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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 28, 



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 Honey, Books or Seed, that we offer. If 

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or Hee-Hlves, Sections, Ship- 

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 and Everything used in tbe 

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We want the name and ad- 

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 *^ America. We supply Deal- 

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 have Dry Kiln, Improved Machinery. 40.000 

 ee lot floor space, and all modern appliances. 

 We make prompt shipment. 

 Write for Catalogs, Quotations, etc. 



Inter-State MaiiufactiirinE Co, 



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By sellinti Whitman's 

 Pure Teas, Spices, Bakitifi 

 Powder. Etc. 25 lbs. earns a 

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 \ 10 lbs. a Itutiby Foot Ball. 2U 

 [ lbs a Dexter Camera, 20 lbs. a 

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FOR SALE. 



Apiary and Small Farm In southwest Texas. 

 Address. 

 ITIrs. JTI. lYI. Diiniiegaii, .^latliiN, Tex. 



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Glass Tumblers ! 



are the pnekage to put honey up in, and work 

 up a home trade. 1 ran furnish you with }^ 

 pint tin top. 24 doz. to the barrel, at $.5.00 per 

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

 per barrel. Cash must accompany all orders. 

 Plain LabclN lor above Glasses — 2^4x3, 

 250 lor 40 els., or SI. 2.") per 1000. 



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 42Atf Please mcijtioh the Bee Journal. 



<tiieeiiN and ((iieen-IEesirine:.— 



If you want to know how to have queens 

 fertilized in upper stories while the old 

 queen is still laying below; how you may 

 safely iutrotliiii- 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, 

 9tc. ; or, in fact, everything about the 

 queen-business which you may want to 

 know — send for Doolittle's " Hcieutifie 

 Queen-Kearing " — a book of over 170 

 pages, which is as interesting as a story. 

 Here are some good offers of this book: 



Bound in cloth, postpaiii. $1.00; or clubbed 

 with the Bkb Jouknai. for one year — both 

 for only ifl.T.') ; or given free as a premium 

 (or sending us Imt new subscribers to the 

 Bee Jodrnal for a year at $1.00 each. 



and I think any one can increase his 

 sales at home, if he will only try. It 

 may seem a little embarassing to peddle 

 honey from house to house, but you can 

 stand this if you once get started and 

 make a few sales — one will soon forget 

 about being timid. So I would say to 

 every one who has a honey crop to sell, 

 muster up courage and try peddling it 

 from house to house — it will pay you. 



Dr. Miller, if I remember rightly, can 

 not peddle. Take courage. Doctor, and 

 you will find it much easier than having 

 a red handkerchief on your head and 

 wheeling dirt, as you once preferred to 

 peddling. You can wear your Sunday 

 clothes if you prefer, peddling. Doctor, 

 and sing all the songs you like. 



We are going out peddling again to- 

 morrow. I find it much better to sell to 

 consumers direct than to thestores. 

 Some stores are all right, but eight out 

 of ten do not take interest enough in 

 honey to keep it in salable shape. They 

 will put it in some corner out of the way, 

 and a common customer would not know 

 they keep honey for sale. When I come 

 around and ask how they are getting 

 along selling honey, they say there is no 

 call for honey. 1 tell them to put it out 

 where people can see it. Some will do 

 as you ask them but mostof them think, 

 if they do not say so, "We know our 

 business." But the facts are they don't 

 know how to handle honey. The stores 

 that sell the most for me, I always find 

 keep their honey and cases dry and clean, 

 and the cases can be used over half a 

 dozen times, and be in first-class shape. 

 G. E. Nelson. 



Henry Co., III., Oct. 9. 



Extraordinary Honey-Season. 



The past season has been an extraor- 

 dinary one in this section. The season 

 started in aboutas usual. The first half 

 of June was very rainy, which put 

 swarming back till late, but the rain 

 more than equalled, in the production of 

 white clover, what it put the bees back 

 in swarming. We have not had so large 

 a crop of white clover for several years, 

 and other honey-producing plants in the 

 same ratio. I took 90 one-pound sec- 

 tions of nice white honey from one of my 

 colonies, which is the largest yield I 

 have known in this section. The fall 

 flow of honey was the best for many 

 years. Bees workt on golden-rod, which 

 was very plentiful till frost came, and 

 kept the bees storing in the supers all 

 the time. I find there is a great differ- 

 ence in the honey-gathering qualities of 

 the different strains of Italian bees. 1 

 have a queen whose workers are larger 

 than any of my others, and 1 can find 

 them from 3-2 to 1 mile farther away 

 from home than any of the others ; and 

 her hive is always heavy in stores. I 

 united my bees in chaff hives on the 

 summer stands. W. E. Virgim. 



Merrimack Co., N. U., Oct. 17. 



Laying Workers. — Winter Passages. 



We have had a very dry season here in 

 northwest Iowa. Kees have not much 

 more than made a living the past sum- 

 mer. Wo started last spring with 50 

 colonies, and increast to 72. We bought 

 a tested queen and reared a few nice, 

 young qucHMis from her. 



The way I get rid of laying workers is 

 to remove the hive contaliilug the wor- 

 kers and put in Its place one contaioing 



BEES FOR SALE. 



About 90 Tolonles of Italians. Any one want- 

 ing" to start an apiary cannot do iietler than 

 to call on Dr. E, Gallup. Santa Aua. Calif., 

 and examine the Bees before purchasing- else- 

 where. Double sets of Combs In Lanj^stroth- 

 Slmplicity Hives, and warranted a surerior 

 lot of Bees for business. Correspodence so- 

 licited. Dr. E. OALLfiP, "^ 

 Santa Ana. Orange Co.. Cal. 

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Kee - Supplies ! Root's 



Goods at Koot's Prices. 

 Ponder'* Honey - Jars, 



and every thing used by 

 bee-keepers. Prompt ser- 

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 iree. Walter S. Ponder, 



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 completely than any other published, send 

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Bee-Keeper's Guide. 



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PATENT WIRED COMB FOCNDATIOH 



Haa No Sag In Brood'Frame* 



Thin Flat-Kottom Foundation 



Bas Ko FishbODe id tbe Sarplus HoDfif. 



Being the oleaneet Is Qsaally worke<3 

 the qutckeet of any Fonndatlon made 



J. A. VAN DEMSEN. 



Bole Manufaolurer, 

 Bpront Brook Montcoinery Co.. N. T. 



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Can do the work of lour 

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 Hipping:, Cuttlntf-ott, Mi- 

 tring, Rabbeting, Groov- 

 ing. Gaining. Dadoing, 

 Edglng-up. Jointing Stuff, 

 etc. Bull Llneof Foot and 

 Hand Power Machinery. 

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 DLL-NLLrLnO 1 page Catalog lor 18H7. 

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