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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 18, 1902. 



The Novelty Pocket=Knife. 



Your Name and Address on one side— Three Bees on the other side. 



HOWARD M. MELBEE, 



HONEYVILLE, O. 



(This Cot is the ifoi.i. Size of the Knife.] 



Vour Name on the Knife. — Wbea orderiug-, be sure to say jnst what name and 

 address you wish put oq the Knite. 



The Novelty Knife Is indeed a novelty The novelty lies In the handle. It is 

 made beautifully of indestructible celluloid, which is as transparent as ^lass. Un- 

 derneath the celluloid, on one side of the handle is placed the name and residence of 

 the subscriber, and on the other side pictures of a Queen, Drone, and Worker, as 

 shown here. 



The Material entering- into this celebrated knife is of the very best quality; 

 the blades are hand-forg-ed out of the very finest English razor-steel, and we war- 

 rant every blade. The bolsters are made of German silver, and will never rust or 

 corrode. The rivets are hardened German silver wire; the lining-s are plate brass; 

 the back springs of Sheffield spring-.steel, and the finish of the handle as described 

 above. It will last a last-time, with proper usage. 



Why Own the Novelty Knife ? In case a good knife is lost, the chances are the 

 owner will never recover it; but if the " Novelty " is lost, having name and address 

 of owner, the finder will return it; otherwise to try to destroy the name and ad- 

 dress, would destroy the knife. If traveling, and you meet with a serious accident, and are so foi- 

 tunate as to have one of the •' Novelties," your Pocket-Knife will serve as an identifier; and in 

 case of death, your relatives will at once be notified of the accident. 



How appropriate this knife is for a present! What more lasting memento could a mother 

 give to a son, a wife to a husband, a sister to a brother, or a ladv to a gentleman, the knife havlaff 

 the name of the recipient on one side? 



The accompanying cul, gives a faint idea, but cannot fully convey an exact representation of 

 Ihis.beautiful knife, as tb' " Novelty " must be seen to be appreciated. 



How to Get this Valuable Knife.— We send it postpaid for f 1.2S, or give it as a Premium to the 

 one sending us iuree new subscribers to the Bee Journal (with $.^ 00.1 We will club the NoveHj 

 Knife and the Bee Journal for one year, both for $1.90. 



GEORGE W- YORK d CO, Chicago, IlL 



^ff'Please aUor" -»bout two weeks for vour knife order to be tilieA. 



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instructors. Alumni and students occu- \ 



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State. Expenses lower than other col- V 



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with tact and energy can have an educa- (^ 



tion. We invite correspondence. Send V 



for catalog. | 



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The Cyphers Incubator Company, 



of Buffalo, N. Y., suffered a loss by tire .Sat- 

 urday night. Dec. 6. While this lire caused 

 some loss, it was uot specially severe, nor will 

 it cause any interruption in filling their or- 

 ders promptly. The lire destroyed one ware- 

 house onfy (a frame structure) ; it did not 

 touch to any extent whatever the main fac- 

 tory or offices, nor the main stock-room, 

 which is located inside of a large brick build- 

 ing. A considerable stock of panels for in- 

 cubators was stored in the warehouse that 

 burned, also a quantity of clover products 

 and materials for mi.\iDg poultry foods, all of 

 which were totally destroyed, but in the 

 main factory building, which comprises 6U,00U 

 square feet of space, they sliU have ample 

 materials for filling orders promptly, besides 

 plenty of lumber in their yards, none of which 

 was reached by the fire. The frame ware- 

 house and contents were insured, hence the 

 net loss will not be severe. We are glad to 

 know that the Cyphers Company will not 

 miss filling a single order promptly and satis- 

 factorily on account of this fire loss. Send to 

 them for their free catalog, and please men- 

 tion having seen their advertisement in the 

 American Bee Journal. 



The Nickel Plate Road 



will afford its patrons an opportunity 

 to take advantage of low rates for 

 Christmas and New Year holidays, by 

 selling tickets at a fare and a third for 

 the round-trip to all points on their 

 line, Dec. 24, 25, 31, 1902, and Jan. 1, 

 1903. Return limit including Jan. 2, 

 1903. Through service to New York 

 City, Boston and other eastern points. 

 Chicago passenger station, Harrison 

 St. and Sth Ave. For further informa- 

 tion, address John Y. Calahan, Gen- 

 eral Agent, 113 Adams St., Chicago. 

 66-47ASt 



.80 For 

 200 Egg 

 INCUBATOR 



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Perfect in construction nnd 

 action. Hatchea everv ferlili- 

 egg. Write fur catalog tu-iiay. 



GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy, III 



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Dittmer's Foundation ! 



Retail— Wholesale— Jobbing. 



I use a PROCESS that produces EVERY 

 ESSENTIAL necessarv to make it the BEST 

 and MOST desirable in all respects. My PRO- 

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 own inventions, which enable me to SEIiL 

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they never saw them ; in fact, except when 

 the trees were in bloom. It was admitted, 

 however, that ants and other insects would 

 crawl all over them. For that reason I can 

 not think that the bees are proven guilty as 

 charged by Prof. Cook. If it be true that 

 other 'insects spread the blight on young 

 nursery stock, it only goes to prove Prof.- 

 Cook's other statement, that the removal of 

 the bees controlled by man would not abate 

 the nuisance. If bees do not visit the small 

 trees, and such young stock is blighted just 

 as badly as the old trees, it goes to show very 

 clearly that the same agency that scatters the 

 disease on yoiiny trees (insects, not bees) can 

 and does scatter'it on the old trees. 



Safe and Rapid Increase of Colonies, 



Prevention, rather than securing increase, 

 is the thing chiefly desu-ed nowadays, but 

 there probably will never come a time when 

 it will not be desirable to be informed as to 

 the best plans for Increase. The following 

 discussion on the subject is given in the Cana- 

 dian Bee Journal : 



" Is there any safe way to increase faster 

 than by natural swarming ; If so, what is it *'" 



Mr. SIbbald — I think the best way is to 

 keep the brood-chamber intact as long as 

 you can keep all the bees in one family ; keep 

 them all working together and you get far 

 better results than to let them swarm ; and at 

 the same time you can take out one frame of 

 hatching brood, put it in a hive; give them a 

 queen-cell, and you will soon have a colony 

 started there ; you can add another one, and 

 so on, and at the end of the season you can 

 equalize them. You can increase almost as 

 much as you like in the season and it costs 

 you nothing scarcely. You have kept your 

 bees all working, and your colony all to- 

 gether, and you have the full force all gather- 

 ing surplus honey on that one stand while 

 the other one is growing up. The brood we 

 take out in the middle of the season would 

 not be hatched and old enough to be in the 

 field by the end of the season, unless we have 

 a fall flow. 



Mr. Frith — When I was burned out with 

 foul brood and lost all my bees, and I was 

 anxious to build up very rapidly, 1 bought a 

 colony In the spring and I had 12 in the fall, 

 and I did it j ust upon the same principle as Mr. 

 Sibbald suggests. 



Mr. McEvoy — I wish to indorse what Mr. 

 Sibbald said. In selecting this brood I like 



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 No 9 The Adaiu cuts clean, easily and quickly. 



W. J. ADAM, - JOLIET, ILLINOIS. 



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 Fancy Comb wanted in no-drip cases. 



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