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AP>!PPTCAN BEE lOLIRNAL 



July 24, 1902 



PUBLISHED ■WEFKLY BY 



GEORGE yi. YORK 8 CONPANV 



144 & 146 E rie St., Chicago, lil. 



Entered at the Post-Oflice at Chicago as .".econd- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



Editor— George W. York. 



Dept. Editors.— Dr. C. C. Miller, E. E. Hasty. 



Special Correspondents — G. M. Doolittle, 



Prof. A. J. Cook, C. P. Dadant, 



R. C. Aikin, F. Greiner, Emma M. Wilson, 



A. Getaz, and others. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



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 is $1.00 a year, in the United States, Can- 

 ada, and Mexico ; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union, 50 cents a year extra for post- 

 age. Sample copy free. 



The AVrapper-Label Date of this paper 

 indicates the end of the month to which 

 your subscription is paid. For instance, 

 "decOl" on your label shows that it is 

 paid to the end of December, 1901. 



Subscription Receipts. —We do not send 

 a receipt for money sent us to pay subscrip- 

 tion, but change the date on your wrapper- 

 label, which shows you that the money has 

 been received and duly credited. 



Advertising Rates will be given unon ap- 

 plication. 



Close Saturdays at 1 p.m. —Our custo- 

 mers and friends will kindly remember that 

 beginning with .July 1, for three months we 

 close our office and bee-supply store at 1 

 p.m. on Saturdays. This i" fur usual custom. 

 Nearly all otner firms here uegin the Saturday 

 afternoon closing with May 1st, but we keep 

 open two months later on account of the local 

 bee-keepers who find it more convenient to 

 call Saturday afternoons for bee-supplies. 



Exhibition 



Ptorkwont eet scratched, or their beauty marre-l 



in PAGE fence enclofiures, 



PAfiE WOVKN « IKK KKX K CO.. ADKIAN, JIICIl. 



QUEENS— Try Our Stock. 



Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 31, 1001. 

 Your queens are fully up to standard. The 

 honev queen that vou sent my brother takes 

 the lead. She had a rousiog colony when put 

 up for winter. The goldens can be handled 

 without smoke or veil. 



Very truly yours, John Thoeming . 



Months July and August 



NOMBER OF Qt'EENS 1 O 1^ 



HONEY QUEENS 



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Un?e?t'-eS^r°.".".''.*...J.75 J4 00 f 7 «. 

 Tested 1-00 S-OO W.OO 



Select tested, $2.00. Breeders, f£.00 each. 



""•frame Nucleus with Untested Queen, fi.ib 

 each; 3-frame Nucleus with Untested yueen, 

 $3.00 each; 6 for $2.75 each. 



D. J. BLOCHER, Pearl City, 111. 



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DRAPEK PUBLISUINQ CO., Chicago, Ills. 



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No Honey Worth Mentioning. 



Let me stale the results of my visit with 

 the brethren : The counties of Ventura, Los 

 Angeles. Riverside and San Diego are the lead- 

 ing honey sections of California, and not- 

 withs'Tnding the many newspaper reports of 

 the ' .ecord-breaking '' year for honey in 

 Southern California, put in circulation by 

 l)uyers and speculators (including a so-called 

 bee-iournal, whose editor and projirietor is a 

 speculator, but has two or three colonies of 

 bees in a city back yard, so he can saj- "us 

 bee-keepers") there is no honey in these 

 counties worth mentioning. 



Mr. Meudleson with about SOO colonies re- 

 ports no honey, and is moving his bees into 

 the bean-fields, hoping for a little bean-honey. 

 Mr. Mclntyre with his 800 or 1,000 reports 

 some honey, but is not going to extract any. 

 Others report no surplus. 



Southern California will not produce more 

 than enough for home use, in place of the 

 boasted .500 car-loads. The honey season is 

 practically over. Delos Wood. 



Santa Barbara Co., Calif., June 2S. 



Hiving Back Swarms. 



I notice on page 40:i a request to those who 

 have had experience in hiving back swarms 

 into colonies that have previously cast 

 swarms. I have had quite a large experience 

 along this line, having practiced this plan of 

 preventing increase for three or four years on 

 hundreds of colonies. How long ir it neces- 

 sary to wait after a colony has swarmed be- 

 fore a swarm can be given it without danger 

 of having the swai-m re-issut i If it is at the 

 begi.ming or durit g the first halt of the reg- 

 ular swarming season, watt at least 8 days, 

 and then it may be necessary to take away 

 about 2 frames of brood, and give frames of 

 empty comb or foundation. If it is toward 

 the end of the swarming season, put in a 

 swarm in T days, as they are not so liable to 

 re-issue at this time. The cells should be cut 

 on the fifth day after the swarm has issued, 

 then again the seventh or eighth, just before 

 running in the new swarm. It will not do at 

 all to hive a swarm into a colony that has un- 

 sealed brood young enough to malie larv;e for 

 queen-cells, as they will do nothing but build 

 cells and swarm out. But it is fairly safe 

 after ail larv;e are 4 days old or over. I have 

 had only a very few cases where the queen 

 laid a few eggs and the bees swarmed out 

 with cells ,1ust started. W. C. Gatukight. 

 Donna Ana Co.. New Mex.. .June 29. 



QUEET^S ! 



Buy them of H. G. QLTIRIN, the largest 

 Queen-Breeder in the North. 



The A. I. Root Company tell us our stock is 

 extra-fine; Editor York, ot the American Bee 

 Journal, says he has g^ood reports from our 

 stock from time to time; while J. L. Gandy, of 

 Humboldt, Nebr., has secured orer 400 pounds 

 of honey (mostly comb! from single colonies 

 coutaining- our queens. 



We have files of testimonials similar to the 

 above. 



Our Breeders originated from the highest- 

 priced, Long-Tongued Red Clover Queens in the 

 United Slates. 



Fine Queens, promptness, and square deal- 

 ing, have built up our present business, which 

 was established in Is.sS. 



Prices of GOLDEN and LEflTtlER- 



COLORED QUEENS, after July 1st: 

 1 6 12 



Selected $.75 $4.00 $7.00 



Tested 1.00 5.00 9.00 



Selected Tested 1.50 8,00 



Extra Selected Tested, the 



best that money can buy . . 3.00 



We guarantee safe arrival, to any State, con- 

 tinental island, or anv European country. Can 

 fill all orders promptly, as we e-vpect to keep 300 

 to 500 Queens on hand ahead of orders. Special 

 price on 50 or 100. Free Circular. Address all 

 orders to 



(juirin the (jiieen-Breeder, 



PARKERTOWN, OHIO. 



[Parkertown is a P. O. Money Order office.) 

 l5A26t Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Vetch as a Honey-Produeer. 



I have seen at diBerent times letters regard- 

 ing the vetch as a honey-producer, and I thitik 

 I am now in a position to speak with cer- 

 tainty on the suljject. 



There are in my immediate neighborhood 

 this year l^etween ','0 and 30 acres sown to 

 vetches; they are .sown in the fall, mostly 

 mixed with wheat, and are the best thing I 

 know of for feeding green to horses, cows and 

 pigs. They also malie first-class hay. and we 

 had a heavy crop. During the past week they 

 were in full fiower, and humming with bees 

 all over, and a colotiy I have on scales in- 

 creased 28 pounds iti "(j days. There is not a 

 large amount of white clover around here; on 

 the other hand, some colonies I have at a 

 place some distance off, where there are no 

 vetches but great quantities of white clover, 

 have not put up as tiiuch. The honey is as 

 light as white clover, and of good flavor. 

 Britith Colutnbia, .lune 24. W. FisUEK. 



[The following, on the same subject, was 

 sent us quite awhile ago, but with the reciuest 

 that we do not puljlish it lest " it Ijring a 

 flood of letters of inc|uiry '' which the writer 

 said he had " not the time to answer." (That 

 is one of the nuisances resulting from pub- 



Bees For Sale. 



75 colonies in Improved Dovetailer* 

 Hives, in lots to suit purchaser. 

 O. H. HYATT, 



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1902— Bee-Keepers' SuopliesI 



We can furnish you with The A. I. Root Co'a 

 goods at wholesale or retail at their prices. We can 

 save you freight, and sliip promptly. Market price 



Said for beeswax. Bend for our 1902 catalog. 

 [. H. HUNT & SON. Bell Branch. Wayne Co., Mich 



Itdlldn QUBBDS best methods, and from the 

 best honev-gathering stock. My bees are fi-ee 

 from disease, and are hustlers. No small or in 

 ferior queens sent out. Untested, 75c; tested, $1 



iSA4t D. E. ANDREWS, Bloomington, Ind. 



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 Plate Road, July IT and 31. Return 

 limit 12 days. Stop-over at Chautauqua 

 Lalte and Niagara Falls witiiin final 

 limit. City ticl^et office. 111 Adams St. 

 John Y. Calahan, General Agent, Chi- 

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