AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL- 



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for only $1.65 ; or given free as a premium 

 for sending us three uew subscribers to the 

 Bee Journal for a year at $1.00 each. 



Bound in paper cover, postpaid, 65 cents ; 

 or given free as a premium for sending us 

 two new subscribers ; or clubbed with the 

 Bee Journal a year — both for only $1.40. 

 .Send all ordei-s to the Bee Journal office. 



^Vlien 'Voo Cold for the bees to fly in 

 the shade, do not open the hives. 



A Hint for Ueginnei-s. — The rru- 

 gressive Bce-Keeper gives this excellent hint 

 to beginners in bee-keeping : 



We have had a number of beginners 

 write us this spring for information about 

 bees, that they could get out of any bee- 

 book. Now we are always glad to help 

 them, but here is the point: They cannot 

 afford to do without a good book until they 

 get well started. If you want to keep bees, 

 '• post up "' so you will not have to write 

 some one to know what ails the bees. 



Certainly, every one who would think of 

 commencing to keep bees should first get a 

 copy of one of the good bee-books, and 

 read it thoroughly in connection with one 

 or more of the bee-papers. A good book, 

 well read, will save a multitude of simple 

 questions. Please don't think we would 

 discourage asking perplexing questions, for 

 we wouldn't; only the very simple ones 

 that a beginner could answer for himself 

 by reading a good bee-book. By all means, 

 own a standard work on bee-keeping, if 

 you expect to. succeed. 



Catalogiies fbi* 1894: are on our 



desk from the following : 



J. F. Michael, German, Ohio. 

 Stilson & Sons, York, Nebr. 

 F. A. Crowell, Granger, Minn. 

 A. C. Tyrrel, Madison, Nebr. 

 J. J. Bradner, Marion, Ind. 



Xlie Amateur Bee-Keeper, 



is the name of a neat little pamphlet 

 designed for the class its name indicates 

 — amateurs and beginners in bee-keep- 

 ing. It is written by Mr. J. W. Rouse, 

 of Missouri, a practical apiarist and 

 helpful writer. It contains over 60 

 pages, and we will send it postpaid for* 

 25 cents ; or club it with the Bee Jour- 

 nal for one year — both for only $1.15. 



answered by 



Marengo, III. 



In this department will be answered those 

 questions needing immediate attention, and 

 such as are not of sufficient special interest to 

 require replies from the 'ZQ or more apiarists 

 who help to make "Queries and Replies" so 

 interesting- on aoother pag-e. In the main, It 

 will contain questions and answers upon mat- 

 ters that particularly interest beginners. — Ed. 



Sweet Clover— Other Honey Plants. 



1. Will sweet clover bloom the same sea- 

 son if sowed early in the spring ? 



2. If I should sow two acres of sweet 

 clover, five acres of Alsike. and five acres 

 of alfalfa, how many colonies of bees would 

 this pasture, while I have every other ad- 

 vantage — about every fourth tree is a bass- 

 wood ? It is a good country for white 

 clover, golden-rod, wild-rice, raspberries, 

 wild-grapes, willows, sumac, soft maple, 

 hard maple, box-elder, poplar, cottonwood, 

 burr-oak, and elms, with plenty of other 

 honey-weeds. W. G. 



Rockford, Minn. 



Answers. — 1. No, I've seen plenty of it 

 self-sown in the fall, and of course coming 

 up very early in the spring, but I never 

 knew it to blossom until the second year's 

 growth, and the next winter after bloom- 

 ing it always dies, root and branch. 



2. I don't know. Do you know whether 

 you can get any honey from alfalfa on 

 your land ? As you may prefer a rough 

 guess to no answer at all, I'll say that if 

 you had the 12 acres in bloom it might 

 support 50 colonies, but remember that's 

 nothing but a guess, and I reserve the right 

 to say 25 or 100 next time I am asked the 

 same question. I wish some one could give 

 us some reliable information about it. 



Small vs. Iiarge Hives, Etc. 



The advocates of 8-frame hives have 

 pretty thoroughly ventilated their side, so 

 he who runs may read. But I notice that a 

 few, even in the North, and with a honey- 

 flow which is quickly over, still prefer the 

 l(T-frame hive. 



1. Can you briefly present their side of 

 the case, somewhat as a judge would do 

 when charging a jury ? 



2. When the bees of a colony are all less 

 than 16 days old, of course no honey is 

 gathered (theoretically) ; when all are 

 older than 16 days, would they be apt to 



