Jan. 9. 1902 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



29 



OUR NEW CATALOG. deHcrlbinif and listitiff »l>c FIN18T LINE OF B1E-KEBPER9' 

 SUPPLIES IN THE WOHLO. will be ready about the Hrst of the year. I f von have in»i lir-m nv 

 <eivin(f a copy annually, send uh your name and address and one will l>i- mailed yui ttce. I'ricen 

 will be Ha rue as last seawon with the exception of ilic narrow, plain sfi t ion-- with no bee ways, which 



will be is ccni« per thousand ie.s«. G. B. LEWIS CO., Watertowii, Wis. 



Special Aeency. C. M. Scott & Co., 1004 Bast Washington St . Indlanapoll.4, Ind. 



AdKNCIKS: h C. Woodman, (irand KapuN. Mich : Fred W. Muth A Co., S VV. Cor. Walnut 

 and Front Sin., Cincinnati, Ohio; I'red KonljffrtV Sous, H^den, Utah; Colorado Honey-Producers' 

 Association, Denver, Colo.; (irand Junction I'''ruit-(irowerH' Association, (fraud .lunnction, Colo.; 

 Robert ilalley, Montr<»He, Colo.; Pierce Seed tV Produce Co., Pueblo, Colo : K, T. Abbott, St. 

 Joneph, Mo., Special Soulliwesteru Ajjent; Chas. Dadant A: Son, llrtmilion. 111 ; F. C. Krkel, 51=^ 

 1st Ave., N.IC , Minneapolis, Minn.; Lilly. lEot^ardus iV Co., Seattle, Wash. 



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Prompt service is what I practice. Sat- 

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2146-2148 Central Ave.. CINCINNATI, OHIO. 

 Successor to Chas. F.Muth & Son and A. Muth. 



ffllh the "incpmparalite' 



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This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 

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 26 cents a pound — 

 CASH— for best yel- 

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 Address as follows, very plainly, 



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Equal in %vorkinanshiii 

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 Ui..i..ii_lii.ir>l jM.uliry at the Reliahle I'oultrv Kami, and how thev are cared lor. j*->5I .W?- ■''lU 



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ei.^e. r or im- ueginner, •■r nu- man wuo 



$5 Reiiafoie 



UH If WO (irazy [ii'OpIo wen; Imrd taHk-iiiiiki;rH. 

 To plnitKO us, lid iflvcn all hl«tlrn«— CBii'l i;v«n 

 t'nt 11 Kliit'li! liny to K" llHlilnif. Vou limy niik. 

 Why ( Slirjply liecuuHC we expect so iiiueli 

 for 11 little money. And n> many appear to 

 think that eilitinu a l>ee-paper lb fun, au<l can 

 lie (lone just liixause tht-y read the i>aper hul 

 forijet to Kcnd in their dollurh.* 



" Whiu JB ll.c- -Did Keliable?'" you will 

 iihk, IllHthebifst Ijee-paper in the world, I 

 think, If you will only take painii to Kee the 

 other ones. These bee-papers are like Pat's 

 wliihky— none bad, but some belter than 

 othcrH. 



That ChicaRo bee-keepers' convention was 

 worth i,"'inp to see. You beifinners will do 

 well by attending some of them. I knew 

 several of the bee-keepers frotn their pictures 

 in the Bee Journal. 'I'hey were a line lot of 

 people. 



Dr. .Miller must have had a cold, as he did 

 cnn.siderable eneczinjf while seated at the 

 piano. He is just as nice and clever out-of- 

 doors as he is in the " Question and Answer 

 Depiirlment." 



8ome things I learned last season. They 

 were talking about bottom starters for sec- 

 tions. I tried them, but cut them too tall, so 

 they lopped, and the bees fastened the comb 

 to the separators. Hereafter, if I use them, I 

 will cut them very low. say from a quarter to 

 half an inch tall. It was said that 4<l colonies 

 of bees would carry off from five to ten gal- 

 lons of water daily, when the heated spell was 

 on; that our black bees outstripped the long- 

 tongues. 



Now, readers, what are we to do about that 

 type-setting machine ; It is up to all of us. 

 Let's have it. .J. P. Blunk. 



Webster Co., Iowa, Dee. 20. 



[We hardly knew whether to let the above 

 go in or not; but. after thinking it over, we 

 decided that we'd have to let that Blunky 

 Iowa man have his own way, or he'd Blunk 

 at us later with some more of hisBIunkety- 

 Blunk stories.— Editor.] 



Helpful Hints for Beginners. 



On the night of Dec. li the mercury ran 

 down below zero in just a few hours, with a 

 cold northwest wind blowing a gale, accom- 

 panied with a light fall of snow. The suc- 

 ceeding night was also a zero night, the first 

 zero weather that this locality has experienced 

 this winter. 



My experience in wintering bees out-of- 

 doors in this locality is that they must be pro- 

 tected on the north and west by a high board 

 fence, or with timber, or evergreens, or a hill. 

 Such protection should be provided even if 

 they are in chaff hives. I am confident that 

 the north wind and snow and sleet driven 

 against the hives does more damage than 

 steady freezing weather, if the bees are not 

 confined to the hives too long. 



Apiculture is made up of many little 

 details, and there is no other business known 

 to the writer that will suffer as much from 

 the neglect of little matters. What little 

 attention bees do need must be given at the 

 right time to be of any use to them. Though 

 the work done by the bee-keeper may seam a 

 very small matter, it amounts to a great deal 

 to the bees. 



You might as well try to run a locomotive 

 without steam as to try to run an apiary with- 

 out a bee-smoker. At times only a little 

 smoke is needed. When handling "bees most 

 persons think that a bee-smoker can be dis- 

 pensed with, and often goto the hive and open 

 it up or pull off the cover. The consequences 

 are. they have a mad lot of bees to contend 

 with, stinging everything within their reach, 

 when, if a little smoke had been used, all 

 would have been well. I never go to a hive 

 to open it without first lighting the smoker, 

 although ciuite often it is not needed. 



Every person owning two colonies of bees 

 should subscribe for a good, live bee-paper (it 

 he has not already done so), and also get a 

 good text -book, and then study them thor- 

 oughly. The bees will increase as fast as 

 your knowledge, and faster, in two good sea- 

 sons. 



All hives should rest near the ground, with 

 a half brick under each corner of the hive. 

 Then heavily-laden bees can reach the en- 



