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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



299 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 

 Beekeeping in Maryland — G. H. 

 Cale 306 



Foulbrood Situation in British 



Columbia — W. J. Sheppard___309 

 Home-made Electric Imbedder — 



R. A. Race 310 



Editorial 310-311 



Flood in Colorado 311 



First Aid to the Beekeeper — H. F. 



Wilson 312 



Glimpses of Carniolan Beekeeping 



— M. B. Miklovitch 312 



Cost of Production ; Extracted 



Honey — Elmer T. Beach 313 



Season of 1920 in British Colum- 

 bia— F. D. Todd 314 



Old Combs — Dr. Brunnich 316 



Folk Lore — E. G. LeStourgeon-.317 

 Bees of Africa — Ph. J. Balden- 



sperger . 317 



An Apiarian Romance — Amos 



Burhans 318 



Reducing Losses in Shipment — J. 



D. Shields 320 



The Producers' League — A. F. 



Bonney 320 



Unwise Law Making — Allen La- 

 tham 321 



Small and Large Hives — V. Du- 

 mas 322 



The C. C. Miller Fund— E F. 



Phillips 323 



Should Every Farmer Keep Bees? 



— T. C. Johnson 323 



Salt for Bees— H. L. Kelly 323 



Boiled Honey for Cages — D. T. 



Gaster 323 



Editoi-'s Answers 324-32.5 



Odds and Ends 325-326 



Apples and Peaches in U. S 325 



Maple Sugar and Syrup 325 



Beekeeping in India 325 



Cleaning Excluders — N. E. 



France 325 



Sweet Clover Bulletin 326 



League Notes — H. B. Parks 326 



Texas Bulletin 326 



Missouri Meeting 



The Missouri Agricultural Society 

 will hold a meeting August 26-27. 

 August 26 at the home of Miss Emma 

 L. Compton, East Kansas City, Mo. 

 Maple Park is the station, on the Ex- 

 selsior Springs interurban, from 

 either Kansas City or Liberty. Au- 

 gust 27 at J. F. Diemer's yard. Liber- 

 ty, Mo. Messrs. E. R. Root, C. P. 

 Dadant, Dr. L. Haseman and others, 

 have been asked to speak, and Mr. 

 Diemer will give a queen-rearing 

 demonstration. All beekeepers in- 

 vited^ 



Lewis 4-Way Bee Escapes 



Four exits from lapert. Fiti all ttaadard boards 



Springs of coppered steel. Made of 



substantial metal. 



Made by 

 G. B. LEWIS COMPANY, 



Watertown, Wis., U. S. A. 



Sold only by Lewis "Beeware" 



Distributors. 



NEW Bingham 



BEE SMOKER 



Buy Bingham Bee 

 Smokers 



On the market over 40 years. The bel- 

 lows of best quality sheep skin, is 

 provided with a valve, which gives it 

 pep and makes it responu quickly to 

 the most Vlicate touch, giving as much 

 or as little smoke as is required. The 

 Big Smoke size, stove 4x10 inches, with 

 asbestos lined shield, permits the hold- 

 ing of the smoker between the knees 

 without danger of burning the trousers 

 or one's legs. This size is much ap- 

 preciated by extensive operators. 



Size of Shipping 

 8tu,e. weight, 

 inches lbs. 

 Big Smoke, with shield i xlO 3 



Big Smoke, no shield.... 4 xlO 3 



Smoke Engine 4x7 2% 



Doctor 3j^x 7 2 



Conqueror 3x7 IJi 



Little Wonder 3 x 5'/i \% 



Buy Bingham Honey Un- 

 capping Knives 



Made of the finest quality steel for the 

 purpose that money can buy. These 

 knives of the proper thickness and qual- 

 ity have given the best of satisfaction, 

 as the old-timeri will testify. For over 

 thirty years the men engaged in the 

 manufacture of these knives have been 

 at this work. The perfect grip cold 

 handle is one of the improvements. 



Buy Woodman Section 

 Fixer 



One of our men with the section li.xer 

 puts up 500 sections with top starters in 

 one hour and thirty minutes; 500 sec- 

 tions set up with top starters in ninety 

 minutes. This includes the laoor of 

 cutting foundation, getting sections and 

 supers and placing the sections into the 

 supers and carrying them away. A 

 complete job. This is nothing unusual, 

 but his regular speed. You can do the 

 same if you have the push, after you 

 become accustomed to the work. There 

 is no breakage of sections. It will pay 

 you to secure one of these machines for 

 this work. It is the best thing of the 

 kind on the market. 



Special Sale Honey 

 Packages 



Get our latest reduced prices on all 

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 large list of pleased customers in this 

 line of merchandise. Special prices on 

 shipment from factories direct to cus- 

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•RAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. 



