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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Aug-. 14, 1902. 



A New Edition. 19th Thousand. 



Proi. Cook's B66-K66D6r'S Guide 



Or, Manual of the Apiary. 



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PROF. A. J. COOK. 



This standard work on practical bee-keeping has just 

 been thoroughly revised and brought down to date. About 

 100 pages and nearly 100 illustrations have been added^, 

 which makes it now a'superb volume of 544 pages, with 295 

 fine illustrations. It is printed on clear white paper, and 

 is bound in elegant brown cloth, gold-lettered. 



Prof. Cook has been one of the leading contributors to 

 the American Bee Journal for a quarter of a century. He 

 is well known to bee-keepers everywhere. He is an author- 

 ity on bees and related subjects. His book has had a large 

 sale, which now bids fair to increase greatly. 



In order that every reader of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, who does not already possess a copy of Prof. Cook's 

 work, may have it, we wish to make the following 



FOUR LIBERAL OFFERS: 



No. 1.— For $1.75 we wiU mail the American Bee Journal one year and a 

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]^0^ 2.— Any one of our present subscribers whose subscription is now paid 

 in advance," can have a copy of Prof. Cook's book mailed to him free as a pre- 

 mium for sending us two new subscribers to the American Bee Journal for a 

 year (with $2.00.) 



J^Q 3,— Or, send one new subscriber for a year (at SI. 00) and 50 cents more 

 ($1.50 in all,') and we will mail to YOU a copy of the book and will send the Amer- 

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No, 4,— For SI. 00 we will send Prof. Cook's book by express or freight 

 with other goods; or, if called for at ovr office, the price is SI. 00. But the post- 

 paid price of the book alone is SI. 20. 



IW Please remember that offers Nos. 2 and 3 of the 

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 advance. Offers Nos. 1 and 4 are made to any one who de- 

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Address all orders to the publishers, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



piece of cheese-cloth to make a kind of 

 curtain at the bottom — and there you 

 are. The two ends must be joined at 

 the back, so that when you put the hat 

 on, the place where these edges join 

 will come at the back of the head. This, 

 makes a good protection, and a cool 

 and comfortable veil that does riot 

 catch on to every limb or brush. I 

 have worn one for three years, and 

 would not swap it for the finest silk 

 one. G. W. Fagan. 



Arkansas Co., Ark., July 7. 



A Swapming Time. 



I never saw bees swarm like my bees 

 this year. I had the new swarm on 

 the old stand, yet the old colonies 

 would swarm the same. Some three 

 or four weeks later each of the new 

 colonies swarmed. I did not have 

 hives to put them in, so I tried every- 

 thing I could hear of, but of no avail. 

 I had the best results in caging the 

 queen, and keeping the queen-cells cut 

 out. I also had trouble with queens, 

 laying in the super. I think my queens, 

 are too prolific, or it may be too warm. 

 They surely have plenty of room and 

 ventilation — more than they ever had. 

 Jonas Wolf. 



Howell Co., Mo., July 14. 



Expepience of a Minnesota Bee- 

 Keepep. 



I have been keeping bees for the last 

 seven years. Before I took the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal I was not much of a 

 bee-keeper ; then I commenced to learn 

 some things. I have 102 colonies, and 

 they are doing very well. You will 

 think it is hard to keep bees so far 

 north, but we do not get 300 to 400 

 pounds of honey as some of the South- 

 ern boj's claim, but we can get some 

 good honey this far north. Four years 

 ago I got 1920 pounds of fine comb 

 honey from 17 colonies, spring count, 

 and I had 50 colonies in the fall. I^ast 

 year I had 65 pounds of comb honey 

 per colony. One colony gave me 149 

 pounds of extracted honey. 



I was the first one to have bees in 

 this place, and now there is one bee- 

 keeper who has 200 colonies in this 

 county. 



I sold all my honey right here — 220O 

 pounds to the same house last year at 

 14 cents a pound. 



I wish I could meet some good old 

 bee-keeper, so we could have a good 

 bee-talk, and have him teach me some 

 things about bees, as all I know I got 

 out of books and from the American 

 Bee Journal. 



I have to use ray left hand in all my 

 work, as I lost my right hand five 

 years ago. Oliver Carson. 



Red Lake Co., Minn., July 10. 



A Wet Time in Iowa. 



As has probably been noticed in the 

 newspapers, we are having a wet sea- 

 son here in Iowa, as well as in the ad- 

 joining States. 



Bees wintered well here, and what 

 clover was left from last year's drouth 

 came through so that things looked 

 fairly promising for honey at the win- 

 ter's end. 



But the spring was dry and cool up 

 to the last of May, and windy. Well, 

 windy hardly expresses the idea — it 

 simply kept things on the move, espe- 



