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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 10, 



Xo-w for New Sutoscribers for the rest of 1897 : 

 We would like to have each of our present readers send us at 

 least one new subscriber for the Bee Journal before July 1, 

 1897. That surely will not be hard to do, when they will 

 need to pay only 50 cents for the rest of this year. That is 

 about 7 months, or only 7 cents a month for the weekly 

 American Bee Journal. Any one with only a colony or two 

 of bees should jump at such an offer as that. 



Now, we don't ask you to work for us for nothing, but 

 will say that for each new 50-cent subscriber you send us,_we 

 will mail you your choice of one of the followiuR list: 



Wood Binder for the Bee Journal 20c. 



50 copies of leaflet on "Why Eat Honey ?" 20c. 



50 " " on •' How to Keep Honey " 20c. 



50 " " on " Alsike Clover" 20c. 



6 copies " Honey as Food and Medicine " 20c. 



1 copy each " Preparation of Honey for the Market "(10c.) 



and Doollttle's "Hive I Use " (5c.i 15o. 



1 copy each Dadants' "Handling Bees" (8c.) and •' Bee- 

 Pasturage a Necessity " (10c.) 18c. 



Dr. Howard's boob on " Foul Brood " 25c. 



Kohnke's " Foul Brood" book 25c. 



Cheshire's " Foul Brood " book ilOc.) and Dadants' " Hand- 

 ling Bees" [Sc ] 18c. 



Dr. Foote'8 Hand-Book of Health 25c. 



Rural Life Book 25c. 



Our Poultry Doctor, by Fanny Felld 25c. 



Poultry for Market and Profit, by Fanny Field 25c. 



Capons and Caponizing 25c. 



Turkeys tor Market and Profit 25c. 



Green's Four Books on Frult-Growing 25c. 



Ropp Commercial Calculator No. 1 25c. 



Silo and Silage, by Prof. Cook 25c. 



Bienen-Kultur LGerman] 40c. 



Kendall's Horse-Book [English or German] S5o. 



1 Pound White Clover Seed 25c. 



1 " Sweet " " 25c. 



IH " Alsike " " 25c. 



Hi •■ Alfalfa " " 25c, 



1!4 " Crimson " " 25c. 



Queen-Clipping Device 30c. 



"The Horse— How to Break and Handle. . 20c. 



We make the above offers only to those who are now sub- 

 scribers ; in other words, no one sending in his own 50 cents 

 as a new subscriber can also claim a choice of the above list. 



Xe-w Union and tlie Bee Journal.— In order 

 to help our subscribers, and also the United States Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Union at the same time, we have decided to offer a year's 

 subscription to the American Bee Journal and a year's mem- 

 bership dues in the New Union, both together, for $1.75. 

 But it must be understood that in order to get this rate, all 

 arrearages of subscriptions must be paid, and the $1.75 rate 

 to apply on advance subscription. 



Now send us your orders, and we will attend to turning 

 over the $1.00 membership fee to the New Union, on each 

 subscription to the Bee Journal as per the above offer. This 

 ought to add 500 members to the New Union by June 1. If 

 it does, our contribution will be just $125. 



Now, if you want to see the New Union succeed in its 

 grand work, in the interest of all the bee-keepers, come on 

 with your cash. General Manager Secor is just aching to do 

 his part whenever he sees sufficient funds in the treasury to 

 pay the bills. 



A INcw Binder for holding a year's numbers of the 

 American Bee Journal, we propose to mail, postpaid, to every 

 subscriber who sends us 20 cents. It is called '"The Wood 

 Binder," is patented, and is an entirely new and very simple 

 arrangement. Pull printed directions accompany each Binder. 

 Every reader should get it, and preserve the copies of the Bee 

 Journal as fast as they are received. They are invaluable for 

 reference, and at the low price of the Binder you can afford to 

 get It yearly. 



Back Numbers Since Jan. i.— We are able to 

 supply complete sets of the Bee Journal since Jan. 1, 1897, 

 to any who may desire, at two cents per copy. There are a 

 number of new readers who perhaps would like to get some of 

 the first numbers of this year, to complete their volume for 

 1897. We shall be glad to furnish them as long as they last, 

 at two cents each. 



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Tlie IHcEvoy Foul Brood Xreatment Is 



given in Dr. Howard's pamphlet on " Foul Brood ; Its Natural 

 History and Rational Treatment." It is the latest publication 

 on the subject, and should be in the hands of every bee-keeper. 

 Price, 25 cents ; or clubbed with the Bee Journal for one year 

 —both for $1.10. 



CoiiUucteil bj l»i-. C. C Miller. 



Peculiar Effects of Bce-Sting§. 



On page 230, G. S., of Utah, mentions the effect bee- 

 stings have on him. The effects are worse on me ; besides 

 acting just as he desciibes, I sometimes, " as women say," 

 faint away. Altho I have handled bees more or less for 20 

 years, I have not felt any great inconvenience until the last 

 few years. A few nights since I had a severe cough in bed. 

 I went downstairs and found a section of honey, partly capt. 

 I took a part of three tea-spoonfuls, and it had the same effect 

 on me that a sting has — feet tingling instantly, throat and 

 lips swelled inside, and caused severe vomiting. I would be 

 grateful if you, or some wise man from the East, could sug- 

 gest a remedy, and thereby help a poor orphan. Would whis- 

 key have a counteracting effect on bee-stings as well as on 

 snakes ? I have never used it, and don't know. 



British Columbia. 



Answer. — I confess my inability to help out, and will be 

 glad if any one else will do so. I don't know about the whis- 

 key, but it might possibly serve bee-stings the same as snake- 

 bites. 



Keeping the i^ucen Out of tlie Super — Putting on 

 Supers. 



I produced extracted honey last year, having 7 colonies 

 and 4 swarms, from which I took 1,025 pounds of extracted 

 honey. This season 1 have made arrangements for producing 

 comb honey with some of my colonies. 



1. Will a queen enter a super filled with sections and lay 

 there, if there is no protection? or must there be honey-boards 

 or perforated zinc on top of the brood-frames to keep the sec- 

 tions clear of brood ? 



2. Which is better to put on a hive, one or two supers at 

 the same time? Wisconsin. 



Answers. — 1. I allow ray queens liberty to go into the 

 sections if they wish, and once in a great while I find brood in 

 a section, but it so rarely happens that I prefer not to use 

 queen-excluders, notwithstanding I had enough excluders last 

 year lying idle to furnish one to each colony. I know that 

 some complain that queens go up into the supers, and I don't 

 understand why their experience should be different from 

 mine, unless it be that they don't use separators. Very likely 

 a queen would trouble more about going up and laying In the 

 supers if separators were not used. 



2. Put on one super at first, and when that is half filled, 

 or thereabouts, raise it up and put a second one under it. 



Perhaps Bee-Paralysis. 



I introduced an excellent queen to a queenless colony just 

 in the opening of the honey season last year. She laid up 

 nicely, I discovered a few days after the hatching of the first 

 brood. There were some dead bees in front of the hive. I 

 thought it might have been troubled by insects or robbers, 

 but it was not, so 1 contracted the entrance. Bees continued 

 dying. I examined the hive, and found a queen laying as 

 usual. The combs were very well covered with bees, yet every 

 day a dozen or two are to be seen dead, and to the present 

 time the same, which is about five months now. It has seven 

 frames of good combs, drawn from sheets of foundation. It 

 never decreases, but the increase is thrown outside. I ob- 

 served about four or six of them take hold of one and bring it 

 to the ground. It is left there, whore it dies. The dead ones 

 are yellow all over except a little jet black at the point of the 

 tail, whilst the others are regularly banded (yellow). The col- 

 ony has brood and eggs, but about the same quantity of bees 

 as when the queen was introduced. Jamaica. 



Answer. — Perhaps paralysis. If so, you'll see the affected 

 bees trembling all over, and the bees drag them out of the 

 hive while still alive. The change of color is due to the fact 

 that the plumage has disappeared from the sick bees, leaving 

 the yellow and black parts more pronounced in color, and 

 shiny. As yet no sure cure for paralysis seems to have been 

 found, altho many cures have been announced. 



