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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 21, 



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 have Dry Kiln, Improved Machinery, 40.000 

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 We make prompt shipment. 

 Write for Catalogs. Quotations, etc. 



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Earn a Watcii 



Uy selhii^' Wliitiiiau's 

 I'ure Teas, Spices. Bakin;^ 

 Pciwder, Etc. 25 lbs. earns a 

 ^^^ Sulid Silver Cliatelain Watch. 

 ) 10 lbs. a Uu«by Fotft Ball. 20 

 t lbs. a Dexter Camera. 201 bs. a 

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FOR SAILE. 



Apiary and Small Farm in southwest Texas. 

 Address. 

 inrs. ITI. Iff. Diiiiiipgan, Klalliln, Tejr. 



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Glass Tumblers ! 



are the package to put honey up in, and work 

 up a home trade. I ran furnish you with >, 

 pint tin top. ^4 doz. to the barrel, at $3.00 per 

 barrel; Vt pint size, 20 doz. to the barrel, $.5,00 

 per barrel Cash must accompany all orders. 

 Fluiii LulielM for above Glasses — 2%j:!, 

 250 for 40 CIS.. or$l.-2o per 1000. 



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<tiieenK an<l 4eii<-en-Keai-ins:.— 



If you want to know how to have queens 

 fertilized in upper stories while the old 

 queen is still laying below; how you may 

 naj'dy iutrudiu-e 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 

 qiieen-busiuess 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, tl. 00; or clubbed 

 with the Beb Jouknai. for one year— both 

 for only H.'h ; or given free as a premium 

 for sending us Imi new subscriljers to the 

 Bbb Jouknal for a year at til .00 each. 



terday the beekeeper who is penning 

 these lines was most fearfully " stung " 

 by fish. One of my ponds had become 

 so nearly dry that the Hsh — cat-fish and 

 perch— could be seen ; and in order to 

 transfer them to a deeper pond, I waded 

 In mud to the lop of my rubber boots, 

 and gathered the lively things in my 

 hands and put them in a bucket. I no- 

 ticed their sharp spines were very pain- 

 ful, and that blood dropt from my fin- 

 gers; but having handled such fish from 

 boy-hood, and suffered only a pain simi- 

 lar to that from a bee-sting, I kept at it 

 till done — about four hours — by which 

 time my hands and arms wore so swollen 

 and painful that I had to use the felon 

 cure, and soak in lye as hot as I could 

 bear it. My hands are still stiff and 

 sore, but the pain is mostly in the head 

 and small of the back, mainly, per- 

 haps from stooping so much and stay- 

 ing so long in the cold mud. Some bee- 

 keepers are also fish-keepers, and I 

 warn them against too free and care- 

 less handling of such slippery, wiggling 

 stock. 



I sympathize with Mr, Hntchinson. 

 I did not know of his afflictions when I 

 met him, a few days ago, at the State 

 Fair. Wm. Camm. 



Morgan Co., III. Oct. 10. 



A Droneless Apiary. 



It has been a splendid season for bees. 

 Mine produced four swarms per hive, 

 and all except two colonies have filled 

 their hives with honey, and are in good 

 condition to winter. They are hybrids, 

 and large brown bees. These bees have 

 mystified me all summer. I have not 

 seen a single drone during the whole 

 season, dead or alive. I wish some one 

 would give an opinion on this through 

 the Bee Journal. I have workt and fust 

 with bees a good many years, and have 

 carefully watcht them this summer, but 

 I have never had any droneless bees un- 

 til the past season. R. R. Harris. 



Erie Co., Ohio, Oct. 7. 



Detecting Queenlessness Easily. 



I have an old bee-keeping friend who 

 is often spoken of by those who do not 

 belong to the fraternity as a "bee- 

 crank," because his whole lime and at- 

 tention are given to the care and study 

 of bees. But his studies are to some 

 purpose, for he is continually evolving 

 new methods and ways of "doing 

 things," some of which are worth no- 

 ling. He has been kind enough to give 

 me the benefit of his experience, and a 

 few days ago he told mesomethingabout 

 how to ascertain if a colony was queen- 

 less without disturbing the frames in 

 the hive. The idea seemed to me such a 

 good one that I determined to share it 

 with the readers of the Bee Journal. 

 He has already tested the plan several 

 limes, and claims it works like a charm. 

 His method is as follows: 



With a queen-cage in his hand he goes 

 to a colony which he knows has a iiueen, 

 catches her and puts her into the queen- 

 cage, and lays the cage on top of the 

 frames, where he leaves it for 1 5 or 20 

 minutes, or until the cage has become 

 warm and well scented by the queen, 

 when he allows her to return to her 

 family and takes the empty (jueoncage 

 as quickly as possible to the supposed 

 queenless colony, where he lays It on the 

 top of the frames and watches the bees 



BEES FOR SALE. 



About 00 rolonles of Itiilians. Any one want- 

 ing^ to start aa apiary caunot do t»etler th.m 

 to call oil Dr. E. Gullup, Santa Ana. Calif., 

 and examine the Bees before purchasing else* 

 where. Double sets of Combs in Langrstrotb- 

 SlrapUclty Hives, and ivarranted a surerior 

 lot of Bees for bu'sine^s. Cirrespodence so- 

 licited. i>r. E. c;ai^litp. 



Santa Ana. Orange Co.. Cai.. 

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SEE THAT WINK ! 



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Goons at Koot's Prices. 

 Pouder's Honey - Jars. 



and every thing used by 

 bee-keepers. Prompt ser- 

 vice, low freight rate. Cat 

 iree. Walter S. Ponder, 

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BEE-BOOK 



That covers the whole Apicultura[ Field more 

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 (or bis 



Bee-Keeper's Guide. 



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PATENT WIRED COMB FODNDATIOH 



Has No Sag in Brood.Framei 



Thin Flat-liottom Foiudation 



Bas lo Fisbbone in Ibe Snrplas Bone;. 



BelDR tbe cleanest Is usnally worked 

 tbe quickest of any Fonndatlon made 



J. A. VAN DEIISEN. 



Sole Mannt&otQrer, 

 Sproat Brook Montcomprv Oo.. I** V. 



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 ONE MAN WrTH THE 



UNION '^o'-u.^^'o- 



Can do the work of four 

 men using hand tools, In 

 Kipping, Cuttlng-off. Mi- 

 tring. Rabbeting, Groov- 

 ing. Gaining. Dadoing, 

 Kdglng-up. Jointing Stuff, 

 etc. Full Line of Foot and 

 Hand Power Machinery. 

 8old on Trial. Oalalo^ne Frre, 

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 46 Water St SKNEOA FALLS. N. T. 



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pec I^CCDCDQ I Let me send you my 64- 

 Dl.L~^LL^L^O i page Catalog tor 18H7. 

 J. lU. JeiikiiiM, Wetunipka, Ala. 



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