460 



AMERICAN BEE lOUENAL 



July 17, 1902. 



Bee-Heepers-Attention ! 



Do not put your money into New Fangled Bee=Hives, but buy a plain, ser- 

 viceable and well-made hive, such as the regular Dovetailed hive arranged for 

 bee-way sections. Honey-producers of Colorado — one of the largest honey-pro- 

 ducing sections in the world — use this style. 



Thousands of Hives, Millions of Sections, ready for Prompt Shipment. 



G-. B. LEWIS CO., Watertown,Wis. 



Please taention Bee Journal wtieii ■writing. 



ONE NIGHT TO DENVER 



ON THE 



COLORADO SPECIAL 



VIA THE 



Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line 



Leaving Chicago daily at 6.30 p.m. 



Arriving Omaha - 7.00 a.m. 



Arriving Denver - 7.50 p.m. 



Another train leaves Chicago at 11.30 p.m. daily, arriving Denver 7.55 a.m., 



second morning. 



The Best of Everything in IModern Transportation Service. 

 $25.00 



CHICAGO TO DENVER, COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO AND RETURN. 



Tickets on sale on various dates through the sum.mer, and from August 30 

 to September lo, inclusive, covering the time of the National Bee- Keepers' 

 Convention at Denver, September 3-5, 1902. Tickets are limited for return 

 to October 31, IQ02. 



For tickets and descriptive booklet on Colorado apply to agents of the 

 North-Western-Union Pacific Line at 



461 Broadway - - 

 287 Broadway - - 

 601 Chestnut Street - 

 802 Ctestnut Street - 

 368 WasUngton Street 

 176 Washington Street 



dew York 



New Tork 



Philadelphia 



Philadelphia 



- - Boston 



- - Boston 



301 Main Street - - 

 i!12 Clark Street - - 

 193 Clark Street - - 

 435 Viae Street - - 

 53 East Fourth Street 

 507 SmilhSeld Street 



- Buffalo 



- Chicago 



- Chicago 

 Cincinnati 

 Cincinnati 



Pittsburg 



H. R. McCULLOUGH, 



Third Vice-President. 



W, 



A. Gardner, 



General Manager. 

 CHICAGO. 



12th Floor Park Building, Pittsburg 



234 Superior Street - - Cleveland 



17 Campus Martius - - - Detroit 



126 Woodward Avenue - - Detroit 



2 East Jinj Street - - - Toronto 



60 Tonge Street - - - - Toronto 



W. B. Kniskern, 



Gen'l Pass'r & Ticket Agent. 



Queens Jiow Ready to Supply bu Return Mail 



stock which cannot be excelled. Each variety bred in separate apiaries, 

 from selected mothers ; have proven their qttalities as great honey-gatherers. 



Have no superior, and few equals. Untested, 

 75 cents; 6 for $4.00. 



rj J r*l/-k»7-i:k*. r^««£»£k«-l£' which left an records behind in honey- 



l<ea L/IOVcr l^UccnS, gathering. Untested, $1.00; 6 for $5.00. 



— They are so highly recommended, being more gentle 



Golden Italians 



than all others. Untested, SI. 00. 



Carniolans 



ROOT'S GOODS AT ROOT'S FACTORY PRICES. 



G. H. W. WEBER, 



2146=2148 Central Avenue, 



C1^CINNATI, OHIO. 



(Successor to Chas. F. Miith and A. Mnth.) 



Marshiield M anufacturin g Company. 



Our specialty is making SECTIONS, and they are the best in the market. 

 Wisconsin BASSWOOD is the right kind for them. We have a full line of BEE- 

 SUPPLIES. Write for free illustrated catalog and price-list. 



Marshfield Manufacturing Company, Marshfleld, Wis. 



7A26t 'r'tease mention Bee Journal -when writine. 



28 cents Cash 

 for Beeswax. 



This is a good time 

 to send in your Bees- 



paid for Beeswax. W EsSlEB 



low, upon its receipt, or 30 cents in trade. Impure wax not taken at any price. 

 Address as follows, very plainly, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago/Ill. 





extractor throws it out, and in quantities 

 large enough to " paint the town brown," or 

 green, if it happened to be that color. 



Now, I suppose some of the readers will 

 hollow, "What a greenhorn!'' Yes, I sup- 

 pose I am green yet, although I have kept 

 bees for 10 years, and for the last four years I 

 have made bee-keeping my principal business, 

 keeping from 150 to 300 colonies, and produc- 

 ing large quantities of comb and extracted 

 honey. If pollen were salable, I would Lave a 

 wagon-load to sell every season. A colony of 

 bees, in this locality, if run for extracted 

 honey, will soon become so *' pollen-bound " 

 that something has to be done, for the bees 

 gather so much of it that they can not con- 

 sume it, and it is left in the combs and be- 

 comes a nuisance. Furthermore, if left in the 

 combs, and honey be put on lop of it and 

 sealed over, and used for winter stores, it ex- 

 cites too much brood-rearing in the cellar, 

 and the bees come out strong in bees and 

 light in stores in the spring, some of them 

 consuming all of their honey so they have to 

 be fed in the spring. The same is true when 

 all the combs are full of sealed honey. Bees 

 winter best, in this locality, with about half of 

 the combs empty, especially the center ones, 

 and extremely poor fares a colony under such 

 conditions, having a late-reared queen. 



I lost 10 colonies last winter, having 10 sis- 

 ters for queens of the choicest Italians this 

 country produces. 



So, for me, not too much pollen, and not 

 depending on the bees to regulate the same. 

 A. C. Babtz. 



Chippewa Co., Wis., June 16. 



Hiving a Swarm with a Colony. 



In the " Editorial Comments" on page 403, it 

 is requested that some one state " how long it 

 may be necessary to wait after a colony has 

 swarmed before a swarm can be given to it, 

 without danger of liaving the swarm re-issue." 



Time should be given for destruction of all 

 queen-cells in the hive of the colony to which 

 the swarm is to be introduced; or, the api- 

 arist should go through the hive and remove 

 them before introducing the swarm. 



Wm. M. Whitnet. 



Walworth Co., Wis., July 3. 



A Swarming Experience. 



Talk about swarming! It occurred in our 

 apiary yesterday, and still at it to-day, but 

 not so heavy. The young bees were out for a 

 play ; a swarm issued, and we covered the 

 adjoining hives to avoid mixing. While we 

 were watching for the queen we glanced 

 down the row and saw two others coming 

 out: we hurried there to cage the queens, 

 when we looked back to where we had been a 

 few mintites before, and saw the swarms com- 

 ing out of the hives which we had covered. 

 We uncovered tbem, and by that time about 

 all in the row, some ::iO, had the fever, and 

 were out. We glanced over to the row on 

 "Easy Street;" they, too, had taken up the 

 rumpus, and the whole string of them joined 

 the others as fast as they could tumble out of 

 the hives. We have the colonies all named — 

 prefer names to numbers, as we never were 

 very apt with figures. I am not going to give 

 you the names of all, only a few that you are 

 familiar with. "Rambler" swarmed about 

 noon, and had been hived beside " C. C. 

 Miller;" the latter behaved very nicely, and 

 did not come out, I think the reason was, 

 because " York " was not there to go along, 

 as " York " had swarmed a week ago and was 

 in the "hospital row." " E. E. Hasty," as 

 usual, did his part last by coming out after 

 all the others were through. " Rambler " got 

 crazy, as he had always wanted to go to some 

 place, and swarmed again. " Mrs. Rambler" 

 got lost in the fracas. A few queens came 

 out, all black ones, and got their heads 

 pinched. 



There was a cluster on a tree as big as a 

 t)arrel. We thought of the man who had 

 lixed the clock, and had enough left to ti.x 

 another one. VVe beat that, as we had three 

 light swarms housed with division-boards, 

 the returning bees being alraut as many as a 

 corporal's guard, so we helped ourselves to 

 the big pile and fixed the three in working 



