with the 

 American Bee Journal h£a?£; Only $3.00 



whether the idea of getting up such a clock 

 was conceived in the brain of the Editor of 

 the American Bee Journal, or whether he got 

 it elsewhere, but the wonder is that such a 

 thing was 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 

 aud 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- 

 fashioned 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 so fully to the comfort and 

 welfare of a colony of bees as 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. 



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Prices of Queens, Italian and Caucasian: 

 Untested in June, .$1 each ; dozen, $9. Tested 

 in June, SI. 25 each; dozen, 119. Selected 

 Queens of any grade, 35 cents extra. 



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