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AMERICAN BEE lOURNAl. 



May 8, 1902. 



Bee-Heepers-Attention ! 



Do not put your money into NEW-FAXGLEU BEE-HIVES, but buy 

 a plain, serviceable and well-made hive, such as the regular Dovetailed 

 hive arranged for beeway sections. Honey-producers of Colorado — one 

 of the largest honey-producing sections in the world— use this style. 



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begun storing in these shallow combs they are 

 taken off anil the sections are put on, and the 

 bees enter and begin work at once. By this 

 plan I have but little swarming. The shallow 

 combs that contain brood are placed over 

 weak colonies. W. C. Gathright. 



This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 

 wax. We are paying 

 30 cents a pound — 

 CASH— for best yel- 

 or 32 cents in trade. Impure wax not taken at any price. 

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Weot Like Uotcakes 



A Nebraska customer when ordering a new 

 supply of our fine Alfalfa honey in 60-pouDd 

 cans, said: "The last I got went like hot- 

 cakes." So it does. 



More people might do well if they would 

 order this honey, or basswood, and sell It. It 

 not only goes off " like hotcakes," butlit is 

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 ONE NEW subscriber to the American 

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Dr. C. C. Miller, of McHenry Co., 111., 

 writing us on April 29, had this to say about 

 the Buffalo Convention Report and his bees : 



I think I will be doing a favor to any new 

 subscriber to advise him to send 2.5 cents to 

 obtain a copy of the Report of the last conven- 

 tion of the National Bee-Keepers" Associa- 

 tion. The time of the convention was almost 

 entirely taken up with live discussions, and 

 these "are reported in an unusually correct 

 manner. In such discussions thoughts are 

 brought out that would not be obtained in 

 any other manner; and the discussions iu 

 this report are exceedingly interesting. I am 

 free to say this without being charged with 

 blowing my own horn, for I was occupied so 

 much of the lime during the sessions at the 

 directors' meetings, that I had comparatively 

 small part in the discussions of the conven- 

 tion. 



Bees are now having fair opportunities on 

 dandelions and some other tlowers, and fruit- 

 bloom is just opening, seeming a little earlier 

 than usual. C. C. Miller. 



The Report referred to we mail for 25 cents, 

 or with a year's subscription to the American 

 Bee Journal— both for ?1,10. It ccfntains 80 

 pages and cover ; portraits of all the officers 

 and directors of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, besides the two latest bee-keep- 

 ers' songs, words and music. It is indeed a 

 valuable Report also, as Dr. Miller says. 



Bees Wintered Well. 



The bees are in line condition. They seem 

 to come out better than usual. All of the 

 colonies seem to be strong, and if we have the 

 right kind of weather tor the flowers to 

 secrete nectar, we will have some honey. 



Ada L. Pickard. 



Richland Co., Wis., April 29. 



Bee-Keeping in AFkansas. 



I am very much interested in bees and bee- 

 papers. I enjoy reading the reports from 

 different bee-keepers veiy much. Although 

 some of them sound pretty big compared with 

 anything we can do here. I remember that we 

 live in a big world, and pass on. 



As no one else tells the readers of the 

 American Bee Journal anything about the 

 bee-keepers' luck here, 1 will try again to tell 

 them about our hopes and disappointments. 

 Of all the different kinds of work that people 

 follow, either for a living or for pleasure, I 

 believe that we bee-keepers have the most 

 and bitterest disappointments. 



As stated in my last, 1 have part of my bees 

 in movable-frame hives and part in box-hives. 

 They were put into winter quarters in tine 

 shape, by feeding a few of the lightest ones. 

 They were all in better shape than in the fall 

 of 1900. 



We have had one of the worst winters I 

 have ever seen — cold and wet nearly all the 

 time until the first of March, when we began 

 to have a little warm weather. About this 

 time the bees began to rear some brood. As 

 a result of the cold winter and spring I have 

 had no end of troul>le, feeding to keep some 

 of them from starving. As far as I know, S 

 of the colonies in frame bives, and may he one 

 or more in the box-hives, are tjueenless. 



Two weeks ago we had a fine prospect for 



To make cows pay. use Miarples Cream Separators. 

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