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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



March 27, 1902. 



^ We are tlie Largest Mannfactiirers of Bee-Keepers' Smiles in tlie Nortliwest 



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} We have tHe Best Goods, Lowest Prices, and Best SMping Facilities 



We furnish tliis popular Tnp Eupgy. with 

 our genuine Jonj,' distance, dust primf axles, 

 longitudinal center sprint, superior quick 

 shifting shaft couplings, best quality split 

 hickory wheels with screws in rims and with 

 quarter inch mund edge steel tires, full bolt- 

 ed between each spoke; also our open bfit-i 

 lom ventilated spring cushion, fine quality 1- 



douhle braced, full f — 



leather and full irm . 

 split hickory shafts.for 





Write for handsome free catalogue of Split Hickory Buggies, 

 Carriages. Harness and Saddles. It is free. 



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NOTICE 



They All Hang 



TOGETHER 



nnd have a good pull If you buy a Bueey. Carriage. Harness or 

 ..J of your local dealer, you have to hold up all of these fellows, 

 llie dealer, traveling salesman, jobber, manufacturer and mechanic, 

 as they all get a proht out of you. Seems quite a load to lift, doesn't 

 It- \\ hen you look at the buety it doesn't seem quite fair that vou 

 should pay so many profits, does it? U you buy one of our celebrated 



SPLIT HICKORY VEHICLES 



of us direct, you cut off three profits, as we need only the mechanic to 

 make our goods and sell thim at one small profit toourselves. We have 

 no use for dealer, traveling salesman or jobber. Split Hickory Vehicles 

 are sold only by us direct. Your dealer cannot sell you one at any price 

 nor can he sell one an>-where near as good for the price we ask for them. 

 We know this to be true and want >vT,i to kn.w it and that is the reason 



Z^^^ri^'l^ 30 DAYS' FREE TRIAL 



that you may have ample opportunity to prove our claims. It won't cost ' 

 you a cent to try Split Hickory.as we pay freight both ways if you retur n it. 



This is Our No. 235. 



THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY have a Branch Store at 10 Vine St., 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA., 



Where they have direct steamboat connections -with Massachusetts, Rhode 



Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, 



South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, 



and low freight-rates. 



As this is a main branch, order from any catalog or quotations given 



from Medina. 



Also booking orders for healthy ITALIAN BEES shipped this month. Full 

 colonies, 8 frames and queen, S6.flO. Wholesale rates on application. 



Ple« Mention the Bee Journal lJv%"rSr?^f.. 



Cutting Foundation for Starters. 



This is done for sections after the following 

 style by M. A. Gill, as given in the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Review: 



In the cutting up the foundation, I put ,50 

 sheets into a box that just flts the sheets of 

 foundation, but with one end and the top 

 open. The box has saw-kerfs sawed down 

 through the sides, at equal distances apart, as 

 guides for cutting the sheets into five equal 

 parts. In cutting I use a scalloped bread- 

 knife dipped in wartn soap-suds; and by a 

 ([uiek, sawing motion, I can, in less than one 

 minute, have five piles (250) of starters that 

 are true, and as loose as a pack of cards. 



My wife is champion at the filling of supers, 

 as she will average to fill lOO supers in eight 

 hours. 



Small Pieces of Glass in Shipping- 

 Cases, 



These have been recommended in Glean- 

 ings, a small piece of wood being fitted be- 

 tween the pieces of glass so as to cover up 

 the edges of the sections, and the glass of 

 old negatives discarded by photographers 

 come into play for this purpose. F. A. Salis- 

 bury tells in Gleanings how to clean them. 



"He uses a common wash-boiler, and places 

 in it two pails of water and a pound package 

 of Babbitt's potash. After the water comes 

 to a slow boil, he is ready to place the glass in. 

 But instead of immersing it in bulk in every 

 shape imaginable, it must be placed on wooden 

 racks so that the water can get at both surfaces 

 of eadi light of glass. For that purpose he 

 uses a pine board 3 inches wide, and just long 

 enough to go inside of the wash-boiler. Into 

 this he drives S-penny casing nails about }-^ 

 of an inch apart, zigzag, the entire length, 

 and deep enough so they will stand up 1% 

 inches. Wooden handles are nailed on to 

 each end. The lights of glass are now stood 

 up on edge between the nails, and the whole 

 is immersed in the solution of potash. It is 

 then left there for about ten minutes, when it 

 is lifted out and soused down into a tub of 

 water to rinse off the glass, for the photo- 

 graphic film will all have dissolved oil in the 

 solution. 



"To expedite the work, three wooden racks 

 for holding glass are made: and if one works 

 right he can take 50 every 5 minutes, and 

 have 2 minutes' rest out of each 5. When the 

 rack is taken out with the glass it is set on 

 the inverted boiler-cover and carried over to 

 the tub. This catches the drip. 



Comb Foundation for Swarms. 



G. M. Doolittle makes a plea for utilizing 

 the wax that is already secreted by a swarm 

 when it issues. He says in The American Bee- 

 Keeper: 



When the prime swarm issues, they go 

 forth, as a rule, with wax already secreted in 

 their wax-pocl<ets, so that they may at once 

 commence to build combs in their new home, 

 and if the new home is already supplied with 

 all the neces ary combs this wax is wasted, 

 or, what is often the case, worse than wasted, 

 it being added to the foundation already in 

 the sections, so that instead of drawing out 

 the side-walls of the foundation they build 

 with their own wax the cells of the combs, 

 thus leaving the foundation in the sections 

 the same as it left the mill. This causes the 

 grumbling we have heard so much about, re- 

 garding the " fishbone " in section honey. 

 Now, where I hive swarms on full combs, or 

 frames filled with foundation, I use only start- 

 ers in the sections, and find that the bees will 



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