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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL,. 



May 6, 



: KEYSTONE ^ 



• U/OVEN WERE FENCE 



• will keep your stock in and your neigbbor'a 



• out. stray HofTs, Cattle, Horses or Sheep can- 



• not destroy vour crops when you fence with 

 *! the KEYSTONE. C5 to 68 inches high. Send 



• for free book on fence constractioD 



S KEYSTONE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., 

 |» No. 3 Kush St., Peoria, 111. 



EO-OS 



From Pure B. P. Rocks. Blacii Minorcas. Light 

 Brahmas— $1.25 per SiitlDg. Also, will stuff 

 and mount Birds and Animals to order; price, 

 lor small birds and animals 60c. and upward. 

 Plants for sale cheap— Ked and Black 

 Raspberry, and Strawberry, 



MRS. L,. C. AXTEl.!., 



RosF.vii.i.K. Wiirrt-n Co.. IMj. 



Rlfi MOHEY IN POULTRY 



[Vt Siork am! Incubutor^ if i'<Mi.iiK'le(l 



.u (.i^rdiDu ii) "The Chautauqua 

 J Guide to Big Profits" Juf^i out and 

 I sent postpaid witbour 1897 Ciitalouue 

 for 4c to helf pay postage, etc. Best ey^e 

 and stock cost no more if purchased of 

 us. you can then sell your product to 

 ^11 -^ and thousands others for high fancy prices, 

 «We own 300 acres most eletrantly adapted to 

 -poultry. CHAUTAUQUA POULTRY & 

 PET STOCK FARM, Box IT KENNEDY,N.Y 



'Ai:i 



MeiitiutL the ^linericaii. Bee JourJuU, 



l!i5!! Beeswax 



For all the Good, Pure Yellow^ 



BeeS'wax delivered to our office till 

 further notice, we will pay 24 cents per 

 pound, CASH ; or 28 cents for whatever 

 part is exchanged for the Bee Journal, 

 Honey, Books or Seed, that we offer. If 

 you want cash, promptly, for your 

 IJeeswax, send it on at once. Impure 

 wax not taken at any price. Address as 

 follows, very plainly, 



GEO. W. YORK & CO. 



118 Michigan St., CHICAGO, ILL, 



QUEENS 



Smokers^Sectious . 



Comb Foundation, 

 And nil Api.'ilrnn Su|)pllcs 

 rhenp. Spiid Tor 

 FKEE atulogue. E. T. FLANAUAN. BelleTllle, III. 



13A13t Please mentiou the Bee Journal. 



50 I'dldiiies Bees lor Sale Cheap. 



2-fraiiic Nucleus, witli Queen, only $2. 



B. P. Rocks, White teghotns, B. Log-horns, 

 Black Minorca. Buff Cochin, Part, Cochin. L. 

 Brahma, S. S. Hamburg— Eggs from all these, 

 15 for $1.00. 



Also, Berkshire Pigs for sale. Write for 

 what you want. Stock all icglsiered pedigree. 



N. H. SMITH, Lock Box A, 

 18A4t Tii.iiuuv, Ont., Canada. 



Flood Sufferers— Attention. 



Thosf who are so fortunato as to have l*tiice 

 fence In use will usually find It. Iniacl. after iho 

 wiitiTS subslfU'. If the posts are washed out. il will 

 need re-str«.-tfhhiu'. ; iid vmi should notirj- us al 

 (iiM-e. Si'f April ■ iiiisth'r ' ftn hiicst tluud test. 



PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Mich. 



while iu Ireland they eat scarcely any. To 

 change this fact and cause the Irish, who 

 could afford it, to eat much more cheese, 

 would take great energy, good persistent 

 business methods, and a great quantity of 

 tirst-class cheese. It is just the same with 

 the consumption of honey everywhere — it 

 must be kept before the people in attrac- 

 tive shape and good iiuality ; must be forced 

 into homes where it has .not been used, and 

 consumption increast in this way, or the 

 price of both kinds will fall. 

 Weld Co.. Colo. W. A. Variax. 



Sudden Change in Temperature. 



Bees in this locality went into winter 

 quarters in fairly good condition, excepting 

 perhaps a little light in stores, owing to the 

 early frost last fall, and having a mild win- 

 ter they probably consumed more. Well, 

 everything went well until April IS, which 

 was very warm, and the bees were out in 

 full force, when along about 2 p.m. the 

 wind arose and blew so hard that what 

 bees were any distance from home could 

 not reach their hive that night, and before 

 morning the wind shifted iu the north, the 

 temperature dropt to 10 degrees above zero, 

 the weather remaining cold tor four days, 

 I noticed wherever a poor bee could find 

 shelter, under lumber, pieces of bark, etc., 

 I could find from three to five dead bees, 

 which materially thinned out each colony, 

 and there has been only one day to this 

 date that they have been out to amount to 

 anything. 



Bees are chiefly wintered on the summer 

 stands and in the Hilton chaff hive. The 

 principal source of honey is from white 

 clover and basswood, with golden -rod and 

 willow-herb later in the season. There is 

 no provision made t re for bee-pasturage; 

 there are thousands of acres of land that 

 have been lumbered and burnt over, which 

 could easily be seeded to sweet clover, or 

 some other honey-producing plant, with a 

 small expenditure. The counry is too new 

 for there to be much fruit for the bees to 

 '• destroy ! '' 



I have only one fault to find in the Bee 

 Journal, and that is, it doesn't come often 

 enough. L. T. Culkcuill. 



Cheboygan Co., Mich,, April 27. 



Heavy Loss in Wintering. 



I have sustained a very heavy winter 

 loss, having lost a little over 50 per cent, of 

 my bees. I now have about TO colonies 

 with which to commence the season. My 

 bees were nearly all wintered on the sum- 

 mer stands without protection. Ten colo- 

 nies which were well protected came out in 

 splendid condition. I have lost a good 

 many by spring dwindling. 



I am not discouraged by my loss, but 

 shall try to make the tiees that I have left 

 do nearly as much as all would have done. 

 Everything looks favorable for a good sea- 

 son in this locality at present. 



Success to the American Bee Journal. It 

 never fails to arrive on time, and is full of 

 good reading. G. F. Tubbs. 



McKean Co., April 25, 



Bees Lively on Maple and Elm, 



I put the rest of my bees out April l."i— no 

 dead ones in the last lot. The weather was 

 cold until the 21st ; on the 30th it was 18 

 degrees above zero in the morning; yester- 

 day it was 75 degrees at noon. Bees are 

 lively on maple and elm. Their old honey 

 is mostly granulated, and most of it is being 

 thrown out. We commenced spring seed- 

 ing day before yesterday ; it was not fit 

 before. C. Tiieiumann. 



Wabasha Co., Minn., April 23. 



Please Send Us the Names of your 

 neighbors who keep bees, and wo will 

 send them sample copies of the Bkk 

 JoujtNAi., Then please call upon them 

 and get them to subscribe with you, and 

 secure some of the premPams we offer. 



t^ TO BE HUNG! ^ 



Our Shingle Is now hung out, notifying 

 the public that we arc again ready lo slilp 

 Queens. Having greatly enlarperl our facii- 

 iiies, can lill orders by return mail. 



Oolden Keaiiliow.S ltiiii«I Ilulians 

 Also Silvei--<]<i'iiy <'ai-uioIau. 



Warranted Queen, 50c.: Tested. 75c. Make 

 Money Orders payable at Caldwell. Tex. Send 

 for Catalog of Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



Address, C. B. BANKSTON, 



llAtt Chriesman. Uurle^on Co,, Tex, 



nenti/m the .Aimyncan iJcr ^'r-nr'ocA. 



SMOKERS and 



FOUSDATlOPi 



We do not catalog- theQuinbyor Hill Smo- 

 kers this year, but there may be some who 

 prefer these styles. We still baveafew, and 

 offer them at these special prices to close out: 



The Quioby— 2-lnch barrel, sing-le-blast, 35c.; 



postpaid, 50c. 2H-lQCh, double bla^t, 60c. ; 



postpaid, 75c. 

 The Hilt— 3-iDch barrel. 40c.; postpaid, 60c. 



VanDeusen Thin Flat-Bottom Fdn. 



In 25-pound boxes, at only $10.50 per box, 

 while it lasts. Address, 



THE A, I, ROOT CO., 



lis Michigan St.. - CmCAr.o, III, 



ONE MAN WITH THE 



UNION «o'-|j,';*^'°N 



{^an do the work of four 

 men using hand tools. In 

 Ripping, Cuttlng-off, Mi- 

 tring, Rabbeting, Groov- 

 ing. Gaining, Dadoing, 

 Edglng-up. Jointing Stuff, 

 etc. Full Line of Foot and 

 Hand Power Machinery, 

 Sold on Trial. Calalosne Free. 

 SE;^E«^A FALL-S niFR. CO., 

 46 Water St SENECA FALLS. N. T, 



lAly iHintiii.. the. Amerimv Bee JotirTial, 



BEST ON EARTH ! ! 



l.S years the Standard. The 4-lnch " Smoke 

 Engine," Is it too large J 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. BINGHAn, Fam-oll, nicb. 

 5 Atf Mention the American Dee Journal- 



f Early Italian Queens? 



Untested, 75c.: Tested, $1.25. 

 Nuclei, 2 frame, S2.00, including a good Queen, 



Bees by the Pound. 

 E. t. C.kBKIi\filOI\, 

 5A17t Be Funlak SprlnKs, Fla. 



G(»1(|CH 



Ailel 



Texas Queens 



f 



Dr. Gallup says they are the best he 

 has In his yard 



J. U. RIVENS, IilKbon, Tex. 



Mention the [ice Journal. 9A26t, 



RAAT SlGet discounts on early orders 



r<lllFrt«± 1 '"'' '*'■''• •^■'- KootCo's Bee- 

 llWUS. j Supplies always (in hind. Bet- 

 ter pr -pared than ever to lllI or ers promptly. 

 ;iG-i>a»rc Catalog free. 



JOHN NEBEI. & SON, High Hill. Mo. 

 Mention the American Uec Jo^Lnial, 4 Atf 



BEE - KEEPERS, PRICES CUT 



On FOUNDATION OOMli to Introduce 



Forrest Kcvv Melliod of Sliectiiig Wax 

 by Automatic Maeliiiiery. 



Write lor descriptive Circular Price-List and 

 Samples. N. B, FOKBEST, 



loAtr AUHl UN, N, Y. 



depJiUm ifie American Bee-tcw^uU. 



