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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 25, 



ing the grape season of last year. There 

 was no honey coming in. the bees were 

 short of stores, and searching for sweets in 

 every direction. They did not bother the 

 grapes, however, until the chidren started 

 them by plucking berries from the bunches, 

 then even the hulls scattered about the 

 arbor were a mass of bees. 



With some fear as to what the result 

 might be. I crusbt a part of the berries on 

 quite a number of bunches, and they were 

 soon covered with bees, piling over each 

 other in their haste to lick up the juices, 

 but. to my surprise. I found the grapes 

 with torn skins the only ones destroyed. 

 Perhaps they did not stop to reason, or it 

 might have been worse, for I have clogged 

 the hive-entrance with grapes, and they 

 went through them without my assistance. 



It is said that beekeepers want their bees 

 proven innocent of this charge, and when 

 answering the query are not always actu- 

 ated by an honest desire to make plain the 

 truth. So my bit of experience along this 

 line can be taken for what it is worth. 



A. B. Baird. 



Fayette Co., Pa., Jan. 28. 



Besults of the Past Season, Etc. 



From 14 colonies I took 100 gallons of 

 extracted honey and .WO pounds of comb 

 honey, besides increasing to 30 colonies. 

 The Bee Journal is growing better every 

 week. I am with it. tooth and nail, to down 

 all the frauds and adulterators. There is 

 one firm in St. Joseph, Mo., whose agent 

 peddles his glucose stuff all over this 

 county— three little glasses for 2.5 cents, 

 with a little honey-comb in the top. They 

 buy these glucose glasses in St. Joseph at 

 $1 10 per hundred pounds. 



Ray Co., Mo. March 1. C. F. Bowen. 



Hands Poisoned by Propolis. 



On page 778 (1896), R. K. asks the ques- 

 tion. ""Does the propolis we clean off the 

 sections poison a person's skin." I am 

 quite sure it does, for I was poisoned last 

 fall. When cleaning sections some of the 

 propolis settled under my wrapper sleeve. 

 and before I realized it my skin began to 

 raise a watery blister ; it smarted and 

 itcht almost the same as poisou-ivy. and 

 has had the same effect on other occasions. 

 Bee-stings poison me severely. I have to 

 be protected when at work in the bee-yard. 



Rochester, N. Y. J. H. B. 



Getting Bees from a Bee-Tree. 



On page .'>4. E. M. L. wishes to know how 

 to get bees from a bee-tree. If I were to 

 cut that beetree, I would provide myself 

 with 'j yard mosquito-bar, and about .W 

 sticks 9:',i' inches in length, if frames are 

 93'«- so they can be tight top and bottom, 

 to tie with fine wire. String is offensive 

 to the bees. Then I would want one board 

 as big as the frames. 



About the first of May I would do it, as 

 this is the time of year you can't very well 

 destroy a colony of bees — you may kill the 

 queen, and nearly all the bees, and yet 

 have a big colony in the fall. 



When you get to the tree, see which way 

 it should fall, so the combs will not all 

 smash up. You can vary the falling of the 

 tree a little. Have the place clear, no logs 

 for it to fall on. When cutting it, when it 

 starts to go, don't chop any more. 



When the tree is down, take your time 

 and put that ) .'. yard of mosquito-bar over 

 your hat, and tie a string over the luos- 

 quito-bar, so the bees can't get at your 

 face. Tie a string around the sleeve at 

 each wrist, so the bees can't run up. Keep 

 your hands bare. 



Now move up to the hole in the tree 

 everything that you brought. Cut in, or 

 off, the tree around and below the bees, 

 and if you can split it in halves all the bet- 

 ter, if not, split till you can get at the 

 honey. Give that friend all the honey you 

 can, but be sure that you don't give him 



OF THE, 



rAPMEPS 

 WIFE 





^^ 



ARE 

 MANY 



and often seem to 

 be greater than sho 

 isabletobcar. This 

 is doubly true when 

 sickness comes to hor 

 and l"aves In Its wako 

 that condition of lassi- 

 tude which bespeaks a 

 broken down condition. 

 The most fruitful causes of 

 these condit ions are 

 FEMALE COMPAINTS, 

 Bright's Disease, 

 Urinary Troubles, 

 General Debility, 

 AND Malaria. 

 A sure and effectual remedy 

 for these and all diseases result- 

 ing from disordered Kidneys and 

 lilver is 



It is a purely vegetable prep- 

 aration that has cured thou- 

 sands and will cure you. 



Large sized bottles or now style 

 smaller ones at your nearest store. 



WHEN AnSWERPNG this AOVt RTISEMEMT. MEHTIOH THIS JOURNM. 



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WANTED -ATTENTION ! 



^EE HERE, Fiiend Bee-Keeper, the best 

 k5 t'oods are none too good, and the lowest 

 prices are none too low lor the present times, 

 so down go the prices for 189" on Full Line 

 of Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



1 defv competillon In quality aud workman- 

 ship. Working Wax into Foundatlou when 

 sent to me, a specially. Write, without fail, 

 lor Catalog. My prices are worth looking al. 

 Wax wanted at 2(ic caBh. or 29c In ti-ade, de- 

 livered. August Weiss, Hortonville, Wis. 



6 A8t Mention the American Bee JoumaL 



Pacific Coast Bee-Keepers ! 



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Dovetailed Cedar Hives 



Direct from the Kiutory. (iuaranteed equal 



to the best goods on the market. 



Send lur Prlre-lilftt. 



Bawson & Barner, Centralia, 'Wash. 



lOAl.'U Mention the Am. Hee .lournal. 



Golden 

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Texas Queens 



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any young bees, as they are not good to 

 eat. and are very good in your business. 



Now lay down the board and get the 

 sticks, which should be about as big around 

 as lead pencils. Lay on the boards as many 

 of the sticks as is necessary to hold the 

 comb in place, and lay one frame on the 

 sticks, then fill the frame with comb that 

 has brood in it. Cut out as much honey as 

 possible, as it is too heavy. Use everything 

 that has brood in, capt of uncapt. 



When you get the frame full, take the 

 wire and tie the tops and bottoms of the 

 sticks together. Take the board and frame, 

 turn it edgewise, hold the frame up. let the 

 board down, and set the frame in the hive. 



Fill as many frames as you can, and set 

 the hive right where you got the honey out, 

 and get in as many bees as you can. If 

 you can't get them all in, let them stand 

 until night, and when they get all cleaned 

 up, and themselves cleaned off, they will 

 go in, when you can fasten the frames so 

 they will not shake. Fasten up the hive, 

 nail down the cover, take a piece of the 

 mosquito-bar, and two slats, and tack over 

 the entrance so the bees can get plenty o£ 

 air. 



Cut the tree in the forenoon. A man 

 who is not well informed on bees should 

 not cut it when bees don't get plenty of 

 honey in the fields, as there may be rob- 

 bing. Peter Steinebach. 



Clark Co., Wis. 



Working on the 'Willows. 



I have 8 colonies in hives 17'o'xl2xl2, with 

 9 standing frames, all redwood. The hive 

 bodies are dovetailed, so that when put to- 

 gether and not nailed they will bear up 

 one's weight cornerwise. and will not give 

 a hair. The entrances are Sx^, ; no rob- 

 bing, I assure you. although some full- 

 length entrance hives near here are rob- 

 bing all the time. I have a li.,'-inch hole 

 bored in the bottom-board near the back, 

 and a 1-inch hole near the top, screened, 

 for ventilation. The bees have been work- 

 ing strong for about a month on willow, 

 but I think it is mostly for pollen. 



One house near here has 7 colonies in it. 

 that I intend taking out. besides several 

 others. Fruit-bloom is a good, early crop 

 here. R- H. Yeabnshaw. 



Sacramento Co., Cal., Feb. '3S. 



Dr. Gallup says they are the best ho 

 has In his yard. 



J. D. (ilVENS, lil'>bon, Tex. 



Mention the Bee Journal. OA'JGt, 



High Water Interferes. 



Spring breeding in this (Vanderburgh) 

 county has been seriously handicapt by 

 heavy rains, every day, thus preventing 

 bees "from gathering pollen, and compelling 

 us to resort to feeding bian for pollen in 

 covered places, sheltered from the winds, 

 in order to stimulate the colonies and get 

 the working force strong enough in time to 

 gather the anticipated heavy flow from 

 white clover. The b.ockwaters of the Ohio 

 river threatened to destroy my entire api- 

 ary, as the hives were only 3 or 3 feet 

 above the water level, the water rising so 

 rapidly on the night of Feb. '.28, that the 

 next morning we found our cows lying in a 

 foot of water. This overflow always in- 

 sures us a heavy crop of fine honey from 

 the "dry- weather honey-vine" and fall 

 flowers. J. C. Wallenmevek. 



Vanderburgh Co.. Ind., March 12. 



Apis Dorsata Again. 



I feel very anxious about that giant bee 

 of India— Apis dorsata. For my part, I 

 would like to have them tried in the United 

 States, and as it is too big an undertaking 

 for any individual, how could they better 

 be brought than by the Government >. And 

 it .seems to me that the bee-keeping frater- 

 nity should have a sole voice in the matter 

 of who shall be procured to do the work of 

 getting them safely here. Just why the 

 Lincolu meeting so denounced this proposed 

 undertaking I do not know. Surely it is 

 not because Frank Benton has apparently 

 not acted rightly toward the interests of 

 bee-keepers. This being true, would be 



