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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Apr. 29. 



BE CONVINCED, AND CET YOUR MOPiEV'S WORTB 



We offer the New Clianiplou Doub- 

 led-WHlled Cbafl' Hive, made of the 

 Best White I'lne Lumber, from now until 

 June 15. 1897. Complete and Painted. with 

 Dovetail Body and Two Supers torCon^b 

 Honey or Extracting ; 8. 9 or 10 frame 

 bive, with Thick Top. Self-Spacing Hoff- 

 man Frames, including 2 or 4 loldea Tin 

 Kabbets, Tin Cover and Doable Bottom- 

 all for only $1.50. The bame in the Flat 

 for 98 cents : and if Outside Summer and 

 Winter Case is wanted only, complete and 

 painted, to fit any Dovetail or Simplicity 

 8, 9 or 10 frame hive, for 9a cents ; and 

 the same in the Flat for 73 cents. Inside 

 measurement of Case 25x:20 Inches, and 

 21 Inches high. We solicit your orders. 



We deliver all goods f. o. b. cars or boat 

 landing at Sheboygan, Wis. Address, 



R. H. SCHMIDT & CO., Box 187, SHEBOYGAN, WIS. 



Extracted Honey Wanted — make Offers. 



<tueen»s and <lueen-Rearins:.— 



If you want to know how to have queens 

 fertilized in upper stories while the old 

 queen is still laying below ; how you may 

 safely 'mtrodnce any queen, at any time of 

 the year when bees can fly ; all about the 

 different races of bees ; all about shipping 

 queens, queen-cages, candy for queen- 

 cages, etc. ; all about forming nuclei, mul- 

 tiplying or uniting bees, or weak colonies, 

 etc. ; or, in fact, everything about the 



I queen-business which you may want to 

 know — send for Doolittle's " Scientific 

 Queen-Rearing" — a book of over 170 

 pages, which is as interesting as a story. 

 Here are some good offers of this book : 



Bound in cloth, postpaid, SI. 00 ; or clubbed 

 with the Bee Jouknal for one year — both 

 for only $1.75 ; or given free as a premium 

 for sending us lin> new subscribers to the 

 Bee Journal for a year at $1.00 each. 



PROF. A. J. COOK'S BOOK FREE ! 



The Bee-Keeper's Guide 



OR 



MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 



This 15th and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

 magnificent book of 460 pages. In neat and 

 substantial cloth binding, we propose to give 

 away to our present subscribers, for the work 

 of getting NEW subscribers for the American 

 Bee Journal. 



A description of the book here Is quite un- 

 necessary—It Is simply the most complete sci- 

 entific and practical bee-book published to- 

 day. Fully Illustrated, and all written in the 

 most fascinating style, The author Is also 

 too well-known to the whole bee-world to re- 

 quire any introduction. No bee-keeper is 

 fully equipped, or his library complete, with- 

 out "The Bee-Keeper's Gdide." 



Given For 2 New Subseribers. 



The following offer Is made to present sub- 

 scribers only, and no premium is also given 

 to the two new subscribers- simply the Bee 

 Journal for one year : 



Send us Two New Sabscribers to the Bee 

 Journal (with J2.00), and we will mall you a 

 copy of Prof. Cook's book free as a premi- 

 um. Prof. Cook's book alone sent for 81. '25, 

 or we club It with the Bee .Journal for a year 

 —both together for only SI. 75. But surely 

 anybody can get only 2 new subscribers to 

 the Bee Journal for a year, and thus get the 

 boo' as a premium. Let everybody try for If 

 Will you have one ' 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan St., Chicago, lU. 



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LA-l4-t-U_U--U_U_IXI 



The Fence Problem.— So far from being 

 settled in any definite way, the question of 

 fencing Is more of a problem tolay than ever. 

 This Is largely due to the fact that the de- 

 mand, or at least the needs, of fencing are In- 

 creasing, and are likely to continue to do so 

 for years to come. As the country becomes 

 more thickly se tied and new land is brought 

 under cultivation, or the old farms are sub- 

 divided and cut up into smaller ones, the 

 demand for fencing of some kind will con- 

 tinue to Increase. This belhg true, the prob- 

 lem then resolves Itself Into one of selection. 

 Wood, the natural material for fencing, has 

 already become scarce enough and high 

 enough In price to place it beyond the means 

 of the average farmer, and he is a rich man 

 indeed who, at the present price of timber, 

 can continue its use for this purpose. A 

 knowledge of these f«cts, coupled with the 

 consequent saving In labor, land and money, 

 were the prime factors In the de elopmont of 

 the wire-fence industry, which has grown to 

 such Immense proportions. The original 

 wire fence, which was made of barbed wire. 



has been found to be Inefficient, harmful, and 

 objectionable. It has consequently been Bup- 

 planied by the modern woven-wire fence, 

 which Is more desirable in every way. 



The prime object and essential of fencing of 

 any kind is the prevention of tresspass; ti 

 keep one farmer's stock from trespassing 

 upon the lands of his neighbor, and vice 

 versa; to keep stock from trespassing upon 

 the highway, and to keep them confined with- 

 in a given enclosure. It must be constructed, 

 therefore, that It will turn all kinds of ani- 

 mals without injury; must not harbor weeds; 

 must not unnecessarily encumiier or take up 

 too much room, thereby wasting hind and in 

 general must be handsome, durable, lasting, 

 and provided at reasonable cost. 



What Is -said above is true In every way of 

 the Keystone Woven Wire t'ence, manufac- 

 tured by the company of that name at Peoria. 

 111. a sectional view of whose fence is shown 

 here. Write them for their book on Fencing, 

 Stating that you read this in the American 

 Bee Jouinal, 



so we ought not to have the bees assest 

 different from other property. Bees can 

 be bought, and have been bought, for from 

 $'3.50 to .*5.00 per colony. Five dollars is 

 the maximum prioe. 



The Town Board of Review would have 

 changed those figures, I think, if H. C. had 

 met with the Board last June. 



Clark Co., Wis. L. M. Willis. 



Big Honey-Flow Expected. 



Bees are in fine condition this spring, and 

 prospects are good for a big honey -flow this 

 year. F. J. R. Davenport. 



Ellis Co., Tex., April 20. 



Good Season Lookt For. 



My bees have begun to swarm, and they 

 are all boiling over with bees. So I look 

 sor a good season. I lost only one colony 

 out of 60. J. A. Shone. 



Benton Co., Miss., April 13. 



Prospect for a Good Season. 



My age and bodily infirmity compel me 

 to abstain from all manual labor, and I 

 intend to devote my few remaining years 

 to the honey-bee. My bees were taken 

 from the cellar March 31, and were found 

 strong and healthy ; no loss. We have had 

 a number of warm days since putting tbem 

 out, and they have had a good flight. The 

 prospect is good for a good honey season. 

 S. B. Smith. 



Stevens Co., Minn., April 13. 



Poorest Season in 20 Years. 



The season of ISW) was the poorest we 

 have had here in '20 years. From 45 colo- 

 nies I never got a swarm nor a pound of 

 marketable honey. The outlook now is 

 anything but promising for the coming 

 summer. It rains nearly all the time, with 

 a cold wave for a change. I am feeding 

 my bees sugar syrup now. 



I admire the bold stand Editor York has 

 taken against the commission swindlers 

 and adulterators. Isaac Brown. 



Grundy Co., Tenn., April 13. 



An Old Man's Experience. 



I am an old band with bees, it being just 

 75 years last May since I made my first ex- 

 periment with them. Wishing to find out 

 how many there were in an old straw skep, 

 I poked a stick into the entrance. I never 

 tried it that way again. 



I have been a subscriber to the American 

 Bee Journal six or eight years; have kept 

 bees that long, where the winter is one-half 

 of the year, and the mercury is frozen a 

 month at a time. I knew from longexperi- 

 ence in the northern woods that the only 



Froblem before me was wintering. When 

 got ready to keep bees, I began by getting 

 the best books and subscribing for the 

 American Bee Journal. I intended to make 

 my hives at home, as I had an engine and 

 saws. I have spent a good deal of time and 

 money experimenting, and have concluded 

 that bee-keepers have a good many blind 

 leaders of the blind amongst tbem. 



I started to winter according to the 

 books, and found that Prof. Cook's state- 

 ment that a light colony would winter as 

 well as a strong one was misleading, as the 

 light one was no good the next summer, as 

 the season was gone before they were 

 strong enough to do anything. I found 

 that Pierce's plan was the same as all the 

 bee-keepers up here used, at a loss of be- 

 tween 40 to 100 per cent., no difference in 

 cellars or out-doors. 



I found that the worst stuff is printed 

 about ventilation, and that four boles in 

 zinc is enough for any colony of bees, and 

 that if that entrance is exposed to the wind 

 when cold and light snow is falling, the 

 hive will fill entirely full of snow all around 

 the cluster. I found that you cannot 

 smother a colony of bees with snow ; that 



