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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



269 



" Queens Given Away." 



f Gray Carniolans i\i GoMen Italians,? 



We will give ;i title Tested Queen (either race) 

 to all customers orderlnir 6 Untested Queens, 

 and a fine Select Tested Queen to all who or- 

 der 12 Untested Queens at one time. The 

 Queens piven away will be sent to customers 

 in August. 



Oracle and Prices April July 



of Bees and Queens j^^/e sepT. 



Untested Queen $ ."3 $ .65 



Testid •• 1.50 1.25 



Select Tested Queen 2.50 2 25 



Bestlmportcd ■• 5.00 4 00 



One L Frame Nucleus (no Queen) .75 .50 

 Two •' •• ■• 1.50 1.00 



Full Colony of Bees 



(in new dovetailed hive) 5.00 4.00 



We enarantee our Bees to be free from all 

 diseases, and to give entire satisfaction. 



Dencrlpllve Price-lilst Free. 



F. A. Lodhart & Co., "-ake^george. 



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JUST ARRIVED! 



My second carload of Goods from The A.I. 

 Root Co. has arrived, and I am in shape to 

 fill all orders promptly at their catalog prices. 

 Send for my ;i6 page catalog : also list of 

 Goods you will need, and I will make you spe- 

 cial prices on early orders. 



GEa. E. HltrTQIf, 



9D9t FREMONT, MICH. 



MtiitUm the American Bee Journal 



SAUMENIG! 



HATCHERS are made on best 

 liIle^ imd of best material known 

 Toincabntorart. They cannot f nil. 

 HEATS WITH HOT WATER! 

 Hatches every est^ that cjin be 

 hatched. Send 2stamp^ for cata- 

 ]ot:No.69 (NVINCIBLE HATCHER 

 COMPANY. Springfield. Ohio. 



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^ Fur rain anil FfViT ^ 



■^^*I*^^-^v^^i Au lionesti efficient 

 VfillnwT-nTiftc; • remedy for all Fevers, 

 xeiiowzones ^j. Headaches. Colds. Neu- 

 F..r riuri and Ffv-T ^ ral^fa. Grip. Rheuma- 

 tism, etc. A general 

 service remedy that'll 

 please you, OR MONEr refunded. 

 ■' It's a rare pleasure to find such a remedy." 

 "Too much cannot be said in praise of them." 



1 Box. 25e.; 6 Boxes, $L; most orders are $1. 



W. B. House, Drawer 1, Detour, Mich. 



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A GENUINE 



Egg Preservative 



That will keep Hen's Egos perfectly throueh 

 warm weathef. just as ^ood as fresh ones for 

 cooking and frosting. One man paid 10 cents 

 a dozen for the epg-s he preserved, and then 

 later sold them for 25 cents a dozen. Ton can 



& reserve them for about 1 cent per dozen. 

 ow is the time to do It. while eggs are cheap. 

 Address for Circular giving further infor- 

 mation— 



Dr. A. B. MJlSON, 



3312 Monroe Street, - Toledo. Ohio. 



Mfiitici the. American Be: -'eu >"»■." V 



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Traction, Portable and Semi-Port- 

 able. Simple and Compound. Also 

 Thresher s. Ho rse Powers.Saw Mills 



NGINE 



Send forillu'itrated Catalogue free 

 Our>i are e^ual toaU — Surpassed by 

 none. "It's a way we have." 



M. Rumely Co. Laporte,lnd. 



-^^>o-i)-«0 



When Ahswerihg This AOVERTISEuenT, MEmtiom This JOURNAt. 



Tested Italian Queens ?? sii: p^^fetu?^ 



mall. Tested Quteus were reared late last 

 fall, i make Queen-rearing a specialty. 

 DANIEL WURTH, 



ISDlt F.\LMOUTH, Rush Co., IND, 



JUeniUm the American Bee Jcumai. 



it made no diflference whether a colony bad 

 any sealed honey or not when they have 

 their last flight, for if they have enough 

 honey and bees, they will seal it quick 

 enough. 



I found that the deeper the combs are 

 the likelier the bees are to die, as they will 

 go to the top of the combs as soon as it 

 gets cold, then tbe honey will freeze out- 

 side, and become damp and moldy in cel- 

 lars. 



I got stirred up to write by reading in the 

 report of the Illinois convention Dr. 

 Miller's description of the plan he is trying 

 to winter bees out-of-doors. His bees may 

 live, but the combs will mold, and then 

 have pickled brood. By the way, is not 

 that what Mr. McEvoy has been curing for 

 the Canucks ? I know he is wrong in the 

 assertion that chilled brood will produce 

 foul brood, for there never has been a 

 spring since anybody has kept bees up here, 

 but they have all had plenty of chilled 

 brood, as they nearly all winter bees in the 

 cellar under the house, and put the bees out 

 on benches two feet high the first days in 

 spring warm enough for them to fly. But 

 there never has been anything like foul 

 brood here. Then how could foul brood be 

 stampt out by even burning every colony, 

 when there are hundreds of swarms that 

 get away to the woods every season ? I find 

 that up here at least five out of six colonies 

 of wild colonies die every winter, and some- 

 times nearly all. I believe young bees and 

 plenty of them is the solution of the win- 

 tering problem, but no natural swarm or 

 colony has ever young bees enough in the 

 fall to winter to perfection north of the 

 40th parallel. R. Davidson. 



Burnett Co., Wis. 



Almost a Resurrection. 



I hasten to tell my experience with a col- 

 ony which, on removal from the cellar, ap- 

 peared to be starved — absolutely no food 

 left. Four combs were fairly filled with 

 bees, but when moved they fell off, and 

 very few seemed to move at all. Handling 

 the frames very gingerly I sprinkled warm 

 sugar water (1 to 2) over them, with a 

 spoon, and the sun being warm, left tbe 

 top of the hive with one water-proof quilt 

 over the brood. In tbe evening they had 

 revived a little, and clustered, and I hoped 

 for the best. That night and all next day 

 we had snow and rain, and I left them 

 packt up as warm as possible, with a cake 

 of candy over the cluster. The following 

 morning not a bee on tbe candy— all appar- 

 ently quite dead; not a wing moved; not a 

 leg kickt. However, to have a final fight 

 with Grim Death, I sprinkled more warm 

 syrup on the dead cluster, and in the sur- 

 rounding cells, and it being warm again, 

 exposed them as before. That was four 

 days ago; they revived and are gaining 

 energy every day. It was quite a resurrec- 

 tion. 



Moral — " Never say die." 



May be this will be in time to save loss to 

 some one else. W. R. A. 



Ramsey Co., Minn., April 15. 



Proper Spacing' of Brood-Frames. 



Has tbe proper distance of brood-combs 

 from center to center become an absolute 

 certainty. (. <■., for the best welfare of the 

 colony, taking the season through ? The 

 distance which brood-combs should be 

 spaced from center to center has been 

 demonstrated by actual measurements 

 from combs in box-hives when the colony 

 had their own sweet will as regards the 

 spacing and laying the foundation, and it 

 is found that P J inches is tbe distance in 

 most cases. We have incidents whereby 

 valuable inventions and improvements have 

 been brought to light through chance or 

 mistakes. Back in the 'GO'S (If I remember 

 correctly it was 'Wj. by some mistake I bad 

 a colony of bees in a 10-frame Langstrotb 

 hive occupied by nine frames or combs; 

 they were spaced accordingly in uniformity, 

 making them 1 \ from center to center. 

 They were all worker-combs. This colony 



^TO BE HUNG!^ 



OlJii SniNoi.K Is now hung out, notifying 

 the public that we are again ready to ship 

 QiieeuM. Having greatly enlarged our facil- 

 liies, can Qll orders by return mail. 



4jiold<-n ■t«>aiilie!!i,3 llsintl llalians 

 Also NilT<-i--4jiray 4'arnioluii. 



Warranted Queen, 50c,; Tested, 7.ic. Make 

 Money Orders payable at Caldwell, Tex. Send 

 for Catalog of Bee*Kee|>erH' Supplies. 



Address, C. B. BANKSTON. 



llAtt CiiitiESMAN, Burleson Co., Tex. 



Mention the .s.menca'a Bee Jourvai, 



SMKEPtS and 



FOUmATlOS 



We do not catalog theQulnbyor Hill Smo- 

 kers this year, but there may be some who 

 prefer these 81 yies. We still have a few. and 

 offer them at these special prices to close out: 



The Quinhy — 2-inch barrel, single-blast, ;j.">c.; 



postpaid, SOc. 2i4-inch, double blast, 60c.; 



postpaid, T.)C. 

 The Hill— .3-inch barrel. 40c.; postpaid, 60c. 



YanDeiisen Thin Flat-Bottom Fdn. 



In 2opound boxes, at only $10.50 per box, 

 while it lasts. Address, 



THE A. I. BOOT CO., 



118 Michigan St.. - Chicago, III. 



ONE MAN WITH THE 

 UNION '^o^-l^'^AT'O" 

 Can do the work of four 

 men using hand tools. In 

 Kipping, Cutting-off, Mi- 

 tring, Rabbeting, Groov- 

 ing, Gaining, Dadoing, 

 Edglng-up, Jointing Stuff, 

 etc. Full Llneof Foot and 

 Hand Power Machinery, 

 Sold on Trial. Calalojae Free. 

 SE>E<^A FALLS ITIFG. CO., 

 46 Water St SENECA FALLS, N. T. 



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BEST ON EARTH ! ! 



18 years the Standard. The 4-l.nch " Smoke 

 Engine." Is It too large ? Will It last too 

 long ? Will save you lots of money and bad 

 words. Send for Circular. 6 sizes and prices 

 ol Bingham Smokers and Knives. 



T. F. BIINGHAI?!, Farwell, Itllch. 



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f Early Italian Queens? 



Untested, 75c.; Tested, $l.'25. 

 Nuclei. 'J frame, $'3.00, including a good Queen. 



Bees by the Pound. 

 E. L. CARRIIVG'I'ON, 

 5AlTt Be FaDlak Springs, Fla. 



iHe-'JA:". -s:i Aw^itt/ca,',-. Bee ImtTv^ji, 



Texas Queens 



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Dr. Gallup says they are the best he 

 has In his yard. 



J. D. GIVENS, liUbon, Tex. 



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T S ( Get discounts on early orders 

 r»c 1 '""■ 1897. A. I. Root Co.'s Bee- 

 "^. / Supplies always on hind. Bet- 

 ter prepared Ihan ever to fill orders promptly. 

 ;j6-page Catalog free. 



JOHN NEBEI. & SON, Hl^h Hill, Mo, 

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BEE - KEEPERS, PRICES CUT 



On FUIXDATION COMB to introduce 



Forrest Kew Method of Sheeting Wax 

 by Aiitoniatie Machinery. 



Write for descriptive Circular Price-List and 

 Samples. N. B. FORKEST, 



ISAtf AUBURN, N, T, 



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