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Feb 14, 1907 



American Hee Journal 



Standard=Bred Italian 

 FREE 



PREMIUM (IllEEiS 



We are booking orders now tor tbose Pine 

 Untested Italian Queens that we offer 

 every year FREE to paid-in-advaoce sub- 

 scribers as premiums for getliog NEW 

 subscribers for tlie Weeiily A'Tierican Bee 

 Journal. These orders are taken fur May or 

 June delivery. 



What Some Say of our Standard- 

 Bred Italian Queens: 



George 11'. York ifc Co.: — The two queens re- 

 ceived of you some time ago are tine. They 

 are good breeders, and the workers are show- 

 ing up fine. I introduced thera among black 

 bees, and the bees are nearly yellow now, and 

 are doing ?ood work. A. W. Swa:n. 



Nemaha Co., Kan., July 15 



George W. York * Co . — After importing 

 queens for 15 years you have sent me the best. 

 She keeps 91.. Langstroth frames fully occu- 

 pied to dale, and, although I kept the hive 

 well contracted to force ihem to swarm, they 

 have Df^ver built a queen cell, and will put up 

 100 pounds of honey it the flow lasts this 

 week. Chas. Mitchell. 



Ontario, Canada, July 22. 



George TV. York d- Co.: — The queen [bought 

 of you has proven a good one, and has given 

 me some of my best colonies. 



N. P. Oglksbt. 



Washington Co., Va., July 22 



George W. York <1- Co..— The queen I re- 

 ceived of you a few days ago came through 



K , and I want to say that she is a beauty. 



1 immediately introduced her into a colony 

 which had been queenless tor 20 days. She 

 was accepted by them, and has gone to work 

 nicely. I am highly pleased with her and 

 your promptness in filling my order. My 

 father, who is an old bee-keeper, pronounced 

 her very tine. You will hear from me again 

 when I am in need of something in the bee- 

 line. E. E. McColm. 



Marion Co., 111., July 13. 



How to Get these Queens Free 



To any one whose own subscription to the 

 Weekly American Bee Journal is paid in ad- 

 vance, we will mail a Fine Standard-Bred Un- 

 tested Italian Queen next May or June, for 

 each new name and address sent to us with 

 si 00 for the Bee Journal a year. No one can 

 get for himself the Bee Journal a year and the 

 Queen for SI. 00. The Queen is offered as a 

 premium for the work of getting some one 

 else to take the Bee Journal a year. If you, 

 vourself, want the Bee Journal a year and the 

 Q leen, send J1.50 for the two, and we will 

 book your order for a Queen. Queen orders 

 will be filled in rotation— " first come, first 

 Eerved." .\ddres6, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



YM Dearborn Street, 



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never became mated, and those that did lay 

 never made any headway. The slock I have 

 now is certainly doing its duty, and never 

 seems to get the swarming fever. The way I 

 increase is by dividing. 



I am taking care of my bees tor one of my 

 neighbors. There are S colonies of them that 

 stored 600 pounds of the nicest comb honey. 

 I had only one swarm. 



I think it did me good to have a set-back in 

 bees, as I look after them more carefully now. 



Utica, 111., Jan. 7. P. H. Hakbeck. 



Report for 1906— No Complalner 



I will try to tell how rich I am, or how 

 large a purse I have, from my crop ot honey 

 last season : 



To begin with, I had 9 colonies of bees, 

 and increased to 11 — not a large increase. I 

 received from nothing to 112 sections, or 112 

 pounds per colony. The colonies that did 

 not produce anything were in as good condi- 

 lion, or as populous, as those that did give 

 good returns. 



I make my own hives, sections, and foun- 

 dation, and all fixtures that I use, but can 

 not make them as described in the American 

 Bee Journal, page 1015 (1906). 1 want them 

 a little more accurate than a saw, hatchet and 

 nails would construct. 



I sell all my honey t home for 20 cents a 

 section, and have no trouble to dispose of it 

 at that price. I could sell more if I had it. 



We have not had a good season for 5 or 6 

 years, but we take things as they come, and 

 do not complain about it. Henbt Best. 



Hibbetts, Ohio, Dec. 29, 1906. 



Waxed Honey Without Granules- 

 Heat Escaping from Cluster 



I wish to give a possible explanation (see 

 page 987 — 1906) and further proof that a 

 high temperature stops honey, when once 

 started to candy or granulate, from candying 

 solid. 



About the middle of March, 1906, when 

 overhauling bee-hives, I cut out about 30 

 pounds of comb honey, leaving another 30 

 pounds till wanted. The following night we 

 had a frost, or freeze. Sfellow jessamine 

 bloomed in 2 or 3 days, and the second lot 

 was cut out previous to one light, and the 

 last, frost in 1906. The first lot candied, and 

 the second lot waxed. The two lots pre- 

 sented, on the evening followingthe last frost, 

 quite a different appearance. Lot No. 1 can- 

 died solid, granules commencing to form on 

 top, and looked precisely the same grayish 

 color, like pure hog-lard in frosty weather. 

 Lot No. 2 remained wax without any gran- 

 ules whateverv and looked white, not water- 

 white nor water-clear, or any other so-called 

 white — the same color as the royal jelly in a 

 queen-cell. Both lots remained in their re- 

 spective conditions until used up in June. 

 All this comb honey was carried up-stairs be- 

 tween Nov. 15, 1905, and the middle of March, 

 1906. during warm spells, I suppose, and the 

 evmh was also built. No comb foundation 

 was used, except a narrow guide was left 

 when the honey was cut out in November, 

 1905. 



In .\pril, I also cut out some comb honey, 

 carried above during winter or early spring. 

 One pint was put into a Mason jar — liquid 

 honey — with but a few small pieces of comb 

 (size of a pin-head) to attract flies which 

 passed through a small hole made in the 

 paper cover, purposely. We had a rather cool 

 spring in 1905, but no frost since that last lot 

 was put up. This liquid honey also waxed. 

 When jarred or tossed, it would hardly run 

 out ; the honey made an attempt, almost rub- 

 ber-like, to contract and retain the same 

 shape it originally had in the jar, but failed. 

 I am also of the opinion, although not certain, 

 that a warm temperature following cool 

 nights was the cause of the last lot waxing. 

 Another frost and this year's second lot would 

 have candied. D. J. Pawletta. 



Ft. White, Fla., Dec. 24, 1906. 



P. S. — The following is some proof that the 

 heat of the cluster of bees does not escape, or 



