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GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Page & Lyon Mfg. Co. 



Ne^w London, 



Wisconsin, 



Operates two sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thus 

 securing the best lumber at the lowest price for the manufacture of 



Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



They have also one One of the Largest Factories and the latest 

 and most-improved machinery for the manufacture of 



Bee-Hives, Sections, Etc., 



that there is in the State. The material is cut from patterns, by machinery, 

 and is absolutely accurate. For Sections, the clearest and 'whitest 

 Bass'wood is used, and they are polisht on both sides. Nearness to Pine 

 and Basswood forests, and possession of mills and factory equipt with best 

 machinery, all combine to enable this firm to furnish the 



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etc., and are selling these goods on their merits. 



We do not claim to sell at cost as we are not in business merely for what glory 

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We do claim that our goods are as fine as can be produced anywhere, and that our 

 prices will be found fair and reasonable. 



We are in a position to serve you promptly and satisfactorily, and we ask you to 

 give us a chance to do so. 



Why not write to us to-day for our Free, Illu»li'a.te4l Catalog' V Or, better 

 still, send us a list of what goods you will require tor next season's use, and we shall take 

 pleasure in quoting prices on same. Very truly yours, 



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The Bee-Keeper' s Guide 



This l.Tth and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

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Send us Two New Subscribers to the Bee 

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 copy of Prof. Cook's book free as a premi- 

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 or we club It with me Bee Journal for a year 

 —both together for only $1.75. But surely 

 anybody can get only 2 new subscribers to 

 the Bee Journal for a year, and thus get the 

 boo' as a premium. Let everybody try for If 

 Will you have one ' 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan St., Chicago, 111. 



In the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety.— Prov. 11-14. 



Cold and llic Secretion of Nectar 



Query 67.— Does a light freeze or cold 

 spell just previous to the opening of blos- 

 soms seem to prevent the secretion of nec- 

 tar ?— N, C. 



E. France — Yes. 

 Eugene Secor — I believe it does. 

 Mrs. L. Harrison — I think it does. 

 J. A. Green — I have not noticed this. 



G. M. Doollttle— Not that I ever dis- 

 covered. 



W. G. Larrabee — I think it would be 

 liable to. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— 1 don't know. Hardly 

 think so. 



Prof. A. J. Cook — I don't I know, but 

 think not. 



C. H. DIbbern— I do not know, but I 

 think not. 



Chas. Dadant & Son — It surely has a 

 depressing Influence. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown— It curtails the 

 secretion very much. 



R. L. Taylor — With some kinds of 

 blossoms, but not with all, I think. 



Emerson T. Abbott — Not if it does not 

 freeze hard enough to Injure the plant. 



J. M. Hambaugh — I am not sure on 

 this point. A frost during the .bloom I 

 believe to be more Injurious. 



Jas. A. Stone — I think not, unless It 

 is cold enough to kill the blossoms, pro- 

 vidine it is favorable weather after blos- 

 soming. 



Rev. M. Mahin — I think not. I know 

 that a light freeze sometimes Increases 

 the secretion of nectar aftsr the blos- 

 soms are out. This is especially true of 

 cherry-bloom. 



.1. E. Pond — This is a matter to which 

 I have given no attention, but ordinarily 

 I should not suppose it would affect the 

 matter of secretion unless sufficiently 

 severe to destroy the life of the blossom. 



Wm. McEvoy — Yes. I believe that it 

 does check It some. In June, 1888, we 

 had a cold rain followed by a hall-storm 

 just as the clover was beeinning to 

 bloom, that checkt the flow then. And 

 on the night of May 28. 1889. we had a 

 frost that checkt the honey-flow for a 

 long time afterward. 



G. W. Demaree — Not if the flowers are 

 uninjured by frost. The condition of 

 the weather at the time when In bloom 

 has much — all — to do with the secretion 

 of nectar in flowers. I have noticed the 

 rather curious fact that the most favor- 

 able conditions for the early honey-flow 

 are often reverst in the late (fall) honey- 

 flow. 



A. F. Brown — I think not. I remem- 

 ber one year In March, when colonies 

 were gaining two to four pounds oer 

 day from orange, wheri, on the lOth, 

 we had a cold wave, the mercury drop- 

 ping to 24 ' two nights In succession ; 

 the following days the colonies carried 



