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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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We can furnish 'Wliite Alfalfa Extracted Honey, in 60-pound tin cans, on 

 board cars in Chicago, at these prices : 1 can, in a case, 7>2 cents per pound ; 2 cans 

 in one case, 7 cents ; 4 cans (2 cases) or more, 6J-2 cents. The Cash mu3t accom- 

 pany each order. Fine Bass^rood Flavor Honey at '4 cent more when in 

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 cents, to cover postage, packing, etc. We guarantee purity. 



Now it seems to us here is a splendid chance for any bee-keeper to supply his 

 home demand after his own crop is all sold. Or, why not begin now to create a 

 local honey-trade ? Order one 60-pound can first, and start out among your neigh- 

 bors and friends, and see what you can do. You ought to get at least 12 cents per 

 pound in 5-pound lots, or 40 cents for 3 pounds. Some may be able to do even 

 better than that, though we think that enough ought to be sold at these prices to 

 make a fairly paying business out of It. Give it a good trial. Push it. It may 

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Qcx;)eral Uenps^ 



Clovers in G-ood Condition. 



The weather is fine, and. the snow on the 

 ground is five inches deep. 1 moved my 

 bees 15 miles on the mudboat and did not 

 lose a single bee. I find them in good con- 

 dition, and there is a fine prospect for a 

 nice honey-flow this year. White and 

 crimson clovers are in good condition. 



John V. Emmert. 



Boone Co., Ind., Jan. 23. 



Size of Apis Corsata. 



While looking at the respective engrav- 

 ings of the Apis doisata (worker and 

 drone), as given in Bulletin No. 1, by 

 Frank Benton, the thought struck me that 

 with all that had been said, pro and con, 

 about this wonderful bee, there may have 

 been something overlookt. By the pic- 

 tures you would suppose they were very 

 nearly the same size, while their length is 

 the same. We have just been priding our- 

 selves that we had overcome that drone 

 business, by the use of full sheets of foun- 

 dation. Now we don't want to fall clear 

 downstairs after climbing so high. 



Will some one who has seen it, or knows 

 something of the bee, please give us a little 

 light on the subject ? A Readek. 



Report for the Season of 1896. 



I commenced last spring with seven colo- 

 nies, six strong in bees but no honey; the 

 other was very weak in bees, and I had to 

 feed them till the last of June to keep them 

 going. Then basswood came. Talk about 

 honey coming in ! I never saw the like. 

 They filled a set of extracting-combs and 

 all the spare room in the brood-chamber. 

 I sent for six queens to an Illinois breeder; 

 he sent me five by return mail ; four were 

 all right, but one was nearly dead when 

 she arrived. The other came in due time, 

 safe and sound. 



I heard of a bee-tree being cut in the 

 neighborhood, so I took advantage of that. 

 I got the queen and introduced her all 

 right. From the time basswood com- 

 menced till the middle of September the 

 bees did well. 1 now have i;^ colonies in 

 the cellar, strong in young bees, and with 

 plenty of good honey, besides all my fam- 

 ily can use. S. F. Skaifb. 



Dubuque Co., Iowa, Des. 30. 



Poisonous Honey — Storing Over Brood 



I read the article on poisonous honey, 

 written by Dr. W. M. Stell, on page l')2(>, 

 1890. Now, I came from Pennsylvania, 

 and have seen lots of mountain laurel, and 

 bees at work on it, and 1 never heard of the 

 honey killing anyone. I think it the Doc- 

 tor had taken the nectar deposited in the 

 flowers, instead of the flowers and leaves, 

 he would not have suffered so much pain, 

 and worried so much about the boy. On 

 the same principle, you might say a maple 

 tree would not make sugar because you 

 cannot make it out of the leaves ; or a may- 

 apple is poisonous because we know the 

 roots are. I do not think our friend, the 

 Doctor, can find a pound of poisonous 

 honey in his yard, altho his bees workt on 

 laurel, unless he fed them extract of the 

 leaves. 



In the " Question-Box " there is a ques- 

 tion in regard to storing honey over the 

 brood. I cannot agree entirely with the 

 answers, altho by some of our leading bee- 

 men. They say the bees try to get as far 

 from the entrance as possible. I cut six 

 bee-trees, and saw four more cut the past 

 summer. In every case the honey was 

 above the brood : in two cases there was a 

 small cavity above the entrance, which 

 was filled with honey, and the queen was 

 below with her brood, some 10 or 12 inches. 

 The comb above was old, and that below 



