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Page & Lyon Mfg. Co. 



Ne-w London, 



Wisconsin, 



Operates two sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thus 

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Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



They have also one One of tbe Larg-est Factories and the latest 

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Bee-Hives, Sections, Etc., 



that there is in the State. The material is cut from patterns, by machinery, 

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GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



seen — queen and all gone. I then lookt at 

 the other hive that I had given a comb with 

 eggs, and no queen to be found there, but 

 they had started worker-brood. I then 

 took the " A B C of Bee-Culture," and 

 there I found a remedy. I put an empty 

 hive in its place as nearly the same in color 

 as possible: then I took the othercolony off 

 about 10 rods, shook all tbe bees in the 

 grass, and returned tbe comb to the empty 

 hive, till I got all the combs back, save one 

 that contained worker-brood. I then gave 

 them a queen-cell ready to batch, and in 

 about -18 hours the queen %Tas out. I waited 

 till she became fertile, then I gave them a 

 frame of brood. By fall I had a good col- 

 ony. 



Now I will return to my nucleus : I took 

 the comb of brood and gave it to another 

 colony, and in due time they all hatcht. 



The 30 colonies all sent out a prime 

 swarm. One of the swarms clustered on a 

 tree in the city. I had enough swarms 

 later on to make me 75 colonies, but some 

 were rather light. 



I got -100 pounds of comb honey, mostly 

 basswood and clover, and 200 of extracted. 

 Clover lookt splendid the first of this 

 month, then it was coTered with snow. We 



are having splendid sleighing at this date. 

 Tbe mercury on the 24th, at sunrise, was at 

 zero; on the 25th, 6 degrees below, with 

 high winds. Jacob Moore. 



Ionia Co., Mich., Jan. 28. 



Svtrrounded -with Honey-Plants. 



I have built a small house and a good hen 

 house on two acres, where there are large 

 fields of alfalfa all around, acres of the 

 common white sweet clover within a few 

 hundred yards, with a good lot of cleome 

 growing in the unbroken pasture above the 

 ditch and ditch banks, roadsides, etc., be- 

 side a pretty varied wild flora due to dirty 

 farming and unused patches ; and plenty of 

 Cottonwood and willows on the ditch bank 

 and Lapoudre river. 



Weld Co., Colo. Walter A. Varian. 



Are Bees Domestic Animals ? 



To the above question I answer no, not if 

 I understand the meaning of " domestic." 



1st. Because you cannot tame them as 

 you do other animals. For instance, the 

 bees in tbe timber are just as tame as those 



in tbe hive, and tbe bees in the hive will 

 sting just as readily as the bees in the tim- 

 ber. 



2nd. They are not domestic animals be- 

 cause there is no assurance of their remain- 

 ing; they may be in your hive to day and 

 somewhere else to-morrow, and you cannot 

 identify them unless you follow them from 

 your hive to where they go. It your cow 

 or horse goes to your neighbor, you go and 

 identify your property. 



iird. But the bee is an animal in every 

 sense of the word, because it belongs to the 

 animal kingdom. In nature we have three 

 kingdoms only — the animal, mineral and 

 vegetable — and the bee is not mineral nor 

 vegetable, so it must be animal. But some 

 say it is a bug or insect. What is an insect 

 if not an animal ? Four or five years ago 

 the board of supervisors in our county con- 

 cluded they would tax bees, because they 

 were profitaljle to the farmer. Part of the 

 assessors assest them, and part did not, and 

 the board were afraid to try the merits of 

 the case in court, and dropt the case, and 

 did not assess bees any more. 



The bee is not taxable property in Iowa, 

 because all animals must be six months old 

 in order to be taxable property— except 

 dogs, and they are not taxt according to 

 value, but per capita. So I take the posi- 

 tion that tlie honey-bee is an animal, but 

 not a domestic animal. O. P. Miller. 



Guthrie Co., Iowa. 



Wintering Bees. 



I put my bees into winter quarters Nov. 

 17, 1S96. I put 18 colonies into a shed open 

 to the south, with cushions, etc., on top of 

 the frames, with the supers on. Tbe hives 

 are about IS inches apart, packt between 

 and at the back with straw, und covered 

 over with blankets, old sheep-skins, etc. I 

 have 10 colonies in the cellar, where I al- 

 ways wintered my bees before this, but I 

 am getting old, and it is hard work to carry 

 bees in and out of the cellar. I thought I 

 would try the shed for some of them. I 

 left one chaff hive on the summer stand, 

 and one colony in a large, hollow log. 1 

 got my son and his hired band to roll it in- 

 to the bee-yard, and set it up, and I painted 

 it and put it in good shape, just for fun, 

 and to see what they will do. If they ever 

 fill it, I will put supers on the top. 



My bees all seem to be doing well so far. 

 They had a good flight on New Year's day. 

 They came out some to-day. I nailed up 

 boards on tbe south side of the shed to 

 shade tbe hives from the sun. One bee- 

 keeper said I would better shut the bees in 

 their hives so they can't fly out and get 

 chilled. Noah Miller. 



Iowa Co., Iowa, Feb. 3. 



Books on Keeping 'WeU. 



In a letter from Illinois, dated Jan. 26, 

 the writer wishes me to tell in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal how to cook. etc. Now it 

 appears to me that he wants to know what 

 is the proper kind of food, and how much, 

 and when is tbe proper time to eat, etc. 

 Then, again, I am requested by many to 

 write a cook-book on my method of treat- 

 ment. Well, I have no time to write a 

 cookbook, or any other book, at present, 

 and then tbe American Bee Journal is not 

 the proper periodical in which to publish 

 such subjects. Now there is any quan- 

 tity of excellent books publisht, and if the 

 public will only read them, and then put 

 their precepts into practice, there will be 

 no necessity of being sick. Sickness of all 

 kinds is certainly avoidable. Now I pro- 

 pose to tell the readers of the American 

 Bee Journal a few of those books that I can 

 recommend. 



Dr. Emmett Densmore. an English physi- 

 cian's book, " How Nature Cures," single 

 copy, ?2.00, postpaid. It is an excellent 

 work. It tells how to treat all kinds of 

 fevers without medicine, what the natural 

 food of man is, etc. — just what one wants. 



Then there is the " New Methods in 

 Health and Disease Without the Use of 

 Drugs," by Dr. W. E. Forrest, 270 pages. 



