Aug. 2H, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



557 



WINTEU VIEW OF TUB HOME APIAKY OP W. n. UEIM, OF I.YCOMimi 



( See page .t4.S. ) 



ONE NIGHT TO DENVER 



ON i ilK 



COLORADO SPECIAL 



VIA Till-: 



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 ot Everything in Modern Transportation Service. 

 $25.00 



CHICAGO TO DENVER, COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO AND RETURN. 



Tickets on sale on various dates through the summer, niid from .August 30 

 to September 10, inclusive, covering the time of the National Bee- Keepers' 

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

 to October 31, igo2. 



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

 North-Western-Union Facitic Line at 

 301 Main Street - - - - Buffalo 

 al2 Clark Street - - - - Chicago 

 193 Clark Street - - - - Chicago 

 435 Vine Street - - 

 53 East Fourth Street 

 507 Smilhaeld Street 



461 Broadway - - 

 287 Broadway - - 

 601 CheslnutStree; - 

 802 Chestnnl Street - 

 368 Washington Street 

 176 Washington Street 



- New York 



- New Tork 

 Philadelphia 

 Philadelphia 



- - Boston 



- - Boston 



Cincinnati 

 Cincinnati 

 Pittsburg 



H. R. McCULLOUGH. 



Third Vice President. 



\V. 



\. G.^RDNER, 



General Manager. 

 CHICAGO. 



\V 



12th Floor Park Building, 

 234 Superior Street - - 



17 Campus Martkis - - 

 126 Woodward Avenue - 



2 East King Street - - 



60 Yonge S^et - - ■ 



B, Kniskern, 

 Gen'I Pass'r & Ticket Agent 



Pittsburg 

 Cleveland 



- Detroit 



- Detroit 



- Toronto 



- Toronto 



Queens Now Ready to Supply bu Keturo ilail 



Golden Italians 



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

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



Have no superior, and fevr equals. Untested, 

 75 cents ; 6 for S4.00. 



r>_J CXf-^iTc^f f\**Ci.Ckt^C3 which left all records behind in honey- 

 IVCIJ WlOVCr \IUCcnS, gathering. Un tested, $1.00 ; 6 for S5.00. 



/^ _ -,,_ J _. I _ ,_ _ Thev are so highly recommended, being more gentle 

 WClrrilUIclIlS than all others. Untested, SLOn. 



ROOT'S GOODS AT ROOT'S FACTORY PRICES. 



2146=2148 Central Avenue, 



CI^CINNAT^, OHIO. 



'Successor to CUas. F. Mulb and A. Mulh.} 



G. H. W. WEBER, 



Please Mention the Bee Journal 



here, that bees do not ffather any 

 honey to amount to anything after 

 Aug. U», in any part of the country. 



J. A. W.ATKINS. 



Latah Co.. Idaho, Aug. 3. 



I Where there is a fall flow of honey, 

 the bees gather after Aug. 10. May be 

 some one will answer as to the amount 

 a colony has been known to gather 

 after that date. — Editok. I 



Not Getting Much Honey. 



Uees are not gathering much honey 

 this year — too dry and cool. My late 

 buckwheat is blooming nicely. I hope 

 the bees will do better this fall. I 

 started with 26 colonies last spring, 

 now have 44. and two swarms went 

 to the woods. My bees gathered some 

 honey in May. T. (i. Jones. 



Lyon Co., Ky., Aug. 16. 



when writing 

 Advertisers •»< 



Small Crop of Honey. 



I had to feed my bees the last half of 

 June, when we had a sudden flow from 

 basswood, which lasted but a few days. 

 I have had only 5 or 6 swarms and a 

 very small crop of honey. I am expect- 

 ing a good flow this fall, as the weeds 

 have grown very rank. We had so 

 much rain that the farmers could not 

 keep their fields as clean as usual. 

 There is plenty of heartsease and all 

 kinds of weeds. C. P. McKiNNOX. 



Hardin Co.. Iowa, Aug. 11. 



Bees Dying from Spraying. 



On page 503, I noticed an article on 

 " Bees dying from spraying when trees 

 are in bloom." 



Away back in 1884 or 18S5 our State 

 Pomologist, Mr. P. M. Auger, re- 

 quested that some tests be made to 

 prove whether the spraying of trees 

 while in bloom would be harmful to 

 the bees, or of no benefit to the fruit, 

 saying he thought it harmful to both. 

 A discussion of the subject followed at 

 that meeting of the Connecticut Board 

 of Agriculture. The result of it was. I 

 was requested to use all precaution 

 necessary and make tests that followed 

 for 4 or 5 years, selecting isolated loca- 

 tions, and these were the results, un- 

 1 ke the report of Mr. C. H. Lake : 



1. It did not always kill the bees: 

 sometimes a part of the young died in 

 larvK ; others were further advanced. 



2. The poison could be traced in the 

 nectar carried to the combs, so that it 

 was unsafe from a mercantile view. 

 It was not analyzed, but fed to tlies, 

 etc., and they were killed by it. 



3. The bloom was very much injured 

 by the spraying, which in several cases 

 was the cause of the whole crop of 

 fruit being spoiled. 



The report of results was never pub- 

 lished in full, for two reasons, viz : 

 1st. it might help to induce the smart 

 unbelievers to do considerable damage 

 to Nature's pollenizers: 2d, evil-dis- 

 posed persons could use it as a means 

 to ruin a crop of fruit, and be out of 

 the reach of detection. 



There is a class of citizens in every 

 place that are the worst criminals on 

 earth : they occupy good positions in 

 society, in the church, and in all or- 

 ganizations. They have strong influ- 

 ence, and they know they own the 

 earth but have not yet fenced it in, and 



