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National Bee Keepers' Association 



Objects of the Association. 



1st.— To promote the interests of its members. 



2d.— To protect and defend its members in their 

 lawful rights. 



3d.— To enforce lawB againBt the adulteration of 

 honey. 



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General Manager and Treasurer— 



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 ublishere of the American Bee Journal. 



r._ ai .J C+rn-L' is an illustrated monthly 



r3.rm dilCl »JlUL,K. magazine in the interest of 



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NOT IN THE TRUST 



American Ttee Journal 



Contents of thi s Number 



Illustrations — 



Aspinwall, L. A 538 



Dewey's Foundationer 532 



Pettit, Morley 1st Page 



Scholl, Louis H 1st Pane 



Stachelhausen, L 53* 



Townsend, E. D 54o 



Editorial Notes and Comments — 



Book a Necessity for Beginners f>22 



Crosses vs. Pure Italian Bees 521 



Marketing the Honey Crop 521 



National and Local Associations 521 



Miscellaneous News Items — 



Bee-Keepers' Demonstrating Field-Meeting. . . 523 



Gleanings Editor a Poultryman 52a 



Handling Honey Years Ago 522 



National Association c. 523 



Those Two 'Long Fellows' of Beedom 523 



Canadian Beedom — 



Beginnerand Bees 523 



Dummies and Deep Top-Bars 523 



How to Buy Bees 523 



Postal Vigilance 523 



Tomfoolery About Bees 524 



Oar Sister Bee-Keepers — 



Hive-Entrances in Winter and Spring 524 



Honey and Pollen trom Blackberry 524 



Pollen-Gathering and Temperature 524 



Queen less Colonies in Spring and Later 524 



Wild Grape and Other Bloom 524 



Southern Beedom. — 



Bee-Keeping in Uvalde Co., Tex 525 



" Full Blood" and Other Bee-Cranks 525 



Introducing Queens with Tobacco-Smoke 525 



Report on Sweet Clover 525 



Mr. Hasty' & Afterthoughts — 



Getting Things Down Fine 525 



" Keep All Colonies Strong" the Watchword.. 525 



NotaHard Bee-Puzzle.' 526 



Our •" Prime Swarm " a * 4 Head Swarm " in Eng- 

 land 525 



Poppy and Hollyhock as Bee-Attracters 525 



Some Queen-Rearing Comments 525 



Water as a Swarm ing Discourager 526 



Contributed Articles— 



Best Hives for Wintering and Extracting 527 



Cheshire < Frank R. ) and Foul Brood 526 



Chicago-Northwestern and National 526 



Dewey Foundationer 532 



Mimicing Moths 532 



Mints as Honey-Plants 530 



Queen-Rearing— Small Nucleus System 531 



Retention of Heat in Brood-Nest 530 



Ruches and Ruchers in Europe 528 



Willows and Bees 529 



Convention Proceedings — 



Control of Increase 533 



How Many Bees Shall a Man Keep?.... 539 



National at Chicago 533 



What Have We to Hope for from the Non- 

 Swarming Hive? 538 



Dr. MilUr^s Question-Box — 



Growing Catnip and Sweet Clover 541 



Making Honey-Vinegar 541 



Salt and Sulphur for Foul Brood 541 



Some Questions on Management 541 



Swarming Questions , 541 



T-Supers 541 



When Do Bees Swarm? 541 



Reports and Experiences 



An Experience with Bees 542 



Heavy Honey-Flow 542 



Killed by the Frost 542 



Peach-Bloom for Bees 542 



Season Disastrous to Honey-Flow 542 



Should Have a Full Honey-Flow 542 



Working on White Clover 542 



June 21, 1906 



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Lan&stroth on the 

 Honey-Bee 



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Revised by Dadant— Latest Edition. 



This is one of the standard books on 

 bee-culture, and ought to be in the 

 library of every bee-keeper. It is bound 

 substantially in cloth, and contains 

 over 500 pages, being revised by those 

 large, practical bee-keepers, so well- 

 known to all the readers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal — Chas. Dadant & Son. 

 Each subject is clearly and thoroly ex- 

 plained, so that by following the in- 

 structions of this book one cannot fail 

 to be wonderfully helped on the way to 

 success with bees. 



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 THREE NEW subscribers to the Bee 

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This is a splendid chance to get a 

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GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



334 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO, ILI, 



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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 oar engravings that any one would like to 

 have, just let as know and we will quote a very 

 low price, postpaid. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



334 Dearborn Street, 



CHICAGO, II< It 



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 a fine thing to preserve the copies of the Jour- 

 nal as fast as they are received. If you havt 

 this " Emerson " no further binding Is neces- 

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