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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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that source), which will come quite handy 

 at the present time. 



This loss is a hard blow on us, hut we 

 wish to say to the readers of the " Old Reli- 

 able" that altho we feel a tittle " Imnged," 

 we are "still in the ring." We have one 

 apiary left, from which to supply our 

 queen-trade, till Mr. Van Allen can re-es- 

 tablish his apiary, which he will be able to 

 do by the first of June. He will buy bees 

 as near home as possible, and stock his api- 

 ary with (|ueens from the best breeders in 

 this country. He expects thereby to start 

 up with the very best strains of bees ob- 

 tainable. 



Calls for price-lists of extractors have 

 been coming in all winter, but since the 

 appearance of our advertisement in the 

 American Bee Journal, calls have come 

 "thick and fast." Early in the winter we 

 made what we thought was ample provision 

 for our next season's business, but it begins 

 to look as if it was going to hustle us to 

 keep up with the increase of trade. 



The prospect for the bee-business in this 

 locality was never better at this time of 

 year. Last night the rain took off nearly 

 all the snow, and today the white clover 

 looks green and fresh. 



V.1N Allen & Willi.\ms. 



Crawford Co., Wis., March 19. 



A Beginner's Report. 



I started last spring with five colonies of 

 hybrid bees. I lost one colony with moths, 

 increast to 13, and took ofl: 220 pounds of 

 honey. I put them into an outer apart- 

 ment of my cellar, where they are shut off 

 entirely from the vegetable cellar, and 

 where they are not disturbed • unless we 

 take a peep at them to see bow they are 

 getting along. When the mercury was 

 from 10 to 3.5 degrees below zero for a num- 

 ber of days, it froze some in their apart- 

 ment, but when the weather moderated it 

 soon warmed up again. At this writing 

 (March HI) they are all alive and appar- 

 ently getting along nicely. 



I have various styles of hives, obtained 

 of different farmers or bee-men who are 

 not " up to the times." Most of them are 

 one foot high, and of various sizes, gener- 

 ally 17'4 inches long and 12 or 14 inches 

 wide, inside. 1 want to adopt a uniform 

 size, regardless of the ones I have. What 

 size is best ; Are eight or ten frame hives 

 to he preferred ? 



I have about eight acres in berries and 

 purpose to combine bee-keeping with small 

 fruit culture. The hail, however, destroyed 

 my berry crop last year, but I am hoping 

 for better success in the future. 



Winneshiek Co., Iowa. John Ridley. 



[Hives taking a frame the Langstroth 

 size or there about— !)'^ deep, by 17^^ long 

 — are most generally in use. Experts are 

 not fully agreed which is to be preferred, 

 the S or the 10 frame hive. But some think 

 that the majority will finally come to the 

 lO-frame hive.— Editor.] 



Honey-Can Caps— Drawn Combs. 



I have been tempted several times to en- 

 ter a protest against the cap of cans in gen- 

 eral use for extracted honey. The caps in 

 general use are about one to 1 '4 inches in 

 diameter, and I would prefer them at least 

 two orS'j inches, and will give my h7i// for 

 so large a cap: 



In reducing honey when candied or gran- 

 ulated to a liquid state by heating, the 

 honey expands, and it is necessary to get 

 some out of the can by some means, and to 

 my notion the cap should be large enough 

 to admit with ease a tablespoon or small 

 cream ladle. I bought, last fall, four cans 

 of honey, and one can was double capt. the 

 larger cap nearly three inches, but three of 

 the cans 1 could not get a teaspoon into, 

 and therefore it was very annoying. I hope 

 those who practice extracting will insist on 

 manufacturers using larger sized caps on 

 cans for honey. 



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Memorial Cards ! 



(Willi Portrait ou tlieiu) 



For presentation upon the death of a dear 

 one. to relatives and friends, have come into 

 vog:ue quite g-enerally of late years among- 

 the American people. We furnieh tbem to 

 order. Send for free illustrated circular and 

 price-list. Prompt and satisfactory work at 

 living prices. Address, 



O. S. rXTER & CO., 

 Times BuUdln^r, - Chicago, Ills. 



WANTED— ATTENTION I 



^lEE HEKE, Fiiend Bee-Keeper. the best 

 )o ^oods are none too good, and the lowest 

 prices are none too low lor the present times, 

 so down po the prices for 1897 on Full Line 

 ol' Bee-KeeperN' Supplies, 



1 defy compotiiinn In quality and workman- 

 ship. \Vorkiiii£ Wax into Foundation when 

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

 tor Catalopr. My pri(_-e8 are worth looking- at. 

 Wax wanted at 2fW' rnth. or 29c In trade, de- 

 livered. August "Weiss, Hortonville, Wis. 



6 A 8 1 Mtnl ion the A mericon Bee Journal, 



Pacific Coast Bee-Keepers ! 



liUY YOUR 



Dovetailed Cedar Hives 



IJirect from the Factory. Guaranteed equal 



to the liesl poods on the market. 



HenA lor Price-Lliit. 



Bawson & Earner, Centralia, Wash. 



10Ai:!t Mention the Am. Hee Journal. 



honey, and do very little extracting; un- 

 finisht sections is the only extracting I do, 

 and the past season it amounted to about 

 four cans of HO pounds each, t therefore 

 have a fair supply of drawn comb in sec- 

 tions for the coming season, which I con- 

 sider prime stock to carry over, and if I only 

 had it in sullicient quantity I would insure 

 many dollars otherwise lost, not excepting 

 the best foundation yet produced. 



We are now expecting, yes, patiently 

 waiting, for the new era — foundation equal 

 to drawn comb is promist. Dr. Miller, like 

 all others, hopes for it. The A. 1. Itoot Co. 

 promises it. Who can doubt we are to en- 

 joy it ? So whoop it up all along the line 

 until we get it, and then— but say (don't 

 tell it) nothing yet produced by man is 

 equal to comb built wholly by the bee ! 



J. S. Habtzbll. 



Somerset Co., Pa., Feb. 33. 



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Texas Queens ! 



Dr. Gallup sajs they are the best he 

 has In his yurd 



J. II. (JIVENW, LIxbnn, Tex. 



Mention the Ucc Journal. n.V"^6t, 



A Hellish Business. 



The Cleveland Journal and Bulletin says 

 that a gentleman of that city attended the 

 meeting of the Ohio State Liquor League, 

 and took down in his notebook the follow- 

 ing extract from the speech of one of the 

 officers of the League: 



'■ It will appear from these facts, gentle- 

 men, that the success of our business is de- 

 pendent largely upon the creation of an 

 appetite for drink. Men who drink liquor, 

 like others, will die, and it there is no new 

 appetite created, our counters will be 

 empty, as will be our coffers. Our children 

 will go hungry, or we must change our 

 business for something more remunerative. 



"The open field for the creation of this 

 appetite is among the boys. After men are 

 grown, and their habits are formed, they 

 rarely ever change in this regard. It will 

 be needful, therefore, that missionary work 

 be done among the boys, and I make the 

 suggestion, gentlemen, that nickels ex- 

 pended in treats to the boys now will re- 

 turn in dollars to your tills after the appe- 

 tites have been formed. Above all things, 

 create appetite." 



[The above we take from a recent copy 

 of the Epworth Herald, of this city. Just 

 read those two quoted paragraphs again, 

 emphasizing every word, and see if you 

 think any one need apologize for being the 

 rankest kind of a prohibitionist or anti- 

 saloon man. We hope no bee-keeper can 

 read those fiendish words without resolv- 

 ing henceforth to wage eternal death to the 

 hellish liquor-traffic. We have no boys of 

 our own ihat the saloon devils can " treat " 

 and destroy, but we are glad to help save 

 somebody's else's boys, if we can, from a 

 drunkards grave and a drunkard's doom.— 

 Editor.] 



A Glorious Honey- Year. 



As tar back as I can remember I never 

 saw such a glorious honey-year as was 

 18',m;. During June the white clover blos- 

 soms made our pastures look as it they 

 were covered with snow. Bees fairly 

 swarmed in with loads of sweetness that 

 would go to waste it not for them. My 

 average crop of the season was 110 pounds 

 per colonv. spring count, or ."» pounds fall 

 count. A swarm that issued June 4. filled 

 two supers of -4 pounds each, by July 1.5, 

 and closed the season with -ST pounds of 

 comb honey to their credit. My bees 

 doubled in number, as will be shown by my 

 spring and fall count average. They are 

 all wintering nicely on the summer stands. 

 After taking olT all surplus arrangements I 

 place back the empty super and raise the 

 cover about 1-1'i of an inch, then cover all 

 but the front of the hive with about one 

 foot of straw. Since adopting this plan I 

 have lost but one colony. 



I make the hive-stands by setting four 

 short posts i) feet apart east and west, and 

 IS inches apart north and south, then I nail 

 two fence-planks, 10 feet long, one to each 



