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AMERICAN BEE lOURNAl. 



May 29, 1902. 



The Novelty Pocket=Knife. 



Your Name and Address on one side— Three Bees on the other side. 



HOWARD M. MELBEE, 



HONEYVILLE, O. 



[This Cut is the i-'ULi- Size of the Knife.] 



Your Name on the Knife.— When oideriug-, be sure to say just what name and 

 address you wish put on the Knite. 



The Novelty Knife is indeed a novelty The novelty lies in the handle. It is 

 made beautifully of indestructible celluloid, which is as transparent as g-lass. Un- 

 derneath the celluloid, on one side of the handle is placed the name and residence of 

 the subscriber, and on the other side pictures of a Queen, Drone, and Worker, as 

 shown here. 



The Material entering- into this celebrated knife is of the very best quality; 

 the blades are hand-forg-ed out of the very finest English razor-steel, and we war- 

 rant every blade. The bolsters are made of Uerman silver, and will never rust or 

 corrode. The rivets are hardened German silver wire; the linings are plate brass; 

 the back springs of Sheffield spring^-steel, and the finish of the handle as described 

 above. It will last a last-time, with proper usage. 



Why Own the Novelty Knife ? In case a pood knife is lost, the chances are the 

 owner will never recover it; but if the *' Novelty " is lost, having- name and address 

 of owner, the finder will return it; otherwise to try to destroy the name and ad- 

 dress, would destroy the knife. If traveling, and you meet with a serious accident, and are so for*- 

 tunate as to have one of the " Novelties," your Pocket-Knife will serve as an identifier; and in 

 case of death, your relatives will at once be notified of the accident. 



How appropriate this knife is for a present! What more lasting memento could a mother 

 g'ive to a son, a wife to a husband, a sister to a brother, or a ladY to a g^entleman, the knife having 

 the name of the recipient on one side? 



The accompanying cu' gices a faint idea, but cannot fully convey an exact representation of 

 this^beautiful knife, as tb^ ** Novelty " must be seen to be appreciated. 



How to Get this Valuable Knife.— We send it postpaid for $1.25, or g^ive it as a Premium to the 

 one sending us ikree new subscribers to the Bee Journal (with$.vW.) We will club the Noveltj 

 Knife and the Bee Journal for one year, both for $1.90. 



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An Enthusiastic Queen-Clipper. 



After an experience of 30 years, G. M. Doo- 

 little has the following to say in tileanings in 

 Bee-Culture; 



I anj so well pleased with the plan of nat- 

 ural swartniug with queens' winjjs clipped, 

 after trying all other plans used in such nat- 

 ural swarming, that I would as soon think of 

 going back to the box-hives as to return to 

 the old way of letting the queens have their 

 wings as nature made them. 



Larva or Worms. 



L. Stachelhausen evidently thinks that it 

 might not be a sate thing if every one should 

 take Mr. Hasty as authority, and consider it 

 Ills inalienable right to use names to suit him- 

 self. In the Lone Star Apiarist he gives an 

 interview between himself and his storekeep- 

 ing friend, V\'. Uere is part of the conversa- 

 tion: 



"Friend W.," I said, "you know that 

 some people, not acquainted with bee-keep- 

 ing, will very often use incorrect expressions, 

 and you have laughed when you told me of 

 such occasions; so it is with all branches of 

 trade and science. The better a man is edu- 

 cated the less wrong expressions he will use. 

 As we can not know everything, we all blame 

 him for ignorance. For instance, if a bee-keeper 

 calls the queen a king-ljee, etc. It I make a 

 mistake of this kind in some branches of 

 science I am not familiar with, I am always 

 glad if another man, Ijetter educated in this 

 branch of science, will correct me, as I do not 

 like to expose my own ignorance it I can 

 avoid it. So I think Hasty is entirely wrong 

 in this respect." 



"0, no!" our storekeeper fell in, with a 

 smiling face; " I go with Hasty, whom I do 

 not know, as I am no Ijee-keeper. but I can 

 see at once the advantage of his opinion. If 

 I fix up a glucose mixture and call it honej-, 

 or if I call some 'margarin the finest country 

 butter, and sell it that way, it is one of niy 

 inalienable rights, and you have to give me a 

 premium if I do not sell you axle-grease for 

 butler. Ha! ha! do you see the point !" 



"That will not do," said W. ; "this is 

 against the pure-food law." 



"If it is against my personal liberty, if 

 somebody wants me to call these things by 

 the correct name, as Hasty says it is, then the 

 whole pure-food law is against this inalien- 

 able right, and consequently against the con- 

 stitution." 



The Wind and Wintering. 



The wind is a factor in wintering that is 

 not sulticiently considered. Some speak as if 

 an increase of latitude must make an increase 

 in the severity of the winter. The isothermal 

 lines do not by any means keep company with 

 the parallels of latitude. The wind may cut 

 more figure than either. Where I live the 

 wind thinks nothing of keeping up a lively 

 gait -4 hours at a stretch, with the mercury 

 not far from zero. I can easily imagine a 

 place Md miles further north, and a good 

 many degrees colder, where it will be easier 

 on outdoor bees than in this windy locality. — 

 [It is not much wonder to me that Ur. Miller 

 has never been able to make a success of out- 

 door wintering in his locality. A lively gale 

 of wind for 2i hours on a stretch, with a zero 

 temperature, is something we do not have in 

 Medina, for perhaps more than one day in the 

 winter, although we may have several days 

 of high wind when the temperature is 20 

 above; but these are liable to be followed by 

 a warm spell, and it is not an unusual thing 

 during the winter for bees to have a flight. 

 Notwithstanding, however, we have made a 

 great success with outdoor wintering at 

 Medina, I am coming to the conclusion that 



