1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



157 



KEYSTONE : 



WOVEN WIRE FENCE. • 



IS .vtiOOl) irXCE— niadefrnnitlRhest • 



»*t«M'l wirooT exactly the i'r<>i'«-i-xv€Mi;Ut; • 



a.liM'i^ii^'ii' to any ik-trree oflioat orcold, • 



expan«linffan-u-butractme. Intake up all • 



slack. 25 tDf.s ill. liifh. Kct'ps all kin cUiftitock • 



ill ui-out. S( iulInrljcel>n<.kon ft-m-p build in*?. • 



KEYSTONE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., • 



No. 3 i;u li SMi. t, rculMU. Ill, • 



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 Life Insurance Company 



DES MOINES, IOWA. 



The Iowa Policy 



Is one that definitely promises to keep an 

 accurate account with you ; credit your 

 premiums and Interest, charge the actual 

 expense and mortuary cost, and hold the 

 remaining funds subject to your order. 

 AgeulH Wanted. 



JOHN B. KING. General Agent. 

 Suite 513 First Nat'l Bank Bld'g, 

 20Att CHlCAfiO, ll-l.. 



RIG MONEY IN POULTRY 



jlPet Stock and lucubutors if conducted 



/.iccordiuti to "The Chautauqua 

 i Guide to Big Profits" ju^t out uud 



I sent postpaid with our lsti7 Calsiloeue 

 forJc to help pay postaue.etc. Pest ei;H9 

 and stock cost no more if purchased of 

 u-i, you can then sell ^o^l^ product to 

 nd th"'isands others for hiL'h fanc> prices, 

 iiwu 3t>*l acres most eleiraiitly jidapted to 

 ■=poi.ltry. CHAUTAUQUA POULTRY &. 

 PET STOCK FARM, Box 17 KENNEDY, N.Y 

 TAi;j Jdentiori the American Bee JuumcU, 



Our '97 Cataloff 



— OF — 



Apiarian Supplies, Bees, Etc. 



Is yours for the asking. 



It Is lull of Information. fW Write for It. 



I. J. STRINGHAm, 



105 Park Place. NEW YORK, N. Y. 



Apuky— Glen Cove, L. I. 



Our Prices 



ARE WORTH 

 LOOKING AT 



NEW CHAMPION CHAFF HIVE 



especially. All other Supplies accordins-ly. 

 Send for Catalog and Price-Li^t. Address, 



B. H. SCHMIDT & CO., 



48Atf Box 187, Shebdyoas. Wig. 



Mention tlie Amcrlctm liee lonniai. 



ySi! Beeswax 



For all the Good, Pure Y'ello'w 



BeeS'wax delivered to our oflice till 

 further notice, we will pay A-i cents per 

 pound, CASH; or 28 cents for whatever 

 part Is exchanged for the Bee Journal, 

 Honey, Books or Seed, that we offer. If 

 you w'ant casli, promptly, for your 

 Beeswax, send it on at once. Impure 

 wax not taken at auj- price. Address as 

 follows, very plainly, 



GEO. W. YORK & CO. 



118 Michigan St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



was 215 pounds ; the highest gain in one 



day was 11 pounds. 



Iproduce mostly extracted honey, which 

 I sell at 80 cents a gallon. I sell my comli 

 honey at 10 cents a pound. 1 always put 

 ray bees out ou the summer stands just 

 after the first of March. 



Hurrah for sweet clover! Sow it on the 

 roadside; it is better than ragweeds. 



Henry Co., 111., I-'eb. 18. J. F. Wihth. 



Ants and Bees— A Fine Place. 



A colony of large red ants attackt a col- 

 ony of my bees one night in January, and 

 killed the whole of them. About as many, 

 in quantity, of the ants were killed as of 

 bees. I took HO pounds of comb honey from 

 the vacated hive. Tiiis same colony was 

 troubled with moth-worms last fall, and to 

 experiment 1 put a naptha moth-ball in it 

 on the floor. While taking the honey from 

 this hive I watcht carefully, and not a 

 trace of the worm could I fine. 



My bees have wintered without the 

 slightest protection ; and tor the past three 

 weeks they have been as "busy as bees," 

 gathering and bringing in pollen (and I 

 suppose honey, too) from the wild currant 

 blossoms. Many other shrubs and trees 

 will soon be in bloom, also the wild flowers 

 — the latter having begun already. This 

 particular location is certainly a fine one for 

 bees. Just think of it — you of the North — 

 only about 6 or 7 days of the winter that 

 the bees have not flown 1 



Mhs. M. M. Dunnegan. 



San Patrice Co., Tex., Feb. 36. 



Some Alsike Clover Questions. 



1. Is the hay of Alsike clover as good 

 after it matures seed as it is before seeding? 



2. Is it killed in the crook, or just after it 

 sprouts, as easily as red clover, should a 

 freeze or drouth strike It ? 



3. If it is never cut for hay will it re-seed 

 itself ? 



4. Does it afford bee-pasture the first 

 year ? W. A. J. S. 



Sumner Co., Teun. 



[On account of his extensive experience 

 with Alsike clover, we askt Mr. Frank 

 Coverdale, of Iowa, to reply to the above 

 questions, which he did, as follows; — Ed.] 



1. Alsike clover holds its greenness until 

 the seed is ripe enough to cut, and I think 

 it makes the best hay at that time. 



2. I never had any field of Alsike either 

 dry out or freeze out. I have one field now 

 4 years old. and in fine shape. Some years 

 ago I saw a flue field of it cut for seed, and 

 it all died at once. I never knew such a 

 thing to happen before, or since. 



3. If it is allowed to ripen so that some 

 seed shatters off, it always re-seeds very 

 thickly. 



4. If sown by itself, or with winter wheat 

 or barley, and the season is a wet one, 

 then bees work freely upon it in August 

 and September, but it doesn't yield honey 

 like it does in June the following season. 



Frank Coverdale. 



An Experience with Bees. 



I started in bee-keeping two years ago. 

 With the assistance of the ''old reliable" 

 Bee Journal, and with careful managemeut, 

 my efforts have been successful so far. 



In the spring of l^'.i.Jlpurchast 4 colonies, 

 increast to 21 that season, and harvested 

 400 pounds of comb honey. I then built 

 what I call a model bee-cellar, which will 

 comfortably hold M colonies, in which I 

 wintered my bees without the loss of a 

 single colony. Having 21 to start with last 

 spring, I increast by natural swarming to 

 50 colonies, and harvested SCO pounds of 

 comb honey, which 1 sold in my local mar- 

 kets at from 12-.; to 15 cents. 



1 use the Sframe dovetail hive with the 

 Hoffman frames. 



My bees are wintering nicely. My self- 

 regulating bee-cellar has kept the tempera- 



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I'or 8iil4' Jit Low Prices siikI 



The Illinois Central Railroad Company otfers 

 for sale on easy terms and at low prices. 150- 

 000 acres of choice fruit, gardening, farm and 

 grazing lands located in 



SOUTHERN iimm. 



They are also largely interested In, and call 

 especial attention to the 600,000 acres of land 

 in the famous 



YAZOO VALLEY 



OF MISSISSIPPI 



lying along and owned by the Yazoo & Miss- 

 issippi Valley Railroad Company, and which 

 that company oflers at low prices and on long 

 terms. Special Inducements and facilities 

 offered to go and examine these lauds, both 

 in Southern Illinois and in the " Yaz )0 Val- 

 ley," Miss. For further description, map, and 

 any information, address or call upon E. P. 

 SKENE, Land Commissioner, No. 1 Park 

 Row. Chicago, 111. 8K6t 



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 111^' cuts, descriptions anil prices of 4,'i of 

 ilic-leading varielicsof Fancy Fowls, with 

 anportantlnnts on the careof poultry, and 

 hundreds of rpcipesof great v^iliu". Over 

 liHMl premiums won .il Ifadinj: shows. 

 I'rieex K«>diifpd One-Fourth. Finest IhxiIc 

 on! Price only lOc. Wdl reiurn money 

 if n-il salisfiiclnrv. A'Mre-«. 

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AIentio7i the American Bee Journa',, 



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iWOVEN WM.FENCE! 



Best on Karlh. Iloix-liiuh. Iliiir- 



slron^.n^undi'hirkcn-liLrhl. With I 



our UIFLKX ArrOlH-ilH' ainchine « 



vmi can make 60 r>"i>,a dav f"i J 



12 to 20 cts. a Rod.! 



O.cr 50 ,l>lc'». <:iI:.l,.i,-ilo Klvi-. T 



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B..J lis. Ridgeville, Intl. T 



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CnP QAI F •*' BeevUle, Tex.-300 i olo- 

 run OnLL iilcs of Qrst-class Italian 1! -c-i. 

 JOOO cash, to close out. Address, J 



10A4 S. A. LEEDS, Avery iKlaiid, L.i. 



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