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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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D. HILL, Evergreen Specialist, DUNDEE, ILL. 



4E61 Mention the American Bee JournaL 



the home market. I am talking of start- 

 ing an out-apiary in the spring. 



Now a few words ahout bee-keepers get- 

 ting new subscribers for the American Bee 

 Journal. I think the honey market quota- 

 tions in the bee Journal is one important 

 cause of not getting more subscribers. I 

 dare not let any of customers, nor anyone 

 in the vicinity of ray market, see the 

 Bee Journal, on account of the market 

 quotations, which are very much less than 

 we get at home. It is no way to create a 

 home market. On several occasions my 

 customers have gotten onto said quota- 

 tions, and would say, " Why, here honey is 

 quoted so and so." Then I would have to 

 make a little speech to hold my customers. 



Very much more might be said on this 

 side of the subject, but I will not take more 

 space now, but I consider this sufficient ex- 

 cuse for beekeepers who have a home mar- 

 ket, not scattering these market quota- 

 tions in their locality. B. W. Peck. 



Ashtabula Co., Ohio, Jan. 23. 



[Well, this is a new reason for not secur- 

 ing new subscribers — the first time we have 

 ever heard it advanced. But we think Mr. 

 Peck's " Peck of trouble " would be avoided 

 if he were to solicit subscriptions only 

 among those who already have bees. It is 

 not our intention to urge starting more 

 people in the bee-business, but only to get 

 every present bee-keeper to take the Bee 

 Journal, It will often be the means of 

 educating them so that they will not break 

 down a good home market, as they might 

 do if without the Bee Journal. It would 

 also help them to produce a nicer article, 

 perhaps.— Editor] 



Bees Wintering' Finely. 



My bees are wintering finely. We have 

 a big snowstorm to-day, and a big blow 

 with it. Up to this time we have had no 

 sleighing. Henuy Allet. 



Essex Co., Mass., Jan. 28. 



Honey the Surest Crop. 



I am wintering over 50 colonies of bees. 

 My last year's crop of honey was fairly 

 good. It does not seem to matter what 

 kind of a summer it is, I am the surest of 

 that crop of any. I have SO acres. 



I like the American Bee Journal very 

 much, and it is the first paper that I open 

 and read, usually, when receiving my mail. 

 HoMEu Scott. 



Oakland Co., Mich., Jan. 29. 



Keyiving Starved Bees. 



1 had an experience with a colony of bees 

 that was starved to death, as it were. My 

 brother, who lives one mile from me, last 

 summer caught two swarms of fine bees, 

 but one failed from some cause to get 

 enough to winter on. I told him to feed 

 them, and gave him the rule for feeding, as 

 I had learned it through the American Bee 

 Journal. But he failed to feed them till it 

 was too late. On Dec. 22 I was there and 

 askt him how his bees were getting along. 

 We went upstairs where be put tbeni ; he 

 opened the hive of the one that was short 

 of stores, and the bees were dead, for all 

 we could tell by looking at them. He was 

 going to brush tbem off the comb, and melt 



them up for wax, but I took some of the 

 bees in my hand till they were warm, and 

 they began to crawl around. I told him 

 they were not dead, but he would not be- 

 lieve it. Nevertheless, he told me I could 

 experiment with them, so I took them 

 downstairs and warmed them. Then I fol- 

 lowed the directions given in the "A B C of 

 Bee Culture" — sprinkled them with sweet- 

 ened water. It was amusing to see the 

 little things as soon as they were strong 

 enough to carry feed to their less fortunate 

 companions. I told his wife how to make 

 the "Good" candy, and by the time it 

 was made the bees came to life, as it were ; 

 they crawled upon the combs and were 

 buzzing away as merrily as if they had had 

 no mishap. We gave them the "Good" 

 candy, and put tbem down cellar. The last 

 I saw of them they were just roaring. 

 Ogle Co., III., Dec. 24. M. D. KiNlON. 



Winter Report. 



My (i8 colonies of bees in the cellar are 

 quiet with the temperature at 38 degrees, 

 while outdoors it was 10 degrees below zero 

 this morning, and 15 degrees below zero 

 yesterday morning. I also have some out- 

 side, with corn-stalks packt around; some 

 in double-walled hives, etc. 



Randolph Gbadbn. 



Wayne Co., Mich., Jan. 26. 



Preserving Comb Honey from Moth. 



On reading in the Bee Journal the dis- 

 cussion on preserving comb honey from 

 moth, I am compelled to differ from Mr. 

 Green, as to moth not bothering comb 

 honey except when pollen is present. Now 

 this may be the case in a cold climate, but 

 it will not do about here. The only safe- 

 guard here against the moth is ice and 

 strong colonies of bees. Last summer I 

 proved to my satisfaction that all honey 

 taken from the hives has moth-eggs depos- 

 ited on its surface, and if the desired heat 

 is attained they will batch and destroy the 

 honey. I took off some nice section honey 

 last July, and put some of it in a fly-proof 

 can, and some I put in a refrigerator. 

 (There was no pollen in any of it.) In a 

 few days that in the can showed the fine 

 dust of the moth, and I found very small 

 worms in the sections; while that in the 

 refrigerator had no worms or dust, yet the 

 eggs were on the honey, as I changed 

 places with the section, and the moths on 

 the section, when placed in the cold air, 

 ceast to make any more dust, but in a 

 short time the section which was in the 

 cold air first, and had no eggs batcht, when 

 placed in the can the eggs soon hatcht, and 

 the moth in his glory was at work eating 

 honey. 



1 found another lover of honey a few 

 days ago — it is a light-green worm, about 

 ■*H of an inch long. I will write about it 

 later. Howako Kisiiek. 



Ouachita Co., La., Jan. 20. 



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The fence here shown is made with tha Du- 

 plex Automatic Woven Wire Fence Machine, 

 which is made entirely of wood and malleable 

 Iron, and is so simple and easily operated that 

 anyone who knows how to turn a grindstone 

 can take it right Into the field or any place 

 and make 40 to CO rods of fence a day, horse- 

 high, bull-strong, pig, chicken and rabbit 

 tight, at a cost for the wire of only 12 to 20 

 cents a rod. It can be made in a variety of 

 styles or designs, using either plain or barb 

 wire for the the top and bottom margin wires, 

 and by using wire pickets, weaving them 

 right into the fabric, ornamental designs can 

 be made suitable not only for farm residences 

 but also city and suburban residences, 

 Messrs. KItselman Bros., KldgevIUe, Indiana, 

 whose advertisement appears elsewhere In 

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 Machine is the result of their 10 years' expe- 

 rience In the manufacture of woven wire 

 fence machines, and Is perfection itself. Send 

 for their illustrated catalogue, which fully 

 describes machine, and shows 24 different de- 

 signs of fence the machine will make. Don't 

 forget to mention that you saw their adver- 

 tisement in the American Bee Journal. 



The Reliable Heii.— The incubator busi- 

 ness is taking on astounding proportions. 

 This Is true in the use of the machines, as 

 well as in the manufacture of iucubators. 

 The latter business could not have attained 

 its present dimensions had It not been for the 

 success of the machines In actual practice all 

 over the country. There has been too much 

 success in ihe use of incubators and too much 

 money made by this process to claim, at this 

 late day, that the most improved incubators 

 are anything but successtul and profitable 

 when correctly managed. We are led to these 

 retlections by receiving the superb 168-page 

 catalogue of the Reliable Incubator Is Brooder 

 Co., Qulncy, III. Their machine Is one of the 

 most popular and most largely used. It Is 

 made In a careful and workmanlike manner 



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of the very Ijest materials. Too much cannot 

 b< said In favor of the Reliable regulator. 

 The regulator Is as near perfect as la possible 

 to attain. One of the strong points In favor 

 of this machine is that they are thoroughly 

 tested In constant pract Ice at the large poul- 

 try larms conducted by this concern. The 

 methods followed at these and other success- 

 ful poultry oBtabllshmeuts. together with full 

 directions concerning the management of In- 

 cubators and the poultry business in general, 

 are given in this 11th annual catalogue, 

 which may be obtained by any one who will 

 send 10 cents to the Uellable Incubator & 

 Brooder Co., Quincy, 111.; but it in writing 

 them you state that you are a subscriber to 

 the American Bee Journal you can get it 

 tree, and in that case need |not Inclose the 

 dime. 



