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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAlu. 



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appearance wherever its habitat ; (3) Has never been known 

 to build its nest under shelter, but mostly on the most Isolated 

 and lofty trees and overhansing rocks ; (4) When they desert 

 trees and combs of the season they frequently travel for a 

 week or ten days, to distances over 100 miles, even crossing 

 such mountains as the Ullgiris in their migration ; (5) Build 

 single combs; (6) Are used to approach from north, south, 

 east and west; (7) Rarely remain in the same locality for 

 more than three months at a time ; and (8) Emigrate when 

 flowers become scarce. — British Bee Journal. 



Top Ventilation in hot weather is considered in Glean- 

 ings. One man proposes a special device for it. Dr. Miller 

 believes six square inches of entrance at the bottom and six 

 more at the top gives more ventilation than 24 inches all at 

 the bottom, because the two entrances allow the air to pass 

 throuiih the hive. But bees are slow to seal sections if an 

 opening is too close to the sections. 



Wholesale Feeding. — VV. H. Pridgen does it this way : 

 Nail 3-iach strips to the edges and ends of an inch board. 

 Tack strips across the bottom an inch apart, give the board 

 a little incline, turn on a little sweetened water from a faucet 

 in a barrel at the higher end, graduating the supply according 

 to the demand, and when the bees all get to work make it the 

 full strength of syrup wanted. A point that demands special 

 attention is the manner of closing the work of feeding without 

 starting robbing. Instead of simply stopping the supply, 

 water is gradually added till there is so little sweet that the 

 bees do not care for it. — Southland Queen. 



Management of Pollen-Filled Combs. — G. M. Doolittle 

 says he lives In a region where the bees probably store as 

 much pollen as anywhere In the United States, but he has 

 never aielted a comb of pollen, and he wouldn't give a cent for 

 a means of extracting it. He has never known bees to throw 

 out pollen unless it was mouldy. His bees store an excess of 

 pollen during hard maple bloom, and again during white 

 clover. During hard maple when the pollen begins to crowd 

 the queen, he moves the frame of pollen back from the brood- 

 nest, putting between the brood and pollen a frame of honey. 

 This stimulates the laying of the queen. When the hive is 

 too full for this proceeding, he removes a frame of pollen for 

 future use. After apple-bloom it is returned, the bees having 

 used up their store. 



The maple pollen has no honey stored over it, but white 

 clover pollen has. Combs of the latter are stored away for the 

 following spring, care being taken as to worms. Placed near 

 the brood-nest in spring, it stimulates to laying better than 

 the feeding of rye-meal or other substitutes. — Gleanings. 



British View of Facing Honey. — W. Woodley, a valued 

 contributor of the Briiish Bee Journal, says he has been sur- 

 prised at the "points" that have been brought forward in 

 America in favor of facing, and gives his own views as follows : 



"If all the sections are equal in quality throughout the 

 crate, there is surely no harm in placing the sections best side 

 out. Anyone with experience in working for comb honey 

 knows that one side of a section is generally better or more 

 evenly capt than the other side ; and if the inside rows of sec- 

 tions are equal to the outside ones, no injustice is done, and 

 no deception practiced. If, on the other hand, the outside 

 row are superior as sections to the inside ones in the same 

 crate, they are not a fair sample, and in my opinion there is 

 fraudulent intention to deceive the purchaser on the part of 

 the seller. Moreover, this method of doing business must in 

 the long run recoil on the head of the man who practices it. 

 I think that every bee-keeper who has honey to sell should 

 take care that every section or jar of honey is equal to the 

 sample, and sell those not up to the mark at a lower price, or 

 at a fair value compared with the price charged for the first 

 selection or quality." 



Selling Honey to Grocers. — Like a good many others, 

 G. K. Hubbard advises against the practice of crowding so 

 much honey upon the markets of the large cities, seemingly 

 preferring, however, those places that are some little distance 

 from home. The large producers of California must of neces- 

 sity ship to the large markets, but the smaller cities should be 

 supplied by bee-keepers not far distant, without the grocers 

 having It shipt from the wholesale cities. 



Start with a load of 10 to 20 cases, according to the size 

 of the place you are going to visit. Make a special point to be 

 neat and gentlemanly in appearance — best suit, collar, neck- 

 tie, boots blackt. Fix prices on different grades, and stick to 

 them, treating all alike. Better miss a sale occasionally by 



sticking to price, as.it wilt save time In the future. Be pleas- 

 ant, polite, and make known your business at once ; or, if the 

 proprietor is busy, leave and come back again later. If a 

 grocer doesn't seem ready to buy, don't press unpleasantly, 

 but take leave pleasantly, promising to call some other time 

 when he may be ready to buy. Don't start by offering to sell 

 a single case, but offer to sell a number of cases, or the whole 

 lot. It's easier to come down on the amount than to go up. 

 If the grocer says he can get honey for less money from Blank 

 City, call attention to freight, breakage, quality of honey, and 

 also to the fact that you will take off his hands every section 

 that is not just as represented, and that you will call again in 

 60 days or so and will pay him 10 cents each for the empty 

 cases if in good condition. — Gleanings. 



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

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

 began last week in the Bee Journal. See page 442 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. 



Many of our subscribers have already sent in new sub- 

 scribers on the offers made on page 442, 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. 



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. 



Honey as Food is a neat little 24-page pamphlet 

 especially gotten up with a view to creating a demand for 

 honey among should-be consumers. The forepart of the 

 pamphlet was written by Dr. C. C. Miller, and is devoted to 

 general Information concerning honey. The latter part con- 

 sists of recipes for use in cooking and as a medicine. It 

 will be found to be a very effective helper in working up a 

 home market for honey. We furnish them, postpaid, at these 

 prices: A sample for a stamp; 25 copies for oO cents; 50 

 for 50 cents; 100 for -SI 00; 250 for $2.00: 500 for 

 $3.50. For 25 cents extra we will print your name and ad- 

 dress on the front page, when ordering 100 or more copies at 



these prices. 



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Bee-Keeping' for Beginners 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 Bee Journal for a ytar (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. 



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Langstrotli on the 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 $1.25, or club it with 

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



The McETOy Foul Brood Treatment Is 



given in Dr. Howard's pamphlet on " Foul Brood ; Its Natural 

 History and Rational Treatment." It is the latest publication 

 on the subject, and should be in the hands of every bee-keeper. 

 Price, 25 cents ; or clubbed with the Bee Journal for one year 

 —both for $1.10. 



