1921 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



Page 

 Glimpses of California Beekeeping, 



by Bevan L. Hugh 87 



A Meteor in Beekeeping 89 



Star Thistle, by G. L. Ensign 89 



Editorial 90-91 



Pleasures and Profits of Bee Driv- 

 ing, A. H. Bowen 92 



Plant Honevdew from Douglas Fir, 



John H. Lovell : 93 



American Honey Producers' League. 



Wesley Foster 9.3 



New lexas Apiculturist 94 



Smoking anid Smokers, by Arthur C. 



M iller 94 



Peddling Honey, by G. \V. Locken- 



by 95 



G. H. Cale to Hamilton 95 



Experience in Rearing and Purchas- 

 ing Queens, Philip Rudolpih 95 



Beekeeping in the State of Wash 



ington. H. A. Scullen 96 



Three W'eeks at Bee Conventions, 



by C. P. Dadant 97 



Demon'stration Apiaries in Iowa, by 



E. W. Atkins 98 



Red Clover as a Honey Plant, by C. 



F. Bender - 99 



Bees in New York City 99 



Finding the Queenless Hive, by W^m. 



Muth-Rasmussen v9 



Lumber Conditions in the United 



States - 100 



Some Queen Experiences, by Allen 



Latham 100 



Too Much Honey, by Tahn Pro- 



thero 1 101 



Five Queens in one Hive. J. S. 



Bryani 102 



Theory and Practice 102 



Races of Bees 102 



Editor's Answers 102 



News Items 104 and 115 



Good stock, plus long ex- 

 perience in shipping bees 

 make it profitable to buy 

 package bees or nuclei. 



Write for my new circular 



R. V. STEARNS 



BRADY. TEXAS 



Double Your Dollars 



You can gather Roots and Herbs and 



Grow Medicinal Plants while 



Hunting Bees 



Ginseng $15 Golden Seal $5 per pound 

 and many olhers 



The most profitable. The most healthful 

 and the most enjoyable 



OUTDOOR OCCUPATION 

 Send for price list and free particulars 



How to know them and how to grow them 



0. A. TWITCHELL. Reg. Ph. and Herbalist 



Box 9, West Milan, N. H. 



FOREHAND'S THREE BANDS 



THE THRIFTY KIND 



In the year before us it is our intention to give the very best ser- 

 vice possible and to please every one that does business with us. It 

 is our intention to give better service and better bees and queens 

 than we have ever done before. 



We have spent 29 years rearing queens on an extensiive scale. Dur- 

 ing this time it has always been our intention to bring our bees up 

 to a standard surpassed by none, but superior to many. We have been 

 constantly improving the thriftiness, hardiness, gentleness and beauty 

 of our bees. 



We are now booking order.s for May and June delivery. We still 

 have several hundred pounds of bees with queens and several hun- 

 dred extra queens to offer for May delivery. Write for circular 

 giving full information and prices. 



W. J. FOREHAND & SONS ft. deposit. ala. 



QUEENS AND BEES 



We are nuw booking orders for spring delivery. 



NUCLEI ON ALUMINUM COMBS 



2-Frame nucleus without queen $6.00 



3-Frame nucleus without queen 7.50 



PACKAGE BEES 



1 lb. Package 1 package, $3.00; 12 packages, $2.85 



2 lb. Package 1 package, '$5.00; 12 packages, $4.75 



3 lb. Package 1 package, $7.00; 12 packages, $6.60 



.\dd price cf qu'een desired. 



QUEENS 1 12 ■ SO 



Untested 3-band Italian $1.50 $15.00 $55.00 



Tested 3-band Italian 2.50 27.50 112.50 



Select tested 3-band Italian 3.50 37.50 150.00 



We guarantee safe arrival. 



PATTERSON & WINTERS, Jourdanton, Texas 



Pure Italian Queens of the Best Known Strain 



Booking orders now for spring delivery of two-frarae nuclei, two-pound packages, 

 and full colonies 



Prices 1 12 



Untested $1.60 $14.50 



Tested 2.25 84.00 



Select tested 3.00 30 00 



Two-frame nuclei with untested queen, $6; 86 or more, $5.50. 

 Two-frame nuclei with tested queen, $6.75; 25 or more, $6.25. 

 Two-pound package hybrid bees, each $4. Add price of queen wanted. 

 I have for sale 50 colonies -lack and hybrid bees in factory-made pine hives, 8- 

 frame Langstroth dimensions, most comb drawn from wired foundation, shallow super, 

 with frames included. 



Price on board Bag%vcll. Texas. $8.50 per colony. Will sell in lots of five or 

 all to one party. 



No disease near here. Health certificate with all I have for sale. Safe arrival 

 and satisfaction guaranteed. 



P. S. Terms one-fourth with order, balance due at shipping time. 



BAUGHN STONE, Manchester. Texas 



