March 27, ly' 2 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



205 



Buflin^ton 



Every day during March 

 and April we shall sell 



Cheap Tickets 



To The 



Northwest 



Montana, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, 

 Washington and N.W.Wyoming 



Our fast train service from Chicago to 

 St. Paul, Billings, Mont., and Denver, 

 and our system of Reclining Chair 

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 Cars — only $6 for a double berth 

 Chicago to Pacific Coast — in addition 

 to the regular Pullman cars, makes 

 the Burlington Route the most com- 

 fortable and convenient way to the 

 Northwest. Ask you nearest ticket 

 agent about it or write me for a folder 

 giving particulars. 



P. S. EUSTIS, Gen'l Pass'r Agent C. B. & Q. Ry. 

 Chicago. 



^'lea.se ineiitioii licu . 





, There is the name and the trade 

 Imark which guarantees to you all |,-<j 

 Ifhe purity, general excellence, and Iv 

 reUability of the famous 



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They are fitted to every reijuirenient of the 

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 I'holiTa Murhus, Indlgi'stluri, i'uiR, Kruibt>h, 

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 There is no telling how much trouble, money 

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 you. irtor any reason we should nothavea 

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 when writing advertisers. 



some the same rlay that the hccs gather it, 

 and run it lluoutfh the ttcparator just to 

 .sec the thick hom-y run out of one spoul 

 while the water inns out of the other. 



\\ f h.'ivf h.-ol .1 very (try winter I mean 

 a tiry atmosphere. The bees seem to have win- 

 tered well so fai ; tliey had a good ihght about 

 I-'cbruary 2$, wliich will satisfy them until 

 sprinK opens. J, Au'AU'iii. 



Ontario, Canri'l.i, March ro. 



A Brief Report. 



About J4 crop surplus secured last year; 

 U colonies, fall count, and all alive now. 

 .so swarming for j years. W. U. iluKT. 



Cass Co., Mo., March 8. 



Wintering" Well-Good Home Market 



We have only i..; colonics of bees. I think 

 tliey have wintered well so far, and they 

 sccni to be in good condition. There have 

 t ccn only a few days warm enough for ihem 

 to fly, but last week Monday they were out 

 strong and seemed all right. 



We have a market right at home for all 

 the honey we have to spare. But we never do 

 without it ourselves for the sake of selling it. 

 R. T. Clason. 



Mildland Co., Mich., March 6. 



Species of Anthophora. 



I this day mail you 2 bees, dead, of 

 course. I should judge from the description 

 they resemble Apis dorsata, but haven't they 

 a fine reach? In those bees 1 think I see 

 the ideal of those long-tongued venders in the 

 east. If you do not object, you can give 

 me the name of these bees through Ameri- 

 can liee Journal. Edward Porter. 



San Diego Co., Calif., Feb. 19. 



[I'ne bees sent liy Mr. Porter are species 

 of Anthophora. These are long-tongued, robust 

 bees that look in a general way like male 

 honey-bees or drones. They are Solitary 

 bees, and so will never be of any vise in 

 bee-keeping. T*hey v^rork on flowers^ and 

 like all bees feed their young on pollen. Thus 

 they hie away to fields and orchards for 

 both nectar and pollen. 



Like all bees, they are . valuable in polli- 

 nating flowers and rendering fruit-trees and 

 vegetables more fruitful. They will serve 

 to spread pear-blight even if all the bees are 

 banished from the pear-orchards. These can 

 not be pushed away, and will prove ample 

 to inoculate with blight, but far from enough 

 to pollinate the blossoms. — A. J. Cook.] 



Not a Bee-Subjeet. 



"A horse that never was a colt," is what 

 Mr. Hasty claims to have in his possession 

 (page 1.5:;;. Is It possible that he has made a 

 mistake? or has my old dictionary "gone 

 wrong" in the definition of a colt? It says a 

 colt IS a "young horse." Wonder if Hasty 's 

 liorse was never a "young horse." 



A. K. WiLLCUTT. 



Hampshire Co., Mass., March 8. 



An Experience witii Bees. 



I am a merchant and have a general store 

 in a small town in Oneida county, N. Y., 

 and carry a general line of merchandise. 1 

 have been keeping a few bees as a side-line 

 to my business, having had a few colonies for 

 the past 10 years. But I never had any success 

 with bees until I got a 'bee-book, and sub- 

 scribed for the American Bee Journal, which 



1 have taken for nearly a >e 1 but of the 

 two 1 would prefer the Journal but would 

 say to any one who keeps bees he should have 

 both. 



Last winter I had 2 colonies which I win- 

 tered in the cellar; and they came out in the 

 spring rather weak, and in April I purchased 



2 more colonies in old hives, for $2.75 per 

 colony. They took to swarming, the first 

 swarm coming out May 22. They kept on 

 swarming all through June until I had 18, all 

 told. I did not know enough about the bee- 

 business to increase my little apiary any other 

 way, so I was very much pleased when a 

 swarm issued. 



You would have laughed if you could have 

 seen me one hot June day last summer. Just 

 as I was hiving one swarm, another one 



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4H colonies of been, moHlly Italian, on 10 jfood 

 combH in ifoo<l LanifHtrotta hiveH. I'rice, {5.i^J0 

 per colony, with new fence fieparatinif Nuners, 

 hi Hccliontt, and foundation Btarters. Or, if pre- 

 ferred, 5 full combt* and 2 empty frames for ex- 

 tracted honey, including' upper «t<trv. 



IJAlt C. KENDKJ, NapervMIe. III. 



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Queens you slioiild Have 



Does blood tell in other stock ? Give 

 your bees a chance. Stock used for 

 breeding the queens ofifered— not from 

 a sport, but my pick out of an apiary 

 giving last season an average yield as 

 follows : 

 Honey-Qathering:. 



102 lbs. extracted and 68 lbs. comb honey per 

 colony besides increase and stores for winter. 



Quality of Comb-Honey Produced. 



"Man! It would dazzle you."— Wra. Envoy, 

 Ontario Government Inspector of Apiaries. 



Wintering Qualities. 



Up to the present (January 30j I never found 

 these bees to show the least indication of unrest 

 —always perfectly quiet. They are wintering 

 perfectly.— Frank T. Adams, Brantford, Can- 

 ada, 

 General Commendation. 



Out of those queens you sent me I have pro- 

 duced the best race or strain of bees I ever 

 owned. Remember that is saying' a lot, as I 

 have tried every breed imported in this country. 

 The bees winter better, build up, and stand cold 

 chilly winds in spring better, and are more suit- 

 able than any bees I ever owned. For the sea- 

 son ihey gave me about double the honey the 

 pure Italians did, and more increase, tilad you 

 are going into theqneen-business, and are going 

 to join the ranks again. We are much in want 

 of a few men like you. C. W. Post, Ex-president 

 Ontario Bee-keepers' Association (owns 365 col- 

 onies). 



S. T. Pettit, Canada's most successful comb- 

 honey producer and bee-keeper, says: '■'The 

 blood in my apiary is largely the progeny of 

 queens sent by you, and they are grand bees." 



Prices of Queens. 



They are duty free to the United States. 

 Tested, $2.tX» each; $10.00 for 6; $18 00 per dozen. 

 Untested until July 1, $1.25 each; $7.00 for 6; or 

 $12.*X) per dozen. Same after July 1st, $1.00e.ich; 

 $5.50 for 6; or $10iX» per dozen. Larger quanti- 

 ties, prices on application. Postage stamps 

 taken for fractions of a dollar. To be fair to 

 every one, no selected tested queens are offered. 

 Every one has the same chance. The above 

 queens are bred from a careful selection of Ital- 

 ians and Carniolans, r'ure Italian and Carnio- 

 ian queens same price. Price of full colonies 

 on application. Orders booked as received, and 

 filled as quickly as possible. Order early. 



Address, R. F. HOLTERMANN. 

 Bow Park Co. , Limited, Brantford, Ont., Canada 



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 where on 30 Days' Free Trial. 



Hnw can we do this? Because we 

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