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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 11, 1902. 



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1 oz. Catnip seed, 10c 



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Please Mentioo the Bee Journal I^l^rSJ^f... 



find it necessary to use smoke or scarcely a 

 veil. 



1 have frames of comb in some of the upper 

 stories, and not having empty hives enough 

 to go around I placed the pan between the 

 stories near the rear of the hive. I lifted the 

 upper story up and forward enough to un- 

 cover the pan, and with a two-pound can 

 dipped up the syrup, just nicely Hlling the 

 pan, and placed the upper story back in place. 

 This was quite as easily done as the other 

 way. When using the old cans it is better to 

 have some loosely woven material to place in 

 the bottom of the pan, but many of mine had 

 none. 



This plan is old, and has been given again 

 and again in the bee-papers; but I have not 

 seen any means of feeding so cheap, so sim- 

 ple, and so easily done. A. J. Burns. 



San Diego Co., Calif., Nov. 19. 



Phaeelia Tanaeetifolia. 



At the convention of the iTerman, Austrian 

 and Hungarian bee-keepers held at Temesvar^ 

 Hungaria, from Aug. 39 to Sept. 1, this year, 

 plans were proposed by which the bee-pas- 

 ture could be improved, and the planting of 

 Phaeelia tanaeetifolia on a larger scale was 

 specially recommended. As this plant blooms 

 six to eight weeks after having been sown, it 

 may be sown so that it will fill out certain 

 months when no honey is coming in. The 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Troppau, 

 in Selesia, has tried this plant on a large 

 scale, and foimd it not only a good honey- 

 plant for the bees, but also a valuable forage- 

 plant for stock, and recommends it for sow- 

 ing in large tracts, as it has the advantage of 

 bringing already good returns the first season 

 in honey, forage and seed, and reproducing 

 itself the following year by its own seed. 



It is a nourishing plant; horses, cows and 

 hogs like it. 



Itshouldbe sown like wheat, and at any 

 time as long as there is moisture. If sown too 

 late in the fall it will come up the next 

 spring. Cover very slightly by harrowing. 



O. Lt-UDORFF. 



Tulare Co., Calif., Nov. 24. 



Blaek Bees— Reaping Queens- 

 Feeding Bees. 



I am a new settler in a new country, and 

 have more than any two men can do, but I 

 would like to shake hands with Mr. Wm. 

 Housel, and hurrah for the black bees as 

 being the best on earth for the production of 

 comb honey of first quality. I would like to 

 pal Dr. Gallup on the back, and tell him to 

 wade into those queen-breeders, as my ex- 

 perience quite agrees with what he says. 

 However, if Mr. Alley thinks for a moment 

 he can produce five queens of auy other race 

 that can equal my blacks next year, I will 

 agree to put S2.5 in the First National Bank of 

 this place, subject to the conditions that 

 if the colonies they are in come up to the 

 average with the rest of my bees he gets the 

 money, and, if not, he is to forfeit his 

 queens. It is money that talks. I will agree 

 to put them in full colonies with any number 

 of frames in the brood-nest he may direct, 

 but it is the section honey we will count. 



Well, I am not a queen-beeder, so I have 

 nothing in that line to sell, but I think I have 



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FOR SALE. 



7000 lbs. Extracted Basswood Honey, stored in 

 basswood barrels and kits. Large barrels each 

 holding 330 lbs. net; ^ barrels, 130 lbs.; kits, 

 33'3 Its. Prices— T^^c per pound in barrels, and 

 Sc in kits, f.o.b. cars at Viola. Cash must ac- 

 company order. Sample bj raail, 10c. Address, 

 41A13t N. L. HENTHORN, box 83, Viola, Wis. 



