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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 24, 1901. 



Qu66nsiioiislioiildHav6 



Does blood tell in other stock ? Give 

 your bees a chance. Stock used for 

 breeding the queens offered — not from 

 a sport, but my pick out of an apiary 

 giving last season an average yield as 

 follows : 

 Honey-Gathering. 



102 lbs. extracted and 6S lbs. comb honey per 

 colouj besides increase and stores for winter. 



Quality of Comb-Honey Produced. 



*'Man! It would dazzle you."— "Wm. Envoy, 

 Ontario Government Inspector of Apiaries. 



Wintering Qualities. 



Up to the present (January 30; 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 they gave me about double the honey the 

 pure Italians did, and more increase. Glad you 

 are going into the qneen-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 3o5 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 

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



Prices of Queens. 



Thev are dutv free to the United States. 

 Tested, $2.(X» each; $10.00 fort.; $1S 00 per dozen. 

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

 $12.00 per dozen. Same alter July Ist.Sl.OOeach; 

 $5.5*.* for 6; or $10.(n,' 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. Pure Italian and Carnio- 

 tan queens same price. Price of full colonies 

 on aoplication. 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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SHEEP MONEY a',?d?.°?°t,S* 



I'll uijik tor us. We will start y<ju in 

 int-bs and luruish the capital. U urk 

 It and easy. Send 10 cents for full 



,i.n- (if samples and particulars. 



DRAPER PUBLISHING CO.. Chicago. Ills. 



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INGHAM'S PATENT 



Smokers 



24 years the best. 

 Send for Circular, 



T. F. BINGHAM, Parwell. Mich. 



Maple ttlll Poultry Farm 



Is now selling EGGS for hatching from Stand- 

 ard Bred, Uigh-Scoring stock. Barred Ply- 

 mouth Rocks, Black Langshads, and Rose- 

 Comb Brown Leghorns. Eggs, 11.50 per 15; $2.50 

 per 30. Stock in season. 



EUGENE HAMBAUGH, 



15A4t MT. STKRLING, ILL. 



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BEE=SUPPLIES! 



^„„t3 COo a^ 



WALTER S.POUDER. 



|HOI»H»POIIS.IHD. 



Flease mention Bee Jonmal wlien •writing 



States and in the Province of Ontario to pre* 

 vent tliem from spraying while trees are in 

 bloom. There are those of an investigating 

 mind who believe in the old adage, " Try all 

 things, and holdfast to what is good, "who 

 are not willing to taUe hear-say evidence with- 

 out personal investigation, especially in mat- 

 ters pertaining to their own business and in- 

 terest. < )f this class I have a friend living on 

 a neighboring island, over in the State of 

 Ohio, who has almost a national reputation 

 as a successful fruit-grower. There are no 

 bees on that island to be killed, and he was 

 willing to run the risk of losing the fruit on a 

 few trees, or even the trees themselves, in the 

 interest of the knowledge gained ; so he made 

 a test of the effect of spraying some trees 

 while in full bloora, and comparing the result 

 with trees sprayed after blooming. On July 

 2r, 1901, he wrote to me as follows: 



" I experimented with a half-dozen peach- 

 trees just in full bloom , with Bordeaux mixture 

 — 4 pounds sulphate of copper, 5 pounds lime, 

 and i ounces of green arsenoid, to 50 gallons 

 of water. I thoroughly saturated the trees, 

 every portion, until the mixture dropped from 

 them. I saw no ill effect. The trees so 

 treated had more fruit on them than any 

 other six trees adjoining them that were not 

 sprayed until after blooming. One seedling 

 was so full that I had to take off more than 

 half the fruit." 



And there were no bees there to fertilize 

 the bloom, and it was too early in the season 

 for other insects to be out; if any had chanced 

 to have been there such a dose would most 

 likely have killed them 



It will be noted that " green arsenoid" — a 

 virulent poison — was added to the usual 

 formula for Bordeaux mixture, and that the 

 writer simply states facts, and does not claim 

 that the spraying in bloom was the cause of 

 there being no fruit on them ; he leaves us to 

 our own conclusions. But such evidence 

 ought to go a long way to establish the truth 

 that the " poison " does not injure the pollen, 

 or spraying in bloom prevent a crop of fruit. 

 This witness is thoroughly reliable, and one 

 of the most intelligent, up-to-date, successful 

 fruit-growers in this country. It may re- 

 quire further investigation and experiments 

 to settle this matter fully. 



Ontario, Canada. Thaddels Smith. 



[All the same, it is good advice nut to spray 

 while in bloom. Good crops of fruit have 

 been secured when no spraying at all had 

 done. — Editor.] 



Only a 2 Percent Loss. 



Bees have wintered with a 2 percent loss of 

 colonies, and perhaps 10 percent of the re- 

 mainder will require careful handling to 

 build them up in shape for the white clover 

 honey-tlow. MoRLEV Pettit. 



Ontario, Canada, April 14. 



Plenty of Rain. 



Bees are doing well here. AVe have had 

 plenty of rain to insure a good honey crop. 

 My bees are working on the fruit-bloom and 

 gathering some honey from fllaree. White 

 sage will soon blossom. 



This is my second year with bees. I built 

 up my apiary last year, and have now 52 colo- 

 nies, spring count. 



I have the bee-fever pretty strong. I am 

 running for both extracted and comb honey. 

 Eugene Dimas. 



San Bernardino Co., Calif., April 10. 



Report foF 1901. 



I have kept bees for about 30 years, on a 

 lOO-acre farm. I never had a bee-book or a 

 bee-paper, the American Bee Journal being 

 the first one I have taken. 



I have been very happy in bee-keeping. My 

 apiary now consists of 49 colonies. I had 1^0 

 colonies last year, spring count, from which I 

 secured 8.500 pounds of extracted honey ; half 

 of the lot I sold for 7 cents per pound, and the 

 rest for .S cents, without any cans. I in- 



T<» make cuwm piiy, use J^hiirples CreaTii .Separators. 

 Book ilusinesB Dairy ln(,'&Cat.:il2 tree. W.CbesCer.Pa 



Headquarters 



FOR- 



Beekeepers 

 SuDDlies 



Root's 



Goods at 



Root's 



Factory 



Prices 



Distributor of same for THE SOUTH, TEN- 

 NESSEE, KENTDCKY, 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 buying from me. 



Orders taken for Queens — Golden Italians* 

 Red Clover Oueens, and Carniolans. 

 For prices I refer you to mv catalog. 



C. H. W. WEBER, 



2146-2148 Central Ave., CINCINNATI, OHIO. 

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

 Please mention. Bee Journal -when writing. 



BE PRACTICAL 



Buy the fence that han stood the test of time. 

 V\(iK -WOVEN WIKK VKMK CO., A l>KI AN.MICH. 



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Tennessee Queens 



Daughters of Select Imported 

 Italian, Select long'tonyu'd 

 (Moore's], and Select, Straight 

 5-baud Queens. Bred V4 miles 

 apart, and mated to select 

 drones. No bees owned with- 

 in 214 miles; none impure 

 within 3, and but few within 

 5 miles. No disease. 2*> Tears* 

 experience. WARRANTED 

 QUEENS, 75 cents each; 

 TESTED, $1.50 each. Dis- 

 count on large orders. 20O 

 tested reared last season ready 

 to-day Contracts with deal- 

 Discount after July 1st. Send 



ers a specialty. 

 for circular. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, 



14A26t SPRIXG HILL, TENN. 



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Nucleus Colonies, Queens, Strawberry 



Plants. American IJee Journal and Tested 

 Queen, $1.50. Circular free. 



J. F. MICHAEL, 



14A4t R. R. 6, WINCHESTER, IND. 

 Vlease mention B*^*^ .Tournat w> en ■HrriTiTior 



$300,000,000.00 A YEAR 



' aniiyuu nuiv h.iM- |.ar( of it if you woi'k 

 f<ir ii!*, I'lnl.' S;uri's pmillry product pa^'S 

 that sum. ^iri.l uu- i'av Miniplesand partic- 

 ulars. We liiriiisli tapitul to start you in 



business. Draper HublishiDg Co.,Cbiuigo.lII. 



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Bees For Sale. 



75 colonies iu Improved Dovetailed 

 Hives, in lots to suit purchaser. 

 O. H. HYATT, 



13Atf SHENANiio..iH, Page Co., Iowa. 



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