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AMERICAN BEE lOlJRNAL. 



Sept. 18, 190J. 



Tennessee Queens 



Dangkters of Select Imported 

 Italian, Select long-tOD^ued 

 iMoore'sl, and SelecL,Straieht 

 5-band Queens. Bred 3% mtles 

 apart, and mated to select 

 drones. No bees owned with. 

 Ln 2'A miles: none impure 

 within 3, and but few within 

 5 miles. No disease. 29 years' 

 experience, WARRANTED 

 QUEENS, TS cents each; 

 TESTED, $1.50 each. Dis- 

 count on lar^e orders. 

 Contracts with dealers aspe- 

 cialty. Discount after July 1st 

 Send for circular. 



JOHN M, DAVIS, 



14A26t SPRING BILL, TENN. 



$33.30 Chicago to New York and 

 Return 



via Nickel Plate Road, on Oct. 3, 4, 5 

 and 6, with return limit leaving- New 

 York Oct. 14, 1902. Three trains daily, 

 at convenient hours. Vestibuled sleep- 

 ing-cars. American Club Meals, rang-- 

 ing- in price from 3S cents to $1.00, 

 served in dining-cars on Nickel Plate 

 Road ; also meals a la carte. Chicago 

 depot, Harrison St. and Sth Ave. City 

 Ticket Office, 111 Adams St. 'Phone 

 Central 20S7. Write John Y. Calahan, 

 General Agent, 113 Adams St., Chi- 

 cago, for particulars. 51 — 38A2t 



SWEET CLOVER 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We haTe made arrangements so that we can 

 famish Seed of several of the Clovers by freight 

 or express, at the foUowin; prices, cash with 

 the order: 



SKI lOtb 25B) son 



Sweet Clover (white) t .75 $!-« J3.25 J6.00 



Sweet Clover (yellow) 90 1.70 4.00 7.£0 



Alslke Clover 1.00 l.SO 4.25 8.00 



WhiteClover 1.20 2 30 S.SO lO.iO 



Alfalfa Clover 80 1.40 3.25 6.00 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Single pound S cents more than the S-pouud 

 rate, and 10 cents extra for postage and sack. 



Add Z5 cents to your order, for cartage, if 

 wanted by freight, or 10 cents per pound if 

 wanted by mail. 



GEORGE W. YORK A CO. 



144 & 14« Erie Street. CHICAaO. ILL 



Bees For Sale. 



75 colonies in Improved Dovetailed' 

 Hives, in lots to suit purchaser. 

 O. H. HYATT, 



13Atf Shenandoah, l*age Co., Iowa. 



D /%VC WE WANT WORKERS 



H ^P ^k V H k' ■ mafaa money working for ua. 

 ■^ ^r M ^^ We £ttTDb.h capital 10 Btarlyqu in buBi- 

 iMao. &ED() (u ll>o BUmpa or silTcr for full inHtrucilooB and m line ot 



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Dittmer's Fonndation ! 



Retail— Wholesale— Jobbing. 



I use a PROCESS that prodnces 'EVERY 

 ESSENTIAL necessary to make it the BEST 

 and MOST desirable in all respects. My PRO- 

 CESS and AUTOMATIC MACHINES are my 

 own inventions, which enable me to SELL 

 FOUNDATION and 



fort Wai Into FoEflatioii For Casli 



at prices that are the lowest. Catalog g\viag 



Full, Line of Supplies^ 



with prices and Bamplea, tree ou application 

 BEESWAX WANTED. 



QUSs DITTMEF. Augusta, Wis. 



Kothing but the bad weather has prevented 

 ao unprecedeoled honey crop. 



I have kept bees for 15 years, and have 

 never seen or heard of foul brood in this 

 vlcinUy, although there are a great many who 

 keep from a few to 50 colonies. My bees are 

 Italians, some hybrids, eooie brown, and some 

 small, black bees. I have never been able to 

 determine which are the best all-around bees. 



My apiary ie necessarily very close to the 

 house, on accoant of limited space. My gar- 

 den is full' of shrubbery, and at the back a 

 row of wild plum-trees. I do not clip my 

 queens, bJt allow them to swarm naturally; 

 they invariably cluster either on the shrub- 

 bery or oa the plum-trees— in either case are 

 easily reached from the ground. At night I 

 remove the old colony and replace it with the 

 new. It is not often that a second swarm 

 issues when the old one has been removed, 

 although I seldom remove the queen-cellfi, as 

 I And that whenever I have done so there are 

 a great many vicious bees ready for business, 

 anxiously waiting for victims, and the hives 

 being so near- the house no one dares come 

 into the yard, so in case a second swiirm issues 

 I hive them in a biving-box, and place a 

 queen-excluder iu front of the entrance to the 

 hive from which they came. I empty them in 

 front, and with the smoker drive them in and 

 catch and kill the qaeen. It is very seldom 

 thatlha\eany further trouble. Of course, I 

 know that I lay myself open to the charge of 

 heresy, but with my environments I find my 

 way the most convenient and satisfactory. 



Mybeesdid not commence swarming until 

 June 8, and continued until July 12. I have 

 never had any trouble on account of the 

 qneen laying in the super, although I do not 

 use excluders. I put supers on three or four 

 days after hiving. Iput supers on old colo- 

 nies about May 1, which they often fill before 

 they cast the swarm. Whether or not it 

 delays swarming I am not certain, but I do 

 not think it makes any difference. I have 

 had two Instances where new colonies have 

 swarmed 11 days after having been hived. I 

 don't understand It. N. B. K:sowle3. 



Winona Co., Minn., Aug. 9. 



Rearing the Best Queens. 



I am glati to isee queen-rearing discussed, as 

 discussion is a good way to bring out the 

 best points of apiarian work. I am only a 

 green backwoodsman, but I must take a de- 

 cided stand against Mr. Alley, on pages 519 

 and 5^3. I have tried his forced plan, and my 

 experience is that when a colony becomes 

 queenless all at once, that is, by taking the 

 queen from them, that they build, in a hasty 

 way, a lot of insigaiticant queen-c-ells that 

 produce very poor queens. He says they will 

 not rear good queona while there is a fertile 

 queen in the hive. la there not a fertile 

 queen in the hive when cells are built under 

 the swarming impulse? And that is where 

 the best queens come from, he says. 



Queens whoso colonies fill 100 one-pound 

 sections can not be called cheap queens. I 

 have very few queens in my yard whose col- 

 onies have done that well, even in an ordinary 

 year, and some of them have done much more 

 —and all ray queens are reared uuder the 

 swarming impulse. 



He speaks of colonies rearing queens under 

 the swarming impulse, as if they did not care 

 as much about the future welfare of the bees 

 that are to be left in the hive, as they did for 

 their own particular selves. If that is the 



B 



HVeHAM'S PATEM 



24 years the be&t. 

 Send for Circular 



Smokers 



2SAlf T. P. BINOMAM. Farwell. Mich. 



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has a hobby which is the sheepbreeder and 

 his industry, first, foremost and all the time. 

 Are yon interested? Write to-day. 



WOOL MARKETS AND SHEEP. CHICA80, ILL. 



Don't Stop 



myadv.,a8 by ray new system of queea-rear- 

 tng", I can fill all orders by return mail, and 

 they come In by the hat full, and the little old 

 man here isn't lying- about it, either. I can send 

 you the largest and finest Adel-Golden Caraio- 

 lau Queens you ever saw. Practically a non- 

 swarming race of bees. 

 Breeding" Queens, each, 75 cents. 



HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 

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Handy Farm Wagons 



make tho work easier for both tho man aod team 

 The tires being wide they do notcut into the ground; 

 the tabor of loartlnffig reduced many times, bee auee 

 of the short lift. Tbey are etiiiipped wlthourlam- 

 0119 Electric Kteel Wkeel**, oithorstraig-htoratag- 

 ffcrspokea. Whet la any height from a* to 60 inches. 

 Wliltehtekory axles, ftteel hininris. Guaranteed lo 

 carry 4000 IbB. Why not set started rigiitby puttiiiK 

 In ono of theso wagonB. We make our ateel wheels 

 to lie any wagon. Writ© for the catalog. It l6 free. 



' ELECTRIC WHEEL CO., BOX W, QUINCY, ILL. 



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APIARY FOR SALE. 



lid district. Address for f 



W. S. MITCHELL, 



In a splendid district. Address for fuller in- 

 formatiou, 



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