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district, we are sure of a honey crop every 

 year, l)ut soiuetimes it is better than others, 

 but there has never been a total failure of 

 honey since the country has been settled. 



Frank Wixo. 



Mks. Floua Wing. 

 Montrose Co., Colo., March 26. 



A Beginner's Report. 



I have only one colony of black bees in 

 a Langstroth hive, which I purchast last 

 summer. I got 50 pounds of comb honey, 

 but no swarms, I thought of dividing this 

 spring, but all bee-keepers here advise me 

 not to do it. but to let them swarm. It 

 seems they did not have much success with 

 dividing. I wintered my colony on the 

 summer stand, packt in sawdust. I listened 

 today and could hear them humming 

 merrily, but the weather has been bad for 

 them. They have had only one flight since 

 I packt them, and on looking around I see 

 a large quantity of dead bees lying in front 

 of the hive; before they had the flight 

 there were hardly any dead ones. 



W. Norman. 



Shawano Co., Wis., March 22. 



Bees Did Fairly Well in 1896. 



My bees did fairly vrell in 1S%, and have 

 come through the winter in good condition 

 on the summer stands. I had about 400 

 pounds of comb honey from 'J colonies, and 

 increast to 21, in 1896. 



A. R. TOMLINSON. 



Bureau Co., 111., March 29. 



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CataIog'<« for 1*97. — We have re- 

 ceived the following Catalogs, Price-Lists, 

 etc., a copy of which may be obtained up- 

 on application, always being careful to say 

 you saw their advertisement in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal: 



J. F. Michael, Greenville, Ohio — Queens, 

 Supplies, Potatoes, Seeds and Plants. 



The Deming Co., Salem, Ohio — Spray 

 Pumpsiand Nozzles. 



M. H. Hunt, Bell Branch, Mich.— Comb 

 Foundation and Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



D. Hill, Dundee, 111. — Evergreen Special- 

 ist, Fruit Trees, etc. 



F. Danzenbaker, Washington, D. C. — 

 Facts About Bees, and Danzenbaker Hive. 



E. T. Flanagan, Belleville. Dl.— Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Supplies. Bees and Queens. 



The Minnesota Bee-Keepers' Supply Man- 

 ufacturing Company, Minneapolis, Minn. — 

 Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



C. & A. Hodgkins Co., Marlboro, N. H.— 

 Water Rams and Wood- Work Machinery. 



Queens and (tiieen-Kearinsr.— 



If you want to know how to have queens 

 fertilized in upper stories while the old 

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 the year when bees can fly ; all about the 

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 queens, queen-cages, candy for queen- 

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Bound in cloth, postpaid, :f 1.00 ; or clubbed 

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Please Send Us the Names of your 

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Page & Lyon Mfg. Co. 



New London, 



Wisconsin, 



Operates two sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thu.s 

 securing the best lumber at the lowest price for the maDufacture of 



Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



They have also one One of the Largfest 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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Works Mke a Cbarm. 



The Monetle Queen-Clipping Device works 

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Couldn't Do Wlttaont It. 



I have clipped IS queens, and must say the 

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G. B. LEWIS CO., WATERTOWN, WIS. 



SpeciaUg ciit for the Soutliwest ^^- ^- ""^^^^'joseph, mo. 



mr. Abbott sells our Hives and Seetlons at Factory Prices. 



Finest Alfalfa Honey ! 



IT SELLS ON TASTINa. 



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We can furnish 'White Alfalfa Extracted Honey, In 60-pound tin cans, on 

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