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AMERICAN BEE lOirPNAL, 



July 10, 1902. 



Tennessee Queens 



Daughters of Select Imported 

 Italian, Select long'-tong^ued 

 (Moore's], and Select, Straight 

 5-band Queens. Bred 2% miles 

 apart, and mated to select 

 drones. No bees owned with- 

 in 2% miles; none impure 

 within 3. and but few within 

 5 miles. No disease. 29 years' 

 experience. WARRANTED 

 QUEENS, 7 5 cents each; 

 TESTED, $1.50 each. Dis- 

 count on lar^e orders. 

 Contracts with dealers a spe- 

 cialty. Discount after July 1st 

 Send for circular. 



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14A26t SPRING HILL, TENN. 



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 a fine thin? to preserve the copies of the Jour- 

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Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 31. 1101. 

 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 

 np for winter. The goldens can be handled 

 without smoke or veil. 



Very truly yours, John Thoeming. 



Months Jnly and August 



Number OF Queens 1 o IZ 



Unt?s?ed=^°"".''^....J.7S $4.00 $7.1X1 



Tested ..:.: 1-00 5.0O lO.iXi 



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A Celluloid Queen-Button is a verv 

 pretty thing for a bee-keeper or honey-seller 

 to wear on his coat-lapel. It often serves to in- 

 troduce the subject of honey, 

 . and frequently leads to a 



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2) Note.— One reader writes: 

 z ) *' I have every reason to be- 

 o/ lieve that it would be a very 

 ^o' \-^ j!^ good idea forevery bee-keeper 

 *^^ to wear one [of the buttonsj 

 as it will cause people to ask 

 questions about the busy bee, and many a con- 

 versation thus started would wind up with the 

 eale of more or less honey; at any rate it would 

 give the bee-keeper a superior opportunity to 

 enlighten many a person in regard to honey 

 and bees." , 



The picture shown herewith Is a reprouuo- 

 iion of a motto queen-button that we are fur- 

 nishing to liee-lieepers. It has a pin on the 

 underside to fasten it. 



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1902— Bee-Keepers' SuopliesI 



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 goods at wholpsale or retail at their prices. We can 

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 paid for beeswax. Send for our 1902 cata]o*(. 

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all off witli sulpiiur. I would not do 

 that ; I would unite them with some 

 weak colonies, which bee-men gener- 

 ally have, that is, bee-men who do not 

 make a business of looking after their 

 colonies. They just put them any old 

 place, slap on the sections, and then 

 let them go at that. Now, I always 

 give my bees the best care. You can- 

 not make money in stock if you do not 

 take care of them, and it is the same 

 with bees. 



I know of a bee-man that put 3 big 

 swarms in an old salt-barrel, and got a 

 barrel of honey ; he killed the bees and 

 took the honey that the bees worked so 

 hard to store away. He could liave put 

 them in other hives and kept them for 

 another year. 



I am a reader of the "Old Reliable," 

 and could not do much without it. I 

 enjoy the pictures of the apiaries very 

 much ; they are up-to-date. 



G. B. WlLLI.^MSON. 



Jones Co., Iowa. 



Repairing Hive-Covers. 



Tell " Missouri," on page 409, first 

 to paint the bad place in his old cover 

 thick with white lead, then stretch on 

 a piece of muslin, and paint over it 

 well. I mend cracked covers that way, 

 and it is very successful. 



Lafayette Co., Wis. H. Lathrop. 



Rates to Denver— A "Bee-Bonnet." 



I have been interested in the meet- 

 ing of the National Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation at Denver. The Editor gave 

 the rate from Chicago last week, but 

 that does not do us much good down 

 here. Can you give rates from Kansas 

 City, Mo., Wichita and Hutchinson, 

 Kans.? Also, are women bee-keepers 

 eligible to membership in the Associa- 

 tion ? 



I will enclose a snap-shot of my 

 apiary. The picture does not show all 

 tlie colonies. I had been working 

 among the hives and did not have the 

 yard fixed up for a picture. The lady 

 that took the picture stopped on her 

 way home from a picnic, and it was 

 just about sundown, the wind was 

 blowing quite hard. 



I have some fine Italians which I 

 purchased last year. They are the best 

 workers in the yard. 



I liave a little different kind of a bee- 

 bonnet from any I have seen. I took 

 a wire hat-frame and covered it with 

 muslin; around the edge of the hat I 

 sewed screen-wire, and fastened it to- 

 gether at the back ; to the lower edge 

 I sewed muslin and ran a draw-string 

 in so as to draw it tight around my 

 waist. I cut arm holes and sewed 

 sleeves in ; I made them large, and put 

 a draw-string at the wrists. When I 

 get my gloves on, the bees may get as 

 mad as they please, but they can't get 

 at nie. I have strings sewed to the 

 crown of the hat which I tie under my 

 chin, and with the hat-pin stuck 

 through into my hair I have it pretty 

 solid. To keep it from hanging loose 

 in front, I pin the muslin part to my 

 dress with a safety-pin. I can see so 

 much better through the wire than 

 through any kind of a veil, as a veil 

 wavers and blows about. 



The last month has been very hard 

 on the bees ; we have had so much 

 rain. There have been only 6 good 

 working days. The colonies are quite 



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