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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 



should be turned upside down. Each package should have 

 upon it full directions for liquefying the honey it contains 

 should it granulate in the consumer's hands; also be neatly 

 and tastefully labeled, and bearing the bee-keeper's name ana 

 address. 



Be willing to pay a fair wage to those who will undertake 

 to sell for you, and don't expect them to be able to sell your 

 honey at a higher price than what you can yourself, unless 

 they have a better article. Possibly the best way to arrange 

 all this — and it is done and recognized in about all kinds of 

 commerce — is to fix the selling price, and then allow a certain 

 percentage off to the trade, or those who sell our goods for us. 

 If a grocer or other merchant will undertake to handle your 

 honey then don't go and retail to those who might otherwise 

 become his customers, nor peddle it throughout his market 

 field at the same price which you charged him for it. This 

 would be refusing to pay an honest wage to those who work 

 for you, besides cutting the price of honey and doing much to 

 drive your own product out of the market. Yet, how many 

 bee-keepers there are who do not recognize this. — Farmer's 

 Advocate. 



" Profitable Bee-Keepins:, with Hints to Be- 

 ginners" — the nine articles by Mr. C. N. White, of England, 

 begin this week in the Bee Journal, as we have received 

 the first two of the nine. See page 426 of this number for 

 further information concerning these articles, and also the 

 premium offers for getting new subscribers for the last six 

 months of 1898. 



We would like to have all our readers, if possible, get and 

 send in the subscriptions of their neighbor bee-keepers. The 

 way to get rid of slipshod, old-fogy bee-keepers is to place 

 under them the jack-screw of good bee-literature and raise 

 them up to the level of those who are striving to keep bees in 

 the modern and proper way. By so doing all will be helpt. 

 c:: Many of our subscribers have already sent in new sub- 

 scribers on the offers made on page 426. but there is room 

 for many more. Before Aug. 1 we hope to add 1,000 new 

 subscribers to our list. It can be done if every one will do 

 only half as well as some others have already done. 

 ci_ Send for free sample copies to work with, or send us the 

 names of non-subscribers, and we will mail the sample copies 

 to them. 



Bee-Keepingf for Begfinners is the title of a 

 110-page book just out, from the pen of that expert bee- 

 keeper of the South, Dr. J. P. H. Brown, of Georgia. It 

 claims to be " a practical and condenst treatise on the honey- 

 bee, giving the best modes of management in order to secure 

 the most profit." Price of the book, postpaid, 50 cents. Or, 

 we will club it with the Bee Journal for one year — both to- 

 gether for $1.40; or, we will mail it as a premium to any of 

 our present subscribers for sending us one new subscriber to 

 the isee Journal for a year (at $1.00), and 10 cents extra. 



The "Wood Binder for holding a year's numbers of 

 American Bee Journal, we propose to mail, postpaid, to every 

 subscriber who sends to us 20 cents. It is a very simple 

 arrangement. Full printed directions accompany each Binder. 

 Every reader should get it, and preserve the copies of the Bee 

 Journal as fast as they are received. They are invaluable for 

 reference, and at the low price of the Binder you can afford to 

 get It yearly. 



The Alsike Clover Leaflet consists of 2 pages, 

 with illustrations, showing the value of Alsike clover, and 

 telling how to grow it. This Leaflet is just the thing to hand 

 to every farmer in your neighborhood. Send to the Bee Jour- 

 nal office for a quantity of them, and see that they are dis- 

 tributed where they will do the most good. Prices, postpaid, 

 are as follows : 50 for 20 cents ; 100 for 35 cents ; or 200 

 for 60 cents. 



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LangfStrotli on tlie Honey-Bee, revised by 

 The Dadants, is a standard, reliable and thoroughly complete 

 work on bee-culture. It contains 520 pages, and is bound 

 elegantly. Every reader of the American Bee journal should 

 have a copy of this book, as it answers hundreds of questions 

 that arise about bees. We mail it for SI. 25, or club It with 

 the Bee Journal for a year — both together for only §2.00. 



Every Present Subscriber of the Bee Journal 

 should be an agent for it, and get all other bee-keepers possi- 

 ble to subscribe for it. See premium offers on page 426. 



CONDUCTKD BT 



r>H. O. O. aULLER, MAREVIGO, ILL. 



[Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal, or to Dr. Miller dlreot.1 



Difference in Queen-Progeny — Swarming. 



In reply to Geo. H. Stlpp (page 397,) I don't know why it 

 is that the queen progeny of a pure queen differs so much 

 from the mother and from each other; I only know the fact. 

 Some pure imported queens are very dark, and their queen 

 progeny will be varied, altho they all will be uniform as 

 to their worker progeny. 



Mr. Stlpp is right in thinking a young queen may swarm 

 in her first year, when reared in the same hive. Such cases 

 occur by the thousand. But they are virgin queens, and Mr. 

 Gravenhorst was probably talking about laying queens. If a 

 colony rears a young queen on its own account, and that 

 queen swarms after commencing to lay, it will be a very nota- 

 ble exception to the rule. C. C. Miller. 



Trying \o Keep DoAvn Swarming. 



I am running for comb honey. Now, if I should keep 

 three or four supers of sections on my hives, giving them an 

 abundance of room, would they be so apt to swarm ? Would 

 they fill the sections as nicely as they would if they were more 

 crowded? 



Two of the nuclei I bought last year (1897) did not swarm 

 last year, and they are just rolling in the honey, and if I can 

 keep them from swarming I am sure they will give me sur- 

 prising results. Central Wisconsin. 



Answer. — No amount of super room will make sure work 

 in keeping down swarming. Pile them up 10 high, and your 

 bees will be likely to swarm. But plenty of super room will 

 do something toward prevention of swarming. A colony 

 crowded for want of enough super room may be forced into 

 swarming that otherwise would not have thought of swarming 

 so soon, if indeed it would have swarmed at all. So it may do 

 a good deal to prevent swarming if you have three or four 

 supers on at a time. But it's running a good bit of risk. If 

 the season should suddenly close, there you would be, with 

 three or four supers full of unfinlsht sections, when if you had 

 been satisfied with one or two supers less on a hive, you might 

 have had nearly all finisht. Sometimes, however, it may be 

 well to run some risk. Last year f did it, and it came out all 

 right, but it made the cold chills run down my back sometimes 

 when the question came to my mind, "What if the flow should 

 suddenly stop and the 15,000 pounds of honey or more, scat- 

 tered among the sections, should be left unsealed ?" So, un- 

 less there's a big flood of honey coming, with every appear- 

 ance of continuing, don't take too much risk. 



Raise up your hives by putting a block under each corner ; 

 %-inch to an inch will be none too high to block up. 



Section-Holders and T Supers. 



1. I use the section-holder and one-pound section. 1 find 

 that between the first section-holder and the side of the super 

 there Is not space enough for a good bee-passage. How shall 

 I manage to secure the necessary space ? 



2. When using full-width wood-separators, the upper edge 

 of the separator comes up even with the tops of the sections 

 and divides the passage between the sections, practically 

 closing the spaces. How can I tier up with such arrangement '? 



3. I have only 20 supers. What will have to be done to 

 them to change them from the section-holder super to the 

 T super ? 



4. What do you think of tin separators If made from per- 

 forated tin and zinc? And what would be the probable cost 

 per hundred ? Arkansas. 



Answers. — 1. There is probably no good way to make the 

 passage greater; but are you sure it's a matter of any im- 

 portance ? A sixth of an inch is all the passage needed, and 

 the bees will go up in the next passage if they can't get up at 

 the side. 



2. If your section-holders and supers are made the usual 

 way, the super is deeper by a bee-space than the depth of sep- 



