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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



815 



Qcr)€ral Itcr^s* 



Filling Supers Fast. 



Bees are booiuing. I have had 71 swarms 

 from 77 colonies. I had two swarms iu 

 March. I have takeu off some honey. Bee.s 

 are filling supers fast. A. Bisuek. 



Callahan Co., Tex., May 3. 



Best Season in 1896. 



I work my bees for comb honey exclu- 

 sively, and I get 15 cents per pound at home 

 for all my honey. Last year was the best 

 season tor honey I ever saw in this or any 

 State. H. H. Buower. 



York Co., Nebr., May 4. 



Bees Wintered Well. 



I have about 1^0 colonies of bees. They 

 wintered well last winter. I got from 

 them about 4,.">00 pounds of nice honey in 

 sections last year. William Fleming. 



St. Crox Co., Wis., May 5. 



Cold and Unfavorable Weather. 



Bees wintered well here the past winter, 

 but the weather so far this spring has been 

 very cold and unfavorable. At present it 

 freezes quite hard nearly every night. 



C. MONETTE. 



Fillmore Co., Minn., May 1. 



Bee-Keepers are Happy. 



Spring has come at last, and the honey- 

 plants are coming into bloom. Bees are 

 bumming, the birds are singing, and all 

 Nature seems to be putting on new life. 

 The bee keepers are happy, for there is 

 such an abundance of snow in the moun- 

 tains for irrigation, which insures one of 

 the best honey-flows Utah has ever seen, 

 if we can only get warm, dry weather. 



E. S. LOVESY. 



Utah Co., Utah, April 30. 



Storing Honey Kapidly. 



My bees are storing honey very rapidly 

 now. We have a big peach, cherry and 

 apple bloom, and the bees are making 

 good use of the opportunity. My bees 

 came through the winter stronger and in 

 better condition than I ever had them be- 

 fore. April 24 X bad the finest Italian 

 swarm come out I almost ever saw at any 

 season of the year, and they are doing 

 finely. ' J. Allen Andekson. 



Loudoun Co., Va., April 30. 



Bees Working on Willow. 



We have had a cold and wet spring so far 

 with but four days that bees could work. 

 The last week has been warm, and the bees 

 have been busy working on willow bloom, 

 which yields lots of honey. In 1S% my 

 scales colony yielded IS pounds iu three 

 day. The prospects look well for a clover 

 crop, which has had plenty of rain. There 

 is a lot of low land that cannot be put into 

 corn this year, so there will be lots of buck- 

 wheat grown nest fall. I have 51) colonies 

 that are in good condition now. Times are 

 bard, and so people \Yill not buy much 

 honey. I hope for the best. 



Henry Co.. 111., May 1. J. F. Wihtu. 



Successful Wintering of Bees. 



I have read a great deal in bee-books and 

 also in the •• Old Reliable " about wintering 

 bees in cellars, about keeping them m un 

 even temperature, free from dampness, 

 noise, etc. 



Early last fall I tackt burlap on the bot- 

 tom of the supers, filled them with chaff, 

 nd placed on each colony. November 1:1 I 



Finest Alfalfa Honey ! 



IT SELLS ON TASTING. 



The Honey that Suits All 

 Who Buy It. 



Low Prices Now! 



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

 board cars in Chicago, at these prices : 1 can, in a case, T>s cents per pound ; '2 cans 

 In one case, 7 cents ; 4 cans (2 cases) or more, 6K cents. The Cash must accom- 

 pany each order. Fine Basswood Flavor Honey at same price; also in 

 270-lb. barrels. 



E^~ A sample of either honey will be mailed to an intending purchaser, for 8 

 cents, to cover postage, packing, etc. We guarantee purity. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO.. 118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO. ILL 



Ne-w London, 



Wisconsin, 



Page & Lyon Mfg. Co. 



Operates two sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thus 

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



Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



They have also one One of the Largest Factories and the latest 

 and most-improved machinery for the manufacture of 



Bee-Hives, Sections, Etc., 



that there is in the State. The material is cut from patterns, by majhuiery, 

 and is absolutely accurate. For Sections, the clearest and -whitest 

 Bass-wood is used, and they are polisht on both sides. Nearness to Pine 

 and Basswood forests, and possession of mills and factory equipt with best 

 machinery, all combine to enable this firm to furnish the 



Best Goods at the Lowest Prices. 



Send for Circular and see the Prices on a Full Line of Supplies. 

 Please mention tli9 Ameiicau Bee .Tourn'vl. 7Atf 



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We make 



SUPPLIES 



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 in the Market, and sell 

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



Special Agf ut for Ihe Soiiihwest -^- ^- ""^^""stTjoseph. mo. 



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



That aueen-Olipping Device Free ! 



CouIduH Do Wltboiit It. 



I have clipped 13 queens, and mu?t say the 

 Monette Queen-Clipping iJevlce Is by far the 

 best inveutiuQ ever made, arxl will be wel- 

 come to tmnj" hee-keepiTS as It was to me. 1 

 could not do without one now. 



Dr. Geo. Lacke, Newburgh, Ind. 



WorkH Like a Cbarm. 



The Monette Queen Clipping Device WORKS 

 t-iKE A CHARM. With it 1 have clipped 30 

 queens, all iu one day, when examlDing my 

 bees. W.M. SToi-r-sr, Grand Island, Nebr. 



PLEASE READ THIS OFFER TO PRESEXT SUBSCRIBERS : 

 Send us )nM one new iinme for the American Bee Journal a year (with *I.OO), and we 

 will mail vou the Queen-ClippinK Device free of charge. Or, the Queen-Clipping Device 

 will be sent postpaid for 30 cts. But why not get it as a Premium by the above oCfer t 

 You cant earn M cts. any easier. Almost every bee-keeper will want this Device. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



