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AMERICAN BEE lOURNAL 



Jan. 2, 1902. 



OUR NEW CATALOG, describing: and listing the FINEST LINE OF BEE-KEEPERS' 

 SUPPLIES IN THE WORLD, will be ready about the first of the year. If you have not been re- 

 ceiving" a copy annually, send us your uame and address and one will be mailed you fiee. Prices 

 will be same as last season with the exception of the narrow, plain sections with no bee wavs, which 

 will be 25 cents per thousand less. Q^ g. LEWIS CO., WatertOWn, WlS. 



Special Agency. C. M. Scott & Co., 1004 East Washington St , Indianapolis, Ind. 



AGENCIES: L. C. Woodman, Grand Rapid«, Mich.: Fred VV. Muth A: Co., S. W. Cor. Walnut 

 and Front Sts., Cincinnati, Ohio; Fred Foulger A: Sons, Ogden, Utah; Colorado Honey -Producers' 

 Association, Denver, Colo.; tirand Junction Fruit-ti rowers' Association, Grand Junnction, Colo.; 

 Robert Halley. Montrose, Colo.: Pierce Seed i Produce Co., Pueblo, Colo.; E, T.Abbott, St- 

 Joseph, Mo., Special Southwestern Agent; Chas. Dadant & Son, Hamilton, 111.; F. C. Erkel, 515 

 1st Ave., X.E . Minneapolis. Minn.; Lilly, Bogrardus i: Co., Seattle, Wash. 



I uimM Honey For hM i 



^ ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. S^ 



=BEST= 



Alfalfa 

 Honey J%^ 



This is the famous 

 "White Extracted 

 Honey gathered in 

 the great Alfalfa 

 regions of the Cent- 

 ral West. It is a 

 splendid honey, and 

 nearly everybody 

 who cares to eat 

 honey at all can't 

 get enough of the 

 Alfalfa extracted. 



Basswood 

 Honey J/(^ 



This is the well- 

 kaown lig-lit-colored 

 honey gathered from 

 the rich, uectar- 

 ladea basswood blos- 

 soms. It has a 

 strodg-er flavor than 

 Alfalfa, and is pre- 

 ferred by those who 

 like a distinct flavor 

 in their honey. 



Prices of Alfalfa or Basswood Honey: ^ 



A sample of either, by mail, 10 cents, to pay for package and post- ^ 



age. By freight — two or more 60-pound cans of Alfalfa, 7'/i cents per ^| 



pound. Basswood Honey, >< cent more per pound than Alfalfa prices, ffr 



Cash must accompany each order. You can order half of each kind of ^ 



honey, if you so desire. The cans are two in a box, and freight is not ^| 



prepaid. ^ 



Order the Above Honey and then Sell It. >: 



We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce ^! 



' enough honey for their home demand this year, just order some of the ^ 



I above, and sell it. And others, who want to earn some money, can get £; 



this honey and work up a demand for it almost anj'where. ^'. 



:^ QEORQE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, III. S'. 



HEADQUARTERS 



FOR 



Bee=Supplies. 



ROOT'S GOODS AT THEIR 

 FACTORY PRICES. 



Distributor of same for THE SOUTH, TEN. 

 NESSEE, KENTUCKY, WEST VIR- 

 GINIA, ILLINOIS and OHIO. 



Complete stock for 1902 now on hand. 



The freights from Cincinnati are the 

 lowest. 



Prompt service is what I practice. Sat- 

 isfaction guaranteed. 



Catalog mailed free — send for same. 



The Standard Honey-Jars, Langstroth 

 Hives, etc., at lowest prices. 



You will save money by bujing from 

 "e. c. H. W. WEBER, 



2146-214.S Central Ave.. CINCINNATI, riHIO. 

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



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 when writing advertisers. 



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;iin vindicaticin: nor dof^w PiiuM Fnncp. TliP \vlir>l( 

 truth iii^v 1'^ told ^^i eitli'T without iniurintz tlicm. 



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GREIDER'S FINE CATALOGUE 

 of piize winninff poultry for 1902, prinle<i in colors, 

 lllaHirstes and nescnben 50 Vnrit'tleN oT ronllrjr; 



gives reasonable [irlces of eei^ and stocl. Many htnis to 

 pouliry raistrs. 8cntl lOe >n silver or smmps lor tbiB 

 not«dbook. It. II. i;KKIl>KK, Florin. To. 



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POULTRY PAPER. 



Send 25 cents for a year's subscription to our 

 Journal, and we will send book, Plans for 

 Poultry-Houses, free. Six mouths trial subscrip- 

 tion to Journal, 10 cents. 

 Inland Poultry Journal, Indianapolis, Ind 



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STRONGEST 



Bull. 



Chicken- 



S'lliI to the Fiirnierat Wholcsiilo 



Fully Wnrninled. Catalog Free. 



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WlVAIMMUri COUJ^D SPRI.VO FENCK CO. 



Box H'J frincbeHter, IndiaDa, U. S, 



pass against a third person who cuts the tree 

 and takes possession of them on a subsetjuent 

 license from the owner of the soil. The two 

 licensees stand on an equal footing; and he 

 who first lakes possession becomes the owner. 

 — Ferguson vs. Miller, 1 Cow. (New York), 

 343. 



This ca^e has been commented on adversely, 

 and critics say it is bad law. The better law 

 on this point is promulgated by the Vermont 

 Supreme Court in Adams vs. Burton, 43 Ver- 

 mont. 36, where it is held that one who has 

 obtained a tacit consent from the owner of 

 the soil to cut down a bee-tree thereon, and 

 get the honey, has, while in the act of cutting 

 down the tree, a superior right over a third 

 person to whom the owner has given subse- 

 quent consent, but without revoking the 

 former's authority. The court said : "These 

 parties stand, as between themselves and as 

 respects the legal principles applicable to the 

 case, in precisely the same position as though 

 neither had any authority from the owner of 

 the tree, and both were trespassers upon his 

 rights, or as though there were no individual 

 owner of the tree. How, then, would the 

 case stand ? No principle is better settled 

 than that a person in possession of property 

 can maintain trespass against any one who 

 interferes with such possession who can not 

 show a better right or title." 



With regard to swarms not wild, but issu- 

 ing from colonies in the possession of a bee- 

 keeper, Mr. Fisher says : 



If bees temporarily escape from the hive of 

 the owner, who keeps tliem in sight, and 

 marks the tree into which they enter, and is 

 otherwise able to identify them, they belong 

 to him, and not to the owner of the soil. In 

 such a case the property draws after it pos- 

 session sufficient to enable the owner of the 

 bees to maintain trespass and recover dam- 

 ages against a third person who fells the tree, 

 destroys the bees, and takes the honey, not- 

 withstanding such owner himself is liable to 

 trespass for entering on the land of another 

 for a similar purpose without authority. The 

 right of ownership continues; and, though 

 he can not pursue and take them without 

 being liable to trespass, still this ditticulty 

 does not operate as an abandonment of the 

 bees to their liberty by nature. Hence, the 

 dictum that " Wif otfixf /• uf t/ie sui! is entitled 

 to the tree and all within it" is true only so 

 far asrepects an unreclaimed swarm. 



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A Kink in Queen-Rearing. 



A little kink I got this year for rearing 

 ([ueens early in the season and late in the 

 fall, when bees will do really good work in 

 any other way, was this: Remove the old 

 <iueen, then close the hive and gently blow 

 smoke in at the entrance, pounding slightly 

 on the hive till the bees are alarmed so they 

 will fill themselves with honey. Now open 

 and shake half or more of the bees into the 

 nucleus-box I have explained about before. 

 This box is so arranged that the Iwes have 

 access to what is known as "queen-candy," 

 such as is used in sending out queens in the 

 mails. The box of bees is carried to the 

 honey-house and left till the next day, at 

 which time the colony is given a prepared 

 lot of queen-cups, and the bees put back. 

 They will "go for" cell-building "to beat 

 the band." Twenty-four to 3C hours later 

 put in a frame of honey on either side of the 

 frame of cells, and take all the combs having 

 brood in them from the hive, shaking and 

 brushing off ail the bees. This adds a new 

 impetus to the matter, and brings forth 

 tiueens of the very highest type of perfection, 

 especially it the colony is fed in addition, so 

 that njuch heat is kept up all the while, (ill 

 the queens are ready to emerge. — G. M. Doo- 

 LiTTLE, in Progressive Bee-Keeper. 



Five-Banders Not Uniform. , 



1 never yet have seen </// the liees of so- 

 called five-banded (|ueens show uniformly 

 five yellow bands. The best average for one 

 ciueen is, perhaps, .50 percent with five bands; 

 'Jb percent with four, and the rest with three. 

 Asarule, wedo well to get 2.5 percent five- 

 banded workers, and the rest three and four 



