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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May IS, 1901 



3-Frame Siiclei For Sale. 



We have arranged with a bee-keeper 

 located in Kankakee Co., 111., (within 

 12 miles of Kankakee), to till orders for 

 Nuclei of bees. All are to be first-class, 

 and most of the bees show Italian mark- 

 ings. The queens in the Nuclei will 

 be Italian, of this year's rearing. 



The Nuclei are 3-frame Langstroth, 

 in light shipping-boxes. Prices: 1 for 

 S3. 00 ; 5 or more at S2.75 each. 



All are f.o.b. shipping-point, and will 

 be sent by express, a postal card notice 

 being mailed to each purchaser a day 

 or two before shipping the bees. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



144 & 146 Erie St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



BOYS 



WE WANT WORKERS 



I Ui>7^, Girls, old and younp a like, 



I make money worliin^ fi)r us. 



\\ e turoish ca|>itil toniart y^n i[i buai- 



Dess. Seoil OS 10c stamps or B'lver for full in-.iriTCtif.ri9 and a line o( 



wmplestoworkoith. DRAPER PUBLISUIMG CO.,Cbicago,lll. 



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1902— Bee-Keepers' SuopliesI 



We can fnrniBh you with The A. I. Root Go's 

 goods at wholesale or retail at their prices. We can 

 save you freight, and ship promptly. Market price 

 paid for beeswax. Send for our 19t»2 catalog. 

 M. H. HUNT 4 SON. Bell Branch. Wayne Co.. Mich 



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FREE FOR A MONTH .... 



If you are Interested in Sheep in any way 

 you cannot afford to be without the best 

 Sheep Paper published in the United States. 



Wool Markets and Sheep 



has a hobby which is the sheep-breeder and 

 his industry, first, foremost anil all the time. 

 Are you interested ? Write to-day. 



wool MARKETS AND SHtEP. CHICABO. III. 



40 Colonies of 

 -BEES— 



mostly Italians. D. C. BUCKSTAFF. 



I8A3t 149 So. Main StJeet, OsHKOSH, Wis. 



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SHIPPED"" APPROVAL 



ind Ten Days Free Trial to aiiy per- 



icn in V. S. or c aiiada. ^ol a end J. 7.081I 



required on our Bicycles In advaiiw;. 



1902 Models, $9 fo $15 



19008i'01 Models.bestmakes.JTtoSlI 

 BOO Second-hand Wheels 



all makes and models, good as new <f J 

 to $8. Great Factory Clearing SaleaX 

 ha.lt factory cost. Tires, equipment S. 

 sundries all kltuls, half regular prices. 



EARN A B/CrCiE distributing 



HX)Ucittnli>k"ics on our new plan. 



^k. m'lKlS.'oil 0"r "unil"'"' ^^^ P™P<"">"'' 



--' Write rit one? for lowest net prices to 

 ficents and our special offer. ..t;? m 



^ MEAD OYGLE CO. ^&^,£nS 



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For Sai6. 



It will be to Your Advantage to as- 

 certain the rates from Chicago to New 

 York, New England and all Eastern 

 points, applying over the Nickel Plate 

 Road and its Eastern connections. 

 Three trains daily, on which there is 

 no excess fare. One feature of service 

 on that road is meals in dining-cars, 

 on American club plan. Pay for what 

 you get, but in no event more than 

 from 35 cents to SI. 00. Folders, rates, 

 and all information cheerfully fur- 

 nished by applying to John Y. Cala- 

 han. General Agent, 111 Adams St., 

 Chicago, 111., Depot Fifth Ave., and 

 Harrison St. Phone Central 2057. 



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 when writing advertisers. 



best condition of our bodies. We could live 

 on proteids alone, but not in best health, and 

 such diet is very expensive when it alone 

 ministers to our bodily needs. The liver can 

 manufacture sugar when we eat only proteids, 

 but it works much easier and more effectively 

 when we eat liberally of the carbohydrates. 

 Nearly all sugar and all starch must be 

 digested before it can pass to the blood. Not 

 so honey. The bees digest this for us. Thus 

 we may well believe that of all the carbohy- 

 drates, honey is the best. 



Thus we can say that honey is doubtless the 

 very best food of its kind, and that such food 

 is absolutely necessary to health and strength, 

 and greatly conserves the more expensive and 

 absolutely requisite proteids. The child 

 voices his need of such food in his longing for 

 candy. We act wisely when we give him all 

 he desires in the best of sweets — honey — 

 which should be served most liberally at 

 every meal-time. This will check the desire 

 which leads to the pernicious habit of faking 

 candy at all times and on all occasions. — 

 Prof, A. J, Cook, in Canadian Bee Journal. 



Is there Danger in the Cell-Cup Plan? 



Arthur C. Miller thinks there is. In an 

 article in Gleanings in Bee-Culture, he says 

 among other things: 



Under natural conditions a queen lays an 

 egg in a cell. For three days the embryo in 

 this egg grows, the nourishment for the form- 

 ing larva being the vitellus, or yolk. On 

 hatching, it receives a food prepared in the 

 stomach of the nurse-bee, consisting of honey 

 and pollen acted on by the digestive secretions 

 of her body. It the larva is destined to be- 

 come a worker it receives such food for ap- 

 proximately three days, after which a gradual 

 change takes place. According to Dr. A. de 

 Planta's analysis, the solids in the food of the 

 worker-larva, before the fourth day, consist 

 of albumen 53,38; fatty substances 8,38; 

 sugar 18.09 percent. After that time the pro- 

 portions of the same elements are respectively 

 27.87, 3.69, and 41.93 percent — a very decided 

 change. According to the same tables a lirva 

 destined for queen receives of albumen 45,14; 

 fatty substances 13,55; sugar 20,39, These 

 figures are taken from Mr, Cowan's book, 

 " The Honey-Bee," page 123. Mr. Cowan also 

 quotes Dr, de Planta as saying that, for the 

 first three days, the food of queen-larvie is the 

 same as of the worker-larv;e for the same 

 period (page 122), and that "queen-larvie 

 were fed the same food during the whole term 

 of their existence." There is a discrepancy 

 here which needs investigating. 



What I desire to impress on the mind of the 

 reader is that, with each varying stage of the 

 development of the embryo — that is, from the 

 commencement of the incubation of the egg 

 until the larva spins its cocoon, there takes 

 place a change in the proportions of the ele- 

 ments of the food. It is of vital importance 

 that these changes occur at the proper time, 

 if the embryo is to develop normally. It 

 should be borne in mind that the larval bee is 

 as truly a developing embryo as is an unborn 

 mammal. 



Size of Hives. 



" Is a larger hive than an 8-frame Lang- 

 stroth desirable V 



Mr. Hall — For what purpose * I have 

 equal to the 8-frame Langstroth hive, and I 

 have equal to the 11-frame, and for extracted 

 honey I want the large one, and for comb 

 honey I don't trouble which one it is. 



Mr. Holmes — Answer it both ways. 



Mr. Hall — For comb honey the smaller one. 

 In the location where you have a fall flow the 

 smaller one, every time. In locations where 

 you have nothing but white honey, where it 

 shuts off July 22. the large one every time. 



Mr. McEvoy — Wouldn't the man have some- 

 thing to do with it '. 



Mr, Hall — The man has something to do 

 with all these things. He is the smallest por- 

 tion of it. The field is first, the man is next, 

 the hive is next. 



Mr, Fixter — As far as my little experience 

 is concerned, I have no use whatever for the 

 large hive. 



Mr. Hall— But you have no fall flow, 



Mr. Fixter— No. We have had the s-frame 



FOR SALE. 



125 S-frarae Dovetailed Supers. 1~H inches 

 long- inside, by 5H deep, closed-end extracting^- 

 frames— at lOcts. each; also 175 Supers, same 

 length, and 4^3 inches deep— at 5 cts. each: 8000 

 snow-white plain Sections for same, at J1.75 per 

 M.; 25 Covers for same, nailed and painted, at 

 12 cts. each. E. W. BROWN. Box 102, 



20Ati Morton Park. Cook Co., 111. 



§Q Colonies Bees For Sale " 



Oa s Hofimatt Frames. 



CLYDE CADY, 

 20A2t R. F. D. No. 3, Grass Lake, Mich. 



m^The Life of the Wheel 



iX kS depends upon the make of the whee' 



ELECTRIC WHEELS 



lastalinost lorever. Fitany wai^on.straiyht 

 or staggered spokes. Write tor tae cata- 



logTie. We mail it free. 



EUitUruiO WUEELC«., Box 16) Qulney, I1U» 



QUEENS— Try Our Stock. 



Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 31, 1901. 

 Your queens are fully up to standard. The 

 honey queen that you sent my brother takes 

 the lead. She had a rousing colony when put 

 up for winter. The g-oldens can be handled 

 without smoke or veil. 



Very truly yours, John Thoeming. 



Months May and June. 



Number OF Ol-eens 1 6 12 



HONEY QUEENS 



Untested $1.00 $5.00 $ 9.00 



Tested 1.25 7.00 11.00 



GOLDEN QUEENS 



Untested Jl.OO $500 $ 9 GO 



Tested 1.25 7.00 ll.OO 



Select tested, $2.00 each, after June 1. 

 Breeders, $£.00 each, after June 1. 

 We begin mailing Queens about May 25, and 

 fill orders in rotation. Circi^lar free. 



D. J. BLOCHER, Pearl Cit.y, 111. 



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INGHAM'S PATENT 



n^a^^^^ Smokers 



2SAtf T. F. BINGHAM, Parwell, Mich. 



All Italian (jiieeu Free ! 



We would like to 

 have our regular sub- 

 scribers (who best 

 know the value of the 

 American Bee Jour- 

 nal) to work for us 

 in getting NEW sub- 

 scribers. We do not 

 ask them to work for 

 us for nothing, but 

 wish to sav that we 

 will mail ONE FINE UNTESTED ITAL- 

 IAN QUEEN for sending us ONE NEW 

 subscriber for a year, with $1.00 ; or 2 

 yueens for sending 2 new subscribers, 

 etc. Remember, this otfer is made ori/y 

 to those who are now getting the Bee 

 Journal regularly, and whose subscrip- 

 tions are fully paid up. 



In case you cannot secure the new 

 subscribers, we will mail one of these 

 Queens for 75 cts., or 3 or more at 70 

 cts. each ; or the Bee Journal one year 

 and a Oueen for S1.50. We expect to 

 be able to send them almost by return 

 mail. 



(Please do not get these oilers mixed 

 up with our Red Clover Queen offers on 

 another page.) 



QEORQE W. YORK & CO., 

 144 & 140 Erie Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



Gonit) and E.x- 

 tractedttoneo! 



state price, kind and quaatity. 



R. A. BURNETT & CO.. 199 S.V7ater St., Chicago 



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