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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



March 3 





ARE RELIABLE. ^^^ 



Everything grown in Beid's Nurseries is ^^^^ 



healthy, well-rooted and true to name. Every effort is^ 



made to save expense to customers. We sell direct and sh: 



direct, saving tifty per cent, on Trees, Shrubs, Vines. Write for cfita- 



iOEue estimates or susgestions. Try Star Strawberry, KUIorado^ 



Blackberry. REIO'S NURSERIES, liridseport, Ohlo7 



Ai^I> X03iS OF IT. 



Worklne Wax Into Founda 

 tlon a Specialty. 



Listen! Take Diy Advice and Buy 

 « Jonr Bee-Sii|)i)lies-;s« 

 of August Weiss ! i^ 



couipelition 



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FotiiidatSon 



Millions of Sections — Polisht on both Sides ! ! 



SATISFACTION GHARANTEFD on a lull line of Supplies. Send for aCataloiriie and 

 ■be your own judge, Wax wanted at 26 ceiits cash, ov 28 cents In trade, delivered to me. 



AUGUST WEISS, Hortonville, Wisconsin. 



To Seed Bayers 





iitf rs ti.) the juitronayre 

 luit are untrue, 

 (ritnnil desire 



Shawns System 

 St of Pasturing 

 ^: Sheegimmmm 



*Jt* This pamphletistriTenaway i 

 *lrt tm-ur customers. f 



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f those \vho are mislead by overdrawn jiictures and 

 An«-thcrc!ass take^ advaiita::re of the fears of those, who, 

 > '^ecuro the lie-'t ^eeJ--^. ^"'1 pav faucy prices forwhat often 

 : roves to be ver^' ordinary stock. THERE IS YET ANOTHER 

 class which seeks the trade of those, who want the best 

 seeds possible to obtain and are ^^-illiu^■ to pay a reason- 

 able price for them. TO THiS CUSS OUR CATALOGUE 

 '-■ '^ FREK tt) those who write for it. 



ThepeaFB 



3 classes 

 of Seed 

 Catalogs. 



amkom 



Seeds 



BELONGS. It i^ mailed 1 



MORTHRUP, KIMG & CO., Seedsmen, 

 SS to 32 Hennepin Ave. 



Klnneapalls, Minn. 



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Our STERLING 

 Brand of Grassand 

 Clover See<is reprr-- 

 aent th^ h'?rt qu-ill- 



Ho, for Omaha ! 



As we have many customers In the Northwest, and believing 

 they will appreciate the low freight rati 8 obtained by purchas- 

 ing ^'oods from a railroad center nearer to them than we are. get- 

 liug a direct through-freight rate, thus cutting the freight in half, 

 we have es-tabllthi a branch house at 17i)0 South 13th St., Omaha, 

 Neb., where we will keen a complete line of all Apiarian Supplies, 

 the same as wo do at Hlgginsville, Mo. With the quality of our 

 ^ooda, we believe most b-e-keepers in the West are already 

 acquainted, but to those who are not, we will say that our goods 



are par eicellent. Polisht, snowy-while f^eutlons, beautitul straw- 



colore transparent Foundation, Improved Smokers and Honey K.xtractorB, and all other ftrst- 

 class goods, are what we sell. Kind and courteous treatment and honorable dealing our motto. 

 On these bases, we solicit an order, feeling sure that if we sell you one bfll of goods you will be 

 our I ustf'mer In the future. 



^^Progkessive Bee-Keeper, oOe per year, "Amateur Bee-Keeper," 25c. Bith for 65c., 

 postpaid. Sample copy of the Pkooressive free, abd a ueautilul Catalog for the asking. 



Address, 



Leaiiy Maniil'actnring Company, "'sif%'!»lh 



e. lYIo., or 

 13 Ell St., Oinnlia, Neb. 



THE HATCHlPiG 



HBI^ 



able P iltrv 

 Reliable I 



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HAS LOST HER OCCUPATION 



1 n the productionand brooaint' of i-hi^ks she 

 ha 1 Mipplanted by the better and t-veryway 



DCI I A Dl C INCUBATORS 

 ^\r t\C.LIAtjLEl AND BROODERS 



They Hatch and Brood when you are ready. 

 1 he 1 t -^et lousy. They <rrow the strontrest 

 ^ 1 k ft 1 the most of them. It takes a 2'.i4 pa;;e book 

 to tei a t the>e machines and our Mammoth Rell- 

 Farm Se tl ailon receipt of 10 cents. Send forit now 



ncubator and Brooder Co-, Quincy, Illinois. 



t Please mention the American Bee Journal. 



$300. for Six Poi^ioes 





Wo'^liallinlroducethis vear forthe tirst time tho won-lefrul new MORTGAGE LIFTER 

 PftTATD ami shall pay the above ^uni m p:, ms l-rthe hvi p-ls polntoert icrovvn Iroiu 

 one^i'"d potato. THE EAKLIt>T POTATO IN TIIK \V«>K1J>. Tested 1 years. 

 It is white, of excellent quality and A 31 AMMOTU Y 1KM»ER. 

 Be thelirs.tinyourneighborhuodtotryit; next year you can sell, 

 I't to othei-s. ]^rice this year, 50 ecnti* for Single potuto. £ 



First in the Market Cubbnee is the earliest to head; beat yonr5 

 fcneitrhb..r<! by weeks. Sure Uond Ci\bbiirc, all head and sure to 

 S head-larpe size, good quality and pood keeper. Smsrle beads have « 

 r weighed up to 60 lbs. Cllmbinc Cut'timber, entirely new-a per- i 

 ' feet" wonder Climbs any trellis orsupport IJ to S teethiiTh; prohtlc 



' J eariv fruiter. Six WeekV Turnip: ^:a^li^^t grower, .-asy grown 



pood size and .v^ite as snow. EARLIEST TOMATO 'N THE WORLO -gr..utej.t 



But^tees lor eorllncBs, (.moothni-HS und qnnlltj. Has fruited In SO.days. I'l« , 



i? . * I-T-^l/V f. .7 ri HP tomatoes E-rown in least nunil.er "t day^. ln>tnu ti.'ii.^ \MthBeed. 



&^\^?e^wh*ll p^gSo by m'atl , ,a"k«l f?om]r;,st , l,istr>„-t,ons lor ,inzesa,Mt a pu.tet each of_the Hve_early v,^ 



tfbies andcataiog of "SEEDS THAT CROW" i^r 250. Falrvlew Seed Farm, hu 



•06 Rose Hill, U. Y. 



was looking out for his bees, and they did 

 not sow any. 



Now. 1 wish to tell how I workt it. Last 

 spring 1 ordered of George W. York & Co. 

 50 Alsii-e clover leaflets, and made a list of 

 about 20 farmers around me. took the list 

 and the leaflets to the postmaster (he being 

 an intimate friend of mine), told him what 

 they were and my object, and those that 

 had not gotten their mail that day we slipt 

 one in their box. and those that had re- 

 ceived theirs were left until the next day, 

 so each of these men received a leaflet, and 

 didn't know where it came from, and in a 

 few daj's they were talking about Alsike 

 clover, and all could talk intelligently. 



One man came to me and said be had 

 received a circular on Alsike clover (I told 

 him I had one, too), and that he was going 

 to get some seed when he got his other to 

 sow the farm that .loins our place. 



I think I am safe in saving that there 

 were ."JU or more acres of Alsike clover sown 

 mixt with other seed. I shall do the same 

 thing again this sjiring. J. W. P. 



Repot ts for Several Years. 



I brought to this place 2B colonies in the 

 fall of 1S93. I lost 2.T in the cellar, and in 

 18fl4 I started with one colony, bought two 

 nuclei, and increast to eight. In 1S9.5 1 

 started with eight, increast to 26, and sold 

 l.OOU pounds of comb honey. I then win- 

 tered 24. and in 1896 increast them to 52, 

 sold 2. BOO pounds of comb honey, and win- 

 tered ,^0. In 1897 I increast froiii 50 to 100. 

 reared 70 young queens, and sold about 900 

 pounds of honey, all told. In 1S97 I had to 

 depend upon others to look after the bees; 

 this shows that all of us do not work the 

 same. 



The last was a very poor year for me. at 

 least in the way of gathering honey, tho 

 most of my neighbors did not get one 

 pound of honey of any kind. C. Chank. 



Oscoda Co., Mich., Jan. 24. 



■Wiring Frames— Report. 



I wish to give my way of wiring frames. 

 Instead of punching holes in the end-bars 

 for the wires. I use ?8-itich blind staples. 

 My frames are 8 inches deep inside, and it 

 takes four staples in each end-bar. One is 

 placed one inch from the top-bar. and one 

 the same distance from the bottom-bar; 

 the other two 2 inches apart between the 

 end staples, all on the inside of the frames. 

 I drive the staples about two-thirds their 

 length, and crosswise of the bar. then 

 weave the wire through the staples and 

 fasten the end of the wire with a small 

 tack, then tighten up the wire and fasten 

 the other end; then if I find the wire too 

 slack, I can tighten it to a nicety by driving 

 the staples to any depth that is called for. 



The staples are inexpensive, as one pound 

 will be plenty for 25 hives, 10 frames to the 

 hive. 



My honey crop last season was 2.000 

 pounds from 35 colonies, spring count. The 

 honey sold for 8200. I can't put an esti- 

 mate on the fun I had with the bees. 



Wm. M. Barnes. 



Richland Co., Wis. 



The Season of 1897. 



The last season was not a very successful 

 one, yet much better than the three preced- 

 ing years. I started last spring with seven 

 colonies, increast to 15, and secured 100 

 pounds of choice comb honey, and 200 

 pounds of extracted, of No. 1 quality. The 

 bees built up well on apple-bloom. Later, 

 white clover was very plenty, yet it did not 

 yield much nectar on account of wet 

 weather. In July Alsike clover was in full 

 bloom, and the bees made up for lost time 

 in gathering honey and in swarming. The 

 honey was the best I have ever secured. 

 The extracted candied as early as the mid- 

 dle of October. The latter part of October 

 we had very hard frosts, which killed all of 

 the fall flowers, so the bees could work no 

 more, yet they swarmed with nice, large 

 queens with them. Something I never saw 

 before, bees swarming with no chance of 



